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11 Jan 2018, 8:33 am
Brief History of Finland Although a relatively young independent nation in Northern Europe, Sami people—the indigenous people living in the very north of Europe—have inhabited the northern parts of Finland for several millennia. [read post]
16 Dec 2018, 9:30 pm
People have practiced rudimentary forms of medicine for millennia. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 11:43 am
United States challenges the constitutionality of the United States’ decades-long policy on climate change.[2] The plaintiffs, a group of 21 children and young adults, sued the United States and various government officials[3] alleging that they have known for more than five decades “that the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels was destabilizing the climate system in a way that would ‘significantly endanger plaintiffs, with the damage persisting for millennia. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 8:33 pm
The other elements of persuasion, recognized for two and a half millennia,* are emotion and personality. [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]
8 Dec 2010, 2:40 am
The problem is that this flies in the face of decades, maybe millennia, of "common sense," that bit of ignorance relied on by people to leap over issues they don't comprehend and arrive at the simple, and wrong, conclusion. [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 1:59 am
In this installment, DeWaal examines some important new food safety tools in FDA's toolbox for imported foods.There is no doubt that managing imports is FDA's most vexing problem in the new millennia. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 3:54 am
It compels the hatred of what has been traditionally understood as great literature because it’s Books Too White, essentially lousy lit that was only adored because it was written by white people, as if white people only wrote a paltry handful of books over the past few millennia and so they became the standard because anything written by a white person was elevated to literature cult status and rammed down the throats of BIPOC students. [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]
20 Nov 2022, 2:33 pm
The Romans were the first to erect beautiful concrete buildings, some of which still stand today, including the almost two millennia old Pantheon and Senate Building. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 3:03 pm
For nearly two millennia, Jewish tradition has maintained multiple versions of this figure (see here and here). [read post]
5 Sep 2018, 5:03 am
It’s not like The DaVinci Code, where the idea that a prophet might have had a human relationship of some kind is considered a disturbing secret that must be kept for millennia at any cost. [read post]
28 Aug 2019, 6:18 am
Remember the great continuum that has driven homo sapiens for millennia: FEAR <———> GREED We need Jeff Bezos closer to the FEAR end than the GREED end. [read post]
30 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm
At its core, the question gets at the obligation of an individual to a group, which is a dilemma that philosophers have pondered for millennia. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 11:43 am
United States challenges the constitutionality of the United States’ decades-long policy on climate change.[2] The plaintiffs, a group of 21 children and young adults, sued the United States and various government officials[3] alleging that they have known for more than five decades “that the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels was destabilizing the climate system in a way that would ‘significantly endanger plaintiffs, with the damage persisting for millennia. [read post]
17 May 2018, 2:33 am
Over millennia, this primitive form of storytelling evolved into a form of storytelling that is more inward looking and steeped with meaning The Brain’s Hardwiring It is often argued that storytelling is the most powerful and effective form of human communication because it is wired right into our brain hardware. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 8:12 am
Can an online social life be nourishing in the same way as offline social lives have been for millennia? [read post]
7 Feb 2009, 9:00 pm
Even semi-pacifists like myself can learn vital trial battle lessons from the likes of Sun Tzu's Art of War (translated in full here), which is over two millennia old, but less than three centuries in grabbing the attention of Western military and non-military thinkers and actors. [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 6:51 am
” At ACSblog, however, Reverend Barry Lynn expresses concern that the ruling might lay the groundwork for a broader ruling; he suggests that several members of the majority were moving toward the position that “[t]he cross, the central symbol of Christianity for two millennia, isn’t necessarily always religious. [read post]
21 Apr 2015, 9:01 pm
An Accelerating Pace of Change Although human beings have formed intimate same-sex bonds for millennia, at least since late antiquity (when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire), Western social and legal norms have condemned homosexuality. [read post]
