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...best known among the few bronzes that survived from this period are the Poseidon in the Athens National Archaeological Museum and the charioteer in Delphi. In their restored state, the two statues at the Florence museum rank with this select company. Scholars and amateurs alike have been fascinated by both the perfection of the preservation and the skill of the statues' creators, as reflected in such details as the whorls of a beard, the braids of a headband, the shiny, silver-plated teeth and the copper lips, eyelashes and nipples...
...most serious prophecies, Next uses the Delphi method, a common-sense technique that was invented in 1950 at the Rand Corporation and classified secret for a decade. Experts answer questions anonymously; their answers are combined and shown to them; they are told who their fellow experts are, and then they answer the same questions again. Since they do not meet face to face, the most articulate or prestigious among them do not exert undue influence, and the discovery of how impressive their fellow experts are seems to make everyone weigh his answers more carefully the second time around. Using Delphi...
Coach Bill McCurdy, curious as to whether undefeated Harvard or mighty Northeastern would be the victor of Saturday's indoor track meet at the ITT, sent to the oracle at Delphi for the anticipated results. The oracle, it is said, sent back the encouraging news that if the team crossed the river Charles, a great team would fall...
...augurs and religious sacrifice. "Historians haven't come to terms with those voices," says Jaynes. "Why did Greece, the most intellectual civilization the world had yet produced, make its most crucial political decisions for centuries by consulting the simple peasant girls who were Apollo's oracles at Delphi...
...credentials"), and has irked many fellow psychologists with his opinion that nudging rats through mazes has little to do with psychology. To prepare the book-his first -Jaynes learned Greek, interviewed schizophrenics, argued etymology with rabbis, chewed and inhaled the smoke of laurel leaves (like the priestesses of Delphi), and once invaded a Princeton bar at midnight to apply a psychological test to startled drinkers. "I've been trying to solve the problem of consciousness all my life," he says. "Everything, including my reputation among specialists, is second to that...