insides and outsides
/Don’t compare your insides to other people’s outsides.
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
choose
/Choose the relationship rather than the ideology.
articles of interest - July 31
/***TECHNOLOGY
Adobe is finally killing its hated Flash Player Mashable
First Human Embryos Edited in U.S. MIT Tech Review
Hackers break into voting machines in minutes at hacking competition The Hill
Don’t be the co-worker who sends late-night emails. Use this free tool Poynter
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Big names in statistics want to shake up much-maligned P value Nature
Google launches free course on Deep Learning: the science of teaching computers how to teach themselves Open Culture
How predictive analytics is being used at LinkedIn Predictive Analytics World
China plans to Use AI to "gain global economic dominance by 2030" MIT Technology Review
Bring neural networks to smartphones Campus Technology
The 10 coolest big data products of 2017 (So Far) CNN
How computational psychiatry is using Machine Learning, data mining, and AI to revolutionize mental illness MIT Technology Review
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Privacy Isn't Dead. It's More Popular Than Ever Wired
The Right Social Media Metrics Are Different For Every Business Ad Exchange
Study of social media retracted when authors can’t provide data Retraction Watch
***PRODUCING MEDIA
The Beginner's Guide to Podcasts Wired
MS Paint is here to stay Windows Blog
How To Preserve Your Polaroid Photos NPR
***INTERNET
What Google's New Autoplay Experiment Means for the Future of Search Wired
Concerned about browsing privacy? Here's how to install Firefox Focus Tech Republic
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Twitter reports $116-million loss and flat user growth; its stock drops 13% LA Times
Jobs’ ex Buys The Atlantic Forbes
SESAC scores big win in radio royalty rate dispute The Tennessean
***JOURNALISM
Fact-Checking Website Snopes Is Fighting To Stay Alive NPR
InVID Wants to Help Journalists Debunk Fake Videos PBS Media Shift
How to responsibly mix fiction and journalism Online News Assoc.
Trump Tests the F-Bomb Policy at The New York Times The Atlantic
What I learned about journalism at the New York Post Columbia Journalism Review
That R. Kelly ‘cult’ story almost never ran. Thank Hulk Hogan for that Washington Post
7 words (and more) you shouldn’t use in medical news Health News Review
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
News organizations are using Nextdoor to connect with readers block-by-block Poynter
Fox News And 'New York Times' Clash Over Paper's ISIS Reporting NPR
White House aide’s tirade tests editors and producers Associated Press
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Our Minds Have Been Hijacked by Our Phones. Tristan Harris Wants to Rescue Them Wired
If-then planning is a really powerful way to help you achieve any goal Becoming (my blog)
One surprising way money can buy happiness, according to scientists The Washington Post
If you’re 30% through your life, you’re likely 90% through your best relationships Quartz
Smart People Are More Likely to Stereotype The Atlantic
What To Tell Kids Instead of "You're So Smart" Life Hacker
***WRITING & READING
Why I Don’t Ask Students to Write the Thesis Statement First Chronicle of Higher Ed
Getting Kids Interested In Poetry NPR
Aiding the Writing-Stalled Professor Chronicle of Higher Ed
Author discusses her new book of writing advice for academics Inside Higher Ed
Notorious=famous is not an uncommon mistake and the New York Times made it Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
Jane Austen, 200 years on How an unremarkable Englishwoman became a literary juggernaut Economist
A map of America through 737 favorite books set in each of the 50 states StoryMaps
Author Jeannette Walls on "The Glass Castle" CBS News
The Heretical Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction The New Yorker
***GENDER
Following uproar, surgery journal retracts paper with male-only pronouns Retraction Watch
Trump: I consulted the military about the transgender ban. Military: no, you didn’t Vox
Bloomberg Quicktake: Transgender Legal Rights Bloomberg
Transformers: Lost Light #8 Features Trans Women Transformers Bleeding Cool
***DIVERSITY
7 facts about Americans with disabilities Pew Research
***RELIGION
Muslims In The U.S. Face Increased Discrimination, PEW Report Says NPR
Justin Bieber runs over photographer at church and then lays hands on him, police say Kansas City Star
Demand for exorcists is soaring in France: The Catholic church has left a big gap in the market Economist
Most White Evangelicals Don’t Believe Muslims Belong in America Christianity Today
Hobby Lobby thinks the Bible can save America. Now its museum has to convince its critics PBS
Lesbian mom asks Christian judge to recuse himself from her divorce case citing his stance against homosexuality New York Daily News
Why some people are so sure they're right, even when they are not Science Daily
Outlaw pastor Rob Bell shakes up the Bible Belt CNN
Outback Steakhouse is a chain of Satan BongBong
Is mega-pastor getting a $110 Million contract from Lakewood Church? KHOU
President Trump Nominates Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback as Religious Freedom Ambassador Associated Press
***ART & DESIGN
What is the real role of a design portfolio website? UXdesign
This algorithmic generative art explores the visual beauty of math BongBong
***MUSIC
The sound illusion that makes Dunkirk so intense (video) YouTube
BMI, ASCAP to Combine Music Databases Broadcasting and Cable
The Rise and Decline of the “Sellout” Slate
The Best Band Nobody Can Sign The Fader
***FILM
How Did Akira Kurosawa Make Such Powerful & Enduring Films? A Wealth of Video Essays Break Down His Cinematic Genius Open Culture
***BUSINESS
30 firms earn half the total profit made by all US public companies Quartz
