Articles of Interest - July 18

***SOCIAL MEDIA

How the gurus behind Google Earth created the geomapping mobile game 'Pokémon Go'  Mashable  

In Wake Of Shootings, Facebook Struggles To Define Hate Speech  NPR

Snapchat Is Ruined  Gizmodo

Pinterest Takes a Shot at Camera-Search Technology  Wall Street Journal

Facebook plans live video push during conventions  Politico

BitTorrent Launches Streaming News Network at Republican Convention  AdAge

This Photo App Puts Instagram Filters To Shame  PSFK

How to spot a fake Facebook page during a breaking news situation  Washington Post

***PRODUCING MEDIA

An Australian Company Spent Two Years Faking Some Of The Internet's Most Viral Videos   Digg

How to Measure SEO Success for Recent Content  PBS Media Shift

***BIG DATA / STATS  

The potency of graph representations is in the simplicity..one can issue complicated queries without knowing code  Inside Big Data

After many false starts, what do the clues say will be the AI impact? Danger or opportunity?  Economist

Shakespeare and using fuzzy logic systems to deal with imprecise or incomplete data  Data Science Central

“We are just seeing the tip of the iceberg. No office job is safe.” -AI prof known for his self-driving car work  Economist

10 Algorithm Categories for #DataScience heavy lifting: 1- Crunchers 2- Guides..  KD Nuggets

***TECHNOLOGY

A new technique for removing radical propaganda  Economist

The Internet of Things: Riding the Wave in Higher Education  Educause

Glimpses of an AI-enabled future  Economist

Watch As Elite Password Hacking Software Cracks Thousands Of Passwords In Seconds (video)  Dr Mike Pound

One-quarter of all US TV households now going without cable and satellite reception  Talking New Media

A Smart Typewriter Is a Thing and I’m in Love With It  Wired

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

Why Pageviews Matter in Measuring Native Ads  Media Shift

Buffer for Instagram is Here: 8 Ways to Get Your Best Instagram Marketing Results with Buffer

***JOURNALISM

Live-Tweeting the News: The Risks and Rewards  PBS Media shift

Gannet’s Memphis newspaper outsources copyediting  Memphis Flyer

3 Ways to Put News Metrics to Work  PBS Media shift

Photographers Are Gearing Up for the Republican Convention Like It’s War  Wired

How News Organizations Are Using Facebook Live  PBS Media Shift

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

How The Washington Post grew digital subscriptions 145 percent  Digitday

Live Streaming Breaks Through, and Cable News Has Much to Fear  New York Times

The non-religious are now the country’s largest religious voting bloc  Washington Post

Evangelicals Rally to Trump, Religious ‘Nones’ Back Clinton  Pew Forums

***STUDENT MEDIA  

Intern reporter arrested covering Black Lives Matter protests in Baton Rouge  Student Press Law Center

***GRAMMAR         

Why journalists (and their stylebooks) prefer the more-modest spelling, adviser  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Travel Through Literature: The Sun Also Rises  Napels Herald

The World’s Best Philosopher of Linguistics  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***WRITING& READING

Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling  MIT Technology Review

Why Most Academics Will Always Be Bad Writers  Chronicle of Higher Ed

When Words Fail (opinion)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Psychological Benefits of Writing Regularly  Life Hacker

AP Stylebook terms for covering violence  GateHouse Newsroom

Walt Whitman Gives Advice to Aspiring Young Writers: “Don’t Write Poetry” & Other Practical Tips (1888)  Open Culture

Essential Self-Editing Tips to Deliver Better Copy  Tech

***LANGUAGE

How to Navigate by Nostalgia: The Linguistics of Place Names  Jstor

***LITERATURE

Why even poets hate poetry (a review of The Hatred of Poetry-By Ben Lerner)  Economist

Library of Congress struggles in the Digital Era  n+1 magazine

McSweeney’s Meets Internet: A little publisher survives holding tight to its eclectic, literary roots  Harvard's Nieman Lab

***RESEARCH

Science Students Learn to Use Social Media to Communicate Research  Chronicle of Higher Ed  

***RACE

How Americans view the Black Lives Matter movement  Pew Research Center

This Sikh Man Has Been Wrongly Accused Of A Terror Attack For A Second Time  BuzzFeed  

Study Explores Links Between Politics And Racial Bias  NPR

The Dark Side of American Soccer Culture  New York Times magazine

Can you spot the reason people are upset about Paul Ryan's latest Instagram post?  AOL News

The Health Costs of Racism (audio)  Science Friday

Sharp differences over who is hurt, helped by their race  Pew Research

Racial Tensions Strain Relations In The Workplace  NPR

***SEXUAL ASSAULT

Snapchat's face-mapping filters empower sexual assault survivors to tell their own stories  CBC

Why Society Blames Victims, According To Science  Huffington Post

***FREE SPEECH

In a Time of Tension, Universities Craft New Free-Speech Policies (sub. req'ed)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LEGAL ISSUES

