the tuition
/Failure is the tuition you pay for success. - Walter Brunell
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Experience
/Experience teaches only the teachable. - Aldous Huxley
articles of interest - Sept. 4, 2017
/***JOURNALISM
The Guardian Sets Up a Nonprofit to Support Its Journalism New York Times
The Newseum Deserves to Die Politico
Quartz created a bot that can break news — and wants to help other news orgs develop their own Harvard’s Nieman Lab
After a CNN interviewee erupts in anger, disaster reporting standards come into focus Washington Post
Court rules that MSU can’t sue ESPN for requesting open records Student Press Law Center
How a 171-year-old news agency is the hidden mainstay of news on Facebook The Drum
***FAKE NEWS
Researchers teach AI neural network to write fake reviews, with implications for fake news Business Insider
When it comes to the academic study of fake news, “bullshit receptivity” is a thing Nieman Journalism Lab
Why fact-checking can’t stop Trump’s lies Vox
Fact-Check That Viral Image in Two Clicks Life Hacker
There’s a long list of old-fashioned parallels to today’s fake news. Here’s one that’s actually helpful Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Fake news is nothing new: This photo hoax went viral a century ago Salon
***TECHNOLOGY
Google-Funded Think Tank Fires Scholar Who Criticized Tech Giant NPR
'Smart' Campuses Invest in the Internet of Things Campus Technology
Doubts raised on key points of Nature paper on CRISPR gene editing of human embryos The Niche
Scientists Can Predict How You Look Using Only Your Anonymous DNA KPBS
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Using recurrent neural networks to create fake yelp reviews-and how to fight it Business Insider
The first quantum-cryptographic satellite network will be Chinese Economist
How Walmart is using Machine Learning, AI, IoT and Big Data to boost retail performance Forbes
Google researcher comes up with new technology to bring neural networks to mobile devices Infoq
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook Prepares To Launch New Video Streaming Service NPR
How media companies are creating episodic series for Instagram Stories Marketing Land
***INTERNET
711 million email addresses ensnared in "largest" spambot ZDNet
How to Diagnose Pages that Rank in One Geography But Not Another Moz
***PERSONAL GROWTH
To Have Good Ideas, Remember to Get Bored Life Hacker
Proof that I was a worthless piece of Garbage (Jenni Berrett) Becoming (my blog)
How Your Brain Tricks You Into Thinking Magic Is Real Life Hacker
***CRITICAL THINKING
Believing widely doubted conspiracy theories satisfies some people’s need to feel special Research Digest
Adam Ruins Everything goes after itself College Humor
***LANGUAGE
This is How Canada Talks The 10 and 3
How to Lose an Accent, According to a Dialect Coach Life Hacker
***LITERATURE
Tolkien's Plant Passion Moves Botantist To Create Guide To Middle Earth NPR
***GENDER
Why Female Students Leave STEM Inside Higher Ed
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Teaching White Students Showed Me The Difference Between Power and Privilege BuzzFeed News
Is Doxxing the Right Way to Fight the “Alt-Right?” Jstor
***FREE SPEECH
The Most Shortsighted Attack on Free Speech in Modern U.S. History The Atlantic
***LEGAL ISSUES
Dr. Phil Video Leads to Novel Copyright Decision Involving Woman Alleging False Imprisonment Hollywood Reporter
H3H3 Wins Summary Judgment on Fair Use YouTube Lawsuit Plagiarism Today
Charlotte School of Law bilked $285 million from taxpayers, former faculty member says Charlotte Observer
Google Researchers Create Algorithm to Remove Image Watermarks Plagiarism Today
Prediction: It's CNN Not the N.Y. Times Headed to Supreme Court in Defamation Battle Hollywood Reporter
***ART & DESIGN
DeviantArt and Copyright issues Plagiarism Today
A Short Documentary on Artist Jeff Koons Open Culture
***MUSIC
The secret rhythm in Radiohead’s “Videotape” Vox
***BUSINESS
Market power and competition explain every problem in the US economy, new research argues Quartz
Silicon Valley employees celebrate their own exploitation New York Times
***RADIO
Traditional Radio Faces a Grim Future, New Study Says Variety
Brown University radio station sold to K-LOVE for $5.63 million Providence Journal
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
What to Say When an Interviewer Wants You to Talk About Yourself Life Hacker
***HEALTH
Why Giving Birth Is Safer In Britain Than In The US Digg
Utah hospital nurse roughed up and arrested for doing her job Washington Post
***SCIENCE
Physicists Want to Rebuild Quantum Theory From Scratch Wired
***PSYCHOLOGY
Psychology offers a simple rule to consider before you tell someone your woes Quartz
Could a Videogame Strengthen Your Aging Brain? Wired
***PHILOSOPHY
Wittgenstein on Whether Speech Is Violence Jstor
***HIGHER ED
The Myth of American Universities as Inequality-Fighters The Atlantic
Most Colleges Will Change Overtime Policies Despite Judge’s Blocking of New Rule Chronicle of Higher Ed
Almost 40 percent of Texas's flagship state university's undergraduates are from counties declared disaster areas Washington Post
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Diverging Trends in Completions of Advanced Humanities Degrees American Academy of Arts and Sciences
***TEACHING
Are Students Doing Their Own Work in Online Classes? Chronicle of Higher Ed
As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check New York Times
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
A College Seminar Tells Students to Masturbate to Prevent Sexual Assault Cosmopolitan
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Under Fire, These Professors Were Criticized by Their Colleges Chronicle of Higher Ed
Professor Fired for Blaming Harvey on Texas Voting GOP NBC News
Fill Out This Bingo Card During Your First Faculty Meeting of the Year Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why I’m Leaving the Political Science Association (opinion) Minding the Campus
Faculty Members Organize to Fight ‘Fascist’ Interlopers on Campuses Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Let’s Talk about cocks (opinion) Journo Terrorist
***STUDENT LIFE
The Biggest Misconception About Today’s College Students New York Times
Professors at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton say their advice to incoming freshmen can be 'distilled to 3 words' Business Insider
Why You Should Read That Whole Text Book Right Now Wired
College Students evacuated after being stranded by Hurricane Harvey Washington Post
A new Stanford study suggests first-year students can judge who will help them have fun and who can be a shoulder to cry on Inside Higher Ed
A Few Telling Freshman Trends New York Times
***RELIGION
Spicer gets his audience with the pope Politico
The Joel Osteen Fiasco Says A Lot About American Christianity (opinion) BuzzFeed News
The Cheap Prosperity Gospel of Trump and Osteen (opinion) associate professor of religious studies) New York Times
Evangelicals to Trump: Don’t Deport Our Next Generation of Church Leaders Christianity Today
***RELIGION: THE NASHVILLE STATEMENT
More than 150 evangelical religious leaders sign 'Christian manifesto' on human sexuality USA Today
Nashville's mayor is denouncing a statement against same-sex marriage that evangelical leaders named after the city Huron Daily Tribune
I signed the Nashville Statement. It’s an expression of love for same-sex attracted people (opinion) Washington Post
The ugly ingratitude of the 'Nashville Statement' (opinion) Patheos
Why even conservative evangelicals are unhappy with the anti-LGBT Nashville Statement Washington Post
Jenni Berrett: Proof that I was a worthless piece of Garbage
/I spend days at a time in bed, staring at the ceiling and thinking of all the things I could be doing but can’t because I know I would do them imperfectly. I lose countless hours to inner monologues filled with self-hatred and all-or-nothing thinking. I don’t read anything, instead preferring to slowly crush myself with the existential weight of knowing that I will never be able to Read All The Things.
