| 单词 | epoch |
| 例句 | Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Worse, the agreed ages for the Earth couldn’t comfortably support the numbers of eons and ages and epochs that the past obviously contained. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The circumstances leading to the change in Mr. Covey’s course toward me form an epoch in my humble history. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z It had been just over a week ago, but for Hazel it felt like an epoch away. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The Olmec were but the first of many societies that arose in Mesoamerica in this epoch. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Indeed, the wealth of Egypt had political effects that long outlasted the Hellenistic epoch. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Also, all this changes from textbook to textbook and from person to person, so that some authorities describe seven recent epochs, while others are content with four. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z End of an epoch, I could tell the king. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z "It seeks to poison and disrupt in order to hurl us into an epoch of chaos," shouts Hitler. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z He conceded that the era of the American Revolution had been “a memorable epoch in the annals of the human race,” but the jury was still out on its significance. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In this epoch, we live between spiral arms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z These—oral culture, written culture, the culture of print—these have always been considered the great epochs of man. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Emblematic of the epoch of sailing-ship exploration and discovery is the revolutionary Dutch Republic of the seventeenth century. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Central to this splitting is time, with eras, periods, epochs, and ages, such as Mesozoic, Cretaceous, and Maastrichtian. 'The Last Lost World': How the Pleistocene era shaped human development 2012-08-08T19:40:04Z It might reasonably be seen as a flourishy blip, campy ephemera or an uncommonly excellent case in pop’s mimicry of the mood of an exceptionally twisty epoch. Almost anarchy: The Style Council and the smooth sounds of sophisti-pop 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Every closed diner is the end of an epoch. Dave Attell Bids a Heartfelt (and Hilarious) Farewell to Carolines 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z He sought the genuine in, as Kirstein put it, “an epoch so crass and so corrupt that the only purity of the ordinary individual is unconscious.” Art Review: Walker Evans’s ‘American Photographs,’ at MoMA 2013-07-18T20:50:03Z “But this is an epoch of sudden changes and startling surprises. What may appear absurd today will assume a serious aspect tomorrow.” These ‘Rebel Women’ Sought Equality in 19th-Century New York 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z “The echo of Cuba is so enormous, in so many places, in so many forms, in so many countries and in so many epochs,” he says. Can one man’s Cuban road trip fix 56 years of cultural disconnect? 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z In the time it takes to shed a tear and dry it, an epoch has passed — and the ball goes on. DVDs: Visconti?s ?Leopard? ? After the Prince, the Deluge 2010-06-26T02:45:00Z But then, neo-liberal economics intervened in the transformative epoch begun by Thatcher and continued by Blair, and the consequent disparities revived the old concerns. Rich and poor 2010-03-23T21:00:00Z The images depict an epoch she calls the Progressive Era, between the 1880s and 1920s. White River Valley Museum celebrates pets and their humans 2012-04-03T02:59:01Z Published on the eve of an epoch of terror and repression across South America, it is an unmistakable parable of imperialism: There are natural catastrophes, civil wars, plagues of insomnia. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Not for nothing does the author’s own experience take place in 2016, that epoch of political shock during which a majority of her compatriots voted to leave the European Union, a.k.a. ‘What Pea Disrupts Your Sleep, Princess?’ 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z The Catholic bishops are brazenly trying to recreate an epoch in which they were ascendant. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z Despite the unfamiliar Soviet-bloc setting and the distant historical epoch, these are highly accessible human stories with an enormous emotional range, from dark comedy to reckless romance to unbearable tragedy. “Dekalog”: The legendary Communist-era Polish miniseries that shaped the TV we watch today 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z On the one hand, it’s a program celebrating some of the masterful orchestrators of the classical tradition; on the other, it’s entirely 20th-century music — an epoch that many orchestra fans still view as new. At a moment of transition, NSO offers the old-new: 20th-century classical works 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z “Time Song” jumps between vast epochs of time as Blackburn ponders the history of the English coast and its counterpart in the Netherlands. Thousands of Years Ago, a Different Sort of Brexit 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Its shelves were crammed with symbols of long-gone epochs, genuine collectibles and dubious tchotchkes. Beyond Kitsch in Skopje 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z The very words transported one from this epoch of sad synthetics, Nike FuelBands chronicling sweat droplets and wadded-up Shout wipes to somewhere more civilized and respectful. Critical Shopper: At Carven, the Clothes are Peppy and the Colors Pop 2014-03-25T22:18:50Z The novel in its spaciousness allows world enough and time for epochs to evolve, but the short story must seize in its thimble, all at once, crisis and its crux. One Last Book From a Virtuoso of the Short Story 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z But it is also some of the last undisturbed soil from an earlier epoch. Her Art Reads the Land in Deep Time 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Seeing history in terms of dynasties and epochs, China's rulers attach no special significance to the revolutions of the past few centuries. The Future by Al Gore – review 2013-01-31T12:00:00Z “But the book’s ability to trace across eras and epochs is limited,” Blackhawk said, “particularly by its occasional disregard of things like law and policy, which are central to Native American sovereignty and lives.” A Finnish Scholar Wants to Change How We See American History 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z The crises of modernity and tradition that the movie depicts are those of the filmmaker, his characters, the city, and the epoch overall. Movie of the Week: “Touki Bouki” 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z I was transported to the historical epoch when almost the entire continent was shedding its colonialist rule and the associated attire and stepping onto the world stage transformed. Africa Style: With Freedom Came Fashion Flair 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Any targeted shopping or browsing mission, however, is sure to be derailed in this bazaar of tastes, epochs and disciplines. Art Review: Fine Art & Antique Dealers at Park Avenue Armory - Review 2011-10-20T22:00:37Z He writes, "These were the Roman candles, the Catherine wheels of that epoch of movie writing, and their names are now writ in water." S.J. Perelman was a master of comedy. Nearly a century later, his work still delivers laughs. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z It centres on a single dancer, Salah El Brogy, who must pass through a large Perspex screen in order to enter the main stage, as if arriving from a distant epoch. Akram Khan Company 2010-09-17T20:31:00Z “You can’t have a golden age without gold,” someone says, and by that standard we are currently in an epoch of platinum. Review: ‘The Price of Everything’ Asks $56 Billion Questions About Art 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z An optimistic survey of the technology and innovations that define our human-dominated epoch. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Like her better-known sculptures, it tunnels between disparate epochs in design. Art In Review: SARAH DORNNER 2012-07-12T21:30:16Z The movies love tortured artists, inflamed geniuses who thunder against the establishment, aesthetic conventions, their historical epochs, God or just the nearest warm body. ‘Showing Up’ Review: Making Art in All Its Everyday Glory 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Once upon a time, in the Pleistocene epoch before cellphones and social media, students used bars as meeting places, heading there after class to find friends and to plot evenings over beer. For College Students, Social Media Tops the Bar Scene 2012-09-26T22:35:08Z The guide promises “clarity and understanding” of a plant that has been around since the end of the Pleistocene epoch. The Great Outdoors: From Your Backyard to a Garden in Japan 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z With its frantic cross-cutting among four epochs, Griffith’s film is worth viewing under any circumstances — but the two movies combined add up to well over five hours of historical mayhem. Movie Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:37:04Z Hoping to find its next "Downton Abbey," PBS is reaching back to one of its favorite epochs: the Civil War. PBS teams with Ridley Scott for Civil War hospital drama 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z More recently, in the Holocene epoch, smaller islands formed on the oceanside of the large ones. Georgia’s Sea Islands: A destination worth the paddle 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z “A Very English Scandal” was widely acclaimed when it was broadcast in England in May, and for good reason: it recasts a now distant-seeming epoch of British political history as a stylish comic caper. The Very English Politics of “A Very English Scandal” 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z There is only one planet, biosphere, and Anthropocene epoch, and we must err on the side of caution! From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z He described the show as a broader examination of a revolutionary epoch in the region. "Homeland" co-creator wants Israel to be prime spot for U.S. TV shows 2014-05-13T14:24:45Z The larger Sea Islands were formed by the rising and falling of seas of the Pleistocene epoch, 2.5 million to 12,000 years ago. Georgia’s Sea Islands: A destination worth the paddle 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z The song from 1988 reminds me of the necessity of positivity as a force in this relentless epoch of fear. Say goodbye to 2016 with a song 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Hollywood loves costume designers when they’re crafting distant worlds and epochs. In ‘Blue Jasmine,’ Suzy Benzinger Turns Clothes Into Characters 2013-08-21T20:25:28Z The occupant unzips the bag and emerges into his or her choice of epochs lacking sewage systems and indoor plumbing, when pedestrians casually vomit during afternoon strolls. Opiate for the Masses: “Making History” and “Time After Time” add to this season’s TV travel addiction 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z “It is asking a controversial question that in an epoch of severely depleted resources badly needs to be articulated,” she added. Steaks Grown From Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z In an epoch that is again tending towards global geopolitical isolationism, it is to be hoped that cultural collaboration will remain an important channel of transnational cooperation. Jane Austen’s early Chinese translators were stumped by the oddities of 19th-century British cuisine 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Literary tradition, canon, and the progress of epochs and empires that occupied the commentator’s work did not interest him; these features of the known world were too conventionally valued. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z We were therefore sitting, Moore explained, at the source of the Anthropocene, the geological epoch defined by man’s influence on the environment. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The most revolutionary epoch in the story of art was about to end. Celebrating 1913, a glory year for modern art 2012-11-19T17:00:03Z They argued that we are now in a new geologic phase, the Anthropocene epoch — a time when humans now change the Earth more than all the planet’s natural processes combined. ‘Anthropocene: The Human Epoch’ Review: Global Warnings 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Such descriptions speak evocatively of what it means to be gay in different epochs. 2010-02-17T03:22:00Z Operating as a centrist, he failed to usher in the conservative epoch he had promised. How the Republicans wound up with Trump: E.J. Dionne explains in 'Why the Right Went Wrong' 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The turbulence that troubles the plane, then, doubles as the turbulent historical epoch we are all living through. A Poet Who Looks at the Stuff of Daily Life and Sees Looming Apocalypse 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class. Edmund White's top 10 New York books 2011-01-12T12:24:11Z Her contributions will include a spherical sculpture embedded with plant fossils from the Eocene epoch and living plant life, as well as a window display of photographs focusing on the industrial supply chain. Mary Mattingly Is Named Brooklyn Public Library’s Artist in Residence 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Straightforward extrapolation of the Standard Model to that primordial epoch suggests that WIMPs should have been produced in enormous numbers in the dense, hot plasma that filled the universe immediately after the big bang. Physics confronts its heart of darkness: Cracks showing in dominant explanation for dark matter 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z What joins all these dissimilar figures, from unrelated nations and epochs, is how they transformed the curse of distance into a blessing, the need to see the world afresh. Perspective | Writers of the past turned suffering into literary masterpieces. They might help us understand how to meet the challenges of our day. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z As a product of that general epoch myself, I'm not unfamiliar with the syndrome and I'm not claiming it doesn't exist. "Grown Ups": It's time to kill the midlife dude flick 2010-06-25T00:23:00Z Look for objects from all epochs, including Tang dynasty vases, contemporary ink painting, intricate bamboo baskets, and at least one iron hawk. Woodblock Prints and Hindu Gods at Asia Week New York 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z As Congress decreed immutability, the Mall was already entering another epoch of physical and psychological change. The National Mall’s immortal reflection 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The highly structured silhouettes included some rigid corset bustiers that recalled the embellished crinoline of the Restoration epoch. Paris fashion channels past, escapes present woes 2012-03-04T02:31:04Z “To a certain extent,” his biographer Ernest Simmons writes, “his anxieties mirrored those of all thinking people of the Eighties, this ‘epoch of social stagnation.’ Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The medieval world is the most misunderstood and underrated of all cultural epochs. The middle ages invented fine art ... and Britain itself 2012-08-08T15:40:27Z ‘Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time’ The New Deal is one of those great historical epochs, like the Civil War, that compels generation after generation of historians to revisit it. ‘Fear Itself’: a devil’s bargain between New Deal progressives and Southern segregationists 2013-03-13T21:46:05Z JR The commercial success guaranteed by triumph on TV talent quests might well be one of the more baffling phenomena of our epoch but it shows few signs of slowing. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 29 October - 2 November 2012-10-29T08:00:00Z Branding the long postwar era as an epoch of relative peace is disingenuous, and not just because it deflects attention from the significant death and agony that actually did occur and still does. An American century of carnage: Measuring violence in a single superpower world 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Some of his compositions seem to unfold across vast landscapes, majestic and haunting, as if Harper were traveling through epochs of time. At 80, Billy Harper’s Rhapsodic Saxophone Is Still a Towering Force 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z In particular, I was curious whether his re-creation of culturally oversaturated fin de siècle Vienna, a vanished world that continues to fascinate, would convince an audience more familiar with that glittering epoch. A Homecoming, of Sorts, for Viennese Plays 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Just as the Colosseum, even in its decayed state, expresses the spirit of ancient Rome, Speer wanted new Nazi buildings to be designed to reveal to later epochs the greatness of the Third Reich. Art in the midst of catastrophe — and renewal 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z The abrupt juxtapositions of epochs can be jarring, unnerving or touching — sometimes all three — as bright-faced children bloom and sometimes fade within seconds. Movie Review: ‘56 Up’ Adds to Michael Apted’s Documentary Series 2013-01-03T23:33:57Z Sept. 11, as an epoch, meant upheaval for more than one nation. Is 9/11 a Day, or Is It an Era? 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Charted here are the epochs from such early times to the war of independence, through to the expansion of the nation and the industrialisation in the 19th century to the eventual assumption of superpower status. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z The novel follows five characters in three different historical epochs, who at first seem like the protagonists of separate books. From Anthony Doerr, an Ode to Storytelling That Shows How It’s Done 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z “Songfest” aims to reflect the American spirit by setting the words of 13 poets from different epochs of American history. Perspective | Does Leonard Bernstein have any heirs? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Later in the series, he claims that civilization has something to do with “energy,” remarking, “Vigor, energy, vitality: all the civilizations—or civilizing epochs—have had a weight of energy behind them.” The Seductive Enthusiasm of Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Now, “The Accursed” takes as its thematic destination the Presidency of Obama — an utterly unspeakable possibility in the racist, narrow-minded epoch of 1905-06. From Woodrow Wilson to Twitter: A Q&A with Joyce Carol Oates 2013-03-01T02:04:15Z Her writing is one of the biggest and clearest and well-lit mirrors of our epoch. Ingrid Sischy’s Genius: Portraits of Contemporary Culture 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z In the epoch when the Bolshoi was built, boyars didn’t exist in Russia anymore; their 18th-century descendants shaved, and liked to wear wigs. Review: ‘Bolshoi Confidential’ Peers Down the Centuries and Past the Pirouettes 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Either way, the two artists parody an entire epoch of divine births. The “Terrorist Drag” of Vaginal Davis 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z For two decades, an epoch in television time, the show quietly and seamlessly shot scene after scene on the streets of the city. New York's faces: `Law & Order' showed 'em all 2010-05-15T21:01:00Z As Alden deconstructed his way through the epochs of the play’s various source materials, the singers had to do most of the heavy lifting because the sets and costumes didn’t help much. When musicals become operas 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z World War I is over, and the British Empire is already in its twilight, but somehow the devastation of the epoch hasn’t fully sunk in. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Downton Abbey’ Begins Third Season on Sunday on PBS 2013-01-03T12:59:00Z Climatic upheavals not seen for a whole geological epoch. Made You Look: The Cubist Art of Deception 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z This is reflected in the way the New Labour epoch is discussed, with an overriding focus on the relationships between the protagonists and, often, their psychological states. Why fact-based stories are destroying the art of fiction 2011-01-23T00:04:25Z Sure, the world of 1983 is a mess–there are superpower politics, a nuclear-arms race and a culture that might, especially to one accustomed to the aesthetic of the Babylonian-Sumerian-Egyptian epoch, seem polluted at best. The X-Men Cede to Special Effects As the Franchise Faces an Absurd Apocalypse 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The club’s name, Evocación, evokes a yearning for the past, for the music from past epochs. How Cali’s DIY dance clubs keep the spirit of salsa alive 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z It was what you might call a pre-“woke” epoch; we were still drunk on lad culture. My search for Mr Woke: a dating diary 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z In the popular mind, a fresh genre--a different epoch--was emerging. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z And not without reason: Revering the art of the Spanish Viceroyalty was beyond the pale in the immediate aftermath of an epoch when brutality reached epic proportions. 'Painted in Mexico': LACMA's remarkable and important new show 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z In two lines Mellencamp is able to juxtapose the prevailing ethos of his epoch with a faithful belief in ultimate justice that turns the tables and reverses the roles. Mellencamp “doesn’t play to his base”: Why this lefty populist is at home among conservatives 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z But the main draw for me was the pivotal epoch of the Knights. Beneath Malta’s Beauty, a Tangled History 2013-12-06T18:20:39Z There is an endless, constantly changing supply of paintings, furniture and bric-a-brac from every epoch and at every price. Bidding for Treasures in Paris 2010-04-27T10:02:00Z The world has changed so much between my time and theirs that someone just 10 years younger might as well belong to a different geological epoch. Team older feminist: am I allowed nuanced feelings about #MeToo? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z It’s a great leap backward in time, yet another ambitious examination of at an important but often overlooked epoch in history. 'The Knick,' a Cinemax Medical Drama Set in 1900 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z But the legal action arrives during a content boom that has sent writers — and big-league actors and producers — raiding recent history sometimes before it has pickled, looking for figures and epochs to refashion as entertainment. At 101, a Survivor of Hollywood’s Golden Age Throws Down the Gauntlet 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z Joining it were series from Israel, Denmark and Sweden, each of which molds either a painful epoch in modern history or a recent political crisis into a thriller. ‘Deutschland 83’ and ‘Shkufim’ Are Among Exciting International Series 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Which English poet claimed that the French Revolution was "the master theme of the epoch"? Quiz: Bastille in literature 2010-07-14T10:23:00Z In the process, it dismantles many of our assumptions about how drawings were used during one of the most brilliant epochs of image-making. From sketch to painting, there’s no single clear path 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z A work by Pneumastudio cites the onset of the Anthropocene period, and includes pictures of animals that lived in the area in previous epochs. Review: ‘Measure’ Investigates the Art of Quantifying 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z On one hand, we're living in the epoch of the single woman, as Rebecca Traister in "All the Single Ladies" points out. “No One Tells You This”: That single women aren’t a problem for marriage and kids to fix 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Whatever the mechanism, we are living in an unusually stable period called the Holocene epoch. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z Premillennialists subscribe to the belief that our inherently sinful nature will lead us into a tumultuous epoch, only after which Jesus will make his appearance and whisk away the remnant of the truly righteous. The Religious Roots of Our Free Enterprise System 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z That holiday season became an epoch of sorrow, and Murphy discovered a new sense of purpose as he prepared to join Congress’s upper chamber. Chris Murphy’s gun-control crusade has arrived back where it began 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z To Daum, someone only ten years younger than her “might as well belong to a different geological epoch.” Meghan Daum to Millennials: Get off My Lawn 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z I thought it was interesting that the show you’re in is kind of political — like, the title speaks to the polarized political epoch we’re in. What Jedediah Jenkins learned by bicycling across the world 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z It’s possible to read the epoch itself like a poem. ‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant reminders that the Earth is in trouble 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Suddenly on the screen there appears a clock set in the centre of the kind of sumptuous salon that epoch, and Feuillade, alone had a taste for; it shows 4:40pm. Christian Marclay's The Clock: a masterpiece of our times 2011-04-07T12:05:43Z And on a vast, semicircular screen behind them, Luke Halls’s videos, of cotton fields and oceans and skylines, mark the passage of epochs and cataclysms. Review | ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ is so good, it expands your sense of what three actors on a stage can conjure 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Noisette said the themes were “a skeleton” that allowed him to weave together images from ballet, contemporary dance and fashion shows and to juxtapose different epochs and innovations. Couture Creations for Dancing Bodies 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z EP claims we all inherit patterns from prehistoric times — that long epoch when domineering males gained extra descendants because they were powerfully competitive, or jealous, or good at deception. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z The book pines for a bygone literary epoch. An attack on a World War II photograph leads to revelations in ‘My Darling Detective’ 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z “No activity will become art until its epoch is over, then it will disappear,” says an old man’s voice in French. On the poster, but not the carpet, Godard fails to show up in Cannes 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Again with Beethoven in mind and again writing for the Berlin Philharmonic, he made his Ninth a choral symphony — and a drama — telling a story of desperation and hope set during the Nazi epoch. Hans Werner Henze, Romantic Composer, Dies at 86 2012-10-29T02:30:06Z “Le Louvre has always been a living source of inspiration for artists and creatives of every epoch,” Yann Le Touher, the Louvre’s head of development who worked closely on the project, said in an email. Intricate Timepieces, Inspired by the Louvre 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Steenburgen lends a little grit, even as she's called upon to deliver stock maternal kvetches and, worse, invoke "Paris in the '70s" as if referring to a key epoch in that city's history. The neo-folk-tinged 'Song One' is tiresome in its preciousness 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Marx once said: “The ideas of the ruling class are, in every epoch, the ruling ideas.” Meet the woman who changed the dictionary definition of ‘femininity’ 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Despite wild shifts in epoch, these vary little. Theater Review: ‘The Steadfast,’ a War Drama by Mat Smart 2013-01-26T00:54:17Z It was Leap who, in late 2010, discovered Methfessel’s love letters and Bishop’s anguished missives of the “One Art” epoch in a locked file box she had nearly consigned to the shredder. Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z His funeral drew 200,000 people, to mourn the man — and the end of a Jewish epoch. 'Sholem Aleichem' documents 'the Jewish Mark Twain' 2011-09-29T20:01:06Z A nonpareil composer, pianist and bandleader, he arrived in New York from Washington, D.C., just as the Harlem Renaissance was getting underway; soon, the Duke Ellington Orchestra had become the soundtrack to an epoch. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z The visitor to Barcelona is impressed by Miró, but swept away by the architecture of Gaudí, that rises like one of Moreau's temples from the 19th-century epoch of dreams. Surrealism? It was always old hat 2011-04-08T09:55:25Z On an unremarkable street in the unremarkable town, the Loti house museum — two attached bourgeois houses, really — is an alternate world where wildly divergent cultures and epochs are thrown together. | The Curious Case of Pierre Loti 2011-07-12T18:32:08Z But the depths of its creator’s jaded outlook, his sorrowful elegy for an epoch of American heroism that never really existed, his unsettlingly well-founded fear of a future dominated by self-interest – that’s still bulletproof. The Wild Bunch at 50: the enduring nihilism of Sam Peckinpah's western 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Just seven years later, and yet an epoch, David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” demonstrated that comedy was at best a sugarcoating on tragedy. Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The theater, around for millennia, is gearing up under her guidance for a new epoch in San Francisco. Out of Carey Perloff's 'Chaos' comes theatrical harmony 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The planet is in a constant state of flux, of course, so melting ice and calving glaciers are natural processes, with changing seasons or epochs. The Poignant Music of Melting Ice 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The series is set in the 16th century during a historical epoch in which slavery and race were not inextricably linked to each other. ‘Bridgerton’ Takes On Race. But Its Core Is Escapism. 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z The Swinging Sixties – an epoch which has obsessed every subsequent generation – had arrived, and would spread to Europe, America and then, in greater or lesser strength, across the globe . How the Beatles' Love Me Do began the transformation of British music 2012-10-04T15:08:33Z They might occasionally undergo a conceptual shift – the Moore epoch to the Dalton, say – but that had more to do with star power and studio politics than the internal consistency of the character. The Dark Knight and Marvel: the blockbuster franchise comes of age 2012-11-14T12:42:52Z When we look back upon Seattle’s musical epochs, there are obvious defining movements. 15 artists who defined Seattle music in the 2010s 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Baldwin came of age as a novelist during the days of “From Here to Eternity” and “The Naked and the Dead”—an epoch defined by “muscular prose” and stories steeped in realism. Toni Morrison’s Truth 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z But it’s a strange feeling to see periods of one’s own life turning into historical epochs.” Alan Hollinghurst?s ?Stranger?s Child? Is a Departure 2011-10-31T21:57:27Z Mayer's rethinking has precedent in regietheater - where the production team alters locale, epoch and specifications of a work's creators. Met abandons Bondy `Rigoletto' for Vegas version 2012-02-24T00:15:09Z If the right's opportunistic xenophobia towards asylum-seekers is the tragedy of the current epoch, their opportunistic media pitchforking of the arts community is its farce. Who's afraid of the art boogie monster? 2013-06-13T05:07:38Z Sometimes in long humiliating epochs punctuated by moments of unrealized hope. On World AIDS Day: Coming to terms with the fallout of the judgements about the morality of pleasure made from within 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Virility only gets more contradictory and complicated with time and, reading through “A History of Virility,” one looks with mounting dread toward each new historical epoch. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Particularly when our own epoch seems so uncertain and diminished, it’s all the more gratifying to look back at a more navigable time. | Television: ?Pan Am,? ?Playboy Club? and ?Whitney? New on TV 2011-09-16T15:26:17Z What those numbers didn’t capture, and what couldn’t be fully known for several years hence, was that “The Sopranos” had ushered in a new entertainment epoch — if not a true Golden Age of television. Best of Salon: Why “The Sopranos” final scene haunts us still 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z The exhibition won awards in Paris, and it then toured the United States, where Americans were beginning to regard the decades since the Civil War as a discrete epoch. What W. E. B. Du Bois Conveyed in His Captivating Infographics 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z As Ravel himself observed, l'Enfant is "a very smooth blending of all styles from all epochs". Glyndebourne 2012: A musical guide to the Ravel opera double bill 2012-08-16T11:05:51Z Every single literary critic in the traditional media seemed to agree that Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, his saga of a dysfunctional American family, was the novel of the epoch. Everyone's a critic now 2011-01-30T00:06:14Z Right this second, right this epoch, as mankind alters the Earth beyond recognition. ‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant reminders that the Earth is in trouble 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Supposedly, the term “anthropocene” was coined by Soviet scientists in the 1960s to describe a new geo-biological epoch, when the activity of humans — like burning fossil fuels — would irrevocably change our planet. To go do this week: ‘Ghostbusters,’ Elizabeth George, VR at sculpture park 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z For those of us who came of age in an earlier subway epoch, the ease is still shocking. Let Us Sleep on the Subways! 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z We are in the midst of an epoch that renders quaint the title of Norman Mailer’s 1959 book “Advertisements for Myself.” Of Myself I Sing 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z On the album’s final track, “Kola,” he seems to acknowledge that this might be the end of an epoch: “I will remember you/The way you are right now,” he sings over and over. Damien Jurado has a vision to share at the Neptune Theatre 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z “It’s an epoch in Hungarian history now,” he added, referring to Mr. Orbán’s tenure. Reckoning With Memories of Budapest 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z My spell-check program doesn’t recognize the word “Anthropocene,” underlining it in red, as if it’s a typo to be cleaned up and not a geological epoch to be grappled with. Electrified Rivers and Other Attempts to Save the Environment 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Each time she blossoms and withers, the book segues into a new historical epoch. An Urdu Epic Puts India’s Partition Into Historical Perspective 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Whatever the particulars, the calculation is the same — a belief that many diners are eager to dress up again after an epoch of record-level dowdiness. Leave the Sweatshirt at Home. Dining Dress Codes Are Back. 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z But does he believe live drama can persist in our digitial-electronic epoch? Peter Brook on his ‘Suit,’ tailored for its Seattle dates 2014-03-12T19:32:39Z The more you look at it, the more it comes to seem like a giant Rosetta stone holding the key to an entire epoch. Review | The new Oprah exhibit looks like a reward for her $21 million donation. But honestly, she deserves it. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z It is a heavy secret and a messenger from an epoch of time beyond comprehension. Louise Erdrich on the Power of Stones 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Does “now” mean we’re watching an epoch of entitled masculinity finally end? Who’s next? A moment of reckoning for men — and the behavior we can no longer ignore. 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z While Orr's work reaches back to old masters, his postmodern approach, assembling different epochs into surreal collages, draws upon his apprenticeship at a printer's, where he laid out graphics by hand. Artist of the week: Christopher Orr 2010-05-19T11:15:00Z I would say I’m a writer of that epoch, the Soviet utopia, writing the history of that utopia in each of my books. Svetlana Alexievich Is Rare Nonfiction Winner of Nobel 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Then after his death, he became the subject of Rupert Hart-Davis’s exceptionally entertaining “Hugh Walpole,” subtitled in one reprint: “a remarkable portrait of a man, an epoch and a society.” He met Hitler, was mocked by Maugham, but what of Hugh Walpole’s books? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z She belongs to a proper historical epoch, which is now being studied in school now. Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z "Murphy Brown" from 18 years ago, that is, in which case the whole thing seemed like warmed-over cultural warfare from the early Pat Buchanan epoch. "The Switch": Jason Bateman steals Jennifer Aniston's spotlight 2010-08-20T00:20:00Z The form transcends its time, and the mores of the moment, while being always grounded in a period or an epoch, a specific moment of engagement. White Cube drawing show: The thin grey line 2010-07-20T20:31:00Z “She was an exceptional woman, a virginal intellectual who managed to impose herself as an important figure, a reference point in the philosophical and political life of Alexandria during a crucial epoch” Mr. Amenábar said. Film: Hypatia: Martyr to Christian Zealots 2010-05-22T07:01:00Z There are, of course, differences as well as similarities between the two epochs. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z All a writer has is his epoch and how it shapes him. Revealing and Obscuring Myself on the Streets of New York 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z There, a capacity crowd was treated to performers from different epochs and musical genres playing together onstage, a hallmark of Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. Rock Hall of Fame Embraces Randy Newman, Public Enemy and Others 2013-04-19T15:50:46Z A new exhibition, "Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s," which opens Sunday and continues through April 26 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Art of the Americas building, explores this artistic epoch. LACMA spotlights '20s German Expressionist films 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Certainly I took courage from him when I decided to write a play – ‘Passion Play’ – in three acts and three historical epochs.” ArtsBeat: What 'Angels in America' Meant to Them, And to You 2010-10-25T13:34:00Z The three other models in the collection are based on treasures in the Louvre, which date from other civilizations and epochs. Intricate Timepieces, Inspired by the Louvre 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Murakami is generally very good at aggregating and packaging ideas from other artists and epochs. Takashi Murakami at Gagosian in Chelsea 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z For Hazan, each boundary-hop signalled "the emergence of a new epoch". The Invention of Paris by Eric Hazan and Parisians, by Graham Robb 2010-04-16T23:07:00Z She chose to do this rather than writing a new play because she views literature as a “long channel of writers talking to each other across generations, across countries, across epochs,” she said. Zadie Smith’s First Play Brings Chaucer to Her Beloved Northwest London 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z He soldiers through life, from one historical epoch to the next, slogged down by a soul-consuming trauma. “Logan” proves Wolverine is the comics’ most Canadian superhero — and not in the way you think 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z “The only era to compare to those epochs, I think, was the Renaissance,” Mr. Michele said. The Gucci Resort Renaissance 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z What in one epoch is a sign of character strength can in another era indicate character weakness. To be or not to be: Playwrights on the complex issue of suicide 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z The theater is a living place where the genius of one epoch is reborn in another. Remembering theater director and Royal Shakespeare founder Peter Hall, who turned language into life 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Just as in the same way that Einstein orbits what I think is the heart of this series: the epoch, an intense period of discovery and flourishing European science through two major catastrophic global wars. Geoffrey Rush Loves to Play Rogues and Fools. A Genius, Too. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z In a more recent epoch, the writers of Victorian England, fogged over with puritan fears and piqued perhaps by bursts of scientific revelations, contemplated civilization’s fall to plague, beast and Martian. Disaster Films Plague the Box Office 2013-07-19T18:26:49Z Now is such a time in our current epoch; such alliances are how our democracy and our democratic institutions have survived crises that would have irreparably damaged any other country. "Our democracy hangs by a thread": Expert panel says a Trump victory in 2024 will end it 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z But the Anthropocene -- the proposed geological epoch shaped by us humans -- is showing more and more cracks. New research maps 14 potential evolutionary dead ends for humanity and ways to avoid them 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Gen. Zhang Youxia, China’s second-ranking military official and vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, said that relations between Russia and China are “at the highest level in the new epoch.” A top Chinese military official visits Moscow for talks on expanding ties 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z First author, Rebecca Payne, research associate at CSI, led the new models that details a critical epoch including the origins of land plants, animals and dinosaurs. 