10 Things to do when people bring you their problems

1. Empathize with hurt feelings.

2. Reflect a genuine concern.

3. Offer a summary of the problem as you see it.

4. Be slow to give advice. Let the other person come to the best decisions themselves whenever possible.

5. Distinguish between causes and symptoms.

6. Keep confidences.

7. Wisely use questions. Especially open-ended and indirect questions. Use “why” sparingly.

8. Watch your body language.

9. Be willing to refer the person to someone else more qualified when the problem is beyond your abilities or knowledge.

10. Ask the person how he or she is doing a few days later. Let the person know you haven’t forgotten about them and you care. Their situation is important to you.

Stephen Goforth

Articles of Interest - August 22

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Live-streaming  Economist

What you need to know to get started with Facebook Live  International Journalists' Network

98 personal data points that Facebook uses to target ads to you  Washington Post

Is 'FaceBragging' the quickest route to divorce?  Stuff

Twitter ‘quality filter’ works because it’s about news, not social  The Next Web

***PRODUCING MEDIA

A GIF-by-GIF guide to GIFing everything you see  Daily Dot

Everything you ever wanted to know about WeChat  Medium

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Chronic procrastination? Rather than lamenting your lack of will power, you can just blame your parents  Becoming (my blog)

Patience Is the Secret to Wealth and Health, Economists Suggest in a New Study  Wall Street Journal

***GRAMMAR           

What’s the Matter With ‘Me’?  Resistance to the personal object pronoun continues to rise Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Linguistics of Assassination Threats: What exactly did Donald Trump mean about 'the Second Amendment people"?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Reflections on the origin of the phrase "drink the Kool-Aid"  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***WRITING& READING

8 Writers on How to Face Writer’s Block and the Blank Page: Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Franzen, Joyce Carol Oates & More  Open Culture

Learning to Write All Over Again  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Thank Heavens for Email Clichés  The Atlantic

***LANGUAGE

Is repeating your toddler’s cute speech mistakes bad for her development?  Slate

Machine-to-Human Communication: Nobody Cares   Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LITERATURE

Will Reading Romance Novels Make Artificial Intelligence More Human?   Jstor  

Literature of the Forever War  New York Times

Happy Birthday, Dorothy Parker  Jstor

Better To Reign In Hell: Literature's Unpunished Villains  NPR

***GENDER ISSUES

Women are judged by the way they speak  Economist

***RACE

Study Finds More Faculty Diversity at Public Institutions Than at Private Ones Chronicle of Higher Ed

Are black Americans more likely to be shot or roughed up by police?  Economist

***LEGAL ISSUES

If computers wrote laws: Decisions handed down by data  Economist

Confusion over legality of republishing Data Sets  Nature

***BIG DATA / STATS  

 The 7 Steps of a Data Project  Data Science

DARPA wants AI with the capacity to help humans trace the conclusions, decisions and reasoning  Next Big Future

Will reading romance novels make artificial intelligence more human?  Jstor

The hardest work in data analysis lies in the data munging-an unglamorous yet critical part of data science  Analytic Bridge

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

P&G to Scale Back Targeted Facebook Ads citing limited effectiveness  Wall Street Journal

Facebook Profit Nearly Triples on Mobile Ad Sales and New Users  New York Times

Television is at last having its digital-revolution moment  Economist

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Buyouts hit GateHouse newspapers across the United States  Poynter

Facebook Traffic to U.S. News Sites Has Fallen by Double Digits, Report Says  Fortune

NYT decides to shutter its mobile app NYT Now, will rely on Facebook to drive new traffic  Talking New Media

News Apps Are Dying Off. But in a Way, They’ll Live On  Wired

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Law Professor to Students: Stop Calling Me by My First Name  Wall Street Journal

***SCIENCE

The Changing Face of Scientific Collaboration: A spirit of collective enterprise in research is being replaced by a rush to assign precise credit for who did what  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***HEALTH

Menopause Makes Your Body Age Faster  TIME

***PSYCHOLOGY           

Bayesian reasoning may help to explain some mental disorders where processing flaws confuse prior expectations  Science News

***NEUROSCIENCE

Researchers just doubled what we know about the map of the human brain  Washington Post

Sting's Brain Scan Reveals Clues About How The Musical Mind Works  NPR

***HIGHER ED

UC Berkeley chancellor to resign following widespread criticism by faculty  LA Times

