ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Articles of Interest - June 6
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Mobile Phone Records Reveal Largest Gathering in the History of Humanity MIT Tech Review
Facebook 'listening' claim denied by professor BBC
Will the Constitution Protect Your Next Smartphone? The Atlantic
The best social network you’ve never used is finally stepping out of Reddit’s shadow Washington Post
Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage Bloomberg
Your Old Myspace Account Just Came Back to Haunt You Wired
Research confirms subtweeting is completely unchill Daily Dot
***PRODUCING MEDIA
YouTube Threatens Legal Action Against Service That Lets You Download Videos Consumerist
***JOURNALISM
A Looming Rift in Science Journalism Undark
Jeff Bezos Is Refashioning Himself Into the Valley’s Lone Defender of Journalism New York Magazine
Science Journalism’s Identity Crisis Mother Board
New Vancouver journalism centre seeks out under-reported global issues Vancouver Sun
News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2016 Journalism.org
A FOIA of FOIAs Gizmodo
Newspaper publishes column on meeting before actual meeting occurs Talking New Media
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Tronc forgets to secure its Twitter account Washington Post
***BIG DATA
This Tool Makes It Stupid Simple to Turn Data Into Charts Wired
"A new wave of Uber-style data companies will emerge" to manage data--not own it Quartz
TPC releases Big Data Analytics benchmark to gauge the performance of Hadoop-based systems Datanami
Data science fallacies: #9 Increasing the number of features increases the model's significance and accuracy Adnan Masood
4 tips to keep your data visualization from getting lost in translation (#4-don't clutter) Information Week
Using a data scientist approach to implement early warning systems of cyber attacks Cyber Attacks
***TECHNOLOGY
The FBI Is Developing Software to Track and Sort People by Their Tattoos EFF
How to Listen to and Delete Everything You've Ever Said to Google Gizmodo
More than 75% of App Downloads Open an App Once And Never Come Back Fortune
***SCIENCE
How To Find Out If Scientists Are Screwing With You Vocativ
***PSYCHOLOGY
How love and marriage are changing, according to 63,000 New York Times wedding announcements Vox
Driven by greater student demand, colleges expand access to mental health services Inside Higher Ed
***PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy versus Neuroscience on the Question of Free Will Scientific America
***GRAMMAR
How The Wrong Verb Meant The Texas GOP Called Most Texans Gay NPR
***WRITING& READING
Stop The Presses. No More Capital I For The Internet NPR
2016 AP Stylebook new terms and changes GateHouse Newsroom
***LANGUAGE
A brief history of today’s most pretentious word The Awl
***LITERATURE
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Life & Literature Introduced in a Monty Python-Style Animation Open Culture
'Everybody Behaves Badly': The Backstory To 'The Sun Also Rises' NPR
***RESEARCH
How to prove that your therapy is effective, even when it is not: a guideline Cambridge Journals
***GENDER ISSUES
Why aren’t there more women in science? The industry structure is sexist The Guardian
Women in data science--their numbers may actually be decreasing Predictive Analytics World
***RACE
Judges Treat Juveniles Of The Same Race As Themselves More Harshly NPR
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
How to Use The Chronicle’s Title IX Tracker, and What We’ve Learned Chronicle of Higher Ed
Stanford Swimmer Rapes Woman, Gets Short Jail Sentence Because Jail Might Be Hard For Him Mic
BYU police under state investigation for sexual assault reporting (The university is currently investigating the relationship between its Title IX and Honor Code offices) Daily Herald
Study: More than half of intercollegiate and recreational athletes say they have pressured women into having sex Inside Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
UC San Diego student newspaper sues University over free speech violations Washington Times
How far can schools go in limiting student speech online? Student Press Law Center
***LEGAL ISSUES
Hacker Lexicon: What Is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act? Wired
***ART AND DESIGN
Pair of glasses left on US gallery floor mistaken for art The Guardian
***RELIGION
The Sun Is Always Shining In Modern Christian Pop FiveThirtyEight
Christian rock star comes out as gay. Here’s the letter he wrote to the world (opinion) Religious News Service
10 facts about atheists Pew Research Center
Growing concern for German churches: Muslim refugees harassing Christians Religious News Service
TBN’s Jan Crouch Dies at 78 (family mired in multiple lawsuits involving accusations of rape, cover-up, and financial improprieties) New York Times
