Part of the reason we feel like getting married is to interrupt the all-consuming grip that love has over our psyches. We are exhausted by the melodramas and thrills that go nowhere. We are restless for other challenges. We hope that marriage can conclusively end love’s painful rule over our lives.

It can’t and won’t: there is as much doubt, hope, fear, rejection and betrayal in a marriage as there is in single life. It’s only from the outside that a marriage looks peaceful, uneventful and nicely boring.

The Philosophers’ Mail

December 12, 2017

Lying to ourselves

December 12, 2017/ Stephen Goforth

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. -Fyodor Dostoevsky

December 12, 2017

living in opposition

December 12, 2017/ Stephen Goforth

Living purely in opposition to something, rather than for something, hollows you out inside. To be a whole human being, you have to spend your life building something good. -David Wong

December 12, 2017

Articles of Interest - week of Dec 11

December 12, 2017/ Stephen Goforth

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Instagram tests standalone messaging app CNN

Teenagers are growing more anxious and depressed Economist

How Duterte Turned Facebook Into a Weapon—With Help From Facebook Bloomberg

10 Things You Can Do Now to Up Your Social Media Game in 2018 PBS Mediashift

Fourth Judge Says Social Media Sites Aren’t Liable for Supporting Terrorists–Pennie v. Twitter Technology & Marketing Law Blog

***MOBILE

Video will make up 75 percent of mobile traffic in five years Recode

Apple reveals 2017’s most popular apps, music and more Apple

Google’s research team releases three new experimental photo apps for Android & iOS 9 to 5 Google

***PRODUCING MEDIA

Facebook offers free music and sound effects for video makers The Next Web

How the New Media Rebellion in Video is Reshaping the Publishing World Tubular Insights

***INTERNET

Sad poop emoji gets flushed after row BBC

Page Not Found: A Brief History of the 404 Error Wired

How Email Open Tracking Quietly Took Over the Web Wired

How Bots Are Threatening Online Discourse PBS MediaShift

Before Net Neutrality, There Was Radio Regulation Jstor

***TECHNOLOGY

Micro-Revolutions: Spidersilk, Edible Drones, Artificial Wombs, and More. Small things with a big impact New Yorker

In Seattle, GeekWire is building an international audience on top of its coverage of the local tech scene Nieman Lab

Netflix pulls some Big Brother nonsense with your data Mashable

***BIG DATA & STATISTICS

AI's brightest minds are still figuring out how to understand their creations Quartz

Microsoft has set up an internal AI University to try and get around the skills shortage Business Insider

Machine Learning to catch a Hacker Tech Republic

Amazon & Google Spreading the good news of AI by started their own consulting operations, lending out some of their prized AI talent to customers Wired

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

The TV business is changing, giving auteurs creative opportunities they’ve never had before 1843 Magazine

How brands secretly buy their way into Forbes, Fast Company, and HuffPost stories The Outline

***JOURNALISM

News Nerd Survey: We surveyed 756 people at the intersection of journalism and technology to understand who they are, how they learn and support one another, and where they go next Open News

Good video for classes about the process of reporting on a story Washington Post

ProPublica announces 7 newsrooms for its Local Reporting Network Poynter

Local newspaper ‘headline’ goes viral after proofreading error PR Daily

How do you use an anonymous source? The mysteries of journalism everyone should know Washington Post

Journalism’s New Patrons: Enterprise journalism emerges in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains Columbia Journalism Review

How Washington Post journalists broke the story of allegations against Roy Moore Washington Post

Report: The repeal of net neutrality will hurt local news Poynter

Your 17 favorite tools for journalism from 2017 Poynter

***JOURNALISM: THE NEW MOVIE “THE POST”

Steven Spielberg's homage to The Washington Post is a fine movie, but not history Poynter

Steven Spielberg's The Post: The story behind the new Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep movie First Post

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

The 3 types of news subscribers: Why they pay and how to convert them YouTube

The journey from print to radio storytelling: A guide for navigating a new landscape NPR

Boston Herald files for bankruptcy protection to pursue sale Reuters

Silicon Valley news site Becomes a Cash-flow-positive Scoop Powerhouse in Four years: Next trick: saving the news business Traffic

***TEACHING JOURNALISM

How OZY is Equipping Educators for Changing Media Audiences PBS Media Shift

Preparing students for careers through journalism classes Salina

Let’s welcome experts to our journalism schools Monday Note

***FAKE NEWS

How can we stop the train wreck of fake news on Facebook? Muckrack

This website helps you find related fact checks — and it was built by a 17-year-old Poynter

