to be blind
/To be blind is bad, but worse it is to have eyes and not to see. – Helen Keller
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Why is it so impossible to get everything done?
/Several research studies have shown that people never get more done by blindly working more hours on everything that comes up. Instead, they get more done when they follow careful plans that measure and track key priorities and milestones. So if you want to be more successful and less stressed, don’t ask how to make something more efficient until you’ve first asked, “Do I need to do this at all?”
Simply being able to do something well does not make it the right thing to do. I think this is one of the most common problems with a lot of time-management advice; too often productivity gurus focus on how to do things quickly, but the vast majority of things people do quickly should not be done at all.
If you think about it, it’s actually kind of ironic that we complain we have so little time, and then we prioritize like time is infinite. So do your best to focus on what’s truly important, and not much else.
articles of interest - Dec 5
/***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
How eSports are pioneering new media models Digiday
***TECHNOLOGY
I Swear to God This Is a Real Graph From Thomas Friedman's Latest Book Gizmodo
Netflix will let you download video to go, but not movies and shows from Disney Recode
Radio, Music and Technology: It’s Been a Long Strange Trip A Journey of Musical Things
***SOCIAL MEDIA
While We Weren’t Looking, Snapchat Revolutionized Social Networks NYTimes
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Forgotten audio formats: Wire recording Ars Technica
***BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Can Advertising Be a Science? Jstor
Digital publications are thriving in Europe where legacy media is weak Poynter
***BIG DATA
How Machine Learning may transform medicine: A Google algorithm can see a common eye disease as good as many experts Technology Review
Data firm in talks for role in White House messaging – and Trump business The Guardian
The promise/challenge of healthcare Big Data: drug discovery/getting the right treatments to the right patients Harvard Business Review
China turns Big Data into Big Brother: Wants to assign scores for eligibility on everything from loans to education Technology Review
The failure to ID fake news may not be the result of faulty machine learning algorithms Data Science Central
***LANGUAGE
You tell me that it’s evolution? Scientists have reached no consensus on the origins of language Economist
***LITERATURE
A Virginia School District Has Banned "To Kill a Mockingbird" Esquire
The 10 Best Books of 2016 - The New York Times
My Passion for Literature Succumbed to Reality New York Times
***RESEARCH
Why research papers have so many authors Economist
Ten simple rules for structuring papers bioRxiv
Detecting and avoiding likely false-positive findings – a practical guide Wiley Online Library
***WRITING& READING
How To Find A Writing Group, Because Every Aspiring Author Needs A Support Group Bustle
The Death of Cursive Writing Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RACE
New book argues that sometimes faculty members of color going up for tenure are judged by a higher standard than are their white peers Inside Higher Ed
Here’s a Rundown of the Latest Campus-Climate Incidents Since Trump’s Election Chronicle of Higher Ed
Rosa Parks and the Power of Oneness Jstor
The non-verdict of the police officer who killed Walter Scott is a national embarrassment (opinion) Vox
***FREE SPEECH
Trump takes aim at First Amendment CNN
An FBI Error Opens A Window Into Government Demands For Private Info FiveThirtyEight
Free-Speech Groups Describe Campus Media as Besieged Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
Online law degrees flourish under tight supervision: Hybrid courses offer face-to-face and internet-enabled classes Financial Times
Photographer Sues VICE for Unauthorized Use of Expectant Couple PDN Pulse
Art Bell and Michael Savage, radio hosts, at opposite ends of federal defamation suit Washington Times
Lawyer sues 20-year-old student who gave a bad Yelp review, loses badly Ars Technica
U.S. top court takes Christian-affiliated hospital pension case Religion News Service
Intellectual Property Problems at Universities: The public at large suffers when institutions spend time and money locking down too many private rights Inside Higher Ed
Court punts Kansas social-media expulsion case: Where does a public university's authority to regulate what students say on social media during off-campus personal time begin and end? Student Press Law Center
CBS Sues YouTuber for Posting Episodes of 'The Andy Griffith Show' Hollywood Reporter