How copyright trolls plunder both US citizens and… rights holders  Fight Copyright Trolls

***RELIGION

IRS probe of televangelist Robert Tilton's church draws court challenge  Tulsa World

The Evangelical "Money Cult" (video, opinion)  Reason

PCUSA claims MegaChurch Vote to Leave Denomination is Invalid  Layman.org

Bible Gateway now lets users search the Bible using emoji  Religious News Service

The Eclipse of White Christian America  The Atlantic

Evangelicals increasingly say it’s becoming harder for them in America  Pew Research

What It’s Like to Escape the Christian Fundamentalist 'Quiverfull' Movement Vice

Are churches key to solving social problems? Fewer Americans now think so  Pew Research

 Creationist Ken Ham gets busted lying about his Ark exhibit’s abysmal opening day turnout (opinion)  Dead State

***RELIGION & POLITICS

Trump’s VP Choice, Backed Controversial ‘Religious Freedom’ Law  Chronicle of Higher Ed

What it means that Mike Pence called himself an ‘evangelical Catholic’   Washington Post

Are Trump Supporters Nostalgic For A Fading White, Christian America?  NPR

***STUDENT LIFE

Why Those Millennials With Tons of Loans Won’t Refinance  Bloomberg

When Millennials Become Managers  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Men drinking craft beer, women eating quinoa, and other millennial foodie trends, ranked  Washington Post

How to Host Your Parents Without Losing Your Mind  Life Hacker

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Becoming a Freelance Academic  Chronicle of Higher Ed

So Many Research Scientists, So Few Openings as Professors  New York Times

***SCIENCE

The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists  Vox

There Is No Scientific Method (opinion)  New York Times

No Scientific Method, They Say  Science Mag

***PSYCHOLOGY    

Your Therapist Is Typing...  Digg

***NEUROSCIENCE

 Neuroscientists Still Don’t Know Why Music Sounds Good  Wired

***PHILOSOPHY

The Entire Discipline of Philosophy Visualized with Mapping Software: See All of the Complex Networks  Open Culture

The Philosopher of Feelings: Martha Nussbaum’s far-reaching ideas illuminate the often ignored elements of human life—aging, inequality, and emotion  The New Yorker

Why You Don’t Know Your Own Mind (opinion)  New York Times

***CRITICAL THINKING

Author discusses her new book, Reimagining Popular Notions of American Intellectualism  Inside Higher Ed

***PERSONAL GROWTH

You are a liar by default, and you lie most to yourself  Becoming (my blog)

There’s more than practice to becoming a world-class expert  The Conversation

***ETHICS

Frankenstein’s paperclips: The ethics of AI  Economist

Do CRISPR enthusiasts have their head in the sand about the safety of gene editing?  STAT

***HIGHER ED

University websites: The so-so, the bad, and the egregious  University Affairs

Artificial intelligence will have implications for policymakers in education, welfare and geopolitics  Economist

Weeks after Temple president ousted the provost, the board says it will remove the president  Inside Higher Ed

US spending on prisons and jails grew three times as fast as spending on education in the last 3 decades  Business Insider

Op-Ed: Christian Universities Can't Have It Both Ways   NBC News

***HUMANITIES /STEM

Despite focus on teaching coding skills, it's unlikely that it will be a viable skill in a decade: Thanks AI!  TedMed

What Classics Professors Can Teach the Rest of Us  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***TEACHING

Which skills should be taught that will still be employable in a Decade?  (Despite all the focus in recent years in teaching students to code, it seems unlikely to me that simple programming will be a viable skill 5 or 10 years)  TedMed

Amazon Unveils Online Education Service for Teachers  New York Times

A new crop of hands-on universities is transforming how students learn  Economist

Do You Assign Enough Reading? Or Too Much?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***CRIME ON CAMPUS

Senate Hearing on Campus Harassment and Bullying  Wired

Kansas State University is clashing with the federal government over whether it’s legally required to police off-campus behavior  Business Insider

 

Articles of Interest - July 11

 

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Instagram expands users to 500M in tightening race with Snapchat  USA Today

Twitter to Live-Stream Both National Conventions  New York Times

***PRODUCING MEDIA

A new film offers a peek into the lives of editors and authors (opinion)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***BIG DATA / STATS  

Need to quickly explain Bayes' Theorem & Base Rate Fallacy to someone? Try this short video  Wireless Philosophy

Can correlation sometimes prove causation? That's the claim of a new study using a "innovative #statistical trick"  Vocative

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Real change starts with endings, not beginnings  Becoming

***GRAMMAR         

Evidence that some 19th-century grammarians had completely lost their marbles  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Are texts in uppercase letters useful for anything besides annoying your readers?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***WRITING& READING

These are the six emotional arcs of storytelling, big data study shows  ZME Science

9 Tools for the Accidental Writing Teacher  Chronicle of Higher Ed

I reported poetry plagiarism in a PhD, but my university ignored it  The Guardian