For a very long time, I thought that I did this because I was lazy. I figured that if I just worked a little harder, tried a little more, then I would be able to accomplish the things I set out to do. Failing to do them was a failure of my character. It was because I was a bad person, or at least bad at being a person.
I told myself that I had to get my act together; I had to do all of these things so that I could prove I wasn’t the worthless piece of garbage I thought I was. When I inevitably cracked under that pressure, I took it as proof that I was a worthless piece of garbage.
If all of this sounds repetitive, that’s because it is. It’s a vicious, repetitive, monotonous cycle. It moves at breakneck speed, but also not at all. Experiencing it is the most damning case against perfectionism I have ever come across. Expecting perfection only leaves you with two options: do everything right on the very first try, or don’t even bother. Which is actually only one option, since 9 times out of 10, human beings don't do things right on the first try.
Jenni Berrett writing in Ravishly
Addicted to Love
/Breaking up is hard to do. Literally. A brain study out of Rutgers shows getting over romantic rejection is similar to kicking an addiction. One of the study authors says, "When you've been rejected in love, you have lost life's greatest prize, which is a mating partner." Researchers examined the brains of more than dozen volunteers who had each recently been dumped but still loved the person who had rejected them. It turned out reminders of the beloved activated brain regions in the lover associated with addiction to cocaine and cigarettes. These same areas affect emotional control, rewards, addiction cravings, a sense of attachment, pain and distress. This brain system becomes activated in an attempt to win the person's affections again, according to the researchers. Details are in the July 2010 issue of the Journal of Neurophysiology.
Perhaps the lesson here is that it's important to become addicted to someone who is good for you.
Stephen Goforth
Death bed request
/Old Joe was dying. Realizing that time was running out, he wanted to make everything right. But something bothered him. He was at odds with Bill, formally one of his best friends. Joe had often argued with him over the most trivial matters, and in recent years they hadn’t spoken at all. Wanting to resolve the problem, he sent for Bill, who graciously consented to visit him. When Bill arrived, Joe told him that he was afraid to go into eternity with bad feelings between them, and he wanted to make things right. When he reached out for Bill’s hand and said, “I forgive you; will you forgive me?” Everything seemed fine. Just as Bill was leaving, however, Joe shouted after him, “But remember, if I get better, this doesn’t count!”
articles of interest - August 28
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Are Facebook friends legally your friends? Here’s what a Florida judge had to say Fast Company
Here's How To Find Out Who Left Your Facebook Requests Hanging BuzzFeed News
This app makes it physically impossible for you to ignore texts Mashable
Facebook, Twitter and Apple get into the television business Economist
The New FOMO Wired
Snapchat is still bigger than Instagram for younger U.S. millennials Recode
Make Your Facebook Feed More Attractive (If Not Less Irritating) Life Hacker
Snapchat's Snap Maps becomes major resource after Houston flooding Mashable
The Next Generation of Emoji Will Be Based on Your Facial Expressions MIT Tech Review
***PRODUCING MEDIA
How live video is evolving, in 4 charts Digiday
Immersive Media And The Art of Storytelling Forbes
LIFE VR’s Mia Tramz on the Eclipse, Henry Luce, and When to Make Your Own VR App Medium
Facebook, Apple, and Google Will Hasten the Next Era of TV Miami Herald
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Bloomberg expands into consulting in search for new media model Financial Times
How Mic.com exploited social justice for clicks, and then abandoned a staff that believed in it the Outline
***JOURNALISM
A Mexican reporter was in a program to protect journalists. He was still killed: The ninth journalist killed in Mexico so far this year LA Times
Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli buys domain names associated with journalists Business Insider
Boston authorities should not have blocked media from covering protest Columbia Journalism Review
As this Houston TV station grapples with flooding, everyone’s a reporter Poynter
TV station faces backlash after chat with Charlottesville rally attendee ‘White Mike’ Columbia Journalism Review
***FAKE NEWS
The Fake-News Fallacy The New Yorker
How I Became Fake News Politico
Fake Polls Are A Real Problem FiveThirtyEight
Into the Uncanny Valley of Fake News Medium
Facebook will block publishers from advertising if they share fake news Recode
How to Recognize Russian Propaganda on Social Media Life Hacker
Fake News And Scams Are Going Around About The Deadly Storm In Texas BuzzFeed News
No, the shark picture isn’t real: A running list of Harvey’s viral hoaxes Washington Post
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Dealing with the red marks on your paper Becoming (my blog)
***GRAMMAR
The New Yorker’s Comma Madness The Baffler
Trump has deployed more than 13,000 exclamation points since joining Twitter The Week
***WRITING & READING
Bogus Advice for Op-Ed Authors Chronicle of Higher Ed
5 Writing Opportunities You Can Find on Any College Campus Study Breaks
The US and China publish almost half the world’s books Quartz
***LANGUAGE
FBI Profiler Says Linguistic Work Was Pivotal In Capture Of Unabomber NPR
***LITERATURE
A Newly Discovered Mark Twain Story Is Coming And It's So Beautiful BuzzFeed
To E or Not to E - USC Didn't in Spelling Shakespeare's Name Associated Press
3 Fascinating Books for Word Nerds Study Breaks
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Study of top public universities finds limited faculty diversity, yet signs of progress -- except for African-Americans in STEM Inside Higher Ed
1 in 10 say it's acceptable to hold neo-Nazi views ABC News
Civil Rights Activist Argues To Keep Confederate Monuments NPR
I am not your brown reporter (opinion) Philly.com
