Participate
/Participate in co-creative relationships.
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
parenthood
/Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. -Marcelene Cox
Articles of Interest - Oct 10
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
A short history of famous people talking about the memes they became Washington Post
You Can All Finally Encrypt Facebook Messenger, So Do It Wired
This bot expertly baits Internet imbeciles into losing arguments Washington Post
Facebook Workplace Tries to Muscle In on Your Job Wired
Why Bloomberg, ESPN and others aren't doing Facebook Instant Articles Digiday
5 Top Tips and Tools For the Social Media Reporter PBS’s Media Shift
***INTERNET
SEO Trek: The Search for Google RankBrain* Moz
***BIG DATA / STATS
How data analytics is helping to fight human trafficking Datanami
How Big Data is changing education Smart Data Collective
Predicting future human behavior with deep learning: A chat with MIT’s Carl Vondrick KD Nuggets
Big data analytics is the future of intelligence-driven security operations center Data Integration
6 major don'ts when leading big data projects Tech Republic
New report: NoSQL and Hadoop will see the biggest growth in the next five years Cloud Computing
The AI Revolution: why deep learning Is suddenly changing your Life Fortune
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Gratitude and Kindness Becoming (my blog)
***GRAMMAR
Pronoun Challenge in Ann Arbor Chronicle of Higher Ed
Do commas still matter? (opinion) Washington Post
***WRITING& READING
Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators The Atlantic
***LITERATURE
AMaster List of 800 Free Classic eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices Open Culture
***RESEARCH
One reason so many scientific studies may be wrong (opinion) The Conversation
The hard road to reproducibility (opinion) American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fake ethics journal aids cheating scientists Ottawa Sun
***GENDER ISSUES
Exploring the relationship between gender and author order and composition in NIH-funded (opinion) Michael Eisen
***DIVERSITY
UC Berkeley student with disabilities faces obstacles with campus program The Daily Californian
***RACE
A professor is under fire after saying Black Lives Matter is racist like the KKK Washington Post
Comments about NFL player who started national anthem protest cost a Concordia (Mich.) instructor her job Matter Inside Higher Ed
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Baylor U.’s Title IX Coordinator Resigns Chronicle of Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
American U student government launches campaign in support of mandatory trigger warnings -- despite a recently reaffirmed faculty stance against them Inside Higher Ed
Victory for Student Speech Rights: Appeals court revives suit over student complaints about being pressured to participate in medical procedure Inside Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
Antitrust lawsuits against NCAA Inside Higher Ed
New California IMDb Age Law Probably Unconstitutional, Experts Say Hollywood Reporter
***TECHNOLOGY
Google’s New Service Translates Languages Almost as Well as Humans Can MIT Technology Review
Meerkat built a new app in secret, and almost 1 million people are using it The Verge
If there's a tech skills shortage, why are so many computer graduates unemployed? Tech Republic
***ART & DESIGN
Google's New Fonts Chip Away at Written Language Barriers Tech News World
***RELIGION
EEOC's 'I Love You' Bias Suit Falls Short, Health Co. Says Law 360
InterVarsity to Fire Employees Who Support Gay Marriage TIME
Cal State Northridge settles with Christian lab manager who said he was fired for his creationist beliefs Inside Higher Ed
'No excessive weight' says Hillsboro church to worship team Oregon Live
Trump or Jesus? (a test)
American views on issues involving religious liberty, traditional values and civil rights for LGBT people Pew Research
***MUSIC
Philosophy of Jazz Daily Nous
Intricate Map of Alt Music History Wired
***ART
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art (book review) Economist
***JOURNALISM
Younger adults more likely than older to prefer reading news Pew Research Center
Note to journalists: If there’s no report you can read, there’s no study Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
How 2 journalists who’ve never met in real life became a kidney donor and recipient Poynter
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Thomson Reuters to add 400 jobs in Toronto focusing on cognitive computing CBC
***STUDENT LIFE
Don’t worry, millennial underachievers: It’s always been tough to figure out your life Washington Post
College Kids Ask: Is My Costume Racist? The Daily Beast
Who’s Defaulting On Their Student Loans? Vocativ
***HEALTH
Victory for Student Speech Rights: Appeals court revives suit over student complaints about being pressured to participate in medical procedure Inside Higher Ed
Making research reproducible IAP
U.S. government health plans spent over $1 billion on EpiPens over five years Reuters
Medical linguistics: How to spot children’s speaking and listening problems early Economist
***PSYCHOLOGY
4 things every college student must know about mental health on campus USA Today
How to Talk about Conflict of Interest Skeptical Inquiry
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives Economist
What Type of Procrastinator are You? Daily Infographic
***PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy professor under fire for online post (Jason Stanley recently drew national attention for his strong response to a keynote address at the Society of Christian Philosophers’ regional conference about homosexual orientation is a disability) Yale Daily
Philosophy professor calls homosexuality a ‘disability,’ Christian conference condemns him The College Fix
***HIGHER ED
***HUMANITIES /STEM
How Humanities Can Help Fix the World Chronicle of Higher Ed
***CHRISTIAN COLLEGES
One prof fired, Another Criticized over Race comments Inside Higher Ed
Christian colleges are debating whether to arm campus safety officers Washington Post
***TEACHING
Are We Teaching Composition All Wrong? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Open Doors: A New Take on Teaching Observations Chronicle of Higher Ed
being miserable
/Pain and suffering is inevitable, being miserable is optional. - Art Clanin
Taking the Abuse
/When someone stays in an abusive situation, there must be a measure comfort in that identity for the victim. The abused, in effect, says to themselves, "I know what to do when playing this role." To become someone different means acknowledging there is a choice--and with that realization comes the uncomfortable recognition of responsibility.
