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It dates back at least 200 years, to Galvani's famous experiments in the late 18th century and beyond.
So around the turn of the last century, I started to think, "Wouldn't it be wonderful if one could take this logic and turn it upside down?"
2010: Statistics about Native population today, more than a century after the massacre at Wounded Knee, reveal the legacy of colonization, forced migration and treaty violations.
By the middle of the 19th century, it's in full flower.
Rats have been used since the '50s last century, in all kinds of experiments.
It had not happened in 12 generations of enslavement that preceded nearly a century of Jim Crow.
The hiring systems we built in the 20th century are failing us and causing us to miss out on people with incredible potential.
I mean, Adam Smith, already writing in the late 18th century, said, "The Chinese market is larger and more developed and more sophisticated than anything in Europe."
But this is another, this is the Grand Canal, which was constructed in the first instance in the fifth century B.C. and was finally completed in the seventh century A.D. It went for 1,114 miles, linking Beijing with Hangzhou and Shanghai.
Take the 19th century, for example.
This big ship here was the one sailed in by Zheng He in the early 15th century on his great voyages around the South China Sea, the East China Sea and across the Indian Ocean to East Africa.
Now that was the advice that St. Benedict gave his rather startled followers in the fifth century.
But here's a face from 20th century science that might surprise you in a discussion about compassion.
But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.
For if we keep our independent decision-making part of our brains switched on, if we challenge experts, if we're skeptical, if we devolve authority, if we are rebellious, but also if we become much more comfortable with nuance, uncertainty and doubt, and if we allow our experts to express themselves using those terms too, we will set ourselves up much better for the challenges of the 21st century.
This was in the middle of the 20th century when music from the heart, beautiful music, wasn't the most popular thing in the classical music world.
Feminist blogging is basically the 21st century version of consciousness raising.
It wasn't perfect, but it got us through the last century.
A play about early 20th century plowing technology and cavalry charges was a little bit of a challenge for the accounting department at the National Theatre in London.
There is very little 20th century technology in them.
And the devastating events of the 20th century have forced people to question the cold, unfeeling God.
And I'd like to think of it as a 21st century wisdom table, really.
And the miners in the early part of the last century worked, literally, in candlelight.
So part of our understanding of this was given to us by Ludwig Boltzmann, an Austrian physicist in the 19th century.
That implication was studied by Boltzmann back in the 19th century.
Now, in the 20th century, there was some hope that was generated through the development of pharmaceuticals for treating brain disorders.
Our hope is that by figuring out brain circuits at a level of abstraction that lets us repair them and engineer them, we can take some of these intractable disorders I mentioned earlier, practically none of which are cured, and in the 21st century, make them history.
Recently, a wise media theorist Tweeted, "The 19th century culture was defined by the novel, the 20th century culture was defined by the cinema, and the culture of the 21st century will be defined by the interface."
It's been tried six times in the last century, and it's been successful exactly once.
These were intellectuals or statesmen of the 19th century, and later, 20th century, which looked at Europe, basically, and saw that Europe has many things to admire, like science and technology.
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