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A poor fit: Why fashion industry regulations fall short

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By Mike Cummings
| YaleNews
On April 24, 2013, more than 1,100 people died when Rana Plaza — a factory building outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, where garment workers were forced to toil despite evidence of acute structural flaws — collapsed to the ground. The disaster highlighted profound and systemic failures in the fashion industry, including a widespread disregard for workplace safety and labor protections.
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Study uncovers lost ‘golden age’ of languages

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By Mike Cummings
| YaleNews
A new study coauthored by Yale linguist Claire Bowern suggests that tens of thousands of languages were spoken between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago. 5 min read A collage of ancient language examples. A linguistic “golden age” flourished between 1,000 to 3,000 years ago when tens of thousands of languages were spoken throughout the world, according to a new study coauthored by Yale linguist Claire Bowern that traces trajectories in global language diversity over the past 12,000 years.
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An asteroid doomed the dinosaurs. But did it drive tuna evolution?

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By Mike Cummings
| YaleNews
A long-held theory suggests that the asteroid strike that killed off non-avian dinosaurs — and most large marine predators — 66 million years ago created an ecological opportunity that spurred the rapid evolution of tunas, and other large, fast, and warm-blooded predators. The idea is that tunas and their carnivorous counterparts filled a niche left by their massive, predatory predecessors, much like how mammals replaced the world’s non-avian dinosaurs after the K-Pg extinction event.
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