Today

Forbes: Meet the startup that makes building apps quick and easy
Hatch Technologies, a startup co-founded by Vanderbilt Alum Param Jaggi, automates the process of building custom apps.

Yahoo: How to get better sleep
Beth Malow, professor of neurology and Burry Chair in Cognitive Childhood Development, offers suggestions of what to do to get better sleep.

Vox: Thousands of organs are lost before they can be donated. Here’s how to save them
Tens of thousands of viable organs are also lost each year rather than going to patients in desperate need. Seth Karp, H. William Scott Jr. Chair in Surgery, is referenced.

Politico: NSA’s new cyber offerings
The NSA announced partnerships with six universities to conduct cybersecurity research over the next five years. Vanderbilt is among the universities involved.

Leaf Chronicle: A history of red flags didn’t keep guns out of hands of Waffle House shooting suspect
Jonathan Metzl, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health and Society, is quoted.

Chalkbeat: Report says Tennessee’s pre-K program needs consistent monitoring and more rigor to get better
Tennessee’s pre-k programs face criticism toward their curriculum and lack of improvement measures. A Vanderbilt study is mentioned.

Previously

• The Chronicle of Higher Education: Recent private gifts to higher education
• U.S. News: Mucus test may help doctors treat sinusitis better
• The Tennessean: An opioid alternative: Vanderbilt doctor’s relief retreats give pain patients their lives back
• The Impact Report: How the private sector is stepping up on climate change
• Nashville Post: Owen professor named to Ohio manufacturers board
• The Tennessean: In Nashville mayor’s race, David Briley is all alone with transit push
• Nashville Post: Vanderbilt board adds multiple members
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: Appointments, resignations, retirements, Guggenheim fellows, deaths
• Today: What’s a good cure for a hoarse voice? Hoda needs help!
• New York Times (Spanish): El ejercicio no es suficiente para que pierdas kilos
• Markets Insider: Owens joins Hillman Board
• Education Dive: Researchers: NC leadership academies fill high-needs school positions, but performance flat
• Economist: The president’s takeover of his party won’t soon be undone
• LA Times: Science hinted that cancer patients could take less of a $148,000-a-year drug. Its maker tripled the price of a pill
• Houston Chronicle: Why’s it so important to protect ‘data’?
• Financial Times: General Electric sets out on road to regaining investors’ trust
• NSF: New learning technologies deliver cultural treasure trove
• Christian Science Monitor: Why Bob Corker is bucking GOP tribalism, in a Tennessee tradition
• Washington Post: HHS secretary readmitted to hospital for further treatment of diverticulitis
• Tennessean: Celebrate Earth Day, Shakespeare’s birthday and more in Nashville this week
• New York Times (Opinion): Barbara Bush, a First Lady without apologies
• Education Week: Here’s how the public views teachers, their salaries, and their impact
• Inside Higher Ed: Two articles and a postcard
• New York Times: In pro-Trump Tennessee, democrats count on a familiar face to flip a senate seat
• Financial Times: How a volatility virus infected Wall Street
• Fox (Opinion): Your taxes are funding terrorists — Demand that this stops
• The New York Times: Why exercise alone may not be the key to weight loss
• The Washington Post: How Paul Ryan lost the Republican Party
• The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Gifts roundup: Big donations go to nonprofits that fight crime and resolve conflicts
• Buzz Feed: Joe Biden’s establishment politics playbook
• USA Today: From sit-ins to ‘good trouble,’ Nashville’s dissent fostered change
• Washington Post: For people age 50 or older, doctors say the new shingles vaccine is a must
• NSF: Mississippi River diversions will produce new land, but more slowly than shoreline is lost
• Newsweek: You helped create Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data crisis
• Poynter: FakEU: Europe’s anti-fake news efforts get pushback
• The Tennessean (Opinion): How Nashville is leading the way in public housing innovation
• Inverse: Your brain won’t let you tear your eyes away from the Yankees-Red Sox brawl
• The Washington Post: Former VP Biden: Political system is more divided than ever
• Nashville Business Journal: Vanderbilt gets $20 million gift
• The Conversation: How you helped create the crisis in private data
• Wall Street Journal: Lawyer’s office is unusual target for federal agents
• Bloomberg: Midterms could slow labor nominee confirmations
• NBC News: Why robotic bees may be the next visitors to Mars
• Chicago Tribune: From the community: Pulitzer Prize-winner Jon Meacham returns to a special Anderson’s Bookshop event
• The Tennessean: Actors Bridge teams up with Belmont for gender-bending adventure ‘Men on Boats’
• Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: Donna Y. Ford of Vanderbilt University Recognized for Her Diversity Efforts in Gifted Education
• The Week (Opinion): How ObamaCare is failing blue states
• Yahoo: With ‘SoLI’ Conference, Vanderbilt Law Set Sights on Legal Innovation Barriers
• The Tennessean: Comedian Nate Bargatze talks Vanderbilt fandom with Jimmy Fallon on Tonight Show
• Washington Post: Why you’re bad at fact-checking those April Fools’ Day pranks
• Education Week: Event to explore American education 35 years after ‘a nation at risk’