As College Costs Soar, Critics Question Open Curriculum Courses  NPR

California bill to ban grant students from religious colleges stymied   Washington Times

Oklahoma Wesleyan University Joins Lawsuit Over 'Dear Colleague' Letter  KOTV

***TEACHING

Do perceptions of the utility of ethics affect academic cheating?  Science Direct

***RESEARCH

Two Cheers for the Retraction Boom  The New Atlantis

‘Does This Have to Go through the IRB?’ Chronicle of Higher Ed

Two studies, one on neuroscience and one on palaeoclimatology, cast doubt on established results  Economist

Science editor-in-chief sounds alarm over falling public trust  Times Higher Ed

***RELIGION

Bible commentaries pulped after New Testament scholar admits plagiarism  Christian Today

Despite his popularity, the pontiff’s efforts to reshape his church face stiff resistance  Economist

Evangelical Lutherans Overwhelmingly Vote to Approve Declaration of Unity With Roman Catholics  Christian News

The Obsession With Biblical Literalism: A Christian theme park in Kentucky brings the ancient to life through a life-sized reconstruction of Noah’s Ark—but not without dipping into fiction (opinion)  The Atlantic

the cost

The cost of a thing is the amount of life that must be exchanged for it. -Henry David Thoreau

Make Things = Know Thyself

If I waited to know “who I was” or “what I was about” before I started “being creative”, well, I’d still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it’s in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.

Austin Kleon, How to Steal Like an Artist

arguments worth having

Parents who browbeat their kids into being obedient and agreeable may not be giving them the best preparation for the real world. A new study shows that encouraging teens to argue calmly and effectively against parental orders makes them much more likely to resist peer pressure.

University of Virginia researchers observed more than 150 13-year-olds as they disputed issues like grades, chores, and friends with their mothers. When researchers checked back in with the teens two and three years later, they found that those who had argued the longest and most convincingly—without yelling, whining, or throwing insults—were also 40 percent less likely to have accepted offers of drugs and alcohol than the teens who had caved quickly.

“We found that what a teen learned in handling these kinds of disagreements with their parents was exactly what they took into their peer world,” study author Joseph P. Allen tells NPR.org. The key to having a constructive debate with your kids, experts say, is listening to them attentively and rewarding them when they make a good point—even if you don’t end up reaching a mutual agreement. “Think of those arguments not as a nuisance,” Allen says, “but as a critical training ground” for wise, independent decision-making.

The Week Magazine

Articles of Interest - August 15

***TECHNOLOGY

MIT and Microsoft Research made a 'smart' tattoo that remotely controls your phone  The Verge

***ART AND DESIGN

Google Chrome is officially killing Flash starting next month  The Next Web

Optical Adjustment – Logic vs. Designers (opinion)  Marvel

Zara Comes Under Fire for Copying Indie Artists Designs  The Fashion Law Blog

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Researchers Study Effects Of Social Media On Young Minds  NPR

Stop Chasing Clicks … It’s About Community  AdWeek

Facebook to give 'informative' posts more weight  USA Today

***PRODUCING MEDIA

A blueprint for planning audio projects  NPR

***BIG DATA / STATS  

Big data: digging a little deeper into millennials on social media.. they aren’t all cut from the same cloth  Data Science Central

Just bec algorithms inspired by Bayes’ theorem can mimic cognition doesn’t mean our brains employ similar algorithms  Scientific American

Meaningful relationships (in data)... "predictions may be more prone to failure in the era of Big Data"   Becoming

 An attempt to explain Gaussian processes (an alternative approach to regression problems) in Machine Learning GitHub

What the lack of transparency means for black-box difficult-to-interpret statistical models  CIO Review

Data integration changes enormously with IoT. How the internet of things changes Big Data  Data-Informed

A Big Data and Data Science newsletter list of good resources for all things data  Data Science Central

***GENDER ISSUES

He's Brilliant, She's Lovely: Teaching Computers To Be Less Sexist  NPR

***RACE

IS Pokemon Go a Racist App?  USA Today

Newspaper Covers Simone Manuel's Historic Gold in Olympically Offensive Way  Huffington Post

