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30 Jul 2023, 7:11 pm
At a time when the mighty woolly mammoth roamed the Earth, some 46,000 years ago, a minuscule pair of roundworms became encased in the Siberian permafrost.Millennia later, the worms, thawed out of the ice, would wriggle again, and demonstrate to scientists that life could be paused — almost indefinitely. [read post]
13 Jul 2023, 5:38 am
From the beginning, across the millennia of western legal history and for centuries within American law, the “background conventions” of our legal tradition have included interpretive tools and modalities that the ideological versions of textualism current in the past decade or so reject. [read post]
9 Jul 2023, 12:56 pm
Quick Acting Impact: Unlike carbon dioxide, which can persist in the atmosphere for centuries or maybe millennia, methane has a relatively short atmospheric lifespan of approximately 12 years. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 6:30 am
(That being said, if you believe Finley's old essay on "The Ancestral Constitution," they've being intermittently taking on this job for some millennia.)Thus, I fear that when you poke at it too hard, "constitutional democracy" bears an exceedingly troubling resemblance---I won't say identity, but the resemblance is clear---to old-fashioned nationalism. [read post]
23 Jun 2023, 8:22 am
Pix Credit hereOne of the most interesting turns in the organization of economic activity, at least within liberal democratic and post-colonial environments, has been the development of a rhetoric for, an ideology of, and a set of working models that can be drawn upon by economic enterprises that seek not merely to comply with law and the expectations of the market, but also to actively participate in the management of social change. [read post]
20 Jun 2023, 10:01 am
For instance, a serious discussion of the merits of traditionalist attitudes towards sex roles—attitudes that might no longer be endorsed in many contexts by American law, but that had been part of world history for millennia and are still approved of in many countries and by many religious traditions—might be seen as "advanc[ing]" the view that men "should not attempt to treat [women] without respect to … sex. [read post]
19 Jun 2023, 9:05 pm
Efforts to present the inputs, outputs, and net accruals (or losses) of economic activity date back millennia to an era preceding the origin of money as a medium of exchange. [read post]
16 Jun 2023, 11:06 am
This latter result would be a stunning readjustment of who we are, requiring such a long evolutionary cycle that those of us alive today are generations, likely millennia, away from having to think about that result. [read post]
8 Jun 2023, 4:01 am
For millennia, it has been home to the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en First Nations. [read post]
20 May 2023, 2:06 pm
There is nothing that says de-coupling of empires louder than meetings of their respective Imperial cores where the core discursive trope is, as the Franco-German bloc would have it, about risk and solidarity but not de-coupling. [read post]
20 May 2023, 9:15 am
It is not news that cannabis-based medicines have been used for millennia around the world in the treatment of conditions and diseases such as chronic pain; epilepsy; neuropsychiatric disorders; nausea and vomiting related to chemotherapy; symptoms associated with autistic spectrum disorder; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; rheumatoid arthritis, among others. [read post]
20 May 2023, 9:15 am
It is not news that cannabis-based medicines have been used for millennia around the world in the treatment of conditions and diseases such as chronic pain; epilepsy; neuropsychiatric disorders; nausea and vomiting related to chemotherapy; symptoms associated with autistic spectrum disorder; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; rheumatoid arthritis, among others. [read post]
8 May 2023, 5:31 am
I don’t believe in disinformation. [read post]
7 May 2023, 7:53 pm
A fundamental principle of Chinese bureaucracy over the millennia is that a change in leadership brings a change in policy. [read post]
4 May 2023, 9:30 pm
Two millennia later, Guido Calabresi, now a senior Second Circuit judge, told his law clerks at lunch: “It is in the nature of the law to generalize on an inadequate basis. [read post]
2 May 2023, 7:19 pm
Quite the contrary; the conscious and deliberate framing of an ecology of social relations that then reshape the human, humanity, and the construction, interpretation, and evaluation of social relations has been a powerful motivating factor in the structuring of human collectives for millennia. [read post]
30 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm
At its core, the question gets at the obligation of an individual to a group, which is a dilemma that philosophers have pondered for millennia. [read post]
24 Apr 2023, 8:30 pm
The separation of powers was Montesquieu's ingenious solution to a problem that plagued civilizations for millennia before him: create a government that is effective enough to protect individual rights, but not so effective that the same government can violate individual rights without consequence. [read post]
11 Apr 2023, 9:00 am
In its sinews it holds the bones of a story that has been retold again and again over millennia. [read post]
28 Mar 2023, 8:55 am
Here is the abstract: For millennia, public access to the law has been the hallmark of rule of law. [read post]
