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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]
26 Nov 2016, 9:40 am
(And if there’s any justice at all in the universe, this won’t be the only burning he experiences in the millennia to come.) [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 8:30 am
If you’re unsure about that idea and cotton toward the tried and true, let’s remember that meditation has been around for millennia. [read post]
13 May 2022, 9:31 am
” In Common Good Constitutionalism (2022), Vermeule advocates recovery of the natural law tradition that undergirded Western law for millennia and provided the basis for American law from before the founding of the country until it was unceremoniously discarded in the mid-twentieth century. [read post]
24 Apr 2020, 7:22 am
After a few hundred years—by which time the Old Kingdom of Egypt had fallen—it was probably forty or fifty feet in height....As the millennia go by, bristlecones become contorted and wraithlike. [read post]
9 Dec 2019, 1:29 am
While these medications have side effects that are well-known, Turmeric has a track record lasting multiple millennia demonstrating its safety. [read post]
27 Jun 2015, 1:47 pm
In one day, Roberts said, the court has basically transformed the societal institution that has held together humanity for millennia. [read post]
19 Nov 2008, 8:41 am
"Average growth rates for about one-and-a-half millennia before the Industrial Revolution are estimated to have been approximately zero," writes Baumol. [read post]
12 Jul 2017, 9:48 am
There it was locked into the ice, forming part of a natural record of geological activity that spans millennia. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 10:59 am
“We’ve evolved a few tricks over the millennia,” writes Stosny, “but most of them are not adaptable to complex modern relationships. [read post]
20 Feb 2018, 9:00 am
It turns out, millennia after millennia, people remember how words you spoke made them feel. [read post]
22 Jun 2013, 10:52 am
Perhaps the greatest mysteryof all time (other than how many times William Shatner will be able to reinvent his career) is how the ancient Egyptians, without any modern machinery, were able to move 2.3 million blocks of solid rock, each weighing up to 80 tons, into a massive structure that has stood for over four millennia. [read post]
29 Nov 2013, 7:29 am
Do you realize how much trouble has been caused in the world over the millennia by indulgence in this cognitive distortion? [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 7:14 am
Rising from the most basic human needs, marriage is essential to our most profound hopes and aspirations.The centrality of marriage to the human condition makes it unsurprising that the institution has existed for millennia and across civilizations. [read post]
28 Aug 2017, 1:45 pm
In our own lifetimes, birth control technologies combined with other forces to encourage a fundamental rethinking of women’s roles in society, overturning views and practices maintained for millennia. [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 3:52 pm
Skin grafting was performed two millennia ago in India but wasn't popular in western medicine until almost two hundred years ago. [read post]
10 Aug 2019, 9:30 am
At the same time, however, Jesus’ message about the dangers of wealth was radical and provocative at the time (and of course remains so two millennia later). [read post]
12 May 2017, 4:15 am
And nowhere is this onslaught against our faith more evident than in the very ancient land where Christianity was born....In Iraq, at the hands of extremists, we’ve actually seen monasteries demolished, priests and monks beheaded, and the two-millennia-old Christian tradition in Mosul virtually extinguished overnight. [read post]
18 Oct 2019, 11:48 am
From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 9:29 am
China claims its sovereign authority predates UNCLOS by millennia; critics date China’s claim to 1947. [read post]
