reasoning someone out of something
/You cannot reason someone out of something he or she was not reasoned into. Jonathan Swift
You cannot reason someone out of something he or she was not reasoned into. Jonathan Swift
Having a naysayer can be motivating. Rebel against a dream crusher from your past. -Jonathan Adler
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Blaise Pascal
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Artificial intelligence is guesswork: A Bloomberg quicktake on AI Bloomberg
Apple launches a machine learning blog focused on research papers and the company’s findings TechCrunch
Quantum computing is coming for your data - and it may take decades for the hack to come to fruition Wired
Google releases facets: a visualization tool for big data Infoq
***TECHNOLOGY
Wanna Help Self-Driving Cars? Turn on Your Phone's Camera Wired
How Cyber Criminals Are Targeting You Through Text Messages NBC News
Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years The Guardian
We’re moving toward a cashless society, and lots of people are going to be left behind ReCode
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Amazon launches shopping social network Spark for iOS Reuters
Twitter says it’s punishing 10 times more users for being abusive than it was a year ago Recode
***PRODUCING MEDIA
***INTERNET
Ranking Websites by Demographics Quantcast
With its new feed, Google is preparing for the end of search Mashable
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
The Sinclair Revolution Will Be Televised. It’ll Just Have Low Production Values Bloomberg
Google's been running a secret test to detect bogus ads — and its findings should make the industry nervous Business Insider
Only Two-Fifths Of Ad Execs Say Their Agencies Don't Take Kickbacks Media Post
Media Companies Lose Out As Advertisers Promote Their Stories on Facebook BuzzFeed News
***JOURNALISM
Making a Correction 100 years later: A Hot Dog is not a Sandwich Courier-Journal
Google’s New Feeds Show You the Internet You Want to See Wired
Q&A: ProPublica’s Lena Groeger on data visualization and writing about design Columbia Journalism Review
Facebook Updates the ‘Journalism Project’ to Fight Fake News Fortune
The War on the Freedom of Information Act The Atlantic
Comic Book Journalists Discuss the Pitfalls of the Job And How To Break Into The Industry Bleeding Cool
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
NBC has 30 employees working on a daily news show exclusively for Snapchat Recode
Confessions of a New York Times Copy Editor: I hardly had time to go to the bathroom New York Times
Journalism is a public service. Why don’t we fund it like one? Columbia Journalism Review
Snopes, in Heated Legal Battle, Asks for Funds to Survive New York Times
***ART & DESIGN
The 5 Best Apps for Sketching on an iPad Pro Wired
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Getting Clarity on What’s Important Becoming (my blog)
***BUSINESS
Wisconsin company says it will put Microchips in employees BBC
Leadership: Reshaping Business Culture for a digital age McKinsey & Company
The company isn’t a family Signal v Noise
How Mobile Devices Perpetuate Weak Business Models Scholarly Kitchen
***GRAMMAR
***WRITING & READING
The death of reading is threatening the soul (opinion: Phillip Yancey) Washington Post
Of fake PR, serial commas, and four-letter words (opinion) Saipan Tribune
***LANGUAGE
Why do humans speak so many languages? Quartz
Correct Latin word installed on UT memorial to Tower sniper’s victims Austin Statesman
Hemingway’s Cuban English Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Accent Whisperers of Hollywood New York Times
Why it’s so hard to teach English-as-a-second-language students how to use a, an, and the, Chronicle of Higher Ed
What Do You Call This Hat?The strange case of the knit cap and its many, many regional names Atlas Obscura
Generic-you has important implications for how people derive meaning from experience Science Mag
***LITERATURE
Amazon launched 22 years ago this week — here's what shopping on Amazon was like back in 1995 Business Insider
On Teaching, but Not Loving, Jane Austen The Atlantic
***GENDER
Months After ‘Transracialism’ Flap, Controversy Still Rages at Feminist Philosophy Journal Chronicle of Higher Ed
No one is well-served by sexism in Japan Economist
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Sikh Scholar Harassed Over Photo of Another Man in Turban Inside Higher Ed
The Largest U.S. Latino Advocacy Group Changes Its Name, Sparking Debate NPR
***LEGAL ISSUES
After Supreme Court Decision, People Race To Trademark Racially Offensive Words NPR
***MUSIC
A breakdown of Beyoncé’s revenue shows how little musicians make out of streaming Quartz
How SoundCloud's broken business model drove artists away The Verge
Hip-hop is bigger than rock music for the first time, thanks to nobody buying albums Quartz
Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning Y Combinator
A Single Life: An Oscar-Nominated Short About How Vinyl Records Can Take Us Magically Through Time Open Culture
***SOCIOLOGY
The Field Study Handbook Wired
***HEALTH
Just Thinking That You're Slacking On Exercise Could Boost Risk Of Death NPR
Surgery Is One Hell Of A Placebo FiveThirtyEight
Most people addicted to opioids receive no treatment Economist
Protecting interns and other physicians from depression and suicide (opinion) Stat News
***SCIENCE
Ten Simple Rules for Scientific Fraud & Misconduct HAL
