Caveat Google

UVA Prof. Siva Vaidhayanathan, speaking at VU, warns that the Googleization of everything can lead to debased learning and excessive consumerism. VU release here.

US Well-Being Index

The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index for December is interesting, but it's the findings discerned at the point of the survey netting its 1 Millionth respondent that are absorbing.

Ideas 2010: National Geo, NY Times

National Geographic offers updates on scientists' thinking on 10 major cosmological ideas... and a recent issue of New York Times Magazine celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the annual December "Year in Ideas" compilation.

Wang: Social Media lack legitimacy

Ming Wang, M.D. (at left), the widely known Nashville eye surgeon, researcher and ballroom dancer, says social media lack the trustworthiness and legitimacy of traditional edited media. He writes op-ed, today in The Tennessean.

Traditional Media retain edge

The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University says in a report just out that traditional media have greater impact and influence than social media and other e-phenoms. The release is here.