The Bible in Emojis? Terrific idea, sloppy execution Religious News Service
Canadian parents charged with teen son’s murder claimed he was resurrected by God NY Daily News
***STUDENT MEDIA
Appeals court hands Arizona student group First Amendment victory in battle over withheld fee support Student Press Law Center
Title IX : How to investigate if your school is inflating gender equity numbers Reveal
Student journalists will be spared from paying for federal agencies to locate and retrieve documents Student Press Law Center
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
UNLV launching ambitious overhaul to journalism school Las Vegas Review Journal
***STUDENT LIFE
Politics In Real Life: The Struggle To Pay For College NPR
New report on transfer of struggling students from universities to community colleges finds students benefit from moving in nontraditional direction Inside Higher Ed
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
These grads found creative ways to land a job New York Post
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Professor Claims Princeton Defamed Him Courthouse News
***PERSONAL GROWTH
There is the time when it isn’t the old way any more, but not yet the new way, either Becoming (my site)
***HIGHER ED
A popular college investment promised students a career, but didn’t pay off Washington Post
Report Slams Accreditor as ‘Incapable’ of Assessing College Quality Chronicle of Higher Ed
An Unlikely Campaign to Move Beyond GRE Scores Inside Higher Ed
Chancellor's smartphone action during recent graduation ceremony sparks conversation about academics' etiquette and netiquette (and lack thereof) Inside Higher Ed
Seattle University dean placed on administrative leave amid student protests Seattle Times
Jazz vespers every week in San Diego Christian Century
***TEACHING
What Should a Major Teach? ‘Adrift’ Authors Offer Answers Chronicle of Higher Ed
Plan to Define and Test What Students Should Know Inside Higher Ed
A Cautionary Tale about Jumping into MOOCs (Report: The University failed to protect the professor’s property rights) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES /STEM
The Disappearing Humanities Jobs (New analysis shows dramatic decreases in open positions for professors) Inside Higher Ed
You Complete Me
/One of the most memorable scenes in the movie Jerry Maguire climaxes with the main character telling his estranged wife, “You complete me.” Many people understand the line to mean "I'm not a whole person without you." As if a person is like a machine missing a critical part until the "right one' comes along.
But you could also hear it as a statement of realization that "I finally see how we fit together." Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Or better yet, like two great works of art. The paintings or sculptures or rugs are beautiful on their own, yet together they create a new, compelling and intricate tapestry of vibrant colors.
Stephen Goforth
Life is..
/Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. – George Santayana
Articles of Interest - May 30
/***TECHNOLOGY
Google aims to kill passwords by the end of this year The Guardian
Alibaba: China's E-Commerce Giant Bloomberg
***SOCIAL MEDIA
These are the words most associated with men and women, according to Facebook status updates Washington Post
Twitter says goodbye to all ‘.@’ Washington Post
Twitter Unveils Big New Changes to Prove the Fun Ain’t Gone Wired
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Podcasting 101 - a history of the format and a how-to guide Inside Higher Ed
***BIG DATA
Bayesian reasoning may help explain some people's processing flaws: a computational approach to mental health Science News
China's BigData bet. Some examples Nikkei Asian Review
***PERSONAL GROWTH
http://bit.ly/1X9pXNm Becoming
Having a Purpose in Life makes life longer and happier NPR
***GRAMMAR
The “usage wars” are coming to an end, and good sense is winning Economist
***LANGUAGE
Researchers are using an app to crowdsource how the English language has changed Quartz
***LITERATURE
Q&A with Author Can Xue on the State of Chinese Literature Sixth Tone
Moby memoir reveals life of contrasts: Bible study by day, sex club DJ by night CTV News
Make Your Coffee Table Great Again. Here's All of the Books Coming Out About Trump Fortune
***RESEARCH
Fixing Law school rankings based on citations Medium
Why Do So Many Studies Fail to Replicate? New York Times
***GENDER ISSUES
Every 10 seconds, someone on Twitter calls a woman a ‘slut’ or ‘whore’ Washington Post
Women in sports are often underrepresented in science Science News
***RACE
Meet Justin Lin, the Most Important Blockbuster Director You’ve Never Heard Of Wired
This Chinese laundry ad is racist, but it's hardly the first LA Times
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Can This Woman Predict Campus Rape? Ozy
