ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
just a chance
/Life is just a chance to grow a soul. – A Powell Davies
life's pain
/Life can be counted on to provide all the pain that any of us might need. - Sheldon Koff
Articles of Interest - March 21
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
The BuzzFeed Buzz Saw: Why Campaigns Should Fear These Four 20-Somethings NPR
How to Make Twitter Actually Useful (With new features, the social network is fixing its biggest problems to win back Twitter quitters—but it still needs to do more) Wall Street Journal
social media is making us shallow, says science Vice
Medium Evolves Again (The service will add human editorial decisions to its mobile app) The Atlantic
Twitter Rules Out Long Tweets, Sticking to 140-Character Limit New York Times
Instagram's Biggest Change Since 2013 (The app is piloting an algorithmic, non-chronological feed) The Atlantic
How 'I don't have Facebook' became the new annoying 'I don't watch TV' Mashable
Social Media Expert Checklist: Questions To Determine Who Is And Isn't An Expert Search Engine People
***PSYCHOLOGY
Should your Therapist Read your Twitter? Motherboard
Psychologists Throw Open The “File Drawer” Discover Magazine
Can Big Data Help Psychiatry Unravel the Complexity of Mental Illness? Scientific American
Why smart people are better off with fewer friends Washington Post
***PERSONAL GROWTH
What Exactly IS "critical thinking"? Becoming (my blog)
***SCIENCE
Why scientific fraud hurts people Stat News
Many scientific “truths” are, in fact, false Quartz
Embracing 'Messy' Science (The American Statistical Association pushes for more data transparency by rejecting a common measure of statistical significance) Inside Higher Ed
***GRAMMAR
A ‘Perfect’ Storm (What superlative, asks Ben Yagoda, could possibly follow "perfect" in the procession of enthusiastic adjectives?) Chronicle of Higher Ed
What grammar pedants and fashion victims have in common The Conversation
***LANGUAGE
The future of the Spanish language is looking a lot more like English LA Times
How language gives your brain a break BioEngineer
***LITERATURE
What People Around The World Are (And Aren't) Reading About Digg
Scientists Discover That James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Has an Amazingly Mathematical “Multifractal” Structure Open Culture
***RESEARCH
Wikipedia and the Momentum of Tiny Edits The Atlantic
***GENDER ISSUES
As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops New York Times
***RACE
Can Computers Be Racist? The Human-Like Bias Of Algorithms NPR
'Resume whitening' doubles callbacks for minority job candidates, study finds The Guardian
Trump as a Taunt Inside Higher Ed
'The Bell Curve' still Dividing Campuses Inside Higher Ed
Professor Cleared to Teach After Furor Over Race Inside Higher Ed
***CAMPUS CRIME
Despite public interest in increased police transparency, most private universities shield police reports Student Press Law Center
***FREE SPEECH
Does the First Amendment protect people who film the police? The Conversation
Defining Intolerance: First Amendment concerns at the U of California Inside Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
The legal battle over this monkey's selfie is far from over The Daily Dot
Lions Gate TM Copyright Claims Against TD Ameritrade Dismissed Bloomberg
***TECHNOLOGY
Report: Wearables To Top 10 Million Shipments in 2016 Campus Technology
***ART AND DESIGN
Artists Put Online 3D, High Resolution Scans of 3,000-year-old Nefertiti Bust (and Controversy Ensues) Open Culture
Art and loneliness The Economist
How Critical Thinking Sabotages Painting: Creating art is a very different skill than articulating what art is about (subscription required) Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Puts Online 65,000 Works of Modern Art Open Culture
***BIG DATA
Google just released its Analytics 360 Suite. Is this 6 product package a game changer? Venture Beat
In support of Bayesian evidence measures: reconsider the "role of testing & P values in quantitative research" Inside Higher Ed
Is the "reproducibility crisis” due to overuse of P values & a preference for easily digestible conclusions? American Statistical Association
In 4 years, some $4.6 trillion will be spent by co's to save useless and dark data Veritas
More data isn't necessarily better. Here's 7 cases where #BigData won't improve your model Data Science
***RELIGION
Exit polls and the evangelical vote: A closer look Pew Research
Baptist Youth Pastor's Wife Says She's Wearing Hijab on Mondays to Show Solidarity With Muslim Christian Post
Jimmy Swaggart didn’t Go away Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
Former Scientology "Life Counselor" Sheds Light on the Church's Gay Reparative Therapy Process Gawker
How Will Young People Choose Their Religion? The Atlantic
Percentage of Americans who pray or believe in God at an all-time low City News Service
***POLITICS
Measuring Donald Trump’s Mammoth Advantage in Free Media New York Times
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Digital Video Advertising For Traditional TV Tops $2 Billion Media Post
Has the podcasting renaissance been overstated? The Media Briefing
***JOURNALISM
The Washington Post is trying to make it easier to read long features Nieman Labs
Who is posting comments on news stories, and why do they do it? Harvard's Nieman Lab
As Sunshine Week dawns, more need than ever for transparency Poynter
Study Finds Legacy Newsrooms Embrace Innovation, But Not Cultural Change Media Shift
Digital Digging: How Fusion is producing investigative journalism for the Jon Stewart generation Poynter
Beyond Spotlight: 6 more data journalism projects that influenced policy Online Journalism Blog
Here are the most practical tips for reporters shooting video with smartphones GateHouse NewsRoom
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Us antitrust lawsuit aims to block California newspaper sale Salon
Why narrative journalism startup Latterly called it quits Venture Beat
***STUDENT JOURNALISM
As FCC Auction Looms, Colleges Consider the Value of Their Airwaves Chronicle of Higher Ed
Florida student news website files lawsuit against university for access to student government hearings Student Press Law Center
***STUDENT LIFE
How the chance of breaking up changes the longer your relationship lasts Washington Post
***HIGHER ED
Why Are Some Academics So Unprofessional? (Calls go unreturned, emails are ignored. That’s the way business is conducted too often in higher education) Chronicle of Higher Ed
A growing number of European students are opting to pay for their education Economist
How 'Safe Spaces' Stifle Ideas Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES /STEM
15 arts and literature majors with the best value 2016 USA Today
Step back from the Canvas
/Pico Iyer, author of The Art of Stillness, has found that removing himself from the bustle of society is key to thinking outside the box (and recalling what he cares for). The various demands placed on us, which rob us of the idle time we need to be creative— expectations that we will be available 24/7 and interruptions made possible by the various technologies we use every day— aren’t going to go away. For Iyer, the solution lies not in changing those demands (which most of us can’t anyway) but in altering our relationship to them— which is fundamentally an internal process.