BBC to help students identify 'fake news' BBC

When news breaks, Google still can’t separate rumor from fact The Outline

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Why trying new things is so hard Becoming (my blog)

Optimism Medium

How Labels Can Affect People's Personalities And Potential NPR

Evaluating Personality Tests NPR

***LANGUAGE

It’s Nerve-wracking not Nerve-wrecking Chronicle of Higher Ed

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2017: ‘Feminism’ Associated Press

Suspicion, Italian StyleHow does one teach in a world of fake news? William Germano examines a strategy to help young students understand what a lie looks like Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LITERATURE

British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro accepts Nobel Prize, recounts its meaning in Nagasaki Japan Times

***GENDER

Dad writes brilliant letter to school after daughter was sent off for a makeover Metro

The Credibility Gap in Academe Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Gender Balance of The New York Times Best Seller list Pudding

She Showed a Video in Class in which the use of gender-neutral pronouns was debated: Now She’s a Hero to Some, a Pariah to Others Chronicle of Higher Ed

Maternity leave is like a vacation, right? A feminist comic The Guardian

Pentagon Officials Say Transgender People Can Enlist In Military Next Year NPR

How do your views on gender compare with those of other Americans? Pew Research

Sexual Harassment Training Doesn’t Work. But Some Things Do New York Times

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

The Boston Globe’s new investigative series on racism Boston Globe

Ask Code Switch: Who Can Call Themselves 'Brown'? NPR

***FAMILIES

Read this before you have a baby (especially if you're a woman) The Guardian

How Spanking Affects Later Relationships The Atlantic

A global snapshot of same-sex marriage Pew Research

***LEGAL ISSUES

Lawsuit Over Mashup of 'Star Trek' and Dr. Seuss Gets Past Alpha Quadrant Hollywood Reporter

Jury sides with San Diego in Comic Con trademark battle CBS News 8

Jury rules against fired Professor in free speech case (fired for his conspiracy theorist blogging about the Sandy Hook massacre) Sun-Sentinel

***RELIGION

Types of Church Mcsweeneys

Evangelicals and Domestic Violence: Are Christian Men More Abusive? A sociologist looks at the data on domestic abuse against women Christianity Today

Wanting to ban the veil, Quebec bans sunglasses, too: Canadian Muslims challenged the law in Quebec’s superior court Economist

Died: ‘God’s Smuggler’ and ‘The Cross and the Switchblade’ ‘The Hiding Place’ Coauthor John Sherrill Christianity Today

American evangelist leads rare event in communist Vietnam Associated Press

Pope Francis Suggests Translation Change To The Lord's Prayer NPR

Died: Harry Blamires, the C. S. Lewis Protégé Who Rediscovered ‘The Christian Mind’ Christianity Today

Is the Term “Evangelical” Over? Context

US evangelical preacher, Franklin Graham, should be banned from entering UK, critics say The Guardian

***RELIGION AND THE MIDDLE EAST

To Some Zionist Christians And Jews, The Bible Says Jerusalem Is Israel's Capital NPR

Creation Festival Founder Arrested for Alleged Child Molestation Christianity Today

Make way for a new wave of cosmopolitanism in the Middle East The Economist

***RELIGION AND MUSIC

Rockin' for the One who is the Rock March Shrednes

Gospel music as a tool to uproot drug abuse New Times

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Trump is losing (some) white evangelicals Religious News Service

God’s Plan for Mike Pence (opinion) The Atlantic

The Christian Right Has A New Strategy On Gay Marriage FiveThirtyEight

White evangelicals are now more tolerant of immoral behavior by elected officials than the average American The Atlantic

Why evangelicals are OK with voting for Roy Moore The Conversation

***ART & DESIGN

The Vibrant Color Wheels Designed by Goethe, Newton & Other Theorists of Color (1665-1810) Open Culture

2017 Book Covers We Loved Spine Magazine

***MUSIC

What Apple is likely to do with Shazam, the early name-that-tune iPhone app USA Today

The Sound of Modern Pop Peaked This Year — and Now It Needs to Change Vulture

***FILM

Movies You Missed: 'It's A Wonderful Life' NPR

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

What churches must do right now to stop being part of the sexual harassment problem: “every single woman at that table of church members had a story to tell” (opinion) Washington Post

Two female scientists talk about the troubling misogyny they've faced in online communities Warm Regards Podcast