***GENDER ISSUES

Men cite themselves more than women do  Nature

***RACE

How Social Media Impacts The Conversation On Racial Violence  NPR

Asian Men Win the Hourly Earnings Race in America  Bloomberg

***FREE SPEECH

Sen. rips University in scathing letterhandling of speech deemed offensive  Greeley Tribune

***RELIGION

This presidential campaign is proving wrong decades of research on evangelicals  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Former Evangelical Pastor Rethinks His Approach To Courtship  NPR

Researchers make 'first discovery' of Philistine cemetery  BBC

Life-Size Noah's Ark To Open Amid A Flood Of Skepticism  NPR

Israel find may help solve mystery of biblical Philistines  Associated Press

Who’s not defending Mississippi’s religious freedom law  Religious News Service

***JOURNALISM

Young and old news consumers want to get their news in very different ways, says Pew  Harvard's Nieman Lab

Pew: Most news sharing remains low-tech, offline  Columbia Journalism Review

***STUDENT LIFE

Why It's Never Too Late To Rescue Failing Students  NPR

What millennial millionaires are getting wrong about personal finance  The Guardian

Millennials will work forever–but they may be happier for it  Quartz

A new survey confirms what every parent suspects: College students have no idea of their parents' sacrifice  Business Insider

***PSYCHOLOGY    

People can guess at your social status based on the way you laugh  Quartz

Survey counseling center directors finds anxiety and depression are top issues  Inside Higher Ed

As a psychiatrist, I diagnose mental illness. Also, I help spot demonic possession  Washington Post

***NEUROSCIENCE

Could Brain Research From The Past 15 Years Really Be Wrong?  Forbes

This Is Your Brain on Silence  Nautilus

Neuroscience Reveals the Nourishing Benefits That Silence Has on Your Brain  Inc

***PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY - Blaise Pascal  Seeker

What Is an “Existential Crisis”?: An Animated Video Explains What the Expression Really Means  Open Culture

***CRITICAL THINKING

32 Animated Videos by Wireless Philosophy Teach You the Essentials of Critical Thinking  Open Culture                               

Why bad ideas refuse to die  The Guardian

***HIGHER ED

When a Chancellor Blocks a Student on Twitter  Chronicle of Higher Ed

More dozen athletic programs have committed academic fraud last decade more likely  Inside Higher Ed

How Media Coverage Of Campus Scandals Impacts College Applications  Huffington Post

Protest at Fuller Seminary Decries “Silence of the White Evangelical Church” About Recent Police Shootings  Pasadena Now

***TEACHING

Learning More About Active Learning  Chronicle of Higher Ed

NYU at Shanghai experiments with Educational Videos to Study how it can reach Chinese students Online  Inside Higher Ed

There’s No Such Thing as Asynchronous Teaching  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Articles of Interest - July 4

***SOCIAL MEDIA

In a blow to publishers, Facebook tweaks News Feed to emphasize friends over the news  Poynter

How Twitter is Used at Physics Conferences  Springer Blog

Meet Facebook's ruthless algorithm mafia (video)  Cnet

Your Facebook Echo Chamber Just Got a Whole Lot Louder  Wired

Facebook does the right thing, looks after its own customers  Talking New Media

***TECHNOLOGY

Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York  The Guardian

***THE INTERNET

UN condemns internet access disruption as a human rights violation  The Verge

***BIG DATA  

Researchers outline guidelines for ethically dealing with the deluge of data collected about students  Inside Higher Ed

What happens when chatbots know our habits, routines, hobbies and interests just as well as our closest friends? (opinion)  Tech Crunch

Understanding Google's ranking algorithm "Wide and Deep Learning" which has just been open sourced  Amey Kamat blog

Two ways to turn big data into cash: 1-using Hadoop to create 360 degree views, 2- cost cutting  through insights  CIO

How neural nets are powering Google's push to put machine learning into all of its products  Back Channel  

Using Data Sets to anticipate Future Visual representations (video)  MIT

Which is more likely to lead to blunders: the complexity of the situation, decision maker's skill or time pressure  Technology Review

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

Digital media layoffs continue, this time at International Business Times  Poynter

You are still watching a staggering amount of TV every day (Unless you are a millennial. Then you’re only watching an enormous amount of TV every day) Recode

***JOURNALISM

10 Things We Learned by Analyzing 9 Million Comments from The New York Times  Engaging News Project

The Associated Press will use automated writing to cover the minor leagues  Poynter

North Georgia newspaper publisher jailed over open records request  Atlanta Journal-Constitution

How an Ohio judge’s ruling threatens journalists’ ability to cover the court system  Columbia Journalism Review

How The NY Times Is Using Virtual Reality To Revitalize Storytelling  psfk

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Mislabeled As A Memoirist, Author Asks: Whose Work Gets To Be Journalism?  NPR

How Much Do We Love TV? Let Us Count the Ways  New York Times

Benghazi Report Shows the Internet Is Killing Objectivity  Wired

Knight Foundation gives Poynter $758,000 to remake online journalism education  Poynter