“When you stand about two inches away from the great canvas that is our world and our lives— just as when you stand too close to a painting— you can’t catch the larger patterns in it, the meaning,” Iyer explains.
Stanford psychologist Emma Seppälä writing in the Washington Post
Articles of Interest - March 14
/***GENDER ISSUES
Women on Boards Bloomberg
Girls keep out: Female video gamers face vile abuse, threats Associated Press
Strong global support for gender equality, especially among Pew Research Center
Gender Bias in Academe: An Annotated Bibliography of Important Recent Studies London School of Economics & Political Science
No, The Federal Government Did Not Spend $412K to Study Gender and Glaciers Gawker
One Professor Has a Clue As to Why Women Choose Not to Stay in STEM New York Magazine
Making Categories, Breaking Categories Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RACE
Why Publishing Is So White Publishers Weekly
The “Model Minority” and the Hidden Discrimination of Asian Americans Jstor
White Privilege, Quantified (Recent experiments put numbers on everyday discrimination, shifting the dialogue away from victim-blaming and anecdotal observations) The Atlantic
***GRAMMAR
Trump's word of honer: in defense of Donald's sloppy spelling The Guardian
Order and Chaos in English Spelling Chronicle of Higher Ed
There, there, singular "their" objectors Baltimore Sun
***LANGUAGE
A scholarly dictionary of words about Donald Trump Chronicle of Higher Ed
Do You Even Language, Bro? Understanding Why Nouns Become Verbs Jstor
***LITERATURE
Free: Read All of George Orwell’s War Diaries Online (1938-1942) Open Culture
***LEGAL ISSUES
It Took a FOIA Lawsuit to Uncover How the Obama Administration Killed FOIA Reform Vice
***TECHNOLOGY
Want Safer Passwords? Don’t Change Them So Often Wired
***MOBILE
Small screens, full art, can’t lose: Despite their size, phones open up new opportunities for interactives Harvard's Nieman Lab
***ART AND DESIGN
Aerial Bold: A Clever Typeface Crafted From Satellite Shots of Buildings Wired
MIT Media Lab’s Journal of Design and Science Is a Radical New Kind of Publication Wired
Graphic Designers Spill Their Career Secrets in Infographics Wired
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook is eating the world Columbia Journalism Review
LinkedIn open sources its internal data mining software Zdnet
Yik Yak Introduces Screen Names To Curb Anonymous Trolling Huffington Post
Facebook Instant Articles opens to all publishers April 12: Freebooting for Articles? Plagiarism Today
***BIG DATA
China's real-life "Minority Report"? (a Big Data platform for “precrime” profiling to catch "terrorists" in advance) Ars Technica
How to tell a compelling story with data--6 simple rules and 6 simple tools Data Science Central
The big ideas out of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics conf involve large data sets and Machine Learning FiveThirtyEight
***JOURNALISM
Diving into Data Journalism: Strategies for getting started or going deeper American Press Institute
Female Sportscasters Feel Staying On Defensive Is Part Of The Job NPR
Group Bids $45.5 Million for Southern California Newspapers ABC News
***STUDENT LIFE
Pets, debts and e-cigarettes: how millennials spend their paychecks The Guardian
Competent, hardworking millennials are getting shafted by older employees who feel they deserve bigger salaries (opinion) Business Insider
Yelp was right to fire entitled millennial who whined about salary online (opinion) New York Post
Fired Yelp worker's rant doesn't make all millennials 'entitled' (opinion) Chicago Tribune
The Real Reasons College Students Drop Out Fortune
Globalization, Technology, Customization & Overparenting - Meet the Millennial Generation Gigaom
***RELIGION
New Set Of TV Shows Tackle Complexities Of Religion NPR
7 key findings about religion and politics in Israel Pew Research Center
The Church Collection Plate Goes Digital Bloomberg
***SCIENCE
Saving Science from the Scientists ("Could two-thirds of psychological research really be useless?" podcast) BBC
***PSYCHOLOGY
An influential psychological theory may have just been debunked Slate
***PHILOSOPHY
Schools are finally starting to teach kids philosophy Tech Insider
Philosophy’s True Home New York Times
A Sip of What Philosophy Needs (Existentialism, born over cocktails in 1932, still speaks to what we can learn from ordinary life-subscription) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Pretentious Academic Quote Generator
Philosophy Professor Displays Sign Opposing Concealed Weapons on Campus, Gets Arrested Savannah Now
***HIGHER ED
The Armed Campus in the Anxiety Age (Campus-carry laws add unnecessary worry to communities already overwhelmed by unease) The Atlantic
Median Salaries of Senior College Administrators, 2015-16 (administrative salaries are growing more quickly at private colleges than at public institutions) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Trump Rallies Raise Safety Concerns College Campuses Inside Higher Ed
Mount Saint Mary College president to step down The Poughkeepsie Journal
160 Private Colleges Fail Education Dept.’s Financial-Responsibility Test Chronicle of Higher Ed
The LGBT Politics of Christian Colleges (At many evangelical universities, you can be gay—as long as you don’t “act” it) The Atlantic
***HUMANITIES /STEM
The Shrinking Humanities Major (number of bachelor's degrees awarded fell 8.7 percent between 2012 and 2014, study finds) Inside Higher Ed
A Forgotten Field Could Save the Humanities Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
The Last 5 Minutes of Class Chronicle of Higher Ed
Blue Books Energized My Teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed
Students Will Rise When Colleges Challenge Them to Read Good Books (Common-reading programs for freshmen too often aim for the lowest common denominator) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RESEARCH
A Scholar’s Sting of Education Conferences Stirs a Hornet’s Nest (he sent fake research-paper summaries larded with unforgivable methodological errors to the organizers of 15 conferences he believed to have lax standards-subscription required) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Study: The Effects of Publication Retraction on Scholarly Impact Cornell University Library
Somebody explain to me again why we have journals (opinion) Steve Shea
The Case of the Missing Data MedPage Today
Statistics is like basketball, or knitting (opinion) Andrew Gelman
Articles of Interest - March 7
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Why We Post: A global study reveals how people fit social media into their lives The Economist
The dark side of going viral that no one talks about Washington Post
Controversial Calgary-based app Peeple launches Monday Calgary Herald
We calculated the year dead people on Facebook could outnumber the living Fusion
Meerkat Is Ditching the Livestream—And Chasing a Video Social Network Instead Recode
How Facebook’s ‘App for Everything’ Could Revolutionize Media and Marketing Contently
Colbert introduces FB alpha (video) Stephen Colbert
How Snapchat Built a Business Bloomberg
Quiz: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone? Washington Post
***THE INTERNET
The organisation that runs the internet address book is about to declare independence (subscription) The Economist
Infographic: Email Is Eating More of Your Life Than You Think Contently
Engineering the internet is too big a task for one outfit The Economist
***TECHNOLOGY
See that Billboard? It may see you too New York Times
Retailers Experiment With Surveillance Tools Used by Police (Soon, a department store robot may be greeting you by name) Bloomberg
What Comes After Apps (Apps now crowd our devices, but alternatives are in the works) Wall Street Journal
***ART AND DESIGN
Cycloid Drawing Machine (A virtual version of the classic Spirograph toy)
