Sentences with phrase «from other civilizations»

This is somewhat ironic because its most famous structures do not have a typical Classic Mayan architecture but show strong influences from other civilizations from Central Mexico.

The Planetary Society is the only organization now that does optical searches, so we have a telescope that looks, if you will, for laser signals from other civilizations, and you might say that sounds crazy.

This involves looking for light beacons from other civilizations.

Marcy, an expert on exoplanets, also resigned today as principal investigator of the Breakthrough Listen project, an effort to survey stars close to Earth and listen for messages from other civilizations.

Secondly, the Western scholar in this as in other fields is being joined by investigators from other civilizations where the secular - religious dichotomy of the West does not, or does not so fully, obtain.

Not exact matches

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

In other civilizations the elderly were encouraged to die, even banished from the tribe to certain death.

«We propose to reverse the terms of comparison, to place ourselves outside our civilization and our own moment of history, and to consider these from the standpoint of other cultures and other religions».

Sir Winston and other greats of Western civilization notwithstanding, our good priest from Thebes would have felt most uncomfortable at Trent or in other contemporary centers of Christendom where dogmas were held in high regard.

Beneath other civilizations there were always religious assumptions - whether these came from Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, or Christianity - and it was these assumptions which gave both legitimacy and stability to the social order.

They will fight for us on the Internet and from the hallowed halls of institutions of learning and advancing civilization, of interdependence not separatism, of building bridges with other faiths, not destroying them.

Other civilizations of the Old World were all derived from this cultural center or were strongly influenced by it; only the New World was entirely independent.»

What I find fascinating is that various of ancient civilizations that were separated from each other, had very similar underlying themes to their own stories, myths and legends.

The practice of giving names to religious traditions is likewise a modem phenomenon, as Wilfred Cantwell Smith has pointed out, 4 and it derives from the growing awareness of other cultures and civilizations.

While some cultural leaders (such as John Dewey and Sidney Hook) were saying that the open - minded attitudes of liberal, secular science were the only was to build a civilization free from prejudice and irrational intolerance, many other prominent spokesmen were saying that Christianity and the Judeo - Christian tradition could provide the best basis for a truly tolerant and liberal civilization.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Unlike other areas of Central and South America, Brazil had no great Native American civilization, so much of the cuisine of the country originated with the Portuguese and the slaves they brought from West Africa.

Like bedouins and gypsies and the folk of other traveling civilizations, the touring golfers have customs, habits — even an argot — that set them apart from the people through whose communities they pass in their endless trek.

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

First, no matter how devastating an extraterrestrial impact might be, are we to believe that after centuries of flourishing every last tool, potsherd, article of clothing, and, presumably from an advanced civilization, writing, metallurgy and other technologies — not to mention trash — was erased?

What imprints would this or other kinds of industrial activity from a long dead civilization leave over tens of millions of years?»

I'm as much a fan of Mr. E = mc2 as anybody, but consider this: I'd be willing to bet that, when viewed from centuries hence, Einstein's most significant contribution to civilization will not be as arguably the greatest physicist of the modern world but rather as an inspirational role model whose life and work ignited the lives of countless other great young thinkers.

The odds of an alien invasion got a boost from the discovery of vaguely Earth - like planets around other stars, but we still have no idea if alien civilizations exist.

Archaeologists piece together the history of a civilization from pollen grains, kitchen middens, potshards, tools, works of art, written sources and other site - specific artifacts.

These bizarre characteristics have raised eyebrows among professional practitioners of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, who use large radio telescopes to listen for interstellar radio transmissions from other cosmic civilizations.

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) received a huge shot in the arm today thanks to Russian internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner, who will devote $ 100 million to a much beefed - up 10 - year effort to detect signals from other technological civilizations in the universe.

Well, from 350 km (~ 220 miles) up civilization looks like clusters of lights nestled in river valleys and practically overflowing into the oceans or other bodies of water.

«Shady and I and many Andeanists would look at Peru — not just in the preceramic but in later adaptations — as being different from most other trajectories of civilization,» he says.

What is the possibility of other intelligent life in the universe and how might we detect signals from alien civilizations?

Putterman [10], for example, suggested that the dominance of Western European cultures indicates the transmission of «civilization» traits (other than knowledge on agriculture) from regions of first domestication.