I’m a Scientist and the Trump Administration Reassigned Me for Speaking up About Climate Change Washington Post
The Rich get Richer: Relatively few NIH grantees get lion’s share of agency’s funding Science Mag
Some scientists hate NIH’s new definition of a clinical trial Science Mag
***PSYCHOLOGY
The Emerging Science of Computational PsychiatryMachine learning, data mining, and artificial intelligence are revolutionizing the study and understanding of mental illness MIT Technology Review
Psychology’s Replication Crisis and the Grant Culture: Righting the Ship Sage Publication
A psychologist explains the hard limits of human compassion Vox
New report on mental health on college campuses: Colleges: colleges, are struggling to provide adequate mental-health services for students National Council on Disability
***RESEARCH
Upholding Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics Wiley
So-called Scientific journals accept a Star Wars-themed spoof paper Discover Magazine
***RELIGION
Mother makes plea to parents over treatment of her special needs son at church Huffington Post
The age of white Christian America is ending. Here's how it got there Vox
ASU sanctions church for misconduct Tucson.com
Revisiting Ayn Rand’s anti-religious philosophy Religion News Service
Is Surfing More Sport or Religion? The Atlantic
Christian theme park claims it is ‘taking back’ the rainbow from the LGBTQ Sacramento Bee
***HIGHER ED
Wright State University makes million-dollar boosts to athletics spending while cutting every category of academic funding Inside Higher Ed
Troubled Colleges Rebrand Under Faux-Latin Names BuzzFeed
Minority serving institutions Completion Rates Higher Than Federal Data Indicate American Council on Education
Small Christian College Faces More Turmoil in Response to Firing of Much-Loved Longtime Prof Inside Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student slams Tex-Mex food in college newspaper, Texans shut her down Click2Houston
***FREE SPEECH
Stop Telling Students Free Speech Is Traumatizing Them NY Mag
It started when a student corrected his ex’s grammar and tweeted about it. Now he is suspended, and lawyers say First Amendment issues are at stake Inside Higher Ed
Suspensions for College Students Who Thwarted Free Speech The Atlantic
Claremont college suspends students for demonstration against pro-police speaker LA Times
It's Disadvantaged Groups That Suffer Most When Free Speech Is Curtailed on Campus The Atlantic
How powerful people use criminal-defamation laws to silence their critics Economist
***STUDENT LIFE
Millennials have a Netflix account. Gen Z is playing video games Recode
Univ. of Central Florida reverses position on student suspended over viral tweet about ex-girlfriend USA Today
College Savings Advice (opinion) New York Times
Few student-athletes with mental illness seek help USA Today
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Betsy DeVos Is Right: Sexual Assault Policy Is Broken (opinion) The New York Times
Catholic University found him responsible for a sexual assault. Now he’s suing the school Washington Pose
Media Circus Surrounding “Mattress Girl” Case Changes Conversation on Sexual Assault Inside Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
BYU adjunct: I was fired for Facebook post asserting that homosexuality and transgenderism are not sins Washington Post
We are too often motivated by a craving to put an end to the inevitable surprises in our lives. This is especially true of the biggest "negative" of all. Might we benefit from contemplating mortality more regularly than we do? As Steve Jobs famously declared, "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way that I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."
Oliver Burkeman
You were born an original. Don't die a copy. -John Mason
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. – Irish Saying
When perfectionists become parents, their mindsets don't change; they just shift their unreasonable expectations onto their children. Now their kids must be perfect too. In fact, a number of studies have found that perfectionists are so busy worrying about the drive for excellence that they aren't sensitive are responsive to the children's real needs.
Perfectionist parenting is anxious parenting. So that their children never make mistakes, these parents are overprotective, controlling, authoritarian, intrusive and dominating.
(Not that any of it helps: Research at Macquarie University in Australia showed that perfectionist parents’ tendencies to admonish kids and emphasize accuracy didn't decrease errors in children's work.)
Unsurprisingly kids of perfectionists are perfectionists too, adopting the same unreasonable expectations and exaggerated responses to failure. As a result, they're more likely to be anxious and obsessive. According to the University of Louisville researchers Nicholas Affrunti and Janet Woodriff-Borden, every time parents rush into fix something their kids learn their mistakes of threatening and they come to believe they can't be trusted to handle new experiences on the run.
And through their parents’ disengagement, kids learn that love is conditional. The only way to get it? Achieve.
Ashley Merryman, co-author of Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing, writing in ESPN the Magazine, May 11, 2015 issue
Excellent performers judge themselves differently than most people do. They're more specific, just as they are when they set goals and strategies. Average performers are content to tell themselves that they did great or poorly or okay.
