The first time a human being looked up to the sky and started to wonder about it, it was of course, in Africa. It’s just logical to deduct that the first astronomers were born there, the first theories about stars and planets were written in that continent. [...]

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A few months ago, I discovered that nowadays it is getting easier and cheaper to know where you come from… with the power of DNA. Our past, our heritage, is at the tips of our fingers, or I should say, our [...]

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A fractal is a geometric shape that can be divided into pieces in a way that each piece is a reduced copy of the whole. The concept of “fractal” is quite new but fractal shapes have been used by different cultures for centuries, mostly because fractal shapes are common in [...]

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I was reading my usual blogs, when I stumbled upon this post and this map:
When I was in school, we studied geography with a map similar to this one:    This is one of the first projection maps of the Earth, done by Gerardus Mercator in 1569!!! You [...]

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