MIT Scientists embraces a new chaos theory: Art New York Times
***BIG DATA
Future Of Big Data: Here's How Amazon, LinkedIn, Salesforce Are Reshaping Elite MBA Programs Business Because
Growing demand for data analytics is reshaping elite MBA programs Business Because
The forces shifting the geospatial industry IT ProPortal
Big Data Myths That Just Won't Die (1-You Need the Perfect Data Scientist) Business.com
So exactly how does one start a career in machine learning? Data Science Central
Child Advocate: Risk scores created by predictive modeling software can endanger children Forbes
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Did you feed the bears? Becoming (my blog)
***WRITIN’ AND READIN’
How Someone with Dyslexia may experience reading Github
Become Your Own Writing Teacher Chronicle of Higher Ed
“The Most Dangerous Writing App” Destroys Your Progress if You Stop Typing Life Hacker
Social Sharing – Can You Write a Post People Trust Enough to Share? Semrush
When robots write poetry The Daily Dot
Coming Down from the Clouds: On Academic Writing Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
French, Spanish, German ... Java? Making Coding Count As A Foreign Language (Florida is poised to become the first state to allow computer coding to fulfill a foreign-language requirement in high school) NPR
***LITERATURE
Jane Eyre and the Invention of the Self (Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel helped introduce the idea of the “modern individual”—a surprisingly radical concept for readers at the time) The Atlantic
Gorgeous new covers for 100 great public domain books BongBong
***SCIENCE & RESEARCH
Statisticians Found One Thing They Can Agree On: It’s Time To Stop Misusing P-Values FiveThirtyEight
Can Science’s Reproducibility Crisis Be Reproduced? Chronicle of Higher Ed
#IAmAResearchParasite (the need for quality data sharing) (opinion) Science Magazine
Human-animal studies academics dogged by German hoaxers (fooled by fake PhD student’s paper on role of alsatians in totalitarianism) The Guardian
PLOS ONE retracting paper that cites “the Creator” Retraction Watch
Many surveys, about one in five, may contain fraudulent data Science Magazine
Evaluating a New Proposal for Detecting Data Falsification in Surveys Pewq Research
How to Keep Bad Science From Getting Into Print (‘Irreproducible’ research is more often due to error than misconduct or fraud, but fighting it is vital-written by the Dean of Harvard Medical School) Wall Street Journal
***RACE & GENDER ISSUES
Why Do Some Women Quit Science? New York Times
How Does Gender Affect One's Willingness To Compete? NPR
Our glass-ceiling index: Still a man’s world (Our index of the climate for working women now includes paternity leave) The Economist
Researchers have found strong evidence that racism helps the GOP win Washington Post
Female medical researchers hit a paper ceiling Stat News
Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men (study) PeerJ
The best—and worst—places to be a working woman The Economist
My Brilliant (White Male) Professors (Study finds students are more likely to use certain words of praise when describing professors who are men or who are in fields with few female and black scholars) Inside Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
A Plagiarism Scandal Is Unfolding In The Crossword World FiveThirtyEight
***RELIGION
Wycliffe Associates Leaves Bible Translation Alliance over ‘Son of God’ for Muslims Christianity Today
Jerry Bridges' Pursuit of Holiness Has Come to an End Christianity Today
Russian Faces Up to Year in Prison for Denying Existence of God NBC
Churches Are Twice as Likely to Fear Refugees as to Help Them (Survey studies how American Protestants are engaging the refugee crisis, and why many are not) Christianity Today
Women relatively rare in top positions of religious leadership Pew Research
This college is launching a bachelor’s degree in gospel music, the first of its kind Washington Post
‘It’s embarrassing to be an evangelical this election’ (opinion written by recent PLNU chapel speaker Jim Wallis) Frost Illustrated
Don’t Take Your Kids to a Megachurch: An Open Letter to Andy Stanley (opinion) Patheos
***RELIGION & POLITICS
Echoing Republican split, evangelicals divide over Trump Associated Press
Evangelical Leaders Question Movement's Support Of Trump NPR
What Wouldn’t Jesus Do? (opinion) New York Times
God files for divorce from Republican Party Religious News Service
***ECONOMICS
Microeconomists’ claims to be doing real science turn out to be true The Economist
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Study Finds Only 40% Of Digital Buys Going To Working Media Media Post
Traditional TV Audience Ages, Big Chunk Of Viewers 65+ Media Post
***JOURNALISM
10 newsgathering and verification tools for newsrooms on a budget First Draft News
'Spotlight' celebrates journalism that couldn't have happened in these countries without press freedom Public Radio International
Forget 'Spotlight': There's a war against journalism Philly.com
10 journalism movies that journalists love Indy Star
Media Veterans Get in on the Nonprofit News Boom (American Media Institute staffs up) Observer'
CUNY’s new Spanish-language journalism program, with big ambitions, opens for applications Harvard's Nieman Lab
***FREE SPEECH
The Glaring Evidence That Free Speech Is Threatened on Campus The Atlantic
Court strikes down student code prohibiting ‘distressing’ speech Student Press Law Center
***JOBS
CV vs. resume: Here's how the two differ USA Today
***PSYCHOLOGY
Psychologists and massage therapists are reporting ‘Trump anxiety’ among clients The Washington Post
***NEUROSCIENCE
Which Exercise is best for the Brain New York Times
The magical thing eating chocolate does to your brain The Washington Post
Couch potatoes may have smaller brains later in life CBS News
***PHILOSOPHY
CUNY philosophy professor takes on Bill Nye (opinion) Plato’s Footnote
Why are so many smart people such idiots about philosophy? (opinion) Quartz
Philosophy’s True Home (The idea that philosophy was and still is isolated from other disciplines ignores much of its history-opinion) New York Times
***STUDENT LIFE
5 facts about online dating Pew Research
Strategies For When You're Starting Out Saddled With Student Debt NPR
Students Enter Global Competition To Counter Extremism NPR
3 Tips for Marketing to Millennials – When You’re Not a Millennial Umbel
Study shows certain types of emails often go unread by students -- but social media isn't the reason why Inside Higher Ed
Fixing The Freshman Year: Here's What College Sophomores Say NPR
How the Great Generational Shift is Causing Transformation in the Very Nature of Employment Gigaom
Outbreaks of norovirus and mumps hit college campuses around the country Inside Higher Ed
Recent study attracting press attention says students use the app to make friends. Some experts doubt it Inside Higher Ed
***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS
Students say Christian College assigned a 500-Word Essay as Punishment.. for Rape Inside Higher Ed
For Sexual Assault Victims, An Effort To Loosen Statutes Of Limitations NPR
University of Texas System instructs its police officers to base sexual assault investigations in neuroscience Inside Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Enough with trashing the liberal arts. Stop being stupid Washington Post
Our current national mood may be revealing something missing in our educational agenda (opinion) Keith Evans
***TEACHING
Rethinking online education (The first generation of online learning came with a lot of hype but didn’t fully deliver on its promise. What does the future hold?) Medium
Why Do Colleges Still Use Grades? Chronicle of Higher
Instructional Design: Demand grows for a new breed of academic Chronicle of Higher
Report: Game-Based Learning Helps Students Develop Writing Skills Campus Technology
did you feed the bears?