Federal Judge Finds Racism Behind Arizona Law Banning Ethnic Studies NPR
Essay by law professors Rails against modern Culture, Sparks Outrage Inside Higher Ed
Clergy March on Washington Calling for Racial Justice Sojourners
***FREE SPEECH
Justice Department Pulls Back on Search Warrant for Visitors to Trump-Protest Site NBC News
ACLU Leader On Defending Hate Group NPR
***LEGAL ISSUES
Could You Register The Swastika As A Trademark? Forbes
John Oliver's legal hell is the stuff of Hulk Hogan-fueled nightmares Mashable
TV Station Falls For Pranksters; Sues Them For Fraud Techdirt
‘Reaction’ Video Protected By Fair Use Technology and Marketing Law
Can an AI Own a Copyright? The Illusion of More
Homeowners Can’t Sue Over Low Zestimates Technology and Marketing Law Blog
***TECHNOLOGY
Space dust kills satellites like tiny atom bombs Economist
Augmented Reality: Where are we now, and what does it mean for marketers? Search Engine Land
You don’t own your own face: Profiting from Face Recognition Software NY Daily News
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
NGA Mulls Swap Of Satellite Imagery For Big Data Algorithms Aviation Week
***BUSINESS
The “free” economy comes at a cost Economist
Watch Out for These Scams in the Wake of Hurricane Harvey Life Hacker
***RELIGION
More Than 350 Christian Ethicists Release Statement Condemning White Supremacy Sojourners
Evangelicals Are Bitterly Split Over Advising Trump The Atlantic
Justice Dept. fights suit over Trump religious liberty order Politico
President's spiritual adviser: When you oppose Trump, you are 'fighting against the hand of God' AOL news
Faith Council Members Take A Step Back From Advising Trump NPR
Christian ministry labeled as a hate group is suing SPLC to ‘right a terrible wrong’ KansasCity.com
Joel Osteen's megachurch claims it's too flooded for Harvey relief. Internet sleuths call BS. Mashable
U.S. Muslims are religiously observant, but open to multiple interpretations of Islam Pew Research
A New Book Explains How the Christian Right Has Gotten Selective Denial Down to a Science Religious Dispatches
***ART & DESIGN
Even the Dumbest Us Weekly Headlines Look Great In New Yorker Font Jezebel
Google releases millions of bad drawings for you (and your AI) to paw through TechCrunch
***MUSIC
In China, singing Handel’s “Messiah” is forbidden in public Economist
Blockchain Technology Is Set to Disrupt Every Industry--and Music Is Next Inc
***FILM
Lynyrd Skynyrd Movie Is Banned by Judge Hollywood Reporter
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
What to Say When You Don't Have a Good Answer in an Interview Life Hacker
5 Annoying Things That Happen During the Job Interview Process Pay Scale
No, millennials aren’t killing stable employment Washington Post
How to Survive Panel Job Interviews Life Hacker
***HEALTH
Trump Rule Could Make it Harder for Nursing Home Residents to Sue for Abuse NPR
F.D.A. Cracks Down on 'Unscrupulous' Stem Cell Clinics New York Times
***SCIENCE
Science is not self-correcting. Science is broken Slate
***PSYCHOLOGY
Four Bad Habits of Modern Psychologists MDPI
Estimating the evidential value of significant results in psychological science PLOS
***NEUROSCIENCE
Brain Mapping Guides Surgeons In Removal Of Musician's Tumor NPR
***RESEARCH
Scammers impersonate the National Institutes of Health offering Grants FTC
***HUMANITIES /STEM
As more humanities Ph.D.s are awarded, job openings are disappearing Inside Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
Liability Worries May Impact Study Abroad after $41.5 million verdict Inside Higher Ed
The Blockchain Revolution and Higher Education Educause
Why Universities Are Unlikely to Heed Calls for Punishing Students at Rally Chronicle of Higher Ed
University Convocation Kickoff Address McSweeney’s
The Quirks of Christian Colleges StudyBreaks
Christian university suspends theology professor for saying some black activists ‘should be hung’ AZ Central
Baylor University hit with another Title IX lawsuit Fox7
***LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
Anthony Scaramucci to speak at Liberty University convocation in November Washington Examiner
My Liberty University Diploma and Me (opinion by faculty member at the Univ. of South Florida) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Liberty University snarks back at students angry over Jerry Falwell Jr.'s Donald Trump support Washington Examiner
Liberty University pushes back against allegations of not reporting home sale to Trey Falwell Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
They are the last class to be born in the 1900s, the last of the Millennials are here: Time for the Beloit Mind-Set List Inside Higher Ed
What First Years Might Not Know & What To Do About It Chronicle of Higher Ed
Learning to Learn: You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain New York Times
Reeling Them in Early: Focus above all else on generating student engagement Chronicle of Higher Ed
What’s a Scientifically-Proven Way to Improve Your Ability to Learn? Get Out and Exercise Open Culture
***ACADEMIC LIFE
The Tenure Track Is Too Rigid to Help Diversity (opinion) Bloomberg
***STUDENT LIFE
Millennials more likely to prefer being fired over text CNBC
Computer-game tournaments go mainstream Economist
Renewed debate over whether graduate students should publish Inside Higher Ed
One Trick For Keeping Kids In College: Forgive Tiny Debts That Force Them To Leave Fast Company
The Road Ahead for Collegiate Esports (podcast) BlogTalkRadio
Why do so many millennials struggle to take their pills consistently? (sub. req’d.) Stat News
***STUDENT MEDIA
5 Reasons Why You Should Write for Your College Newspaper Study Breaks
University newspaper in New York crowdfunds to keep its independence Student Press Law Center
the red marks
/A news story I wrote in a graduate class is covered with the professor’s red marks. I show it to first-year students in writing classes and tell them that I could have had one of two reactions: I could have said to myself, "Well, I can't do this." I could have thrown up my hands, given up, and moved on to something else. The assumption being that either I could write well or I couldn't write well. But those aren't the only options.