In other words, while the construction of such transmitters is definitely a daunting task from an engineering and technological point of view, it is firmly within the realms of possibility that, say, an advanced Type I or Type II extraterrestrial civilization could build one.

They observed that American Indians, Africans, Inuit, and other groups were free from the diseases of civilization (including cancer), and the theory was that it was actually the meat that protected them (as opposed to replacing animal protein with other things, presumably carbs).

When we stopped eating as our prehistoric forager ancestors ate, we began to suffer from the diseases of civilization such as coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, some cancers, and others.

Deeper examination, he says, shows that heart disease and other diseases of civilization appear to result from increased consumption of refined carbohydrates: sugar, white flour and white rice.

Its development begun in the wake of the 9 th century AD (in antiquity The Minoan civilization was an Aegean Bronze Age civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean islands which flourished from about 2600 to 1100 BC.

Not wanting to see any more bloodshed on either side of the conflict, Caesar plans to take his followers through a desolate wasteland of rock and sand to a lush utopia hidden on the other side of this expanse, well away from any remaining pockets of human civilization.

Our geography further isolated us from contact with other nations as we looked west to open land rather than east to older civilizations.

Among other things, they remind us that neither we nor our children need to invent civilization from scratch.

Based on these and other analyses of monoliths in the area, Brophy's team concluded that the ancient builders of Nabta Playa possessed highly sophisticated astronomical knowledge, the type of knowledge we associate with advanced technology and civilization.Plato (c. 428 - 348 BC) writes of Egyptian masters presenting him with historical records extending back some 19,000 years: «Egypt has recorded and kept eternally the wisdom of the ancient ages, all coming from time immemorial when gods governed the earth in the dawn of civilization.»

The museum houses paintings, pottery, jewelry, and other artifacts from various eras of Maya civilization, and visitors can see archaeological evidence of the famed Mayan hieroglyphs.

Although the Mayans were aware of themselves as distinct from other groups in Mesoamerica the Mayan civilization was never a unified empire.

The game covers the Mushroom Men civilization in its infancy and goes through the whole evolutionary process from learning to walk upright, to waging war on other tribes.

Dynamic Diplomacy Interactions with other civilizations change over the course of the game, all the way from primitive first interactions where conflict is an expected fact of life to late game alliances and negotiations

Command one of five different civilizations: the Britons, Franks, Mongols, Saracens, or Japanese; Control special «hero» units such as Richard the Lionheart, Robin Hood, Joan of Arc and Genghis Khan, whose special «hero» powers affect the entire battlefield; Lead over 45 different types of units into battle — from bowmen and monks to hand cannoneers, mercenaries and samurai; Players» can construct and upgrade buildings to help their units learn new skills and create resources for their civilizations; Research over 50 different technologies like chemistry, ballistics, siege craft and spying to advance civilization into the next age; A new Combat Advisor offers advice on certain campaign strategies and provides an assessment of the battle's outcome; Multi-player scenarios allow up to four players to wirelessly battle each other; By gaining Empire Points, players can unlock maps and units to improve their Emperor Rank.

Elsewhere, since the game can't just always have you fighting against robots, because that would clearly be boring, I guess, there are both enemy bases / camps, and other settlements and camps from the Nora that form a rag - tag civilization.

There are already more than 80 panels, lectures and tutorials currently scheduled for the October 5th - 8th event — and following the announcement of a keynote from Civilization II designer and now Zynga chief game designer Brian Reynolds (FrontierVille), a number of other notable talks are debuting:

PC and other decreased to 15.2 % for the nine months ended December 31, 2015, as compared to 20.7 % for the prior year's period, as last year's period benefited from the PC release of Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth in October 2014.

Branzi's theoretical approach, as well as his designs, expose the links between seemingly opposing concepts of nature vs. technology, landscape vs. architecture, wilderness vs. civilization, derived from a longtime fascination with how humans interact with each other and with their physical surroundings, especially in urban centers.

The pseudoscience folks refer to these as «Legacy Civilizations,» usually from the idea that the Pyramids are much, much older than they really are and various other objects are really «legacy artifacts» from vanished civilizations — Atlantis, Mu, etc..