A victim may tell themselves, “At least in the abusive situation I know the old pain and its ways." Moving toward change means stepping into the unknown. Fear can freeze the victim into making no decision, defaulting to the status quo, keeping the situation the same as it has always been.
Perhaps the abuse fits some part of how they have chosen to define themselves. To choose not to be abused means redefining the identity. In the end, some people would prefer to keep the painful but familiar abuse rather than entering a new kind of pain--one that accompanies building a new identity.
Victims who choose to no longer be victims take an heroic step. It's an empowering choice--and only those who have made a similar decision can fully grasp its breath and courage.
Stephen Goforth
to rise
/One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above little things." -John Burroughs
Articles of Interest - Oct 3
/***TECHNOLOGY
IT is seeing a once-in-a-generation battle between open-source software and cloud computing Economist
The Internet of Things is yet to arrive at the starting blocks of innovation Gigaom
The Mathematical Genius of Auto-Tune Priceonomics
***PERSONAL GROWTH
King gives crown to friend Becoming
***GRAMMAR
Flaws and Strengths of the Oxford Comma Pepperdine student newspaper
As a freelance copy editor, how can I sell myself to potential employers? The Guardian
Early years of English teaching should focus on reading and writing, not abstract grammar Economist
Watch English change Baltimore Sun
***WRITING& READING
How one Amazon Kindle scam made millions of dollars ZDnet
Why I Like the New MLA Handbook Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
To Seek Out New Vowels… Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
A Guide to the Real-Life Homes of the Heroes of Children's Literature Atlas Obscura
Truman Capote ashes sell for $45,000 at auction CNN
***RESEARCH
A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors. The results are concerning Vox
***GENDER ISSUES
Gender equality in 2016? It's complicated Associated Press
***DIVERSITY
Diverse Teams Feel Less Comfortable — and That’s Why They Perform Better Harvard Business Review
Teaching Diversity Online Is Possible. These Professors Tell You How Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RACE
What Should Colleges Do to Discipline Students Who Spew Hate? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why so many college students are getting busted for racist Snapchat posts Fusion
The police surveillance technology intensifying racial discrimination Mashable
***FREE SPEECH
The University of Minnesota is standing by 'Build the Wall' messages as protected, free speech Inside Higher Ed
At DePaul, Free Speech Is Out; ‘Fee Speech’ Is In FIRE
***LEGAL ISSUES
Going to law school? Thinking about law school? What should you read? Leiter Reports
***ART & DESIGN
Your Body Text Is Too Small Medium
***BUSINESS
Yay, It's Time For My Performance Review! (Said No One Ever) NPR
***BIG DATA / STATS
How data science and big data are alike.. and different: digging past the marketing KD Nuggets
***RELIGION
6 facts about U.S. Mormons Pew Research
Key findings about Americans’ views on religious liberty and nondiscrimination Pew Research
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Signing off: CBS is getting out of the radio business — is this finally the end of the medium? Salon
the End of mental_floss (Magazine) Medium
***JOURNALISM
Survey: Americans rely on TV, websites for election news Talking New Media
How 'All the President's Men' Defined the Look of Journalism on Screen Atlas Obscura
Five things I learned at ONA GateHouse
The Science of Headline Writing: Does A/B Testing Headlines Work? Priceonomics
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
What Beacon’s Failure Means for Crowdfunded Journalism PBS Media Shift
Journalists as Strategists: How to Think About Business Now that the Wall Has Come Down PBS Media Shift
New York Times reporters won’t face jail for airing Trump’s taxes Poynter
10 First Amendment experts comment on legality of NYT release of Trump’s tax returns Concurring Opinions
***SCIENCE
Ben Goldacre: fighting bad science (video) ABC (Australia)
***HEALTH
The Accuracy of Bibliographical References Generated for Medical Citation Styles Science Direct
To make big profits, drug companies turn to monopoly shenanigans Stat News
***PSYCHOLOGY
Why is the scientific replication crisis centered on psychology? Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Amy Cuddy’s Response to Critiques of Her Power-Posing Research NY Mag
Psychologist Helps San Quentin Prisoners Find Freedom Through Self-Reflection NPR
The psychological origins of procrastination—and how we can stop putting things off Jstor
***NEUROSCIENCE
***PHILOSOPHY
Quiz From UCR Philosophy Professor Determines If You Are A Jerk CBS Los Angeles
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update Daily Nous
***CRITICAL THINKING
The Myth Of Coincidences And Why We Search For Their Meaning NPR
***TEACHING
Not Just Hillary: Young Women In Debate Face Sexism, Double Standards Huffington Post
The University of Texas system is teaming up with Salesforce to make college courses more like Netflix Business Insider
28 Extremely Disappointing Facts About The Class Of 2020 BuzzFeed
