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So what I've been doing is challenging myself with putting on a series of performances of the ancient but pretty straightforward task of just moving and standing big heavy objects, like this 16-foot-tall megalith designed to walk across land and stand vertically; or this 4,000-pound behemoth that springs itself to life to dance onstage.
And while people still want to know how those ancient wonders were built, I've been asking Cyclops how to create the mystery that compels people to ask that very question.
You can see this same principle operating in these ancient versions of the same idea.
What's happening is, an art form is colliding with a given technology, whether it's paint on stone, like the Tomb of Menna the Scribe in ancient Egypt, or a bas-relief sculpture rising up a stone column, or a 200-foot-long embroidery, or painted deerskin and tree bark running across 88 accordion-folded pages.
And I found my personal answer for this in those ancient comics that I was showing you.
The Colosseum was intended to be a symbol of Rome’s power in the ancient world, and what better way to display that power than a body of water that could drain and refill at the Emperor’s command?
There’s no definitive way of knowing what killed these ancient people, but we do know their bones were infected by an all too familiar bacterium.
The ancient Greeks knew its consumptive effects as phthisis; the Incans called it chaky oncay; and the English called it tuberculosis.
It’s an incredible discovery: an ancient, abandoned alien space station filled with precursor technology.
And that search has led me to ancient Greece and ancient Rome.
So the ancient artist was protected from certain things, like, for example, too much narcissism, right?
Maybe go back to some more ancient understanding about the relationship between humans and the creative mystery.
They said that the reason we laugh is our ancient response to the passing of animal danger.
That's the best they could come up with, that we laugh because it's our ancient response to the passing of animal danger, from which I think, people, we could conclude that asking a philosopher to define comedy is like asking Stevie Wonder to help you find your car keys.
For untold times these heroes had roamed ancient Greece, creating new legends wherever they went.
Eventually, they sailed on to the Mount of Bears, an island where a group of ancient, six-armed monsters lived alongside the peaceful Doliones.
There are so many different kinds of seaweed, there's unbelievable genetic diversity in seaweed, and they're very ancient; they were some of the first multicellular organisms ever to evolve.
But this has not always been the case, and we know this because ancient rocks have recorded the pivotal moments in Earth's planetary evolution.
And one of the best places to observe those ancient rocks is in the Pilbara of Western Australia.
Here again is that ancient volcanic landscape in the Pilbara.
And this is for good reason: deep-sea vents are well-known in the ancient rock record, and it's thought that the early Earth had a global ocean and very little land surface.
A clue to this puzzle again comes from the ancient rock record.
Yet there lives on the ancient claim: we win or lose within ourselves.
There's a story in Somerset Maugham's novel "Of Human Bondage" about an ancient sage who summarizes the entire history of mankind as, "He was born, he suffered and he died."
Nevertheless, when ancient people tried to explain their condition, they typically did so in grandiose cosmic terms.
But in another way, it's even bleaker than the ancient myths, because the villain, entropy, is preordained to have the final victory, when the inexorable laws of thermodynamics shut down all novelty with the so-called heat death of the universe.
The ancient Maya identified this roughly 584 day cycle more than a thousand years ago and it still accurately predicts when and where Venus will appear in the sky around the world.
The ancient Maya ascribed particular significance to this point in this cycle: the first time Venus appears before sunrise after being invisible.
The potato originated in the Andes and it spread to Europe from the ancient Inca.
This story, first recorded in roughly 700 BCE, raises some familiar anxieties about artificial intelligence— and even provides an ancient blueprint for science fiction.
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