Day 207 – No New Thing Under the Sun
King Solomon, or at least one of his hired courtesans, recorded the following in the Book of Ecclesiastes: “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” This may have been a commentary on […]
Day 206 – Out of Thin Air
The Myth of Spontaneous Ideas There is an idiom in the English vernacular that might be used in this context: that person came up with that solution “out of thin air.” This expression is used to describe the concept of a person coming up with an idea or an answer to a problem with no […]