Jury sides with Virginia Wesleyan College in $10M lawsuit case WAVY-TV
***FREE SPEECH
Free speech is precious. What’s happening with Gawker and Facebook threaten it Washington Post
***LEGAL ISSUES
Colleges Shouldn’t Have to Deal With Copyright Monitoring (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***JOURNALISM
How fake news sites frequently trick big-time journalists Columbia Journalism Review
What Matters for Journalism Grads Five Years Later: Writing, Communication Skills Media Shift
Peter Thiel lawsuit isn't ushering in a journalism apocalypse (opinion) Bloomberg
When it comes to social media, news consumers tend to stick with 1 source Poynter
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
NYT announces new buyouts, Vice to layoff more than a dozen Talking New Media
What does it take to be a “full-service” digital journalism organization? Ask Discourse Media Nieman Lab
***STUDENT MEDIA
Cleared for takeoff: FAA recognizes educational exemption permitting drone use by student media Student Press Law Center
***STUDENT LIFE
Corporate America Chases the Mythical Millennial New York Times
Here’s Why You’re Going to End Up Just Like Your Parents Vice
Introducing the LinkedIn Millennial PlaybookA Playbook for Millennials, by Millennials LinkedIn
The stark difference between millennial men and their dads Washington Post
Stuck In Your Parents’ Basement? Don’t Blame The Economy Five Thirty Eight
How the Textbook Industry Tries to Hook Your Prof Wired
***ACADEMIC LIFE
***PSYCHOLOGY
Severed Head, Two Cops, and the Radical Future of Interrogation Wired
***PRODUCTIVITY
10,000 Steps A Day: The Wrong Wellness Incentive Forbes
***RELIGION
Gospel For Asia faced staff exodus amid negative publicity Christian Today
Mennonites suspend pastor because he officiated at a same-sex wedding Religious News Service
Homosexuals 'Worthy of Death' Bible Verse Read Before Key Vote Roll Call
Decapitated Churches in China’s Christian Heartland New York Times
Christian charity head admits using donations for sex habit (aimed at international students on college campuses) News Observer
Dallas Megachurch Pastor: Transgender-friendly businesses bigger threat than ISIS Dallas Morning News
Calif. Lawmaker to SD Univ. law prof. at Hearing on Transgender bathroom dispute: “You’re an ignorant bigot” Mercury News
***HIGHER ED
Can you figure out which of these college bureaucrat titles are real? Washington Examiner
How an industry helps Chinese students cheat their way into and through U.S. colleges Reuters
The End of Code (“How different programming jobs would be by the time all these STEM-educated kids grow up”) Wired
Seattle Pacific Assistant Provost Appointed Provost at Wheaton College (Ill.) Wheaton News Release
World’s largest Baptist University fires football head coach, president steps aside over handling of sexual assaults Inside Higher Ed
State can't give $11M to religious schools, court rules NewJersey.com
***TEACHING
To Test for Accessibility, Try Navigating Without Your Mouse Chronicle of Higher Ed
Critique of Performance-Based Funding Inside Higher Ed
why we do it
/Nikki was driving through the Rocky Mountains with her daughter when their truck hit black ice and flipped over the guardrail. Nikki was knocked unconscious as the vehicle rolled over four times and landed on a barbwire fence. When five-year-old Mary couldn’t wake her bleeding mother, she didn’t sit and cry. Mary crawled out of one of the broken windows and climbed 150 feet to the road where she waved down at a passing truck. As emergency workers cut the roof off the truck to get Nikki out, Mary waited in one of the rescue vehicles. She asked a paramedic if her mother was dead. It would be three days before Nikki would wake up.
When Mary was later asked why she went for help on her own, the kindergartener said, “I needed to save my mom because I love my mom.”
Nikki and Mary recovered from their injuries at home. Mary was given an award for bravery.
Stephen Goforth
learning and wisdom
/Learning makes a man proud. Wisdom makes him humble.
the 10-90 rule
/Life is 10% what happens to us.. and 90% how we react!
Recovery
/Outcomes by themselves don't really have an unambiguously positive or negative effect on your happiness. Yes, there are some outcomes—you get a terminal disease, or your child dies—that are pretty extreme, but let's leave those out. But if you think about it, the breakup that you had with your childhood girlfriend, or you broke an arm and were in a hospital bed for two months, when they occurred, you might have felt, “Oh my goodness, this is the end of the world! I'm never going to recover from it.” But it turns out we're very good at recovering from those, and not just that, but those very events that we thought were really extremely negative were in fact pivotal in making us grow and learn.