***HEALTH
Prescription video games may be the future of medicine The Verge
The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills New York Times
Doctors Make The Case Against Taking A Full Course Of Antibiotics NPR
How Scared Should I Be of Macaroni and Cheese? The Atlantic
How well do you know your body? Take our quiz Stat
Beware Scam “Clinical Trials” That Ask You to Pay Money for Unproven Therapies Life Hacker
***SCIENCE
***PSYCHOLOGY
England’s Mental Health Experiment: No-Cost Talk Therapy New York Times
Students say they don't know where to turn for mental health services Education Dive
Stanford researchers have discovered a simple shift in thinking can make you live longer Quartz
***PHILOSOPHY
Philosopher Who Praised Risk Died Trying to Save Children From Drowning New York Times
James Franco Hosts Philosophy Time, a New Videos Series Created to Help Philosophy Reach a Wider Audience Open Culture
***ETHICS
If you could 'design' your own child, would you? Washington Post
***RESEARCH
Science needs an IMDb for authors to promote the idea of “data authorship" New England Journal of Medicine
Why published research is untrustworthy Springer
How training can help fix the research reproducibility crisis: Giving researchers better skills analyzing large datasets Inside Higher Ed
Group of scientists concerned about reproducibility say a p-value cutoff of 0.05 isn’t strict enough Science Mag
The One-Percent Club For Top-Cited Papers Scholarly Kitchen
***HIGHER ED
There are 2.4 million fewer college students than there were five years ago Hechinger Report
Wake Forest Freshmen Get an ‘Irreverent’ Take on Orientation Chronicle of Higher Ed
Trump Struggles to Find a Leader for White House Initiative on Black Colleges Chronicle of Higher Ed
Who Is Betsy DeVos?And how did she get to be head of our schools? NY Mag
Recent Higher Ed Scandals lay Bare the Murky Moral Waters Leaders must Navigate Inside Higher Ed
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
With more students streaming classes online, Southern Evangelical Seminary plans to sell campus and find smaller facility Charlotte Observer
The American Association of Christian Counselors Conference Features Court Evangelicals (opinion) Patheos
***TEACHING
New book about promoting success of at-risk students Inside Higher Ed
Your Syllabus Doesn’t Have to Look Like a Contract Chronicle of Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
Who should police free speech on college campuses? Congress wants to know USA Today
***STUDENT LIFE
Student-loan forgiveness has halted under Trump Associated Press
At Harvard, extraordinary court battle between Ph.D. student and prominent researcher grinds on Science Mag
***ACADEMIC LIFE
UNC civil rights center may be barred from litigation, raising questions about the role of law schools and academic freedom Inside Higher Ed
If-Then Planning
/It's called if-then planning, and it is a really powerful way to help you achieve any goal. Well over a hundred studies, on everything from diet and exercise to negotiation and time management, have shown that deciding in advance when and where you will take specific actions to reach your goal (e.g., "If it is 4 p.m., then I will return any phone calls I should return today") can double or triple your chances for success.
Heidi Grant Halvorson, Nine Things Successful People Do Differently
a role to play
/We have a role to play in one another’s wholeness. Dean Nelson
something glorious
/The world is already full of successes. Do something glorious. Robert Pensky
reasoning someone out of something
/You cannot reason someone out of something he or she was not reasoned into. Jonathan Swift
Be a rebel
/Having a naysayer can be motivating. Rebel against a dream crusher from your past. -Jonathan Adler
sitting quietly
/All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Blaise Pascal
articles of interest - wk of July 24
/***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
you're an original
/You were born an original. Don't die a copy. -John Mason
articles of interest - wk of July 17
/***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
Primed for Action
/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
articles of interest - July 10
/***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 Adventure Risk
/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
why Facebook survived
/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
articles of interest - July 3
/***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
a book and a page
/The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. St. Augustine
That’s what people do-and that should truly frighten us
/I require every new FBI special agent and intelligence analyst to go to the Holocaust Museum. Naturally, I want them to learn about abuse of authority on a breathtaking scale. But I want them to confront something more painful and more dangerous: I want them to see humanity and what we are capable of.
I want them to see that, although this slaughter was led by sick and evil people, those sick and evil leaders were joined by, and followed by, people who loved their families, took soup to a sick neighbor, went to church and gave to charity. Good people helped murder millions. And that’s the most frightening lesson of all — that our very humanity made us capable of, even susceptible to, surrendering our individual moral authority to the group, where it can be hijacked by evil.
In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland*, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn’t do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That’s what people do. And that should truly frighten us.
Former FBI Director James Comey speaking at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 2015 National Tribute Dinner, April 23, 2015
Watch the video of the speech here
an icberg
/When you’re facing an iceberg, a kayak is safer than the titanic.