The 4.3 million Americans whose race could change when they die  Quartz

Want To Address Teachers' Biases? First, Talk About Race  NPR

The Racist Chinese Washing Powder ad and the Truth about Afrophobia in China  Quartz

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

Dear old media: Get over yourselves  Columbia Journalism Review

***JOURNALISM

TV Anchor Has Had It Up To *Here* With NBC's Ridiculous Restrictions On Olympics Coverage  Digg

How to avoid 10 common mistakes in data reporting  American Press Institute

A Front-Row Look at State-Sanctioned Terrorism: Journalism students studying abroad in Uruguay and Argentina witness the aftermath of an attack on freedom of the press (opinion)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Warren Buffett changes his mind about newspapers: ‘Newspapers are going to go downhill’  Talking New Media

Study looks at the performance of three media spin-offs and sees the newspaper side lagging  Talking New Media

***JOBS

Five Signs Your Interview Is Fake Because They've Already Hired Someone  Forbes

***HEALTH

Which Percentage of People Is Older and Younger Than You  Public Health Intelligence

The Sad State of Product Design and Innovation in Healthcare  Medium

Muslim doctor: My patient refused to let me treat her because of my Religion Washington Post

 Cocaine Vaccine Approved For Testing In Humans  CBS NY

Zika Moves Quickly, and Scientists Fear That Journals Aren't Keeping Pace  The Chronicle of Higher Education

***WRITING & READING

In the Only Surviving Recording of Her Voice, Virginia Woolf Explains Why Writing Isn’t a “Craft” (1937)  Open Culture

***LANGUAGE

Partisan Political Speech  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LITERATURE

What’s Old Is New Again.. Lewis Carroll  Chronicle of Higher Ed

How Did Children’s Literature Evolve From Prim Morality Tales to the Likes of Captain Underpants?  Slate

James Joyce: An Animated Introduction to His Life and Literary Works Open Culture

The 10 worst endings in all of literature  Business Insider

***PSYCHOLOGY           

Most Common Family Types in America  Flowing Data

The Replication Game: How Well Do Psychology Studies Hold Up?   Science Friday

Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why (education policy in rich countries has emphasised academic skills while neglecting emotional and psychological development)  Economist

5 science-backed tips for getting rid of guilt  The Week

***NEUROSCIENCE

Can This Brain Exercise Put Off Dementia? A new study is believed to be the first to show that speed training can reduce the risk for the condition  Wall Street Journal

***ETHICS

Augmented Reality Games Like Pokémon Go Need a Code of Ethics—Now  Wired

***FREE SPEECH

The Story Behind The New Documentary ‘Can We Take a Joke?’ (It started with a comment from a comedian about playing on college campuses)  Huffington Post

***LEGAL ISSUES

Judge: Ohio State didn't defame fired marching band director Associated Press

***RELIGION

A Hillary Clinton speech on improving the plight of women and girls worldwide has been cited as a demand that American Christians deny their faith  Snopes

Thirty years ago, progressives embraced religious exemptions. No longer  Economist

As U.S. Politicians Shun Syrian Refugees, Religious Groups Embrace Them  NPR

Is God Transgendered? (opinion)  New York Times

Why a stout theological creed is not saving evangelical churches  Religious News Service

Most states allow religious exemptions from child abuse and neglect laws  Pew Research

White Christian America is dying Washington Post

***HIGHER ED

Head of University of California campus resigns after probe  Associated Press

Data From the 2016 Higher Ed Almanac  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Keeping Faith without Hurting LGBT Students at Christian Colleges  The Atlantic

State senator drops proposal that angered religious universities in California  LA Times

A coalition of 25 LGBT rights groups are urging the Big 12 not to admit Brigham Young University as a new member, citing the school's policies against homosexual behavior  Christian Science Monitor

***TEACHING

Does Your Teaching Encourage Epistemological Pluralism?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Why Today's MOOCs Are Not Innovative  Campus Technology

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Institutes, Grading, and the Nine Circles of Adjunct Hell: ‘McSweeney’s’ Regards Academe  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***STUDENT LIFE

19 signs you're a functioning adult — even if it doesn't feel like it  Business Insider

***RESEARCH            

8  Rejected Papers That Won the Nobel Prize  Authorea

Do declarative titles affect readers’ perceptions of research findings? A randomized trial   Research Integrity & Peer Review

***SEXUAL ASSAULT

Federal investigation launched into BYU’s handling of sex-assault reports  Salt Lake Tribune

How Technology Could Change Reporting of Campus Sexual Assault (sub. req.’ed)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

stomping of the foot (before storming out of class)

I'll never forget the student who charged out of one of my first philosophy classes. The professor had challenged the student's view of religion and the young man stomped his foot, turned red, yelled, and left the room.

