Tom Friedman's column is powerful and thought-provoking. But one can go further. It's perhaps not just the quality, and quantity, of the university education that is suffering in the U.S.. It's the education in the public schools as well. Mr. Friedman quotes a source who says that government must 'medicate, educate, and incarcerate.' It may do one other thing: Regulate.

Good story by Mathew Ingram on how people-led fact-checking means fewer mistakes. The story is well-sourced, has enough references and links, and it tells a truth boldly as to how social networks like Twitter and Reddit checks more facts than to spreading rumours.

This special report on the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe is alerming, and the title of the story is hard to swallow. The radioactive seawater impact map of March '12 by the U.S. Dept of State Geographer says so; the conclusion is done based on scientific information? Maybe. The story is in-depth, has enough links and references, and shows context.

The Atlantic's (this) story on Howard Rheingold's recent book 'Net Smart: How to Thrive Online' published by MIT Press is the best so far I've read on it, and I think, it's better to say it a book review rather than an opinion piece. The editorial note is important, as well. Yes, it's the key 'I will not blindly trust information I find online'. I think, it's also important to note while we read a printed published piece. knowledge is what that can segregate what is an information and what is an opinion in the guise of an information.

it's a story about how Haward Rheingold, who 'has a longer online history than most, going back to The WELL, one of the first online forums back in the 1980s' perceives the Net, and how the Net users should do. His book 'Net smart: How to Thrive Online' is interesting (so far I've got going through the link), but I think, most of the Net using is common sense, a sense that is uncommon to common people.

Good reporting on political economy by Laurent Belsie, Business editor of CSM. The report is insightful because it rightly said that 'millions of voters in France and Greece go to the polls and are likely to throw out the leaders who have backed austerity and spending cuts'. Actually, the outcome is that the leaders are thrown out, and france is the 11th EU State to face it. The report is also a pointer that the growth vs.austerity debate has to move to the forefront in the U.S.

Professional reporting by Steven Erlanger supported by Maïa de la Baume in Tulle, France, and Scott Sayare, Nicola Clark, Elvire Camus, Palko Karasz, Eleanor Stanford, Roswana Khan and Meghan Davidson in Paris. A detailed story that puts context as to why Nicolas Sarcozy fall and Francois Hollande wins. The story contains enough links and references, and has multimedia contents.

A balanced report, rather to say, analysis, filed by Edward Cody on the possible outcome of the second round voting of the French presidential election to be held tomorrow. The report prepared by interviewing Mr. Sarcozy and Mr. Hollande, and concluding remarks made by, mainly, quoting Thierry Vedel, a researcher at the prestigious Political Studies Institute in Paris; and Francois Bayrou, the centrist Democratic Movement leader who won 9 percent of the first-round vote. The story, perhaps, lacking expert opinion, and not very much insightful.

This opinion piece written by Nicholas Kristof shows context and he cited experts well. An enterprising story, and he deserves to be thanked for revealing/discussing issues how big food, chemical and drug companies want to keep these information as buried as possible. He also to be thanked for neatly summarising the problems and even providing some recommendations. I hope this article will be widely read and reviewed.

An informative news based on an interview paricipated by Amy, Juan, Robert McChesney, Justin Eliliot and Newt Gingrich which informs the readers that a new ruling by the Federal Communication Commission that tells broadcasters to post political advertisement data online. It means, it would be easier for the public to see exactly who is spending money on what that would enabled the voters to make informed choices.

An original and relevant report filed by John Vidal, environment editor of The Guardian based on a study report published by the Royal Society chaired by Nobel prize-winning biologist Sir John Sulston. Two major interventions suggested were to stabilise population and cutting consumption, which have been largely ignored by politicians and played down by environment and development groups so far.

This opinion piece of professor Krugman says that the Americans will see in November whether a majority is yet fully awake to what is happening.

Yehuda Ben-Shahar, PhD, assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, in an article published in the online edition of Genes, Brain and Behavior, he and his colleagues from Washington University, the University of Delaware, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Institute for System Biology in Seattle, demonstrate that the division of labor among honeybees coincides with the presence in their brains of tiny snippets of noncoding RNA that suppress the expression of genes. Enterprising lengthy article, highly informative, and educative.

Good reporting. Theb story is factual, enterprising and fair. It's no doubt that both the Internet and the social media helps built a better and informed group of people, most of them are young, who developed their own code of conduct. Society also benefitted with the billions of sharing...

Interesting story of the future of journalism by a professional journalist working as the head of Google's news products. Yes, there are powerful new technologies that can change what journalists do and how they do it now. The writer of this opinion piece insists that it doesn’t mean everything must change, but a comprehensive rethinking is necessary and it would be a valuable intellectual process.

Enterprising article by Justin Gills of The New York Time based on a poll which shows that a large majority of the Americans believe that this year’s unusually warm winter, last year’s blistering summer and some other weather disasters were probably made worse by global warming. It shows cotext as well when Justin wrote: The survey, the most detailed to date on the public response to weather extremes, comes atop other polling showing a recent uptick in concern about climate change.

Good story by Guardian based on an interview with Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the world wide web and a British-born MIT professor. TIm's point shows context, and internet users should understand the value of their personal data held about them by different web companies. The story has links to Tim's interview, which is really informative and eye openning. He spoke on the battle for control of the internet, and told us how states, companies and technological developments are challenging the principles of openness and universal access on which the net was built.

Enterprising story by Jennifer Welsh about a new scientic discovry to diagnose depression by blood test based on a recent study, published in the journal Translational Psychiatry. The said blood tests aren't meant to replace a psychiatrist, but could make the diagnosis process easier. Fascinating article. And an optimistic finding, despite the small sample size.

This story based on a research paper "Singlet Exciton Fission-Sensitized Infrared Quantum Dot Solar Cells,” published in Nano Letters authored by Bruno Ehrler and Neil Greenham, University of Cambridge is the basis for this excellent story that informs us that a new solar cell could harvest energy from the sun much more efficiently than traditional devices do, and that can dramatically improving the amount of useful energy solar panels can create. Good story by Laura Marshall, Managing Editor of PHOTONICS.

Interesting science news backed by research findings. Well, yes, parents and teachers of the toddlers should be aware of the dynamics this report, and the cited research telling about while children interact.

Informative report by 24/7 Wall St., and it covered 10 states (of the United States) that 'tax the poor most'. The report presents fairly enough data, and the slide shows are informative, and shows context.

Good article; shows context and enterprising...But the point raised may not be correct. Journalists tend to seek clear, definitive answers to their questions. This post would have been far more factual and balanced if the writer had sought out Woodward to clarify.

A detail article on online privacy, esp. on facebook. There are interactives, video etc. While the story is highly informative, I found the video similar to what the story said. I enjoyed reading the article...

Ths column is very good and thought provoking...Nicholas Kristof not only ask us to learn to respect believes but presented a comparative analysis of the status of believers vs. non-believers citing experts. An well-researched column, it shows context.

Good story; informative and enterprising. Yes, I agree with the story-writer that the 'subsidies are worth focusing on'. When energy industry is already making historic profits, free cash subsidy handouts doesn't make sense. I recommed this MJ story for wide readership and review.