Dear Journalists: Facebook Is Not Your Friend (It’s Just Using You…)   Huffington Post

**SCIENCE

The GOP’s Denial of Science Primed Them for the Illogic of Trump (opinion)  Slate

***NEUROSCIENCE

The Mind: Less Puzzling in Chinese?  New York Books

Neuroscientists say multitasking literally drains the energy reserves of your brain  Quartz

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Here are the (relationship) rules  Becoming (my blog)

***GRAMMAR         

Me and you need to have a chat about what you call an error  Baltimore Sun

It’s Finally Time To Stop Correcting People’s Grammar, Linguist Says  Huffington Post

It's not bad grammar  Baltimore Sun

An extra period in the Declaration of Independence could change our understanding of the role of government  Business Insider

***WRITING& READING

Human Or Machine: Can You Tell Who Wrote These Poems?  NPR

How would you respond to these creative essay prompts created by college students?  USA Today

Trump Institute Offered Get-Rich Schemes With Plagiarized Lessons  New York Times

Copy and Paste Plagiarism in India  Nature

***LANGUAGE

Soon Facebook Will Instantly Translate Your Posts Into 44 Languages  Wired

***LITERATURE

Book Critic Ruth Franklin On Elie Weisel's Literary  NPR

Seattle bookstores tackle the lack of diversity in literature  Seattle Globalist

Go Ahead, Judge These Books by Their Covers  Wired

***RESEARCH                     

When Correlation Actually Does Imply Causation  Vocativ

***GENDER ISSUES

A third of 2016’s top movies fail the Bechdel test  Fusion

Racial, gender wage gaps persist in U.S. despite some progress  Pew Research

Men who harass women online are quite literally losers, new study finds  Washington Post

Colleges are increasingly creating masculinity programs, aimed at boosting retention while encouraging students to rethink what it means to "be a man."   Inside Higher Ed

***RACE

Who Gets Tased? First Statewide Study Reveals Racial Disparities  NPR

Do we really become more bigoted with age? Science suggests yes  Vox

***FREE SPEECH

Newseum study finds mixed level of public knowledge and support for free-speech principles  Student Press Law Center

***LEGAL ISSUES

Exonerated man thanks San Diego lawyers, students from California Western School of Law  Union Tribune

U.S. Dept. Of Justice Deals Crushing Blow To Songwriters  Forbes

The Fight to Liberate the “Happy Birthday” Song, Told in a Short Documentary  Open Culture

***RELIGION

Most American Christians Believe They’re Victims of Discrimination  The Atlantic

Conservative Christians Grapple With Whether 'Religious Freedom' Includes Muslims  NPR

Steve Green, the man building the Bible museum in Washington, explains what he is up to  Economist

***STUDENT MEDIA  

When Student Activists Refuse to Talk to Campus Newspapers  The Atlantic

New names for student newspaper panned  Union Bulletin

***STUDENT LIFE

The myth of millennial entitlement was created to hide their parents’ mistakes  Quartz

Why a coding bootcamp probably isn’t right for you  Fusion

The real reason so many millennials are living at home  Washington Post

Millennials admit using phones to avoid talking to people  Cnet

In New Jersey Student Loan Program, Even Death May Not Bring a Reprieve  New York Times

***ETHICS

How Should We Respond to ‘Evil’? (opinion)  New York Times

***HIGHER ED

"Broadly Evangelical” Liberal Arts College Apologizes to prof 50 years after Tossing him out  Christian Today

Student at Risk: Now What?  Campus Technology

Faith-based schools decry LGBT rights bill   Whittier Daily News

***TEACHING

Make a More Inclusive Syllabus with Tulane’s Accessible Syllabus Project  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***SEXUAL ASSAULT

Colleges Are Likely Underreporting Sexual Assaults, Senators Warn (While 91 percent of colleges reported zero sex crimes on campus, it’s not because no one was assaulted)  Huffington Post

Biden and Obama rewrite the rulebook on college sexual assaults  Huffington Post

Obama, Biden Will No Longer Visit Universities That Don’t Address Sexual Assault (The vice president said he’d like to take away federal funding from those universities)  Huffington Post

 

Here are the Rules

When someone gives you rules for your relationship whether explicitly or implied (“We can only talk about these subjects and not those subjects over there” or “We will only go to these places together” or “Only contact me in this particular way”) you have to decide whether this comes out of a legitimate concern to keep the relationship in a healthy place or whether it’s an attempt to control you-prompted by insecurity and fear. In other words, is this a request that you become co-conspirators in hiding from painful truths about the person making the request?