• Politico: Supreme Court voids residency rule, March 21, 1972
• New York Times (Opinion): There is a middle ground on guns
• Today: Study says rubber ducks are coated with bacteria. Here’s why you shouldn’t panic
• Buzz Feed (French): 37 femmes philosophes ou féministes que vous devriez connaître
• Wall Street Journal: Top colleges in the south for student engagement
• The Nashville Post: Vanderbilt to use $65M for life science research
• B&C: Powell: Facebook troubles expose ‘mythology’ of openness
• CBS Money Watch: Loyola-Chicago Ramblers cash in on March Madness success
• The Conversation: Why you stink at fact-checking
• Science: Putting immune cells on a diet
• Salon: “Roseanne” and her people: Populist voters who don’t fit in either party
• The Tennessean: Dockless bike pilot program launches at Vanderbilt with OFO
• Washington Post: Lorrie Moore has some instructions on how to read her new book
• Wall Street Journal: The worst law in America
• The Tennessean: Springfield High School assistant principal to attend Governor’s Leadership Academy
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Putting quantum scientists in the driver’s seat
• The Society for Risk Analysis: Let’s talk risk
• Health: What is Prader-Willi syndrome? This 380-pound pageant queen has a condition that makes her hungry all the time
• The Tennessean: Opinion | This is why Nashville’s transit plan, as proposed, is the only option
• Economist: What do Democrats and Republicans both like?
• New York Times: How Nasdaq C.E.O. Adena Friedman beat the odds on wall street
• The Tennessean: ‘Something has got to be done:’ Activists across Tennessee take to streets for gun control
• The Charlotte Observer: Why buying the Carolina Panthers – or any NFL team – is risky business
• Humanities Tennessee: Editor’s Note
• U.S. News: A public menace
• Vox: The gun control movement needs boys
• Nashville Business Journal: Here are the U.S. business schools with the best-paid graduates (Psst: They ain’t Harvard)
• Food & Wine: Why this Nashville restaurant opened at the site of historic lunch counter sit-ins
• Yahoo: Mumps is making a comeback — here’s what you need to know
• Nashville Post: VU expedites work at Greek Row
• Fortune: On Point
• Law 360: ‘Blurred lines’ ruling leaves big questions unanswered
• New Jersey Star-Ledger: Easter 2018 falls on April Fools’ Day, but Passover is the real kindred spirit. Here’s why
• U.S. News: Biden to Speak at Vanderbilt University on April 10
• The Tennessean: As they prepare for March for Our Lives Nashville, Vanderbilt students share #WhyIMarch
• Vox: Everyone loves nurses and hates Mitch McConnell
• R&D: New Resin Leads to More Sustainable Wind Turbine Blades
• Reader’s Digest: 16 Ways dogs are smarter than you think
• International Business Times: Trappist-1 exoplanets have too much water, could alien life survive there?
• Reuters: Children risk serious injuries on golf carts
• Inside Higher Ed: Recruiting as a senior grad student
• Nashville Business Journal: A-list execs break bread and stereotypes, seeking more diverse business community
• NPR: Shingles is nasty, and the new vaccine works well. Why do adults avoid shots?
• USA Today: Why a Vanderbilt researcher is using virtual reality to fight opioids
• Salon: How people talk now holds clues about human migration centuries ago
• The New York Times: What’s behind many mystery ailments? Genetic mutations, study finds
• Politifact: Why Trump appointments have lagged behind other presidents
• Nashville Post: 2018 in charge – management and consulting
• Good Morning America: Explaining Accelerated Bridge Construction, the technique used for the collapsed Miami bridge
• The Tennessean: Tennessee child marriage ban brought back to life, advances in legislative committee
• Good Morning America: The new faces of homeschooling: 3 families, 3 different approaches
• U.S. News: Weight-loss surgery beats meds for obese, diabetic teens: study
• Nashville Business Journal: Business heavyweights argue over Nashville’s transit future at NBJ event
• New York Magazine: Trumpism doesn’t divide GOP voters – but conservatism does
• Seattle Times (Opinion): Take marching orders from youth on gun debate
• The Atlantic: DeVos digs herself deeper
• Parents: Laughing gas and labor: is this pain relief option right for you?
• Newsweek: No strong evidence marijuana relieves chronic nerve pain, study finds
• Reader’s Digest: The truth behind this year’s record-breaking flu season
• History News Network: “Black Panther” rewrites the moment of the original colonial encounter with Africa
• The Tennessean: Diane Black has most missed votes in 2018 among Tennessee congressional delegation
• NBC News: Online class instructors more likely to respond to white male students, study finds
• Courthouse News Service: Professor tries to sell conservatives on local environmental rules
• From the Desk of Kurt Manwaring: 10 questions with Emilie M. Townes
• The Jerusalem Post: Special report says IDF followed int’l law in Gaza War, but had major gaps
• New York Post: Maloney backs away from questioning if vaccines cause autism
• Inside Higher Ed: Smile, you’re on camera
• AD Netherlands: Waarom Goldman Sachs een Kuip wil bouwen (Why Goldman Sachs wants to build a Stadium)
• The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville: After five years, pope leading Church on a mission
• Nurse.com: No longer are loved ones limited in contact with critically ill patients
  