'Jurassic worlds' might be easier to spot than modern Earth 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Zircons represent the final vestiges of the lunar magma ocean—the last chapter of the moon’s violent beginnings and the onset of its more placid epoch. The moon is even older than we thought 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z There are writers at this very newspaper, all upstanding individuals, who would have you believe a mythologized weather pattern of doom is about to plunge our mountain-nestled utopia into an epoch of lightless despair. Pearl Jam side gigs among buzziest Seattle concerts coming up 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z A State which, in an epoch of racial adulteration, devotes itself to the duty of preserving the best elements of its racial stock must one day become ruler of the Earth. What's behind Trump's "blood purity program" 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Over eons and epochs, ages and eras, species have come and gone on this little oasis in space. We're all gonna die! How the idea of human extinction has reshaped our world 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z The hotspots themselves are thought to have arisen from a bizarre hypothetical epoch a split second after the big bang known as inflation, during which the entire universe greatly ballooned in size. Ho’oleilana, a Billion-Light-Year-Wide Bubble of Galaxies, Astounds Astronomers 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z If carbonate is present in the returned samples, researchers will gain a window on this epoch, and perhaps learn just how that water arrived in the first place, Barnes says. NASA delivers bounty of asteroid samples to Earth 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are now able to peer so far back in time that we are approaching the epoch where we think that the first galaxies were created. Astronomers discover newborn galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Galaxies in those remote, ancient epochs contain black holes 10 to 100 times more massive than the ones found in similar galaxies in today’s universe. JWST Finds Strange Harmony in Early Galaxies and Black Holes 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z The analysis builds on a 2009 paper that first outlined nine planetary constraints that keep Earth’s environment similar to that of the world humans lived in during the preindustrial portion of the Holocene epoch. Humans Have Crossed 6 of 9 ‘Planetary Boundaries’ 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, he and his fellow physicists gave us the indicator — what geologists call the “golden spike” — that marks a new epoch in Earth history. Opinion: The atomic bomb laid down the marker for humanity's era of catastrophic change 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z For epochs, humans have eaten and sold cheese. Cheesemonger dream team: Team USA can change stinky rep on world stage 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z This one merits a name that captures more of the real sweep of what’s happening: end of an epoch. End of an epoch? King County may be down to its last glacier 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z The difference between these two epochs is pretty simple: money. Column: Elon Musk has replaced Twitter with X — and an actual business with science fiction 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z But such supernovae are too faint to observe at the immense distances needed to probe earlier cosmic epochs. Time Flowed Five Times Slower Shortly after the Big Bang 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Earth scientists have been debating whether to add this new epoch to their time scale for two decades. Opinion: The atomic bomb laid down the marker for humanity's era of catastrophic change 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z In this case, the bed’s layer and the bones date back roughly 115 million years to the Cretaceous period, the last of the three epochs in which dinosaurs lived. Dinosaur ‘bone bed’ unearthed in Prince George’s County park 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Humanity has etched its way into Earth’s geology, atmosphere and biology with such strength and permanence, a special team of scientists figures we have shifted into a new geologic epoch, one of our own creation. Scientists now say a new epoch – the Anthropocene, marked by human impact on Earth – began in 1950s 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z The report includes an understated, but nonetheless pointed, criticism of the paltriness of scientific literature about North Pacific odontocetes species from the Oligocene epoch, which lasted roughly from 33.7 to 23.8 million years ago. Ancient dolphin cousins with odd teeth hint at echolocation evolution 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z “Without the chemical enrichment of first-generation stars, there wouldn’t have been anything else. It’s a key epoch in the formation of our universe.” At Last, Astronomers May Have Seen the Universe’s First Stars 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Geologic epochs last for thousands and even millions of years. Opinion: The atomic bomb laid down the marker for humanity's era of catastrophic change 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z In that case, the cosmos would have had larger amounts of useful energy in earlier epochs. The Universe Began with a Bang, Not a Bounce, New Studies Find 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z A geologic task force is recommending to mark this new epoch’s start in the small but deep, pristine Crawford Lake outside Toronto, Canada with a ‘golden spike’. Scientists now say a new epoch – the Anthropocene, marked by human impact on Earth – began in 1950s 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z The golden age of the Chola is also known as the greatest epoch in South Indian literary tradition. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z A day in a war is equivalent to a week back home, and surviving a week under fire is like living through an epoch. Jack Teixeira's Pentagon leaks are not helping Russia 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z I’d love to be able to ask Oppenheimer, the patriarch, the prime accelerator, the man who gave us that fateful push into this epoch, what words he would use. Opinion: The atomic bomb laid down the marker for humanity's era of catastrophic change 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z Others in the young group were barely generating one star a year, “which is an interesting diversity in a group of galaxies at this early epoch,” Dr. Morishita said. Back Then, Baby Galaxies. Next, a Super-Mega Galactic Cluster? 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z That meteorite started a whole new era, scientists propose humans started a new epoch which is a much smaller geologic time period. Scientists now say a new epoch – the Anthropocene, marked by human impact on Earth – began in 1950s 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z The course starts with the origins of the African diaspora and sweeps through the epochs of slavery, Jim Crow and the civil rights movement. Conceding missteps, College Board pledges to revise Black studies course 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Within this epoch the thing that matters — a bird setting out on a journey a thousand miles long, not data but feather and bone — is still here. Trying to Find Your Place in the World? Try Birding From a Different Angle. 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Now astronomers are doing what they long dreamed of—gaining their first certain glimpses into an epoch of the universe never studied before. JWST’s Newfound Galaxies Are the Oldest Ever Seen 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z The tournament is another indicator of a remarkable period for Sidwell, a golden epoch that has surprised many. Tops in boys’ and girls’ hoops, Sidwell Friends is having its moment 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Geologists measure time in eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages. Scientists now say a new epoch – the Anthropocene, marked by human impact on Earth – began in 1950s 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z In the skies over Ukraine, a new epoch in air warfare is emerging: drone-on-drone combat. Drone-on-Drone Combat in Ukraine Marks a New Era of Aerial Warfare 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Journalists began featuring his quips in their stories and calling him to appear on television to bring levity to an otherwise grim epoch in American politics. Mark Russell, political satirist with a star-spangled piano, dies at 90 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z “Maybe galaxy formation started already at a redshift of 20,” van Dokkum says, referring to a time a mere 180 million years after the big bang, an epoch scarcely fathomable prior to JWST. JWST’s Newfound Galaxies Are the Oldest Ever Seen 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Wells, the famed author who had envisioned an alien invasion of Earth in The War of the Worlds, denounced his own epoch's obsession with ironclad battleships in a passage that eerily anticipated Ike's powerful critique: Ex-military officer: DOD budget shows vast power of the military-industrial-congressional complex 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z They got their start some 50 million years ago in the greenhouse conditions of the Eocene epoch. No One Knows How the Biggest Animals on Earth—Baleen Whales—Find Their Food 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z "We talk so much about the Anthropocene, and this is it," Santos said, referring to a proposed geological epoch defined by humans' impact on the planet's geology and ecosystems. Brazilian researchers find 'terrifying' plastic rocks on remote island 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z The prime minister told the BBC that Beijing presented "an epoch defining challenge to the global order" and added that it was a 'regime' that was 'increasingly authoritarian at home and assertive abroad.' Rishi Sunak announces £5bn extra defence spending during US trip 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z The lunar far side is protected from radio emissions from Earth, and with almost no atmosphere and long, cold nights, it offers a nearly ideal spot from which to explore these epochs. Are Telescopes on the Moon Doomed? 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z It is yet another indicator that we are in the Anthropocene, a proposed geological epoch bounded by human activities which have had a significant impact on the Earth's ecosystems. Birds are eating too much of our plastic 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z He also wants to work across artistic disciplines to come up with new ways of representing classical music to the Roman audience, “to confront different eras and epochs and see what the contrast teaches us.” Daniel Harding pilots to new post as music director in Rome 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Published in the journal Science, the study focuses on a large set of fossils from the Early Triassic epoch discovered near Guiyang in what is now South China. Fossil study challenges assumptions about the ‘Great Dying’ 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Dr. Steffen was a leading advocate for the official recognition of an Anthropocene epoch — a unit of geologic time marking the start of human activity significantly affecting the planet’s climate and ecosystems. Will Steffen, scientist who fought climate denialism, dies at 75 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Scott traversed that transformative and traumatic epoch in journalism history with a friendly but cool reserve, emerging from a quarter century at The Times with a reputation for defending her reporters and culture critics. Kelly Scott, former Times arts and culture editor with a cool reserve and critical eye, dies at 68 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Straight-tusked elephants were the largest terrestrial mammals of the Pleistocene, a geological epoch lasting until 11,700 years ago when vast ice sheets and other glaciers spread across North America and Eurasia. These Extinct Elephants Were Neanderthals’ ‘Biggest Calorie Bombs’ 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The fossils date from early in the Eocene epoch, when Earth was home to ancient relatives of many modern mammals, including tapirs, hippopotamuses and humans. Monkeylike Animals Once Lived in the Arctic, New Fossils Show 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z “The process of forming a multipolar world order will be long; it will take an epoch,” he said. Russia’s top diplomat: West’s ‘hybrid war’ won’t stop Moscow 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z A machine-learning algorithm’s output generally improves in “epochs,” which are cycles through which the neural network is trained with all the training data. What an Endless Conversation with Werner Herzog Can Teach Us about AI 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z While neither “Avatar” film is explicitly about climate change, both are strong statements on conservation and the current epoch of human impact on the Earth, called by some the Anthropocene. James Cameron makes effects-heavy global blockbusters. But the acting? It's pure 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z During the late Eocene epoch, between 38 million and 34 million years ago, a glob of tacky resin oozed out of one of these trees and dripped down, ensnaring the flower. See the Largest Flower Ever Found Encased in Amber 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z The Anthropocene Working Group, assembled by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, already picked the 1950s, an era of surging fossil fuel use, as the start of the epoch. Eleven science stories likely to make big news in 2023 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z As a history major in college and graduate school, I was a witness to an amazing epoch. New Seattleites can ensure that the road rises for them, too 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z The algorithm can then sample the results at the end of each epoch, giving the researcher material to review in order to evaluate how well the program is progressing. What an Endless Conversation with Werner Herzog Can Teach Us about AI 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Such uncertainty exists, in part, because the radiocarbon analysis that scientists use to date organic remains is less accurate for certain epochs. Archaeologists Devise a Better Clock for Biblical Times 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z We may be in a new epoch in Earth’s history: the Anthropocene, the age of humans. Your Monday Briefing: Argentina Triumphs 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z From largest to smallest, the chapters are called eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages. For Planet Earth, This Might Be the Start of a New Age 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z To start, we need to go back to the beginning of the Holocene, an epoch marked by the end of the last major ice age around 12,000 years ago. How the evolution of domestic cats traces the history of colonization 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z With the synthetic voice of Werner Herzog, hearing the model improve with each epoch felt like witnessing a metaphorical birth, with his voice gradually coming to life in the digital realm. What an Endless Conversation with Werner Herzog Can Teach Us about AI 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Shifting geography and epoch has become the norm for Shakespearean productions. Shakespeare meets ‘Broadcast News’ in a very D.C. staging of ‘Much Ado’ 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z The post-Shelby epoch has seen many state legislatures, including those without a history of suppression, attempt to pass laws that restrict participation. "Young people are fed up": Inside the fight to defend young voters 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The working group’s members also voted this month on what rank the Anthropocene should have in the timeline: an epoch, an age of the Holocene, or something else. For Planet Earth, This Might Be the Start of a New Age 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Japanese Ambassador to Australia Shingo Yamagami described the new agreement, which would also strengthen intelligence sharing, as “epoch making” and would shape relations between the two nations for the next decade, The Australian newspaper reported. Japan and Australia PMs to focus on closer military ties 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z There isn’t a name yet “for the new epoch,” Kőrösi said, “but we feel that it has arrived.” UN meeting produces sense that a ‘new epoch’ is arriving 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z According to Djorgovski, they provided the first indications for what is known as the reionization epoch of the early universe, when stars and galaxies first began to form. Maarten Schmidt, Caltech astronomer who changed our understanding of the cosmos, dies 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z I believe our current epoch presents us with a moment similar to the aforementioned historic events — a moment in which America faces yet another existential challenge. I voted for Trump — twice. I was a right-wing pundit. I was dead wrong about all of it 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z Our current geologic epoch, the Holocene, began 11,700 years ago with the end of the last big ice age. For Planet Earth, This Might Be the Start of a New Age 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z JWST’s early revelations could be poised to rewrite the opening chapters of cosmic history, which concern not only distant epochs and faraway galaxies but also our own existence here, in the familiar Milky Way. JWST’s First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z "It is sad. A new epoch in international politics is arriving," said Artyom, a Moscow resident interviewed near the Bolshoi Theatre near the Kremlin. Some Russians mourn Queen Elizabeth with flowers as Kremlin pays respects 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Her reign at times seemed associated with another epoch. Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The moment history stops 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z A new epoch had commenced: the Roaring Twenties, or crazy years, as the French call them. When Picasso partied with Joyce and Stravinsky, things got surreal 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z "The world is leaving one epoch and entering another," Gorbachev said. Gorbachev and Bush: The world's massive missed opportunity for peace 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Gorbachev declared, “We are leaving one epoch in international relations and entering another, a period, I think, of strong, prolonged peace.” Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z I yield to the pasty pilgrims and entire epochs pass before I return to the front desk. Way up there in blue: Seven children dead in Kabul — who is to blame? 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z The stage before 10−11 s back to 10−34 s is called the electroweak epoch, because the electromagnetic and weak forces become identical for energies above about 100 GeV. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z As a result, the expansion rate must be the same everywhere during any epoch of cosmic time. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z In the Pliocene epoch, the growth of ice at the poles led to frequent sea level changes and loss of important offshore habitats. The Megalodon Was Bigger, Faster and Even Hungrier 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z This king-size taxonomic debate seems destined to rage for epochs. Splitting T. Rex Into 3 Species Becomes a Dinosaur Royal Rumble 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Hubble was not only exploring space, but was also probing time, gathering starlight that had been emitted eons ago during earlier epochs of the universe. How Taking Pictures of ‘Nothing’ Changed Astronomy 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Before 10−34 s back to about 10−43 s , we have Grand Unification in the GUT epoch, in which all forces except gravity are identical. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Early Mars had epochs of warmer and wetter conditions that would have been conducive to life at the surface. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Most of the boundaries between the periods and epochs of the geological time scale have been fixed on the basis of significant changes in the fossil record. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Eon is the largest division of time, followed by era, period, epoch, and age. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Although nearly two-thirds of Americans were born after 1969, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and others from that epoch live on as mythological figures. Review | The transformative 1960s still have a grip on America 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Before that time is the TOE epoch, but we have almost no idea as to the nature of the universe then, since we have no workable theory of quantum gravity. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Clear review of our current understanding of the role of water on Mars in different epochs. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Geological time is divided into eons, eras, periods, and epochs. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Based on the location and age of the rocks surrounding the ant hills, the researchers estimate that the fossils are from the late Eocene and early Oligocene epochs. They Uncover New Fossils, but They Also Bite 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Sparked in large part by the Freedom Summer, what McElvaine considers “the central event … that marked the arrival of the sixties,” the youth-driven culture that challenged authority emerged during this epoch. Review | The transformative 1960s still have a grip on America 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z The epochs of the universe are known back to very shortly after the Big Bang, based on known laws of physics. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z As yet, we have no direct evidence of what the conditions were during the inflationary epoch, and the ideas presented here are speculative. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The current epoch is known as the Holocene. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Russia is entering the approaching epoch as a powerful, sovereign country,” Mr. Putin said. A Defiant Putin Says Russia Will Flourish Without the West 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z To conservative critics, the epoch serves as a perpetual reminder of America’s shortcomings, making it impossible for them to return to an airbrushed national image without eradicating the decade’s revolutionary changes. Review | The transformative 1960s still have a grip on America 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Once upon a Michael Crichton-loving epoch — exactly 29 summers ago, when Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” conquered the box office — these giant prehistoric reptiles effortlessly stirred our collective awe, terror and wonderment. Review: Overlong franchise finale ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ falls short of veloci-rapture 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z In recognition of our impact on the environment, scientists have proposed giving a new name to the current epoch, the anthropocine, when human activity started to have a significant global impact. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The Pleistocene glacial epoch began at about 2.6 Ma, which is equivalent to half the thickness of the thin grey line at the top of the yellow bar marked “Cenozoic.” Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The history of cop television can be split into two biblical epochs: Before "The Wire" and After "The Wire." WATCH: All the Pieces of "The Wire" Still Matter 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z When it comes to weather whiplash, Australia is exhibit A for Anthropocene, the current geological epoch dominated by the human impact on the environment. Climate change whiplashes us from drought to deluge 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Yet this account has glossed over a troubling reality: we actually know very little about the mammals that endured the extinction and persevered during the next 10 million years, during the Paleocene epoch. How Mammals Conquered the World after the Asteroid Apocalypse 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Because its airless surface preserves events that happened long ago, the Moon provides a window on earlier epochs of solar system history. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Much remains a mystery about the first billion years of the universe’s history, the epoch in which the cosmos emerged from its dark ages with the dawning of the earliest stars and galaxies. New Record-Breaking Simulation Sheds Light on ‘Cosmic Dawn’ 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z There are championships, and then there are achievements that tilt the arc of sports history toward a new epoch. A game-changing Seattle Sounders triumph 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z The fossil dates to the late Oligocene epoch and is believed to be 24 million to 28 million years old. Rare fossil of ancient dog species discovered 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z The light from this epoch, now stretched to microwave wavelengths because of the universe’s subsequent expansion, is detectable as the all-pervading cosmic microwave background. Astronomers Gear Up to Grapple with the High-Tension Cosmos 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z If we can count the number of galaxies of each type during each epoch of the universe, it will help us understand how the pace of star formation changes with time. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z “A variety of instruments covering a wide range of wavelengths are necessary to understand the various aspects of this epoch.” New Record-Breaking Simulation Sheds Light on ‘Cosmic Dawn’ 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z San Diego looked very different back in the Eocene epoch, from about 56 million to 34 million years ago. Newly Discovered Saber-Tooth Predator Shows How Hypercarnivores Evolved 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Mathematicians and physicists alike admire her epoch contributions that provide deep insights within their respective disciplines. 3 Revolutionary Women of Mathematics 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Tiny fluctuations in temperature and polarization of the CMB capture an all-important signal: the distance a sound wave travels from almost the beginning of the universe to the epoch of recombination. Astronomers Gear Up to Grapple with the High-Tension Cosmos 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Ultimately, however, it may provide confirmation that we live in a universe that once experienced an epoch of rapid inflation. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Those days were supposedly consigned to a shadowy epoch of the Berlin Wall, countless noirish thrillers and the daily proximity of nuclear Armageddon. Russian mobilization in Ukraine raises concerns about a new Cold War-style era in Europe 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Perseverance’s already-collected igneous rock cores can be used to measure the strength of Mars’s ancient magnetic field and to precisely pin ages on the crater’s epochs. What We Learned from the Perseverance Rover’s First Year on Mars 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The foreign ministry structure was first planned in the 1930s, “a woeful epoch when Stalin and those around him committed genocide against the Ukrainian people,” a placard explained. As U.S. and Russia Prepare to Talk, Blinken Presents Hard Line 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z That is partly the rationale for invoking dark energy’s effects much earlier, before the epoch of recombination. Astronomers Gear Up to Grapple with the High-Tension Cosmos 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z But it has been 10 years since their last title — five since their last playoff appearance — and that sliver of time might as well be an epoch in their universe. Giants G.M. Dave Gettleman to Retire; Coach’s Fate Uncertain 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z If there is common cultural ground in the two epochs explored here, it likely has to do with the complicated thing we call modernism. Review | The dark side of Disney’s unexpected love affair with frothy French rococo 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z As explained by Jalopnik, a GPS uses a starting point, otherwise known as an epoch, to determine the date and time. Older Honda and Acura models hit by Y2K22 bug that resets clocks 20 years in the past 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z Mateo’s death highlights an alarming epoch in overdose deaths sweeping across the country and impacting all walks of life — including in the Yakima Valley. Overdose deaths continue to rise; one Ellensburg family tells their story of loss and grief 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z But her writing about girlhood and coming of age at the turn of the millennium captures that epoch better than any movie. Review | Celebrating flawed perfection, in pop culture and relationships 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z The slow-moving extinction event took place as the Eocene epoch switched to the Oligocene. Global extinction 30 million years ago also hit mammals in Africa, Arabian peninsula 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z “The history resolution will mark a new epoch — one that Xi is leading.” China’s Xi Jinping, preparing for a third term, shuts the door on the past 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z It is unclear whether they encountered early humans during the Pleistocene, an epoch in which huge mammals like mammoths were common in what is now the United States. Ancient beaver the size of a black bear may become Minnesota’s state fossil 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Laura Knight MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, to 20 Feb This British painter, who lived from the 1870s until 1970, witnessed an epoch of change, from votes for women to The Female Eunuch. From Dune to Duran Duran: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z And that’s what we have to this day — a quartered circle with “the four epochs of the city’s history,” as The Times described it: The story of L.A.’s oddball flag. Wait, L.A. has a flag? 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z We have tree ring data for most of the Holocene—our current geologic epoch, which began about 12,000 years ago. Solar ‘Superflares’ Rocked Earth Less Than 10,000 Years Ago—and Could Strike Again 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Then there’s the fact that we can’t determine where we are in our epoch. Is the Party Over or About to Begin? 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z A lay reader might not need the discourse on the proper naming of geologic epochs, but overall, it’s an excellent grounding in how fire functions, how we think about it and why that matters. As another brutal fire season rages, 4 new books bring context and consolation 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Most states place the boundary between public and private property at the mean high tide line, an average tide over an astronomical epoch of 19 years. Perspective | Who can use the beach? Erosion, tide lines and state laws make a difference. 