Why such an emotional outburst? Perhaps his beliefs were built on a weak foundation. A little rhetoric from an authority figure threatened to topple the structure. When we accept the conclusions of other people, never figuring out the "why" for ourselves, weak lay a weak foundation. Should we intentionally avoid opposing view points? It turns out we naturally steer clear of conflict.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found the less certain you are about what you believe, the more likely you’ll stay away from opposing viewpoints (and freak out when you run across opposing opinion). After reviewing nearly 100 studies, they came to the conclusion that people tend minimize their exposure when they are less certain and less confident in their own position. In fact, we're nearly twice as likely to completely avoid differing opinions than we are to give consideration to different ideas. For those who are close-minded the percentage jumps even higher. Three-out-of-four times the close-minded person will stick to what supports their own conclusions. Details of the study are in the Psychological Bulletin by Researchers.

Stephen Goforth

Becoming

Becoming is superior to being -  Paul Klee

Clothed with Happiness

In Bermuda, Johnny Barnes decided to put on a prodigal display in 1986. He would stand at the Crow Lane roundabout in Hamilton, where most of the rush-hour traffic came past, and tell each passing motorist how sweet life was and how much he loved them. His days had long overflowed with happiness, in his garden and in his jobs as a railway electrician and a bus-driver, where he had taken up the habit of waving and smiling to anyone who passed as he ate his lunchtime sandwiches. He had lavished joy on his wife Belvina, “covering her with honey”, as he put it. But there was plenty left over.

For 30 years he went to the roundabout every weekday morning. He would rise at around 3am, walk two miles to his post, stay for six hours shouting “I love you!”, smiling and blowing kisses, and then walk home again. He was there in the heat, his wide-brimmed straw hat keeping off the sun, and there in the rain with his umbrella. Only storms deterred him and eventually, the creakings of old age… Over the years, he transmitted his radiant happiness to drivers hundreds of thousands of times.

Johnny Barnes, Bermuda’s “greeter” died on July 9th at the age of aged 93. Read more in The Economist.

Articles of Interest - August 8

***PSYCHOLOGY                       

The clearest proof yet that your job is killing you  Washington Post

Who You Hate Depends on How Smart You Are, Study Finds  Vice

What do Lisa Kudrow, aka Phoebe from Friends, Colin Firth and Natalie Portman have in common? They’ve published psychology papers  Discover Magazine

What if Addiction Is Not a Disease?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Carl Jung Explains Why His Famous Friendship with Sigmund Freud Fell Apart in Rare 1959 Audio  Open Culture

Spotify’s incredibly addictive playlists are based on simple behavioral psychology  Quartz

***SCIENCE

After another stumble, is fMRI brain scanning learning from its mistakes?  Stat News

A Unified Theory of Randomness: Researchers have uncovered deep connections among different types of random objects, illuminating hidden geometric structures  Quanta Magazine

Should science fraudsters have to serve jail time?  Stat News

***MEDICAL

When Pregnant Women Need Medicine they encounter a Void  NPR

Turning Surgical Sutures into Sensors  Economist

Why Don't Doctors Recognize Cardiac Arrest?  The Atlantic

I'm an OB-GYN treating women with Zika: This is what it's like  The Conversation

***NEUROSCIENCE

The Brain that Couldn’t Remember  New York Times

How Hackers could get inside your head with brain malware  MotherBoard

After another stumble, is fMRI brain scanning learning from its mistakes?   Stat News

***TECHNOLOGY

Watch out, ladies: Your period-tracking app could be leaking personal data Washington Post

Your.MD chatbot could save your life (or misdiagnose a mosquito bite)  Venture Beat

Turning surgical sutures into sensors  Economist

***ART AND DESIGN

How To Make Your Not-So-Great Visual Design Better  Medium

Spend 50% less time thinking about pixels and 50% more time thinking about the experience Medium