I Spoke Up Against My Harasser — and Paid a Steep Price Chronicle of Higher Ed

Local TV news has a harassment problem — from people who watch the news Vox

A High-Profile Anti-Tobacco Crusader Is Being Sued For Sexual Harassment BuzzFeed

Zero newsrooms responded to CJR’s request for information about sexual harassment policies Columbia Journalism Review

Women and men in both parties say sexual harassment allegations reflect ‘widespread problems in society’ Pew Research

Why do women get all attractive if they don't want to be harassed? Glad you asked Baltimore Sun

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & POLITICS

Sexual Harassment Charges Put Politicians On Defensive NPR

Legislators Move To Take On Sexual Harassment In Their Own Halls NPR

Paul Pressler, former Texas judge and religious right leader, accused of sexually assaulting teen for years Texas Tribune

Charges Of Sexual Impropriety Upends Congress NPR

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & HIGHER ED

What Happens When Sex Harassment Disrupts Victims’ Academic Careers Chronicle of Higher Ed

Can Sexual Predators Be Good Scholars? Chronicle of Higher Ed

Dirty Old Men on the Faculty (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed

KU pays $395,000 to settle Title IX lawsuits by women who alleged sexual assaults by football player Lawrence Journal-World

***HEALTH

The other big drug problem: Older people taking too many pills Washington Post

The body changes dramatically during pregnancy — and that might mean medication doses are all wrong Stat News

***SCIENCE

Everything We Know About Physics in One Neat Infographic Big Think

Another example of why replication is important in science The Scientific Method Economist

The trouble with big science is essentially that it is a profiteering enterprise Los Angeles Review of Books

***PSYCHOLOGY

Bad News for the Highly Intelligent: Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests Scientific American

Why are America's farmers killing themselves in record numbers? The Guardian

I study liars. I’ve never seen one like President Trump The Washington Post

Depression & Melancholy: Animated Videos Explain the Crucial Difference Between Everyday Sadness and Clinical Depression Open Culture

***NEUROSCIENCE

Neuroscientists Just Launched an Atlas of the Developing Human Brain Wired

Stopping A Plan Already In Motion Could Give You A Headache NPR

***CRITICAL THINKING

Fined for "doing math without a license" in Oregon: State will let engineer refer to himself as an 'engineer' The Register

***PHILOSOPHY

Western philosophy asks, “What is being?” Japanese philosophy asks, “What is nothingness?” Quartz

Why physicists need philosophy OUPblog

***HISTORY

The Mayflower generation and the burden it bears Economist

***ETHICS

Baby Born To Uterus Transplant Patient Raises Ethics Questions NPR

‘Doxxing’ someone, even if he’s a Nazi sympathizer, poses a serious ethical dilemma CNBC

***RESEARCH

Scientific peer review: an ineffective and unworthy institution (opinion) Times Higher Education

Jeffrey Beall’s boss at the University of Colorado, Denver weighs in on the closure of Beall’s list, and scientific publishing in general (PDF) Shea Swauger, College & Research Libraries News

A study looks at why researchers add co-authors or co-collaborators who contribute nothing and why journal editors add unnecessary citations PLOS

A Guide to Spotting Shady Statistics The Open Notebook The Open Notebook

Some big pharmaceutical companies are meeting legal standards for disclosing results—but many studies still go unreported The-Scientist

A “quantitative review” of a book about priming research touches on replications, publication bias and other issues Replication-Index

A new book looks at academic fraud and how the response to it has changed over the years Inside Higher Ed

Detecting image manipulation in the world of science Lab News

It's Gonna Get a Lot Easier to Break Science Journal Paywalls Wired

***HIGHER ED

Rural America’s Neglected Higher-Education Problem The Atlantic

Moody’s Downgrades Higher Ed’s Outlook From ‘Stable’ to ‘Negative’ Chronicle of Higher Ed

Why One University Wants to Close Lots of Small Libraries and Create ‘Hubs’ Wisconsin State Journal

How Can Colleges Head Off Homegrown Extremism? Chronicle of Higher Ed

The University of Baltimore has cut nearly 400 employees' salaries in an effort to reduce costs amid falling enrollment Baltimore Sun

Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education The Atlantic

An MIT Dean Planned a University With No Classrooms. Here’s Where It Stands Chronicle of Higher Ed

An institution eliminates its English major, but more has been lost than a degree program Chronicle of Higher Ed

Why Enrollment Is Rising at Large Christian Colleges: Many Christian-based schools charge lower tuition compared with other private colleges, experts say US News

Christian University announces plans to sell radio station Andersonian

A graduating senior reflects on why she chose to stay at her evangelical college after coming out Newnownext

