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Facebook: Saving Lives, One Kidney at a Time

Tom Jacobs — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:30:39 +0000

Repressed death anxiety leads most of us to avoid becoming organ donors. Psychologists report Facebook may help change all that.

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Television Violence Enticing, But Not Satisfying

Tom Jacobs — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:00:20 +0000

New research finds people enjoy less-gory versions of television shows, even when they are enticed to watch by a graphically violent description.

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Announcing Our New Name

Maria Streshinsky — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:01:09 +0000

Miller-McCune is renaming, and relaunching under the new moniker: "Pacific Standard."

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Bitter About Your Life? Blame Facebook

Tom Jacobs — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:00:28 +0000

New research suggests heavy Facebook users are more likely to believe other people have happier lives.

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Miller-McCune’s Top Stories of 2011

Michael Todd — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:00:37 +0000

A looming government shutdown, faulty comet theories, clever transit alternatives, and women's gaydar were among the top topics Miller-McCune readers flocked to in 2011.

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Pop Charts Still Dominated by Men

Tom Jacobs — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:00:58 +0000

New research finds predictions made in the late 1990s that women were nearing equality in pop music have failed to materialize.

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Two Russian Films Give Differing Views of Motherland

Lewis Beale — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:00:00 +0000

"Khodorkovsky" and "Hipsters," two wildly different films currently making rounds of U.S., suggest that each step forward in Russia is greeted with one step back.

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Securing Nebulous Privacy Rights in the Cloud

Stuart Braun — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:00:19 +0000

The cloud may be a blessing to global business, but it remains a major headache for sovereign states determined to protect its citizens’ privacy.

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Searing Look at Rio’s Homicidal Police

Lewis Beale — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:00:01 +0000

As Brazil prepares to host two high-profile global events, filmmaker José Padilha suggests that while improving security is a worthy goal, its methods and rationale are deeply flawed.

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PBS to Show ‘Where Soldiers Come From’

Tom Jacobs — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:00:13 +0000

A PBS documentary follows a group of friends before, during, and after their time in Afghanistan.

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Civil Rights Groups’ Surprising Net-Neutrality Bedfellows

Emily Badger — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:04:15 +0000

The fight over whether the Internet should have a meter has created some unexpected alliances in the groups lobbying the FCC.

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Call Us Names (Or At Least, Give Us Some …)

Maria Streshinsky — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:12:48 +0000

We're renaming ourselves, and we thought our loyal readers may have some ideas for a new moniker.

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Culturomics 2.0 Aims to Predict Future Events

Dan Watson — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:18:13 +0000

By analyzing tens of millions of news stories, a supercomputer in Tennessee may be able to predict future human events.

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Spy Agency Seeks Digital Mosaic to Divine Future

Emily Badger — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:00:45 +0000

The U.S. intelligence community wants to mine lots and lots of the tidbits bopping around on the Internet to suss out trends before they make the news.

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‘If a Tree Falls’ Revisits the Earth Liberation Front

Tom Jacobs — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:00:45 +0000

PBS looks at the radical environmentalists whose turn to terrorism discredited their quixotic campaign in "If a Tree Falls."

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