Introducing BuzzFeed’s Design Process  Medium

How Tools Have Shaped the Role of the Designer ux Design

91-year-old woman fills in crossword at museum - only to discover it was a £60,000 artwork  Telegraph

***SOCIAL MEDIA

The IOC is cracking down on Olympic GIFs  Washington Post

Can Candid Conversations Happen Online Without The Trolls?  NPR

Meet the Internet’s ‘greatest liar,’ whose Twitter death hoaxes have fooled millions  Washington Post

Professors Assign Students to Post to BuzzFeed. You’ll Never Believe What Happens Next  Chronicle of Higher Ed

What Is a ‘Serious Academic’? Social-Media Critique Provokes a Backlash  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Snapchat's biggest threat is its own design: Why Snapchat needs to start stealing from Instagram  The Verge

What Instagram Stories say about the state of social media  Washington Post

***BIG DATA / STATS  

Why my fellow students aren’t interested in doing data science for you (and how to get them interested)  Venture Beat

A list of automated Data Science and Data Mining platforms  KD Nuggets

Spend 50% less time thinking about pixels and 50% more time thinking about the experience  Medium

***PERSONAL GROWTH

The Difference between a change and a Transition  Becoming (my blog)

What do you want your obituary to say? Here are two amazingly different stories  Economist

Do Your Friends Actually Like You?  New York Times

New research shows that even severe stress can have an upside  Economist

***GENDER ISSUES

Convincing the VC Bro-nopoly to Fund Female-First Companies  Wired

Mansplaining Is Real! But Male Self-Citation in Academic Work Isn’t So Simple  Slate

‘The man responsible': NBC broadcaster draws ire after crediting world record to swimmer’s husband  Washington Post

The Media Is Saying And Doing A Bunch Of Sexist Stuff During The Olympics   Huffington Post

Gender Self-Identification: M or W?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Supreme Court Blocks Order In Favor Of Trans Student Seeking Bathroom Access  Huffington Post

A closer look at the gender gap in presidential voting  Pew Research

***LEGAL ISSUES

The Supreme Court Will Consider a Case About Copyrighting Cheerleading Uniforms  Mother Board

Who owns your tattoo? Maybe not you  The Conversation

***GRAMMAR           

Diagramming Trump  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***WRITING& READING

Why Your Texts Sound Angry When You Add A Period  The Conversation

Scholars Talk Writing: Steven Pinker  Chronicle of Higher Ed

4 Places Writers Leave Money on the Table  Copyblogger

Maya Angelou Reads Her Poem, “The Human Family,” in New iPhone Ad Released for the Olympics’ Opening Ceremony  Open Culture

***LANGUAGE

A Word for Parents who’ve lost children in War  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LITERATURE

The Blurred Line Between Propaganda and Literature  Truth Dig

The Last Bookstore: A Short Documentary on Perseverance & the Love of Books Open Culture

Of Thee I Read: The United States in Literature  New York Times

Book Readers Live Longer Lives, According to New Study from Yale University  Open Culture

***RESEARCH

Why That “Drug That Halts Alzheimer’s” Story Is Probably Not True  BuzzFeed

A statistical definition for reproducibility and replicability  Bioorxiv           

‘Kudos’ promises to help scientists promote their papers to new audiences: Increasingly popular social-media tool says it can maximize reach and impact of research  Nature

How much is scientific research being led by narcissists?   Times Higher Ed

***JOURNALISM

SPJ is Not Behind a Mass Media Conspiracy to Skew Coverage of Terrorism  Spinetwork

Can mythbusters like Snopes.com keep up in a post-truth era?  The Guardian

The Octagon on New York City's Roosevelt Island named Historic Site in Journalism  SPJ News

A Food Critic’s Plagiarism Roils Richmond Journalism  Washingtonian

How journalists can do their crucial job in the next 100 days (opinion)  Washington Post

New York Times launches text-message journalism for Rio Olympics  CNN

Should a journalist should look at a journal’s impact factor while covering a study? (opinion)  Health Journalism

CHORP, the future of news (video)  John Oliver

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Famous Headlines, Rewritten For Facebook's New Clickbait Policy  The Atlantic

***RELIGION

Israel accuses World Vision's Gaza director of diverting cash to Hamas  The Guardian

Chinese students are flocking to Christian high schools in the US  Business Insider