Christian colleges want protection for the DREAMers San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Aspiring journalists at conservative Liberty University see themselves as the antidote to ‘fake news’ Washington Post

***TEACHING

End of Semester Bingo McSweeneys

What I Know About My Students Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Futile Resistance Against Classroom Tech: Critics of laptops in schools aren’t prepared for the future of technology The Atlantic

Teaching Is a Private Act. How Can Professors Open Up About It? Chronicle of Higher Ed

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Dirty Old Men on the Faculty Chronicle of Higher Ed

Academic Conference Panels Are Boring Chronicle of Higher Ed

***STUDENT MEDIA

Coronado students protest alleged censorship KGTV-TV

At 130 years, The Daily Collegian says goodbye to daily print. But our mission remains the same Collegian

***STUDENT LIFE

This College Student Is Stuck Wearing a Christmas-Tree Costume to Class After Actually Getting All the Retweets She Asked For New York Magazine

Stressed Out Kids Are More Likely to Become Bad Decision Makers Vice

What A Tax Overhaul Could Mean For Students And Schools NPR

The Importance of Dumb Mistakes in College New York Times

'Millennials': Be Careful How We Use This Label NPR

Why is choosing a college major so fraught with anxiety? Washington Post

December 10, 2017

if then

December 10, 2017/ Stephen Goforth

If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

December 09, 2017

being good

December 09, 2017/ Stephen Goforth

I'm pretty sure that most of what we consider being good in this culture is just having disdain for the right things. David Wong

December 07, 2017

And how are you mad?

December 07, 2017/ Stephen Goforth

When first looking out for a partner, the requirements we come up with are coloured by a beautiful non-specific sentimental vagueness: we’ll say we really want to find someone who is ‘kind’ or ‘fun to be with’, ‘attractive’ or ‘up for adventure…’

It isn’t that such desires are wrong, they are just not remotely precise enough in their understanding of what we in particular are going to require in order to stand a chance of being happy – or, more accurately, not consistently miserable.

All of us are crazy in very particular ways. We’re distinctively neurotic, unbalanced and immature, but don’t know quite the details because no one ever encourages us too hard to find them out. An urgent, primary task of any lover is therefore to get a handle on the specific ways in which they are mad. They have to get up to speed on their individual neuroses. They have to grasp where these have come from, what they make them do – and most importantly, what sort of people either provoke or assuage them. A good partnership is not so much one between two healthy people (there aren’t many of these on the planet), it’s one between two demented people who have had the skill or luck to find a non-threatening conscious accommodation between their relative insanities.

The very idea that we might not be too difficult as people should set off alarm bells in any prospective partner. The question is just where the problems will lie: perhaps we have a latent tendency to get furious when someone disagrees with us, or we can only relax when we are working, or we’re a bit tricky around intimacy after sex, or we’ve never been so good at explaining what’s going on when we’re worried. It’s these sort of issues that – over decades – create catastrophes and that we therefore need to know about way ahead of time, in order to look out for people who are optimally designed to withstand them. A standard question on any early dinner date should be quite simply: ‘And how are you mad?’

The Philosophers’ Mail

December 04, 2017

Articles of Interest - Dec 4

December 04, 2017/ Stephen Goforth

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Here’s how to use the newly redesigned Snapchat (Hint: It’s not as hard) Recode

Snapchat redesigns confusing app as user growth stalls CNN

5 ways social media has reshaped the PR industry PR Daily

OMG! Texting is 25 years old CNET

10 Things You Can Do Now to Up Your Social Media Game in 2018 Media Shift

***INTERNET

Google Street View can predict voting patterns and race Journalism Resources

***TECHNOLOGY

Should Law Enforcement Need a Warrant to Track Your Cell Phone? Scientific American

When Robots Invade the Kitchen Wired

Game over for virtual reality? Unimpressed, consumers embrace the relevance of augmented reality instead Economist

Deciding At What Age To Give A Kid A Smartphone NPR

A tech pioneer recalls a life spent in virtual reality and reflects on a the growing hubris of Silicon Valley Economist

What DNA Home Testing Can Tell You NPR

Blockchain: A new technology for global health development? Journalism Resources

***JOURNALISM

Who's that interrogating you? These tools can help you avoid a sting Poynter

Here are three tools that help digital journalists save their work in case a site shuts down Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Small-market newspapers in the digital age Columbia Journalism Review

The woman who tried to sting The Washington Post also lied to a Student Press Law Center intern Student Press Law Center

