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Unless we can start slowing down our carbon dioxide emissions, we're expecting an increase in ocean acidity of 170 percent by the end of this century.
The shell of the pteropod was placed into seawater at a pH that we're expecting by the end of this century.
It's projected that by the end of this century, 70 percent of all known cold-water corals in the entire ocean will be surrounded by seawater that is dissolving their coral structure.
John Henry, called the steel-driving man in the 19th century African American folk legend, was pitted in a race against a steam-powered hammer bashing a tunnel through mountain rock.
People attend a law lecture, a TED Talk of the 14th century.
In this book she tells the story, as an example, of how a very nasty insect pest of livestock was eliminated in the last century.
Trinidad is also home to the only acoustic instrument invented in the 20th century: the steel pan.
During the end of the last century, as some of you know, it was very popular in certain academic circles.
In the middle of the 19th century, with the construction of the Crystal Palace in London, glass leapt to the top of the list of quintessentially modern substances.
By the mid-20th century, it had come to dominate the downtowns of some American cities, largely through some really spectacular office buildings like Lever House in midtown Manhattan, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.
That what we are living in is a century of idea diffusion.
I truly believe this, that the biggest question in the 21st century concerns our duty to strangers.
So in the 21st century, children are being given life jackets to reach safety in Europe even though those jackets will not save their lives if they fall out of the boat that is taking them there.
Stopping cues were everywhere in the 20th century.
But fast-forward to the end of the century under a business-as-usual scenario, and climate models don't really agree anymore.
About once every century, a massive star somewhere in our galaxy runs out of fuel.
In the mid-20th century, literary critic W.K. Wimsatt and philosopher Monroe Beardsley argued that artistic intention was irrelevant.
You may not have heard of worker ownership, but it's been an incredible tool for black economic liberation for a century, and it's also working all over the world right now.
And when this was figured out, which is now back in the previous century, this enabled one of the most important medical procedures in the world, which, of course, is the blood transfusion.
It is now writing a 600-word essay on maritime trade in the 17th century.
For the second stage written test, it is required to write a 600-word essay like this one: [Discuss the rise and fall of the maritime trade in East and Southeast Asia in the 17th century ...] and as I have shown earlier, our robot took the sentences from the textbooks and Wikipedia, combined them together, and optimized it to produce an essay without understanding a thing.
In the early 20th century, archaeologists discovered hundreds of statues and artifacts at the ancient city of Hatra, in northern Iraq.
In the 16th century, European priests and explorers burned thousands of Maya books in the Americas, of which we only have a handful left.
So the amount of change we would experience in a century or two, they would experience in a year or two.
This is Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd, a very senior Muslim judge and thinker in Cordoba in the 12th century, and his writings were considered deeply blasphemous, heretical and evil.
Within only a couple of years, China has consumed more cement than the United States in the entire 20th century.
And this dream isn't so crazy if you think of the mud city of Shibam in Yemen that was built in the 16th century and has lasted now for 500 years.
We can't continue in the 21st century, and after 21 years of democracy, have the colonizers in our own country.
China seemed to be on a very similar path to India until the start of the 21st century, where it suddenly flipped.
By the early 20th century, nearly every region of the globe had been visited and mapped, with only two key locations remaining: the North Pole, deep in the frozen waters of the Arctic region, and the South Pole, nestled within a recently discovered icy continent in the vast Antarctic Ocean.
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