
Miller-McCune magazine The Biggest Roadblock to Change May Be in Our Minds
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Studies into system justification theory suggest an apparently inborn human desire to justify the innate fairness of the status quo may impede proponents' efforts to make sweeping societal changes in areas like health care or climate.

Miller-McCune magazine Looking Back In Anger
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An esteemed professor rightly takes AIDS denialists to task, but his valuable history of the movement is at times a caustic read.

Miller-McCune magazine Blaming Others Is Contagious Behavior
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Observing someone blame another for their lack of success increased the likelihood that people would make subsequent blame attributions for their own, unrelated failures, according to a paper just published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Miller-McCune magazine How the government can make us better at self-government.
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Elected officials are getting more and more involved in increasing civic engagement to varying degrees of success.

Miller-McCune magazine New research suggests people who enjoy gazing in the mirror have reason to like what they see.
News Blog Articles | Research Shows Narcissism Linked to Attractiveness | Miller-McCune Online Magaz
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It's safe to assume most narcissists, given the high opinion they hold of themselves, believe they are better looking than the average person. New research suggests they may be right.

Miller-McCune magazine Halloween Research Goes Beyond Ghouls and Goblins
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What happens when witches meet wonks? With Halloween approaching, Miller-McCune's skeleton staff digs up some facts about the haunted holiday.

Miller-McCune magazine How can the U.S. and Europe keep ship owners from paying ransoms that make Somali pirates more dangerous?
Politics Articles | How to Keep Ransoms from Emboldening Somali Pirates | Miller-McCune Online Magaz
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When it comes to Somali piracy, Americans, as a rule, don't like to pay ransom (as is evident in the Maersk Alabama hijacking); Europeans have been more pragmatic. It's a difference that reflects counter-terrorism policy. But piracy isn't terrorism, and the decision to pay or fight on the high seas ...

Miller-McCune magazine If Bridges Could Talk …
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New monitoring systems being studied in a $9 million program by the Technology Innovation Program should make smarter bridges in which sensors alert humans when the structures are dangerously fatigued.

Miller-McCune magazine Fill Out Your Census Form in Red or Blue Ink
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The rather nerdy constitutional pursuit of counting everybody in the country once a decade has become a political issue like everything else.

Miller-McCune magazine A Home Remedy For Day Care
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Jessica Sager and Janna Wagner train home-based child care providers for the poor neighborhoods that need them most.

Miller-McCune magazine The Backlash of Secondary Anti-Semitism.
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New research suggests the notion of ongoing Holocaust-related atrocities suffered among Jews apparently increases feelings of anti-Semitism.

Miller-McCune magazine 40 Years of Muppetology 101
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How to get to Sesame Street? Take Wonk Way and turn left on Research Road. A look at academic research on the popular children's TV show throughout its 40-year history.

Miller-McCune magazine Before the Flood
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The U.S. spends billions on levees, but river flooding still causes havoc across the country. Vermont has a better way It finds out where rivers want to go, and let's them go there.

Miller-McCune magazine What Jane Jacobs Can Teach Us About the Economy
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Late urban champion Jane Jacobs' notions about decline and imports are newly and eerily resonant during this recession.

Miller-McCune magazine The Inside Dope on Snitching
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Law professor Alexandra Natapoff explains how to keep criminal informants from duping prosecutors, police and the rest of us in her new book titled "Snitching."


