Raj Raghunathan quoted in the Atlantic
leadership is a lifestyle
/Leadership is not a position. It’s a lifestyle. The moment you and I stop learning, we stop leading. -John Maxwell
Articles of Interest - May 23
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
The Best Twitter Search Tricks Digital Inspiration
Reddit Now Lets You Embed Posts for Articles and Blogs Heat Street
Algorithms, clickworkers, and the befuddled fury around Facebook Trends Harvard's Nieman Labs
***WRITING& READING
What makes bad writing bad? The Guardian
George Orwell’s Six Rules for Writing Clear and Tight Prose Open Culture
Digital news organization style guide Poynter
***LANGUAGE
The Delightful Language of Commencement Jstor
A Heated Linguistic Debate: What Makes ‘Redskins’ a Slur? New York Times
Earpiece Can Translate Foreign Languages On The Fly PSFK
***RESEARCH
Predatory open access journals: Avoiding profiteers, wasted effort and fraudWiley Online Library
What do psychologists think about marginally significant findings? Psychological Science Journal
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The self-renewing man Becoming
To Boost Happiness, Stack the Pain Life Hacker
***GENDER ISSUES
Data suggest that couples who have sons are more likely to stay together than those that don’t 1843 Magazine
Why women earn less: Just two factors explain post-PhD pay gap Nature
Five “Don’ts” for Introducing a Female Speaker (And Why This Matters) (opinion) Duck of Minerva
Americans’ views of women as political leaders differ by gender Pew Research Center
***RACE
U.S. Courts Are Using Algorithms Riddled With Racism to Hand Out Sentences Mic
***FREE SPEECH
From Black Armbands to the Supreme Court: Mary Beth Tinker and Student Free Speech Rights FIRE
Columbia University to Open a First Amendment War Room New York Times
***LEGAL ISSUES
UC students' suit claims Google scanned accounts without permission San Hose Mercury News
***ART AND DESIGN
How to choose the right mobile keyboard for faster typing on your iPhone or iPad Tech Republic
***FILM
245 Films by Female Directors You Can Stream Right Now on Netflix Open Culture
***BIG DATA
Trump is right: data does not win elections. But here's what will happen in politics if you ignore Washington Post
How Big Data Creates False Confidence-we're looking at you Google Flu Trends & Ngrams tool Nauti
If the DOD doesn't know whether the #analytics it already has is useful, how can it be ready for more Big Data? Government Computer News
***JOURNALISM
The Times Regrets the Error. Readers Don’t New York Times
Ukrainian hackers publish info on thousands of journalists Associated Press
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Business Insider CEO: 'There Are No Must-Read Publications Any More Spriegel
The New York Times of the future is beginning to take shape Poynter
Looking for a sustainable business model for a regional newspaper? Start at the Minneapolis Star Tribune Poynter
Ripple Takes on Hyper-Local News, But Compensation Issues Remain Media Shift
***SCIENCE
When we hype our science, discoveries are diminished (opinion) Globe and Mail
***PSYCHOLOGY
Don’t call electroconvulsive therapy ‘shock therapy’ Stat News
***PHILOSOPHY
Chinese philosophy is missing from U.S. philosophy departments. Should we care? (opinion) The Conversation
***ETHICS
In Search For Cures, Scientists Create Embryos That Are Both Animal And Human NPR
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
LDS church releases statement on BYU sexual assault issue Utah Valley's Herald Daily
***STUDENT LIFE
When Students Pay Tuition to work Unpaid Internships Inside Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
US law could increase postdoc pay — and shake up research system Nature
Professor Cleared and Still Out of a Job Inside Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
College enrollment is dropping CNN Money
Generate Your Next Job Title: Website pokes fun at administrative bloat by generating endless job titles and inflated salaries Inside Higher Ed
New Book: Institutions are increasingly dependent on active, wealthy parents (harming students with less-involved parents) Inside Higher Ed
Community Colleges Fret over new Overtimes Rules Inside Higher Ed
The Truth about Coding Bootcamps Business Insider
Leaders stretch people
/Leaders stretch people by taking people out of their comfort zone but never out of their gift zone. John Maxwell
learn
/Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. Henri Frederic Amiel
a leader's job
/A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be. - Jack Welch
Articles of Interest - May 16
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***SOCIAL MEDIA