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Perhaps it will be the name of an epoch. Column: Donald Trump just won't go away 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z In that way, the celestial event could have cooled the climate and helped initiate the ice ages 2.5 million years ago, at the start of the Pleistocene epoch. Exploding stars may have assaulted ancient Earth 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z The last common ancestor of all living Magicicada species branched into two lineages around 3.9 million years ago during the Pliocene epoch. Brood X Cicadas Are Emerging at Last 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z This offers a much better statistical sample for measuring the tiny redshift drift at each cosmic epoch. Watching the Universe Expand in Real Time 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z In a 2013 paper, I labeled this phase as the “habitable epoch of the early universe.” When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe? 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Clearly, as long as this low, dishonest epoch persists, Wolff will be there to chronicle it. Column: Donald Trump just won't go away 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z This chimes with an extinction of marine megafauna at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, only recently identified in the fossil record. Exploding stars may have assaulted ancient Earth 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Salon also asked Mantilla and Chester if this discovery tells us anything about the mass extinction event that marks the boundary between two geologic epochs. Humanity's distant primate ancestors likely co-existed with dinosaurs, according to study 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Legends all — and part of a unique epoch. That 70s Show: Loss by loss, a unique era of baseball fades 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z They were set up at Stonehenge, and like many “passage tombs” built during that epoch, they were arranged to align with the movements of the sun—another eternal entity. 3-ton parts of Stonehenge may have been carried from earlier monuments 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z People now play such a dominant role on the planet, it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Why call recent disasters ‘natural’ when they really aren’t? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Still, it is plausible that the sheer theater of the Capitol siege — and the tumultuous Sturm und Drang of the Trump epoch — may have inflated the perception of transcendent threat. After attack on the U.S. Capitol, some wonder about the state of democracy around the world 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z But, Ennos explains, technological advances in these epochs revolved around wood. Review | How wood shaped human history, from spears to boats to books 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z That places them squarely in the geological epoch known as the Eocene. Pythons Slithered Through Europe Before Coiling Around the World 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z Penguin Random House has emerged as one of the front-runners in the race to lock up the first definitive accounts of the Trump epoch. The ‘Trump Bump’ for Books Has Been Significant. Can It Continue? 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z These canids first appeared in Eurasia and crossed the Bering land bridge late in the Pleistocene epoch, more than 500,000 years ago. 57,000 year-old wolf puppy found frozen in Yukon permafrost 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z They also provide the most detailed portrait yet of a dinosaur from the Early Jurassic epoch. The Real Dilophosaurus Would Have Eaten the Jurassic Park Version for Breakfast 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z But there is also resilience expressed in the words that stretch across epochs: St. Mary’s College of Maryland unveils memorial to enslaved people on its campus 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z But others saw the disease’s sudden public manifestation as an emblem of our indulgent epoch. Once the Disease of Gluttonous Aristocrats, Gout Is Now Tormenting the Masses 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z His supporters love him, paradoxically, because we live in an epoch in which so many of us have completely given up on politics: we no longer believe politics is capable of materially improving our lives. Trumpism: The dead end of neoliberal politics 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z “The association with the Soviet epoch creates the illusion that borscht is an inalienable part of the Russian menu,” Ms. Syutkina said. A New Front Opens in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Borscht 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z About an hour and an epoch earlier, the networks and news channels had seemed as interested in their own redemption story as they were in the election itself. TV networks left in limbo as America struggles to decide who won election 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Elsewhere all it takes is a snap of a finger in a traditional Arab Easter song that Golijov learned from a recording by the Lebanese singer Fairouz to switch epochs. Can music bring us unity? How Osvaldo Golijov's 'Ayre' is what we need now 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z “Certain times, certain epochs, live on in the imagination as more than what they ‘actually’ were. Diane di Prima, feminist poet of the Beat Generation, dies at 86 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Roughly half of the stars in the Universe formed during this peak epoch of galaxy assembly. Key ingredient of galaxy formation measured 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Anthropocene, plasticene — most of the proposed names for our current epoch hinge on humanity and conjure images of the worst of what might lie ahead. Daily briefing: COVID-19 vaccine development — where we are now 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z The rescue mission – which also entailed retrieving the bodies of eight U.S. soldiers slain alongside Lynch – remains one of the most storied from the early days of the Iraq epoch. Former Iraq POW Jessica Lynch on what helps her thrive after captivity: 'Every day is a constant reminder' 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Both Wagner and Marx bear witness to the “predestined end of our capitalistic-theocratic epoch”. Richard and the revolutionaries: why did leftwingers love Wagner? 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z While their attempts were highly imperfect, they tried to steer the state into a new economic epoch as best they could. Perspective | The U.S. shows all the signs of a country spiraling toward political violence 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Chowdhury et al. now present a direct measurement of the emission from neutral atomic hydrogen in galaxies at a period close to the peak epoch of galaxy assembly. Key ingredient of galaxy formation measured 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z In three previous volumes, noted historian Rick Perlstein portrayed this epoch as the zenith of a liberal consensus and the origin of the conservative movement that came to dominate American politics. Review | How Reagan captured the presidency, and the right captured politics 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Athens, Elizabethan England and the Spanish Golden Age, among other epochs in which an appetite for soaring dramatic poetry flourished. In memoriam: How critic Eric Bentley rescued American theater from provincialism 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Nostalgia, wrote the sociologist and philosopher Robert Nisbet, is “at best a rust of memory,” which picks a vanished historic epoch and bathes it in sentimentality. Opinion | Authoritarianism and the politics of emotion 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z For geologists, however, the epoch starts with a different signal: nuclear explosions and a sharp uptick in fossil fuel use in the mid–20th century. Humans have altered North America’s ecosystems more than melting glaciers 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Chowdhury and colleagues were thus able to determine the average mass of neutral hydrogen in galaxies towards the end of the peak epoch of star formation, about 8 billion years ago. Key ingredient of galaxy formation measured 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z There was so much symbolism, it seemed to be screaming: “An epoch is ending!” Secrets of the Boeing 747: on board the last Qantas jumbo jet 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z The concern comes from hints that rapid methane release 55 million years ago at the boundary between the Paleocene and Eocene epochs triggered global temperature increases of five to eight degrees C globally. Methane Is on an Alarming Upward Trend 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Among placards held by his supporters was one that read: “Hashim is not simply a name — it is a symbol of an honorable epoch.” Kosovo president visits prosecutors who indicted him 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z After that, North America abruptly warmed, marking the beginning of our current epoch, the Holocene. Humans have altered North America’s ecosystems more than melting glaciers 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z In other words, the slowdown of star formation observed after the peak epoch probably occurred, in part, because the supply of neutral hydrogen from the intergalactic medium was insufficient to fuel a high formation rate. Key ingredient of galaxy formation measured 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z “But let statues stay in peace. They are witnesses to each epoch and its history. Talk about them and argue about them. But why tear them down?” In Russia, They Tore Down Lots of Statues, but Little Changed 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Among placards held by his supporters was one that read: “Hashim is not simply a name - it is a symbol of an honorable epoch.” Kosovo president visits prosecutors who indicted him 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z In another political epoch, that doesn't necessarily bother her. “Copfluencers” are using TikTok to spread pro-police messaging 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z “As you know, I am a faithful reader. In this epoch of destruction, chaos and potential expropriation, are we seeing the Beginning of the End of the ‘Grand Experiment?’ Another incumbent falls 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z When museums in the UK start to reopen next month it will be to a new world: not just one of social distancing and mask-wearing, but one possibly entering a different cultural epoch. How UK museums are responding to Black Lives Matter 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z While it was known that early humans were living in South Asia during the Late Pleistocene epoch, the specific timing was unclear. Archery could date back 48,000 years in South Asia, study says 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z We were singing the same song of promise sung by so many other worshipers at so many epochs of desolation. Opinion | Christianity Gets Weird 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z That’s why scientists now call our current time period the Anthropocene, the epoch of humans, when human activity is the dominant influence on Earth’s climate and the environment. Editorial Roundup: New York 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Recently our friend, Janet Gibson, brought some perspective to this angst-laden epoch with sage advice dispensed to her at a personally terrible time. We are witnessing a critical time in history. You should keep a diary | Paul Daley 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Halkitis says he and other gay survivors of that epoch carry permanent emotional scars. COVID-19 and AIDS crisis: NYC gays see parallels, contrasts 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z These 10 covers span genres and epochs, peaking with the moving title track, a Tom Waits cover on which Baez sings of a life misspent in husky, mournful tones. Joan Baez: where to start in her back catalogue 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z We used to make fun of the trendy use of that phrase when it was in full bloom in Washington circles, following the epoch of “that’s a little granular” and “put a pin in it.” Perspective | Will coronavirus intimacy lead to a baby boom? Or a divorce tsunami? 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s named after an ancient geological epoch for a reason. Packing the Tundra with Animals Could Slow Arctic Melt 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z If they want to sustain the longest, most diverse epoch of mass migration in American history, they need to explain why. The Open Borders Trap 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Earlier estimates were based on intermittent, bottom-up monitoring of oil and gas companies and comparisons with geological evidence from the end of the Pleistocene epoch, about 11,600 years ago. Oil and gas firms 'have had far worse climate impact than thought' 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Exploring these frozen wastelands allows scientists to peer back in time to an epoch when the seeds of today’s planets were being sown. 'Not just a space potato': Nasa unveils 'astonishing' details of most distant object ever visited 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Many decades before the rise of idioms of anxious sociotechnical reflection such as ‘the sixth extinction’, or the ‘Anthropocene epoch’, Asimov was writing about how “anthropogenic processes” were poisoning the planet. Isaac Asimov: centenary of the great explainer 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Sumo is intricately woven into Japanese culture, its Shinto traditions connecting different dynasties and epochs. In Japan, sumo is a man’s game. Female wrestlers are pushing their way in. 