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One: ancient parables aside, my kid had some bad therapists.
That ancient dream that had always eluded the alchemists was achieved through these same theories that explained starlight and other ancient mysteries and new, unexpected phenomena.
Consider the ancient Greek myth explaining seasons.
So if the ancient Greeks had only known that Australia is at its warmest when Demeter is at her saddest ... (Laughter) they'd have known that their theory is false.
If the ancient Greeks had found out about seasons in Australia, they could have easily varied their myth to predict that.
They've been in use, in architecture, since ancient times.
And they were saying that in the ancient times in the temple in Jerusalem, the priests used to have bread, which they used to place into a special table in the temple in Jerusalem.
It's why social organization has grown from the hunter-gatherer village to the ancient state, the empire, and now here we are in a globalized world.
And you have to read your ancient history to realize what a revolution that has been, OK.
It's the idea of an ever-ever-land, emerging from an ancient civilization, united by a shared history, but sustained, above all, by pluralist democracy.
That is a 21st-century story as well as an ancient one.
And yet, that dreadful fate is indeed the plight of somebody somewhere on Earth roughly every two weeks, because every two weeks, some elder dies and carries with him into the grave the last syllables of an ancient tongue.
Descendants of the ancient Tairona civilization which once carpeted the Caribbean coastal plain of Colombia, in the wake of the conquest, these people retreated into an isolated volcanic massif that soars above the Caribbean coastal plain.
They're very ancient.
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations both ancient and modern.
You know, of course, this is my raggedy old thesaurus so I'm thinking this must be an ancient print date, right?
In fact, many ancient societies, including the Greeks and the Romans, believed that to utter a curse verbally was so powerful, because to say the thing out loud brought it into existence.
These are ancient dice, made out of sheep's knuckles.
And these represent the first game equipment designed by human beings, and if you're familiar with the work of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, you might know this history, which is the history of who invented games and why.
But recently, DNA evidence has shown that the Etruscans, who then led to the Roman Empire, actually share the same DNA as the ancient Lydians.
Archaea means "the ancient ones."
And the reason why they're ancient is because this thing came up when this planet was covered by things like sulfuric acid in batteries, and it was eating iron when the earth was part of a melted core.
Now, it is the position, generally speaking, of our intellectual community that while we may not like this, we might think of this as "wrong" in Boston or Palo Alto, who are we to say that the proud denizens of an ancient culture are wrong to force their wives and daughters to live in cloth bags?
We believe that the oceans were in the northern hemisphere, and this area in blue, which shows a depression of about four miles, was the ancient ocean area on the surface of Mars.
That's because the northern hemisphere is the region of the ancient ocean basin.
The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere by a combination of forces that can be summarized by the acronym "HIPPO," the animal hippo.
If someone were to appear on this stage in front of me and actually claim to be an ancient prince of Denmark named Hamlet, you would be insulted and rightly so.
You are not at the mercy of mythical emotion circuits which are buried deep inside some ancient part of your brain.
First, let me take a famous philosopher who wrote about those questions of justice and morality, give you a very short lecture on Aristotle of ancient Athens, Aristotle's theory of justice, and then have a discussion here to see whether Aristotle's ideas actually inform the way we think and argue about questions today.
Roughness is part of human life forever and forever, and ancient authors have written about it.
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