By contrast, the best performers judge themselves against a standard that's relevant for what they're trying to achieve. Sometimes they compare their performance with their own personal best; sometimes they compare it with the performance of competitors they're facing or expect to face; sometimes they compare it with the best known performance by anyone in the field.
Any of those can make sense; the key, as in all deliberate practice, is to choose a comparison that stretches you just beyond your current limits. Research confirms what common sense tells us, that too high a standard is discouraging and not very instructive, while too low a standard produces no advancement.
Geoff Colvin, Talent is Overrated
***TECHNOLOGY
Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way The Atlantic
When You Should (and Shouldn’t) Share Your Location Using a Smartphone NYTimes
Turning Your iPhone’s Camera into an Assistive Device: Seeing AI Chronicle of Higher Ed
The problem of bots as they are trained to become better at mimicking humans (opinion) New York Times
Why no one has 're-invented' email yet Mashable
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
It’s not enough to weigh data decisions on the descriptor of big versus small alone. Other things must be considered Inside Big Data
Intel community learning to speak Trump's language when talking about major national security threats Chicago Tribune
Paradoxes of Probability and Other Statistical Strangeness Quillette
***SOCIAL MEDIA
India surpasses U.S. as Facebook’s #1 country The Stack
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Duty of Encouragement Becoming (my blog)
Why most people will never be successful CNBC
Don’t Judge My Estrangement From Family — It Saved My Life The Establishment
***JOURNALISM
Data journalism matters. Here’s what you need to know The Next Web
An Inside Look at One America News Washington Post
Report: Republicans think national news media is bad for the country, by an 8 to 1 margin Poynter
Meet the Journalism 360 Challenge winners and the VR frontiers they want to conquer Nieman Lab
Google funds automated news project BBC
What happens to Local News When There is no Local Media to Cover it? Washington Post
LA Times investigation highlights local news that gets results Columbia Journalism Review
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Investor group to acquire Chicago Sun-Times Talking New Media
Sun-Times gets a new owner, but no one is making money in the newspaper business in Chicago Talking New Media
Print newspapers are dying faster than you think Vox
Local TV News Fact SheetPew Research Center Journalism.org
'San Diego Union-Tribune,' Go Fund Me Team To Fund-Raise Around Stories Media Post
Google says it wants to fund the news, not fake it The Drum
Newspapers’ Stand Against Tech Giants Won’t Save Them Slate
The Washington Post takes big data approach to reader comment moderation Talking New Media
Q&A: Jerry Springer on interviewing regular people Columbia Journalism Review
***FAKE NEW
Fake news fuels nationalism and Islamophobia — sound familiar? In this case, it's in India LA Times
Computer Scientists Demonstrate The Potential For Faking Video NPR
Fighting Falsehoods Around the World: A Dispatch on the Growing Global Fact-Checking Movement Washington Post
Researchers Examine When People Are More Susceptible To Fake News NPR
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student Journalists Are Our Future—We Should Start Treating Them Like It The Nation
***GRAMMAR
The Correct Punctuation of Donald Trump, Jr.,’s Name The New Yorker
The Much-Needed Gap Chronicle of Higher Ed
‘The Americans Have No Adverbs’ Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING & READING
Blessed Are teh Copy Editors Chronicle of Higher Ed
The ‘So What?’ Question in your Academic Paper Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
Donald Trump Jr. Reviews Famous Works of Literature McSweenys
Emily Dickinson’s unquiet passion: A literature professor’s take on Terence Davies’ film Amherst Bulletin
The Word Choices That Explain Why Jane Austen Endures New York Times
Charting Literary Greatness With Jane Austen New York Times
Jane Austen Bicentennial: Must-See Sights from Her Life & Literature Biography
***GENDER
Women more likely to see online harassment as major problem Pew Research Center
The "Crazy/Bitch" Narrative About Senior Academic Women (opinion) Jennifer Berdahl's Blog
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Arizona's Ethnic Studies Ban In Public Schools Goes To Trial NPR
Diverse clinical trials are “an issue of an essential ethical principle of justice” OnNursing
***FREE SPEECH
Spain Struggles To Balance National Security With Free Speech NPR
Lawsuit Claims School Violated Rights Of Students Trying To Form Pro-Life Club CBS News
***LEGAL ISSUES
The 'Monkey Selfie' Monkey Just Filed an Appeal Mother Board
A Supreme Court mystery: Has Roberts embraced same-sex marriage ruling? Washington Post
An analysis of the Supreme Court's latest First Amendment ruling, Matal v. Tam Student Press Law Center
***RELIGION
Best-selling author Eugene Peterson changes his mind on gay marriage Religious News Service
Actually, Eugene Peterson Does Not Support Same-Sex Marriage Christianity Today
Samford pulls plug on student gay-straight alliance Baptist News
A dubious web site falsely reported the death of the Christian Contemporary music artist Don Moen Snopes
More Christian than Muslim refugees arrive in U.S. under Trump Pew Research Center
John Calvin: The Religious Reformer Who Influenced Capitalism Jstor
Why I’m Leaving the Southern Baptist Convention (opinion) New York Times
When the Evangelical Establishment Comes After You (opinion) Religious News Service
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Confidant of Pope Francis condemns US religious right Associated Press
Trump seen bowing in prayer during Oval Office session CNN