/A phone conversation with a four-year-old:
Did you feed the bears?
What bears?
The bears under your bed.
There aren’t any bears under my bed.
Oh, yes, their names are Teddy and Charlie. Teddy Bear and Charlie Bear.
I’m going to go check.
(a moment passes)
There are no bears under my bed.
They must have gone to the bathroom.
I’ll go see.
Don’t do that, they’d be embarrassed if you saw them.
(a few more moments of discussion)
I’m going to see if the bears are in the bathroom.
(phone is dropped)
The bears are in the tub. They’re taking a bath!
Life is filled with such interesting and remarkable things when you are four. The further we get away from that imaginative, amazing world, the harder it is to hear the voice of God in our lives and see his hand at work in the world around us. Hang on to the joy of a child.
Stephen Goforth
Articles of Interest
/***PSYCHOLOGY
The uniquely American appeal of Donald Trump’s favorite insult: You're not an extrovert Washington Post
Does Your College Student Have a Problem with Addiction? (Steps parents can take to identify & treat drug and alcohol problems) Psychology Today
What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team (New research reveals surprising truths about why some work groups thrive and others falter) New York Times
***NEUROSCIENCE
Beam Me Up, Scotty? Turns Out Your Brain Is Ready For Teleportation NPR
A Year Ago, The Dress Murdered the Idea of Objective Color Wired
***PHILOSOPHY
Dear Immanuel — Kant Gives Love Advice to a Heartbroken Young Woman (1791) Open Culture
***ETHICS
How Secular Are Secular Ethics? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Evolution of moral outrage: I’ll punish your bad behavior to make me look good The Conversation
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Dealing with a Moody Man Becoming (my blog)
Three Steps for Creating a New Habit Chronicle of Higher Ed
***THE INTERNET
SEO: How Do You Solve A Google Problem Like Rick Santorum's? NPR
***HUMANITIES /STEM
The Case Against Mandating Math for Students (algebra is overrated) Chronicle of Higher Ed (subscription required for this story)
***LANGUAGE
Linguists Not Exactly Wow About Facebook’s New Reactions Wired
Linguistics could help future driverless cars cooperate better The Stack
***LITERATURE
You’ve never seen your favorite books like this before Washington Post
Where's The Color In Kids' Lit? Ask The Girl With 1,000 Books (And Counting) NPR
***RACE & GENDER ISSUES
Blackflix: How Netflix's algorithm exposes technology's acial bias Marie Clarie
Zuckerberg Furious With Employees For Erasing 'Black Lives Matter' Slogans NBC News
English-speaking Asian Americans stand out for their technology use Pew Research
Is speaking Spanish necessary to be Hispanic? Most Hispanics say no Pew Research
Sense and Sensibility and Jane Austen's Accidental Feminists The Atlantic
***FREE SPEECH
Apple May Use a First Amendment Defense in That FBI Case. And It Just Might Work WIRED
Donald Trump says he wants to change Libel Law Washington Post
***TECHNOLOGY
Service Launched to Help Universities Comply With ADA Web Site Regulations Campus Technology
'Body Hacking' Movement Rises Ahead Of Moral Answers NPR
A new wave of mobile technology is on its way, and will bring drastic change Economist
Now You Can Type in Google Docs by Speaking Wired
***IMAGES & DESIGN
Vertical video is becoming more popular, but there’s no consensus on the best way to make it Harvard's Nieman Lab
Handy Chart Helps You Understand the Elements of Typography Wired
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Your Social Media Accounts Are A Criminal's Best Friend (One California burglar tracked women using their Instagram locations) Vocativ
Snapchat employee data leaked following phishing scam The Stack
How to Keep Instagram From Taking Over Your Phone Wired
So Social: How to create and use Twitter lists Providence Journal
***BIG DATA
Obama Set to Expand Sharing of Data between NSA to other American intelligence agencies New York Times
Child Advocate: Risk scores created by predictive modeling software can endanger children Forbes
Obama set to expand data sharing between NSA and other American intel agencies NY Times
Of the many reasons that Big Data initiatives fail, here are seven First Post
***RELIGION
How a Leading Christian College Turned Against Its Gay Leader Time
Does Religion Matter In The Presidential Election? (Faith-driven voters are quite likely getting down on their knees to pray for their candidates) Vocativ
U.S. religious groups and their political leanings Pew Research
Who Are the Gay Evangelicals? New York Times
Did Nike stop Steph Curry from putting scripture on his basketball shoes? Snopes
***BUSINESS
Reports of the death of performance reviews are exaggerated (opinion) Economist
***MEDIA
Jeb’s Downfall Proves Political TV Ads Don’t Work Anymore Wired
***JOURNALISM
“Rolling Papers:” The crazy experiment called weed journalism University of Colorado Student Newspaper
Nearly Eight-in-Ten Reddit Users Get News on the Site Pew Research
5 of the best: podcasts about data journalism Online Journalism
How millennials read news; lessons from the Engaging News Project Gatehouse
Wired Warns Four stories were plagiarized Retraction Watch
***JOURNALISM / SPOTLIGHT
November Post by a Member of the Spotlight team Medium
Oscars 2016: Read about the Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalism That Got Spotlight the Best Film Award First Post
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Can Technology Save Journalism? Forbes
The Fading Newspaper Bloomberg
***STUDENT LIFE
Joe Biden Asked Oscar Viewers to Fight Rape Culture on College Campuses Mic
Study: Millennials could help sway the election in these 10 states USA Today
15% of American Adults Have Used Online Dating Sites or Mobile Dating Apps Pew Research
Millennials Make Up Almost Half of Latino Eligible Voters in 2016 Pew Research
The cost of skipping class, by the numbers USA Today
Fixing A Broken Freshman Year: What An Overhaul Might Look Like NPR
The baffling reason many millennials don’t eat cereal Washington Post
Millennials less confident about nation’s future, but so were their parents, grandparents when young Pew Research
A new study says half of US students could be internet addicts Quartz
***ACADEMIC LIFE
What is the best way to assess faculty activity? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
President Quits at Mount St. Mary's Inside Higher Ed
Colleges say the Department of Education's guidance on campus sexual assault is vague and inconsistent Inside Higher Ed
University of Missouri fundraising takes $6 million hit in December as donors hold back funds Columbia Tribune
Dealing with a moody man
/Men are rewarded in our society for ignoring their feelings, except for anger. When emotions overwhelm a man and tightly wrap around his gut, he certainly knows something is wrong--but he will struggle if he attempts to label those feelings or articulate the cause--especially when the emotions are still in play. Lacking control, he looks down on himself with disdain because he believes it's a flaw to be a man without control. As that tight ball of emotion begins to uncurl and subside, as he feels that he's gaining mastery of himself once again, he has the opportunity to gain a handle on defining the emotion he is experiencing.
