The isolation of the Greek towns in the Dark Age gives way increasingly to contact with the east and the south, and when I say the south I really mean Egypt and all around the eastern Aegean Sea.

在黑暗时代孤立希腊城镇,开始逐渐增加与东方和南方的接触,当我的南方,实际上指的是埃及,以及所有东爱琴海的周边地区

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When women think about careers in science and technology, they may wrongly believe the career would be one of isolation and lack of human contact, envisioning a lone scientist working in a lab or on a computer.

FORBES: Why Women Shun Science Careers

A. wrongly accused of being a double agent and held for three years in total isolation (no reading material, no news, no human contact except with interrogators) in a closet-size concrete cell near Williamsburg, Virginia, made chess sets from threads and a calendar from lint (only to have them discovered and swept away).

NEWYORKER: Hellhole

Astronauts have to be screened for their ability to tolerate long stretches in tightly confined isolation, and they come to depend on radio and video communications for social contact.

NEWYORKER: Hellhole