Articles of Interest - April 25
/***BIG DATA
New book focuses on #BigData's dreaded “correlation does not imply causation” problem Inside Big Data
Gartner "warns of approaching apocalypse for IoT data management" (Needed: lithe strategies for managing data gov) Smart Data Collective
Data Analytics Myths (#1- Quantitative analysis is better than human intuition) Electronic Design
10 Questions for the Nation’s First Chief Data Scientist Science Friday
***WRITIN’ AND READIN’
Readability, Understandability, and ETS Chronicle of Higher Ed
***GRAMMAR
Testing for knowledge of a fictive grammaticality distinction Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why grammar mistakes in a short email could make some people judge you The Conversation
***LANGUAGE
How to identify any language at a glance The Week
***RESEARCH
Want a favorable peer review? Buy One Stat
You Pay to Read Research You Fund. That’s Ludicrous Wired
Publication Bias Is Boring. You Should Care About It Anyway Mother Jones
***GENDER ISSUES
Restrictions on Women’s Religious Attire Pew Research
Single women are reshaping America from marriage to politics to the economy Economist
***RACE
Bystanders are less likely to help black people in medical emergencies, a study finds Business Insider
The disturbing racial bias in who we help when they need it most Washington Post
When It Comes To Flight Safety, When Does Alertness Become Racial Profiling? NPR
FCC’s mandate won’t help diverse storytellers San Diego Reader
How Americans pretend to love ‘ethnic food’ Washington Post
How a journalist caught the cops whitewashing their ticketing records Poynter
Death Row’s Race Problem The case of a Texas death-row inmate, now before the Supreme Court, points to the troubling racial history of capital punishment Wall Street Journal
***LEGAL ISSUES
Supreme Court rejects challenge to Google book-scanning project Reuters
***IMAGES
British Library posts 1 million copyright-free images online Boing Boing
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Live-Streaming Of Alleged Rape Shows Challenges Of Flagging Video In Real Time NPR
How Facebook plans to take over the world The Guardian
Facebook Tweaks News Feed To Measure User Time Media Post
How a dating app for burrito-lovers exposed one of online dating’s biggest myths Washington Post
Most Americans spend two full workdays a month on Facebook Quartz
***AUDIO
Breaths Of Fresh Air: The Art Of The Terry Gross Interview Audible Range
Can audio go viral on Facebook? Here’s what happened when NPR ran an experiment for a month Harvard's Nieman Lab
***FILM
Just How Does Film Work, Exactly? Digg
The 100 Most Memorable Shots in Cinema Over the Past 100 Years (video) Jacob T. Swinney
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Making exterior changes to avoid internal changes Becoming
A Cautionary Tale Of The Cc Line Media Post
Numbers in the News: Quiz 7 Becoming
Short sleep may be tied to cold or infection risk Reuters
***RELIGION
The Repression of Religious Studies (subscription) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Raunchy Prince was actually a conservative Christian who reportedly opposed gay marriage Washington Post
Whole Foods Market to sue pastor for cake scam KGNS-TV
Church Honors ‘Dearly Beloved’ Prince By Putting His Lyrics On Sign Huffington Post
My wife and I are white evangelicals. Here's why we chose to give birth to black triplets (opinion) Washington Post
Most U.S. Catholics rely heavily on their own conscience for moral guidance Pew Research
How police took $53,000 from a Christian band, an orphanage and a church Washington Post
***MUSIC AND ART
Are Algorithms Ruining How We Discover Music? FiveThirtyEight
More people are paying to stream music, but the industry is still wobbly Economist
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
A Bright Side to the Financial Stumbles of Digital Media New York Times
***JOURNALISM
The Fading Newspaper Bloomberg
Journalism has an editing crisis, but we can do something about it Poynter
2016 Pulitzer winners and finalists in journalism and arts Associated Press
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
A potential bid by the Daily Mail for Yahoo may make sense Economist
Gannett Makes A Bid For Tribune Publishing NPR
Bad news: why TV is going the same way as print journalism The Conversation
The Center for Investigative Reporting bets it can change audio journalism—and itself Columbia Journalism Review
Want to get a journalism job? Here are the skills you need, according to a new report Poynter
***STUDENT JOURNALISM
UWS student paper's April Fools' Day issue draws backlash Duluth News
At Some Universities the line between Journalism and Public Relations is Blurred Student Press Law Center
***STUDENT LIFE
When Slogans Replace Arguments: a truly open-minded discussion of race issues (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why becoming an adult means something very different when you’re poor Washington Post
***JOBS
Licensing Laws Are Shutting Young People Out Of The Job Market FiveThirtyEight
Freaked out about Finding a Job? LinkedIn Launches App for Students to Help USA Today
Personal statement: 10 of the most overused openings Telegraph
***SCIENCE
***PSYCHOLOGY
This unusual test reveals how smart you are Washington Post
Explaining The Paradox Of Why You Shouldn't Trust Unanimous Decisions Digg
1 Question Is All You Need to Judge Someone's Personality Inc.
A review of “Unbroken Brain” (Conventional wisdom insists that addiction is a disease, like cancer. But addiction is learned; cancer isn’t. Most people grow out of drug use) Wall Street Journal
***ETHICS
Spoof Papers And The Ethics of Academic Publishing Discovery
Do ethicists hinder HIV prevention research? Reuters
***LITERATURE: SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare Saw '360 Degrees Of Humanity,' And That's Why He Endures NPR
Shakespeare Or Batman? That Is The Question FiveThirtyEight
How the New York Times would write William Shakespeare's Obit New York Times
400 Years After Shakespeare’s Death, He’s Still Required Reading (Even For Econ Majors) FiveThirtyEight
Shakespeare: Dead or Alive? Jstor
***HIGHER ED
How (Not) to Hide a Scandal (There’s a fine line between a marketing campaign and a cover-up. The attempt by UC Davis to get its pepper spray incident off the top of Google searches is a case in point) Inside Higher Ed
UC-Davis Was Ridiculed for Trying to Sway Search Results. Many Other Colleges Do the Same Chronicle of Higher Ed
Ed Dept pushed to focus on student achievement and troubled colleges Inside Higher Ed
Report on the future of online education stresses central role of faculty members and instructional designers Inside Higher Ed
Head of embattled for-profit-college agency resigns Inside Higher Ed
How Choosing a Cabinet Helped Put One College President in Peril Chronicle of Higher Ed
Hope College Moves Away from Immediate Plan to Fire President Inside Higher Ed
***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS
Under Fire, Brigham Young Will Review Title IX and Honor Code Enforcement Chronicle of Higher Ed
Brigham Young University has a troubling policy of investigating students who report rape Business Insider
Brigham Young Student Who Sought Immunity for Assault Victims Files Title IX Complaint Chronicle of Higher Ed
WATCH: Fake college acceptance letters highlight sexual assault USA Today
Lawsuit Takes Aim at Education Dept.’s Title IX Guidance (An accused student blames federal pressure for how his university treated him) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Justice Dept. Slams U. of New Mexico Over Sexual-Assault Policies Chronicle of Higher Ed
Dept. of Justice: Title IX requires violating the First Amendment FIRE
***TEACHING
Look for the Exceptions (In the process of correcting students’ mistakes, don’t forget to focus some attention on what they’re doing well) Chronicle of Higher Ed
A Final Round of Advice for Final Exams Chronicle of Higher Ed