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Survey Finds Alarming Trend Toward Political Violence
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Survey Finds Alarming Trend Toward Political Violence

A new report published as a preprint on medRXiv.org from researchers at the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP) reveals alarming trends in attitudes toward violence, including political violence, in the United States. The survey is the first of its kind to explore the participants’ personal willingness to engage in specific political violence scenarios. “We expected the findings to be...

Rutgers Report Finds Increase in Anti-Hindu Disinformation
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Rutgers Report Finds Increase in Anti-Hindu Disinformation

Members of the Network Contagion Lab at Rutgers University-New Brunswick (NC Lab), found evidence of a sharp rise and evolving patterns of hate speech directed toward the Hindu community across numerous social media platforms, according to a new report. “Anti-Hindu Disinformation: A Case Study of Hinduphobia on Social Media” details how white supremacist and 4chan...

Shinzo Abe Killed After Fatally Shot in Shock Japan Attack
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Shinzo Abe Killed After Fatally Shot in Shock Japan Attack

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation’s most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, according to NHK public television. Abe, 67, was shot from behind minutes after he started his speech in Nara. He was airlifted to...

Food Insecurity and Water Insecurity Go Hand in Hand, Study Finds
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Food Insecurity and Water Insecurity Go Hand in Hand, Study Finds

About one-tenth of the world’s population suffers from hunger and nearly one in three people face food insecurity, according to recent estimates. Yet behind those stark figures lurks another, closely related threat: water insecurity. In a new 25-country study, researchers report a strong link between water insecurity—a lack of reliable access to sufficient water—and food...

Wreck of Historic Royal Ship Discovered Off the English Coast
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Wreck of Historic Royal Ship Discovered Off the English Coast

The wreck of one of the most famous ships of the 17th century – which sank 340 years ago while carrying the future King of England James Stuart – has been discovered off the coast of Norfolk in the UK, it can be revealed today. Since running aground on a sandbank on May 6, 1682, the...

Venezuelans Big Presence in Caravan After Visa Requirement
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Venezuelans Big Presence in Caravan After Visa Requirement

After walking for two days along rural highways in southern Mexico with several thousand other migrants, Venezuelan Wilber Pires spent what was supposed to be a day of rest for the caravan asking for help to buy medicine for his daughter. Two-year-old Valesca Pires was hospitalized in Huixtla overnight with a high fever. Other children...

Where Was the World’s First Zoo?
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Where Was the World’s First Zoo?

The truth is historians don’t know who built the first zoo, or when it was built. But we can be confident it happened a very long time ago. Human fascination with animals goes back as far as humans do. In the oldest cave paintings discovered, some of which are up to 40,000 years old, there...

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Amazon Deforestation Threatens Newly Discovered Fish Species in Brazil

Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History researcher Murilo Pastana and his colleagues have discovered and described two new species of Amazonian fish—one with striking red-orange fins and the other so small it is technically considered a miniature fish species—in a paper published today, May 16, in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Both species inhabit waters located at...

First Detailed Academic Study of East African Maritime Traditions Shows Changes in Boatbuilding
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First Detailed Academic Study of East African Maritime Traditions Shows Changes in Boatbuilding

The first detailed academic study of East African maritime traditions shows changes in boatbuilding techniques but the continuing use of wooden vessels by fishers. Researchers have documented the watercraft using the Zanzibar Channel – using photogrammetry technology – which so many livelihoods depend. Large local vessels – the mtepe, dau la mtepe, and even the...