There is another way to react: I could have decided to adjust, change my strategy, and learn from the professor's feedback. This second attitude assumes learning is a matter of persistence. This pathway requires students to humble themselves.. revealing weaknesses Asking questions. Struggling is an essential component of learning.
This process is especially difficult to accept if your ego is riding on whether you can perform new tasks effortlessly. Ultimately, we have to see ourselves as someone of value and worth, regardless of our performance. Of course, if God declares you of value, simply because of who you are, who are you to argue?
Stephen Goforth
a dream -APJ Abdul Kalam
/A dream is not what you see in sleep. A dream is what does not let you sleep.
articles of interest - August 21
/***JOURNALISM
The Fallout From Sportswriting's Filthiest F-Up Deadspin
Being a Journalist is Terrible for Your Mental Health Tonic
Journalists are being jailed and tortured to bring you real news (opinion) Sacramento Bee
Eric Bolling’s defamation suit is bad for journalism (and bad for Eric Bolling) Salon
The Sexist Journalism Test Journo Terrorist
Photographer behind graphic Charlottesville image recounts near-death experience Columbia Journalism Review
New Media and the Messy Nature of Reporting on the Alt-Right Wired
This week should put the nail in the coffin for ‘both sides’ journalism Washington Post
Lessons for the news media from Charlottesville Nieman Lab
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Alaska Dispatch News Will Be Able to Pay Carriers, But Newspaper is Still On the Brink Editor and Publisher
Tronc purges senior leadership at the Los Angeles Times Poynter
***TECHNOLOGY
Forget Tough Passwords: New Guidelines Make It Simple NPR
Apple Kills Off Its First and Only FM Radio Radio Survivor
Quantum Internet Is 13 Years Away. Wait, What's Quantum Internet? Wired
Google's Anti-Bullying AI Mistakes Civility for Decency Motherboard
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Machine Learning in Python The Free Code Camp
Google uses machine learning to help journalists track hate Engadget
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Some Are Troubled By Online Shaming Of Charlottesville Rally Participants NPR
LinkedIn can’t block scrapers from monitoring user activity Engadget
Google updates Docs, Sheets and Slides with new collaboration features TechCrunch
Facebook is making the News Feed easier to navigate Engadget
***PRODUCING MEDIA
The perfect blog post length or publishing frequency doesn't exist Moz
The Effects of New Formats on Loudness Radio World
***INTERNET
“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33% of US searches Ars Technica
5 Tips to Help Show ROI from Local SEO Moz
A Stanford psychologist says internet culture isn’t as toxic as it feels Quartz
Who Owns the Internet? New Yorker
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The path to wisdom Becoming (my blog)
***CRITICAL THINKING
Tribal Epistemology Neurologica blog
Why people believe in conspiracy theories – and how to change their minds Business Insider
***PHILOSOPHY
Baylor Launches Center for Christian Philosophy Baylor
***GRAMMAR
Tricky Punctuation Tips for Business Writers Business Journalism
***WRITING & READING
Be More Than A Bookstore: A Brick-And-Mortar Shop's Key To Success NPR
Mainstream journalism seems to lack an adequate way of referring to the body part involved in Taylor Swift's lawsuit against a groper Chronicle of Higher Ed
The single reason why some people can't write, according to a Harvard psychologist LinkedIn
***LITERATURE
OC Alt-Right Book-Burning Event Canceled After Organizers Claim Leftists Wanted to Attack Them OC Weekly
Book review: ‘Wild Things’ dives into kids’ literature Columbia Dispatch
Pop Culture Happy Hour: A Look At Literary Adaptations NPR
***ART & DESIGN
The Paintings of Jim Carrey: “Painting Frees Me, from the Past and Future, from Regret and Worry” Open Culture
***MUSIC
How A Recording Studio Accident Helped Shape The Music Of The '80s Digg
Hear the Beach Boys’ Angelic Vocal Harmonies in Four Isolated Tracks from Pet Sounds Open Culture
***FILM
The French Film Critic Who Saw Jerry Lewis’s Infamous Holocaust Movie—and Loved It Vanity Fair
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Looking at Music Royalty Issues for Radio and TV Broadcasters Broadcast Law Blog
Here’s why publishers won’t stop pivoting to video Recode
***GENDER
Author discusses Book on Gender in Higher Ed Inside Higher Ed
The persistent crime that connects mass shooters and terror suspects: Domestic Violence Washington Post
Study finds adherence to gender norms around femininity is linked to gender disparities in selection of programs of study Inside Higher Ed
Sports writers still struggle covering violence against women Columbia Journalism Review
Are men seen as 'more American' than women? The Conversation
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
College leaders across the country unite to condemn racism USA Today
Procter and Gamble's new anti-racism ad is roiling white America Quartz
U of Florida Rejects Request for White Supremacist to Speak Inside Higher Ed
Alt-Right, Alt-Left, Antifa: A Glossary of Extremist Language New York Times
How to describe extremists who rallied in Charlottesville Associated Press