• Quartz: Wary of being tainted, some world leaders may not want to negotiate with Trump on trade
• Parade: Are dogs smarter than cats? 
• BuzzFeed: 37 philosophers you really should know about (none of them are men)
• Pacific Standard: We asked three experts to discuss the role of criminal intent and insanity in our legal system
• Spectrum: Low intelligence, repetitive actions tied to self-injury in autism
• The Tennessean: Vanderbilt poll: Majority of Nashville public schools parents approve of Shawn Joseph
• The Tennessean: Williamson County Schools parents raise millions for education
• The Tennessean: Exclusive: Transit referendum supporters have edge 2 months from election, new poll finds
• C-Span: Jonathan Metzl on mental health and gun violence
• The Atlantic: What if America didn’t have public schools?
• MSN: States consider laws allowing courts to take guns from dangerous people
• Wallet Hub: 2018’s Best & worst states for women
• South Florida Business Journal: Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance returns from Nashville with new ideas for job creation
• PsyPost: Women who value their sexual pleasure are less likely to engage in unwanted sex
  
• CNN: Slow food? Let’s try slow college
• The Tennessean: Ten years in, Vanderbilt University’s Nicholas Zeppos has increasingly weighed-in on big national issues
• Science Magazine: Can targeting immune cells offer new way to combat hypertension?
• Washington Post: At some California hospitals, fewer than half of workers get the flu shot
• The Wall Street Journal: States consider laws allowing courts to take guns from dangerous people
• The Conversation: How people talk now holds clues about human migration centuries ago
• Diverse Education: Foundation offers recent graduates $5,000 to move to Ohio city
• Science Magazine: As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in
• Nashville Post: Notes: Vanderbilt pays $2.2M for campus-area property
• CNN: Slow food? Let’s try slow college
• The Tennessean: Ten years in, Vanderbilt University’s Nicholas Zeppos has increasingly weighed-in on big national issues
• Science Magazine: Can targeting immune cells offer new way to combat hypertension?
• Washington Post: At some California hospitals, fewer than half of workers get the flu shot
• The Wall Street Journal: States consider laws allowing courts to take guns from dangerous people
• The Conversation: How people talk now holds clues about human migration centuries ago
• Diverse Education: Foundation offers recent graduates $5,000 to move to Ohio city
• Science Magazine: As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in
• Nashville Post: Notes: Vanderbilt pays $2.2M for campus-area property
• The Tennessean: Exclusive: Mayor Barry’s job approval rating drops but remains strong, new poll finds
• The Christian Science Monitor: ‘Protection orders’ get a closer look in fight against gun deaths
• Nature: Time to re-think solutions
• USA Today: These colleges don’t care if you get suspended for #NeverAgain protests
• Time Magazine: ‘Our lives are at stake.’ how Donald Trump inadvertently sparked a new disability rights movement
• The Washington Post: Flu shot doesn’t cause influenza epidemic
• Black Enterprise: 7 Ways to support your gifted learner
• The Tennessean: ‘In My Lifetime’ closing at Vanderbilt’s Divinity School
• The Washington Post: The Health 202: Here’s one reason the Florida shooter wasn’t blocked from getting a gun
• USA Today: How evangelical Christianity is different now than in Billy Graham’s heyday
• Washington Times: Indiana wildlife trapper has found rare star-nosed moles
• Orbiter: Watching the whiz kids
• The Atlantic: ‘So what? Maybe it is a concentration camp’
  
