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15 Feb 2023, 12:01 am
Hamilton also maintains that quality of the plays by three great Greek tragedians—Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides—has been matched only by Shakespeare in the two millennia since they wrote. [read post]
9 Nov 2006, 5:11 pm
We have begun to understand that the growth in social wealth per capita over the last millennia is deeply related to the increase in the diversity of new nonrival ideas that has occurred over the same time. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 4:53 am
For millennia civilizations have recognized benefits of collecting the rain. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 5:47 pm
Over millennia, these distant forebears adapted to stressful conditions or “borrowed” adaptations, with their genes encoding valuable mutations to protect and preserve the species. [read post]
17 Apr 2012, 1:39 pm
", thundered a mighty voice from the heavens, "It was I who invented 'looking and feeling' millennia ago. [read post]
6 Apr 2007, 10:43 am
But as Novak argued -- in one of the best critiques of neo-atheism -- in the March 19 issue of National Review, "Questions have been the heart and soul of Judaism and Christianity for millennia. [read post]
10 Apr 2024, 2:20 pm
This image appeals to the ancient blood libel that has pervaded anti-semitic propaganda for millennia. [read post]
15 Apr 2009, 11:15 pm
Rejecting Applicant's "hair-splitting" arguments, the Board found the record replete with uses of "Silver Birch" in a manner that immediately conveys information about an ingredient of Applicant's products.The record shows the wide range of medicinal uses of Silver Birch, dating back thousands of years to pre-history and spanning the millennia all the way up to still unfolding promise for dealing with melanomas and HIV/AIDS.Third-party advertising showed… [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 9:43 am
Ideological millennia have passed since Strom Thurmond’s fiery speech about “the nigra race” in Southern churches, homes, and pools. [read post]
14 Oct 2022, 3:10 pm
In urging the court to take up the case, the magazine tells the justices that the 6th Circuit’s ruling “threatens to disembowel a form of rhetoric that has existed for millennia, that is particularly potent in the realm of political debate, and that, purely incidentally, forms the basis of The Onion’s writers’ paychecks. [read post]
19 Sep 2017, 12:32 am
This is particularly the case with our common law which is based largely on legal cases, building up case on case over millennia like leaves on the forest floor. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 1:38 pm
People and Alcohol Humans' love of alcohol is millennia old despite the obvious downsides of alcohol abuse. [read post]
20 Sep 2021, 8:32 am
But that too works for me: I don't condemn the Western powers of the 1500s to 1800s for their conquests, which stemmed from the West becoming better at doing what lots of cultures had been trying to do for millennia (and sometimes did very effectively to the West, e.g., the Arabs, Mongols, and Turks), but it's interesting to imagine a world in which matters were more balanced. [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 4:36 am
Two and a half millennia later, Freud famously claimed the opposite — that every son harbors murderous impulses toward his father. [read post]
28 May 2021, 5:46 am
Although fires at sea have been a seafarers’ worst nightmare since the first large wooden vessels were launched by Egyptians several millennia ago, container ships are particularly prone to suffering extensive loss to cargo and ship due to uncontainable fires. [read post]
6 Apr 2016, 3:08 pm
Reportedly by “defying millennia of basic human instinct,” AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol, the second-ranked Go player in the world. [read post]
24 Mar 2011, 8:15 am
World TB Day reminds us that although TB has afflicted mankind for millennia, we have yet to understand it in modern terms. [read post]
31 May 2011, 7:59 pm
The West can either fight or submit.Rabbi Daniel Gordis makes a similar point in the latest issue of Commentary, discussing specifically rabbinical students who express hostility to Israel, though his point could be extended to many on the Jewish left: If you asked a Jew at any other time in the history of our people whether or not he had enemies, the notion that he should consider the possibility he did not have enemies would have occasioned a blast of the mordant humor that has helped keep our… [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 2:15 am
The anthropologists tell you that you have been at the bottom of the mating pole for millennia; the business press keeps looking for Alpha males with animal spirits to kick-start the economy. [read post]
24 Oct 2010, 2:00 pm
Still he had to be doing something with his time, in between running Athens & giving fantastic speeches that would mould political rhetoric for the next two millennia (OK, Thucydides had a hand in it, too); and blocked drains & water supply, though they don’t feature too much in the speeches, must have been as important in fifth century BC Athens as they are anywhere else. [read post]
