GAT Daily (Guns Ammo Tactical)
February 25, 2021
As an academic and legal piece, I was hoping for more… but I didn’t get more. I am disappointed in the copy/paste gun control talking points this piece, from Leila Nadya Sadat and Madaline Marie George, over at Washington University in St. Louis takes to make their case. It clearly isn’t meant to sway me or anyone intellectually engaged in this debate, it is meant to appeal to the population often referred to as ‘useful idiots’ with an appeal to authority and the usual statistical games.
America’s insistence on gun rights is violating its citizens international human rights. Law experts talk about what the United States can do about the gun violence crisis.
Research highlights importance of social resilience in Bronze Age China
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February 26, 2021 SHARE
Climate alone is not a driver for human behavior. The choices that people make in the face of changing conditions take place in a larger human context. And studies that combine insights from archaeologists and environmental scientists can offer more nuanced lessons about how people have responded sometimes successfully to long-term environmental changes.
One such study, from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, shows that aridification in the central plains of China during the early Bronze Age did not cause population collapse, a result that highlights the importance of social resilience to climate change.
Africa Initiative awards new round of pilot grants
A team including Krista Milich (center) assistant professor of biological anthropology in Arts & Sciences, recently won funding from the Africa Initiative for a new research project in Uganda. It was one of eight teams awarded funds. (Photo courtesy of Krista Milich)
February 26, 2021 SHARE
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to curtail nonessential travel, it hasn’t tamped down interest in interdisciplinary partnerships involving Washington University in St. Louis faculty and their colleagues across the globe.
Case in point: the university’s Africa Initiative recently received more than two-dozen proposals from faculty as part of its call for proposals to fund research projects on the continent. The applicant pool was so robust, the Institute for Public Health and the McDonnell International Scholars Academy boosted the number of awards available from three to eight.
Pyrite isn t a reliable proxy for Earth s oxygenation, study says
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While pyrite may not be a good proxy for ancient oxygen levels, researchers suggest it can offer insights into local sea level changes and tectonic plate dynamics. Photo by John St. James/Flickr
Feb. 26 (UPI) When did Earth first acquire large amounts of oxygen? What did the planet s earliest microbial communities look like?
Many of the secrets of primordial Earth its climate conditions and biochemical composition are hidden in layers of marine sediments. To reconstruct Earth s past, scientists rely on certain chemical signatures preserved in the grains of sedimentary rocks.
University College students visit on the Danforth Campus. (Photo: James Byard/Washington University)
Washington University in St. Louis has launched a national search for a new dean to lead professional and continuing education at the university. Currently operating as University College, the school is being reimagined as a community-focused hub for adult learners in the St. Louis region, providing new programs for career advancement and enrichment. Pending approval by the Board of Trustees later this spring, the new school will launch with new academic divisions in areas including data, health and health care; and management and administration. It also will have new opportunities for students to complete programs within the liberal arts. Undergraduate and graduate students will continue to be served.