• The Undefeated: Remembering Perry Wallace, who broke the color barrier in SEC basketball
• ABC News: Corker reconsidering retirement sets up possible GOP battle with Blackburn
• Washington Post: What was Billy Graham ‘selling’?
• Vox: Technology isn’t just changing society — it’s changing what it means to be human
• Mother Jones: How multilevel marketing companies got the autism community hooked on essential oils
• Smithsonian: Ancient DNA contradicts historical narrative of ‘extinct’ Caribbean Taíno population
• National Geographic: First there were microbes. Then life on earth got big.
• NPR: Sexual harassment in Nashville spurs a new bill to extend protections to artists
• Financial Times: Worries over exotic exchange traded funds deepen
• ABC Story: Correction: peanut allergy treatment story
• The Tennessean: Vanderbilt announces Perry Wallace basketball scholarship

• The Tennessean: Former classmate of Fla. school shooter
• Washington Post: Here’s how little Americans have learned about Donald Trump
• Chicago Tribune: Children’s deaths from flu rise sharply amid signs that season may be hitting plateau
• Science Magazine: Genes of ‘extinct’ Caribbean islanders found in living people
• Salon: How can women feel comfortable saying no when they are told they can’t say yes?
• MSN: Experts warn against connecting mental illness and mass shootings
• PBS: Measuring up U.S. infrastructure against other countries
• Time Magazine: ‘Not a magic potion.’ Flu death puts antiviral drugs in the spotlight
• The Tennessean: Vanderbilt exhibit explores lasting influence of experimental Black Mountain College
• Broadway World: Love and changing gender roles explored in Vanderbilt University Theatre’s ORLANDO<
• Nashville Post: Of Note: 14 February 2018
• NPR: 1A: The nation processes another shooting
• Salon: Caribbean residents see climate change as a severe threat but most in US don’t — here’s why
• Time: You asked: Do religious people live longer?
• The Conversation: Influenza: The search for a universal vaccine
• The Conversation: How can women feel comfortable saying no when they are told they can’t say yes?
• Washington Post: A significant minority of Americans say they could support a military takeover of the U.S. government
• Nashville Business Journal: Meet the winners: NBJ reveals the 2018 class of 40 Under 40
• Nashville Scene: Nashville author Jefferson Cowie reinterprets the New Deal
• Azcentral: Flying high: Will Super Bowl win boost the value of the Philadelphia Eagles?
• Commercial Appeal: State gives good grades to Tennessee teacher training programs
• The Week: The time bomb hidden in your investment portfolio
• The Tennessean: Williamson Democrats vie for commission seats for first time in 20 years
• Tennessee Tribune: Everything you didn’t learn in kindergarten will hurt you
  
• The Conversation: Caribbean residents see climate change as a severe threat but most in US don’t — here’s why
• Barron’s: Where volatility goes to die
• CNN: ‘I looked at it, and it was moving’: Worm in woman’s eye leads to unique discovery
• Nashville Business Journal: Mayor Barry dials back role as transit booster following affair revelations
• Education Week: In Tennessee, will teacher leadership lead to increased student achievement?
• PolitiFact: How much privacy do you have when you buy marijuana in California?
• The Tennessean: Belmont University to acquire O’More College of Design
• StyleBlueprint: Coach Carolyn Peck: FACES of Nashville
• NPR: Jedidah Isler: What Role Do Supermassive Black Holes Play In The Cosmos?
• The Tennessean: Year of the Dog celebrated at Vanderbilt
• Reuters: U.S. budget deals grants $1.5 bln for opioid-addicted babies, families
• Daily Mail: Nashville mayor in hot water after admitting affair
• CNBC: Fax machines are still common in medicine — and med students are puzzled when forced to use this ancient technology
• The Tennessean: Williamson County’s next school finance challenge will be decided by the courts
  
