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...shrieks. (The shocks were fake; both the learner and the authority figure prodding the volunteer were complicit in the experiment.) "The haunting images of participants administering electric shocks and the implications of the findings for understanding seemingly inexplicable events such as the Holocaust and Abu Ghraib have kept the research alive for more than four decades," Burger writes in the January issue of American Psychologist, the journal of the American Psychological Association. Have we learned from these atrocities? Burger's replication of one of Milgram's most famous demonstrations yields alarming results...
...Highlight Reel: 1. On the idea of rising influence of photo editing via computer software: "[F]or the first time I saw a photographer as no more than a paid researcher looking for images for someone else to re-present...In the days of film one would have had to be physically on site to be able to micromanage the photographer; the photographer's autonomy was somewhat more impervious...Increasingly, much of the photographic process will occur after the shutter is released. The photograph becomes the initial research, an image draft, as vulnerable to modification as it has always been...
Working with the manufacturer of the slow-release naltrexone, Dr. Sandra Lapham of the Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, reanalyzed data from earlier studies, teasing out findings that specifically focused on the drug's effectiveness during 10 U.S. holidays. Comparing patients who received the naltrexone shots to those who received placebos, she found a reduction in the number of days the subjects drank and - on those days they slipped - in the number of drinks they consumed, with a smaller percentage of sessions classified as heavy drinking sessions (five or more drinks...
...held that encouraging a military presence on campuses - particularly in cities and the northeast - could even out some of the geographic and economic disparities in military service. And there are good reasons to want the military at Ivy League schools, traditionally breeding grounds for future political leaders. According to research by Peter Feaver and Richard Kohn, who in 2001 edited Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security, since 1816 the more veterans there have been in the upper echelons of government, the fewer military actions the U.S. has taken. Back in 1991, veterans comprised half...
...chatted with Vilsack about biofuels after a Hillary Clinton campaign event at a soy-biodiesel plant in Newton, Iowa. The theme of the day was that biofuels produce jobs, and Vilsack was pushing Iowa as "the clean-energy capital of America." But he was clearly aware of the new research suggesting that biofuels in general - and corn ethanol in particular - created more carbon emissions by accelerating deforestation than they saved by replacing fossil fuels. "It's definitely something we need to study," he said. Vilsack suggested that second-generation biofuels like cellulosic ethanol manufactured from switchgrass could solve the problem...