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Rayan Azhari.Sustainability · Energy · Carbon · Built EnvironmentOccasional detours into philosophy, religion or programming, wherever curiosity leads
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Do you know more than da Vinci, Einstein and Ibn Sina?

An interactive, adapting test that places your command of settled facts on a timeline from 500 AD to today, measured against Ibn Sina, da Vinci, Einstein and the average person of the year 2000.

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Knowledge has been climbing for fifteen centuries. Answer a short set of questions that adapt to you and find which year your own frontier of settled knowledge reaches, from 500 AD to today, then why standing higher up the escalator is not the same as a sharper mind.

28 questions that adapt to you, about five minutes. No sign-up. This measures where you stand on the escalator of knowledge, not how clever you are.

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