Social Network Algorithms Are Distorting Reality By Boosting Conspiracy Theories (Talk of Facebook's anticonservative stance is in the news, but the issue of what news social networks choose to show us is much broader than that) Fast Company
Periscope makes broadcasts permanent by default and introduces search The Verge
Do aspiring YouTube stars need to pack up and move to L.A.? Daily Dot
Suicide on Periscope in France is the latest in live-streamed horrors Washington Post
Facebook's news saga reminds us humans are biased by design The Guardian
The history of social networking Digital Trends
Snapchat wants you to be able to take selfies in voting booths Daily Dot
Social Media, Smartphones And Long-Form Journalism: What's Up With Facebook? Forbes
The Slack generation: How workplace messaging could replace other missives The Economist
Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit Bloomberg
***PRODUCING MEDIA
How Readers Engage with Long-Form Content on Mobile Devices PBS MediaShift
14 free image resources for content marketers PR Daily
Things I Learned About Shooting 360 Videos PBS MediaShift
For the first time, mobile gaming will make more money than traditional videogames Quartz
***TECHNOLOGY
Here’s looking at you: Smart glasses may have a big future at work Economist
Twitterbots United: fake followers could wreck the election Wired
***ART AND DESIGN
How Typography Can Save Your Life ProPublica
***BIG DATA
Using data analytics to tackle the information overload among researchers and publishers in science/medical/tech Inside Higher Ed
Is the skill shortage subdividing Big Data by tools and education? Computer World
How Big Data is affecting politics--the dive into social #nalytics and the effort to ‘weaponize data' Datanami
Our brains employ similar algorithms to those inspired by Bayes’ theorem. Does this mean our Brains are Bayesian? Scientific American
***JOURNALISM
Jeff Daniels reprises 'Newsroom' anchor role for 2016 presidential elections USA Today
Snapchat for journalists: a great big guide Online Journalism Blog
The Value of Data Journalism Real Clear Politics
Buzzfeed Is the Only New Media Organization on Facebook's ‘Most Trusted' List Motherboard
Nate Silver has a Donald Trump problem: Where does data journalism go now? Salon
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
A Time and Place for Paid Content (Over six in ten Americans say they are comfortable with companies paying to publish articles that look like news as long as there's a disclaimer) Harris Poll
Local news startup Ripple apologizes for taking other people's news Recode
***STUDENT MEDIA
At Cornell, the College Daily Will No Longer Be Daily New York Times
Student Reporter Interviews Obama. First Question? The Fafsa Chronicle of Higher Ed
Language in transition: How student journalists cover transgender issues Student Press Law Center
How to investigate if your school is inflating gender equity numbers Reveal
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Numbers in the News Quiz - 9 Becoming
***GRAMMAR
East Asian words make it into Oxford English Dictionary The Guardian
***WRITING& READING
Everyone is deleting pronouns from the beginning of their sentences — here's why Business Insider
Dashing Through Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RACE
Reporter Mukhtar Ibrahim gets treated differently at federal courthouse Minneapolis City Pages
How the Teacher’s Race Affects the Teaching of Race Chronicle of Higher Ed
How psychologists used these doctored Obama photos to get white people to support conservative politics Washington Post
***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS
Campus Tour Guides Should Know the Facts About Sexual Assault Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Temple News’ longform piece on sexual assault on campus Temple News
Push Grows For A 'Scarlet Letter' On Transcripts Of Campus Sexual Offenders NPR
Professors Are Being Forced To Reveal Sexual Assault Confidences, Like It Or Not Huffington Post
Taking Sexual Assault to Twitter Inside Higher Ed
***RELIGION
As U.S. Attitudes Change, Some Evangelicals Dig In; Others Adapt NPR
Atheist Ad Mocking Noah's Ark Park as 'Genocide and Incest' Center Rejected by Billboard Companies ABC News
3 reasons conservative Christians will lose the transgender debate (opinion) Religious News Service
‘Take it off! This is America!’: Man who yanked hijab pleads guilty to religious obstruction Washington Post
Gender gap in religious service attendance has narrowed in U.S. Pew Research
Report Reveals cover-up of leading missionary surgeon who sexually abused 22 women and girls Religious News Service
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Evangelicals raise hell over Trump's VP search Politico
Mississippi religious liberty law challenged in court Baptist News
