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30 Nov 2009, 7:55 pm
Philosophers, for millennia, have grappled with formulating principles of morality and have attempted to determine which of those principles ought to be codified and imposed as societal rules of law on individuals. [read post]
20 Sep 2022, 10:18 am
Armenia has historical ties to Iran that go back millennia, and the Islamic Republic insists it won't tolerate a change in Armenia's borders now. [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]
24 Sep 2007, 7:47 pm
I don't think that this characteristic is particularly unusual on my part, as people were observing millennia ago that a mild reply turneth aside wrath, while grievous words stir up anger. [read post]
11 May 2012, 8:00 am
Reaching back to preserved oral commentary from over two millennia ago, a rich literature continues to be produced by rabbis and their talmudic students. [read post]
23 Sep 2008, 2:03 pm
Of these, over 200 ZJ would be extractable, with the potential to increase this to over 2,000 ZJ with technology improvements - sufficient to provide all the world's present energy needs for several millennia. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 4:00 am
… Finally, all of these state-based privatized (or privatizing) systems – civil, administrative, legislative, … – operate in addition to the already robust, millennia-old tradition of resolving the vast majority of virtually all disputes through mechanisms entirely separate from formal state processes (private negotiations, religious and community-based dispute resolution tools, etc.). [read post]
9 May 2014, 4:00 am
We might, I suppose, neglect the earnest naming of our toes because we’re going to lose the little toe in a few thousand millennia, or so some speculate, from where it’s only a hop, skip and a stumble to hooves. [read post]
28 Sep 2021, 8:35 am
Professor Thoms noted “Indigenous hunter-gatherers occupied this vicinity for millennia, including linguistically diverse groups known today as Bidai, Coahuiltecan, Tonkawa, and Wichita. [read post]
23 May 2008, 6:49 pm
Indeed, for millennia (and well before the Internet), people have been sending false messages to each other as part of some manipulative effort (Les Liaisons Dangereuses comes to mind, but we could find countless other examples). [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 8:09 am
Unlike CO2, which can remain in the atmosphere for centuries to millennia, black carbon has a life of few weeks or less. [read post]
20 Feb 2013, 7:55 am
Shane is rumored to be dead, though not, as decorum and four millennia of poetic heritage would militate, of shame. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 9:21 am
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30 Jan 2018, 9:00 am
Over the past millennia, humankind has only survived because they’ve been able to put co-existence ahead of conflict. [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 4:43 pm
Does the application of neuroscientific research finally reveal some ethical problem with the use of pathos that was never noticed during the millennia when persuasion was a softer science? [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 3:54 am
The book has occupied a prominent space on my bookshelf for over 20 years and I continue to read it from time to time, if for no other reason than to remind me of the rich trove of fakery that has accompanied homo sapiens for millennia. [read post]
31 May 2024, 11:35 am
This exhibit can, he said “upend the notion of a monolithic early China and update it with the story of many distinct cultures interlinking into one over millennia. [read post]
16 Aug 2023, 6:42 am
Third, as Broekman goes to great pains to examine, interlude in contemporary time, space and place exposes the tragi-comedy of the passing, or at least the transformation, of millennia of the analog as it must make way for the digital. * * * Pix credit hereHere, then, are the characteristics of the interlude: (1) The analog is wired, physically connected; the digital is signal (a concept discussed above in connection with Broekman’s Chapter 3). (2)The analog transmits in words… [read post]
15 Jan 2016, 7:42 am
This brings me to Obama’s willingness to refer to the current situation in the Middle East as “a transformation … rooted in conflicts that date back millennia. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 5:09 pm
[T]he Court invalidates the marriage laws of more than half the States and orders the transformation of a social institution that has formed the basis of human society for millennia, for the Kalahari Bushmen and the Han Chinese, the Carthaginians and the Aztecs. [read post]
