No magic bullet: a Congressional agreement on guns
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Mass shootings in Buffalo, Tulsa and Uvalde appear to have broken a longstanding impasse over federal gun laws. A bipartisan group of senators has laid out a legislative framework—but whether that turns into an actual bill remains unclear. Scientists are rethinking what might constitute the building blocks of extraterrestrial life. And why people seem to love boring video games.
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| 1:12.6 | It's one of the oldest human questions. |
| 1:15.6 | Is there life beyond Earth? |
| 1:17.6 | So far, the answer has been no. |
| 1:20.6 | Scientists have used ever more powerful tools to search ever further. |
| 1:24.6 | But recently, they've begun to expand what they're looking for, |
| 1:29.0 | not just where they look. |
| 1:32.2 | And video games can let the average desk jockey become a soldier, ninja, starship commander, |
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