Trump mounts Twitter war with the Southern Baptist Convention’s chief ethicist Religious News Service
NBC News Exit Poll Results: Lacking a Clear Champion in 2016, White Evangelicals Voted for Trump NBC News
Many Evangelicals Are In 'An Awkward Place' With Trump Atop GOP NPR
***STUDENT LIFE
Study: Millennials want brand managers out of their ears—and feeds PR Daily
Chinese University Incentivizes Students To Be Polite NPR
Young Americans Drink More, Eat Worse, and Stay Skinnier Than Everyone Else Bloomberg
The Minecraft Generation- How a clunky Swedish computer game is teaching millions of children to master the digital world New York Times
How badly companies misunderstand millennials Washington Post
***JOBS
Top 10 Mistakes You Might Be Making with Your Job Search Life Hacker
How to make a good first impression on mobile job apps USA Today
7 Tips For Job-Seeking Graduates DNA Info
How to ace a Skype interview USA Today
National Labor Relations Board: Your Employer Can’t Force You To Be Happy At Work Huffington Post
***SCIENCE
Why scientists should learn to fail, fast and often StatNews
***PSYCHOLOGY
Does The Placebo Effect Influence Consumer Product Purchases? NPR
Suicide rates are rising in America, and in other rich countries Economist
Major Counseling Organization Protests Tennessee’s Anti-LGBT Counseling Law Huffington Post
***PHILOSOPHY
‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Is Secretly All About Ancient Greek Philosophy Decider
Teaching Students Philosophy Will Improve Their Academic Performance, Shows Study BigThink
***HIGHER ED
A growing number of colleges and universities are emphasizing civic engagement in their curriculum Inside Higher Ed
Discount at Private Schools reach new record levels Inside Higher Ed
Chilling Higher Ed Cooperation in China? Inside Higher Ed
Supreme Court Sends Birth-Control Case Brought by Religious Employers Back to Lower Courts (Outcome suggests justices would have split 4-4 on the merits of the case) Reuters
Academic-Freedom Spat Triggers Wave of Resignations at Religious College Chronicle of Higher Ed
Texas Christian University misspells its own name in commencement program Houston Chronicle
Student sit-in at Jesuit School because Dean used the N-Word.. in a book Title Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Study by faculty members at West Point finds students perform better academically when laptops and tablets are banned from the classroom Inside Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Rutgers professors vote a second time to seek access to and limits on use of data from Academic Analytics Inside Higher Ed
becoming
/It’s not what you are doing but what you are becoming.
Articles of Interest - May 2
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Hillary Clinton just invented the Snapchat attack ad Business Insider
The reverse-chronological social media feed is dying New York Magazine
4 social media rules for handling celebrity passings PR Daily
UCLA Student Media director resigns to support continuation of publications Daily Bruin
Stanford Daily enjoys record traffic from John Boehner 'Lucifer' scoop CNN
Wesley College newspaper editor speaks out over controversial cartoons WMDT
***PRODUCTIVITY
Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy The Atlantic
Many Grouchy, Error-Prone Workers Just Need More Sleep NPR
***BIG DATA
10 Questions for the Nation’s First Chief Data Scientist from Science Friday Science Friday
You no longer fit a model. Instead, you train the task. Deep Learning: What it is and why it matters SAS
Data science and machine learning cheat sheets for--Python R Spark Hadoop Hive Django--dozens more KD Nuggets
Python, Machine Learning, + Dueling Languages--what's best for serious productivity? Open Data Science
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Transition and Change (Transition is the process of letting go of the way things used to be and then taking hold of the way they subsequently become) Becoming (my blog)
10 Things You Need To Remember If Your Life Isn’t Turning Out The Way You Thought It Would Thought Catalogue***RESEARCH
5 Tips to Avoid P-Value Potholes: #5- Some potholes are deliberately hidden (shining light only on p’s less than .05) PLOS
***RACIAL ISSUES
Do the Words "Race Riot" Belong on an Historical Marker in Memphis? NPR
***GENDER ISSUES
University of Washington removes cheerleader tryout tips after social media backlash New York Daily News
Two national college applications will move beyond traditional gender binary Inside Higher Ed
Job Prospects For The Class Of 2016 Are Pretty Good, Especially For Men Huffington Post
Sexual harassment training may have reverse effect, research suggests The Guardian
Women Write War Fiction, Too Jstor
