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12-Year-Old Recreates Archimedes’ Death Ray in an Incredible Feat
A 12-year-old school boy in Canada has created a working death ray based on the model by ancient Greek mathematician ...
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Approximating Pi
Around 250 B.C., the Greek mathematician Archimedes calculated ... proportions in their architecture, music, and other art forms. In Archimedes' day, close approximations of pi had been known ...
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Magic in the Ancient Greek World
Magic in the ancient Greek world appears predominantly in its mythology with certain gods and demigods who performed magic.
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Pallantium, the Legendary Greek City the Romans Believed Existed Where Rome Was Later Founded
One of the most fascinating and perhaps lesser-known stories of Rome’s history is that of Pallantium (in ancient Greek ...
The art of learning
CHENNAI: Some things in life are better appreciated in hindsight. Teachers, for instance. They play the most important role ...
Asia Society10y
Islamic Belief Made Visual
This art expressed the logic and order inherent in the Islamic vision of the universe. Although the shapes and structures are based on the geometry of Euclid and other Greek mathematicians, Islamic ...
The mystic and the mathematician: What the towering 20th-century thinkers Simone and André Weil can teach today’s math educators
an analysis of labor unions or an interpretation of Greek philosophers and mathematicians. She is not a systematic thinker ...
50 People with the Highest IQs in the World
But that hasn’t stopped us from being fascinated by intelligence tests that attempt to assign a numerical value to how smart ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman Studies
Students study Classical languages and literatures in addition to art history and archaeology; economic, political, social and intellectual history; and philosophy, religion and myth. Ancient Greek ...
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Exhibit gives Greek art a fair shake
An ancient Greek grave stele shows a symbolic handshake between a father and son. CHINA DAILY Nanjing Museum highlights power of Athenian art, Zhao Xu reports. A man, probably in his early 20s ...
Best colleges in America
Ivy League schools are considered the cream of the crop, but see how they rank on Stacker’s list of the best U.S. colleges ...
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Exhibit gives Greek art a fair shake
Yet the most powerful examples of the Grecian way of merging art with living are to be found on ancient Greek potteries. "Wrapped-around canvases, this pottery art depicts every aspect of the ...