Is It Ever OK for Journalists to Lie? Politico

'Rope. Tree. Journalist' T-shirt was on sale at Walmart.com until RTDNA spoke up Poynter

Toutiao, a Chinese news app that’s making headlines: The remarkable success of a smartphone app that claims to figure users out within 24 hours Economist

How can journalists responsibly cover neo-Nazis? A media scholar gives his advice Vox

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Trump's attacks on CNN helped their revenues far more than his praise helped Fox News, new figures suggest The Independent

New Secret LA Weekly owners cut nearly half the staff LA Times

Digital news outlets are in for a reckoning: Sites like Vox, BuzzFeed and Mashable once seemed poised to overtake their peers in print. No longer Economist

***FAKE NEWS

A satirical fake news site apologized for making a story too real Poynter

How can we stop the train wreck of fake news on Facebook? MuckRack

Experts Say Facebook's Latest Attempt To Stop Fake News Isn't Foolproof NPR

Do teens care about ‘fake news?’ Recode

***BIG DATA & STATISTICS

Researchers outside the tech bubble have started using machine learning in unexpected ways. Here are ten of them Beta News

Five ways to fix statistics Nature

MIT and Harvard: we just built one of the largest quantum computer "simulators” ever MIT Tech News

The leap forward this year may be when AI and intelligent process automation are harnessed together IT Proportal

Choosing hyperparameters with population-based training Deep Mind

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Alone Together Becoming (my blog)

Why Trying New Things Is So Hard to Do New York Times

Museum of Failure Opens in LA NBC Los Angeles

***WRITING & READING

How to Get Your Mind to Read New York Times

OMG, the internet is ruining language: Young people’s play with language is often silly and sometimes ugly—but it shows just how much they take it seriously Economist

Wrestling With ‘/s’ (sarcasm) Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LANGUAGE

‘Nothing to See Here’: the Evolution of a Catchphrase Chronicle of Higher Ed

A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest Open Culture

Just Google It: A Short History of a Newfound Verb Wired

Why One Dictionary Made 'Complicit' Its Word Of The Year NPR

What Are the Most Effective Strategies for Learning a Foreign Language?: Six TED Talks Provide the Answers Open Culture

***LITERATURE

Why So Many Adults Love Young-Adult Literature: Over half of today’s YA readers are over the age of 18 The Atlantic

China’s largest online publisher enchants investors and readers alike: Tencent’s China Literature should profit from millions of Chinese smartphone bookworms Economist

***GENDER

Children are victims in the latest identity-driven culture war Economist

Women in Academia Unite Scholarly Kitchen

Making sense of the culture war over transgender identity: As more people change gender, they are sparking a debate that enrages some and confuses many Economist

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

Why America Fails at Gathering Hate Crime Statistics ProPublica

***LEGAL ISSUES

Supreme Court Considers Cellphones And Digital Privacy NPR

Could Joe Scarborough Sue President Trump for Libel? Politico

The Supreme Court’s justices want to enhance privacy protections for a digital age Economist

Watchdog group urges media not to use 'religious freedom' in upcoming Supreme Court case Poynter

***RELIGION

A Beautiful City in the Bible Was Ravaged by Disease and Chaos Because of Climate Change Newsweek

This Evangelical Action Movie Is Giving Away A Free Assault Rifle Fast Company

Temple Baptist Church falls prey to internet meme generator Las Cruces Sun-News

Former LDS bishop calls for church leaders to stop interviewing teens about sexual practices Fox 13

Book review: Family’s agenda behind Washington’s newest museum Washington Post

Samaritan’s Purse Loses Support for Operation Christmas Child VOCM

Christian apologist caught lying about himself for years Raw Story

Ravi Zacharias Responds to Sexting Allegations, Credentials Critique Christianity Today

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

From Roy Moore To Tax Debate, A Spotlight On Christian Nationalism NPR

Westboro Baptist Church Will Protest Trump, Says His Sex Life Puts 'Entire Nation In Peril' Newsweek

Pence tells Christian broadcaster: ‘Trump is a believer’ The Hill

***ART & DESIGN

The rise and rise of performance art Economist

***MUSIC

U2's 'Songs of Experience' Is The Reboot The Band Needed NPR

Tech giants will probably dominate speakers and headphones: Smartspeakers and wireless ear buds are sending the audio industry “horizontal” Economist

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

BuzzFeed hit with layoffs, as digital ad dollars fall short Talking New Media

How new media firms such as Vice and BuzzFeed are losing their gloss New Statesman

The nation’s second largest radio company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Toledo Blade

