Watching or reading the evening news (or current events) every day can actually make you dumb, according to a University of Florida history professor. In How the News Makes Us Dumb: The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society, C. John Sommerville claims that we can't discern truly significant events when we watch the evening Ehlanzeni News every day. In the news everything is equally essential; we don't develop a sense of perspective about what the bigger, more important issues are. (more…)