***STUDENT LIFE
Michigan students can now pick their preferred pronouns, but not everyone is happy USA Today
Student loan default rate dips, but ‘considerable work remains,’ education secretary says Washington Post
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
In aftermath of Brock Turner case, California’s governor signs sex crime bill Washington Post
Lawyer: Why the lower standard of evidence in college sexual-assault cases is dangerous (opinion) Washington Post
Articles of interest - Sept 26
/***TECHNOLOGY
Snapchat’s Wild New Specs Won’t Share Google Glass’s Fate Wired
How Colleges Should Adapt in a Networked Age Chronicle of Higher Ed
***SOCIAL MEDIA
An 18-year-old is suing her parents for posting embarrassing baby pictures on Facebook Fusion
***BIG DATA / STATS
A White House data scientist on knowing when to go with the gut. Washington Post
The medical co.’s using Machine Learning to change healthcare Forbes
***GENDER ISSUES
A designer altered this 'Girls' Life' cover to show what empowerment really looks like Mic
New Book: Gender Shrapnel Inside Higher Ed
***DIVERSITY
NCAA calls on college leaders to sign pledge promising to recruit and interview more women and ethnic minorities for top sports positions Inside Higher Ed
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Forgiveness is Becoming (my blog)
***GRAMMAR
Grammar Snobs Can Now Correct People’s iOS Text Messages Buzz Feed
***WRITING& READING
Don’t Try to Make a Living Writing Short Stories Wired
***LANGUAGE
Bringing up Babel: There are cognitive benefits to raising bilingual children 1843 Magazine
***LITERATURE
How Literature Can Improve Mental Health Open Culture
What Is Shakespeare’s Most Popular Play? Priceonomics
***RESEARCH
Meet the world’s top peer reviewer Stat News
21 Brutal, Honest And Relatable Things That Happened In Academic Publishing BuzzFeed
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Academic Ethics: What Should We Do With Sexual Harassers in Academe? Chronicle of Higher Ed
New Bill Fights Sexual Harassment By Going After Professors’ Grant Money BuzzFeed
U Kentucky is suing its Student Newspaper, trying to Block Sexual Assault Reporting Washington Post
***FREE SPEECH
College Threatens to Punish Students If They Share ‘Self-Destructive’ Thoughts With Friends The Fire
***LEGAL ISSUES
IMDB would be required to remove actors' ages when asked under new California law The Verge
‘So to Speak’ Podcast: ‘Twisting Title IX’ (opinion) The Fire
***RELIGION
Like Katy Perry, I broke up with the conservative evangelical project (opinion) Religious News Service
Many evangelicals favor Trump because he is not Clinton Pew Research
Phillip Yancey Is Downright Baffled By Evangelical Support For Trump Huffington Post
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Number of U.S. low-power FM radio stations has nearly doubled since 2014 Pew Research
***JOURNALISM
The Big Problem Still Plaguing America’s News Media Fortune
When important investigative reporting must compete with Brangelina Columbia Journalism Review
Website ‘Rate My Media’ hopes to increase media accountability through crowd-sourced ratings Talking New Media
How the FDA Manipulates the Media Scientific American
Five takeaways from the ONA 2016 conference Columbia Journalism Review
***SCIENCE
Why bad science persists: Poor scientific methods may be hereditary Economist
***HEALTH
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan pledge $3 billion to cure all diseases Recode
The average person is better off without a fitness wearable, weight loss study finds PBS
Bad science misled millions with chronic fatigue syndrome Stat News
This Globe-Trotting Brain Surgeon Says Doctors Are Doing Medical Missions Wrong Vice
***PSYCHOLOGY
Watching sad films boosts endorphin levels in your brain, psychologists say The Guardian
***HIGHER ED
University May Remove Online Content to Avoid Disability Law Inside Higher Ed
Christian University kicks out freshman who used Racial slur in Social Media Inside Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES /STEM
The Importance of an Arts Education (and How It Strengthens Science & Civilization) Open Culture
***TEACHING
Zero Correlation Between Evaluations and Learning: New study adds to evidence that student reviews of professors have limited validity Inside Higher Ed
LinkedIn unveils new online learning and messaging tools Mercury News
Do Your Students Take Good Notes? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Why students who do well in high school bomb in college Washington Post
When a C Isn’t Good Enough: Some Students being made to Retake Classes if they earn a ‘C’ Inside Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
The Dangers of Faculty Book Club Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Prediction Learning Curve
/If you have strong analytical skills that might be applicable in a number of disciplines, it is very much worth considering the strength of the competition. It is often possible to make a profit by being pretty good at prediction in fields where the competition succumbs to poor incentives, bad habits, or blind adherence to tradition—or because you have better data or technology than they do. It is much harder to be very good in fields where everyone else is getting the basics right—-and you may be fooling yourself if you think you have much of an edge.
Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise
Finding my Keys
/I was running late for work and was frantically searching for my keys. I would be working my 7th overtime shift in 7 days. I knew I wasn't thinking clearly. Where were my keys? I gave up, picked up the spare keys to the house and car and decided I'd find the real ones later.
When I got off of work, I decided to clean the entire apartment while looking for the keys. That way, when I found them, instead of being upset at wasting a lot of time, I would have the keys along with a clean apartment.
As the cleaning proceeded, I got to thinking. What if I carelessly dropped them while working outside? Someone could find them, see my car on the property and take it. Or steal everything while I was at work. Hours went by, midnight came, and no keys. I had to get to bed.
Just before retiring, I started toward the trash. I took it out every Sunday night. That's when it hit me. What if? I began rummaging. Sure enough, the keys were buried deep inside, covered with coffee grounds and spaghetti sauce.
Takeaway: Sometimes you have to go through some garbage to find what you need.
Stephen Goforth
The Passion for Control
/Researchers arranged for student volunteers to pay regular visits to nursing-home residents. Residents in the high-control group were allowed to control the timing and duration of the student’s visit, and residents in the low-control group were not. After two months, residents in the high-control group were happier, healthier, more active, and taking fewer medications than those in the low-control group.
At this point the researchers concluded their student and discontinued the student visits. Several months later they were chagrined to learn that a disproportionate number of residents who had been in the high-control group had died.
Only in retrospect did the cause of this tragedy seem clear. The residents who had been given control, and who had benefited measurably from that control while they had it were inadvertently robbed of control when the study ended.
Apparently, gaining control can have a positive impact on one’s health and well-being, but losing control can be worse than never having had any at all.
Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
articles of interest - Sept 19
/***RELATIONSHIPS
How Much Do Parents Matter? The Atlantic
Scientists have identified why binge-watching together brings couples closer Quartz
LoveBot tells your wife you love her so you don’t have to TechCrunch
The Internet is systematically changing who we date Washington Post
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook steps up fight against fake news The Hill
How Luck And Intuition Helped To Build Instagram NPR
A co-founder of Twitter is betting he can revolutionise digital publishing once again with Medium Economist
***GRAMMAR
Oxford English Dictionary welcomes moobs and yolo The Guardian
Why you shouldn't be a grammar snob (video) BongBong
***WRITING & READING
How Cliché Can You Get? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why I Hate the New 'MLA Handbook' Chronicle of Higher Ed
The History and Usage of Common Symbols Medium
Should citations be normalized across disciplines? Plos
***LANGUAGE
Distant languages sound more similar than you might expect Economist
***LITERATURE
Algorithms Could Save Book Publishing—But Ruin Novels Wired
Patricians of parchment: Why manuscripts matter Economist
***RESEARCH
Why scientists must share their research code Nature
Could freeing Troves of data gathered during clinical trials lead to new cures? Proto
Be very careful when you think, "this is a good study" Statistically Funny
Links between citations and open access Elsev
***GENDER ISSUES
Discrimination by Design: The many ways design decisions treat people unequally Pacific Standard
How LinkedIn’s search engine may reflect a gender bias Seattle Times
Gender Bias and the Peer Review Process Wiley Exchanges
***FREE SPEECH
Colin Kaepernick and a Landmark Supreme Court Case New Yorker
***LEGAL ISSUES
Europe proposes copyright reform to help scientists mine research papers Nature
Judge Rejects Justice Department Ruling on Music Licensing New York Times
***RELIGION
The Faith Economy: Religion in US 'worth more than Google and Apple combined' The Guardian
How a Christian business tycoon used his depression to help tens of thousands Washington Post
Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Religion In 2016 Election NPR
Mormons are less Republican this year, and Trump is not the only reason why Religious News Service
Mother Teresa — a myth, a celebrity or a hero? Union-Tribune
***MUSIC AND ART
Can Music Save Your Life? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***JOURNALISM
4 Examples of AI’s Rise in Journalism (And What it Means for Journalists) Media Shift
When did charts become popular? How the revolution in data visualization came about Priceonomics
Fact-checkers around the world agree on shared code of principles Poynter
These students didn’t know Bin Laden was dead. How did we get so clueless about news? Washington Post
***SCIENCE
'Motherless babies!’ How to create a tabloid science headline in five easy steps Science Magazine
Genius is not enough: The sad story of Peter Hagelstein, living monument to the sunk-cost fallacy (opinion) Andrew Gelman
A 6-Step Infographic For Ending Pseudoscience Big Think
***HEALTH
How the sugar industry has distorted health science for more than 50 years Vox
There is now a sixth taste – and it explains why we love carbs New Scientist
The drug industry: Prescriptions for the pharma business Economist
Why I won't get Tested for the Breast Cancer Genes Questia
Feed a virus, starve a bacterium: An old wives’ tale gets some support from medical science Economist
To End the Opioid Epidemic, We Need Way More Than OD Treatments Wired
New study finds that medical marijuana may be helping to curb the opioid epidemic Washington Post
Parents May Be Giving Their Children Too Much Medication, Study Finds NPR
***PSYCHOLOGY
Four basic personality types identified: Pessimistic; optimistic; envious and trusting Science Daily
***NEUROSCIENCE
As More States Consider Legalizing, Questions About Pot And The Brain NPR
When Blind People Do Algebra, The Brain's Visual Areas Light Up NPR
***PHILOSOPHY
An Animated Aldous Huxley Identifies the Dystopian Threats to Our Freedom (1958) Open Culture
***ETHICS
***HIGHER ED
The Next Hot Ticket in Ed Tech? Micro-Credentials Stamford Advocate
Dallas evangelical seminary requires sex abuse awareness training The Gazette
Biola Announces Campus Safe Space Biola University
***STUDENT MEDIA
Journalism faculty ask College president to apologize, drop suit against student newspaper Associated Press
***STUDENT LIFE
Share on Twitter Share via Email Donald Trump might be causing a major shift in how young Americans feel about immigrants Washington Post
***DIVERSITY ON CAMPUS
Student Diversity at More Than 4,600 Institutions Chronicle of Higher Ed
As Standards Change, Disability Officers Race to Keep Up Chronicle of Higher Ed
Elite Colleges and the Language of Class (sub. requ’ed) Chronicle of Higher Ed
grace and mercy
/Grace is when God gives us when we don't deserve. Mercy is when God doesn't give us what we deserve.