But if a partner puts a spotlight on those emotions, while he's in that uncomfortable place, the man may try to hide even more. He's not in control of himself and thinks he should be. The spotlight makes that all the more obvious. If she can restrain herself, it's possible to slowly draw the emotion-averse man out of his cave by building his confidence... by encouraging him to believe that he is able to handle the uncertainty. The passage of time, emotional space, and distractions often provide healing for him... and perspective.
Before the man moves completely away from that raw sensation in his gut, there's a brief period of realization where he can catch an authentic glimpse of himself and his emotional limitations. In that moment he can catch a glimpse of who he is--or go right back to repeat the cycle.
Stephen Goforth
avoiding the ditches
/Make your goal a readiness to deal with new and developing circumstances--instead of simply avoiding any possibility of failure by trying to control which circumstances you are willing to deal with. Chasing the latest fade (simply because it is new) or ignoring what’s going on around us (and thus becoming irrelevant to the conversation) are two extreme temptations. We can fall into these ditches in an attempt to avoid regularly thinking hard about life and deal with the uncertainty that surrounds us. To stay on the road of maturity, we have to allow for ambiguity and endure that nagging (and sometimes frightening feeling) about what may come our way.
Stephen Goforth
Articles of Interest - Feb 22
/***MEDIA
I have seen the future of media, and it’s in China Fusion
Bulky Cameras, Meet The Lens-less FlatCam NPR
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Cancer cons, phoney accidents and fake deaths: meet the internet hoax buster The Guardian
What Will Facebook Be Like When Instant Articles Are Available to Everyone? (Answer: Bad) New York Magazine
Instagram Adds Two-Factor Authentication to Secure Your Selfies Tech Crunch
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Big Bet That Facebook Can Make VR Social Wired
Twitter’s Bold New Path Forward: A GIF Button Wired
***BIG DATA
Shopping for predictive analytics software? Here are 10 vendors you should know Enterprise apps Today
Some planning suggestions before starting your first Big Data initiative Data Science Central
Identifying the top 100 Big Data influencers and brands Onalytica
***GRAMMAR
Punctuation in novels Medium
Me, Myself, I, and Yourselves Too (The use of the reflexive pronoun in a nonreflexive way) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Prince Charles: literature gave me a passion for grammar Telegraph
***LANGUAGE
Polysemy and Maturity: Should Harvard not using the term “House Master”? Chronicle of Higher Ed
And the Winner Is . . . Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
The complete guide to reading—and even enjoying—classic literature Quartz
The 'Girl' In The Title of Recent Books NPR
***RESEARCH
Expensive Journals Drive Academics To Break Copyright Law NPR
Librarians Find Themselves Caught Between Journal Pirates and Publishers Chronicle of Higher Ed
Strategies for using Plagiarism Software in the Screening of Incoming Journal Manuscripts (Recommendations based on a recent Literature Survey) Online Library
***RACE & GENDER ISSUES
Interactive: Demographics of More Than 400,000 Professors (Find the racial and ethnic breakdowns of all types of professors at more than 1,500 colleges) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Highlights from the USC report on entertainment diversity Union-Tribune
Damning study finds a 'whitewashed' Hollywood Union-Tribune
***TECHNOLOGY
Microsoft rolls out massive Outlook.com overhaul out of preview Venture Beat
How to Not Lose Your Data if You Forget Your iPhone Password Wired
Google Quietly Shutters Play For Education Tech Cruch
BuzzFeed Is Changing the Way It Measures Its Popularity Wired
***IMAGES
Winners of the 2016 World Press Photo Contest The Atlantic
Paula Scher’s Insanely Detailed US Maps Elevate Data Viz to Fine Art Wired
Art for Instagram’s Sake (Spectacular, immersive exhibitions are drawing huge crowds, but are they changing the museum experience?) The Atlantic
***RELIGION
How Secular Are Secular Ethics? Chronicle of Higher Ed
World treasure: UNESCO recognizes oldest surviving copy of Hebrew Bible Fox News
Finding Jesus at Work (Why are more and more companies offering access to chaplains as an employee benefit?) The Atlantic
What an evangelical theologian and his gay son can teach us all about respect and reconciliation Oregon Live
Why satanists have given new horror movie The Witch their endorsement Vox
David Javerbaum quits popular Twitter account @TheTweetOfGod SoCal Public Radio
Queen Discusses Christian Faith In New Book ‘The Servant Queen And The King She Serves' Huff Post UK
The Moral Threat of Bicycles in the 1890s Jstor
***JOURNALISM
How J-Schools Can Train a New Generation of Fierce Fact-Checkers Media Shift
The Associated Press is partnering with AMD for more virtual reality journalism The Verge
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM / MEDIA
The Future Of News And Publishing Tech Crunch
News Corp. Plummets as Profit Trails Estimates on Ad Revenue Ad Age
Is the New York Times building a digital ark? Journalism Prof
Whither Newspapers (Or Should That Be Withered)?