The Anti-Human-Trafficking Crusader: Agnes Igoye is building a law-enforcement system to protect Uganda’s girls  The Atlantic

Ibtihaj Muhammad: First US Olympian to compete in hijab  Religious News Service

Which countries still outlaw apostasy and blasphemy?  Pew Research

***RELIGION & POLITICS

Donald Trump And A Church Steeped In 'Positive Thinking'  NPR

How the polls inflate Trump’s evangelical vote (opinion)  Religious News Service

Mike Pence’s Double-Bind on Persecuted Christians:The Republican is advocating a country-based ban on refugees from the Middle East, Does that include the people who practice his own faith?  The Atlantic

***STUDENT MEDIA  

Journalism Teachers Now Protected From Retaliation Under Law  Ed Week

Student newspaper at the University of Central Florida closes after 48 years  Student Press Law Center

***STUDENT LIFE

College Meal Plans: What to Do With All Those Leftover Swipes  New York Times

College Student Killed While Playing ‘Pokemon Go’  Huffington Post

***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

When a recruiter emails you, don't jump to these 3 conclusions too quickly  USA Today

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Should a Professor lose his job over Refusing to put is Learning Outcomes on his Course Syllabus  Inside Higher Ed

I'm a serious academic, not a professional Instagrammer  The Guardian

I’m a non-serious academic. I make no apologies for this  The Guardian

***ETHICS

How A Child's Gender May Affect Parents' Willingness To Bend The Truth  NPR

***HUMANITIES /STEM

The Liberal Arts in the Real World  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***HIGHER ED

Calif. Bill Would Give New Bias Protections to Gay Students at Religious Colleges (lawmakers appear poised to pass the groundbreaking measure) Chronicle of Higher Ed

***TEACHING

Mastering logic, grammar, and rhetoric  Chronicle of Higher Ed

In China Some Schools are Playing with more Creativity, less Cramming  NPR

Estimating Student Workload for Your Courses  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***SEXUAL ASSAULT

Why Isn’t Baylor Under Title IX Investigation? A Records Request Yields Laughably Little  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Law Professors Defend Use Of Preponderance Standard In Campus Rape Cases  Huffington Post

A Journalist Says Rape Culture Is Systemic in College Football  Chronicle of Higher Ed

How Can We Stop Sexual Assault At Music Festivals?  NPR

arguments worth having

Parents who browbeat their kids into being obedient and agreeable may not be giving them the best preparation for the real world. A new study shows that encouraging teens to argue calmly and effectively against parental orders makes them much more likely to resist peer pressure.

University of Virginia researchers observed more than 150 13-year-olds as they disputed issues like grades, chores, and friends with their mothers. When researchers checked back in with the teens two and three years later, they found that those who had argued the longest and most convincingly—without yelling, whining, or throwing insults—were also 40 percent less likely to have accepted offers of drugs and alcohol than the teens who had caved quickly.

“We found that what a teen learned in handling these kinds of disagreements with their parents was exactly what they took into their peer world,” study author Joseph P. Allen tells NPR.org. The key to having a constructive debate with your kids, experts say, is listening to them attentively and rewarding them when they make a good point—even if you don’t end up reaching a mutual agreement. “Think of those arguments not as a nuisance,” Allen says, “but as a critical training ground” for wise, independent decision-making.

The Week Magazine

Articles of Interest August 1

***TECHNOLOGY

Wearables in the Workplace: Promise and Pitfalls  National Law Review

***ART AND DESIGN

How to Design a Google Font  Format

Great Products Don’t Happen By Accident: Using playbooks for designing and building products  Medium

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Vine’s top stars are fleeing, despite the app’s best attempts to keep them  Washington Post

***BIG DATA / STATS  

Clearing up confusion about data science by imagining it in terms of the simplifying framework of an avocado  Data Science Central   

Which Big Data languages are losing traction & which data sources are contributing the most to the shifts?  Spectrum

40 Techniques Used by Data Scientists including clustering, pattern recognition,  Bayesian stats and more  Data Science Central

***GENDER ISSUES

Hillary Clinton’s husband wore a fetching pantsuit to honor her nomination for US president  Quartz

***RACE

Investigative journalism org finds racial bias in secret crime algorithm that was supposedly filled false positives  Chronicle of Social Change