articles of interest - Sept 12
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Horrible Facebook Algorithm Accident Results In Exposure To New Ideas The Onion
The seventh-grader’s sext was meant to impress him. Then he shared it. It nearly destroyed her Washington Post
Twitter Adds Button That Lets You Subscribe To Live Video Notifications BuzzFeed
***MUSIC AND ART
Machine Learning, AI, and Computer Generated Music DZone
Learn How to Read Sheet Music: A Quick, Fun, Tongue-in-Cheek Introduction Open Culture
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
BuzzFeed Regroups as Media Turns Video-Centric The New York Times
What We Mean When We Talk About “Engagement” Medium
***BIG DATA / STATS
Google project comes up with a machine-generated piece of music Dzone
MIT AI researchers claim breakthrough on threat detection: unsupervised machine learning w/ periodic human feedback Dark Reading
Storytelling: The power to influence in data science KD Nuggets
***WRITING& READING
This Rule I Learned and Then Unlearned Chronicle of Higher Ed
Americans aren't reading less -- they're just reading less literature Minnesota Public Radio
The Best New Way to Read? Novels Told Through Text Messages Wired
When Analogies Fail Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
The Two Voices of Trump Chronicle of Higher Ed
Should religious language keep up with the times or stick closely to the original? Economist
BBC Editor Highlights Often Overlooked English Language Rule NPR
Beware the bad big wolf: why you need to put your adjectives in the right order The Conversation
Is Writing a Technology or a Language? Let’s Ask Some Aliens Jstor Daily
***LITERATURE
Even science majors should study literature Washington Post
***HEALTH
California Aims To Limit Surprise Medical Bills NPR
The Death of the Prostate Exam Medium
***PSYCHOLOGY
A Worrying Trend for Psychology’s “Simple Little Tricks" The Atlantic
***NEUROSCIENCE
What Happens in the Brain When We Misremember Scientific American
***PHILOSOPHY
A Life of Meaning (Reason Not Required) (opinion) New York Times
***RESEARCH
A Framework for Improving the Quality of Research in the Biological Sciences mBio
Is Most Published Research Wrong? (video) Veritasium
***GENDER ISSUES
Few evangelical churches led by a woman Christian Today
The Gender Factor in Conference Presentations Inside Higher Ed
Study finds gender bias in sports journalism PhysOrg
why the gender wage gap explodes when women hit their 30s Vox
News photos of scientists skew race but not gender (sub. requ’d) Newspaper Research Journal
Anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly’s philosophy perfectly captured in 15 disturbing quotes Raw Story
***RACE
Airbnb Gets Serious About Fighting Discrimination Wired
***FREE SPEECH
Half Of Professors In NPR Ed Survey Have Used 'Trigger Warnings' NPR
***LEGAL ISSUES
The Protection of Intellectual Property in International Law – An Introduction InfoJustice
***TECHNOLOGY
New book examines how technology is changing education Inside Higher Ed
AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You’re Pixelated Wired
***ART
The stunning geographic divide in American creativity Washington Post
***RELIGION
White male leadership persists at evangelical ministries RNS
Trump's pitch to Christian voters evolves Politico
Why is Christianity declining? Religious News Service
Evangelicals Coming Out For Darwin Forbes
William Blake’s Masterpiece Illustrations of the Book of Job (1793-1827) Open Culture
Vanderbilt settles health insurance suit from Christian student Campus Reform
Evangelicals and conservative Catholics, who have voted together for decades, are splitting apart Washington Post
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Embracing the life that's been forced upon you Becoming (my blog)
When You Change the World and No One Notices Collaborative Fund
***JOURNALISM
Why Journalists Can No Longer Ignore Snapchat PBS’s MediaShift
Overlooked outlets where freelancers can pitch their work International Center for Journalists
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
Remix: How to Teach Story-Finding Skills PBS’s MediaShift
***STUDENT LIFE
Student Newspaper Dealing with Backlash from Editorial York Daily Record
What ‘Safe Spaces’ Really Look Like on College Campuses Chronicle of Higher Ed
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Student goes public about the way the university handled her sexual assault and many join her Inside Higher Ed
