VUToday – October 2010
Week ending Friday, October 29
- NPR: Shots: Typing errur? Your fingers know even when your brain doesn’t
- London Independent: Touch-typists catch errors on ‘autopilot’
- Wired Science: Your fingers know when you make a typo
- Discover Magazine: Two ways of spotting mistakes while typing
- Science News: The fingers don’t lie
- HealthDay: Brain’s error-detection system demystified
- Europa Press: El cerebro utiliza dos mecanismos distintos para detectar errors.
- Kiplinger: Best values in private colleges
- ABC News: Are ERs feeding prescription drug addictions?
- Inside Higher Ed: Not so need-blind
- Bloomberg: Poll shows Americans don’t know GDP grew with tax cuts and bailout profits
- The Street: Create small-business story for happy ending
- EFE: La base electoral que le dio la victoria a Barack Obama se resquebraja
- Des Moines Register: Judicial retention issue raises a question of balance
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Students urged to consider careers in public health
- Nashville Scene: Enter the Vortex—if you dare
- Nashville Scene: James F. Neal, 1929-2010
- Education Week: Benefits seen for students teaching virtual pupils
- New York Times: Bucks: Home inspections during divorces
- New York Times: Sanctuary in custody fight over elephant
- National Review Online: The Corner: The Lauer decree
- Nashville Scene: Who’s afraid of the avant-garde?
- HealthDay News: Cancer risk from radiation doesn’t fade with age
- Bloomberg: Meyer makes Convexity exceed targets Harvard fails to replicate
- Boise Weekly: Is Steven Tepper Superman?
- Washington Square News (NYU): Tenure allows academic freedom, university administrators say
- The City Paper: Vandy study says Mexican immigrants’ jobs more dangerous
- The Tennessean: German insurer buying Windsor Health for $125 million
- The Tennessean: Cell tower plan causes concern
- Nashville Post: TriStar ER volumes jump on campaign
- Nashville Scene: Nashville Cream: WRVU General Manager Mikil Taylor resigns, long live the WRVU general manager
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt Commodores legend Roy Skinner dies
- The Tennessean: Girls reaching puberty at earlier age
- The Tennessean: Nashville attorney David Randolph Smith leads fight against guns-in-bars law
- The Tennessean: Celebrities: U2 to play Vanderbilt Stadium on July 2
- Newsweek: The prematurity puzzle
- New York Times: Opinion: Name that freedom
- Christian Science Monitor: Democrats target Wall Street as new Election 2010 bogeyman
- CNN: Death toll rises from Haitian cholera outbreak
- Fox News: Men’s Health: Noise-induced hearing los
- AOL News: Author’s obsession with European guys goes viral
- Gainesville (Fla.) Sun: It’s difficult to escape deluge of negative campaign ads
- Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Money flows into tight races
- Memphis Commercial Appeal: College radio stations adapt to Internet era
- The Tennessean: Muslims steadily growing in numbers throughout Middle Tenn.
- The Tennessean: Jim Neal, lawyer who made name in Hoffa, Watergate cases, dies
- The Tennessean: Tune In Music City: Snoop Dogg shows pop icon side and gangsta-rap roots at Vanderbilt
- Nashville Business Journal: Elections could determine fate of immigration reform
Week ending Friday, October 22
- Slate: True crime costs
- Washington Post: Cheat Sheet: Cheerleader had no First Amendment right to refuse to cheer for alleged assailant
- CNBC: Net Net: Is Apple’s $20.5 million backdating settlement illegal?
- Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: Vanderbilt and Meharry team up to fight sickle cell disease
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt’s greenhouse gas emissions drop
- The Tennessean: Rhythm & Roots shares ‘Retrospect’
- Nashville Scene: The high cost of hope
- New York Times: Opinion: Malpractice methodology
- The Root: Meet The Root 100, 2010 Edition
- The Tennessean: African-American Vandy professor makes “The Root’s” leadership list.