White Supremacists love the Middle Ages (opinion) In The Middle
A lot of our ideas about bilingual children are total myths Quartz
What I Saw in Charlottesville Auburn Seminary
The unintended Consequences of Brown v Board of Education (podcast) Revisionist History
People of Colour Talk About the Times They ‘Code Switched’ VICE
Can You Fire Someone for Being a White Supremacist? Bloomberg
***FREE SPEECH
UVa Student Newspaper Editor Reverses Position On Alt-Right After Charlottesville NPR
Public colleges, the cancellation of white nationalist events, and the First Amendment The FIRE
Tensions grow inside ACLU over defending free-speech rights for the far right LA Times
Cambridge press agrees to block access in China to more than 300 articles from a key journal for scholarship on the nation Inside Higher Ed
ACLU of California splits from national group regarding speech that promotes violence Talking New Media
***LEGAL ISSUES
The U.S. Is Trying to Seize 1.3 Million Visitor Logs, DreamHost Says The Atlantic
Appeals Court Revives Defamation Lawsuit Against New York Times Over Slavery Quote Hollywood Reporter
Legal Grounds to Turn Away White Supremacist Speakers Inside Higher Ed
The FCC's Shady Cyberattack Claims Gizmodo
Are we really litigating trademark references in white-on-white text in 2017??? Yes, we are Technology and Marketing Law Blog
Eminem's Legal Battle Against New Zealand Political Party Spills Into U.S. Court Hollywood Reporter
***SOCIOLOGY
Sociologists talk about teaching in the political now Inside Higher Ed
***HEALTH
Osteoarthritis Is Much More Common Now Than In Ancient Knees, Study Suggests : Shots - Health News NPR
Many Nurses Lack Knowledge of Health Risks for New Mothers, Study Finds Propublica
***BUSINESS
What a study of thousands of people on Wikipedia Found Business Insider
***HIGHER ED
An Inside Look At How Colleges Work (podcast) WNYC
How can we send students out into the world with huge college debt loads and not teach them what this means? (opinion) Hechinger Report
More states are allowing guns on college campuses The Conversation
IT productivity paradox in higher education ‘overstated,’ study suggests Inside Higher Ed
Some Liberty University Grads Are Returning Their Diplomas To Protest Trump NPR
Pensacola Christian College kicked out student after he was identified as a protester in Charlottesville Inside Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES /STEM
President’s arts and humanities committee resigns over Trump’s Charlottesville response Politico
There's a hidden message in the WH arts committee's letter CNN
***TEACHING
The Best Way to Test Students? Make Them Explain It On Video Wired
How Do Teachers Talk About Hate Speech? NPR
***RELIGION
It got Clinton's pastor into trouble for plagiarism, but who first preached 'It's Friday, but Sunday's coming'? Christianity Today
God or the divine is referenced in every state constitution Pew Research Center
Greg Laurie tells SoCal Harvest crowd: ‘We need a spiritual awakening’ after Charlottesville violence Orange County Register
The ‘Splainer: Did a solar eclipse darken the skies during Jesus’ crucifixion? Religion News Service Religious News Service
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
In Contrast To Business Councils, Trump's Evangelical Advisers Stay Put NPR
Evangelical leader praises Trump's 'bold, truthful' statement about Charlottesville Washington Examiner
Megachurch pastor resigns from Trump’s evangelical council Washington Post
***STUDENT MEDIA
The Cav Daily and its amazing “Unite the Right” coverage (Part I) Dynamics of Writing
American Bar Association unanimously passes resolution supporting New Voices, a state-by-state movement to ensure student press Student Press Law Center
How SB Nation Profits Off An Army Of Exploited Workers Deadspin
High school journalists who busted bogus principal aren’t done asking questions Poynter
***STUDENT LIFE
Will Students Stay Away From White Supremacists? Inside Higher Ed
As students return to college campuses, parents question if their kids will be safe CNBC
How SB Nation Profits Off An Army Of Exploited Workers: Rampant use of unpaid internships Deadspin
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Baylor settles with woman who said rape by football player was ignored, attorney says Dallas News
How Section 230 Helps Sex Trafficking Victims (and SESTA Would Hurt Them) Technology and Marketing Law Blog
***RESEARCH
Online research recruitment as a linguist The Research Whisperer
What Merits Correction? The Grumpy Geophysicist Grumpy Geophysicist
An example of the “what does not kill my statistical significance makes it stronger” fallacy Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
the path to wisdom
/The story is told of a wise man who was asked by a student the best way to gain knowledge. He lead the student to a river, where he plunged the young man’s head beneath the surface. He struggled to free himself, but the wise man kept his head submerged. Finally, after much effort, the youth was able to break free and emerge from the water. The wise man asked, “When you thought you were drowning, what one thing did you want most of all?” Still gasping for breath, the man explained, “I wanted air!” The philosopher commented, “When you want knowledge as much as you wanted air, then you will get it!”
