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8 Sep 2013, 3:12 pm by David
Qióng: 450 million millennia. [read post]
7 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
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]
29 Apr 2015, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
On the side of permitting states to keep the bans was the oft-repeated word, “millennia,” which was a reference to how long there has been “traditional” marriage, but it was not the Biblical millennia as much as it was just a very long time. [read post]
3 Mar 2015, 7:24 pm
  We have become used (over the last three millennia) to expect to all explorations, philosophies, theories or religions, go "someplace", attain "something", and this someplace can be identified and this something can be commodified (even as an intangible), that is generic in character. [read post]
1 Nov 2013, 8:50 am
I understand it as: Feminism-as-sexism is funny; come on, give us a little room to get in some harmless girly slaps after all the millennia of suffering. [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 8:04 am
 “The past two millennia are rich with examples that confirm, time and again, Ulpian’s dictum from the third century A.D.: the strong can resist torture and the weak will say anything to end their pain. [read post]
19 Nov 2012, 12:35 pm by WIMS
And this contemporary human-induced climate change, the report notes, is occurring over a century, not millennia. [read post]
13 Nov 2015, 2:40 pm
  We do know that the search for products that can improve your sex life has been underway for millennia, and we also expect the industry dedicated to selling such products is substantial. [read post]
10 Oct 2022, 8:48 am by Sophie Corke
The way in which the book suggests legal changes which could involve quite a fundamental reorientation of attitudes towards innovation and incentives is supported by a sweeping overview of millennia of human-machine history leading up to our present moment, in what is characterised as a ‘third wave’ of AI: “a new golden stage of boom and growth for AI” (p.37, n.50). [read post]
19 Nov 2018, 1:51 am
People have have been eating insects for millennia, with evidence of human insectivory dating back to 9000-3000 BC (Kouřimská et al.). [read post]
29 Feb 2016, 2:33 pm
Is the social the original sin, then, so that the extrapolations of the last several millennia represent a (deliberate) inversion of the social and the self? [read post]
7 Feb 2021, 6:22 am by Neil Wilkof
Pandemics, our unwelcome guests for millennia, are ultimately all about disease and cure. [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]
9 Feb 2016, 6:11 pm by Frank Pasquale
Being objects of surveillance and control, exhausting laboring without rewards and being lost through the holes of the meritocracy net, being constrained in a specular posture of other’s deeds: all these stances have been the fate of women’s lives for centuries, if not millennia. [read post]
4 May 2023, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
  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]
1 May 2015, 9:49 am by Rahul Bhagnari
At the beginning of the argument, he said that the word that comes to his mind as he thinks about these cases is "millennia," As in the thousands of years of traditional marriage between a man and a woman, contrasted to ten years of experience with marriage of same-sex couples. [read post]
10 Mar 2017, 8:35 am
While those in power have demanded more food and higher yields to maintain and expand their power for millennia, pushing farmers into practices that were environmentally and socially destructive, their effects were mostly localized. [read post]
2 Jun 2020, 2:08 pm by Andrew Koppelman
  In time, public officials, who started out a few millennia ago as mere apparatchiks of the king, can develop an ethic of their own. [read post]
25 Apr 2013, 12:32 pm by Larry Catá Backer
And then we devote millennia working collectively to build on this shared meaning--one that is incarnated only through the relational mutuality of belief—an all too real administrative apparatus through which the collective layers an infinite covering of application that forms the hard shell of law, custom and morals, around the illusion of collective belief. [read post]
18 Feb 2015, 12:00 am
We are all of us the sum of millennia of history: Culture, civilization, is the work of countless minds struggling against contingency. [read post]