Trump coped with the Russia scandal by courting evangelicals. Here's why that's worrisome (opinion) Vox
Trump threatens to change the course of American Christianity Washington Post
Ethical Questions over Organizational Structure of Trump lawyer’s Christian nonprofits NPR
***MUSIC
A brief mention in an interview by a British artist breathes life and sales into a niche music theory book Inside Higher Ed
Why musicians are so angry at the world’s most popular music streaming service Washington Post
R. Kelly Is Holding Women Against Their Will In A “Cult,” Parents Told Police BuzzFeed
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
The Trump Administration’s Fraught Attempt to Address Campus Sexual Assault The New Yorker
Title IX summit Controversy Inside Higher Ed
Ed. Dept. Official Apologizes for ‘90%’ Remark on Campus Rape. What’s the Research? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Education Department Official Apologizes For 'Flippant' Campus Sexual Assault Comments NPR
Columbia University settles Title IX lawsuit with former student involving ‘mattress girl’ case Washington Post
After Meeting With DeVos, Title IX Activists Say They Still Have Many Questions Chronicle of Higher Ed
New study of harassment of graduate students by faculty members suggests that the problem is worse than many believe Inside Higher Ed
At some Texas universities, students accused of rape can transfer without a record Texas Tribune
***SOCIOLOGY
***HEALTH
'Dirt Is Good': New Book Explores Why Kids Should Be Exposed To Germs NPR
A survey of retracted articles in dentistry BMC Research Notes
The importance of whistleblowing when it comes to patient safety in healthcare Journal of Patient Safety
The rise of medical crowdfunding scams Daily Dot
Most Drugs Are Still Safe To Use Years After Their Expiration Date : Shots - Health News NPR
Is This Photo Real or Fake? A New Study finds most people won’t spot the con Motherboard
***SCIENCE
Science has a negativity problem Science Line
***PSYCHOLOGY
Can Psychedelics Be Therapy? Allow Research to Find Out New York Times
***NEUROSCIENCE
The neuroscience of inequality: does poverty show up in children's brains? The Guardian
***CRITICAL THINKING
Why Facts Don't Convince People (and what you can do about it) (video) Social Good Now
***HISTORY
The prime minister and the professor Revisionist History (Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast)
***ETHICS
Outgoing Ethics Chief: U.S. Is ‘Close to a Laughingstock’ New York Times
***RESEARCH
Google Is Shelling Out Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars to Academics Writing Papers About Google New York Mag
Elsevier discusses how it intends to introduce more transparency into the review process Elsevier
Strategies to avoid getting Your Research Scooped HELDA
Tracking the Evolution of Reference Resources Scholarly Kitchen
***HIGHER ED
New book argues against “zombie leadership” in higher education Inside Higher Ed
The New Culture War Targeting American Universities Appear to be Working Washington Post
Members of the college-educated class have become amazingly good at making sure their children retain their privileged status New York Times
Why we need to know more, not less, about what students get from college Hechinger Report
New Florida law requires colleges to spell out student debt in a yearly report to each student Sun-Sentinal
Bret Weinstein to Evergreen College Board: Do You Know The Campus Descended Into Literal Anarchy? RealClearPolitics
Why This Tech CEO Keeps Hiring Humanities Majors Fast Company
***TEACHING
The Education Writer Gospel of 'Academically Adrift' Inside Higher Ed
How Much Time Should You Spend on Teaching? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Students Decide their own Political orientation-It isn't handed to you in college (opinion) New York Times
How Colleges Give Students a Flawed Sense of Living Costs Chronicle of Higher Ed
Trump Administration Considers Measure to Make Staying in U.S. Harder for Foreign Students Washington Post
The truth about today’s college students Washington Post
Students at religious universities are worried about access to birth control. Here's why USA Today
Private student loan debts are being erased because of incomplete and missing paperwork New York Times
Grad School Is Hard on Mental Health. Here’s an Antidote Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Under Fire, These Professors Were Criticized by Their Colleges Chronicle of Higher Ed
Trinity Professor Cleared Of Wrongdoing Following Controversial Facebook Posts Courant
New Study Charts Recent Proliferation of Faculty Unions (At the center of many of the disputes are clashing interpretations of new guidance on private-college unionization) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Does your frame of mind before an event make a difference in the outcome? Read this quote from Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink:
Two Dutch researchers did a study in which they had groups of students answer forty-two fairly demanding questions from the board game Trivial Pursuit. Half were asked to take five minutes beforehand to think about what it would mean to be a professor and write down everything that came to mind. Those students got 55.6 percent of the questions right. The other half of the students were asked to first sit and think about soccer hooligans. They ended up getting 42.6 percent of the Trivial Pursuit questions right. The 'professor' group didn't know more than the 'soccer' group. They weren't smarter or more focused or more serious. They were simply in a 'smart' frame of mind and, clearly, associating themselves with the idea of something smart, like a professor, made it a lot easier - in that stressful instant after a trivia question was asked - to blurt out the right answer. The difference between 55.6 and 42.6 percent, it should be pointed out, is enormous. That can be the different between passing and failing.
