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Algebra, numbers, principles of optics, medical encyclopedias, astronomy, hospitals, surgical tools, universities, coffee, lab chemistry--all of Arabic origin. This mfer had a brain worm, collects road kills, sounds like a dial up modem, works out in jeans. This is a uniquely American arrogance.

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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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The House of Wisdom is something we should learn about in school. Reading about the intellectual pursuits of that era is fascinating stuff.

The numbers we use, 1, 2, 3 etc, are called ‘Arabic numerals.’ Also before the Mongols destroyed Baghdad, it was one of the most learned capitals in the world. And 5 Arab and Arab descendants have won the Nobel prize ( ‘78, ‘94, ‘05, ‘11, ‘15).

Not to mention Western science, philosophy, and civilization would have been lost if it wasn't for the Arab world preserving the texts the religious idiots burned during the dark ages. The Renaissance would never have happened without the Arab world. RFK is a ZERO! ("0" invented by the Arabs btw!)

I think you mean “numerals” not “numbers”, since pretty much all cultures everywhere developed numbers of some sort but it’s Arabic Numerals that most of the world uses in day-to-day life. But your point stands

That "sounds like a dial up modem" had me laughing. Add to his list of infractions: snorted cocaine off a toilet seat, and stirred up a measles outbreak in Samoa. Hines needs to read him the riot act tonight.

I don't normally approve of disparaging sick people, but inwardly, in a part of my brain that I keep compartmentalized, I'm laughing my ass off at that "dial-up modem" analogy.

Neither do I but he's making thousands sick with his nonsensical health beliefs so he deserves all of it and more

ALGEBRA is like literally an Arabic word. OMG Google IS FREE people. Even if you can't be ashamed of sounding like a racist fool can you at least fact check your worm-brained talking points?

Algebra, indeed. And that's just for starters. But what a start, eh? The word 'algorithm' is derived from a Latin transliteration of al-Khwarizmi, i.e. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, inscriber of the first solutions of linear and quadratic equations in Arabic.

Also an Arab won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in... 2025!!!! Omar M. Yaghi, they don't care they're just shitty little bigots. Luckily old inventions are still valuable as. I mean Antoine Louis invented something in 1792 we might find useful soon.