Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Climate Change not as threatening as PT



Climate change poses less of an immediate threat to the planet than previously thought because scientists got their modelling wrong.  



See the article.

...He added that President Trump’s withdrawal from the agreement would not be significant because “The White House’s position doesn’t have much impact on US emissions".

Saturday, September 16, 2017

Ancient farms had very different origins TPT



FTA:

Dramatic new hypothesis could change the way we understand human history.


... people began altering their environments for food and shelter about 30,000 years earlier than we thought

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There is also evidence that, as soon as humans reached South America, they took up residence in the Amazon and began farming. Often these ancient farms evolved into highly-developed networks of cities like those of the Maya.

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Check out both links.

History of Zero older TPT


An ancient text called the Bakhshali manuscript has bumped zero’s origin story back by 500 years


FTA: '“But the creation of zero as a number in its own right, which evolved from the placeholder dot symbol found in the Bakhshali manuscript, was one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of mathematics.”

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dating-ancient-indian-text-gives-new-timeline-history-zero-180964896/#Pj7G7v4MFBGPvVSh.99