• The Birmingham Times: ‘Dear Black Athlete” special filmed in Birmingham, to be aired on ESPN
• The Economist: The ills of Latin American democracy
• Inside Higher Ed: Coffee, coffee, coffee
• Reuters: Exclusive: States need U.S. help to protect drug-affected infants – GAO
• NSF: The basic science of speech and the excitement of discovery
• The Tennessean: Climate and culture survey to help Nashville public schools address expectations, academics
• The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: Higher education grants or gifts of interest to African Americans
• The Annual Blues Festival Guide: Vanderbilt students help preserve Jefferson Street’s musical history
• New York Times: ‘I know that god will forgive me,’ the Nashville Mayor says. But will the voters?
• Bloomberg: Facebook investors seek $129M fee in fight over non-voting stock
• Digital Journal: Two women scientists granted $400k for promising lung cancer research
• Inverse: The real science of the god particle in Netflix’s ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: New venture will offer free courses that students can take for college credit
• Modern Healthcare: Legal clash over Medicaid premiums could derail GOP rollback of expansion
• Philadelphia Business Journal: Flying high: Will Super Bowl win boost the value of the Philadelphia Eagles?
• The Tennessean: Civility Tennessee event confirms craving for deep connection
• The Wall Street Journal: The chase for a permanent flu vaccine
• The Tennessean: Vanderbilt professor shares journey of grief in ‘The Dreaming Road’
• The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: Black first-year students at the nation’s leading research universities
• Business Insider: People are committing violent crimes after suffering brain damage — and researchers are trying to figure out why
• CBS News: Doctors warn of heart risk from some breast cancer therapies
• CNN: North, South Korea report flu outbreaks ahead of Winter Olympics
• Markets Insider: Hemispherx’s Ampligen highlighted in review of role of TLR3 agonist support for “universal” flu immunization development programs three studies reviewed at keystone symposium on emerging…
• Huffington Post: It shouldn’t take a pregnant senator to put parental leave on the agenda
• Nashville Post: Of Note: 31 January 2018
• San Francisco Chronicle: Google again spending freely on wooing search users, cutting into profit
• Inside Higher Ed: Alex Maier, Vanderbilt University – Mind’s Eye Blink
• Chalkbeat: Do schools lose ground when losing top teachers to turnaround schools? A little, but it’s worth it, say Tennessee researchers
• The Tennessean: Vanderbilt writes big checks to help Mayor Barry’s transit referendum push
• Reuters: Trump preaches cooperation, but can he follow through?
• Nashville Post: Supreme Court amends bar eligibility rules
• NBC News: What is Rett Syndrome? Richard Engel’s son has rare genetic disorder
• Nashville Post: VU’s Tarpley razed to accommodate tower project
• Diverse: Emerging scholar profile: Forber-Pratt defies expectations in human and organizational development
• CNN: If it’s not the flu, you might be sick because of this virus
• Chalkbeat: Did new evaluations and weaker tenure make fewer people want to become teachers? A new study says yes
• ABA Journal: Circuit split on constitutionality of legislator-led prayer may lead to SCOTUS review
• Market Insider: Best online doctoral programs ranked by OnlineCollegePlan
• U.S. News: Report: teacher bonuses boost student outcomes slightly
• ABC News: Flu fears spike ahead of Super Bowl in Minnesota
• UPI: Latin Americans more concerned about climate change than those in U.S., Canada
  
