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