- Politico: Opinion: Tax dreams of drug decriminalization
- Education Week: Character education found to fall short in federal study
- Charleston Post & Courier: Ingram wins arts philanthropy award
- The Tennessean: Gifts to Vanderbilt endowment soar as other charities struggle
- Out & About: Sam Says: “It Gets Better” movement gets a website
- Associated Press: Church in Cub Scout flap: Mormons aren’t real Christians
- USA Today: Opinion: In U.S. politics, one size doesn’t fit all
- CBS: Health Blog: Cure for the common cold? Silver bullet takes a shot
- Chronicle of Higher Education: Prof Hacker: Using clickers to facilitate peer review in a writing seminar
- New York Times: Democrats are at odds on relevance of Keynes
- ABC: Being gay a ‘lifestyle’ choice, like alcoholism? Politics of homosexuality flare in 2010 campaign
- Scientific American: New real-time blood monitoring may lessen the need for transfusions during surgery
- Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Baby with rare kidney disease defies odds
- The Tennessean: Tea party in TN gives late boost to candidates
- The Tennessean: Bones unearthed in Franklin yard may be those of mastodon
- Associated Press: Feds oppose Calif. Prop 19 to legalize marijuana
- New York Times: Opinion: Income inequality: Too big to ignore
- CNN: Belief: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s prayer life revealed
- MSNBC: Your Career: Discussing politics at work
- USA Today: American Heart Association revises CPR guidelines
- Politico: This year’s attack ads cut deeper
- El Semanario (Mexico): Exceso de financiamiento degrada partidos políticos: OEA
- El Mercurio (Ecuador): Ecuatorianos confían más en la democracia
- Christian Post: Evangelicals say reform is key to tackling ‘ungodly’ immigration effects
- The Tennessean: If you give up the spouse, don’t co-own the house
- The Tennessean: Competition for dollars delays new college campus
- The Tennessean: Autism numbers climb quickly
- The Tennessean: Black outdistances Carter in fundraising
- The Tennessean: Rhythm & Roots marks 15 years
- The Tennessean: ‘Modern slavery’ event postponed due to transportation problem
Week ending Friday, October 15
- ABC.com: Chilean miners didn’t face many of the risks the media said they did
- Voice of America: ‘Crop mobs’ push Americans closer to food they eat
- CNN: Microscopic mosquito heart beats rivals
- Boston Globe: Belmont school hosts renowned contemporary violinist DBR
- Time: Do I look fat? Don’t ask. A campaign to ban ‘fat talk’
- Nashville Business Journal: Local sports teams tweak suite offerings
- The Tennessean: Milestones: Chamber’s Spirit awards recognize volunteer service
- Nashville Scene: Where the wild things are
- ABC.com: Will some miners adjust better than others?
- National Geographic: Best photo-micrographs of 2010
- The Hill: Congress Blog: The Democrat and GOP stalemate before the mid-term elections
- The Tennessean: TN candidates troll for early votes
- The Tennessean: Service set for Children’s Hospital founder
- Out & About: Vanderbilt professor elected to Institute of Medicine
- USA Today: Chile miners may face range of health problems
- Princeton Review: The Princeton Review’s annual law and business school rankings — based on 37,000 student surveys — now out
- USA Today: Considering grad school? Advice in a flat job market.
- MSNBC: Cosmic Log: Beauty found in a bug’s heart
- Tablet: The Scroll: Building Hillels to entice
- Kiplinger: More parents say college savings are most important
- Ellsworth (Maine) American: Beech Hill School pilots science program with Vanderbilt University
- The Tennessean: Nashville school parents angry at losing Vandy event
- The Tennessean: Brown recluse spiders more visible in fall
- The Tennessean: Haunting event hits Nashville Zoo
- Wall Street Journal: Law Blog Obituary: Vanderbilt’s Richard Nagareda
- Chronicle of Higher Education: Opinion: The creative campus: Time for a ‘C’ change
- Zeit Online (Germany): Die rechten 68er
- Investors Business Daily: Work on those flaws
- U.S. News & World Report: Here come $60,000-a-year colleges
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt’s Next Step program helps students with disabilities
- The Tennessean: Wal-Mart plans smaller, urban store near 100 Oaks Mall
- Chicago Tribune: Dems expand attack on GOP hidden funding sources
- The Tennessean: Thomas Stovall, former Vanderbilt professor, Peabody dean, dies
- The Tennessean: Is there hope for children who kill?