Stephen Goforth
articles of interest - August 14
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
What do your Instagram photos say about your mental health? The Verge
Instagram is ruining food (opinion) Boston Globe
SoundCloud Gets New Investment Round, Lives to Stream Another Day MotherBoard
South Carolina man dies after running into burning home Daily Mail
Facebook is rolling out a Trending News section on mobile, now with its own link TechCrunch
***TECHNOLOGY
An Emoji-trained Algorithm Knows When You’re Being Sarcastic on Twitter MIT Technology Review
The Guy Who Invented Those Annoying Password Rules Now Regrets Wasting Your Time Gizmodo
China uses a quantum satellite to transmit potentially unhackable data CNBC
How Your Apple Wireless Earbuds Could Double as Hearing Aids MIT Technology Review
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
“Neural networks are turning out to be great code crackers” MIT Tech Review
The religious war between frequentists and Bayesians and its statistical influence on AI The Register
China uses a quantum satellite to transmit potentially unhackable data CNBC
Stanford professor Andrew Ng spreads the gospel of AI with a new online school Wired
An emoji-trained algorithm knows when you’re being sarcastic on Twitter MIT Tech Review
***PRODUCING MEDIA
TuneIn Raises $50 Million to Prove Online Audio Can Make Money Bloomberg
***INTERNET
Of those harassed online, nearly half know the harasser Pew Research Center
***JOURNALISM
We’re in the early stages of a visual revolution in journalism Recode
Remix: Best Practices for Aggregation on Deadline PBS Media Shift
How journalists should handle racist words, images and violence in Charlottesville Poynter
Providence Journal identified its own anonymous source, Will police officer sue? iMediaEthics
What Data-Mining TV's Political Coverage Tells Us RealClearPolitics
Apologies & Retractions: Nazi salute, name calling ‘butch queen,’ round-up of journalist Twitter fails iMediaEthics
Blurring Line of Opinion and Reporting, Scourge of Writers as Brands PBS Media Shift
Top journalists reveal the best reporting advice they have received Columbia Journalism Review
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism The Atlantic
***FAKE NEWS
Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News MIT Technology Review
No, these pictures are not from the recent racist rally in Charlottesville Mashable
How to spot a fake viral video The Verge
Not Real News: A look at what didn’t happen this week Associated Press
Who Said What tool brings artificial intelligence to fact-checking audio and video Journalism.co
***PERSONAL GROWTH
How America Lost Its Mind in a custom-make reality (opinion) The Atlantic
You Aren't Lazy––You're Terrified: On Paralysis And Perfectionism Ravishly
Why Entrepreneurs Can’t Hold Regular JobsFortune Insiders Fortune
***WRITING & READING
Hillary Clinton's pastor plagiarized portion of new book CNN
The true importance of good spelling BBC
***LANGUAGE
Robots Gossiping in a Secret Language? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
1922: The Year That Transformed English Literature New York Times
The books that inspire people to get PhDs Quartz
How Charlotte Brontë came to write “Jane Eyre” Economist
Book Review: Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories From Book History Scholarly Kitchen
***GENDER
Would transgender troops harm military effectiveness? Here’s what the research says Washington Post
Study suggests big difference between how college men describe affirmative consent and how they apply it to their own sexual experiences Inside Higher Ed
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
How did FaceApp think people would react to their new change-your-race filters? Washington Post
College Diversity Officers Face a Demanding Job and Scarce Resources Chronicle of Higher Ed
Extremist white movement is turning up on college campuses through speakers and leaflets Inside Higher Ed
What happened when eight states outlawed race-conscious admissions at colleges Economist
Killings of Blacks by Whites Are Far More Likely to Be Ruled ‘Justifiable’ New York Times
When White Supremacists Descend, What Can a College President Do? Chronicle of Higher Ed
The ‘war on whites’ is a myth — and an ugly one Washington Post
Intermarriage and U.S. Hispanics: New research Journalists Resource
***FREE SPEECH
Google Memo Raises Questions About Limits Of Free Speech In The Workplace NPR
TechDirt, sued by the lawyer who fought Gawker, gets $250,000 to cover freedom of speech issues Harvard Nieman Lab
Techdirt: Now With More Free Speech Reporting Techdirt
First Amendment ruling focuses the lens on photojournalists' rights -- again Student Press Law Center
***LEGAL ISSUES
'Reading Rainbow' Owner Accuses LeVar Burton of "Theft and Extortion" in Lawsuit Hollywood Reporter Hollywood Reporter
Was Scaramucci’s profanity-laced call recording Illegal? Associated Press
Fox News Host Eric Bolling Sues Journalist for $50M Over Lewd Photo Allegation Hollywood Reporter
Country Rap Artist Can't Force Facebook To Remove Page Created By Users Media Post
Disney Settles Defamation Case With Beef Products Inc. NPR
LinkedIn Connection Request Doesn’t Violate Non-Solicitation Clause Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***RELIGION
Christian author Jen Hatmaker on the ‘moxie’ it takes to get your books banned Religion News Service
The Woes of the Southern Baptist Convention New York Times
New Books Explore How to be Single and Christian Publishers Weekly
How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics (opinion) USC Annenberg Religion Dispatches
What is wrong with white Christians? (opinion) Religious News Service
Muslims and Islam: Key findings in the U.S. and around the world Pew Research Center
Canadian pastor faced ‘overwhelming loneliness’ in N Korea labor camp AFP
Museum of the Bible to offer free admission when it opens in November Washington Post
Christian Entertainment Company Pure Flix & Paramount release Faith-themed film staring Renee Zellweger Christian Post
Charlottesville and Your Church's Response (opinion) Christianity Today
Tweeting In Church: German Protestants Are Encouraged To Tweet During Services : All Tech Considered NPR
Like most Americans, U.S. Muslims concerned about extremism in the name of Islam Pew Research
**MUSIC
When Mistakes/Studio Glitches Give Famous Songs Their Personality Open Culture
Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice? The Guardian
Music classes for kids should include pop music and electronic composition lessons Quartz
Metallica Board Of Directors Debates Whether New Riff Will Have Negative Impact On Shareholder Value The Onion
***FILM
Social Impact Marketer Picture Motion: The Secret Weapon Behind Some Of The Best Known Films Deadline
Director Destin Daniel Cretton Has Always Lived in The Glass Castle Vanity Fair
“I’ll Push You” book explores the power of friendship Northwest Nazarene University
Woody Harrelson On 'Glass Castle' Dad Whose Rages And Redemptions Loomed Large NPR
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Who’s Afraid of Sinclair Broadcasting? Politico
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
