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8 Sep 2013, 3:12 pm
Qióng: 450 million millennia. [read post]
4 Sep 2013, 2:28 pm
But I'm also certain, sadly enough, that they've been used for centuries (indeed, millennia) to bash other people in the head as well. [read post]
4 Sep 2013, 8:54 am
Here is the description of the program from the Cardozo website:On Nov.14-15, the Program on Holocaust Human Rights Studies and the Law & Humanities Institute will sponsor a conference on the tragic history of the "Blood Libel", in which Jews have been accused across the millennia of killing Christian children to use their blood in the Passover ritual. [read post]
2 Sep 2013, 10:01 pm
” In “Emerging Infectious Diseases: Threats to Human Health and Global Stability,” published by PLOS, the authors from the National Institutes of Health paint a serious, if not scary, picture that the world faces from emerging pathogens: “The inevitable, but unpredictable, appearance of new infectious diseases has been recognized for millennia, well before the discovery of causative infectious agents. [read post]
23 Jul 2013, 1:45 pm
It has been a diverse people for millennia: Jews since Biblical times, a shrine to Esther and Mordecai in Hamadan; many Armenians and other refugees from the World Wars; Kurds, Turks, Azerbaijanis; multiple native tribes and more. [read post]
13 Jul 2013, 8:38 am
"Rodriguez and the other bug mongers of San Juan offer their wares as 'pre-Hispanic' foods, a nod to the Aztecs, Mixtecs and other civilizations that flourished for millennia here on diets rich in grubs, grasshoppers and other edible invertebrates." [read post]
22 Jun 2013, 10:52 am
Perhaps the greatest mysteryof all time (other than how many times William Shatner will be able to reinvent his career) is how the ancient Egyptians, without any modern machinery, were able to move 2.3 million blocks of solid rock, each weighing up to 80 tons, into a massive structure that has stood for over four millennia. [read post]
28 May 2013, 10:00 am
We have been doing so for millennia, or at least long enough that the subject of property law has acquired a reputation as antiquarian. [read post]
25 Apr 2013, 10:31 pm
Seven millennia. [read post]
25 Apr 2013, 12:32 pm
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]
5 Apr 2013, 5:54 am
There is one other event which transcends the limits of the year, since it is measured in centuries and millennia in the history of this city and of this Church. [read post]
22 Mar 2013, 7:05 am
Representatives from Boston Millennia Partners, Atlas Ventures and Polaris Venture Partners seem to agree that making money in venture capital these days is a lot harder than it used to be. [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]
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]
14 Feb 2013, 4:00 am
We think of the future as an element in this linear concept of time because we have been taught to think so for millennia, and the primary foundation for this concept of linear time, or time as an 'arrow', is probably religious, since the ultimate goal of salvation cannot occur in our present state but must be deferred. [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 3:52 pm
Skin grafting was performed two millennia ago in India but wasn't popular in western medicine until almost two hundred years ago. [read post]
27 Nov 2012, 4:58 am
Our instinct to act against our own selfish interests by cooperating with others is hard wired and has evolved over millennia, but it has nothing to do with what Laws calls “the idea of goodness as a rule-book of rights”: Competing, strident, claims of entitlement are a poor substitute for a shared perception of goodness. [read post]
19 Nov 2012, 12:35 pm
And this contemporary human-induced climate change, the report notes, is occurring over a century, not millennia. [read post]
30 Oct 2012, 5:56 am
The idea that some savvy business people could patent a cut of beef that has existed inside cattle for millennia intrigues me. [read post]
3 Oct 2012, 4:37 pm
Well, we have had that before, all down the millennia and centuries, where what is produced by all benefits mostly only a few. [read post]