Stephen Goforth

Articles of Interest - June 27

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Twitter is making a huge video push — and tweaking Vine’s six-second limit in the process  Recode

Twitter quietly launches tags to location feeds with Foursquare  Tech Crunch

Social media apps overwhelmingly dominate mobile traffic  Business Insider

How Periscope Is Changing Politics  TIME

Google, Facebook quietly move toward automatic blocking of extremist videos  Reuters

Who owns the news consumer: Social media platforms or publishers?  Columbia Journalism Review

**LEGAL ISSUES

Who owns the news consumer: Social media platforms or publishers?   Columbia Journalism Review

Judge: UCSD “stacked the deck” against student accused of cheating  Inside Higher Ed

Photographer sues after his photo, used in news stories, is attributed to social media site  Student Press Law Center

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Jobs on Creativity: Creativity is just connecting things  Becoming (my site)

When you will most likely hit your creative peak, according to science  Washington Post

***GRAMMAR         

How Mary Norris, the New Yorker's 'Comma Queen,' became a video star  Digiday

***WRITING& READING

True: Fact-checking a single Donald Trump speech required 12 AP writers  Washington Post

Does Reading on Computer Screens Affect Student Learning?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

AP style guidelines for hyphen usage  GateHouse Newsroom

***LITERATURE

An Animated Introduction to the Life & Literary Works of Charles Dickens  Open Culture

Faith and Sci-Fi: The Christian Universe of "A Wrinkle in Time"  Catholic World Report

***RESEARCH                     

Detecting scientific sloppiness: A surprisingly simple test to check research papers for errors   Economist

Science hype and questionable research practices satirized In Trump vs Trump paper   Retraction Watch

Why Most Clinical Research Is Not Useful  PLOS Journal

Presenting scientific results: A scientific study of the importance of diagrams to science  Economist

Harvard Theological Review refuses to retract article despite evidence that the article — about Jesus’s wife — was based on a forgery  Retraction Watch        

***GENDER ISSUES

Stopping Tenure Clock helps Male professors More  Inside Higher Ed

***RACE

Make America White Again: A Tennessee congressional candidate put up a billboard exhorting voters to "Make America White Again" as part of his political campaign  Snopes

It’s official: Minority babies are the majority among the nation’s infants, but only just  Pew Research

A sharp spike in racist incidents reported after the Brexit vote  Washington Post

3 Key Takeaways From the Supreme Court’s Decision on Race-Conscious Admissions  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The real winners of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling are rich, white people  Washington Post

Post EU Referendum Racism Documented Online And It’s Really Scary  Huffington Post

***SEXUAL ASSAULT

Hundreds of colleges had zero rape reports in 2014. And that could be worrisome ("Either they don’t have an adequate reporting system … or they know about the rapes and are putting them under the rug.”)  Washington Post  

How you can help victims of sex trafficking while traveling  Daily Dot

What One Rape Cost Our Family (opinion)  New York Times

***TECHNOLOGY

State-of-the-art education software often doesn’t help students learn more, study finds (2 lessons from the most rigorous study to date of "adaptive-learning" courseware)  Hechinger Report

Text messages are often the weakest link in two-step logins  Wired

***THE INTERNET

Reweaving the web- A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world  Economist         

Googling medical symptoms may no longer convince you that you’re dying  Arstechnica

***BIG DATA  

Trade in data seems very important, but there are no good, er, data on it  Economist  

Big data needs little data that goes along with it. Its value is only realized when it's used with KPIs  Forbes

Polls v prediction markets-did a Bayesian approach mislead Brexit expectations?  Economist

Most big data researchers are not submitting their work for IRB review-& even when they do, they avoid transparency  Forbes

Data science company says data mining software used by spy agencies just got more powerful  Fed Scope

***JOURNALISM

Health journalism has a serious evidence problem. Here’s a plan to save it.  Vox

FOIA Request on Immigration would cost more than $173K FiveThirtyEight

The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, and the push for digital credibility  Columbia Journalism Review

***SCIENCE

The Limits of Science: What We Cannot Know (book review)  Economist

How an academic urban legend can spread because of the difficulty of clear citation  Andrew Gelman

***PSYCHOLOGY    

How Psychology Made the Brexit Vote Inevitable  TIME

Minister Tests Ban on Gay-Conversion Therapy  Courthouse News

***ETHICS

Should Your Driverless Car Hit a Pedestrian to Save Your Life?  New York Times

Are Research Ethics Obsolete In The Era Of Big Data? (the current model of IRB approval simply is not working for “big data” research)  Forbes

Do scientific fraudsters deserve a second chance?  Stat

***RELIGION

Is Donald Trump now a born-again Christian?   Religious News Service

5 key findings about global restrictions on religion   Pew Research

How Did Trump’s Speech to Evangelicals Go on Tuesday? Not Great  Slate 

Survey: White evangelicals say US no longer a Christian nation  Religious New Service

Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays  Reuters

***FILM & THEATER

Predicting the success of “Hamilton”  Economist

***STUDENT LIFE

Spending a few extra years in college may cost you more than you think  Washington Post

What Every New College Grad Should Know About Retirement Savings  Fortune

The government offers $130 billion to college students. Why aren’t more applying for it?  Washington Post