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Heard after “Flower Power,” the epic score sounded like the apex of the epoch of optimism in America that would end with the 2001 terrorist attacks. Review: The L.A. Phil, as only it can, delivers a long weekend of 'Apollo' and 'Flower Power' 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Yet with the cold war concluding on such favourable terms, the stage appeared set for a prolonged American epoch. Freedom without constraints: how the US squandered its cold war victory 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z But, looking back from the end of 2019, more than four torrid years later, it seems like her speech took place in a different epoch. The Choice Between Labour and Leave in the U.K. General Election 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Thus did gin itself, during the craze of the eighteenth century, bear echoes of the lusts and the gross inequalities of the epoch. The Intoxicating History of Gin 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Learning more about this early epoch is the key to many of the most pressing conundrums in physics: What is dark matter? Recommended Books, December 2019 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Yet, other experts downplayed national security concerns as being wound up in an epoch of “national hysteria about China.” Hunter Biden’s China connections plagued by ethics questions and national security concerns 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Atmospheric CO2 is already at levels last seen around four million years ago, in the Pliocene epoch. Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The low-frequency antennas observe radio emissions from pulsars—spinning neutron stars—and the epoch of reionization, when light from the universe’s first stars was ionizing the hydrogen in the space between galaxies. Giant radio telescope array prepares to begin construction in Australia and South Africa 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z In this instance, the ramifications of a different epoch of space exploration diminished slowly because of technology, not intention. Opinion | It’s tough being small in a big-suit world. We still spacewalked. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z We dominate our environment so strongly that some scientists began using the term Anthropocene to describe our current geologic epoch: the age of humans. Should the age of humans have a geological name? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z There’s already a catchphrase for the geological epoch shaped by human activity. How humans kicked off the Pyrocene, a new "age of fire" 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The celebration of individualism in all its forms — including behavior, dress and actions — is intrinsic to this epoch of capitalism, exemplified in social media. Capitalism created the post-truth society — and that may be its undoing 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z It’s an epoch in which fire is both prime mover and principal expression. California wildfires signal the arrival of a planetary fire age 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z The affine wealth model has been applied to empirical data from many countries and epochs. Is Inequality Inevitable? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z While it is not yet an official geologic epoch, progress towards that goal is underway. Should the age of humans have a geological name? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z This is a deeply personal journey of a marine scientist and conservationist whose working life takes place in the oceans of the Anthropocene — the geological epoch proposed to mark humanity’s dominant impact on planet Earth. Total immersion: re-imagining the ocean 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Peebles helped predict the cosmic microwave background radiation—the first light in the universe, which allows scientists to trace the earliest epochs in the cosmos. Cosmology and Exoplanets Win 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z What are the qualities most needed in this epoch of the Anthropocene? Yosemite's Sequoias have a vital message. Listen to them, urges Terry Tempest Williams 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z But the disagreements went much deeper, revealing a rift between ideologies and epochs. Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z "We interpret these separate cluster populations as arising from two major accretion epochs, probably separated by billions of years," the study's abstract noted. Milky Way galaxy on 'collision course' with nearby 'monster' galaxy 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Yet they happily appoint themselves central planners of the climate, the future autocrats of a geoengineered epoch they want us to believe is our only hope. Bad ancestors: does the climate crisis violate the rights of those yet to be born? 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z I mean sculptors who epitomize their epochs in three dimensions that acquire the fourth, of time, in the course of our fascination. Richard Serra Will Jolt You Awake 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Now we live in an epoch of neoliberal economics, the undemocratic system favored by said ruling elites, in which democracy takes a backseat to the vicissitudes of the market. "Ad Astra" feels like ruling class propaganda 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z The 1990s will not go down in history as a particularly incisive political epoch in the history of black America. My Family’s Life Inside and Outside America’s Racial Categories 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Something altogether new has occurred that distinguishes today’s society from previous epochs. Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more? 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z They are now able to rule out more extreme models of the epoch in which reionization happened rapidly or in very cold conditions. Drenchable Drones, Prickly Cells and Face-Tracked Chimps: Science GIFs to Start Your Week 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z They’re fashion tree rings that speak to different epochs of the Southern California Mexican experience. Pepe Aguilar's ‘Rodeo Without Borders’ evokes old Mexico, with touches of L.A. 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps the foremost horror of living in the neoliberal political epoch is capitulating to the myriad ways that it has devolved discourse. Only the wealthy have the right to longevity. Medicare for All can fix that 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Some 56 million years ago, during the transition between the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, Earth caught a fever. Earth’s Orbital Shifts May Have Triggered Ancient Global Warming 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z The days of star-studded teams, a rollicking Coliseum crowd and the Trojans commanding a national stage seem like an epoch ago. U.S.C. and the Art of Skating on Thin Ice 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Much more analysis remains, however, to narrow down exactly when the epoch began and how long it lasted. Drenchable Drones, Prickly Cells and Face-Tracked Chimps: Science GIFs to Start Your Week 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z But in our perennially online epoch, many if not most renters find housing and roommates online. "Digital redlining": Facebook's housing ads seem designed to discriminate 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Yet after re-reading the trilogy in our right-tilting political epoch, I had a bizarre revelation: What if the story is really a psychological parable, a novel primarily about trauma, by and for the traumatized? If "Lord of the Rings" is a parable for trauma, what can it teach us now? 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Self-definition is a millennial forte, but its novelists seem dubious of anything so earnest as defining a literary epoch. Darkly funny, desperate and full of rage: what makes a millennial novel? 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z A simulation of the epoch of reionization in the early Universe. The quest to unlock the secrets of the baby Universe 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z In the larger, more mature galaxies of this early epoch, there were more supernovae, and dust from these stellar explosions absorbed most of the UV light. Galaxy hunters spot hidden giants in the early universe 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z St Bathans, where the giant parrot's leg bones were excavated, is an area known for its abundance of fossils from the Miocene epoch, which extended from 23 million to 5.3 million years ago. Ancient parrot half the size of humans discovered 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Eniac would usher in a new epoch of industrial design, some said. Quantum supremacy is coming. It won't change the world 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z The team reports in Nature that, although the Little Ice Age was the coldest epoch of the past millennium, the timing of the lowest temperatures varied from place to place. The aberrant global synchrony of present-day warming 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Art museums now seem to feel that topical relevance is somehow served by appending recent art to exhibitions otherwise anchored in a historical epoch. Review: Unicorns are just one of the wild rides in the Getty's marvelous 'Book of Beasts' 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Those who hold these beliefs may be unaware that historically, every generation has adopted quasi-religions of some form based on the technological epoch in which they live. How being human got reduced to management 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z The epoch contains far more data than the CMB, which only records a brief moment in cosmic time. Could humanity’s return to the moon spark a new age of lunar telescopes? 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z After protracted slumber in Earth’s icy fringes, bacteria, moss and nematodes are awakening in a new geologic epoch. Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z This past weekend, we saw the culmination of those golden epochs for America's two greatest superstars, Kawhi Leonard and Megan Rapinoe are the perfect geniuses of the weekend - Golf Digest 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z We are in an epoch both of grinding racial tensions, nationally, and of increasing numbers of African-American artists, in all creative fields, achieving success or being justly honored in retrospect. Basquiat’s Memorial to a Young Artist Killed by Police 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The widely-publicized move suggests that even communities that aren’t seen as specifically political — like knitters — are becoming politicized, sometimes in toxic ways, in an epoch of extreme political polarization in the United States. Trump supporters are furious that a knitting website took a stand on white supremacy 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z That marker could be chosen to delineate the start of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Radiocarbon revolution: the story of an isotope 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z There are “mini-worlds” — really immersive dioramas — that show slices of life from different epochs and that can be viewed from different angles. A savage T. rex, giant insects and death from outer space: Here’s what to expect at the Smithsonian’s spectacular new fossil hall 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z The group calculated that the last time there was this much CO2 in the air was during the Pliocene epoch 3m years ago. The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of planetary history? 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z The panel plans to submit a formal proposal for the epoch by 2021 to the International Commission on Stratigraphy, which oversees the official geological time chart. Anthropocene vote, pollution cover-up and quark pioneer dies 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z The panel plans to submit a formal proposal for the new epoch by 2021 to the International Commission on Stratigraphy, which oversees the official geological time chart. Anthropocene now: influential panel votes to recognize Earth’s new epoch 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Dive in to page 24 to join Wood in her tale about how she and other researchers are gaining a deeper appreciation of these ancient epochs. Understanding through Time: Early Life, Climate and Vaccines 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z He leads us on an underground journey across cultures and epochs, to the very limits of the earthly map — and beyond, as new geographies of knowledge are configured. The fascinating and terrifying worlds beneath our feet 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Someone at the back suggested adding the word “epoch” for the strictly geological definition, so “Anthropocene” by itself could be used generally. The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of planetary history? 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Writer and explorer Robert MacFarlane has been voyaging in this hidden world, going back in "deep time" to places measured in "millennia, epochs and aeons, instead of minutes, months and years". Glimpsing a world beyond human extinction 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z They must also define the type of physical evidence in the sedimentary record that represents the start of the epoch. Anthropocene now: influential panel votes to recognize Earth’s new epoch 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Williams’s talk now registers as an artifact from a simpler Internet epoch. Jack Dorsey’s TED Interview and the End of an Era 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z For deep time is measured in units that humble the human instant: millennia, epochs and aeons, instead of minutes, months and years. What lies beneath: Robert Macfarlane travels 'Underland' 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Gibbard told me he had started out “agnostic” about the Anthropocene but lately he had decided it was too soon to tell whether or not it really was a new epoch. The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of planetary history? 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Morbidelli also wonders why scientists are not seeing much evidence of interstellar intrusion in solar system samples preserved from our sun’s epoch of planet formation. 'Oumuamua-like Objects Might Supercharge Planet Formation 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z A deposit of bones in the entrance chamber goes back to the Pleistocene epoch, which lasted from 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago. Bones discovered in an island cave may be an early human species 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The time period is an epoch geologists call the Pliocene, 2.6-5.3 million years ago. Warning from 'Antarctica's last forests' 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z “Architecture is the testimony of an epoch,” says Nouvel, wearing his trademark black leather jacket and wide-brimmed black hat and standing beneath his soaring concrete discs. The flying saucers have landed: Qatar's thrilling new supersized museum 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z You can’t just make up a new epoch and give it a convincing name; the care taken over the timescale’s construction is precisely what gives it authority. The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of planetary history? 