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

MPR drops Keillor over inappropriate conduct Minnesota Public Radio

Judge allows Title IX lawsuit to proceed: The suit seeks monetary damages for alleged "indifference" to a student's report that she was raped Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

#MeToo: reporting on sexual assaults on campus (video)

How common is sexual harassment? Economis

The Legal Recourse For Victims Of Sexual Harassment NPR

How to Start Healing After Sexual Trauma Life Hacker

In Politics, Decisions On Sexual Harassment Allegations A Slow Process NPR

***HEALTH

More than half of U.S. kids will be obese by the time they’re 35, study predicts LA Times

Heart transplants likely to be obsolete within 10 years, says heart surgeon Telegraph

A Hospital Charged $1,877 to Pierce a 5-Year-Old’s Ears: An epidemic of unnecessary treatment is wasting billions of health care dollars a year ProPublica

Many people in China believe gays can be “cured”: Quack treatments are available even in public hospitals Economist

Is the FDA Withholding Data about a Controversial Drug to Protect Its Manufacturer? Scientific American

Smoking cannabis regularly triples severe depression risk, study of Bristol teenagers finds Bristol Post

***RELATIONSHIPS

Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago Economist

People Like People Who Ask Questions NPR

Should I Confess My Internet Stalking to My Date? Wired

Marriage linked to lower dementia risk Fox News

***BUSINESS

This is an American Workday, By Occupation (data visualization) Flowing Data

How Birth Order Relates To Job Success NPR

Here’s all the money in the world, in one chart MarketWatch

How the tax overhaul could affect your bottom line (interactive calculator) Washington Post

***SCIENCE

Technology behind bitcoin could aid science, report says Physics Today

Fallibility in science: Responsible ways to handle mistakes Slide Shares

Why are scientists filing lawsuits against their critics? The Verge

Can science ever be free of our very human biases? (opinion) Laboratory News

***PSYCHOLOGY

Software that finds statistical errors in psychology papers is Surprisingly Accurate Science Mag

Problems in a psychologist’s splashy work on gender ArsTechnica

The “Humans of New York” Photo Project Becomes a 13-Part Video Documentary Series: Watch It Free Online Open Culture

Teenage brains 'not wired for high stakes' BBC

***PRODUCTIVITY

These Gmail searches will dig up stuff you never knew you missed Popular Science

***ETHICS

What's the best way to edit genes with CRISPR? Scientists propose 'rules' to optimize this cutting-edge technology Johns Hopkins University

Do We Have Moral Obligations to Robots? Daily Jstor

Is it ethical for journalists to ask Trump pointedly provocative questions? Harvard’s Nieman Report

***RESEARCH

One Way to Fix Reproducibility Problems: Train Scientists Better The Scientist

Why a Lot of Important Research Is Not Being Done New York Times

The francophone researcher’s dilemma: publish in English or perish? French-speaking researchers are increasingly choosing to publish their scientific articles in English University Affairs

Questionable research practices “are moderately to highly prevalent what they attributed primarily to academic incentive structures” Social Psychology

When a trial fails The New York Times Magazine

Understanding Bias in Peer Review Google Research

Does spin in news stories about medical studies make a difference? BMJ Open

Papers authored by academic and corporate partners are more widely discussed online Nature Index

Authorship wars: academics outline the rules for recognition Times Higher Ed

Federal Trade Commission and National Institutes of Health Take Action Against Predatory Publishing Practices Scholarly Kitchen

***HIGHER ED

What Really Happened At The School Where 'Every Senior Got Into College' NPR

What to Consider When Closing an Academic Program Chronicle of Higher Ed

College Football's Avalanche of Lawsuits Inside Higher Ed

1500+ MOOCs Getting Started in December Open Culture

California sues for-profit school over 'false promises' Associated Press

Christian college’s ‘biblically consistent’ curriculum under fire Times Higher Ed

***TEACHING

Should Laptops Be Banned in Class? An Op-Ed Fires Up the Debate Chronicle of Higher Ed

Don’t Insult Your Class by Banning Laptops (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed

What I Know About My Students Chronicle of Higher Ed

Everyone Hates Course Evaluations Chronicle of Higher Ed

***STUDENT MEDIA

Breitbart, Fox News misidentify Tech's newspaper in 'racist' column The Daily Toreador

After Threatening to Sue a Student Newspaper Writer and Canceled Speech, Scaramucci Resigns From Tufts Advisory Board Chronicle of Higher Ed

