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4 Apr 2023, 1:27 pm
.#1 is "Emperor Nero's Emerald":In his work Natural History, Pliny the Elder described how the Roman Emperor Nero would watch gladiator matches through an emerald. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 8:47 am
EPA announces a broad coalition of 27 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including The Sierra Club, The Nature Conservancy, and The Conservation Fund has pledged to support the Urban Waters Federal Partnership as it works to restore waterways and revitalize communities across the country. [read post]
22 Apr 2015, 7:02 am
In this chapter of an edited collection of works about disputes over copyright, we examine the nature of the moral claims by various actors within the copyright system.Download the essay from SSRN at the link. [read post]
6 Feb 2014, 9:39 am
The essay applauds much of Witt's book, but criticizes his work for 1) failing to understand the way the US supported slavery in the Constitution from 1787 to 1861; 2) over emphasizing slavery as the reason for the promulgation of the Lieber Code during the Civil War; 3) failing to understand or discuss the nature of Confederate violations of accepted rules of warfare (including demanding tribute from captured towns and enslaving or murdering captured prisoners of war); and 4)… [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 7:35 am
This essay examines English parliamentary debates about consumers’ financial means in the context of the 1869 Debtors Act, which oversaw working-class imprisonment for debt. [read post]
2 May 2019, 7:41 am
The evening before the testimony, multiple outlets reported that Mueller had sent Barr a letter expressing concerns that the attorney general’s summary of the report’s conclusions “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the special counsel’s work. [read post]
24 Sep 2020, 9:30 pm
They may fancy themselves, comparatively speaking, conducting “basic” or “fundamental” research, which is not instrumental by intent or design, distinguishable, that is, from “applied” science or work clearly connected in some manner to technology, but the nature and history scientific research invariably (in the bosom of time as it were) brings such “pure” science down to earth, connects it, somehow, some way, with those sciences… [read post]
6 Sep 2019, 5:54 am
One of the few times Trump has spoken the truth occurred when he admitted he would do nothing about (alleged) climate change (about which, of course, he is appallingly ignorant, of a piece with his inexcusable ignorance of science or indeed about any field of organized inquiry and knowledge as represented, for example, by the natural and social sciences) if that meant affecting corporate profits (and the avaricious accumulation of money and wealth generally). [read post]
17 Jun 2013, 8:00 am
Workplace accidents are more likely to occur in refineries and plants due to the volatile nature of the chemicals and the operation of heavy machinery. [read post]
28 May 2018, 5:03 pm
He spent considerable time watching trials, debating with lawyers about the nature of innocence and guilt, visiting the accused in prison and trying to sway public opinion about certain cases. [read post]
4 Nov 2017, 1:51 pm
And this sort of large-scale emergency clearly justifies taking every possible step to get people in the region street-legal and back to work. [read post]
29 Jul 2016, 8:38 am
The radical interpretive choice for which he argues is ruled out by the nature of the Constitution. [read post]
18 Apr 2021, 6:42 am
This list is a bit idiosyncratic insofar as it reflects works that have shaped my thinking on this subject (hence its introductory nature and length), a formative process that began in conjunction with my life as a student many years ago (most of my adult life has been outside the academic world), when I was fortunate enough to study under the mentorship of Nandini Iyer, Juan E. [read post]
4 Jun 2015, 12:21 am
This spring and summer, many people will fire up the patio or backyard grill after work or on the weekends. [read post]
25 Mar 2014, 8:37 pm
That's natural. [read post]
21 Mar 2019, 3:41 am
It was a beautiful and natural stone and brick facade... [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 9:36 am
I figured that faculty and staff are Bob's natural constituency, and was anticipating a throng of tweed jackets and gray ponytails.That's not what I encountered, to say the least, but when I got into the car to go back to work Theme Time Radio was on the air, and the theme was "Luck". [read post]
13 Nov 2015, 8:37 am
"... who was born in Kuwait and is a naturalized British citizen, as 'an act of self-defense' and 'the right thing to do.' We have been working, with the United States, literally around the clock to track him down... [read post]
1 Jun 2017, 7:17 am
“The wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world may be the poorest in what was supremely precious to the highest cultures of classical antiquity and the renaissance of world history—the availability of time for thought and contemplation, for relaxation and creative work, for conversation and study, for love and friendship, for the enjoyment of the arts and the beauties of nature, for solitude and communion, for doubts and dreams. [read post]
3 Jun 2019, 8:40 am
"NY Mag restates the idea as "wearing black but also working out and eating right. [read post]