Science suggests genes can hugely influence academic performance  Quartz

***HIGHER ED

In College Turmoil, Signs of a Changed Relationship  New York Times

Fisher v. Texas: Affirmative action at the University of Texas is constitutional, the Supreme Court Rules  Vox

Three graduation rates for one college? The baffling government policy that could confuse students  Washington Post

What might Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn mean for higher ed?  Inside Higher Ed

Tuition at public colleges has soared in the past decade, but student fees have risen faster  Washington Post

***CHRISTIAN COLLEGES & LGBTQ ISSUES

Faith-based colleges say anti-discrimination bill would infringe on their religious freedom   LA Times

Fear-Mongering From Religious University over LGBT Protections (opinion) ("nowhere does the bill itself seek to eliminate religious education or religious liberty")  Medium

The twisted logic of evangelical colleges welcoming straight atheists and rejecting gay Christians (opinion)  The Week

“Tolerant” California Will Not Tolerate Christian Colleges (written by the author of the "Hipster Christianity")  (opinion)  Brett McCracken

A Response to Biola University’s SB 1146 Opposition (written by 2009 Biola alumni)  Campus Pride

 ***TEACHING

College courses without textbooks? These schools are giving it a shot  Washington Post

Why some college professors are telling students to use Wikipedia for class  LA Times

Study casts doubt on value of remedial math for college Washington Post

 

Articles of Interest - June 20

***TECHNOLOGY

Can You Really Spot Cancer Through a Search Engine? A Microsoft team thinks it can  MIT Tech Review

The New Economics of Cybercrime: Instead of Stealing Data, Holding it for Ransom  The Atlantic

***ART AND DESIGN

How social media is changing art  Vice                 

***SOCIAL MEDIA

6 in 10 of you will share this link without reading it, a new, depressing study says  Washington Post

How Yahoo derailed Tumblr  Mashable

Texting is the way we say goodbye during tragedy now  Washington Post

***BIG DATA  

Can You Really Spot Cancer Through a Search Engine? A Microsoft team thinks it can  Technology Review

Survey methodologies: In the age of big data, survey research will not only survive but thrive  Pew Research

A guide to machine learning.. why it matters and where it's going  Tech Republic

Statistical & computational expertise only goes so far in Big Data Analytics: What many Data Scientists are missing  Forbes

***PERSONAL GROWTH

The Elevator Speech  Becoming

Seven Misconceptions About Creativity and How to Harness It  Life Hacker

***GENDER ISSUES

Research Explores Ways To Overcome STEM Fields' Gender Gap   NPR         

Female Veteran Fires Back At Angry Parking Note In The Best Way Possible  Huffington Post

Are U.S. Millennial Men Just as Sexist as Their Dads?  Harvard Business Review

How sexism holds back the economy  Washington Post

How Feminist Academics Dealt With An Ethics Professor Accused Of Harassment  Huffington Post

Witch Movies Aren’t Just About Horror. They’re About the Fear of Female Power  Wired

***RACE

Americans now think it’s okay to say what they really think about race  Washington Post

Big data shows racial bias in police behavior Stanford's data shows that Oakland police officers haven't treated everyone fair  Engadget

***SEXUAL ASSAULT  

There Are Far More Title IX Investigations Of Colleges Than Most People Know (How universities are able to keep these federal probes hidden)  Huffington Post    

College says rape victim is partly to blame  Boston Global

***LEGAL ISSUES

Court Backs Rules Treating Internet as Utility, Not Luxury  New York Times

Appeals Court upholds FCC net neutrality regulations, rejecting arguments from telecom, cable and wireless companies  Talking New Media

Net Neutrality Won Big Today, But Don’t Celebrate Just Yet  Wired

Supreme Court Says Student Who Won Copyright Battle with Publisher can go after legal fees  Talking New Media                                        

***RELIGION

Southern Baptist Convention Urges Churches To Welcome Refugees  NPR

***JOURNALISM

4 Reasons for Optimism in Pew’s ‘State of the News Media’ Report  PBS MediaShift

Pew’s 2016 news media report is a tough read for journalism  Tech Crunch

Reuters’ ‘Digital News Report’ shows the growth of social media as a news source  Talking New Media

Data Journalism Awards 2016: what the winners tell us about the state of the data nation  Medium

The New York Times charged two scholars $1,884 for three quoted passages, each roughly 100 words long, in their new book on health coverage. Fair?  Undark

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

In the race to win readers, which publisher will come out ahead?  Columbia Journalism Review

Is Donald Trump’s Endgame the Launch of Trump News? (The candidate is considering starting his own cable empire)  Vanity Fair

Tronc threatens a nightmare hellscape of video content in new warning to employees   The Verge

Cruel Summer for Newspapers: Publishers see their business circling the drain in rapid decaying orbit  Politico

The Future of Journalism Is a Deadly Swarm of Buzzwords, According to Tronc  Slate

***SCIENCE

The Mistrust of Science  The New Yorker

How to Diagram a Great Science Story  Undark

***PSYCHOLOGY    

The Psychology of Hate  TIME

Both Introverts and Extraverts Get Exhausted from Too Much Socializing  Scientific American