$147,000 for a One-Year Master's? In Journalism? Cost of Columbia’s new graduate degree in data journalism slammed by journalists Inside Higher Ed
Practicing What We Preach: Teaching engagement in j-schools means listening to our students Medium
Professor says his students-grade-themselves Syllabus was a way to start a conversation Inside Higher Ed
***SOCIOLOGY
Sociologists call for a systematic response to online targeting of and threats against public scholars Inside Higher Ed
***HEALTH
The drug crisis that nobody's talking about: One in eight American adults is an alcoholic, study says Washington Post
Alcoholism among women rises in new study Daily Mail
Hospice, Designed For The Dying, Is Discharging Many Live Patients NPR
Monsanto Was Its Own Ghostwriter for Some Safety Reviews Bloomberg
What does European Health Care Really Look Like? Economist
Why we fell for clean eating The Guardian
***SCIENCE
The Ongoing Battle Between Science Teachers And Fake News NPR
Spreadsheet Risks in Science Neuroskeptic
***NEUROSCIENCE
Video Games May Affect The Brain Differently, Depending On What You Play NPR
This Type of Video Game May Actually Harm Your Brain Fortune
***RESEARCH
Publishing an Unsuccessful Self-replication: Double-dipping or Correcting the Record? Rolf Zwaan
An Appraisal of the Carlisle-Stouffer-Fisher Method for Assessing Study Data Integrity and Fraud OvidInsights
Publishing in fraudulent journals is criminal Times of Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
As White Supremacists Wreak Havoc, a University Becomes a Crisis Center Chronicle of Higher Ed
The profit motive is creeping into higher education Inside Higher Ed
Public Records Appear to Have Been Altered by Former General Counsel, U. of Florida Audit Finds Chronicle of Higher Ed
University responds to NAACP advisory against travel to Missouri Columbia Missourian
Are Small Colleges Doomed? Not So Fast Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Your 'useless' liberal arts degree can give you an edge in tech USA Today
Students At Most Colleges Don’t Pick ‘Useless’ Majors FivethirtyEight
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Southern Baptist College announces new classical education minor (press release) Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Christian College president says 'snowflake' student problem persists in new Book Today
Colorado Christian University VP pens USA Today editorial against marijuana USA Today
University Shifts Campus From San Diego to Indy Inside Indiana Business
Baylor ordered to turn over documents in sex assault lawsuit Associated Press
Azusa Pacific University sued by Supervisor over alleged cover-up of anti-gay violence News Release
Disgraced Baylor Coach's Finds New Job at Christian School Houston Press
'If you mess up, you 'fess up': White urged Baylor openness Houston Chronicle
***TEACHING
Syllabus Offering Self-Grading Pulled at Georgia Inside Higher Ed
When Will We Talk About the Syllabus? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Public records appear to have been altered at University of Florida Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why can’t college graduates write coherent prose? Washington Post
The Benefits of No-Tech Note Taking: A year after banning students from taking notes on laptops, a professor reports on the results Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
What I Wish I Had Known Freshman Year of College Teen Vogue
People who Complain about Millennials are Really just complaining about being old Quartz
Report: Where students feel most ― and least ― safe on campus USA Today
Yes, Smartphones Are Destroying a Generation, But Not of Kids Jstor
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Pulling Back on Title IX Enforcement Inside Higher Ed
Institutions appear to be cracking down on big-name professors in sexual harassment cases Inside Higher Ed
U.S. Asks Court to Put Hold on Lawsuit as It Reviews 2011 Title IX Guidance Chronicle of Higher Ed
Lawsuits From Students Accused of Sex Assault Cost Many Colleges More Than $200,000 Chronicle of Higher Ed
Taylor Swift's sexual assault testimony takes aim at one of the most persistent sexist myths today Quartz
How Schools Handle Title IX Cases for K-12 Students The Atlantic
***STUDENT MEDIA
Journalism groups rally behind UCSD student media against retaliatory withdrawal of financial support Student Press Law Center
Snapchat Throws Lifeline To College Papers Media Post
Looking back on failure
/When you look back on your choices from a year ago, you should always hope to find a few decisions that seem stupid now because that means you are growing. If you only live in the safety zone where you know you can’t mess up, then you’ll never unleash your true potential. If you know enough about something to make the optimal decision on the first try, then you’re not challenging yourself.
articles of interest - August 7
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook is starting to put more posts from local politicians into people’s News Feed Recode
Twitter is testing a $99 per month subscription that could get you more followers Business Insider
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Adobe Premiere Clip 101: Editing your videos on your Smartphone Gadget Hacks
RED Hydrogen One $1,200 smartphone revealed in MKBHD video Business Insider
How to Get the Perfect Eclipse Shot Using Your Smartphone Wired
10 Things We Learned Producing a Podcast at a University Chronicle of Higher Ed
***INTERNET
Use the Wayback Machine to Save Your Favorite Sites Forever LifeHacker
***TECHNOLOGY
How to make soldiers’ brains better at noticing threats Economist
How Two Brothers Turned Seven Lines of Code Into a $9.2 Billion Startup Bloomberg
Inside Andy Rubin's Quest to Create an OS for Everything Wired
Google Earth Is Trying To Help Stop Slavery In India Vocativ
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Pew’s Digital News Fact Sheet tracks the growth of mobile ads and Facebook’s growing share Talking New Media
***JOURNALISM
China's Few Investigative Journalists Face Increasing Challenges NPR
How BuzzFeed News revealed hidden spy planes in US airspace with a machine-learning algorithm Columbia Journalism Review
These are the most — and the least — trusted news sources in the U.S. MarketWatch
Local TV station records lawsuit underscores North Carolina’s text message troubles Columbia Journalism Review
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Snopes is owed money, but question remains over how much Union Tribune
Snopes won the first round in the battle for its site. Round two begins today Poynter
How the blockchain could save journalism’s business model Technical.ly
***FAKE NEWS
Why Americans Get Conned Again and Again: Their admiration for ingenuity and gumption leaves room for opportunists The Atlantic
FBI tracked 'fake news' believed to be from Russia on Election Day CNN
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The decision that most affects your happiness Becoming (my blog)
Kids need structure more than warmth from their parents Quartz
How Information Overload Robs Us of Our Creativity: What the Scientific Research Shows Open Culture
When Public Speaking, Look at Individuals Instead of the Entire Group Life Hacker
Scientists made people turn off their notifications for a day, and saw an effect years later Quartz
