Posted on 06/28/2010 2:04:45 PM PDT by Nachum
Today the Royal Society will publish the first report based on its Atlas of Islamic-World Science and Innovation Project. The reason we have chosen to undertake this project is the potentially staggering impact that countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others could have on science in the coming decades.
Saudi Arabia has established the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, which has risen from the desert in just a few years based on a £20 billion endowment. Qatar has built Education City, a 2500 acre campus outside Doha where seven of the top US universities now have bases. Abu Dhabi is attempting to establish the world's first fully sustainable city and innovation hub, with 50,000 people and 1500 businesses focussed on renewable energy.
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Giant Pygmies...
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Thank You. BTW, you have a very interesting FReeper page.
I was quite fascinated to read that in Saudi Arabia 56% of the science and engineering graduates are woman, but they are only 16% of the work force.
It will be fascinating in the next few years to see what influence they have on the reactionary Wahabi mentality currently governing so much of SA life. The Wahabi branch of Islam arose in the poorest and most backward area of SA, and unfortunately is the form financing most of the Madrassas (Islamic schools) in Muslim countries. There the students, no matter what their native language, learn to recite the Koran in Arabic, and that is about all they learn. Mostly, they do not even learn to understand the Koran
Lemme guess. They’re gonna carry on the fine islamic tradition of translating foreign works into the “sacred language” of Arabic, then by that translation, lay claim to the device or discovery discussed in the work as now the property of Islam.
Then pick some random piece of prince from the ruling family to be the official islamic inventor.
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