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28 Aug 2006, 3:13 pm
Bob Glushko has a very interesting post on the problem of Pluto, over at Doc or Die: For millennia we earthlings have had a notion of planet as a “wandering” celestial object, but because we only knew of planets in our own solar system, we could define “planet” by enumeration. [read post]
29 May 2008, 1:19 pm
The core is any array of objects from the Ancient Mesopotamian, spanning the millennia from 2000 to the time of Alexander the Great. [read post]
19 Sep 2014, 6:00 am
"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
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
Each year we’ve come together to celebrate a story that has endured for two millennia. [read post]
24 Oct 2021, 2:03 pm
Ancient Earth, the tool behind this millennia-spanning visualization, is the brainchild of Ian Webster, curator of the world’s largest digital dinosaur database. [read post]
1 Sep 2008, 7:40 am
The objectionable paragraph then said: "[Darwin] used the same layers of fossils that had supported the Genesis view of evolution to show the slow changes that are taking place over the millennia of earth history, each small change enabling a species to the rigours of it's (sic) environment - the struggle for survival through natural selection leading to the survival of the fittest. [read post]
13 Jul 2009, 4:58 pm
I argue that the concept of proportionality (means-end rational review), though evolving in and through law, has shown remarkably continuity over several centuries, even millennia. [read post]
27 Jan 2023, 4:30 am
Over millennia, not only did it evolve away from the imaginative centrality of agriculture and therefore domesticated service (human or non-human). [read post]
1 Oct 2010, 11:33 am
The problem is compounded when the language is Babylonian, which hasn't been spoken in several millennia. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 8:51 am
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
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
Over millennia, rivers have deposited Appalachian sediments in an alluvial plain stretching from Texas to Cape Cod. [read post]
20 May 2024, 7:32 pm
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]
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]
28 Apr 2015, 8:51 pm
This definition has been with us for millennia. [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]
12 Mar 2013, 11:39 am
The ability of USGS scientists to critically analyze the monitored data in search of signals and trends, whether they lead to negative or positive results, allows us to reach significant conclusions—from providing factual conclusions to decisionmakers, to estimating how much of a natural resource exists in a particular locale, to predicting how a natural hazard phenomenon will unfold, to forecasting on a scale from hours to millennia how ecosystems will behave. [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 7:10 am
" Time has deviated from using an actual human being a couple times — "the computer" in 1982 and "The Endangered Earth" in 1988.But it would be bad in a special way to go abstract this year, when the story is about women finally getting seen in the press after so many decades — so many millennia — of invisibility. [read post]
4 May 2022, 1:31 pm
News Bulletinhttps://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.htmlThis week, in brief: Law gives Southwest Colorado’s American Indian tribes a voice at state Capitol Why the debate over Russian uranium worries U.S. tribal nations University of California announces Native American Opportunity Plan Beyond “paper” water: The complexities of fully leveraging tribal water rights EPA approves the Southern Ute Indian Tribe’s water quality standards … [read post]