• The Ledger: VU plans Center for Sports, Society
• Reuters: Medicaid Work Rules Face Tough Legal Challenges, Experts Say
• Tennessee Tribune: Trump’s First Year Sets Stage for Future Performances
• The Guardian: Nashville’s Mat Britain teaching football players, playing pan on country hits
• News 4 (Charleston): Trump follows many presidents who talked tough on immigration in State of Union
• The Tennessean: Vanderbilt’s $600 million capital project to change the face of West End Avenue
• The Tennessean: #MeToo spurred a cultural shift, but legal and corporate worlds lag behind, experts say
• NPR: Laptops and phones in the classroom: yea, nay or a third way?
• ABC News: How to clean your house to help keep your family safe from the flu
• National Catholic Reporter: Abortion and the ‘muddled middle’
• The Tennessean: Money, testing and attracting teachers: 3 big questions for Tennessee’s next governor
• Business Insider: Betsy DeVos visited a charter school, praising it as a ‘shining example’ — now it’s shutting down
• Measure Radio: Climate change solutions
• The Tennessean: Vanderbilt’s $600 million capital project to change the face of West End Avenue
• CNBC: Flu’s price tag: This season could cost employers more than $9 billion
• Channel 4:  Vanderbilt students develop technology for the disabled
• Los Angeles Times: Architecture Spotlight: Tudor Revival a European fantasy fit for the Dream Factory
• SFGate: The Second City expands comedy classes for teens with autism
• Nashville Scene: Winter Arts Preview: Those Were the Days
• Salon: What we can learn from closure of charter school that DeVos praised
• Time: Children have pretty flexible ideas about gender identity
• Wall Street Journal: William Bain Jr. founded consulting and private-equity firms, and groomed Mitt Romney
• U.S. News: Trump move on healthcare religious freedom prompts discrimination fears
• Chicago Tribune: For teens on autism spectrum, improv classes can aid communication
• Yahoo: Trump’s language on immigrants provokes a backlash in the pulpits
• Inside Higher Ed: Leaks in the biomedical research faculty pipeline
• Business Insider: The 10 US cities that are growing fast, offering jobs, and presenting business opportunities
• Ledger: VU, UT researchers offer hope for Alzheimer’s grip
  
• The Tennessean: New Vanderbilt facility to focus on social activism, race and gender in sports
• The Conversation: What we can learn from closure of charter school that DeVos praised as ‘shining example’
• Newsweek: Here are the proposed laws that could protect legal pot in 2018
• Diverse Education: The high cost of opportunity: paying for academic conferences
• Los Angeles Times: The long fight of the Mapuche people at times has turned violent. Pope Francis is about to get involved
• CAA conversations podcast: Jenn Proctor and Jon Rattner
• Chalkbeat: Tennessee teachers are warming to evaluations as a tool to improve their work, survey says
• Healthline: This is how bad this flu season is
• Nashville Medical News: The crossroads of people & medicine
• The Tennessean: Ex-mayoral candidate David Fox lends hand to PAC fighting
• Diverse Education: Vanderbilt pays tribute to black SEC pioneer player
• The Tennessean: Nashville ranks No. 8 in Milken Institute jobs report
• New York Times: Players to watch
• New York Times: Wielding data, women force a reckoning over bias in the economics field
• Washington Post: Roseanne Barr reinforces myth that working-class voters elected Trump
• Washington Post: Racism has always driven U.S. policy toward Haiti
• Inside Higher Ed: The Return of Earmarks
• CBS News: Winter storm slams Tennessee, Kentucky
• PBS: Biden addresses possible link between son’s fatal brain cancer and toxic military burn pits
• Bloomberg: Trump’s War on Pot Could Split Republicans in 2018
• USDA: Opioid crisis affects all Americans, rural and urban
• Knox News: Legislator pushes for recovery schools for kids struggling with substance abuse
• The Tennessean: Nix Mayor Megan Barry’s Gallatin Road light rail plan
• Nashville Post: Saggi named interim dean of College of Arts and Science
  
• NPR: As states legalize weed, feds eye crackdown
• CNN: Dogs bring ‘a little light’ into ‘nightmare’ of childhood cancer
• The Conversation: Why the sartorial choices of Salafi clerics sparked a debate on morality in Nigeria
• Newsweek (Opinion): The jobs market is booming. And we can thank Trump
• Newsweek: Roseanne pushes the myth that working class whites carried Trump to the presidency in her TV reboot
• The Guardian: At the end of the day, escape, don’t marinate in politics
• Chalkbeat: Tennessee’s two big school turnaround experiments are yielding big lessons, researchers say
• Newsmax: Trump in Tennessee with Dems in hunt for senate seat
• Medical News Today: Heart failure risk might depend on your neighborhood
• NBC: Justice Department’s policy shift may slow booming pot industry
• The Bustle: Sexual harassment & the gender pay gap might be linked — here’s how
• Today: Why the flu shot can’t give you the flu
• Wired: AI could target autism before it even emerges—but it’s no cure-all
• Times Literary Supplement: Silenced and objectified: black women in the US
• Healthline: What’s the Matter with Drinking ‘Raw Water’?
• Nashville Business Journal: Transit expert: Nashville’s mass-transit plan is strong precisely because it’s not like Denver’s
• Commercial Appeal: Trump returns to Nashville; will he unite us in 2018?
  
