Checking out daily maximum temperatures in Moscow during the previous two months and comparing them with those last year made clear that they were about 10 centigrades higher. NASA has proof for this guess. The dark red areas were 12 degrees hotter as usual. Other parts of the world, including Nord Norge, were essentially [...]
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Heat Wave in Russia
Posted in Science, tagged climate change, NASA. Moscow, satellite image on August 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Research in the Middle East
Posted in Academics, Iran, Islam, Kuwait, Kuwait University, Science, tagged Gallup report, Science Metrix report, transgenic animals on February 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this week, New Scientist has reported on a recent discussion paper by Science Metrix, which concludes that Iran is showing the fastest scientific growth of any country in the world, nearly four times faster than the world average. Al Jazeera informed us today about the first transgenic animals in the Middle East. Nothing new in [...]
Not Everybody’s Darling
Posted in Academics, Book Review, Islam, Religion, Science, tagged Eliot Weinberger, Hadith, Muhammad, Sharia, Tilman Nagel on October 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Tilman Nagel. Allahs Liebling – Ursprung und Erscheinungsformen des Mohammedglaubens. Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, 430 pages The original sources for the detailed descriptions of legends and fairy tales which circulate among both ordinary people in the Islamic world and, for example, Sufis since Muhammad’s and his followers’ conquest of much of the world [...]
In the Tower of Babel
Posted in Academics, Art, Islam, Science, tagged Abū’l-Wafā al-Būzjānī, islamic geometric patterns, Kamāl al-Dīn Yūnis bin Man’a, Wasma'a K. Chorbachi on September 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Those who have studied Islamic art and architecture for some time inevitably have asked sooner or later the following questions: How did they do that? Apart from the application of fundamental principles in geometry, how could they create most sophisticated and highly complicated geometric designs over extended areas in this stunning precision? And then, why [...]
Benford’s Law
Posted in Iran, Science, tagged B. F. Roukema, Benford's Law, election fraud on June 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Astronomer Boudewijn F. Roukema at the Centre for Astronomy of Nicolaus Copernicus University Torun in Poland has launched an analysis of vote counts of 366 voting areas, which had been published by the Iranian Ministry of Interior, and has applied Benford’s Law in order to detect election fraud. According to these calculations, “the null hypothesis that [...]
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