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Contrary to the commonly held belief that in antiquity and as late as 1700 A.D. normal lifespan was about 35 years, there are indications that the ancient Greeks lived longer. In a study of all men of renown, living in the 5th and 4th century in Greece, we identified 83 whose date of birth and [...]

La terre noire boit la pluie,
les arbres boivent la terre.
La mer boit la brise ;
le soleil boit la mer,
et la lune boit le soleil.
Pourquoi donc, amis,
combattre mes désirs,
quand je veux boire aussi ?
Anacréon, traduction Mario Meunier.

In about 60 AD, a Greek engineer called Hero constructed a three-wheeled cart that could carry a group of automata to the front of a stage where they would perform for an audience. Power came from a falling weight that pulled on string wrapped round the cart’s drive axle, and Sharkey reckons this string-based control [...]