Duran Duran Loses Case, Brought In Britain, Over American Copyrights Billboard
***FILM
14 of the best films of the 21st century, ranked by historical accuracy Quartz
***RELIGION
The Evangelicalism of Old White Men Is Dead (opinion by Tony Campolo) New York Times
Amy Grant Reveals Why She Doesn't Want to Be Labeled a 'Christian' Artist Gospel Herald
Christian Refugees Fleeing ISIS Grounds Flock To Parish Of Jordan Priest NPR
Amy Grant lives her life by two rules: Love God and love everybody else no matter what Fox News
I Think I Lost My Faith. How Do I Get Out Of My Office Bible Study? FiveThirtyEight
U.S. top court takes Christian-affiliated hospital pension case Religion News Service
If the U.S. had 100 people: Charting Americans’ religious beliefs and practices Pew Research
2016 Philanthropy Trends: Americans Donate Record $373 Billion NPR
Georgia Baptists urge crackdown on illegal immigration Baptist News
***MUSIC
How One Composer Turns Science Into Serious Drama Wired
***JOURNALISM
The failure to ID fake news may not be the result of faulty Machine Learning Algorithms Data Science Central
Protecting Journalism from Donald Trump The New Yorker
Journalists in the age of Trump: Lose the smugness, keep the mission Washington Post
Washington Post Editor Marty Baron Has a Message to Journalists in the Trump Era Vanity Fair
How to engage readers with digital longform journalism American Press Institute
***INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
How The San Francisco Chronicle rebuilt its investigative team Poynter
Investigative journalism is hard work. Spotlight shows why it's so important Vox
Ida Tarbell: A pioneer in document-driven investigative journalism iNewsSource
***FAKE NEWS
Fake news almost destroyed Abraham Lincoln Quartz
To Fix Fake News, Look To Yellow Journalism Jstor
A Browser Extension That Shows You Your Filter Bubble New York Magazine
Fake news crackdown threatens religious news Religion News Service
Why Snapchat And Apple Don't Have A Fake News Problem BuzzFeed News
Four Hard Truths about Fake News Jstor
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Activists Think the FCC's Broadcast Spectrum Auction Could Save Local Journalism Vice
Politico co-founder’s new media startup is eyeing $10,000 subscriptions — eventually Recode
Voice of San Diego is spearheading a team to help other smaller news outlets build membership programs Harvard's Nieman Lab
***STUDENT MEDIA
Standoff between student newspaper and Sac State may leave Hornet homeless Sacramento Bee
Media organizations release report revealing threats to student journalism Daily Cal
Who Still Lives at Home with Their Parents? Priceonomics
***STUDENT LIFE
The Trump Bros Have Found Their Safe Space (white male college students who supported Donald J. Trump) BuzzFeed News
***SCIENCE
Flossing and the Art of Scientific Investigation New York Times
***HEALTH
Artificial Intelligence Could Dig Up Cures Buried Online Wired
The promise/challenge of healthcare Big Data: drug discovery/getting the right treatments to the right patients Harvard Business Review
The true story of America’s sky-high prescription drug prices Vox
Diabetics are hacking their health, because traditional systems have failed them Tech Republic
***NEUROSCIENCE
What your brain looks like on God: spiritual experience triggers same areas as sex and gambling Telegraph
***ETHICS
Want to Be an Ethical Shopper? Get DoneGood’s Chrome Extension Wired
***PERSONAL GROWTH
We are actors in a play Becoming (my blog)
***HIGHER ED
University hit by Ransomware: Network crippled by extortion software The Register
Liberty issues tone-deaf statement after hiring new athletic director USA Today
Christian University offers internships with Planned Parenthood Star Telegram
Can a Christian school be both ethical and athletic? Liberty raises the question again Washington Post
University student gets a zero because her art project violated dress code BongBong
Catholic college leaders pledge solidarity with undocumented students Washington Post
***TEACHING
Resisting the Post-Thanksgiving Doldrums Chronicle of Higher Ed
***CRIME ON CAMPUS
Campus police reflect on dangers of the job Inside Higher Ed
Student suspect arrested in fatal stabbing of USC professor on campus LA Times
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
UVA dean Nicole Eramo "vindicated" but not "healed" after Rolling Stone story CBS News
Improving your inner circle
/I reviewed my life when I turned forty. I had the desire to keep going to a higher level and to make a greater impact, but I realized that I had leveraged my time as much as I possibly could, and it would have been impossible to sharpen the focus on my priorities any more than it already was. In other words, I could not work harder or smarter. That left me only one choice: learning to work through others.
