articles of interest - Dec 12

 ***SOCIAL MEDIA

Instagram Launches Live Video  Life Hacker

Facebook is working on a new feature that will showcase lists of curated content from publishers directly in the News Feed  Business Insider

Users Aren't Enough: Why Yik Yak Is The Latest Casualty Of A Changing Market  Fast Company

College students explain why Yik Yak dropped off on campus  USA Today

Facebook Backs 360-Degree Live Streams  Media Post

***BUSINESS OF MEDIA

Native ads are still very confusing to many readers  Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Quartz Global Executives Study: The Media Habits of the World’s Busiest People  Quartz

***INTERNET

New Wayback Machine – Beta  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Pick out live radio streams from an image of a globe  Boing Boing

***JOURNALISM

Suicide Journalism on the Crazy-Mean Streets of Tijuana: The editors and reporters of the Zeta weekly risk their lives with every issue—and nobody reads them more closely than the cartels  The Daily Beast

The year of augmented writing  Harvard’s Nieman Lab

When Did the Media Become a “Watchdog?”  Daily Jstor

Techie Working at Home Creates Bigger Archive of Historical Newspapers (37 Million Pages) Than the Library of Congress  Open Culture

***FAKE NEWS

Weather Channel to Breitbart: Stop using us to mislead public on climate change  CBS News

Most Americans Who See Fake News Believe It, New Survey SaysBuzzFeed News
A BuzzFeed News Poll found that 75% of American adults who were familiar with a fake news headline viewed the story as accurate  BuzzFeed News

Why The Fake News Debate Gets It Wrong  Forbes

The Cynical Gambit to Make ‘Fake News’ Meaningless  The Atlantic

Washington Post fake news story blurs the definition of fake news  Columbia Journalism Review  

6 Tips for Identifying Fake News  Scientific American

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

The NYT to unveil enhanced, redesigned Arts section Friday, new digital features and services  Talking New Media

Breaking News is shutting down  Poynter

***SCIENCE

Editorial: “Is science in big trouble?”  Elsevier

***HEALTH

U.S. Dementia Rates Are Dropping Even as Population Ages  New York Times

***PSYCHOLOGY           

When A Psychologist Succumbed To Stress, He Coined The Term 'Burnout'  NPR

The Science of Why We Laugh  Open Culture

***PHILOSOPHY

Ryan Holiday Sells Stoicism as a Life Hack, Without Apology  New York Times

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Closing Doors that seem like opportunities  Becoming (my blog)

Self-Control Is Just Empathy With Your Future Self  The Atlantic

The Story of Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About the Way We Think (a new book by From Michael Lewis)  New York Times

New Study: Pessimism May Be Bad for Your Heart  UPI

***WRITING& READING

A letter to my writing students on why they have more freedom to create than they seem to think  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LANGUAGE

‘Fascism’ could be the word of the year, Merriam-Webster says  Boston Globe

***LITERATURE

Bibliomania, the Dark Desire For Books That Infected Europe in the 1800s  Atlas Obsura

A Beginner’s Guide To Icelandic Literature  The Reykjavik GrapeVine

***GENDER ISSUES

Author discusses new book about how arrival of women in American higher education changed colleges’ sense of moral mission  Inside Higher Ed

New Research: Sexist men have psychological problems  Washington Post

U.S. transgender people harassed in public restrooms: landmark survey  Reuters

***FREE SPEECH

Restrictive Campus Speech Policies See Record Decline  The Fire

Public University Threatens Student with Expulsion for Anti-Lynching Protest  The FIRE

A review of newspaper theft and vandalism at colleges across the country  SPLC

***LEGAL ISSUES

 Ex-coach Art Briles sues Baylor officials for libel, conspiracy  ESPN

What Legal Recourse Do Victims Of Fake News Stories Have?  NPR

Yes, You Can Post That Negative Online Review, Says Congress  NBC News

Songwriters Accuse Radio Stations of 'Illegal Cartel'  NBC News

Shirley Caesar Sues DJ Suede Over Unauthorized #UNameItChallenge Song  HipHopDX

***BIG DATA

Spelling out the ABCs of Bayesian statistics in layperson’s terms  RW Connect

No, Big Data didn't win the US election despite the rep being built around London-based Cambridge Analytica  Bloomberg

17 Microsoft Researchers: Past the past the Tay chatbot to what's ahead in AI Fortune    

You’re not getting value from your  Data Science -here’s why  Harvard Business Review

***ART & DESIGN

How Pablo Picasso And Diego Rivera Influenced Each Other  NPR

How Big Data is set to change the art market: Sophisticated data tools aim to improve knowledge and boost confidence  The Art Newspaper

How To Understand a Picasso Painting: A Video Primer  Open Culture

***RELIGION

Evangelicals propose truce over LGBTQ rights in hopes of ‘Fairness for All’  LGBTQ Nation

