pyramids

Its similar to learning that the Egyptian pyramids were older to Julius Caesar than Caesar is to us.

Ancient Greeks were enthralled by trigonometry, ancient Egyptians built Pyramids and ancient Chinese built great dams with trigonometry.

It's interesting to put that in perspective: the pyramids were built out of solar energy by way of muscle.

You could probably put together a theory to say that the desert around Giza has been changed by the pyramids.

The set of possible relationships between pieces is different than if using pyramids, but it's roughly as rich a vocabulary.

At least these days the updated food pyramids doesn't suggest stuffing yourself with grains but balance it a bit more.

I would have been overjoyed to learn that the pyramids were a stimulus program when I was a child.

I doubt the pyramids, the statue of Liberty, or the Empire State Building could have been built that way.

Due to age pyramids I can't really imagine total age discrimination to persist in the future.

Wage workers share rooms since times of Egiptian Pyramids or Great Wall.

Corporations are pyramids, where each rung feeds the higher rung.

I don't see what's special about capitalism that causes pyramids (if anything, it seems more decentralized than a lot of other options).

Though with Lego you do need to make it clear up front that rules like "a koan has the Buddha nature iff it looks like a dog" are too subjective:) Doesn't happen with the more abstract pyramids.

They have absolutely nothing to do with actual stone cutting, they have have an infatuation with having a long lived legacy, like the Pyramids.

Pyramids seem more like a feature of large groups of people.

Pyramids are a feature of wealth inequality.