Ancient in sentence

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Now, this is an ancient question.

So it's an ancient pathway, because it must have arisen a long time ago in evolution such that it still works in all these animals.

It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me, and that's why I'm going to spend the rest of my life studying spider silk.

I feel it's sort of like the Vimalakirti Sutra, an ancient work from ancient India in which the Buddha appears at the beginning and a whole bunch of people come to see him from the biggest city in the area, Vaishali, and they bring some sort of jeweled parasols to make an offering to him.

And as soon as they had laid all these, all their big stack of these jeweled parasols that they used to carry in ancient India, he performed a kind of special effect which made it into a giant planetarium, the wonder of the universe.

The maxim, "Know thyself" has been around since the ancient Greeks.

Can we live here and now in our wired web and still follow those ancient instructions, "Know thyself?"

Very interestingly, random selection was a key part of how democracy was done in ancient Athens.

It's an ancient Athenian random-selection device.

The ancient Athenians randomly selected citizens to fill the vast majority of their political posts.

But more interesting than the ancient use of random selection is its modern resurgence.

But it turns out that this ancient structure that separates us from other animals, the placenta, cannot evolve or adapt fast enough because of the rate that we're generating new chemicals that it's never seen before.

PJC: So when Tyrone tells me that the placenta is an ancient organ, I'm thinking, how do I demonstrate that?

And we were in conversation about how nothing had changed since the time of the ancient Indian epic "The Mahabharata."

And because nothing is more important to us than survival, the first stop of all of that data is an ancient sliver of the temporal lobe called the amygdala.

He would takes the fruits of each week's reading and he would weave these intricate tapestries of ancient and humanist thought.

So CO2, methane, and ice sheets were feedbacks that amplified global temperature change causing these ancient climate oscillations to be huge, even though the climate change was initiated by a very weak forcing.

When we did Coachella, there he was, standing in front of an 80-foot-wide by 40-foot-tall ancient artifact, literally handed down from God to man.

And schlepping is an ancient and honorable art.

Sword swallowing is from ancient India.

I'm an archeological geneticist at the Center for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich, and I study the origins and evolution of human health and disease by conducting genetic research on the skeletal and mummified remains of ancient humans.

There are different ways to approach evolutionary medicine, and one way is to extract human DNA from ancient bones.

You can learn a lot about ancient diet and intestinal disease, but they are very rare.

But in ancient times before tooth brushing, up to 600 milligrams might have built up on the teeth over a lifetime.

And so by applying ancient DNA sequencing and protein mass spectrometry technologies to ancient dental calculus, we can generate immense quantities of data that then we can use to begin to reconstruct a detailed picture of the dynamic interplay between diet, infection and immunity thousands of years ago.

But would those future astronomers believe such ancient knowledge?

So this project was punctuated by a really amazing event, which was held in the desert outside Albuquerque in New Mexico at the Jemez Pueblo, where for three consecutive nights, the contents of the capsule were projected onto the sides of the ancient Red Rock Canyon walls, which stand about 200 feet tall.

We've all trained ourselves to perform these utterly miraculous feats of memory using a set of ancient techniques, techniques invented 2,500 years ago in Greece, the same techniques that Cicero had used to memorize his speeches, that medieval scholars had used to memorize entire books."

So, thousands of years ago, the ancient Nubians were painting pictures of trachoma on the walls of their tomb.

The great texts of the ancient world don't survive to us in their original form.

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