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29 Mar 2021, 2:00 am
For millennia, cities have been a key feature of civilizations and economies because they serve as a nexus for human interaction. [read post]
7 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm
Secular supporters think that Israel, born in the wake of the Holocaust and persecution throughout two millennia in the Diaspora, serves an essential function as a haven for Jews in a world that has not moved past antisemitism. [read post]
5 Mar 2021, 10:49 am
The church is vibrant in mission territory in Africa, Asia and Latin America even while it is declining in Western European countries that were dominant for the past two millennia. [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 11:53 am
Frank Bowman recently published an essay in Lawfare that criticized arguments I made in an essay on the site. [read post]
7 Feb 2021, 6:22 am
Pandemics, our unwelcome guests for millennia, are ultimately all about disease and cure. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 3:54 am
It compels the hatred of what has been traditionally understood as great literature because it’s Books Too White, essentially lousy lit that was only adored because it was written by white people, as if white people only wrote a paltry handful of books over the past few millennia and so they became the standard because anything written by a white person was elevated to literature cult status and rammed down the throats of BIPOC students. [read post]
5 Jan 2021, 8:35 pm
Noonan -- Cancer, the "Emperor of All Maladies" as it has been termed, has been studied for millennia. [read post]
23 Dec 2020, 11:44 am
I have been sharing sneak peeks of a book to be published in early 2021"Hong Kong Between 'One Country' and 'Two Systems': Essays from the Year that Transformed the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (June 2019 – June 2020) " (Little Sir Press). [read post]
23 Dec 2020, 8:51 am
"Suddenly, overlooked local wasp and hornet species… hanging around in corners of people’s backyards for millennia become the subjects of panic-driven calls," she said. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 8:44 am
And as the millennia have passed, we’ve found new ways to tell stories. [read post]
6 Dec 2020, 9:09 pm
The discussion highlighted the millennia of Indigenous peoples’ sustainable forest management practices, drawing a sharp contrast with the consequences of over a century of federal fire-suppression policy, now exacerbated by climate change. [read post]
1 Dec 2020, 5:01 am
Four millennia later, we can still hear the voices they record. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 8:12 am
Can an online social life be nourishing in the same way as offline social lives have been for millennia? [read post]
30 Sep 2020, 9:48 am
For millennia, cultural heritage has been a target of war and conflict. [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 2:25 pm
National media outlets, on the other hand, seem bound and determined to treat fifty million Catholic voters as weirdos — despite not having actually changed their tenets for two millennia. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 10:38 am
But there is an elegance (at least for those nourished on the principles of Enlightenment counting) to 10 that adds significance to measuring the passage of times in blocks of 10, and in multiples of 10 (centuries, millennia, epochs, etc.). [read post]
28 Aug 2020, 9:47 pm
The mihirung paringmal were known to deliver a vicious, and sometimes deadly, kick.The Tjapwurung, an Aboriginal people in what is now southern Australia, shared the story of this bird hunt from generation to generation across an unbelievably large slice of time — many more millennia than one might think possible. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 1:14 pm
It originally celebrated Saint Olav (alternative spellings include Olov, Olaf, Olof), the Norwegian King Olaf Haraldsson II (Ólavur Halgi in Faroese), who died at the Battle of Stiklestad, Norway, in 1030, almost a millennia ago. [read post]
27 Jul 2020, 4:31 am
The bacteria, after it had entered the bloodstream and likely killed the host, circulated into the pulp chamber of teeth, which kept its DNA insulated from millennia of environmental wear and tear. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 9:06 am
In less than three months, [the Islamic State] decimated millennia-old communities and irrevocably tore the social fabric of the once-diverse region,” according to a Holocaust Museum report. [read post]