• The Houston Chronicle: Could a backlash keep self-driving cars from having a chance?
• Mother Jones: There is a whole cottage industry of doctors helping parents skip their kids’ vaccines
• Big Think: New study links brain injuries to “acquired sociopathy”
• WebMD: Is it flu, or flu-like? The difference matters
• Nashville Post: Vanderbilt Library fellowship program lands $1M gift
  
• The Conversation: To get the most out of self-driving cars, tap the brakes on their rollout

• The Tennessean: Opinion: Nashville needs to prepare for the flood of the future

• The Tennessean: Opinion: Why Nashville schools are resegregating

• Nashville Business Journal: Vanderbilt professor: Barry’s $5.4 billion mass-transit plan won’t meet expectations
• The Tennessee Tribune: Tribune selects David Williams as Tennessean of the Year
• The New York Times: Business schools now teaching #MeToo, N.F.L. Protests and Trump
• The Washington Post: A look back at ‘Disclosure’: Does Hollywood prefer films about women sexually harassing men?
• The Washington Post: Unregulated herpes experiments expose ‘black hole’ of accountability
• The Christian Science Monitor: Reporters grapple with the ‘right’ way to cover the far right
• NBC News: Opinion: Trump doesn’t abuse executive power any more than Democrats do. That’s the problem.
• The New Yorker: Page-Turner: The unlikely kinship of “Bambi” and Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”
• Inc.: This simple practice will help you be more happy and productive
• Governing: The steep climb from governor to U.S. senator
• Law: Daily Business Review: Miami judge approves $25M Merrill Lynch settlement in ‘Unicorn’ case
• Aspen Times (Colorado): College less affordable than in 2008; Colorado Mountain College, high schools addressing the problem
• The Tennessean: 6 great options of affordable classes for ‘Lifelong Learners’
  
• The Tennessean: Vanderbilt chancellor calls tax bill an ‘unprecedented government intrusion’ on tax-exempt universities
• The Washington Post: Opinion: The GOP tax bill is business as usual in America’s unequal democracy
• Cosmos: Brain lesions contribute to criminal behavior, study find
• Phys.org: Researchers solve ‘four-phonon’ thermal-conductivity obstacle key to tech applications
• ThinkAdvisor: Merrill to pay $25m to settle excessive fee dispute in retirement plans
• Healio: Smokers endorse metabolism-informed care for smoking cessation
• Salon: Is your religion ready to meet aliens?
• Inside Higher Ed: Going off the grid
• The Conversation: What Kwanzaa means for black Americans
• Breitbart: Federal bureaucrats continue to advance Obama’s agenda, including climate change promotion
• Los Angeles Review of Books: “Israel Potter”; or, the Excrescence
• Healio: Diagnosing source of periodic fever in children entails collecting thorough history
  
• The Washington Post: Hondurans are in the streets because they don’t believe their election results
• Associated Press: Opinion: Is your religion ready to meet ET?
• Associated Press: Study: Transgender people more likely to lack health plans
• Science Magazine: Faced with government inaction, private firms emerge as major players in climate change mitigation
• Phys.org: Shedding light on a shadowy organizational hub in cells
• Irish Examiner (Ireland): Ever wondered about the brain power difference between dogs and cats?
• Nashville Post: On the Move: 19 December 2017
• Washington Post: Analysis: President Trump claims the FBI is tainted and its reputation in tatters. This graph shows he’s wrong.
• The American Lawyer: Opinion: Breaking Down Silos Between Tech, Firms and Academia to Reach Innovation
• Patient Daily: Vanderbilt supports initiative aiming to reduce number of primary cesarean births
• Patient Daily: Vanderbilt School of Nursing names first Divisional Commodore Award recipient
• The Hollywood Reporter: Politics and Pop Culture Collide at ‘DC in D.C.’ Event Next Month
• Romper: Can I Get Pregnant When I’ve Been Drinking? Here’s What Experts Recommend
• genomeweb: Study Suggests Trypsin-Based Proteomics Might Undercount Splice Forms.
• Nashville Business Journal: Vanderbilt poll shows falling support for Trump, potential opening for Democrats.
• Tennessean: Tad Cummins, charged in kidnapping case, wants to block statements to authorities
• HobNob Murfreesboro: A wingman can help when trying to resist sweet holiday treats

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