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Everybody Musta Got Stoned
UW scholar probes drug use among ancient civilizations. "Some of us wondered in geometry class how Pythagoras came up with his famous theorem regarding the relationship between the hypotenuse and the remaining two sides of a right triangle. Madison author David Hillman has a theory about the ancient Greeks that may grate on a few nerves in the classical studies world. It comes down to this: Maybe Pythagoras was smoking something."
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Kevin Revolinski
SOURCE:
Isthmus
PUBLISHED:
Oct. 31, 2008
LENGTH:
11 minutes (2844 words)
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