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The New York City Economic Development Corporation's Early Stage Life Sciences Funding Initiative and venture capital partners, including Celgene, General Electric Ventures, and Eli Lilly, committed a minimum of US$100 million to help launch 15 to 20 ventures in life sciences and biotechnology in 2014, [6] and in January 2018, the City of New ...
The Alexandrine grammarians, and most likely Aristophanes of Byzantium in particular, seem to have been the first to divide Greek comedy into what became the canonical three periods: [3] Old Comedy (ἀρχαία archaía), Middle Comedy (μέση mésē) and New Comedy (νέα néa). These divisions appear to be largely arbitrary, and ancient ...
The word humor is a translation of Greek χυμός, [3] chymos (literally 'juice' or 'sap', metaphorically 'flavor'). Early texts on Indian Ayurveda medicine presented a theory of three or four humors (doṣas), [ 4 ] [ 5 ] which they sometimes linked with the five elements ( pañca-bhūta ): earth, water, fire, air, and space.
Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement.The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), controlled human health and emotion.
A humorist (American English) or humourist (British English) is an intellectual who uses humor in writing or public speaking. [1] Humorists are distinct from comedians, who are show business entertainers whose business is to make an audience laugh, though it is possible for some persons to occupy both roles in the course of their careers.
[17] [18] For ancient commentators such as Plutarch [19] and Aristotle, [20] New Comedy was a more sophisticated form of drama than Old Comedy. However, Old Comedy was in fact a complex and sophisticated dramatic form incorporating many approaches to humour and entertainment. [21]
The use of humor and laughter in literary works (for example the homeric laughter (ἄσβεστος γέλως, ásbestos gélōs, “unceasing laughter”) in Greek epics like the Iliad and Odyssey) has been studied and analyzed by many thinkers and writers, from the Ancient Greek philosophers onward.
Humour portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. C. Greek comedy (3 C, 1 P) S. Greek satire (4 C, 5 P)