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As a teacher, you have no bloody idea how true this is.

I want you all to know that an Arab Muslim from Tunis proposed the Theory of Evolution near 600 years before Charles Darwin even took his first breath. Don’t let them erase you.

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his name is Ibn Khaldun

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Also, it was not the apple falling from a tree that made Issac Newton “discover” gravity. He was reading the books of Ibn Al Haytham, an Arab Muslim from Iraq, who pioneered the scientific method, discovered gravity and wrote about the laws governing the movement of bodies (now known as Newtons three laws of motion) some 600 years before Newton existed. Without him, modern science as we know it wouldn’t exist. Read on him. His achievements are far greater than what I’ve just mentioned here.

afghanmenace

#no offense but arabs literally invented chemistry and algebra and we came up with the concept of the camera #the cataract operation that’s still practiced today was invented by an Arab #we created alchemy and the wright brothers used abbas ibn firnas’ findings and writings to build on to create a plane #I could go on and on and on #pls don’t erase our scientific history

guluna

I reblog this post every time I see it

kyraneko

We fucking replaced a Muslim scientist with an apple?

deliriumcrow

In the middle ages, THE place to go for an education was the middle East, or, failing that, Spain. The Muslim world didn’t have the same limits placed on scientific inquiry that the Christian world did, and since they were willing to look at more than just Aristotole and actually compare texts to the observable world, they had some incredible scientific and mathematical advancements. And street lights and toilets. I mean theories and algebra are great and all, but street lights and toilets. In the 12th century. Also medical advancements, and fewer rules against women studying. Hell, women *should* be the ones studying the female body, would you rather a woman see your female relatives, or some old man? Would you rather have someone who lives in the same kind of body, or one who has no first hand idea what the parts can do?

mdmshakespeare

Europeans erased centuries of knowledge from the East because of fear. When we “rediscovered” it, we were still too egotistical to admit that non-whites could have been smarter, so we invented our own mythology.

Bring credit back where it’s due. Honor the true pioneers.

rumaan

Also the world’s oldest continuous existing university was established by a woman, Fatima al-Fihri, in 859 AD (244/5 AH) in Fez, Morocco.

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There is also a man called Jâbir Ibn Hâyan (or also called Geber) who has written books and taught on material transformation processes (distillation, combustion, fixation etc …) which later led to what Westerners more commonly called alchemy (from the Greek word “kimiya” and the Arabic prefix “al”, it can also be found in “algebra” or “algorithm”)

iteachwhatsyoursuperpower

My students are just finishing the unit on laws of motion. I will be adding this information in as part of the review when we talk about Newton

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bobertlutece

this whole thing is way too good to be giffed you need to expirience it

lizatonix

There are so many things that are TOP quality about this. The business with the mic rope. The bounding across the stage like an excited puppy or a newsie. The Voice™️ that is so synonymous with John, you know, the voice of a guy who sells ice cream at the soda fountain in the 50’s. The analogy itself.

It’s all so beautiful, such peak humor and content.

mulaneysbutt

Emmy Award Winning™️

pharaohamunsadji

I FOUND IT AGAIN.

pomrania

Here’s the “horse loose in a hospital” bit. Good news, it has closed captioning.

theawesomeraccoon

“I DONT REMEMBER THAT IN HAMILTON.” OMG

impossiblerebelblaze

God I’ve heard so much about this guy and this is my first time actually watching one of his bits. He’s as funny as y’all make him out to be tbh

fangirlhaley

This is my favorite video ever

nonlinear-nonsubjective

I’m going to be talking about this for the rest of my life. Because this? This is one of the defining pieces of culture from a time when life went from bad to worse. Everyone knows this sketch. Almost word for word. This four minute bit is carrying us through these times, and is probably the only piece of media to come directly from politics that is genuinely joyful.

You simply cannot talk about this era without mentioning the horse loose in a hospital. It defines the entire experience, and does it hilariously.

angiethewitch

I fucking adore this man

getchapapes

i love john edmund mulaney with my whole entire heart, and you may quote me on that

your-tires-are-too-cold

i just realized that this is going to be something that people look at in like 50-100 years when talking about this era of american politics and people are going to be interpreting it and its probably going to be on someones fucking dbq like no no one outside of this time period will every ever be able to grasp just how accurately this describes Everything