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Study Suggest Black Women's Relative Invisibility in Society

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Nov. 24 (News Report) - New research finds black women are more likely to go unnoticed and unappreciated than black men or whites of either gender.

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Culture & Society Articles | Viewing Turkey Day Through Academic Prism | Miller-McCune Online Magazine

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - Given that entirely reasonable analysis, it is a bit jolting to read further into the paper and find the following sentence: "The stuffed turkey represents the Native Americans, sacrificed and consumed in order to bring civilization to the New World."

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What Are Those Warships Doing Off Somalia?

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:19:08 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Nov. 18 - Pirate-fightin' navies find that parking off the Horn of Africa provides cover for counterterrorism and protects scofflaw fishermen. Navies are expensive, and sending warships to Somalia is a hugely inefficient way to fight pirates, considering that

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Missing the Gain But Joining the Pain

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Sam Kornell - Nov. 15 (News Analysis) - Since the industrial revolution, profits from the exploitation of fossil energy — coal, oil and natural gas — have not been equally distributed. America, Europe and Japan got rich off of oil and coal; now China, India and much of the rest of the developing world are attempting to do the same thing. If they succeed, climate scientists say, it will mean environmental catastrophe. This progression has created a situation in which any solution to climate change is, to a greater or lesser extent, going to be unfair — a fact many negotiators openly acknowledge. The Danish environmental minister hosting the Copenhagen conference, Connie Hedegaard, has reportedly been "extraordinarily blunt" in insisting that China, India and the rest of the developing world shoulder a large share of the climate load.

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I’d Like the Same Plan Better If It Was Bill Clinton’s

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Nov. 13 (Special Report) - Even among the most extreme opponents of President Obama's push for health care reform — those who equate his proposals to Nazi death camps or Soviet gulags — there's little overtly expressed racism. Aside from the occasional slip by Republican officials in South Carolina,...But implicit racism — prejudice unacknowledged in public and, in many cases, hidden from conscious awareness — is a factor in opposition to Obama's health policies

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The Low-Tech Reality of Identity Theft

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:45:37 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Lewis Beale - Nov. 13 - The U.S. Census Bureau estimates a little more than one-third of households will refuse to mail out their census forms next year because of fear that sharing personal data could make them susceptible to identity theft. This is no idle concern — almost 1

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Virginia Tech Study Contains Lessons for Fort Hood

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Nov. 12 (News Analysis) - The 2007 Virginia Tech massacre resulted in widespread psychological distress among the university's students — whether or not they witnessed the incident firsthand.

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Endless Obstacles Delay Veteran Benefits

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Aaron Glantz - Nov. 12 (Special Report) - The Department of Veterans Affairs routinely delays disability claims by wounded soldiers for months and years, often shunting them into homelessness. But there’s a simple way for the government to get disabled veterans the help they deserve. It can trust them.

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Does Biased News Have a 'Time Bomb' Effect?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Melinda Burns - Nov. 09 (Special Report) - There's nobody more cynical about the media than your average European. Only 12 percent of Europeans claim to trust the media, compared to 15 percent of North Americans, 29 percent of Pacific Asians and 48 percent of Africans, the BBC has found. Yet new research out of the London School of Economics and Political Science suggests that even the most hardened Europeans may succumb to media manipulation and change their political views if they are bombarded long enough with biased news. Michael Bruter, a senior lecturer in European politics at the school, fed a steady diet of slanted newsletters about Europe and the European Union — either all good news or all bad — to 1,200 citizens of six countries over two years. Over time, Bruter found, and without exception, the readers subconsciously adopted the bias to varying degrees and changed their view of the EU and of themselves as Europeans, a few of them in the extreme. Surprisingly, they didn't register any change right after the newsletters stopped — not until full six months later, when they had obviously let down their guard.

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Many Still Believe That Saddam Hussein Was Behind 9/11, and Now We Have Some Idea Why

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Emily Badger - Nov. 06 (News Analysis) - Of 49 people included in the study who believed in such a connection, only one shed the certainty when presented with prevailing evidence that it wasn't true. The rest came up with an array of justifications for ignoring, discounting or simply disagreeing with contrary evidence — even when it came from President Bush himself.

