* An interview with Alain Connes and a discussion about it

In about 20 BC, the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius wrote a treatise on the acoustic properties of theatres including discussion of interference, echoes, and reverberation — the beginnings of architectural acoustics.

With the announcement in 2007 of the engagement of Peter Phillips to Autumn Kelly, a Roman Catholic and a Canadian, discussion about the Act of Settlement was somewhat reinvigorated.

Recently there has been some discussion behind the movement about the role of the social forums.

A discussion about the methods of the political use of technology in the creation of a super-bomb began the ideological divergence between Andrei Sakharov and Nikita Khrushchev.

Scholarly discussion about Beowulf in the context of the oral tradition was extremely active throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Despite the study of model plants and increasing use of DNA evidence, there is ongoing work and discussion among taxonomists about how best to classify plants into various taxa.

No. 1 A discussion about Basic English, with supporters and critics.

Having witnessed the events firsthand, she was later infuriated that she was consistently denied the chance to speak in Parliament about the day, although parliamentary convention decreed that any MP witnessing an incident under discussion would be granted an opportunity to speak about it in the House.

The coalition partners, if they control the parliamentary majority, can collude to make the parliamentary discussion on the issue irrelevant by consistently disregarding the arguments of the opposition and voting against the opposition's proposals — even if there is disagreement within the ruling parties about the issue.

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There has also been discussion about the significance of the selection of the Ethiopian eunuch as being the first gentile conversion: inclusion of a eunuch, representing sexual minority in the context of the time.

In a prelude to the Secret Invasion storyline, Professor X was at the meeting of the Illuminati when it came to the discussion about the Skrulls planning an invasion by taking out Earth's heroes and posing as them.

The title, " Letter on the Blind For the Use of Those Who See ", also evoked some ironic doubt about who exactly were " the blind " under discussion.

Diderot's intention in writing the dialogue is disputed ; whether it is merely a satire on contemporary manners, or a reduction of the theory of self-interest to an absurdity, or the application of irony to the ethics of ordinary convention, or a mere setting for a discussion about music, or a vigorous dramatic sketch of a parasite and a human original.

* TaikoForum. com-Includes a map of taiko groups in North America, a taiko-related wiki, and forums for discussion about taiko.

" Although the EPAC Ethics Task Force argued that both non-voluntary and involuntary euthanasia could not be included in the definition of euthanasia, there is discussion in the literature about excluding one but not the other.

There has even been discussion about eliminating the necessity for an outside electrical source in ETC ignition by initiating the plasma cartridge through a small explosive force.

Therefore, it seems important to make the rules and focus of a discussion forum public to avoid misconceptions about its accepted use.

After the funeral, Charles and Tom have a discussion about whether hoping to find your " one true love " is just a futile effort, and ponder that, while their clique have always viewed themselves as proud-to-be-single, Gareth and Matthew had in fact been a " married " couple among them all the while.

For example, Hayek's discussion in The Road to Serfdom ( 1944 ) about truth, falsehood and the use of language influenced some later opponents of postmodernism.

While Andoh is drinking, Masako and Takuya have a discussion about the day's events, and about their history together.

One internal issue in 2002 was the failed attempt to settle a long-standing discussion about the question of whether members of parliament should be allowed to become members of the party executive.

but if George has just been mentioned prominently ( and the trip to be made has been under discussion ), what is said is probably I'll go with him, and dominant stress is probably on the preposition with.

As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.

This argument rests on the assumption that one can have a " moral " discussion on various scales ; that is, what is " good " for: a certain part of your being ( leaving open the possibility of conflicting motives ), you as a single individual, your family, your society, your species, your type of species.

There has been discussion of applying what has been learned from EBM to public policy.

When the term sensitivity is used, care must be taken to clarify what kind of sensitivity is under discussion.

Indeed his treatment of what he calls " political justice " derives from his discussion of " the just " as a moral virtue derived as the mean between opposing vices, just like every other virtue he describes.

His longest discussion of his theory of justice occurs in Nicomachean Ethics and begins by asking what sort of mean a just act is.

Shortly after the film was released, Cleese and Palin engaged in what would become a notorious debate on the BBC2 discussion programme Friday Night, Saturday Morning, in which Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the Bishop of Southwark, put the case against the film.

Aristotle attributed the first of what could be called a scientific discussion on magnetism to Thales of Miletus, who lived from about 625 BC to about 545 BC.

Since Mach was designed as a " drop-in " replacement for the traditional UNIX kernel, this discussion focuses on what distinguishes Mach from UNIX.

However, some courts ( such as German courts ) have less emphasis on the particular facts of the case than common law courts, but have more emphasis on the discussion of various doctrinal arguments and on finding what the correct interpretation of the law is.

You just about what you suppose to be a triviality, in asking whether the hen came first from an egg or the egg from a hen, but the point should be regarded as one of importance, one worthy of discussion, and careful discussion at that.

* 1267 – Roger Bacon completes his work Opus Majus and sends it to Pope Clement IV, who had requested it be written ; the work contains wide-ranging discussion of mathematics, optics, alchemy, astronomy, astrology, and other topics, and includes what some believe to be the first description of a magnifying glass.

Describing what Robert Rieber called “ the third most famous of multiple personality cases ”, it presented a detailed discussion of the problems of treatment of “ Sybil ”, a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason.

* Roger Bacon completes his work Opus Majus and sends it to Pope Clement IV, who had requested it be written ; the work contains wide-ranging discussion of mathematics, optics, alchemy, astronomy, astrology, and other topics, and includes what some believe to be the first description of a magnifying glass.

If any claim has been shown to be true then it cannot be the case that the interlocutors are in aporia, a state where they no longer know what to say about the subject under discussion.

* Brining on Cooking For Engineers-a discussion on what happens to meat as it brines ( with reader comments )

During the ensuing crackdown by the KMT administration in what became known as the 228 incident, tens of thousands of people were killed, and the incident became a taboo topic of discussion for the entire martial law era.

Geertz concludes this discussion by commenting, " As I have already suggested, I myself find provincialism altogether the more real concern as far what actually goes on in the world is concerned.

This stance was reaffirmed very clearly in a discussion on “ To what extent is the SI a political movement ?”, during the Fourth SI Conference in London.

* The Art of Asking Questions by Stanley L. Payne, ( 1951 ) This book is a short handbook-style discussion of how the honest pollster should ask questions to find out what people actually think without leading them, but the same information could be used to slant a poll to get a predetermined answer.

That discussion hook has made the story a staple in English classes in American schools, especially since Stockton was careful never to hint at what he thought the ending would be ( according to Hiram Collins Haydn in The Thesaurus of Book Digests, ISBN 0-517-00122-5 ).

However, the original discussion by Nozick says only that the Predictor's predictions are " almost certainly " correct, and also specifies that " what you actually decide to do is not part of the explanation of why he made the prediction he made ".

While popular debate remains on what constitutes a legal definition of torture ( see discussion on the Torture page ), the ban on corporal punishment simplifies the matter ; even the most mundane physical abuse is thereby forbidden by Article 32, as a precaution against alternate definitions of torture.