Call it positive thinking or priming or whatever you like, but don't neglect the mental prep before each "big game." Actors must "get in character" by focusing on the task at hand before the curtain rises. In the same way, give your best effort by first dipping your mind in some positive energy.
Stephen Goforth
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. -Dr Suess
Write the victory speech of your opponent. If you can’t, look again at what you’re asking of them.
If all experience of beauty is merely subjective, we find ourselves in a position in which some people like rice pudding and other people do not like rice pudding, which is then the conclusion of the matter. In short, it would mean that no two people have ever differed or ever can differ on a question of beauty. When one person says the Philadelphia City Hall is more beautiful than the Parthenon and another person denies this, they are not, on the subjectivist theory, arguing at all.
One man is telling about his insides and the other is telling about his insides. If someone wishes to contend that the works of a contemporary leader of a dance band are aesthetically superior to the works of Beethoven, there is, subjectively speaking, no suitable rejoinder.
This situation, however, is too absurd to be accepted by thoughtful critics as the last word on the question. The fact is that people do argue about aesthetic judgments, and the subjectivists argue as much as anybody else.
Regardless of their philosophical position, those who take beauty most seriously tend to hold that those who fail to see what they see really ought to see it, and with sufficient clarification of sight would see it.
Kant goes beyond the mere rejection of the familiar maxim and points out the imperative note which is essential to aesthetic judgment, a note similar to that which we found in moral judgment. To assert that a thing is beautiful is to blame those who do not agree. If I am right, they are wrong.
It would be laughable of a man to justify himself by saying, "This object is beautiful for me."
Elton Trueblood, Philosophy of Religion
***TECHNOLOGY
Cameras are about to get a lot smaller: The future of photography is flat Economist
Why You Will One Day Have a Chip in Your Brain Wired
Nest Founder: “I Wake Up In Cold Sweats Thinking, What Did We Bring To The World?” Fast Company
A reality check for virtual headsets: VR has been more about hype than substance. Will that change? Economist
There Are Plenty Of RFID-Blocking Products, But Do You Need Them? NPR
Two-Factor Authentication is a Mess The Verge
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook is getting ready to test paid subscriptions with publications Digiday
Facebook won’t let people change the headlines in links — and social media managers aren’t pleased Digiday
***PRODUCING MEDIA
How to record and publish podcasts using Anchor Journalism.co
When radio ratings got more precise, it changed how programmers saw their audience. Are podcasters heading for something similar? Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
A brief guide for getting started in Python Medium
Should scientists who use AI include their computers as co-authors on their papers? Science Magazine
Can we get AI to explain why it’s making the decision it’s making? Will that get us to trust it? MIT Technology Review
Is artificial intelligence a job killer? Well, deep neural networks will automate many jobs, but.. The Conversation
How machine learning is already a big part of our lives Android Authority
Will patients trust their lives to machine learning? The medical algorithm revolution is coming MIT Technology Review
***JOURNALISM
Q&A: NPR’s Audie Cornish on the intimacy of interviewing Columbia Journalism Review
Alcohol industry isn’t just funding studies; it’s also funding journalism to sway public opinion Health News Review
Why journalism is shifting away from 'objectivity' Christian Science Monitor
Friend of Murdered Mexican Journalist Sees Lessons in His Death Voice of San Diego
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
The media needs to ‘get the hell out of the picture,’ Columbia Journalism Review publisher says (opinion) Washington Post
What we miss when we obsess over Trump’s tweet Columbia Journalism Review
Google is putting another $24 million into 107 more European journalism projects, including WikiTribune Harvard’s Nieman Lab
News Outlets to Seek Bargaining Rights Against Google and Facebook New York Times
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
What Educators Should Understand About Code and Journalism PBS Media Shift
Grad school for journalism? Your mileage may vary Muck Rack
***FAKE NEWS
Is fact-checking ‘fake news’ a waste of time? Futurity
To Test Your Fake News Judgment, Play This Game NPR
Fake Memoirs: Man Admits He 'Made Up' Rare Brain Disease for Book Newsweek
Is a chart lying to you? This video has some tips to figure it out Vox
How fares trust in journalism amid a sea of fake news? The Guardian
Fake news bots are so economical, you can use them over and over Harvard’s Nieman Lab
iBooks Author vs Fake News: the fight we deserve Talking New Media
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Secret of an Exceptional Life Becoming (my blog)
The three words that make brainstorming sessions at Google, Facebook, and IDEO more productive Quartz
***WRITING & READING
College Summer Reading New York Times