- The Tennessean: Analysis: Tennessee will lose clout in Congress after election
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt One Hundred Oaks gets LEED certification
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt LifeFlight approves of new safety rules
- The Tennessean: Young patients at Vanderbilt help create holiday cards fit for a kid
- The Tennessean: Few will stay after flood buyouts transform Nashville neighborhoods
- The Tennessean: Nashville gets front row seat for Birth of Impressionism
- Nashville Business Journal: Downtown center caters to budding entrepreneurs
- City Paper: The state of sports in Nashville
- City Paper: Is Mike McWherter too nice?
Week ending Friday, October 8
- Associated Press: Lawyers compete for big payoff, control in BP case
- Wall Street Journal: Doubts raised about BP study
- Reuters: Most doctors plan to get flu shots, survey finds
- Washington Post: College Inc: Top doctoral programs in English
- Campaigns & Elections Magazine: Four minutes on “Four Weeks” with John Geer
- Des Moines Register: Judicial retention: Safety valve, or politics amok
- The Tennessean: Bredesen proposes health reform fix in book
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt doctor’s music video drums up Heart Walk support
- The Tennessean: Words fill air at Southern Festival of Books
- Nashville Scene: Best of Nashville 2010
- Nashville Business Journal: Vandy Medical Center to build $200M, 500K-square-foot home in Cool Springs
- Wired: Gadget Lab: Screen-research breakthroughs promise low power, fast response
- Wall Street Journal: Washington Wire: NRA: No endorsement in Tenn. governor’s race
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt to build medical campus in Franklin
- Out & About: Lambda Association presents 16th annual drag show
- Canada.com: Good investors never stop studying markets
- Times Education Supplement (U.K.): Why teacher bonuses won’t improve pupil attainment
- New Orleans Times-Picayune: State fights proposal to lump its BP oil spill litigation together with other suits
- Forbes.com: America’s most expensive colleges
- The Tennessean: Nashville partners with Vanderbilt to reduce childhood obesity
- The Tennessean: New fire engine is just tip of iceberg in Spring Hill
- Nashville Post: Post Business: VUMC among top grossing hospitals
- Wall Street Journal: How handwriting trains the brain
- Christian Science Monitor: Nobel Prize for Robert Edwards: the controversies behind IVF
- USA Today: Three Iowa judges may face voters’ retaliation
- CNN: The Chart: Clues found to early Parkinson’s deaths
- AOL News: Opinion: The truth about performance pay for teachers
- Science Daily: Newly discovered DNA repair mechanism
- Jackson Sun: McWherter hopes ad blitz helps him gain ground
- The Tennessean: Food for the fight against breast cancer
- The Tennessean: In Session: Vanderbilt prof will help call races for NBC
- U.S. News & World Report: Morse Code: New rankings: College economic diversity
- New York Times: More states allow guns in bars
- New York Times: No stopping movie view of Mark Zuckerberg
- Associated Press: Psychiatric experts assess parental alienation
- McClatchy News Service: Commentary: Picking crops instead of political fights over immigration
- Chronicle of Higher Education: Opinion: Let’s make rankings that matter
- NPR: Come with a grocery list, leave with a flu shot
- The Big Think: How neuroscience is changing the law
- Chattanooga Times-Free Press: McWherter to raise profile but experts say ads may be too late
- Knoxville News-Sentinel: Some passing on debates
- Knoxville News-Sentinel: No Silence Here: Study: TN judicial nominees Dem heavy
- The Tennessean: TN families find Iraq war’s wounds are slow to heal
- The Tennessean: After 2 tours, officer is grateful to be home safe.