Texas State newspaper cuts ties with writer after 'racist' opinion column WFAA

***STUDENT LIFE

Navigating Life On Campus When You're On The Autism Spectrum NPR

Tips to copy edit your résumé The Daily Californian (student newspaper) Daily Cal

November 27, 2017

Articles of Interest - Nov 27

November 27, 2017/ Stephen Goforth

***TECHNOLOGY

Will Computers Ever Hear Like People Do? YouTube Video

Americans’ obsession with smartphones shows no sign of abating Talking New Media

NASA Uses Students To Develop Virtual Reality Programs NPR

How much did your town spend on its shot at being Amazon’s second headquarters? MuckRock

Judge: 84-year-old doctor who doesn’t use computer can’t regain license Associated Press

From Linux to Windows 10: Why did Munich switch and why does it matter? Tech Republic

***BIG DATA & STATISTICS

Facebook using “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology to scan posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts Media Post

How labs are being impacted by microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip technologies, cloud computing, machine learning, and AI Technology Networks

Machine learning is still something businesses are talking about, rather than using in any great numbers IDG connect

Amazon Web says it’s launched a cloud service for the intel community that can host software and data classified at the “secret” level.. it's called the "Secret Region" Business Journals

Can a useful definition of “data scientist” be framed, given that ”there isn’t a standardized way of defining, certifying or even quantifying the number of data scientists in the workforce” Datanami

Using neural networks to help devises be able to hear like humans (video) Nat and Friends

New book on geospatial analysis details how to turn remotely sensed imagery into geospatial information Fosters

***SOCIAL MEDIA

How to Join Someone's Instagram Live and Broadcast as a Guest Life Hacker

How LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman would fix social media Recode

Watch Out: If Someone Blocks You on Twitter, You Lose Your DM History With Them Life Hacker

How to Use Instagram's Filters Without Posting Your Photo Life Hacker

***JOURNALISM

Access to city records can take weeks with new online portal Union Tribune

AI Could Help Reporters Dig Into Grassroots Issues Once More MIT Technology Review

The Mexican city where journalism is a life and death matter Irish Times

The best automatic transcription tools for journalists Poynter

Thank you to all the public records officers who make transparency possible MuckRock

Photojournalists in Mexico Show Solidarity Amid the Ruins Harvard’s Nieman Center Reports

***JOURNALISM: THE NYT NAZI PROFILE PIECE

The media today: How not to write about a Nazi Columbia Journalism Review

Where the New York Times article on an American Nazi went wrong Vox

The problem with the New York Times’ chummy profile of a Nazi sympathizer Quartz

The Banality of White Nationalism The Atlantic

The New York Times responded to the outpouring of criticism of its profile of a white supremacist Recode

***TEACHING JOURNALISM

Journalism Schools are on Life Support Michael Koretzky

How Students Covered a Conference Better with Multi-Platform, Multimedia Reporting Media Shift

***FAKE NEWS

In some countries, fake news on Facebook is a matter of life and death Columbia Journalism Review

A woman approached The Washington Post with fake Roy Moore Accusations- the paper turns the tables: illustrating the lengths to which activists have gone to try to discredit media outlets for reporting on allegations Washington Post

Journalists, let’s invest in trust, not just expect it Medium

Investigation of fake net neutrality foes has been stymied by the FCC, New York attorney general says Washington Post

‘Fake news’ seized an Idaho city. A local paper ‘jumped right into the coverage’ Columbia Journalism Review

Tim O’Reilly on ways to put the brakes on “fake news” and rebuild trust on the internet Harvard’s Nieman Center Reports

The Fake News Fueling the Uproar Over Self-Driving Vehicles Tech News Review

***PERSONAL GROWTH

err in the direction of kindness: Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial Becoming (my blog)

Alike: a Poignant Short Animated Film About the Enduring Conflict Between Creativity and Conformity Open Culture

***GRAMMAR

The Interrogation of a TA: University president apologizes after recording reveals how a graduate student was questioned over use of a video, which offended at least one student, of debate on nontraditional pronouns Inside Higher Ed

***WRITING & READING

At what point do we give up on books? Big data has the answer The Guardian

22 Famous Writers Told Us About The Book They're Most Thankful For BuzzFeed News

Drop the jargon and write like a human with the help of this tool Poynter

***LANGUAGE

Answering a Question With a Question Chronicle of Higher Ed

Moderate alcohol consumption improves foreign language skills Research Digest

Dictionary.com chooses ‘complicit’ as its word of the year Associated Press

***LITERATURE

A Digital Archive of 1,800+ Children’s Books from UCLA Open Culture

University Library to remove 170,000 unused books from its libraries WTAE

Top 10 Misquoted Lines from C. S. Lewis Christianity Today

George Orwell's Life In 'The Last Man In Europe' NPR

Author: Racism revealed in Dr. Seuss' work, children's literature Chicago Tribune