***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS
Brigham Young Students Claim University Punished Rape Victims For Reporting NPR
College plans policy review after sex-assault case criticism (Open letter on FB says Georgia school bungled its investigation of his sister’s rape in a dorm room) Dispatch
***LEGAL ISSUES
It May Soon Be a Lot Harder for the Law to Get Into Your Email Wired
Google wants to change copyright laws—and that’s a good thing (opinion) Daily Dot
***RELIGION
A closer look at Jehovah’s Witnesses living in the U.S. Pew Research Center
Satanists balk at Cruz comparison The Hill
Congress Likely To Get Its Only Openly Atheist Member In NovemberHuffington Post
Evangelical woman vows to bring pistol into queer-friendly Target bathrooms Huffington Post
Religious Freedom Face Serious Threats Worldwide NPR
***MUSIC
How Steely Dan Wrote “Deacon Blues,” the Song Audiophiles Use to Test High-End Stereos Open Culture
Why Freddie Mercury's Voice Was So Great, As Explained By Science NPR
Peter Frampton Plays a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR, Featuring Acoustic Versions of His Classic Songs Open Culture
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
TV networks battle new media threat as Facebook looms over ad war The Guardian
***JOURNALISM
These Men Finally Understand How Bad Women Have It In Sports Media Huffington Post
Las Vegas Columnist Quits After Ban On Writing About New Owner NPR
Facebook and Twitter are buttering up news publishers — here's why Business Insider
Esquire removes satirical article after criticism Politico
Google’s test to let media publish directly in search can’t be great news for Twitterrecode
New York Times boss sued over alleged ageist, racist and sexist hiring practices The Guardian
Journalism Professor Will Go to War for Free Speech, as Long as It Doesn’t Mock Him Gawker
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Managing the Decline of Print: The New York Times Looks to Cut Costs Fortune
The news industry can’t cut its way to quality (opinion) Poynter
Digital publishing news jobs now outnumber those in the newspaper business, BLS reports Talking New Media
***STUDENT LIFE
A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows Washington Post
***SCIENCE
False images top form of scientific misconduct Canadian Medical Association Journal
Theoretical physicists have a "license to be excited" and "run amok." Here's why Science News
***PSYCHOLOGY
LGBT Activists Criticize Tennessee Law Allowing Therapists To Refuse Patients NPR
***NEUROSCIENCE
Talking to ourselves: the science of the little voice in your head The Guardian
The “Brain Dictionary”: Beautiful 3D Map Shows How Different Brain Areas Respond to Hearing Different Words Open Culture
***ETHICS
How Ethical is Geoscience? The Grumpy Geophysicist
***PHILOSOPHY
Animated Introduction to 25 Philosophers Open Culture
***LANGUAGE / GRAMMAR
Lawsuit Will Decide Who Owns 'Star Trek' Language Klingon NPR
A conversation with the world's leading authority on the English language about big data, Google ngrams, and language change Business Insider
***LITERATURE
The Ultimate Literary Cage Match: Hemingway vs. Faulkner vs. Trump The Millions
Ian McKellen launches app to make Shakespeare easier to understand AV Club
The Cover of George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes Less Censored with Wear and Tear Open Culture
***HIGHER ED
UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi on investigatory leave due to ‘serious questions’ Sacrameto Bee
Why Colleges’ Brands look so similar (To sell themselves, colleges try to stand out. But often, their marketing efforts look practically identical) Inside Higher Ed
Law student says he was almost expelled for writing in favor of gay marriage Fusion
Former ORU student says school is blocking her re-admission over her marriage to a woman Tulsa World
***TITLE IX
U.S. Publishes Details on Religious Colleges Seeking Title IX Waivers Chronicle of Higher Ed
Updated List of Institutions that have requested Religious exemptions to Title IX (As of April 1, 2016, 232 colleges had obtained a religious exemption from Title IX and 31 requests are pending) Dept. of Ed.
NCAA Hesitant to Condemn Religious Institutions that have Requested Title IX Waivers Inside Higher Ed
Feds Publish Records On Schools Allowed To Discriminate Against LGBT Students BuzzFeed
Lawsuit: Prof Punished for Opposing Gordon's Title IX exemption request Inside Higher Ed
Education Dept. Releases Title IX Exemptions, Requests Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Learning From My Teaching Mistakes Chronicle of Higher Ed
A Moment of Clarity on the Role of Technology in Teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Professor puts CV of his failures online to give perspective Associated Press