Miller-McCune - Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. » Media http://www.miller-mccune.com Nationally Acclaimed Politics, Science and Culture Coverage Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1Nationally Acclaimed Politics, Science and Culture Coverage Miller-McCune - Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. no Nationally Acclaimed Politics, Science and Culture Coverage Miller-McCune - Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. » Media http://www.miller-mccune.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpghttp://www.miller-mccune.com/category/media/ Santa Barbara, CA Bitter About Your Life? Blame Facebookhttp://www.miller-mccune.com/media/bitter-about-your-life-blame-facebook-38970/ http://www.miller-mccune.com/media/bitter-about-your-life-blame-facebook-38970/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:00:28 +0000 Tom Jacobs http://www.miller-mccune.com/?p=38970 New research suggests heavy Facebook users are more likely to believe other people have happier lives.

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]]> http://www.miller-mccune.com/media/securing-nebulous-privacy-rights-in-the-cloud-38074/feed/ 0 Searing Look at Rio’s Homicidal Policehttp://www.miller-mccune.com/media/searing-look-at-rios-homicidal-police-37740/ http://www.miller-mccune.com/media/searing-look-at-rios-homicidal-police-37740/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:00:01 +0000 Lewis Beale http://www.miller-mccune.com/?p=37740 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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]]> http://www.miller-mccune.com/media/if-a-tree-falls-revisits-the-earth-liberation-front-34290/feed/ 0 Analyzing Culture with Google Books: Is It Social Science?http://www.miller-mccune.com/media/culturomics-an-idea-whose-time-has-come-34742/ http://www.miller-mccune.com/media/culturomics-an-idea-whose-time-has-come-34742/#comments Sun, 07 Aug 2011 11:00:28 +0000 Anita Guerrini http://www.miller-mccune.com/?p=34742 OPINION: Discovering fun facts by graphing terms found among the 5 million volumes of the Google Books project sure is amusing — but this pursuit dubbed 'culturomics' is not the same as being an historian.

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