Students at UPenn Protest Email as Evidence of Rape Culture Chronicle of Higher Ed
UCLA settles lawsuit with graduate students alleging Title IX violations Daily Bruin
Maryland’s Frostburg State University Found in Violation of Title IX Baltimore Sun
***HIGHER ED
The coming era of consolidation among colleges and universities Washington Post
Group Unveils a 'Model Policy' for Handling Student Chronicle of Higher Ed
Campuses Cautiously Train Freshman Against Insults New York Times
Colleges Are Defining ‘Microaggressions’ Really Broadly New York Magazine
***TEACHING
What Clicks From 70,000 Courses Reveal About Student Learning (sub. requ'd) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why We should stop Grading students on a Curve (opinion) New York Times
Tips for Inclusive Teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed
A new book by undergraduates offers teaching advice based on thousands of comments from students Inside Higher Ed
No, Banning Laptops Is Not the Answer Chronicle of Higher Ed
Welcome, Freshmen. Look at Me When I Talk to You Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Northwestern orders professor to stay away. She says she is being punished for her activism Inside Higher Ed
Sociologists talk standards by which departments may consider social media activity and other public communications in tenure and promotion decisions Inside Higher Ed
Theater Director at Cal State-Long Beach Quits After Racially Charged Play Is Canceled Chronicle of Higher Ed
Your University can read your .edu email because it wants to target you or just for kicks Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Glory
/The Glory of God is a human being who is fully alive! - Saint Irenaeus. 2nd century
the educated man
/The future will belong not only to the educated man, but to the man who is educated to use his leisure wisely. C.K. Brightbill
Brain scans show Ugly
/About one or two out of a hundred people has a psychological problem called body dysmorphic disorder. They become preoccupied with what they perceive as physical defects in their face. This can lead to numerous plastic surgeries or even suicide. Most people never get diagnosed. They just think they are ugly.
Scientists at UCLA used brain scans to get a better understanding of how the minds of people with this disorder work. Details of their finding are in the Achives of General Psychiatry.
Researchers scanned the brains of people with body dysmorphic disorder as they looked at photos of their own face and then that of a familiar celebrity – along with altered versions of each. One version obscured the details and another version showed only the details.
It turns out the brain of someone with this disorder doesn’t some parts of their brains that the rest of us use whenever we are looking at the shape and size of faces. They see a distorted, twisted version and fail to grasp how the parts fit into the whole. They're not able to contextualize the information.
The problem for them is really not on the outside at all.
In the same way, people with twisted, distorted views of the world have an inside problem. They’ll never bring the world in focus by making outside changes. The change has to happen on the inside.
Step back and get the big picture. See the painting created by the tapestry of life’s details. By themselves, those details can appear quite ugly. But that’s not the whole picture.
Stephen Goforth
4 Steps When Addressing Inappropriate Behavior
/When someone keeps repeating inappropriate behavior, try the DESC approach. The four steps are describe, express, specify, and consequences.
1. Describe the objectionable behavior.
Poor: You’re ignoring me! You insensitive, spiteful, stubborn bore.
Better: You are not looking at me when I ask a question and you are not answering me.
2. Express your feelings.
Poor: You make me so angry I could wring your neck. I really hate you! Better: When you do this, I feel hurt. I feel insignificant and unimportant here.
3. Specify what action you want to see.
Poor: Notice I’m alive!
Better: Would you please look at me and give me a quick answer?
4. Tell the person the consequences if there is no change in behavior.
Poor: I’ll give the children up to the orphanage and leave!
Better: I’ll let you know I appreciate you looking and answering with a hug and a kiss!!
