Citizen Militias in the U.S. Are Moving toward More Violent Extremism

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January 06, 2022

Sociology Citizen Militias in the U.S. Are Moving toward More Violent Extremism In some members, a longing for "simpler" times is giving rise to deadly activities By Amy Cooter

Public Health How Communication Around COVID Fuels a Mistrust of Science The move highlights the growing problems that arise when federal agencies ignore scientific data By Joseph V. Sakran,Kavita K. Patel

Public Health Flurona Is a Great Example of How Misinformation Blooms A catchy name has spawned false statements and panic over being infected with two viruses at once By Raghu Adiga

Pollution Wildfires Are Fueling a Toxic Combo of Air Pollutants The 2020 fire season subjected half the western U.S. population to a stew of particulate matter and ozone By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Oceans Historic Shipwreck Keeps Moving, Revealing Dangerous Underwater Mudflows A ship sunk by a German U-boat in 1942 can today help track large pulses of mud from the Mississippi River By Katherine Kornei

Cognition What Will 2022 Bring in the Way of Misinformation on Social Media? 3 Experts Weigh In The one-year anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is raising concerns about falsehoods that increase the risk of repeat events By Anjana Susarla,Dam Hee Kim,Ethan Zuckerman,The Conversation US

Pharmaceuticals Preparing for the Next Plague SARS-CoV-2 adds impetus to the race for broad-spectrum countermeasures against future global infectious scourges By Laura DeFrancesco,Nature Biotechnology

Ecology See the Bizarre Fruiting Bodies of Slime Molds Only about a tenth of an inch tall, these protist growths take on truly strange forms By Leslie Nemo

Space Exploration U.S. and Chinese Scientists Propose Bold New Missions beyond the Solar System Independent concepts from each nation envision launching high-speed spacecraft on aspirational multigenerational voyages into the great unknown of interstellar space By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Animals Dogs Can Distinguish Speech from Gibberish--and Tell Spanish from Hungarian A new study's authors say their investigation represents the first time that a nonhuman brain has been shown to detect language By Annie Melchor

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Militia Expert Warns Trump's Capitol Insurrectionists Could Try Again Fieldwork shows white men fighting against equality gains by women and minority groups in the U.S.—and longing to return to a past that nullifies such changes By Amy Cooter | January 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "There is convergence of apocalypticism, coming from the [militia] movement, and from QAnon, and from Evangelical Christianity. What we really saw on January 6 was not just the [militia] movement but a whole broader phenomenon." Robert Churchill, historian at the University of Hartford

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