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I read this in an essay in the current edition of the New York Review of Books called "Without God," by U. of Texas' nobel prize winning physicist Steven Weinberg:
"In the past forty years I have not seen any paper in the areas of physics or astronomy that I follow that was written in an Islamic country and was worth reading. Thousands of scientific papers are turned out in these countries, and perhaps I missed something. Still, in 2002 the periodical Nature carried out a survey of science in Islamic countries, and found just three areas in which the Islamic world produced excellent science, all three directed toward applications rather than basic science. They were desalination, falconry, and camel breeding." This reminded me of BYU and its desolate record for research.
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Still smarting over that close loss in Seattle, are we?
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That brings back great memories of my freshman Intro to Falconry class, a GE course.
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And be assured my undergraduate research project ("Flatus: The Fifth Bodily Humour?") received excellent notes in a FARMS newsletter. |
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