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24 Jun 2011, 5:20 am by Walter Olson
Although it is only indirectly related to the issue of manufacturing shortages, note also the interesting reader comment on the gout drug Colchicine, known and used for millennia. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 3:34 pm by Eugene Volokh
This right does not originate with Troxel, however; it has existed for millennia, an integral part of the institution of the family.I. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 9:43 am by Kevin Maillard
   Ideological millennia have passed since Strom Thurmond’s fiery speech about “the nigra race” in Southern churches, homes, and pools. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 3:37 pm by Sabrina
environment 360: "For millennia, the blanket of ice covering the Arctic Ocean protected the shore from damaging storms. [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 12:10 pm
"So much for the specter of depletion, as a reason to adopt renewable energy technologies like solar power and wind power. [read post]
31 May 2011, 7:59 pm by David Bernstein
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]
26 May 2011, 12:36 pm
Campbell's work has shown that the non-animal diet that has been common in China for millennia is associated with much better health outcomes than in countries that consume animals and their secretions. [read post]
25 May 2011, 5:12 am by Walter Olson
Most of us, recalling the scarcity, dietary monotony and starvation that afflicted our ancestors for hundreds of millennia, count that as progress. [read post]
16 May 2011, 2:03 pm by Kim Krawiec
  First, he contends that it fails to account for the decentralization that has sustained Jewish communities worldwide for nearly two millennia. [read post]
12 May 2011, 3:47 pm by Gabe Johnson-Karp
  But the concept is not limited to outdoorspeople; the general risk averseness that keeps most people from doing exceedingly stupid things, and which has kept humans out of danger for millennia, is precisely the mentality underlying the Precautionary Principle. [read post]
11 May 2011, 7:16 am by admin
” – George Washington   In the two preceding posts, using a recent Boston Globe article, we saw Boston declare fiscal war on its large land-owning non-profits (Part 1), upsetting a status quo that has persisted for at least two centuries in America, and millennia in Europe (Part 2). [read post]
9 May 2011, 5:51 am by Вихър Георгиев
What is more, our physical and genetic ancestors have waged war on one another for at least two millennia on this continent. [read post]
4 May 2011, 10:02 am by StephanieWestAllen
Although meditation clearly helps people cope, and has done so for millennia, its benefits now need the imprimatur of functional MR scanning in order to be accepted. [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 1:08 pm by Anthony Cardone
For now, perennial varieties yield much less grain than their annual counterparts – which have been selectively bred over millennia. [read post]
24 Mar 2011, 8:15 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
World TB Day reminds us that although TB has afflicted mankind for millennia, we have yet to understand it in modern terms. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 6:31 pm by Glenn Reynolds
FASTER, PLEASE: After Earth: Why, Where, How, and When We Might Leave Our Home Planet — Humanity may have millennia to find a new home in the universe–or just a few years. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 1:39 pm by Matt Johnston
 One could argue that after millennia of a dearth of proof of an afterlife, that maintaining such a belief is delusional. [read post]
26 Feb 2011, 12:44 pm by Sabrina
"For millennia the tree has been a symbol of life. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 2:30 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Female musicians were the favorite entertainers in the courts for over two millennia during the Achaemenid, Sassanid, Saffavid, Qajar and the Pahlavi dynasties. [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]