How Do Court Reporters Type So Quickly? WCCO TV
***LANGUAGE
When Did Colonial America Gain Linguistic Independence? Jstor
Twitter is useful for many things—including (unexpectedly) for studying dialects Economist
Nina in Siberia the enormous difficulty of the rules of grammar Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
The inaugural San Diego Festival of Books will take place next month at Point Loma's Liberty Station Union-Tribune
A Digital Archive of Soviet Children’s Books Goes Online: Browse the Artistic, Ideological Collection (1917-1953) Open Culture
***GENDER
***FREE SPEECH
The Trump administration is now openly threatening to use the Justice Department as a tool for punishing critical speech New York Magazine
It's Disadvantaged Groups That Suffer Most When Free Speech Is Curtailed on Campus The Atlantic
U.S. Court of Appeals sides with First Amendment right to video-record police Poynter
***LEGAL ISSUES
Failed whistleblower suit is a reminder that public universities are hard to sue Retraction Watch
$10M defamation lawsuit against Deadspin Las Vegas Review-Journal
***RELIGION
Oklahoma University halts plans to remove religious symbols from chapel Inside Higher Ed
The Presbyterian Church in America, Battles Over Gender The Atlantic
California Beach Party Brings Together Ex-Believers NPR
Christian-owned Hobby Lobby accused of hypocrisy after being fined for role in smuggling case Associated Press
Samford won't accept Baptist convention funds after LGBT flap ALcom
Christian Radio's 'Bible Answer Man' Finds New Faith Home, Deals With Fallout WFAE
Christian geologist wins battle to study Grand Canyon rocks New York Post
An atheist Muslim on what the left and right get wrong about Islam Vox
'Building A Bridge' Between The Catholic Church And LGBT Community NPR
Is God boosting Stephen Colbert's ratings? The Week
Vatican outlaws use of gluten free bread for Holy Communion The Telegraph
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
On abortion, persistent divides between – and within – the two parties Pew Research
***ART & DESIGN
Why Art Historians Still Ignore Comics Jstor
How games are impacting urban design Arstechnica
***MUSIC
The Star-Spangled Banner Verse You've Probably Never Heard NPR
How Losing SoundCloud Would Change Music The Ringer
Only Queen can rock an entire stadium without even being there YouTube
***FILM
The Mummy,' 'The House,' and 'Transformers 5': Hollywood's Problem Isn't Sequels, but Bad Movies The Atlantic
***HEALTH
'Architecture Of An Asylum' Tracks History Of U.S. Treatment Of Mental Illness NPR
This Map Shows How Some US Counties Are Prescribing Way More Opioids Than Others BuzzFeed News
Scientists Aren't Good At Predicting Which Research Will Pan Out NPR
The Machines Are Getting Ready to Play Doctor: An algorithm that spots heart arrhythmia shows how AI will revolutionize medicine—but patients must trust machines with their lives MIT Technology Review
The latest technology is even more beneficial for the old than for the young Economist
U.S. Hospitals Struggle To Protect Mothers When Childbirth Turns Deadly NPR
***SCIENCE
Many Women Of Color Feel Unsafe Working In Science, New Study Finds BuzzFeed News
***PSYCHOLOGY
Research Shows Birth Order Really Does Matter NPR
Why We Lie: The Science Behind Our Deceptive Ways National Geographic
Extreme internet use linked to mental illness in teens The Next Web
The weird power of the placebo effect, explained Vox
Dads Respond Differently To Daughters Than To Sons, Study Finds NPR
Police departments in the US are practicing mindfulness to reduce officers' stress—and violence Quartz
Stephen Fry Identifies the Cognitive Biases That Make Trump Tick Open Culture
***NEUROSCIENCE
Pain Before Pleasure Makes The Pleasure Even Better, Study Finds NPR
***RESEARCH
Should scientists who use artificial intelligence include their computers as co-authors on their papers? Science Mag
When a Cat Co-Authored a Paper in a Leading Physics Journal (1975) Open Culture
***HIGHER ED
Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment The Hechinger Report
UC admission rate for Californian students drops slightly Mercury News
In dramatic shift, more than half of Republicans now say colleges have a negative impact on the U.S. Inside Higher Ed
In emails, then-Baylor regent calls students suspected of drinking “perverted little tarts” “very bad apples,” “insidious and inbred” and “the vilest and most despicable of girls” Waco Tribune-Herald
How Cal Baptist in Riverside inspired Alaskan actor and musician to settle in Southern California Press Enterprise
Speakers at BYU religious freedom conference concerned about religious liberty in educational institutions Herald Extra
Christian universities are growing across Africa Quartz
***TEACHING
AI Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to Cheat Wired
Anthropologist offers explanation for why faculty members hesitate to adopt innovative teaching methods Inside Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Judge tosses out campus carry gun lawsuit filed by UT professors My Statesman
A test question about hot wax has landed a professor in hot water The Fire
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Andre Gide once said, "One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." Explorers of new worlds will always have times of ambiguity where they wonder if they are getting anywhere and whether the voyage was really worth it.
