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19 Sep 2014, 6:00 am by Joe Mullin
"Matchmakers have been doing this for millennia," wrote US District Judge Denise Cote in her order invalidating the patent. [read post]
16 Apr 2018, 9:20 am by Elim
LAW LIBRARY level 3: KJ147 .H47 2018Tamar Herzog, A Short History of European Law: The Last Two and a Half Millennia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018). [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 4:15 am by Howard Friedman
Each year we’ve come together to celebrate a story that has endured for two millennia. [read post]
20 May 2024, 7:32 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Now, archaeologists have uncovered a crucial piece of the construction puzzle – a long-lost branch of the Nile River, buried beneath desert sands for millennia, that could finally explain how the ancient Egyptians transported massive stones (some of which weigh upwards of 10 tonnes) to build these monuments. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 4:00 am by Kimberly Alderman
Reports have indicated there is heavy fighting in Aleppo, an ancient city which has been home to Hittites, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Umayyads, Ayyubids, Mongels, Mamelukes, and Ottomans, over the course of millennia. [read post]
13 May 2009, 12:33 pm
My own view of well being is objectivist, and objectivist conceptions of well being or happiness have dominated the western intellectual tradition for two millennia. [read post]
8 Feb 2022, 3:40 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The discussions, which have the backing of the Biden administration, could reshape a world increasingly awash in plastics that take centuries to break down and millennia to decompose. [read post]
26 Nov 2019, 7:42 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
We are entwined with trees in an elemental embrace, both biological and symbolic, depending on them for the very air we breathe as well as for our deepest metaphors, millennia in the making. [read post]
26 May 2019, 10:30 am by Megan Geuss
Traditional burials usually require embalming chemicals and caskets that will remain in the ground for centuries if not millennia. [read post]
19 Nov 2007, 8:38 am
  McPherson said, "The formation we are injecting into holds carbon dioxide that's been there for millennia. [read post]
23 Oct 2007, 11:50 pm
The holy city of Jerusalem has been central to the spirituality and destiny of Jews for millennia. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 10:55 am by Brian Hollar
This podcast strongly echoes my own views and is highly recommended.Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why he is optimistic about the future and how trade and specialization explain the evolution of human development over the millennia. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 8:51 am by Paul Maharg
  Saint-Just was in no doubt: he states the case in words that echo a complex debate about the nature of regulation in human affairs that stretches back over two millennia, and is ever more critical to the technological issues of the twenty-first century. [read post]
19 Jul 2011, 2:05 pm by David Lat
And, crucially for his potential role as a judge, Oetken necessarily rejects millennia of teachings on sexual morality that condemn sodomitical acts and reserve sexuality for a married man and woman. [read post]
20 Aug 2023, 7:42 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Over millennia, rivers have deposited Appalachian sediments in an alluvial plain stretching from Texas to Cape Cod. [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 12:10 pm
"So much for the specter of depletion, as a reason to adopt renewable energy technologies like solar power and wind power. [read post]
16 Jan 2018, 12:17 pm
  She says:"“The sea, although an agreeable, is a dangerous companion,” wrote Plato more than two millennia ago. [read post]
13 Jul 2013, 8:38 am
"Rodriguez and the other bug mongers of San Juan offer their wares as 'pre-Hispanic' foods, a nod to the Aztecs, Mixtecs and other civilizations that flourished for millennia here on diets rich in grubs, grasshoppers and other edible invertebrates." [read post]
24 Dec 2013, 7:48 am
He wants to speak against sin, but it's a problem when you aim a remark at a kind of person who has, over the years — over the millennia — felt a threat of violence and the burden of ostracism. [read post]