Articles of Interest - Sept 5
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Almost no one really knows how Facebook’s Trending algorithm works, but here’s an idea Harvard’s Nieman Lab
12 Rules for Winning at Snapchat Like a Boss—a Teen Boss Wired
Groups Worry About Impact Of Police Moves To Block Social Media NPR
How an online forum catches censors unawares Economist
The Teenager’s Definitive Guide to Social Media Don’ts Wired
Study: Social Media Overtakes TV as Main Source of News for 18-24 AdWeek
***ART AND DESIGN
Why Facebook Is Blue: The Science of Colors in Marketing Medium
***IMAGES
Stanford Professor puts his entire digital photography course online for free DIY Photography
***PRODUCING MEDIA
The Curse of a Phoenix Weatherman: Finding New Ways to Say ‘It’s Hot’ New York Times
In the Digital Age Billboards are far from Dead New York Times
***FREE SPEECH
Free Speech, Political Correctness And Higher Education Huffington Post
Welcome to Campus! And Freedom of Speech! The FIRE
***LEGAL ISSUES
ADA Taken to Task by Feds and Critics on Law School Student Outcomes Inside Higher Ed
Judge: Glenn Beck must disclose his marathon bombing sources Associated Press
Warner Bros. issues so many DMCAs that some of its own websites are included Daily Dot
Copyright’s Digital/Analog Divide InfoJustice
***TECHNOLOGY
This program can mimic your handwriting with shocking accuracy—what could go wrong? Daily Dot
***FILM
The first AI-made film trailer Wired
5 Hours of Free Alfred Hitchcock Interviews: Discover His Theories of Film Editing, Creating Suspense & More Open Culture
***BIG DATA / STATS
What is the right mix of competences for Data Scientists? First partial survey findings Alessandro Piva
Free A/B Split Test Calculator Online Answer Miner
The 10 algorithms machine-learning engineers need to know Lab41
***MUSIC AND ART
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
***JOURNALISM
Shield laws and journalist’s privilege: The basics every reporter should know Columbia Journalism Review
The Newspaper Association of America is dropping ‘paper’ from its name Poynter
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
Remix: 5 Tips for Managing a Year-Long Student Journalism Project Media Shift
What Can Journalism Educators Do to Help End Sexist Language in Sports Coverage? Media Shift
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Vice shows how not to treat freelancers Columbia Journalism Review
Why Radio Stations keep playing the same songs over and over again Life Hacker
***STUDENT MEDIA
What happened after 6 college newspapers cut their print schedules Poynter
Student paper’s traffic spikes with coverage of dean’s controversial note Columbia Journalism Review
***HEALTH
Machine predicts heart attacks 4 hours before doctors New Scientist
Test Of Experimental Alzheimer's Drug Finds Progress Against Brain Plaques NPR
A row over Mylan’s EpiPen allergy medicine raises fresh questions about how drugs are priced Economist
How to anticipate epidemics Economist
5 ways hospitals are improving the workplace on Labor Day and beyond Stat News
Calcium Supplements Linked to Higher Risk of Dementia in Some Women Live Science
***HEALTH/ ZEKA
Mosquitoes carrying Zika can hand down virus to offspring, study shows Stat News
POLL: Most Americans Want Congress To Make Zika Funding A High Priority NPR
Quicktake: Zika Virus basics Bloomberg
***PSYCHOLOGY
People can get addicted to almost any product. Do manufacturers have a responsibility to stop them? The Atlantic
Another classic finding in psychology—that you can smile your way to happiness—just blew up Slate
The delicate balance of disclosing mental illness on social media Daily Dot
***NEUROSCIENCE
How A Baseball Batter's Brain Reacts To A Fast Pitch NPR
You’re not a jerk if you can’t remember faces: Facial blindness is a spectrum, neuroscientists say Quartz
Cognitive scientist puts profanity in its place Science News
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Letting go of The Inner Rhythm Becoming (my blog)
***WRITING& READING
Map: Which US states are the most well read? Quartz
***LANGUAGE
The class with 20/20 vision! Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
Meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature Washington Post
3,000 Illustrations of Shakespeare’s Complete Works from Victorian England, Neatly Presented in a New Digital Archive Open Culture
How Hip-Hop Can Bring Shakespeare to Life KQED
The History of Literature Podcast Takes You on a Literary Journey: From Ancient Epics to Contemporary Classics Open Culture
***PHILOSOPHY
Philosopher of the month: Aristotle Oxford University Press
A well-documented account of the second golden age of Western philosophy Economist
An Animated Introduction to French Philosopher Jacques Derrida Open Culture
***ETHICS
A two-year-old's solution to the trolley problem (video) YouTube
***RESEARCH
Stupid Patent of the Month: Elsevier Patents Online Peer Review Electronic Fronteir Foundation
We’ve seen computer-generated fake papers get published. Now we have computer-generated fake peer reviews Retraction Watch
***HIGHER ED
Colleges Brace for Impact of Overtime Rule Chronicle of Higher Ed
The debate over trigger warnings and safe spaces on college campuses. (podcast) WNYC
What the Savviest School Administrators Know About Education Technology EdSurge
***TEACHING
The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2020 Beloit
How to Think Like Shakespeare Chronicle of Higher Ed
MIT experiments with instructor grading in massive open online courses Inside Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
One of the biggest ways college students are ripped off is getting out of control Business Insider
Millennials respond excellently to #HowToConfuseAMillennial hashtag Mashable
Surprised? College students are drinking more, smoking less USA Today
***GENDER ISSUES
Colleges work on gender inclusivity with pins, pronouns USA Today
Researchers Find That Female CEOs and Senators Are Disproportionately Blond Slate
