...ter Three: Hominids 138 hand-eye coordination became, the larger their cerebral cortex became to handle and process this specialized use of t... ... basic structural dynamic reason for why our ancestors developed a huge; outer cerebral cortex: 90% of which is dedicated to sight and hand-eye coord... ...on human brains are more self-reflective than any other animal’s brains. Our cerebral cortex is made up mostly of mirrored synapses. What do these... ...tly only on the surface of our tool-brain awareness, at the outer edges of our cerebral cortex. We developed the awareness that time was passing. T... ...uman brain into Internal and External awareness. The birth of the enlargened cerebral cortex, increasing the size of our brains enormously. The bir... ...egalopolis of over 14 million people: is because Mulholland built the longest aqueduct in human history. The biggest engineering feat of its day: tr... ...ke or a river: grew larger mainly because of the water supplied from man-made aqueducts. Cities without aqueducts or rivers had to dig wells. They ... ...llion simply because it did not have enough water to grow any bigger. Before aqueducts were invented: people only lived where there were natural sou... ...ved where there were natural sources of water nearby. After the invention of aqueducts: we have built cities in the stupidest of places. Simply bec...

...e, a canal barge is by far the most delightful to consider. It may spread its sails, and then you see it sailing high above the tree-tops and the wind... ... their follies in private some- where else. Otherwise, between sick children and discon- tented old folk, we might be put out of all conceit of life. ...

... could you do against a dozen bandits who spring out of some pit, ruin, or aqueduct, and level their pieces at you?” “Eh, parbleu! — they should kill ... ...n any organ — an excitement of the nervous system — that was it; a case of cerebral congestion — nothing more. The fowl had not been poisoned — she ha...

...ement of your skull required for the compi- lation of statistics as to the cerebral capacity of gamblers? The executive is absolutely silent on this p... ...XIV. sacrificed more lives over digging the foundations of the Maintenon’s aqueducts, than the Con- vention expended in order to assess the taxes just...

...s and works. Was it not possible that one of the imperceptible keys of the cerebral fin- ger-board had been paralyzed in me? Some men lose the recolle... ...rose the hills of Sannois and the mill of Orgemont, while on the left, the aqueduct of Marly stood out against the clear morning sky. In the dis- tanc...

...nt of mankind beyond the United States, were blessed with no such extended cerebral de- velopment. Having once learned this fact from Mr. Phillips, I ... ...rks of the city bring the Croton River, whence New York is supplied, by an aqueduct over the Harlem River into an enormous reservoir just above the Pa...