John Maxwell, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
the extra mile
/There is no traffic jam on the extra mile.
two ways
/There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. – Alfred Korzybski
articles of interest - Nov 28
/***TECHNOLOGY
A 10-Digit Key Code to Your Private Life: Your Cellphone Number New York Times
***BIG DATA
Google’s AI translation tool seems to have invented its own secret internal language Tech Crunch
Better Questions to Ask Your Data Scientists Harvard Business Review
Artificial Intelligence can now judge books by their covers, determine genre at a glance Nature World News
10 Big Data Trends for 2017 Dzone
Big Data in search of unique data sets fuels market for small satellites Space News
Deep learning, model checking, AI, the no-homunculus principle, and the unitary nature of consciousness Andrew Gelman
***ART & DESIGN
The Most Influential Images of All Time TIME
***SOCIAL MEDIA
How Facebook Is Transforming Disaster Response Wired
Facebook’s Stumbles Expose Flaws in Its Plan to Rule Advertising Wired
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Joy of Third Place Becoming (my blog)
***TEACHING
New website seeks to register professors accused of liberal bias and “anti-American values” Inside Higher Ed
Most Students Don’t Know When News Is Fake, Stanford Study Finds Wall Street Journal
Millions Have Dyslexia, Few Understand It NPR
***WRITING& READING
9 Online Tools to Help Writers Find a Literary Agent Media Shift
Don’t Look Now, But 2016 Is Resurrecting Poetry Wired
Who doesn’t read books in America? Pew Research
Book Publishers Scramble to make sense of Trump’s Rise to Victory New York Times
J.M. Coetzee on the Pleasures of Writing: Total Engagement, Hard Thought & Productiveness Open Culture
***LANGUAGE
'Atlas Obscura' Explores Roots Of The So-Called Mid-Atlantic Accent NPR
***LITERATURE
Are There Really Only 6 Plots In All Of Literature? Bustle
Richard Rorty’s 1998 Book Suggested Election 2016 Was Coming New York Times
Great 19 Century Poems Read in French: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine & More Open Culture
Why literature matters in debate about race and immigrants The Conversation
An Animated Introduction to George Orwell Open Culture
***GENDER ISSUES
How Early Feminist Writer Margaret Fuller’s Memoirs Were Rewritten Jstor
***RACE
White Power Leader's New Target: Colleges Inside Higher Ed
Two Jewish professors on different campuses are harassed with anti-Semitic threats at a time when swastikas have appeared at a number of institutions Inside Higher Ed
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
News organizations file suit against College for access to sexual assault records WRAL TV
Women who reported gang rape by Baylor football players reach settlement with school ESPN
Sexual Violence Might Reshape the Female Brain OZY
***BUSINESS
Google HR boss explains the only 2 ways to keep your best people from quitting Business Inside
***RELIGION
Most say their churches remained above the electoral fray this year Pew Research
***MUSIC
China’s newest export hit is classical music Economist
Don't Give up on the Guitar Bloomberg
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Will 2017 Be Better For Radio? Radio Ink
***JOURNALISM
A guide to public records and the Trump Presidential Transition MuckRock
What TV journalists did wrong — and the New York Times did right — in meeting with Trump Washington Post
Two NPR designers left their comfort zones to create an experimental podcast for kids Nieman Labs
Maneuvering a new reality for US journalism Columbia Journalism Review
My ProPublica Move: From Blogging and Teaching Back to Deep Digging on Climate Dot Earth
The tech/editorial culture clash Columbia Journalism Review
***FAKE NEWS
The CNN porn scare is how fake news spreads The Verge
Fake News and the Internet Shell Game New York Times
For the ‘new yellow journalists,’ opportunity comes in clicks and bucks Washington Post
Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say Washington Post
An Exercise to Sift for Sources Amid a Blitz of Fake News New York Times
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Why The Wall Street Journal is cutting print sections and refocusing on its core coverage Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***STUDENT LIFE
The Myth of the Sports Scholarship (sub. req’ed.) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HEALTH