- The Tennessean: Nurse-managed care efficient and effective
- The Tennessean: New lawyers stay positive despite uncertain job market
- The Tennessean: Nashville Heart Walk sees largest crowd ever
- The Tennessean: Nashville AIDS Walk raises funds, awareness
- The Tennessean: Siegel High takes top honors at Vanderbilt marching band competition
- City Paper: How do schools improve student test scores?
Week ending Friday, October 1
- Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: Vanderbilt University makes solid progress in enrolling black students
- Chicago Tribune: No longer pandemic, H1N1 still hangs on in new flu season
- Bloomberg: BP asks judges to send workers’ savings cases to Texas
- Knoxville News-Sentinel: Editorial: Federal funds will help educational innovations
- The Tennessean: Editorial: Bonus won’t make best teacher
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt students help immigrants find services with website
- The Tennessean: Judge Barbara Haynes not motivated by awards
- Nashville Scene: Which project?
- WPLN:Alias redefines musical success.
- Chapter 16: Ethics and the movies
- Wall Street Journal: Best Executive MBA Programs 2010
- ABC News: ‘Thrill-kill soldiers’: What were they thinking?
- Associated Press: Académicos piden a la Universidad de Georgetown destituir a Uribe
- PBS NewsHour: LearningMatters: Teaching for dollars, pt. 4
- The Scientist: The one true path?
- Washington Post: D.C. restaurant owners pushing for tighter restrictions on food trucks
- New York Times: Dressage riders embrace helmets, to a point
- The Tennessean: Opinion: Product’s only goal: to keep users hooked
- The Tennessean: Serendipity mixes musicians, composer
- Nashville Business Journal: Vandy panel: Lessons from BP disaster
- Associated Press: Right’s angst heats normally cold judicial races
- Nevada News Bureau: Debate held on ballot measure to change how Nevada judges are chosen.
- Reuters: Al Gore’s lawyer seeks to lead BP oil spill cases
- Education Week: Study casts cold water on bonus pay
Washington Post: The long, failed history of merit pay and how the Ed Department ignores it. - Washington Post: The unexpected entrepreneur of fries
- New Scientist: Brain scans may help fix criminal responsibility
- Associated Press: Colbert sparks debate about ‘expert’ celebrities
- Los Angeles Times: Stephen Colbert makes a mockery of immigration debate.
- Boston Globe: Editorial: On merit pay for teachers, Mass. can chart the way
- Bloomberg Businessweek: Hertz, Avis fight for Dollar drives bid to triple recent offers
- Chronicle of Higher Education: The Top 100 Institutions in Federally Financed R&D Expenditures, 2009
- The Scientist: Opinion: Encourage alternatives III
- The Tennessean: TN men get ‘F’ in Vanderbilt health report card.
- The Tennessean: In Session: Study says Nashville needs new revenue to be stronger sports city
- The Tennessean: Students can get the skinny on schools during mall college fair
- Nashville Post: Leading indicators
- Nashville Scene: Nashville Cream: Vanderbilt alumni draft letter to VSC Board, ‘strongly urge the board not to sell the WRVU broadcast license’
- New York Times: The pen that never forgets
- Washington Post: Stephen Colbert, in GOP pundit character, testifies on immigration in D.C.
- National Review: Bench Memos: Mitch’s merit
- Washington Post: The Answer Sheet: What “Superman” got wrong, point by point
- Bloomberg Businessweek: U.S. delays for-profit college aid rule after 90,000 comments
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt law student wins first Women’s Half-Marathon
- The Tennessean: Joint show at Cumberland Gallery explores Altered Perceptions
- Nashville Post: Post Business: Vandy expands Australia ties