***SEXUAL ASSAULT

Title IX Victory for Man Suing Over Sex Assault Finding  Inside Higher Ed

College Is Accused of Inaction After Anonymous Report of Gang Rape  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Court: Adjunct may not use Title VII to sue a college for bias  Inside Higher Ed

***PERSONAL GROWTH

30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself (1-Stop spending time with the wrong people)  Becoming (my blog)

***WRITING& READING

A writing handbook that doesn't just repeat the standard just-say-no dictat about the passive voice  Chronicle of Higher Ed

5 ways for PR pros to sharpen their writing  PR Daily

***LITERATURE

Dentist Protagonists In Literature  NPR

What College Freshmen Are Reading  NPR

***RESEARCH

Managing your research data to make it reusable: Experts weigh in on good data management, why it’s important and how to achieve it  Elsevier

***LEGAL ISSUES

Judge Tosses Out Defamation Lawsuit Filed Against ProPublica, CIR  Propublica

***FREE SPEECH

Fighting for Free Speech on America's Campuses  New York Times

***RELIGION

A 'religious' organization called the Satanic Temple seeks to establish After School Satan Clubs in public schools: Is it an effort to teach Satan worship to kids?  Snopes

Another reason contemporary Christian music sounds ‘cliched and over-produced’  Washington Post

Died: Tim LaHaye, Author Who 'Left Behind' a Long Legacy  Christianity Today

On Wikipedia, Pokémon Go Is a Bigger Deal Than the Bible  Gizmodo

10 Donald Trump Quotes That Should Horrify His Evangelical Supporters  Huffington Post

***JOURNALISM

Delayed, Denied, Dismissed: Failures on the FOIA Front  Propublica

When Newspaper Paywalls Come Tumbling Down: Six Motivations  Forbes

Despite acquisitions, earnings at Gannett fall as print advertising remains weak  Talking New Media

***PSYCHOLOGY           

Is Hypnosis All in Your Head? Brain Scans Suggest Otherwise  New York Times  

Constant Multitasking Is Damaging Millennial Brains, Research Shows  Inc

***PHILOSOPHY

The basics of the thorny relationship between science and philosophy  ArsTechnia

Philosopher of the month: René Descartes  Oxford University Press

***HIGHER ED

A University Makes a Rare Call to Ditch Its Title IX Exemption  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Thirteen lessons I wish someone had taught me before I became an academic administrator  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***TEACHING

More Professors Know About Free Textbook Options, but Adoption Remains Low  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Syllabus as a Contract: How do you deal with clever students who find loopholes you didn’t intend?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

A Platform to Monitor Learning  Inside Higher Ed

the power of evil

One must face the fact: the power of Evil in the world is not finally resistible by incarnate creatures, however ‘good’.  J.R.R. Tolkien

a sign of growth

One of the sure signs of growth is that you are no longer impressed with how you did it yesterday. -John Maxwell

new lands

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. -Andre Gide

Articles of Interest - July 25

***SOCIAL MEDIA

The Reason Your Feed Became An Echo Chamber — And What To Do About It  NPR

Twitter opens account verification to all   PR Daily

***BIG DATA / STATS

How the Gurus behind Google Earth Created the Geomapping Mobile Game 'Pokemon Go'  Mashable

Silicon Valley's new Religion (and next shiny new thing)- AI and Robots  New York Times

How Bayesian Probability can be incorporated into Machine Learning  Fast ML

Data Science Tips from Reddit's r/datascience users Data Dependence

40 Techniques Used by Data Scientists including clustering pattern recognition and Bayesian Stats  Data Science Central

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

Facebook Live Grew Up Quickly. Here’s How Broadcasters Are Jumping In  Media Shift

***JOURNALISM

The Case Against the Media. By the Media  New York Mag

Report: Outsourcing copy editing doesn’t mean more corrections  Poynter

Pentagon revises manual to clarify protections of journalism   Associated Press

What 'selfie journalism' can bring to digital reporting  International Journalists Network

Student newspaper publishes string of articles critical of the administration, School retaliates by firing adviser  Inside Higher Ed

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media  NY Mag

The New York Times is trying to narrow the distance between reporters and analytics data  Harvard's Nieman Lab