***NEUROSCIENCE 

The Pain and Pleasure of Sad Music  Neuroscience News

Even as an adult, learning a second language changes your brain  Quarz

How Exercise May Help the Brain Grow Stronger  New York Times

***PHILOSOPHY

Most of management theory is inane: If you want to succeed in business, don’t get an M.B.A. Study philosophy instead  The Atlantic

***ETHICS

Memories of Unethical Actions Fade Faster  Association for Psychological Science

***HIGHER ED

Chinese university puts CCTV in dormitories to encourage 'good study habits'  The Guardian 

Professors group adds Saint Rose to censure list Guild slams college over academic freedom, tenure  Times Union

Dramatic video shows hero disarming shooter at Seattle Pacific University in 2014  The Seattle Times

Christians Must Repent for Devaluing L.G.B.T. (“the discrimination I faced as a staff member at Wheaton College last year changed me”)  New York Times

***STUDENT LIFE

Millennials May Be Losing Their Grip  NPR

Chinese Tiger Mums Start a College-town Housing boom  Economist

***ACADEMIC LIFE

New doctorate holders are grappling with dwindling employment prospects Wall Street Journal

***TEACHING

Microsoft Releases 'Minecraft: Educator Edition'  Ed Surge

 

Articles of Interest - June 13

***SOCIAL MEDIA

32m Twitter passwords may have been hacked and put up for sale on the Deep Web  The Next Web  Washington Post 

Creepy startup will help landlords, employers and online dates strip-mine intimate data from your Facebook page  Washington Post

How Academics and Researchers Can Get More Out of Social Media  Harvard Business Review

Social-media apps that used to receive most attention are now getting significantly less screen time  ZD net

Stars of social media are trying to break into the mainstream  Economist

Facebook activates ‘safety check’ in Orlando  Washington Post

‘Chewbacca Mom’ Has Gotten $420,000 Worth of Gifts Since Facebook Video Went Viral  TIME

Microsoft to buy networking site LinkedIn for $26.2 billion Associated Press

Snapchat redesigned its publisher section and now lets you subscribe to your favorite channels  Recode

5 ways brand managers can use Periscope and Meerkat   PR Daily

***PRODUCING MEDIA

The Future of Podcasting  Stratechery

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Betting on Those We Love  Becoming (my site)

***PSYCHOLOGY    

It’s not just college students: Higher education itself is experiencing a mental health crisis  Quartz

America’s obsession with adult coloring is a cry for help  Quartz

Character-driven: Why never giving up is a worthwhile goal (book review)  Economist

Learn to Spot a Liar With These Verbal Signs  Life Hacker

The problem with trying to solve gun violence by going after the mentally ill  Washington Post

How Seeing YouTube Videos Helped me Understand my Schizophrenia  NPR

How Technology Hijacks People’s Mindsfrom a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist  Medium

Why You Just Lost 20 Minutes to the Internet  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***NEUROSCIENCE

Revulsion wired the brain for morals, manners, politics and laws (book excerpt from This is your brain on Parasites)  Aeon

***JOURNALISM

What happens when a 50-something journalist gets a week’s worth of news from Snapchat Discover?   Harvard’s Nieman Lab

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Blendle, the ‘Spotify of Journalism,’ May Be the Antidote to Ad Blockers  Newsweek

Write An Essay To Win A Local Newspaper  NPR

The Washington Post is dabbling in translations to reach a growing non-English speaking audience  Harvard Nieman Lab  

Can Anyone Save The New York Times from Itself?  Vanity Fair

***GRAMMAR         

The Double Life and Death of Dickens  The Atlantic

When it comes to language, some users are more peevish than others  Economist

Why The New York Times published a story with (almost) no periods  Poynter

Transitive and Intransitive verbs in the Economist style book  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***WRITING& READING

 Can Reading Make You Happier?   The New Yorker

June Means AP Stylebook Changes  Prof KRG

***LANGUAGE

Why The Spanish Language Isn’t ‘Foreign’ In The United States   Huffington Post

Babies’ brains are wired to learn multiple languages at once  Quartz

Software that Supports Multilingual Dialogue  Chornicle of Higher Ed

***LITERATURE

Stealing Books in the Age of Self-Publishing  The Atlantic

English professor's 500-plus tweetstorm about 'King Lear' is the literary community’s hottest beef  The Verge

Oscar Wilde came from a wild and eccentric family (book review)  Economist

If Jane Austen Got Feedback From Some Guy In A Writing Workshop  BuzzFeed

BBC Radio Drama of Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov: Streaming Free for a Limited Time  Open Culture

Italian Newspaper’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Giveaway Sparks Backlash   Huffington Post

19 of literature’s best first lines  PR Daily

***RESEARCH

Fraud, bureaucracy and an obsession with quantity over quality still hold Chinese science back  The Economist

