I just listen to NPR. I figure if something important happens, it’ll drift my way. I follow tech, copyright, patent and science news, read science based medicine, respectful insolence, NeuroLogica, listen to the Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe and The Guardian’s Science weekly. That sort of thing. I feel pretty well informed on the topics I care about. I don’t watch tv news because I find it very depressing, uninformative, and full of unstated assumptions. Short on facts, and long on commentary. And they never seem to construct valid graphs, with units and label in the right places. Like they never passed high school algebra.
