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Most people know ancient India contributed the zero and Ayurveda. Fewer know that an Indian philosopher named Kaṇāda proposed an atomic theory of matter, centuries before Democritus did in Greece.
That's one of the things covered in my latest post on The History of Indian Science.
Did you know that ancient Indian astronomers had mapped the entire lunar path into 27 precise sky coordinates as far back as 1500 BCE?
In my latest blog, Ancient Indian Astronomy: Timekeeping in the Vedic Age, I explore how Vedic astronomers studied the skies not merely for...
Mathematics isn’t the product of one culture; it’s a global story.
From African tally bones to Babylonian astronomy, from Indian zero to Islamic algebra, from Greek geometry to Newton’s calculus, each civilization added a layer.
Even calculus didn’t appear overnight. It was built...
Ever noticed how smart people still make irrational decisions?
It’s not a lack of intelligence; it’s mental shortcuts.
We attack people instead of arguments. We prefer familiar ideas over better ones. We search for evidence that confirms what we already believe.
These are logical...
We usually think encryption started with computers.
It didn’t.
Ancient scribes in Mesopotamia altered words to hide trade secrets. Sparta used leather strips to conceal military messages. Kautilya discussed secret writing centuries before modern cryptography.
Later came Caesar...
