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April 23, 2021
Throughout the COVID-19 outbreak, incurable skeptics have argued that many COVID-19 measures are based not on science and reason, but on fearmongering by an increasingly autocratic ruling class imposing new norms on an increasingly intolerant and conformist population.
Those even more inclined to skepticism would argue that autocracy, conformity, and intolerance are themselves, by their nature, highly effective public health measures. They evolved in primitive human society precisely because they protect from disease. Disgust, not fear, is the emotion that drives them.
These three postulates point to rational alternatives for the pandemic’s restrictions on civil liberties, and underlie an entirely new way of understanding the history of human conflict.
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Researcher seeks answers to climate change issues in ancient irrigation system
Public Archaeology student Emily Hayes-Rich was standing at the base of a mountain in Santa Fe preparing for a hike recently when she found out she had been selected for a Fulbright Award to support her master’s research Old Answers to New Questions: Traditional Water Management as a Solution to Climate Change.
Hayes-Rich will spend the next academic year in Morocco studying the long-term history of the khettara irrigation networks and their resilience through time. She also received an AAUW-UNM Scholarship to further support her work, as well as an American Institute for Maghrib Studies grant.
Department of Economics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Adolescents are slowly being recognized as a generation, worldwide, that may require different policy approaches to improve staggering statistics on their failing well-being, including mental health. By providing the support to allow the next generation to achieve better mental health outcomes, they are going to be more economically successful and the future economic growth of nations can be better assured. Adoption of mobile-based health interventions (e.g., mHealth) has garnered a lot of attention toward this end. While mHealth interventions are growing in popularity, many researchers/policy-makers appear to have neglected assessing potential (indirect) costs/negative consequences from their use. Evidence from the developed world shows strong associations between extensive cell phone use and negative mental health outcomes, but similar research is minimal in developing world contexts. Additionally, t
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Photo #1. âThe Five Americans,â Mike Rabon, Jim Grant, John Durrill, Norman Ezell and Jimmy Wright. Their song, âWestern Union,â released in early 1967, rose to #5 on Billboard and #3 on the Cashbox Best Sellers list. (Permission Sundazed Records)
Photo #2. A still shot of âThe Five Americansâ 1968 performance on American Bandstand (Permission Memories of Dallas Inc.) CATHEY: The Beatles of southeastern Oklahoma: The Five Americans
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Photo #1. âThe Five Americans,â Mike Rabon, Jim Grant, John Durrill, Norman Ezell and Jimmy Wright. Their song, âWestern Union,â released in early 1967, rose to #5 on Billboard and #3 on the Cashbox Best Sellers list. (Permission Sundazed Records)