Solving journalism’s hidden problem: Terrible analytics Brookings
Gannett reports sharply lower revenue, earnings in Q4 report Talking New Media
***STUDENT JOURNALISM
College Newspaper Video about the Bible Just Cost Ted Cruz's Communications Director His Job Wired
The editor of DePauw's Student newspaper --the birthplace of SPJ--was fired (By the adviser. For violating SPJ's Code of Ethics. Even though SPJ says it wasn't a violation) SPJ Network
These Startups Want To Create College Media Powerhouses Huffington Post
***STUDENT LIFE
Students shooting video on campus leads to lockdown Arkansas Online
Your high school study habits may not work in college, here's why USA Today
***SCIENCE
Crisis in Physics: Missing Empirical Evidence New York Times
Meet The Cops of The Scientific Method CBC
***PSYCHOLOGY
Conversion therapy restricted in NY The Threefold Advocate (John Brown University Student Newspaper)
Psychology's Replication Crisis Has a Silver Lining The Atlantic
***NEUROSCIENCE
Making it up as you go along: how your brain freestyles (When your brain becomes ‘quieter’, remarkable things can happen. It’s time to go with the flow) The Guardian
How Brainwaves Allow Paralyzed Musicians To Continue Playing NPR
***PHILOSOPHY
Bringing Philosophy to Life Chronicle of Higher Ed
Column: This is what happens when you take Ayn Rand seriously PBS
Do We Cheapen Philosophy When We Use It as Therapy? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Philosophy in the Classroom (opinion) The Advocate
***HIGHER ED
Wheaton College could face long-term fallout over professor controversy Chicago Tribune
Fact-Check: Bernie Sanders Promises Free College. Will It Work? NPR
Assessing, Without Tests (Survey finds Increased Use of Learning Outcomes) Inside Higher Ed
The Moral Absurdity of Denying Financial Aid to Undocumented Students Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES /STEM
A Rising Call to Promote STEM Education and Cut Liberal Arts Funding New York Times
***TEACHING
A Plague of Plagiarism Chronicle of Higher Ed
Study suggests acceptance of online education still lags among high school students Inside
Study shows faculty members remain skeptical of digital course materials and generally unfamiliar with open educational resources Inside Higher Ed
Articles of Interest - Feb 15
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Art in the Age of Big Data (Have technologies like Instagram and Pinterest made an artist out of all of us?) The Guardian
Dear Mr. Know-It-All: Should You Delete Someone’s Facebook Account After They Die? Wired
Twitter's returned boss has yet to turn it around The Economist
How to Build a Twitter Following (and Why You Should a primer on tweeting for those who have never used the site or have underused it) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***SCIENCE
Reproducibility should be at science’s heart. It isn’t. But that may soon change The Economist
What the discovery of gravitational waves means The Atlantic
***TECHNOLOGY
Flash is dead, time to inform some publishers still dependent on it for their digital editions Talking New Media
***BUSINESS
Most HR Data Is Bad Data (Managers are terrible at rating people's performance) Harvard Business Review
***PSYCHOLOGY
Why people cheat (when people win against others, they tend to think they're better, or more deserving) Washington Post
How People Learn to Become Resilient The New Yorker
The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for It Every Time Economist
Exposed to a deluge of digital photos, we’re feeling the psychological effects of image overload The Conversation
***NEUROSCIENCE
New Clues to the Mystery of How Our Brains Keep Time Wired
***PHILOSOPHY
Philosopher of the month: Plato OUP Blog
***LANGUAGE
How Trump's use of words may be tied to his success Nerdwriter YouTube video
Fool ‘Ish’ Ways: a suffix that is taking on a life of its own Chronicle of Higher Ed
***JOURNALISM
The thorny ethics of embedding with do-gooders Columbia Journalism Review
Corrupt journalism doesn’t pay. Nor does abetting it Washington Post
How Freelancers Can Create Their Own ‘Snow Fall’ For Free Media Shift
Is John Oliver's Show Journalism? NPR
How the Communist Party creates the world’s most-watched TV news show The Economist
Former student says journalism professor violated his free speech Inside Higher Ed
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Journalism is a stressful career, but work doesn’t have to be miserable Poynter
The Digital Dirt: How TMZ gets the videos and photos that celebrities want to hide New Yorker
***STUDENT JOURNALISM
Protecting Student Journalists in a New-Media Era Chronicle of Higher Ed
Newspaper Adviser Is Fired After Students’ Scoop Roils Maryland Campus New York Times
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Cancer has ushered in new ways of being alive Becoming
***THE INTERNET
How the Humble Index Card Foresaw the Internet Popular Mechanics
***MUSIC & ART
Artists working with technology struggle to stay current The Economist
Music Can’t Last Forever, Not Even on the Internet Wired
Being Bilingual Changes the Architecture of Your Brain Wired
***RESEARCH
Researcher illegally shares millions of science papers free online to spread knowledge Science Alert
***RACE & GENDER ISSUES
The ‘Jane Test,’ a New Way to Tell if Your Scripts AreSexist Wired
Study finds Bias in How Male Students view female STEM students Inside Higher Ed
Women considered better coders – but only if they hide their gender The Guardian
Here's the presentation Google gives employees on how to spot unconscious bias at work Business Insider
***BIG DATA
Ted Cruz is mining supporters' personal data with #analytics--is voter surveillance by app the future of politics? Associated Press
The Most Important Skill in Data Science: Mining and Visualizing your Data Customer Think
Mistakes companies make approaching Big Data (#1-data is somehow opposed to intuition rather than enhancing it) Wall Street Journal
***RELIGION
The leaders of Christianity's 2 biggest churches will meet for the first time in 1,000 years Business Insider
The differences between the Catholic and Orthodox churches The Economist
Church of England defends Richard Dawkins prayer tweet BBC
Why are so many Christians biblically illiterate? Fox News
Concern for Christians in the Middle East helps drive historic meeting between Catholic, Orthodox leaders Pew Research
Death, the Prosperity Gospel and Me NY Times
What the Death of Justice Antonin Scalia Means for Religious Liberty (The staunchly Catholic U.S. Supreme Court justice was known for his acidly conservative opinions, but ultimately, he prioritized the Constitution over the Church) The Atlantic
Almost all U.S. presidents have been Christians Pew Research
Why evangelicals are splintering and what it means for the GOP LA Times
***STUDENT LIFE
Backgrounds and Beliefs of College Freshmen Chronicle of Higher Ed
Have Millennials Made Quitting More Common? Bloomberg
Survey: Nearly 1-in-10 Freshman plan to participate in campus protests Inside Higher Ed
Among Millennials engaged in primaries, Dems more likely to learn about the election from social media Pew Research
***HIGHER ED
Open letter to all students contemplating going to an evangelical college “Don’t let them ruin your life” (opinion) Pathos
Whither Wheaton: an evangelical college ponders its future Religious News Service
***HIGHER ED / MOUNT ST. MARY'S
Mount St. Mary's president says 'I'm not going to stop' Baltimore Sun
Mount St. Mary’s University reinstates fired student newspaper adviser Student Press Law Center
How3 Crisis-Communications Experts Would Have Handled the Uproar at Mount St. Mary’s Chronicle of Higher Ed
What's Up With the Mounts Saint Mary? (dissenting faculty members dismissed and trustees showing up at search committee meetings) Inside Higher Ed
An Appalling Breach of Faith at Mount St. Mary's (Disrespecting students and trampling the rights of faculty members at the Maryland university contradict the mission of Roman Catholic higher education) (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
A Piece of the Learning Puzzle (How the "jigsaw classroom" can help students to see a subject in both piecemeal and broad ways) Chronicle of Higher Ed
2015 Online Report Card - Tracking Online Education in the United States Online Learning Consortium
Reaching Students Who “Don’t Need Writing” Chronicle of Higher Ed
Study: Faculty Development has Demonstrable Impact on Student Learning
Inside Higher Ed
The Self-Obliterating Professor premium (The best teachers create a world where they're no longer needed-subscription) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES / STEM
Building a Bridge Between Engineering and the Humanities (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Expect the best!