Stephen Goforth
While Facebook was just getting on its feet in 2004, a similar social network called Campus Network (or CU Community) was ahead and more advanced. Slate explains why only one survived.
Why did Facebook succeed where Campus Network failed? The simplest explanation is, well, its simplicity. Yes, Campus Network had advanced features that Facebook was missing. While Campus Network blitzed first-time users right away, Facebook updated its features incrementally. Facebook respected the Web's learning curve.
Campus Network did too much too soon. Neither site, of course, can claim to be the first social network—Friendster and MySpace already had large followings in 2003. But both Facebook and Campus Network had the crucial insight that overlaying a virtual community on top of an existing community—a college campus—would cement users' trust and loyalty. Campus Network figured it out first. Facebook just executed it better.
While people want to make their own choices, research shows too many options creates problems. We become overwhelmed. There is no substitute for simplicity and clarity. Whether on purpose or by accident, Facebook was built from the perspective of looking at what users would do with the site rather than building to show off what its creators could do. One approach shows respect for the audience.
Stephen Goforth
You may think that your rehearsal of a job interview was flawless, but your opinion isn't what counts. Or you may believe you played that bar of the Brahms violin concerto perfectly, but can you really trust your own judgment? In many important situations, a teacher, coach, or mentor is vital for providing crucial feedback.
Deliberate practice is above all an effort of focus and concentration. That is what makes it "deliberate," as distinct from the mindless playing of scales or hitting of tennis balls that most people engage in. Continually seeking exactly those elements of performance that are unsatisfactory and then trying one's hardest to make them better places enormous strains on anyone's mental abilities.
The work is so great that it seems no one can sustain it for very long.
Doing things we know how to do well is enjoyable, and that's exactly the opposite of what deliberate practice demands. Instead of doing what we're good at, we insistently seek out what we're not good at.
Then we identify the painful, difficult activities that will make us better and do those things over and over. After each repetition, we force ourselves to see - or get others to tell us - exactly what still isn't right so we can repeat the most painful and difficult parts of what we've just done. We continue that process until we're mentally exhausted.
If it seems a bit depressing that the most important thing you can do to improve performance is no fun, take consolation in this fact: It must be so. If the activities that lead to greatness were easy and fun, then everyone would do them and no one could distinguish the best from the rest.
The reality that deliberate practice is hard can even be seen as good news. It means that most people won't do it. So your willingness to do it will distinguish you all the more.
Geoff Colvin, Why Talent is Overrated
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Instagram Unleashes an AI System to Blast Away Nasty Comments Wired
How do teens really use Instagram, Snapchat and other apps? Recode
***PRODUCING MEDIA
This Is How Top Instagram Publishers Use Video vs. Photos PBS Media Shift
***TECHNOLOGY
3D printing transforms the economics of manufacturing Economist
How To Find a WiFi Hotspot Using Facebook Life Hacker
***JOURNALISM
How to create a data journalism team: practical tips for bringing programmers and journalists together Knight Center
The State of Investigative Reporting: Highlights From lRE 2017 PBS Media Shift
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
John Oliver explains “the most influential media company that you’ve never heard of” Vox
New York Times copy desk to top editors: ‘You have turned your backs on us’ Poynter
The Washington Post’s New Social Media Policy Forbids Disparaging Advertisers Washingtonian
Cable News Ratings: CNN, Fox News, MSNBC All Post Double-Digit Growth Variety
Hundreds of New York Times employees stage walkout to protest copy editor cuts Washington Post
***FAKE NEWS
Fake news: you ain’t seen nothing yet: Generating convincing audio and video of fake events Economist
Facebook found a new way to identify spam and false news articles in your News Feed Recode
How to Tell Unscientific "Thought Leaders" from People You Should Trust Life Hacker
Top Dem wants FBI to investigate fake net neutrality comments The Hill
A Beginner’s Guide to Calling BSScience of Us New York Magazine
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Ways data-driven analytics get stretched too far Analytic Bridge
Creators of a new search platform claims it will make searching geospatial data easier Datanami
Machine Learning and the Language of the Brain: trying to figure out how the human brain organizes language Next Platform
Warren Buffett's disarmingly simple investment strategy, explained by big data Market Watch
***HEALTH
111 terminally ill patients took their own lives in first 6 months of California right-to-die law LA Times
A Doctor’s View of Obamacare and Trumpcare from Rural Georgia The New Yorker
Google Can Now Remove Leaked Medical Records From Search Results The Guardian
***LEGAL ISSUES
Blogger facing potential jail time says he is ‘honor bound’ not to identify sources Columbia Journalism Review