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z The rise of online shopping has defined an entire epoch of American retail, yet we know little about what boost, if any, it has given to consumers and to the economy as a whole. Has online shopping actually saved us any money? 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z “It's both. It's not one thing or the other. It's an epoch of my life,” LaBeouf said. Shia LaBeouf on looking up from the bottom in ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z According to the Telegraph, Blond wrote in a memoir that historian and conservative politician Alan Clark declared the novel “indisputably genuine . . . a contemporary document of the highest importance to social historians of the epoch.” Gillian Freeman, whose novel ‘Leather Boys’ was a gay landmark, dies at 89 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z In Twain’s epoch, the U.S. was emerging from the Civil War. Survival of the richest: All are equal, except those who aren’t 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z So he blurted out a name for a new epoch. The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of planetary history? 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Look at their chemistry on stage, gazing at each other while singing for each other for minutes on end, for hours, for geological epochs. The Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga gossip shows we are infantile about art | Rhik Samadder 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z It triggered the civil rights movement as unstoppable force for the legal and moral epoch that followed. Emmett Till’s Murder, and How America Remembers Its Darkest Moments 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Even now, the Jim Crow era of racist behavior like blackface is hardly an ancient epoch in Virginia. Virginia’s Racist History Clashes With New South Image 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z This epoch would be called the Anthropocene, and there is currently a lively debate over how it should be recognised in the geological record. 'Great American Dying' cooled Earth 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z This has been a dominant mentality of the Reagan epoch, which arguably we continue to live in 38 years after he gave that speech. Analysis | The Daily 202: An unintended consequence? Shutdown highlights the importance and value of government. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z “We look upon our epoch as a time of troubles, an age of anxiety,” Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. wrote. Opinion | Our civilization is crumbling. Again. 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The quieter an epoch on its own terms, the more loudly it can be made to speak, in the way of a ventriloquist’s dummy, for ours. Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Earth has not seen current atmospheric CO2 levels since the Pliocene epoch, some 3m years ago. When the ice melts: the catastrophe of vanishing glaciers 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z All of these will be markers of what some scientists call the Anthropocene epoch, the Age of Humans. It Could Be the Age of the Chicken, Geologically 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Thought for Today: “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” Today in History 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Their story tread an all-too-familiar path in our epoch: from inspiring to dismaying and back to inspiring. Racist hackers tried to ruin their chances in a NASA competition. Six months later, they’re undeterred. 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Serving as kind of narrators across the performance, the props and dancers “introduce the changing of the epochs within the story.” As Oneohtrix Point Never debuts at Disney Hall, composer-producer Daniel Lopatin discusses 'Age Of' - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z From the banks of the Nile in ancient Egypt to the cobblestone streets of Victorian London, the games hopscotch through momentous epochs in human civilization, trailing intrigue and corpses in their wake. Review | ’Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’ is very entertaining. If you have the time to truly play it. 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Rome is overflowing with the archetypes and iconography of various epochs, layering them, cluttering them, bringing them into collision. Alessandro Michele, Fashion’s Modern Mastermind 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z "These people aren't as much fearful of a war as people of Brezhnev's epoch. They think if they threaten the West properly, it gets scared." Trump says US will pull out of intermediate range nuke pact 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Against the background of this turbulent epoch, with the constant threat of car bombs and riots, the narrator deals with a menacing stalker, who is known only as Milkman, though he doesn’t deliver milk. Anna Burns Wins the Man Booker Prize for ‘Milkman’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Bringing a child into a world staring down the throat of its own deadly excesses is both as reasonable and irrational as having a child in any other frightening epoch, and there have been many. Opinion | Why bother to bear children in a world wracked by climate change? 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The president’s contempt for his investigator, the soundtrack of this earlier epoch and of the epochal struggle going on right now in the capital. Review | An eerily contemporary look back at the investigation of President Bill Clinton 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z “These trees are older than the fossil fuel epoch,” says Bill. Opinion | Why is an energy company asking for permission to destroy a masterpiece? 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z The high priest of the epoch was the late Pierre Boulez, who declared that any composer who had not absorbed Schoenberg’s twelve-tone method was “useless.” The Sounds of Music in the Twenty-first Century 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Putin told a room where presidents and foreign ministers were present: “Our summit is exceptional if not truly epoch making.” Landmark Caspian Sea deal signed by five coastal nations 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z We now live in the Meghalayan age—the last age of the Holocene epoch. Doubts about the drought that kicked off our latest geological age, and a faceoff between stink bugs with samurai wasps 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z It is one of three newly named subdivisions of the Holocene, the geological epoch that began 11,700 years ago with the retreat of ice age glaciers. Massive drought or myth? Scientists spar over an ancient climate event behind our new geological age 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Its primary science goal is to map the density of interstellar hydrogen across the Universe in the epoch between 10 billion and 8 billion years ago. Telescope spots enigmatic fast radio burst 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z He honours the modern Chinese experience of living in two worlds, two epochs, at once. Yan Lianke’s dark satire of modern China 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z And none other than James MacGregor Burns predicted that Lyndon B. Johnson’s landslide “would surely usher in a liberal epoch.” Opinion | Trump finally feels gravity’s unforgiving pull 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z But researchers disagree on when this proposed period would begin, and geological evidence for a new epoch is inconclusive. Fruit-fly brain, the real Lorax and new geological ages 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z “They did not form with the planet, but were likely captured by the planet during or just after the planet-formation epoch,” says Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC. Jupiter has 10 more moons we didn't know about — and they're weird 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z That is especially true in an epoch, like this one, of momentous choice and change. Did an Ancient Greek Anticipate Trump? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z And now, the next epoch: Everyone in the house commands the TV by voice. Review | Amazon’s Fire TV Cube wants to replace your remote, but Alexa gets a little tongue-tied 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z The mini-series—either a celebration of a Catholic, conservative epoch or a tale of female empowerment, depending on the viewer’s bias—drew big ratings throughout central Europe. Habsburg culture is back in vogue 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Beyond the economic value, trees force us to measure time in epochs. The secret life and value of trees 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Explaining the many ways in which we are now profoundly altering Earth, from polar melt to deforestation, they provide convincing evidence that we should indeed dub our new epoch the Anthropocene. Planting the Anthropocene’s roots in globalization 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Scientists reporting in the journal Nature say this takes us back into the theorised epoch known as Cosmic Dawn when the Universe was first bathed in light. Scientists detect legacy of first stars 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z “In different historical epochs, even under the tsar priests, people dreamed of building this bridge,” Putin told workers at the ceremony. Putin opens bridge between Crimea and Russian mainland 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Before “Game of Thrones” and similar fantasies, Howard invented epochs, created races and wrote with such charged energy that his work, as Stephen King has noted, “nearly gives off sparks.” Texas town home to writer who created Conan the Barbarian 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z The air bristled with one epoch colliding with another. Rage and wonder in 1968: The year war came through the TV and I felt pieces of childhood ending 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The highly sexualised image it cultivated in the latter Charney years, however, is not the epoch Weber and her team wants to resurrect. American Apparel returns as an 'inclusive' online retailer 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z At this time in the mid-Oligocene epoch, the region was an island archipelago lapped by the shallow waters of highly productive seas. Prehistoric Toothless Whale Among Oldest of Its Kind 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z In the Anthropocene epoch of human influence on the planet, we need to redefine those ends, and reevaluate which resources are truly scarce. How to retool our concept of value 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z If scientists are lucky, gravitational waves might even let them access the physics of the Big Bang itself, at epochs that are not observable by any other means. How gravitational waves could solve some of the Universe’s deepest mysteries 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z There was something strange about the thin band of sediment that represented the boundary between these two epochs: its ratio of carbon isotopes — different forms of the same element — was skewed. This ancient climate catastrophe is our best clue about Earth’s future 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z A duck on your local pond looks and sounds very much like a duck 20m years ago, in the Miocene epoch, when birds ruled the planet. The radical otherness of birds: Jonathan Franzen on why they matter 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Water policies in the western United States were developed on the heel's of the Little Ice Age, a climate epoch the author acknowledges. Opinion | The Northwest Passage That Might Have Been 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z At the dawn of the internet, people hoped free communication would lead to an epoch of peace, understanding and democratic communication. The lessons of Berlusconi 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z But it’s exceedingly difficult to glimpse actual evidence of those first stars, and thus to get a firm grip on the timeline of events in this epoch of cosmic history. Rare signal from early universe sends scientists clues about dark matter 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The Pleistocene geological epoch, the most recent Ice Age, began 2.6 million years ago and ended around 11,700 years ago. Ancient human remains, Ice Age animal bones found in giant Mexican... 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z One animal was so decisive in shaping human history that the eminent historian Reinhart Koselleck proposed it as the sole organizing principle in a schema outlining the world’s three great epochs. Review | How the horse helped shape our world — at great expense to itself 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z “Flow Chart” introduced that new epoch, and lines from it begin this new volume: The second volume of John Ashbery’s collected poems is a tribute 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Once the gravitational center of the high school day, lockers long ago lost their allure, and their usefulness seems a relic of an epoch of education that has slipped away. Schools and lockers: No longer the right combination 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z “Everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones,” he wrote. Opinion | What Angela Merkel could tell Republicans about the midterms 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The Pleistocene geological epoch, the most recent Ice Age, began 2.6 million years ago and ended around 11,700 years ago. Ancient human remains, Ice Age animal bones found in giant Mexican... 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Nuns are nothing new in art and literature; in fact, some of the most contentious historical epochs have found a perfect vector for expression in women who wear the habit. Opinion | From Irma to ‘Star Wars,’ 2017 was a big year for nuns 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z Here we show, using marine geological and geophysical data from the continental shelf seaward of the Aurora subglacial basin, that marine-terminating glaciers existed at the Sabrina Coast by the early to middle Eocene epoch. Initiation and long-term instability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Clays are found virtually nowhere on the red planet except in Mars’s most ancient terrains, dating back to an epoch about 3.7-4.1 billion years ago, called the Noachian. Research on Clay Formation Could Have Implications for How to Search for Life on Mars 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z |
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