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They are a marginalized Islamic community who live across India, and have been in India since the 13th century.
This solution has been called, by some, "potentially the most important medical advance this century."
What if I was to tell you that in the 12th century, some troubadours didn't see yawning as caused by tiredness or boredom like we do today, but thought it a symbol of the deepest love?
It begins in a garret in the late 17th century, in the Swiss university town of Basel.
This change seems to have happened in the early 20th century.
In the 16th century, sadness was thought to do most of those things.
Feel sad in the 16th century, and you might feel a little bit smug.
And this little technique got popular in the 16th century and the 17th century to disguise hidden meanings, where you could flip the image and see it from one little point of view like this.
In fact, I believe that if we want to survive the next century on this planet, we need to increase that total dramatically.
I really hope that we can come together to play games that matter, to survive on this planet for another century.
Harlem now, sort of explaining and thinking of itself in this part of the century, looking both backwards and forwards ... I always say Harlem is an interesting community because, unlike many other places, it thinks of itself in the past, present and the future simultaneously; no one speaks of it just in the now.
The space in which now, in my project of discovery, of thinking about artists, of trying to define what might be black art cultural movement of the 21st century.
And as many of us think about that continent and think about what if means to us all in the 21st century, I have begun that looking through artists, through artworks, and imagining what they can tell us about the future, what they tell us about our future, and what they create in their sense of offering us this great possibility of watching that continent emerge as part of our bigger dialogue.
Well, that was the question that 19th century French physiologist Raphael Dubois, asked about this bioluminescent clam.
Maybe in 100, by the end of this century, we should be able to dial down the extinction rate to sort of what it's been in the background.
And Nature Magazine had a piece surveying the loss of wildlife, and it said, "If all of those 23,000 went extinct in the next century or so, and that rate of extinction carried on for more centuries and millennia, then we might be at the beginning of a sixth extinction.
Then people say, "Yeah, next century, maybe," except the news came out this week in Nature that there's now an artificial uterus in which they've grown a lamb to four weeks.
Actually, I think it'll eventually be seen as probably the single biggest idea that's emerged in the past century.
It's not the Middle Ages anymore, it's the 21st century.
And in the 20th century, randomized, controlled trials have revolutionized medicine by allowing us to distinguish between drugs that work and drugs that don't work.
These economics I'm proposing, it's like 20th century medicine.
And back in the early 20th century, the pursuit of powered man flight was like the dot com of the day.
It is the central psychological plague of humankind in the 21st century.
And because this is the 21st century and we would love to talk about the real world on its own terms, not in terms of line art or clip art that you so often see in textbooks, we go out and we take a picture of it.
And that continues into the future with the renewables that we're developing today, reaching maybe 30 percent of primary energy by mid century.
And many of our ideas have been formed, not to meet the circumstances of this century, but to cope with the circumstances of previous centuries.
But when was the last time you worried about smallpox, a disease that killed half a billion people last century and no longer is with us?
Let me leave the last words to someone who's rapidly becoming a hero of mine, Humphrey Davy, who did his science at the turn of the 19th century.
"We know enough at the turn of the 19th century.
They hold on, for example, to the fossils that fueled the last century of growth, but you know that better, cleaner more abundant fuels await us, and you know that that abundance can lead the world to more energy, more mobility and more freedom.
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