Tag: greek

Words… are… slowly demeaning their meanings

2 September, 2011 (12:00) | Thoughts & Ideas

Talking with Chris Olivieri one day, we got into how cursive is useless and shouldn’t be taught any more.  If we wanted to teach children how to write differently, teach them a different language.  To take that a step further, you could teach everyone in the world the same extra language.  That might draw us all a […]

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Oldest Computer in LEGO

6 April, 2011 (12:00) | LEGO© Creations

The Antikythera mechanism dates back to 150 BC by the Greeks.  It was a device that was built to calculate celestial positions with high accuracy.  Here it is recreated with LEGO gears. The Antikythera mechanism

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