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Third, hospitalization was not completely free. The wounded who had money and valuables were expected to make donations. Those who did not have the funds went out to collect alms in the vicinity of the hospital. And the poor, but proud... well, they fasted a little more often than they were supposed to, according to the church calendar. Doctors In the Middle Ages, there were also doctors. The real doctors are doctors of medicine, who received a university degree. People are very proud, rich, noble, often knighted...

Eastern medicine If the health situation in Medieval Europe was disappointing, then maybe the situation in the East was better? Indeed, adherents of Indian, Chinese, Tibetan and Philippine medicine today undertake to treat many diseases, preferring those that are powerless before the "official" medicine. Adepts lie. Why should their "traditional" methods work now if they did not work in the past when tradition developed? And then they didn't work. It's a fact. Life expectancy in Asia was even lower than in Europe...

The emergence of medicine Studies of Paleolithic sites suggest that our distant ancestors were dying young. Only a few survived to the age of 40 - young, but not healthy. On their remains, it is possible to find both traces of numerous wounds (a way of life of the hunter on a large animal it is difficult to name healthy) and signs of monstrously started illnesses. Allegedly incomprehensible strength and health of the ancient man was a myth. But tens of thousands of years ago, people tried to help the wounded and sick compatriots...

The electronic brain is a lamp brain, and later a positron brain is as much an essential element of the future entourage as a spacecraft. And the situation with it is not easy. Most likely, in the foreseeable future, artificial intelligence will indeed be created. But fantasists, in any case, missed in this area twice. First of all, it never occurred to anyone that reasonable activity is easier to imitate than to reproduce. In fiction, only intelligent robots have the gift of difficult speech. In...

Post-industrial economics The Communists considered capitalism to be a necessary but temporary formation to be followed by a bright future. Accordingly, their opponents insisted that capitalism was the final state of society, followed by nothing! But "nothing" in its purest form could not even be imagined by fantasists. Even after capitalism, something - for example, piles of broken bricks and foggy barbarians with machine guns - should have remained. But communism is a thing of the past, and civilization...

In theory, the most powerful launch vehicles can deliver a charge of thirty megatons to the target, which, when hit, will leave one memory of a mountain of one and a half kilometers. But all such missiles are cryogenic, that is, they use liquefied gas as fuel, and therefore require long-term preparation for the launch. In addition, it is unlikely that ammunition used every million years will be stored in warehouses. This means that a heavy-duty landmine and a special asteroid warhead with an upper stage, communication and guidance systems will have to be made in a hurry...

The icebergs of space The total mass of asteroids in the orbit of Neptune does not exceed one-thousandth of the mass of the Earth. But the supply of comets in the cloud of Orthus is several times heavier than our planet. These "space icebergs", consisting of water, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen ice, are quite large. The diameter of the Hale Bopp comet, which appeared in 1995, reached forty kilometers. Comet falls are not uncommon. Jupiter survived two collisions with them in just fifteen years...

110 years ago, the Tunguska meteorite fell, the largest impact event in recent history. This anniversary once again reminded us that the meteor threat to the Earth is quite real. Worldwide, reports of asteroids passing near the Earth have begun to be remembered. If our planet is threatened by a collision with a large space body, can we protect it from space Armageddon? Hostile environment Space isn't that empty. Astronomers have already discovered one hundred million small bodies,...

The second popular motive concerning the opened tombs is "The curse of the pharaohs", which allegedly comprehends anyone who will disturb the peace of the dead king. The most famous case is the curse of Tutankhamen, in whose tomb they found a sign with the inscription "Death will catch everyone who breaks Pharaoh's peace with easy steps". There was a curse in the fact that within about a year and a half six people who took part in the opening of the tomb died from supposedly natural causes. The secretary, for example...

The second myth. Pyramids have built slaves In the fifth grade of the Soviet and post-Soviet schools, we were all told that the pyramids had built thousands and even millions of powerless and oppressed slaves. This myth is a very persistent but very local one, which existed only in the Soviet Union. It was invented by the personal order of comrade Stalin in the late 1930s to confirm the theory of Marx formations. In 1938 slavery in ancient Egypt was mentioned in the "Brief Course of the History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)", and there were no alternative opinions left...

The mysterious civilization of the Nile Valley admires people for many millennia - the first Egyptians were still Romans. Egyptian plots and motives are used by the most different cultures. And, of course, the inventions of artists and writers are often very far from the actual ideas of scientists. Today we will tell some most settled errors about Ancient Egypt and at the same time about Egyptologists. The tradition of writing about Egypt is not new to God, to put it mildly - since the fourth...

What's the danger of garbage in space? lm "Gravity" (2013) directed by Alfonso Cuarón, clearly shows what space debris can do. Rapidly rushing in the airless space fragments that are almost impossible to notice, sew everything in their path, from human bodies to space stations. A few seconds - and the construction, which took tens of years and billions of dollars to create - turns into a useless sieve. The film is fantastic, of course, but it is also possible in reality. The fact is that the...