Wall Street Journal Health columnist Tara Parker-Pope is defecting to the New York Times to write a health blog and a consumer health column for Science Times. In telling her staff, Science Times head Laura Chang wrote in an email, "Please keep this under your hat until the announcement is posted" on Monday. Oops. Parker-Pope starts August 27; we presume that several in her newly Murdochian wake will follow.

IvyGate breaks USNews' dumb embargo on their newest list of Best Colleges. Seriously, an embargo? WHY DO YOU PEOPLE CARE? Oooooh, Dartmouth fell two places! OMG! Cancel that donation! [IvyGate]