/Expect the best at all times. Never think of the worst. Drop it out of your thought, relegate it. Let there be no thought in your mind that the worst will happen. Avoid entertaining the concept of the worst, for whatever you take into your mind can grow there. Therefore, take the best into your mind and only that. Nurture it, concentrate on it, emphasize it, visualize it, prayerize it, surround it with faith. Make it your obsession. Expect the best, and spiritually creative mind power aided by God power produce the best.
Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking
the consequences of failure
/Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. – Denis Waitley
Babies learning to walk can teach you something
/A few years ago a group of American and Norwegian researchers did a study to see what made babies improve at walking. They discovered that the key factor wasn't height or weight or age or brain development or any other innate trait but rather (surprise!) the amount of time they spend firing during their circuit, trying to walk. These staggering babies embody the deepest truth about deep practice: to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.
Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code
Articles of Interest - Feb 8
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****SCIENCE
Simulating Scientific Sabotage, For Fun (a card game making light of the “wacky aspects of scientific research”) - The Scientist
Can the Placebo Effect Have Real Clinical Value? - Science Friday
****PSYCHOLOGY
Beware the rule-following co-worker, Harvard study warns - Washington Post
Why so many straight women like to befriend gay men - Mashable
Social science: Online social networks do not change the fundamentals of friendship - The Economist
What people around the world mean when they say they’re happy - Washington Post
4 creepy psychological tricks companies use to get you to buy things - Business Insider
****NEUROSCIENCE
Trauma prompts the brain to focus on survival, not 'peripheral details' - CBC
Brain volume changes after cognitive behavioral therapy - Science Daily
Brain scans to catch depression before it starts - FoxNews
Review of the book "Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body by Jo Marchant (opinion) - Washington Post
Listening to Music While Reading Complex Sentences Affects Musical Experience - Neuroscience News
***SOCIAL MEDIA
The definitive list of what everyone likes on Facebook (The most (and least) popular interests on Facebook, as revealed by its new Preferred Audience tool) - The Verge
Twitter's timeline will soon show tweets out of order - the Verge
Twitter Beefs Are Now Front Page News in The Boston Globe – Wired
***WRITIN’ AND READIN’
How to Prune Jargon From Your Popular Writing - Chronicle of Higher Ed
***GRAMMAR
Why 2015’s word of the year is rather singular - The Economist
Oh, Commas - Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Fall and Rise of the Singular They - Slate's Lexicon Valley
***LANGUAGE
Sarah Palin's English (her speeches on the campaign trail aren’t simple; they are actually incredibly complicated) - New York Times
***LITERATURE
Is Amazon Planning Hundreds Of Bookstores? Analysts Doubt It - NPR
Brash, worldly and wickedly funny, Eka Kurniawan may be South-East Asia’s most ambitious writer in a generation - The Economist
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Is One Braaaaaaainy Mashup - Wired
Is English literature since 1918 really such a man’s world? (A new book celebrating the best writing of the past century follows a well-worn script when it comes to equality) – The Guardian
The 10 Best First Dates In Literature - Bustle
What Would Shakespeare Make of Trump? - Chronicle of Higher Ed
The adoption of Greek literature by the Romans was more unlikely than it appears in hindsight – The Economist
Shakespeare’s Badass Quarto (On the trail of a centuries-old Hamlet mystery-subscription required) - Chronicle of Higher Ed
#1000BlackGirls and the Importance of Diversity in Children’s Literature - JSTOR
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM/MEDIA
Patch Rebounds after Split from AOL - Wall Street Journal
Podcasts are gaining audience, but have yet to attract the biggest advertisers - The Economist
Why the NYT Is Looking to Cut Costs, Even Though It Turned a Profit - New York Times
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Unfocusing increases Creativity - Becoming (my blog)
Your reaction to this confusing headline reveals more about you than you know (The science behind why some people embrace uncertainty, and others don't) - Washington Post
Stanford psychologist explains why spacing out and goofing off is so good for you - Washington Post
Things to Say Instead of Sorry – Business Insider
***THE INTERNET
Google will start warning web users about deceptive download buttons - The Verge
***RESEARCH
Bogus Iran-Based Journal Allows Up to 40% Plagiarism - Scholarly Open Access
Research quality declines with scientists’ age, study finds - Times Higher Ed
How can social media be used to increase article citation? - Sage Connection
***POLITICS
American Political Jargon - Bloomberg
Do Political TV Ads Still Work? - NPR
***POLITICS & RELIGION
Jesus reads Donald Trump and Ted Cruz: Jimmy Kimmel – Salon
Marco Rubio, an Evangelical Catholic? The dynamics of religious hybrids – KPCC podcasts
***RACE & GENDER ISSUES
How to stop the sexual harassment of women in science: reboot the system - The Conversation
Baylor faces accusations of ignoring sex assault victims - ESPN
No, There Was No Debate About Removing An MLK Quote At The University Of Oregon (student newspaper story misunderstood) - Huffington Post
***LEGAL ISSUES
Judge Gives Monkey Second Chance to Sue for Copyright Infringement - MotherBoard
***TECHNOLOGY
Why the iPad Is Going Extinct - New Republic
At Berkeley, a New Digital Privacy Protest (university installs data-tracking program with little notice or consultation)– New York Times
***BUSINESS
The fashion for making employees collaborate has gone too far - The Economist
***BIG DATA
Hadoop At 10: Milestones And Momentum - Information Week
Hadoop vs Spark. Which is superior? Better yet.. what if we used them both together? -Datamation
Projection: global Hadoop market to hit more than $84 billion in revenue in 5 years - Inside Big Data
Who loves where Big Data analytics are going? Dictatorships and rogue nations - Forbes
***RELIGION
Charismatic Christianity thrives among people on the move - The Economist
Pentecostalism in South Korea - The Economist
Oscar-Favorite 'Spotlight' Screens at the Vatican for Pope's Sex Abuse Commission - Yahoo News
While the government talks up family values, marriage break-ups are soaring - The Economist
Some Still Misleading America About Thomas Jefferson - History News Network
German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his fight against the Nazis - Jerusalem Post
****PHILOSOPHY
Philosopher of the month: Plato - OUP Blog
***HIGHER ED
Practically all young people now go to school, but they need to learn a lot more there - The Economist
Low Income, High Graduation Rate (Two new studies suggest many colleges may be too quick to write off low-income students and community college transfers) - Inside Higher Ed
Wheaton of Illinois and professor it tried to fire over her statements about God reach deal under which she will leave - Inside Higher Ed
Questions Linger After Tenured Wheaton College ProfessorAgrees to Leave - TIME
***TEACHING
Unwarranted praise of student writing is counterproductive, but too much negativity is far more damaging - Chronicle of Higher Ed
****STUDENT LIFE
Ignore the moral panic about lazy, self-obsessed millennials. The world will be fairer when they run it - The Economist
Commitment for Millennials: Is It Okay, Cupid?