ABC, meat producer settle in $1.9B 'pink slime' libel suit Associated Press
Tolkien Estate and Warner Bros. Settle Lawsuit Over Licensing New York Times
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Moving past planning to doing Becoming (my blog)
Chief Justice John Roberts Bucks Tradition In Graduation Speech NPR
***GRAMMAR
i before e except after...w? Nathan Cunn
The Half-Life of Metaphors Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING & READING
We Investigate: Principals caught plagiarizing KTMF/KWYB TV
***LANGUAGE
How do you pronounce “GIF”? Economist
A Lecture About the History of the Scots Language … in Scots: How Much Can You Comprehend? Open Culture
***LITERATURE
TSA Ends pilot program asking passengers to remove books from their Carryon Luggage Inside Higher Ed
Victor Hugo’s frustrating, beautiful Les Misérables was completed on this date in 1862 Vox
***GENDER
Women in Tech Speak Frankly on Culture of Harassment New York Times
College Lawyers Say Title IX Process Must Be Fair to Both Parties Chronicle of Higher Ed
How male and female gun owners in the U.S. compare Pew Research Center
Why Can’t Your Company Just Fix the Gender Wage Gap? Bloomberg
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
How do you talk to kids about race? Quartz
CBS tried to pay Hawaii Five-0’s Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park 15% less than their white co-stars Vox
***FREE SPEECH
Campus 'Free Speech' Bill Struck Down by Louisiana Governor Associated Press
Nearly one quarter of Americans say the First Amendment goes too far in the freedoms it guarantees The First Amendment Center
Coal King Begs Court to Gag John Oliver The Daily Beast
***RELIGION
Outpouring raises $300K for Christian music dad who lost wife after childbirth USA Today
Poll shows a dramatic generational divide in white evangelical attitudes on gay marriage Washington Post
Smithsonian Exhibit Explores Religious Diversity's Role In U.S. History NPR
California megachurch pastor steps down for unspecified 'personal misjudgements' Christianity Today
Southern Baptist Convention still facing fallout from racial legacy (opinion) Post and Courier
A university in Oklahoma considers removing its Bibles and crosses from its chapel Washington Post
Census data shows Christianity on the wane in Australia, but Pentecostal church bucks trend The Guardian
Religious faith may reduce stress, helping believers live longer Journalists Resources
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow steered millions in donations to family members through his Christian nonprofit The Guardian
The political beliefs of evangelical Christians: Personal morality in politics is negotiable Economist
GOP bill would let churches endorse political candidates Associated Press
***ART & DESIGN
Why a Dad Photoshops his Baby Daughter into Dangerous Situations New Yorker
***MUSIC
Going to Concerts and Experiencing Live Music Can Make Us Healthier & Happier, a New Psychology Study Confirms Open Culture
Why does some music give you the chills? Quartz
***FILM
Hollywood Conducting First Independent Audit of China's Box Office Hollywood Reporter
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
What “Pivoting to Video” Really Means (opinion) The Righer
***SCIENCE
Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? The Guardian
Florida residents can now challenge the science taught in public schools Mashable
'Exaggerations' threaten public trust in science, says leading statistician The Guardian
***PSYCHOLOGY
Men and women speak in a higher-pitched voice during a job interviews Quartz
I’m Pretty Sure I Remember That — False Memories (video) Scholarly Kitchen
Psychologists have found that having kids lowers women's self-esteem for at least three years Quartz
***NEUROSCIENCE
As Far As Your Brain Is Concerned, Audiobooks Are Not ‘Cheating’ New York Mag
***HISTORY
A real history is messy: A great nation’s birth-pains included sectarian rage and political terror The Economist
An Animated Introduction to the Life & Work of Marie Curie, the First Female Nobel Laureate Open Culture
***RESEARCH
A New Theory on How Researchers Can Solve the Reproducibility Crisis: Do the Math Chronicle of Higher Ed
Image doctoring must be halted Nature News
Small studies: Be vigilant when writing about them and skeptical when reading about them Health News Review
***STUDENT MEDIA
5 Takeaways for Student Journalists from Rolling Stone's Libel Settlement Student Press Law Center
***STUDENT LIFE
Thousands of College Students Could Be Homeless, Study Suggests Associated Press
International students: Where they come from and what they study Journalists Resources
Forgive Us Our Debts: How Christian College Grads Pay the Price Christianity Today
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
Internal Brand Communications Internship Jack in the Box, San Diego
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Universities Are Facing A “Passing The Trash” Scandal People Are Comparing To The Catholic Church BuzzFeed News
U. of California System Changes How It Responds to Sexual Harassment and Violence Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
American U scholar says provost cherry-picked negative student ratings of her teaching to deny her a promotion Inside Higher Ed
This is no way to treat adjunct professors (opinion) Newsday
***HUMANITIES /STEM
***TEACHING
Fear of Failure New York Times
All the Classroom’s a Stage Chronicle of Higher Ed
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