i was on a search for some sites on blacks in math/sciences and came upon the (shango?) bone (damn, i hit reply not reply/quote). and they spoke on the fact that the correlation to the lunar calendar probably meant that it had significance to woman tracking their menses.

this makes sense to me. and since i've been talking to ananse (re: people's transition from hunter gatherer to agricultural societies) it makes perfect sense as well. assuming that the women were caring for the children while the men hunted, they would have some 'idle' time (while little RayShaun and Tyeisha was sleeping ) in which to develop rudimentary mathematics. and the monthly bleeding thing? damn, that would be one of the first things that i'd want to figure out, yunno? be like, "yo, shirl, every time the moon makes the big smiley face in the sky, i need to run out and get some super dupers, we need to track how many times the great eye opens and shuts so we can budget for this."

this would be a powerful thing to counteract the falloff of females in math and science that occurs in the higher grades.


peace & blessings,

x.


January is Kool Keith quote month, for lack of anything else:

"I never hearda you stupid, what's your name man??"

"Rappers don't know, I'm out the hospital/
cold buggin' and illin' like Dr. Doolittle"

"I'll chew your ass like monkeys on Wild Kingdom"

"you call yourself GOD, can you make it rain?/
can you tell me now what I'm thinkin' in my brain?"

"under your arms, you're kickin power and musty"

"word to mom, I'm in my own world.../
galaxy raaaaaays... powerful"

peace & blessings,

x.

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