August 31st, 2009 by admin
Some profoundly important breakthrough inventions are not things and inventions, but rather ways of analyzing our relationship with our environment and ourselves. Once such important concept was the Hippocratic method.
The History of Hippocratic method
The Greek physician Hippocrates (460 – 377 BC) saw disease as a natural process which developed in logical steps, like [...]
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August 28th, 2009 by admin
The Abacus is one of mankind’s oldest machines, and certainly man’s earliest computer.
An abacus is a bead and wire analog counting and calculating device whose earliest form appeared about 3000 BC in Mesopotamia as a sand covered board in which marks were made by finger or stick.
The Abacus was really nothing more [...]
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August 28th, 2009 by admin
Today in history, August 28th, 1964, was a very important day for the trend of Human Rights, especially in America.
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. It was a pivotal time for the Civil Rights movement and the speech [...]
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