Big Data Coming In Faster Than Biomedical Researchers Can Process It NPR
***PSYCHOLOGY
Why Very Smart People Are Happiest Alone Big Think
***PHILOSOPHY
Socrates: The Father Of Western Philosophy (video) Seeker
A philosophy competition is asking the public to submit their most controversial, puzzling questions Quartz
How a Philosophy Professor Found Love in a Hidden Library New York Times
***HIGHER ED
Education, Not Income, Predicted Who Would Vote For Trump FiveThirtyEight
A ‘Netflix for Education’? Why LinkedIn’s New Product Should Give Us Pause (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Seeking students, public colleges reduce out-of-state prices Associated Press
These 15 Ridiculous Rules For Women Used To Be Enforced On College Campuses Vira Nova
Feast or Famine' for Humanities Ph.D.s: Some doctorate earners emerge with high levels of debt, while a growing number have none Inside Higher Ed
The Title IX Lives of Christian Colleges Christianity Today
no heavier burden
/There is no heavier burden than a great potential. --Linus, "Peanuts"
there is someting
/There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
- Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers)
Happiness vs Growth
/You stop to visit a friend to find her five year old is running around in diapers. Your friend explains, “That’s the way he likes it and as long as he’s happy, then it's all right with me.” You’d probably say to yourself, if not out loud, “That’s not love. Love works to see children grow up and take on responsibility as they are able.”
If I love you, I can’t just be looking out for what makes you happy. When happiness and growth collide, real love chooses growth. If there's someone in your life and you are wondering if he or she really loves you, ask yourself this question: Is this person seeking what’s in your best interest? Even when you don’t fully understand why they are doing what they are doing? Is this person willing to sacrifice your favor in order to see you grow?
Stephen Goforth
revenge
/There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
no box
/There is no box
made by God
nor us
but that the sides can be flattened out
and the top blown off
to make a dance floor
on which to celebrate life.
Kenneth Caraway
two ways to live
/There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein
Articles of Interest - Nov 21
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Your Filter Bubble is Destroying Democracy Wired
Ex- Head Of Twitter News: Social Media Companies Alone Shouldn't Regulate 'Fake News' NPR
Instagram launches disappearing Live video and messages Tech Crunch
Social Media Update 2016Facebook usage and engagement is on the rise, while adoption of other platforms holds steady Pew Research
***TECHNOLOGY
'Augmented Intelligence' for adaptive and personalized learning markets Inside Higher Ed
Nine ways a Trump presidency might change the tech industry Talking New Media
***BIG DATA
How A Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment Priceonomics
Google’s neural networks invent their own encryption New Scientist
7 big data tools to ditch in 2017 Let's start with MapReduce and Storm Info World
A Beginner’s Guide to Neural Networks with R! KD Nuggets
The differences betw AI, Machine Learning, NLP, Deep Learning Forbes
The impact of AI on the legal profession A New Domain
The current state of machine intelligence 3.0 (w/infographic) Data Science Central
***ART & DESIGN
Neural artistic style transfer experiments with Keras Giuseppe Bonaccorso
***PERSONAL GROWTH
What Your Childhood Memories tell you about yourself Becoming (my blog)
It took America 200 years to abolish boredom. Now that looks like a huge mistake Vox
***WRITING& READING
Top 20 Fiction Books of 2016 (so far) The What List
Is Audio Really the Future of the Book? Jstor
***LANGUAGE
'Post-truth' declared word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries BBC
Literally, Seriously? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
This website recommends novels by making sure you can’t judge a book by its cover The Verge
How ‘cutting up’ Shakespeare’s plays can be an act of creative destruction The Conversation
***GENDER ISSUES
The real secret to Asian American success was not education Washington Post
***FREE SPEECH
Prof says free speech rights violated after he is taken for psych evaluation over tweets New York Daily News
***LEGAL ISSUES
The impact of AI on the legal profession: Ross, Beagle, Recommind & Kim are already here A New Domain