How to handle an idiotic review (opinion)  Scientist Sees Squirrel

***GENDER ISSUES                                    

College dorms a new front in U.S. battle over transgender rights  Reuters

Gender Disparity in Scholarly Publishing Revisited (there are precious few women heading scholarly publishing organizations or their Boards)  The Scholarly Kitchen

In effort to understand continuing racial disparities, NIH to test for bias in study sections  Science Mag

Colleges are scrambling to ensure housing for transgender students meets federal standards  Reuters

***RACE

Race and Sexual Harassment in Academia  Jstor

Fox Sports Florida Reporter in Hot Water for Racist Comments  Adweek

100 years of data about Pulitzer Prize Winners (the women and people of color who are being shut out of American journalism’s most prestigious award)   Columbia Journalism Review

***FREE SPEECH     

Free Speech is in Retreat   Economist

A First Amendment For Social Platforms  BuzzFeed

Curbs on Free Speech Grow: It's Time to Speak Out (opinion)  Economist

How California’s new copyright bill could chill public debate  Columbia Journalism Review

Young westerners are less keen than their parents on free speech  Economist

University protesters believe they are fighting for justice; their critics think free speech is imperiled  Economist

Gawker’s Bankruptcy Is How a Free Press Dies, One VC at a Time (opinion)   Wired

***TECHNOLOGY

The internet of things: Connected homes will take longer to materialise than expected  Economist

The NSA wants to monitor pacemakers and other medical devices (Oh, and also the entire Internet of Things)  The Verge

***THE INTERNET

This site does exactly what it says it will do, but people are clicking on it anyway ("Ruin My Search History" will run a series of searches in your browser, escalating in the potential to destroy your Google results)  Washington Post

***FILM

Propaganda film project backfires on North Korea  Telegraph

***BIG DATA  

Poll resuts-the most popular general data science platforms  KD Nuggets

Hadoop creator: Tech that will soon allow Hadoop to squeeze more value from big data  ZDnet

How Government-Funded Big Data technologies successfully Transition to the Commercial Sector  Inside Big Data

AI Used to track Mental Health Patters (like PTSD) can provide real-time conversation feedback (such as pointing out when someone is rude)  MIT News

***RELIGION

I’m a Woman Who Got Kicked Out of Women’s Bathrooms: written by Professor of English at George Fox University (opinion)  Christianity Today      

Divided America: Evangelicals feel alienated, anxious  Associated Press

'God's Not Dead' Producers Facing $100M Copyright Lawsuit  Hollywood Reporter

Southern Baptist membership declines yet again  Associated Press

Dr. James Dobson: Christian Parents Will Violate Scripture if Daughters Use Trans-Inclusive Bathrooms  Christian Post

Georgia Baptist official says religious freedom is not for Muslims  Religious News Service

Texas lieutenant governor deletes Bible tweet after shooting  KRGV-TV

Secular Voters Raise Their Voices: So-called ‘nones’ work to harness their growing numbers into a strong political bloc  Wall Street Journal

***STUDENT LIFE

How Student Debt Affects Personal Choices Of Young People  NPR

Teens having less sex and are drinking and using drugs less often, study finds  LA Times

One of the best ways to predict whether a student will drop out  Inside Higher Ed

***SCIENCE

How should we treat science’s growing pains? (Quality control has failed to keep pace with the growth of science)  The Guardian

Framing science in televised interviews: researchers use personal accounts as a way of reframing news stories introduced by the program hosts  Public Understanding of Science

Google launches Science Journal to turn your phone into a research lab  The Next Web

***ETHICS

A critical take on the Steve McCurry Photojounalism Scandal”  Writing Through Light

Psychology instructor withdraws book chapter after refusing to add language that he asserts a publisher demanded  Inside Higher Ed

***HIGHER ED

Orlando Colleges Offer Support After Mass Shooting at Gay Club  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The class ceiling: China’s education system is deeply unfair  Economist

University pays $20,000 to ransomware hackers  BBC

How one California university faked students’ scores, skated by immigration authorities — and made a fortune in the process  BuzzFeed

How Colleges Train for Active Shooters on Campus (sub. req.)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

California bill takes aim at religious colleges that seek to bar transgender students  EdSource

***TEACHING

Reformers are showing that the best teachers are made, not born  Economist

***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS  

Stanford U Defends Its Role in Rape Case  Inside Higher Ed

Former Stanford swimmer's case renews debate about second chances for athletes  Inside Higher Ed

Stanford University on defensive over efforts to deter sexual assault  Globe and Mail

‘We’re horrified’: At Stanford, the impact of a sexual assault is searing  Washington Post

These colleges have the most reports of rape – but that may not be bad  Sacramento Bee

The Stanford sex offender’s beliefs about sexual assault are surprisingly widespread (College students admit to forcing sex, but they don't call it rape)  Washington Post

Advocates Warn against Ranking Colleges Handling Sexual Assault Based on Clery Data  Inside Higher Ed

California College Reaches Deal to Resolve Investigation of Sexual-Assault Cases  Chronicle of Higher Ed