Behind the Scenes Minis: Ibn al-Haytham and Waffles

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Tracy and Holly talk about the animated version of Ibn Al-Haytham's story, Omar Sharif, waffle cones, and what to do with holiday leftovers.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:05.7	Happy Friday, I'm Tracy B. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.
0:16.1	This week we talked about Ibn Al-Hatham.
0:18.1	Yes.
0:19.1	It has been on my list for just so long.
0:22.1	I think with the notation of something like Ibn Al-Hatham, father of the scientific
0:26.2	method question mark.
0:28.2	I did not know anything about this UNESCO international year of light that happened at this point
0:36.5	five years ago.
0:37.6	Yeah.
0:38.6	I did watch the short film that is available on mine.
0:43.5	I have two things to share about it.
0:45.5	One, I shared with you, Holly, while I was working on it, which is in the animated sequences
0:51.8	that show the story of Ibn Al-Hatham's discoveries.
0:55.6	He's wearing this bracer that has an abacus on the inside of it.
1:01.4	And wow, did I get distracted by figuring out whether this was a real garment slash tool
1:08.4	that people wore.
1:10.4	Or whether it was something that was the, if so, incredibly delightful invention of like
1:17.0	the person that was doing this.
1:20.4	In my limited time that I had available, I did not find the answer to that.
1:26.3	But it's, I think in that little, it's about us 15 minute.
1:29.8	I think film and it's in that film in two different places.
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