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
She Was Raped During Study Abroad. Then Her School Said She Couldn’t Talk About It Huffington Post
Articles of Interest - August 29
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Inside Facebook’s Totally Insane Unintentionally Gigantic Hyperpartisan Political Media Machine New York Times Magazine
FB predicts your political pref The Wrap
Social Network Nextdoor Moves To Block Racial Profiling Online NPR
Pinterest Buys Instapaper, the Popular ‘Read Later’ App Wired
Facebook is trying to get rid of bias in Trending news by getting rid of humans Quartz
Sent From My iPhone: how a humblebrag became a key piece of net etiquette The Guardian
Facebook suspends Domain Insights, changing rules of the road for new publishers Digiday
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Emotional Blackmail Becoming (my blog)
5 Ways to Steal Like An Artist Medium
***RACE
Big data and hidden cameras are emerging as dangerous weapons in the gentrification wars Quartz
***LEGAL ISSUES
The Difference between Copyright Infringement and Plagiarism—and Why It Matters Library Journal
Quackwatch.org Survives Defamation Case As Judge Rejects Claims of Two Anti-Aging Doctors Pathos
Chipotle's social media policy violated federal labor Law360
***TECHNOLOGY
What it feels like to be the last generation to remember life before the internet Quartz
Voice Recognition Software Finally Beats Humans At Typing, Study Finds NPR
***BIG DATA
The CIA working to monitor you from Space Vocativ
How Big Data has Changed Decision Making Harvard Business Review
50 Useful Machine Learning and Prediction APIs
A look at Three Big Data Trends This year Fine Extra
***FILM
The best 100 films of the 21st century, according to 177 film critics around the world Quartz
***GRAMMAR
The argument for writing "a historian” Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING& READING
Copy Edit This! New York Times
***LITERATURE
12 Sexting Ideas From Classic Literature That Book Nerds Will Blush Over Bustle
***RESEARCH
An alarming number of scientific papers contain Excel errors Washington Post
Excel Created Major Typos in 20 Percent of Scientific Papers on Genes Slate
New leader of NIH’s research watchdog faces staff revolt Science Mag
How to Review a Paper The Genome’s Take
NASA's new online archive is a treasure trove of free research articles The Verge
***RELIGION
What do Americans look for in a church, and how do they find one? It depends in part on their age Pew Research
Why Church Hymns Are Best Sung in Bars The Atlantic
Why America’s ‘nones’ left religion behind Pew Research
A Preacher's Kid Finds His Own Sanctuary In Music NPR
The feel-good gospel of the pastor made famous by Kimye and Bieber Esquire
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
How Netflix does A/B testing Medium
Five Reasons Not to Trust Your Analytics Data Mind the Product
***JOURNALISM
FBI investigating Russian hack of New York Times reporters, others CNN
Why I Force My Students to Learn AP Style Prof KRG
How Does the Language of Headlines Work? Jstor
How Journalists Can Protect Themselves (And Keep Their Apple Devices) In Wake of iOS Vulnerability Media Shift
How to use open source information to investigate stories online International Journalists’ Network
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
It’s hard to giveaway small newspapers New York Times
Survey Finds Newsrooms Are Monitoring Metrics, Not Acting on Them Media Shift
***STUDENT MEDIA
University Will Sue Its Own Student Newspaper For Reporting On Sexual Assault Case BuzzFeed News
The University of Kentucky prof facing sexual harassment allegations also faced accusations of research misconduct Kentucky Kernel
***STUDENT LIFE
Graduate Students Can Unionize at Private Colleges, U.S. Labor Panel Rules Wall Street Journal
‘Stacking the Deck’ Against Due Process at UCSD The FIRE
Blame millennials for the vanishing bar of soap CBS News
This may be the last presidential election dominated by Boomers and prior generations Pew Research
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Judge: Academic Freedom Doesn't Bar Campus Carry Inside Higher Ed
***SCIENCE
Must Science be Testable: Why Science needs philosophy Aeon
***HEALTH
The right to die: What is unbearable? Economist
Doctors Who Sexually Abuse Patients NPR
Zika: The Millennials’ S.T.D.? New York Times
Friendships Might Not Help You Live Longer, But Family Does New York Mag
Who Let The Dogs In? More Companies Welcome Pets At Work NPR
Superbug resistant to two last-resort antibiotics found in US for first time Stat News
The Life-Changing Magic of Choosing the Right Hospital New York Times
***PSYCHOLOGY
Instagram Probably Can’t Predict Depression. GPS, Though… Wired
***NEUROSCIENCE
Narrowing the gap between biological brains and electronic ones The Economist
***ETHICS
Self-driving cars don't care about your moral dilemmas The Guardian
Many Americans are wary of using gene editing for human enhancement Pew Research
***HIGHER ED
The New Cheating Economy Chronicle of Higher Ed
The university's note to new students sets off national debate on safe spaces, trigger warnings and more Inside Higher Ed
A Brief Guide to the Battle Over Trigger Warnings Chronicle of Higher Ed
Does Religious Liberty Include the Right to Harass and Harm Newsweek
The California Christian Colleges/LGBT Bill NPR
Oklahoma Wesleyan Joins Lawsuit Challenging 2011 ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter The FIRE
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Study finds Students Benefit from Waiting to Declare a Major Inside Higher Ed
What Doctors Can Learn from the Arts Jstor
How Performing in Theater Can Help Build Empathy in Students KQED
***TEACHING
It’s Time to Ditch Our Deadlines: Why you should stop penalizing your students for submitting work late Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why Cold-Calling on Students Works Chronicle of Higher Ed