Members of 60s band The Turtles Settle Copyright Lawsuit Hollywood Reporter
IMDb sues California to overturn law forcing them to remove actors' ages The Guardian
It’s Finally Legal To Hack Your Own Devices (Even Your Car) Wired
Indiana Supreme Court rules Notre Dame police not subject to open records law Student Press Law Center
How A Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment Priceonomics
***RELIGION
Dallas Baptist Megachurch Moves Forward with Accepting Gays, Despite Fallout NBC DFW
White Evangelical Leaders Already Distancing Themselves from the “81-Percenter Religious Dispatches
Entering Religious Life Doesn't Mean Leaving The World Behind NPR
Jerry Falwell Jr. on Twitter: 'Pope Francis Lost All Credibility' Sojourner
Evangelical support for Trump strains relationships among believers Waco Tribune Herald
'Sanctuary churches' vow to shield immigrants from Trump crackdown National Catholic Reporter
InterVarsity Press in United States to Cease Publication of Stephen Sizer's Books SnapShots
One-in-Five U.S. Adults Were Raised in Interfaith Homes: A closer look at religious mixing in American families Pew Research
***MUSIC
Leonard Cohen’s Final Interview: Recorded by David Remnick of The New Yorker Open Culture
How Streaming Is Changing The Sound Of Pop Music Hypebot
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Inside 5 publishers' efforts to monetize virtual reality Digiday
What’s in a Brand Name? Research shows there’s a reason that you shouldn’t call your company Tronc New Yorker
TV still the top source for election results, but digital platforms rise Pew Research
***JOURNALISM
BuzzFeed’s pro tennis investigation displays ethical dilemmas of data journalism Columbia Journalism Review
Facebook rolls out online courses for journalists GateHouse News
Trigger warning: UK students vote to ban ‘offensive’ newspapers at journalism school Spectator
Majority of U.S. adults think news media should not add interpretation to the facts Pew Research
***JOURNALISM & FAKE NEWS
How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study New York Times
False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical “News” Sources Melissa Zimdars (assistant professor of communication, Merrimack College)
Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’ Washington Post
Fixing Fake News (opinion) Stratechery
The scariest part of Facebook’s fake news problem: fake news is more viral than real news Vox
According to Snopes, Fake News Is Not the Problem Back Channel
Facebook Shouldn’t Bother Policing Fake News—It Should Go Local Instead Wired
Fake news is everywhere. Should the tech world help stop the spread? Tech Republic
***STUDENT MEDIA
How Mizzou’s School Newspaper Learns from Audience Analytics Media Shift
***STUDENT LIFE
Millennials Bloomberg
***PSYCHOLOGY
Feelings Toward A Partner Affect Brand Buying Decisions, Study Says NPR
***NEUROSCIENCE
TV And Videogames Rewire Young Brains, For Better And Worse NPR
***PHILOSOPHY
An Animated, Monty Python-Style Introduction to the Søren Kierkegaard, the First Existentialistin Philosophy Open Culture
***ETHICS
Good People: An Israeli novelist asks how anyone could serve Hitler or Stalin Economist
***HIGHER ED
Book argues that faculty’s diminishing influence puts higher education at risk Inside Higher Ed
How Trump Could Spark a Renaissance in Higher Education (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
More Than 100 Colleges Push To Keep Deportation Protections For Undocumented Students BuzzFeed News
What the Humanities mean to a Journalist — and the future of Journalism California Humanities
Liberty University president meets with Trump The News & Advocate
Christian colleges grapple with Trump’s election, views on women and minorities Religious News Service
***TEACHING
I Know My Student Plagiarized. Do I Have Enough Evidence to Prove It? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Berkeley Grad Students: School Should have told us prof was being investigated for Sexual Harrassment Inside Higher Ed
***TITLE IX
Fight Over the Recording of Title IX Proceedings Exposes Gaps in Law and Trust (sub. req'ed) Chronicle of Higher Ed
a simple question
/Upon meeting someone, instead of asking, "What do you do?" I prefer asking, "What do you love to do?" That always stops people. Their eyes soften, and they smile. "What do I love to do?" Sadly, it usually it has nothing to do with their work.