***PSYCHOLOGY    

Machine Learning Algorithm Spots Depression in Speech Patterns  Motherboard

The Stroop test: how colourful is your language?   The Guardian

‘Anatomy of Malice,’ by Joel E. Dimsdale  New York Times

***NEUROSCIENCE

Play on! In a first, brain training cuts risk of dementia 10 years later  Stat

The neuroscience of “cool”  Quartz

***PHILOSOPHY

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

***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

***PERSONAL GROWTH

What you knew, understood and trusted about everything is OVER. That’s the first truth   Becoming (my blog) 

***WRITING& READING

Everybody's Talking About Plagiarism. What Is It, Exactly?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LANGUAGE

English encroaches in Italy  The Chronicle of Higher Education

Can’t quit saying ‘um’ and ‘ah’? Just learn how to use them better  Quartz

***LITERATURE

How Ernest Hemingway Taught the World to Drink  The Daily Beast                             

***GENDER ISSUES

Sexism In Newsroom Culture Not Unique To Allegations Against Roger Ailes  NPR

Why some young evangelical women are increasingly drawn to feminism — and to Hillary Clinton  Washington Post

***SEXUAL ASSAULT

‘I Want to Get This Right’: Scenes From a Conference on Campus Sex Assault (sub req'ed)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Former UAF hockey player acquitted of rape says the university won't give him his degree  Alaska News

***LEGAL ISSUES

University accessing of a student's health records ends with settlement: $425K for whistleblowers  Oregon Live

EFF sues US government, saying copyright rules on DRM are unconstitutional   Ars Technica

***ART AND DESIGN

Trump/Pence logo replaced after online ridicule  PR Daily

The Fonts of Star Trek  Fontshop

***RELIGION

Megachurch pastor’s firing illustrates challenges posed by addiction  Baptist News

Poll: Evangelicals differ from most Americans on transgender morality  LifeWay

Police brutality not a reality according to most white evangelicals  Christianity Today

***RELIGION & POLITICS

What If God Doesn’t Want To Make America Great Again? (written by a MidAmerica Naz alum who is an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene)  Huffington Post

Liberty’s Falwell Takes the Stage at Republican convention to support Trump  Inside Higher Ed

Polls show evangelicals support Trump. But the term ‘evangelical’ has become meaningless  Washington Post

***STUDENT MEDIA  

Gannet closes Student-run newspaper years  Orlando Sentinel

Student newspaper publishes string of articles critical of the administration, School retaliates by firing adviser  Inside Higher Ed

***SCIENCE

We need to talk about the bad science being funded  The Conversation

Lying scientists and the lying lies they tell  ZDnet

***HIGHER ED

Microsoft announces professional degree program to fill the skills gap  Tech Crunch

The student loan debt crisis is overblown, The real problem is college completion rates  VOX

Malcolm Gladwell Is Making Enemies In Higher Education. That’s A Good Thing  Huffington Post

***HUMANITIES /STEM

Why Social Science Risks Irrelevance  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***TEACHING

Should Colleges Really Eliminate the College Lecture?  The Atlantic

How One English Professor Plans to Turn Melania Trump Into a Teachable Moment  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Cheating Behaviors among Undergraduate College Students   Journal of Criminal Justice Education (sub req’d)

Education Dept. Proposes Rules to Clarify State Oversight of Online Courses  Dept. of Ed

Students and teachers detail pervasive cheating in a program owned by test giant ACT  Reuters

***STUDENT LIFE

Grad Students Treated Like Secretaries in Chinese Science  Sixth Tone

Co's Turning to 'reverse mentoring' to tap millennials' knowledge  Star Tribune

Study: Gap between Expectations of Personal Attitudes and Religious Diversity among Students  Inside Higher Ed

***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

The 1 Thing I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before Starting My First Job (Written by a Millennial) Nobody mentioned this in college  Inc

3 Reasons Unpaid Internships Are Seriously Not Worth Your Time  Huffington Post

There is one type of internship that's more beneficial than others

***ACADEMIC LIFE

 Author Discusses How Academics should use social media  Inside Higher Ed

***RESEARCH

Does expertise matter in replication? An examination of the reproducibility project: Psychology  Science Direct

An 'Epidemic' of Academic Fraud  Inside Higher Ed

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

Roads?

Roads?  Where we’re going we don’t need roads.  Doc Brown, Back to the Future

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