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The Biggest Roadblock to Change May Be in Our Minds

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Nov. 03 (News Analysis) - When you step back from the specifics of the health care debate — as well as the rancor surrounding it — an odd contradiction emerges. Fairly or not, insurance companies have traditionally been regarded with a combination of contempt and scorn. Yet the president's proposal to change the nation's system of health care coverage — which would put restrictions on some of the companies' more egregious practices and provide increased competition — has provoked fear and outrage in a sizable portion of the populace. Americans who under other circumstances might be grousing about rising premiums or denials of coverage are tenaciously clinging to a system they know and dislike.

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Culture & Society Articles | Researchers Study 'Inferred Justification' of False Beliefs | Miller-McCune Online Magazine

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:11:25 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Nov. 03 - Researchers looking at al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein explore why it is that people often steadfastly believe something even when they've been shown it ain't so.

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A Visit to Dirty Snow Cones National Park

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:06:22 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Bruce Dorminey - Oct. 30 - The eponymous highlights of Glacier National Park are fast disappearing.

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Science & Environment Articles | Lester Brown Upbeat About U.S. Carbon Decline | Miller-McCune Online Magazine

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:43:52 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Joan Melcher - Oct. 30 - Worldwatch founder Lester Brown, long known for dire prognosis, reports cheerful climate and energy news for United States.

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If Bridges Could Talk …

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:27:12 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Arnie Cooper - Oct. 29 - As rush hour traffic crawled across Minneapolis' Interstate 35-west bridge on a sultry August evening back in 2007, the roadway's central span suddenly gave way, plunging nearly 100 vehicles and 18 construction workers into the Mississippi or onto its

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The Real Cost of Ransom

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:03:05 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Oct. 29 - The swarm of pirates buzzing around the so-called Somali Basin has grown since last year even though American and European navies now patrol those waters in force. "This year we've seen more attacks than we did all of last year," said Lt. Nathan

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A Home Remedy For Day Care

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:31:44 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Colleen Shaddox - Oct. 28 - Elizabeth Fair has been taking care of children since she was 14. Now a grandmother many times over, Fair shows off her newly established child care center, complete with the usual, bright trappings — cubbies, blocks, tiny furniture. What's unusual is

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Did Financial Rules Mandate a Meltdown?

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:21:19 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Richard Korman - Oct. 22 - A libertarian look at the current pay kerfuffle for financial services companies suggests regulating executive compensation will not produce healthier capitalism.

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Learning to Play the HARP

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:46:14 -0700

Miller-McCune - By John Mecklin - Oct. 20 - The Obama administration has a mortgage refinancing program that needs some tuning.

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The Buds of Wrath

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:05:39 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Susan Kuchinskas - Oct. 20 - Sarah's whole street reeks of pot. This is not hyperbole. When you turn the corner onto this lane of 1970s tract houses, you smell the tang: the sour, earthy, green odor that wafts up from lush marijuana plants steaming in the sun. Sarah estimates that

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Finding Water from Outer Space

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:56:49 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Vince Beiser - Oct. 19 - The Land Cruiser rattles and bumps down a stripe of rutted dirt carving through the brush in this remote corner of southern Angola. Half a mile to the west, the tranquil blue Atlantic glimmers in the African sun. To the east, miles of spiky desert

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What is the Color of Sin?

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Lee Drutman - Oct. 17 (Special Report) - Two psychologists show that our concepts of morality and sin are mentally associated with lightness and darkness, with potentially troubling implications for criminal justice.

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Let's Try Cap-and-Trade on Babies

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:25:20 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Oct. 15 - Population growth is the real driver for higher greenhouse gas emission, so why don't more mainstream solutions start there? Andrew Revkin, an environmental reporter for the New York Times and author of the paper's Dot Earth blog, warns that the math

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A Victory for the 'Water Underground'

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:44:03 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Melinda Burns - Oct. 13 - Bone-dry California eases restrictions on greywater use, allowing wastewater from washing machines and bathtubs to spill onto the state's lawn and lemon trees.

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War Games Start to Include Climate Change

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:08:47 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Sam Kornell - Oct. 09 - The Tibetan Plateau is enormous — four times the size of Texas. Both the Yellow and Yangtze rivers issue from it, carrying the glacial runoff from the Himalayas to China. This runoff is a primary source of fresh water for China's 1 billion citizens, 800

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