The problem is that our society does not teach us to value what we really love. It teaches us to value what we are good at. How many people do you know who are really good at their jobs but hate what they do for a living? Think for a moment. It's staggering.
In the last few years, I've become acutely aware of just where the culprit might lie.
My daughter and I have just finished the college slog, and she is off to her freshman year in a matter of weeks. The journey wasn't easy. Over and over again at colleges around the country I heard admissions people with starched shirts and neat scarves shooting what felt to me like verbal bullets to a room full of prospective students, such as "Who here is good at math? Raise your hand."
Half the room would groan. Half would raise their hands.
"Okay — for those of you with raised hands, you might want to declare Accounting as your major. Accounting majors are guaranteed jobs out of college."
Eh-hem???
Is that what college is for? Getting a job?
A job is a good thing, of course, but college is about something deeper. It should teach you how to think. It should help you learn what you can't stand. It is about stretching your mind in ways you never thought you could and coming out the other side ready to fly into the unknowns of life with some level of confidence and better yet, wonder.
Every single time I witnessed this What-are-you-good-at-raise-your-hand assault on our college-bound youth, I wanted to stand up, Oz-like, and say, "Ignore the person on the stage. It's not what you are good at. It's what you love. If you are lucky enough to have both, good for you!"
Laura Munson, Writing in The Week
tell me
/Tell me who admires and loves you, And I will tell you who you are.
–Charles Aguustin Sainte-Beuve
Your Strength Zone
/Successful people know their strength zone and consistently works in it. Successful leaders know how to find the strength zone for the people they lead and help them consistently work in it. John Maxwell
articles of interest - Nov 14
/***BIG DATA
Companies commissioning data projects need to grasp the difference between two types of analytics projects Computer Week
Industrialized analytics are beginning to make truly life & death decisions- necessitating ethical/legal frameworks Smart Data Collective
Data science is a tool that is not necessarily going to give you answers, but probabilities New York Times
How Bayesian inference gives you sharper predictions from your data (esp. when data is scarce) Data Science Central
***WRITING& READING
Avoiding Plagiarism, Self-plagiarism, and Other Questionable Writing Practices: A Guide to Ethical Writing The Office of Research Integrity of the DHHS
Head Of National Book Foundation Encourages Young People To Read More NPR
10 tips to tighten your writing Gatehouse
***RESEARCH
There’s a way to spot data fakery. All journals should be using it STAT News
Discovery Versus Sequestration – Dealing with Complex Electronically Stored Information (ESI) in Research Misconduct Cases Investigations Law Blog
A court case may define the limits of anonymous scientific criticism Economist
***GENDER ISSUES
Being from a privileged background helps men, but not women, get top jobs Washington Post
Gender Gap: When Women and Men Vote Differently Bloomberg
Gender Politics: Women Actually Do Govern Differently New York Times
***RACE
Author Of 'They Can't Kill Us All' Discusses Race And Police Shootings NPR
***TECHNOLOGY
Los Angeles booms as a startup hub Economist
How I Used A/B Testing to Hack My Kids LifeHacker
***ART & DESIGN
How to make a logo, for free, in about 5 minutes Medium
Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life in Art, a Short Documentary on the Painter Narrated by Gene Hackman Open Culture
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Zuckerberg: the idea that fake news on Facebook influenced the election is ‘crazy’ The Verge