***HUMANITIES /STEM
What Is The Value Of An EducationIn The Humanities? - NPR
***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS
Alabama student paper devotes issue to sexual assault - Crimson
A Closer Look at 7 Common Requirements in Resolved Federal Sex-Assault Inquiries (subscription) (As Title IX complaints have multiplied, the government has issued more expansive mandates for the colleges it has investigated)
How (not) to manage a PR crisis on campus (school slow to respond to campus crime) - CBC
Give people you don’t know a fair chance
/When you look at a person, any person, remember that everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed them, and forced them to grow. Every passing face on the street represents a story every bit as compelling and complicated as yours. We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
Renee Jones (read more here)
Articles of Interest - Feb 1
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
How Two Guys Built the Ultimate GIF Search Engine - Bloomberg
Snapchat: Not just for kids anymore (subscription) - The Week magazine
The End of Twitter - New Yorker
One Billion People Now Use Whats App – Wired
****PSYCHOLOGY
New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time - Quantam
Best apps... For mental health therapy (subscription) - The Week
Psychologists have found that a spiritual outlook makes humans more resilient to trauma – Quartz
****PHILOSOPHY
Concordia philosophy professor publishes book on religious diversity – The Concordian
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The day pain died.. Oct. 16, 1846 - Becoming (my blog)
***BIG DATA
Here's a nice summary of what's at stake in the practical ethics of machine intelligence - Fast Forward Labs
Crisis in Intel education (the intellectual acumen of the national security community is rapidly declining) - Vice News
How Big Data is changing disruptive innovation - Harvard Business Review
***GRAMMAR
Them, Themself, and They - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Samuel Johnson's great English Dictionary of 1755 (prescriptivism v descriptivism) - The Economist
***LANGUAGE
How‘-Phobic’ Became a Weapon in the Identity Wars - New York Times
This Little Red Book Confronts Sexism in the Chinese Language – Wired
***LITERATURE
Taking Literature to the Streets (From vending machines to coffee sleeves, a number of projects around the world are using guerrilla marketing tactics to promote) – The Atlantic
***JOURNALISM
6 Quick Ways to Spot Fake News - Snopes
A Code of Ethics for Journalism Nonprofits – The New Yorker
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Politico implodes - Washington Post
Crowdfunding enables diverse new frontier for journalism projects - Pew Research
***RACE & GENDER ISSUES
Researchers have found a major problem with ‘The Little Mermaid’ and other Disney movies - Washington Post
Study finds "driving while black" really is a crime in Florida - Vox
Vice launches a paid summer fellowship for “underrepresented communities” – Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Does diversity look different at a Christian university? – Inside Higher Ed
Representative Barbies - Jstor
***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS
White House launches a cappella contest to combat campus assault - USA Today
***FREE SPEECH
A statement at the heart of the debate over academic - Economist
***LEGAL ISSUES
Copywrong: Students often clash with administrators over copyright law - Student Press Law Center
Freedom ofInformation Acts (The Idealist puts Aaron Swartz’s legacy at the center of the copyright debate) – Bloomberg Businessweek
Why Colleges Hide Behind This One Privacy Law All The Time - Huffington Post
***DESIGN
The ‘Memoire’ Typeface Changes Like a Memory as You Use It - Wired
***RELIGION
5 key findings about faith and politics in the 2016 presidential race - Pew Research
Alabama pastor on Syrian refugees: ‘God gave us specific instructions to destroy these people’ – Yellow Hammer News
***STUDENT LIFE
Millions of young people in U.S. and EU are neither working nor learning - Pew Research
United States of Adderall – Huffington Post
This infographic shows how big the student loan bubble is going to grow - Business Insider
***HIGHER ED
The crisis in intelligence education (the intellectual acumen of the national security community is rapidly declining) - Vice
Inside the secret gay movement at one of America’s most homophobic colleges - Fusion
Wheaton Professor Claims White Privilege & Sexism Are Behind Larycia Hawkins Controversy - Patheos
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Feeding English Majors in the 21st Century (A new course teaches undergraduates in the humanities how to market themselves for the new economic normal) - The Chronicle of Higher Ed
Computer Science, MeetHumanities: in New Majors, Opposites Attract (Stanford University sees such integration as a way to bring in students who are drawn to the arts but feel that they need computing skills for their careers) - The Chronicle of Higher Ed
****ACADEMIC LIFE
Are Academics Disproportionately Gay? – Inside Higher Ed
Academics Get Real (Adjuncts and tenure-line faculty members unite on Twitter under #realacademicbios to pull back the curtain on their emotional lives) – Inside Higher Ed
#Delete AcademiaEdu or Don't? (Controversy about Academia.edu considering charging users to promote their work illustrates the delicate subject of the role money plays in scholarly publishing) - Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
The Limits of Facts in Teaching - Chronicle of Higher Ed