Fairness for All: Evangelicals Explore Truce on LGBT and Religious Rights: It worked in Utah, But national effort by the CCCU and NAE will be more complicated  Christianity Today

Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council Bridges Religious Lines To Fight Discrimination  NPR

The Book of Mormon touted as fourth most influential work in American literature  Salt Lake Tribune

Evangelical preacher ruins Christmas by telling dozens of kids waiting to see Santa that he is not real  The Daily Mirror

***MUSIC

Jazz Recordings With a Sense of History and Discovery  New York Times

Patti Smith Sings Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rains Gonna Fall” at Nobel Prize Ceremony & Gets a Case of the Nerves  Open Culture

The Genius of Paul McCartney’s Bass Playing in 7 Isolated Tracks  Open Culture

When It Comes To CDs In 2016, Mozart Outsells Beyonce, Adele And Drake  NPR

***STUDENT MEDIA

A College Newspaper Takes the Right Stand  Bloomberg

Should You Enroll in Adulting School?  NY Mag

Illinois accused of billing scheme at University radio station  Chicago Tribune

***STUDENT LIFE

Immigrant students share what college means to them, and their fears as they wait for Donald J. Trump and his administration to take office  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Recreational marijuana legal in your state? Not on campus  USA Today

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Helping Professors Find Time to Think: The mission of faculty development has begun to broaden beyond the traditional focus on teaching  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Montana State University professor fights firing  Bozeman Daily

On-campus cybersecurity sometimes impedes academic freedom  Business Insider

***HIGHER ED

Baylor and U. of Louisville Get Heat From Accreditor  Chronicle of Higher Ed

NCAA Rules Ex-Official at Cal State-Northridge Committed Academic Misconduct  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Building a Network to Help First-Generation Students Succeed  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Why Universities Need Scholarly-Communications Experts (opinion)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Some colleges are refusing to call themselves 'sanctuary' campuses because states could cut their funding  Business Insider

Mike Pence's Voucher Program in Indiana Was a Windfall for Religious Schools  Mother Jones

***TEACHING

Why I Don’t Edit Their Rough Drafts  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Student secretly records professor’s anti-Trump comments, after which a student group wants the professor punished and the faculty union wants the student disciplined  Inside Higher Ed

How Can Students Be Taught to Detect Fake News and Dubious Claims? (sub. req.’ed)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***RESEARCH

Reproducibility Crisis Timeline: Milestones in Tackling Research Reliability  PLOS

Dear plagiarist’: A scientist calls out his double-crosser  Stat News

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

A Sex-Assault Case Pits Privacy Against Transparency  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Former Students Say Stanford Tried To Buy Its Way Out Of Title IX Investigations  BuzzFeed News

Stanford releases a "questions and answers" article to refute various reports about the institution's handling of sexual-assault cases  Stanford Press Release

A Sexual Assault Survivor  Chronicle of Higher Ed

 

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.

Angel Chernoff

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

Co.'s are using Big Data to give a fuller picture of China’s economic life using digital economic gauges  Bloomberg

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

Big data is coming in faster than biomedical researchers can process it and scientists can make sense of it  NPR

***LANGUAGE

You tell me that it’s evolution? Scientists have reached no consensus on the origins of language  Economist

***LITERATURE

Reading Literature Won’t Give You Superpowers: Psychologists have failed to replicate a famous study suggesting that short fiction improves readers’ abilities to read the emotional states of others  The Atlantic

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

Campus Press vs. Colleges: Kentucky Suit Highlights Free-Speech Fight (An associate professor had been accused of groping students, and the college had permitted him to leave quietly)  New York Times

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

Student Press Under Pressure: A new report finds that university administrators aim to intimidate and censor content of student news organizations, violating basic principles of press freedom  Inside Higher Ed

Standoff between student newspaper and Sac State may leave Hornet homeless Sacramento Bee

Media organizations release report revealing threats to student journalism  Daily Cal

More on covering student suicides: how students at OU reported a student death that everyone is saying was a suicide, with no official confirmation  OU Daily

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

San Diego State University report: A third of community-college students face housing insecurity, and upward of 10 percent face food insecurity  CCEA Lab

***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  

The ‘Computerless’ Computer Lab: After realizing virtually all students bring their own laptops to campus, Wisconsin liberal arts college opened an unorthodox computer lab  Inside Higher Ed

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

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            

The Running Conversation in Your Head: What a close study of "inner speech" reveals about why humans talk to themselves  The Atlantic

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

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. says he turned down Trump's offer to serve as education secretary  Daily Mail

 

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

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

Real men don't say 'cute': Psychologists tap big data and Twitter to analyze the accuracy of stereotypes  Phys Org

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