What we know, and what we don’t, about Facebook’s effort to reduce hoaxes The Verge
***ADVERTISING
Digital advertisers battle over online privacy Economist
Advertisers Don’t Care About Fake News Sites: Yet Medium
***INTERNET
Google Estimates More Than 130 Trillion Web Pages Media Post
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Comfort Habits: Everyday habits can play a critical role in providing us with needed balance and continuity Becoming (my blog)
***RELIGION
Why Donald Trump Won With Women and Pro-Life Christians The Atlantic
Evangelical Left admits it doesn’t really exist Colorado Springs Gazette
The West has gained a lot from Christianity: There is still more to learn (book review) Economist
Trump Election Revealed Fractures Among Diverse Evangelical Community NPR
If the U.S. had 100 people: Charting Americans’ religious affiliations Pew Research
***JOURNALISM
Impartial journalism is laudable. But false balance is dangerous The Guardian
Media’s Next Challenge: Overcoming the Threat of Fake News New York Times
Whites more likely than nonwhites to have spoken to a local journalist Pew Research
Storytelling education: Berkeley to offer “Nonfiction Narratives” minor Berkeley Beacon
Buffalo College Newspaper Headline Links Donald Trump With White Supremacist Group NBC New York
***STUDENT LIFE
Implications of Trumps Presidential Victory for international and undocumented students Inside Higher Ed
Black Freshmen at UPenn Added to a “Daily Lynching” Hate Group Slate
Yale professor: My students aren’t snowflakes, and they don’t melt (opinion) Washington Post
Millennials Reject Car-Shopping Gender Stereotypes Media Post
***HEALTH
Safety Of Painkiller Celebrex Affirmed In New Study NPR
Their brains had the telltale signs of Alzheimer’s. So why did they still have nimble minds? Stat News
'Minibrains' Could Help Drug Discovery For Zika And For Alzheimer's NPR
Trump just dropped a big hint to the pharmaceutical industry: Trump's health-care plan may help the drug and medical device industries Washington Post
***PSYCHOLOGY
How Contestants' Social Security Numbers Could Affect 'Jeopardy' Wagers NPR
***PHILOSOPHY
A Princeton philosophy professor on the ethical argument for working for the Trump administration Quartz
What Did Nietzsche Really Mean When He Wrote “God is Dead”? Open Culture
Five Steps To Arguing On The Internet, According To Philosophy Junkee
***ETHICS
Ethical Implications Of Industrialized Analytics Smart Data Collective
Academic Ethics: The Legal Tangle of ‘Trigger Warnings’ Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
Yes, You’re Right, Colleges Are Liberal Bubbles. Here’s the Data Chronicle of Higher Ed
Marx as Educator Chronicle of Higher Ed
***THE CAMPUS & POLITICS
Texas State University police looking into Trump 'vigilante' fliers Austin Statesman
The New Congress and Higher Ed Inside Higher Ed
AAUP Warns of Historic Threat to Academic Freedom Posed by Trump Chronicle of Higher Ed
Voters in many states weren't exactly thrilled with the notion of raising taxes to fund higher education Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Why today’s college students don’t want to be teachers Washington Post
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Trump Administration May Back Away from Title IX, but Campuses Won’t Chronicle of Higher Ed
Surrogates of President-elect Trump and other Republicans say they would scale back enforcement of Title IX Inside Higher Ed
Baylor Faces Rising Calls for Transparency in Sexual-Assault Scandal Chronicle of Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
Student says Georgetown Law suppresses political activity; school says it supports free speech Washington Post
happiness
/Some pursue happiness. Others create it.
have you died?
/Some people have already died. They just haven’t bothered to set the funeral date. John Maxwell