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Half the children in ancient Rome die before they reach adulthood, so this is a particularly important milestone.
Except for the Emperor Number, which they threw into the mouth of an ancient nesting creature in the desert.
The ancient Greeks were the first to think more or less scientifically about what light is and how vision works.
Well, mathematicians dating back as early as ancient China came up with a way to represent arrays of many numbers at once.
This is Zeno of Elea, an ancient Greek philosopher famous for inventing a number of paradoxes, arguments that seem logical, but whose conclusion is absurd or contradictory.
One of the best known of Zeno's problems is called the dichotomy paradox, which means, "the paradox of cutting in two" in ancient Greek.
[Thank You] (Applause) The ancient Greeks had a great idea: The universe is simple.
Among them are theories that go back to that first great idea of the ancient Greeks, the idea that we began with several minutes ago, the idea that the universe must be simple.
Gyotaku is the ancient art of printing fish that originated in Japan as a way to record trophy catches prior to the modern day camera.
This beautiful animation of the Southern Ocean I'm just going to use illustrate how we're using these corals to get at some of the ancient ocean feedbacks.
Estimates of it appear in the works of ancient Greek, Babylonian, Chinese, and Indian mathematicians.
This is a problem often called "squaring a circle" that was first proposed in the ancient world.
And like many ideas of the ancient world, it was given new life during the Renaissance.
People have wondered about this strange effect since ancient times, and surprisingly, we still don't have a great explanation, but that's not for lack of trying.
Tolkien charted out ancient and newer versions of Elvish.
Steno never let ancient texts, Aristotelian metaphysics, or Cartesian deductions overrule empirical, experimental evidence.
Figuring similar things are made in similar ways, he argued the ancient teeth came from ancient sharks in waters that formed rock around the teeth and became mountains.
In ancient Greece, cicadas were considered luxury snacks.
And these animals live in remarkably beautiful places, and in some cases, caves like this, that are very young, yet the animals are ancient.
But it would be a mistake to dismiss the significance of ancient Athenian democracy on the basis of whom it excluded.
What was more pertinent, and continues to be so about ancient Athenian democracy, was the inclusion of the working poor, who not only acquired the right to free speech, but more importantly, crucially, they acquired the rights to political judgments that were afforded equal weight in the decision-making concerning matters of state.
And indeed, our liberal democracies today do not have their roots in ancient Athens.
Clearly, if this is right, we must reunite the political and economic spheres and better do it with a demos being in control, like in ancient Athens except without the slaves or the exclusion of women and migrants.
The lesson that we learned from the Soviet debacle is that only by a miracle will the working poor be reempowered, as they were in ancient Athens, without creating new forms of brutality and waste.
The more interesting question is whether capitalism will be succeeded by something resembling a Matrix dystopia or something much closer to a Star Trek-like society, where machines serve the humans and the humans expend their energies exploring the universe and indulging in long debates about the meaning of life in some ancient, Athenian-like, high tech agora.
Since ancient times, mankind has hotly debated whether mathematics was discovered or invented.
The independent reality of math has some ancient advocates.
Because in that compressed space, there was a creative explosion, ignited by the electric excitement of new geopolitical frontiers, which set on fire the ancient missionary tradition of the Church and produced one of the greatest works of art in history.
One ancient theory was an idea called vitalism, which claimed that living things were unique because they were filled with a special substance, or energy, that was the essence of life.
Archeological evidence shows that it's been that way for as long as 500,000 years, with about 10% of human remains showing the associated differences in arm length and bone density, and some ancient tools and artifacts showing evidence of left-hand use.
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