Walking back to T parking after the medieval lecture this evening, Laurie and I were crossing University Blvd when this ambulance came roaring over the top of the hill, forcing us to run for the median. I just hopped on the median, turned immediately and clicked the shutter, literally "shooting from the hip" to get the photo of the ambulance racing by. Laurie looked at me in surprise for lagging behind, but I told her "I think I got it," and showed her the photo in the preview on the camera. She scolded me for doing a photo when we were about to get run down by a speeding ambulance.
We learned that most everything worthwhile in the middle ages came from India — farming techniques, Arabic numbers, Algebra, science, medicine, etc. Much of it was dispersed along the silk road to the east and west from northern India. Technology, science and ideas that came through the Middle East to Europe were given Arabic names and often ascribed to the Arabs even though they originated in India.
A member of the audience mentioned that some of Newton's theories were produced in southern India some 300 years before Newton, and asked if the lecturer knew why those early developments hadn't been passed along to Europe or Chine. The lecturer guessed that they were too far removed from the silk road.
The low sun blazing over Downtown Albuquerque and UNM was taken from the third floor of the new Science and Mathematics Learning Center (SMLC) where Laurie's office is. The view is from the window at the west end of the corridor on the north side of the building. Unfortunately, Laurie's office doesn't have a window.
Outside the SMLC a lonely urban bunny hopped around under the street lights. It actually looked pretty happy and sassy in person, but in the photo it looks kind of sad and lonely.
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