***GRAMMAR
Policing people’s grammar online is never really about grammar Quartz
My new pet peeve is the past perfect (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING & READING
On Writing: Anne Lamott Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
***LITERATURE
Free: You Can Now Read Classic Books by MIT Press on Archive.org Open Culture
‘Dictionary of American Regional English’ Speaks! Chronicle of Higher Ed
The New PEN America Digital Archive: 1,500 Hours of Audio & Video Featuring 2,200 Eminent Writers Open Culture
***GENDER
Male and female journalists still aren’t paid the same. When and how can we demand change? Poynter
Medicine Is Getting More Precise … For White People FiveThirtyEight
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
The Asian Bachelorette (comedy video) Wong Fu Productions
Justice Department To Probe Universities Over Affirmative Action Policies NPR
Sikhs in America: Hate Crime Victims and Bias ProPublica
***FREE SPEECH
Campus free speech bill becomes law in North Carolina The FIRE
***LEGAL ISSUES
Couple Who Declined to Pay Their Wedding Photographer $125 Are Ordered to Pay $1 Million People
ACLU Defends John Oliver Against Coal Baron With Hilarious Brief Huffington Post
A legal battle that's got something for historians, grammar nerds, activists, and copyright nuts: The fight over an iconic civil rights anthem Hollywood Reporter
The Star Wars Video That Baffled YouTube's Copyright Cops Wired
National Enquirer Argues False Stories About Celebrity Sex Changes Can't Be Defamatory Hollywood Reporter
U.S. Supreme Court ruling leads to offensive trademark requests Reuters
Judge Rules KickassTorrents Founder Properly Charged With Criminal Copyright Conspiracy Hollywood Reporter
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
The limitations of Big Data are based within “messy data” Fortune
AI and music-will machines soon be composing symphonies & hit singles-will we become slaves to the algorithm? The Guardian
To get computers to think like humans, we need an AI paradigm that reflects top-down knowledge New York Times
UK big data firm claiming role in Trump & Brexit successes now playing part in African elections BBC
Can data predict fashion trends? Technology may be disrupting a peculiar business Economist
Quantum world causality: A new model extends the definition of causality to quantum-mechanical systems Physics.org
How data science can help us fight human trafficking The Conversation
***RELIGION
WWE Has Successfully Trademarked The Term ‘3:16’ UpRoxx
Jesus Responds To The WWE Trademarking Bible Verse '3:16' on Colbert Show (video) YouTube
Israeli Authorities Arrest Antiquities Dealers In Connection With Hobby Lobby Scandal Parallels NPR
I'm a black pastor. Here's why I'm staying in the Southern Baptist Washington Post
Does the Bible say there's oil in Israel? Thousands are paying a Dallas company to find out Dallas News
Assemblies of God national office named in Oregon child sex abuse lawsuit News-Leader
Why Are There No New Major Religions? The Atlantic
Only Christians can own cottages at this idyllic Michigan resort MLive
***RELIGION & FINANCES
The No. 1 Reason Churches End Up in Court Is No Longer Child Abuse Christianity Today
Christians more than twice as likely to blame a person’s poverty on lack of effort Washington Post
Robbing God, Literally: 1 in 10 Protestant Churches Experience Embezzlement Christianity Today
The Pay Gap Is Worse for Pastor-Moms Christianity Today
***RELIGION & POLITICS
Trump can’t Save Christian America (opinion) New York Times
***ART & DESIGN
Accidental Wes Anderson: Every Place in the World with a Wes Anderson Aesthetic Gets Documented by Reddit Open Culture
***MUSIC
How Leonard Cohen & David Bowie Faced Death Through Their Art: A Look at Their Final Albums Open Culture
AI and music: will we be slaves to the algorithm? The Guardian
What Music Do Americans Love the Most? 50 Detailed Fan Maps New York Times
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
How to Handle Inappropriate Job Interview Questions Life Hacker
***HEALTH
Unexpected protection A chance finding may lead to a treatment for multiple sclerosis Economist
How To Watch The 2017 Solar Eclipse NPR
Why the ‘gold standard’ of medical research is no longer enough Stat News
Baylor should put the brakes on claims based on a tiny study of breast cancer and extrapolated benefits Health News Review
***SCIENCE
Darpa Wants to Build a BS Detector for Science Wired
In Breakthrough, Scientists Edit a Dangerous Mutation From Genes in Human Embryos New York Times
The rise of unproven stem cell therapies turned this obscure scientist into an industry watchdog Science Mag
The Eclipse of 1878 Almost Killed the Father of the National Weather Service Atlas Obscura
***RESEARCH
How to fix the academic peer review system (opinion) GroundUp
A routine check for Image Manipulation in Research Springer
Can PhD Students Write Review Papers? Discover Magazine
***HIGHER ED
University presidents often seem to struggle to issue apologies in controversial cases, but some say they tend to have reason to be cautious Inside Higher Ed
Trinity Loses Donations, Students After Professor’s Facebook Posts Hartford Courant
What’s Next on Title IX: Little Appetite for Rollback of Obama Guidelines Inside Higher Ed
Wichita State University’s name is misspelled on its water tower Kansas
How The For-Profit College Art Institutes Found A Savior With Christian Roots BuzzFeed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Snapchat is working with college newspapers to produce local Discover Stories The Verge
95-Year-Old Woman Finally Got Her College Diploma And Is Now Moving Back In With Her Parents Chick Hole
Oklahoma College Newspaper to Begin Charging for Content Cleveland Leader
University of Central Missouri's student newspaper on hold for the year after budget shortfall Student Press Law Center
***STUDENT LIFE
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (written by a SD State professor) The Atlantic
Nightclub and dorm footage clears USC student of rape Daily Mail
Millennials Are Uncertain, Not Entitled Huffington Post
Millennials Are Blamed for a Lot of Things but They’re Reviving the Vinyl Record Industry Fortune
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Federal Sex-Assault Investigations Are Being Resolved More Often. These 11 Cases Show How Chronicle of Higher Ed
Sex trafficking operation: More than 1,000 arrests across US CNN
College journalist nabs $2k award for reporting on campus sexual harassment USA Today
***ACADEMIC LIFE
A Caltech Professor Who Harassed Two Female Students Has Resigned BuzzFeed
Rutgers prof removed from classroom after controversy over 'threatening' tweets New Jersey.com
New book tries to help readers cope with that faculty colleague who never liked a new idea or offered to help Inside Higher Ed
Arrest warrant issued for Northwestern professor in Near North Side stabbing death Chicago Tribune
The University Of Washington Just Fired A Tenured Professor For The First Time BuzzFeed
Fresno State Removes Adjunct after Anti-Trump Tweets Inside Higher Ed
insides and outsides
/Don’t compare your insides to other people’s outsides.
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