The Daily Source: Quality News from Around the Internet

Site edited by: Elizabeth Stoycheff, Kevin Augustine, Laura Olson, Kathie Raikes, Ishwarya Krishnamurthi, Erkinaz Shuminov, Patrick Frierson, Tamara Dixon, Harsha Malik, Lavanya Rajagopalan, Hillary Hill, Sandra Crozier and Betse Lyons.

GOOD NEWS

Kids leverage online networks for greater civic engagement

Social media is a tool that enables kids to engage in issues they care about and help to bring about real change in our society. Just ask Seventeen magazine and Universal Studios.

Christian Science Monitor

Vitamin E lowers chance of liver cancer

Individuals could reduce their risk of developing liver cancer by consuming more vitamin E — either from diet or using vitamin supplements — according to a new study.

Medical News Today

After girl’s death, mom goes to Africa to honor her clean-water wish

Rachel Beckwith’s wish was for people less fortunate than her to be able to have clean water to drink. A year after her death, her wish has come true for thousands of people she never met.

NBCNews.com

WORLD

North Korean leader takes control of economy from military

After purge of top general, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un moves to adopt China’s model, opening up the economy and making farm reforms.

Christian Science Monitor

Shifts inside North Korea

CNN

Did the Breivik massacre change Norwegian politics?

After last year’s massacre in Oslo, Norway wanted to demonstrate the power of democracy and tolerance. But one year later, the cracks are beginning to show.

Spiegel International

ENVIRONMENT

Alaskans wonder where the king salmon have all gone

Some of Alaska’s largest and best rivers are closed to king fishing because the largest of the salmon species are not showing up in enough numbers to ensure sustainable future runs.

BusinessWeek

India scientists try to predict monsoon

Scientists aided by supercomputers are trying to unravel one of Mother Nature’s biggest mysteries — the vagaries of the summer monsoon rains that bring life, and sometimes death, to India.

Al Jazeera

EDUCATION

The new community college try

Unknown to them, students have applied to be test subjects in a multimillion-dollar experiment in how to fix what ails community colleges.

New York Times

Assessing damage of private loans

Inside Higher Ed

School districts bring software programmers in-house

Some educators are using the new online landscape to build their own applications and software, bypassing the typically costly and lengthy procurement process.

Education Week

SPORTS

Your logo here: How logos become icons

The most iconic company logos are visual cues that are seared onto people‘s consciousness without their even realizing it. That kind of influence has always been valuable, but now it is priceless.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Blog:

Coming soon: ads on NBA jerseys

(ESPN)

True Hoop

Tennessean Brandt Snedeker surges to lead at British Open

Amid all the wayward swings, Brandt Snedeker and Adam Scott were steady as can be at the British Open.

ABC News

Features

About us

Ways to help

Other