Topic: scope

Virtually every modern convenience that I enjoy was invented in the last 200 years. When I think about the scope of human existence, that kind of freaks me out. Consider anesthesia. The modern types of anesthetic procedures that are widely used today are only roughly 160 years old. That's, geologically speaking, not a very long time. Frances "Fanny" Burney was a novelist and playwright who...

Generally speaking humankind seems to have a desire to have a Supreme Being, a Creator of the Universe. This would seem to bear some implications for His attributes, the size and scope of the creation. All the stars we can and cannot see down to the subatomic particles making up all of that creation infer a huge act of creation, something well beyond the scope of human concrete conception. We can...

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday issued an important 5-4 decision addressing the scope of tribal court jurisdiction. At issue in Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land and Title Co. was whether a tribal court could exercise jurisdiction over a non-Indian-owned bank for discrimination claims arising from the foreclosure and subsequent sale of fee land on a tribal reservation by the bank to...

How many bikers do you see?(Photo © J. Maus) The City of Portland is expanding the scope of their annual bike counts and they need volunteers to help them do it. Denver Igarta, a transportation planner with PDOT, says they want to cover 140 locations this year. That's an increase over the 98 locations...

The U.S. Supreme Court in Indiana v. Edwards (07-208), decided June 19th, 2008: "Held: The Constitution does not forbid States from insisting upon representation by counsel for those competent enough to stand trial but who suffer from severe mental illness to the point where they are not competent to conduct trial proceedings by themselves. Pp. 4–13. (a) This Court’s precedents frame...