***GENDER

How American Women “Kickstarted” a Campaign to Give Marie Curie a Gram of Radium, Raising $120,000 in 1921 Open Culture

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

The legal profession is diversifying Washington Post

***LEGAL ISSUES

Rosie O'Donnell Beats Slander Lawsuit After Blaming 'View' Producer for Media Leaks Hollywood Reporter

An upcoming Supreme Court case that will determine whether law enforcement should be able to access cell phone data without a warrant Washington Post

Zazzle Loses Copyright Jury Verdict, and That’s Bad News for Print-on-Demand Publishers–Greg Young Publishing v. Zazzle Technology and Marketing Law Blog

***RELIGION

Is There an Evangelical Crisis? (opinion) New York Times

Where young evangelicals are headed (opinion) Alan Jacob’s blog

Now It's Liberal States Clashing With the Federal Government Over Religious Freedom: California, Pennsylvania, and others have sued over new policies on contraceptive coverage The Atlantic

A TEDx Talk About Growing Up In A New Zealand Christian Cult You Tube

No, the Swedish Church has not banned the male pronoun for God The Local

How the “Christian Netflix” is making hit movies you’ve never heard of VICE

Views of transgender issues divide along religious lines Pew Research

Kentucky Baptists threaten to kick out churches that think it's OK to hire 'practicing homosexuals' Louisville Courier Journal

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

The confused identity of today’s “evangelical” voter (opinion) Vox

***ART & DESIGN

Seeing a Song: Painting What She Hears Open Culture

60-Second Introductions to 12 Groundbreaking Artists: Matisse, Dalí, Duchamp, Hopper, Pollock, Rothko & More Open Culture

***MUSIC

Christian Rock Artist Josh Lovelace Branches Out To Children's Music In Solo Debut NPR

Record Labels Are Rebounding, But This Startup Could Shake Their Dominance Fast Company

What the hell’s happening to music’s trade press? (And what does it mean for the rest of us?) Music Business

***FILM

‘Lady Bird’ sets Rotten Tomatoes record as best-reviewed movie ever Daily Dot

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

FCC Chairman Defends Repeal Of Net Neutrality NPR

The Internet Broke the Media, and There's No Turning Back Bloomberg

Media’s complicated relationship with VC funding Columbia Journalism Review

Smaller Newspapers Are Doing Just Fine, Thank You, New Report Finds Street Fight Mag

***STUDENT MEDIA

Tufts postpones Scaramucci talk after he threatens to sue student who wrote an unflattering opinion piece about him in the student newspaper Washington Post

Millennials are set to be the most unequal generation yet Quartz

***STUDENT LIFE

Where Millennials Come From And why we insist on blaming them for it The New Yorker

After Protest of Working Conditions, Grad Students at American U. of Beirut Lose Jobs Chronicle of Higher Ed

Dutch university says student cannot defend PhD dressed as a pirate Times Higher Ed

15 Items Every Twenty-Something Should Have on Their Bucket List Study Breaks

How Tech Companies Are Catering To Generation Z Teens NPR

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

How To Apologize For Sexual Harassment (Hint: It Takes More Than 'Sorry') NPR

The industries with the worst sexual harassment problem Washington Post

The Celebrity Perv Apology Generator

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE NEWSROOM

One in two women journalists suffer gender-based violence at work International Federation of Journalists

The News Industry Has a Sexual Harassment Problem. #NowWhat? Harvard’s Nieman Center Reports

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN HIGHER ED

Professors urge boycott of University of Rochester over allegations of misconduct CBS News

Michigan State hasn’t faced consequences for enabling the biggest sex abuse scandal in U.S. sports Think Progress

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT REPORTERS

When Sexual Assault Victims Are Charged With Lying (opinion) New York Times

For Some Victims, Reporting a Rape Can Bring Doubt, Abuse — and Even Prosecution Pro Publica

***HEALTH

News headlines claiming two therapies were proven ‘equally effective’ for treating opioid use disorder Health News Review

This Is Your Brain on Exercise: Why Physical Exercise (Not Mental Games) Might Be the Best Way to Keep Your Mind Sharp Open Culture

Loyola U makes data-free claim that a ‘simple’ heart test can distinguish between major depression and bipolar disorder Health News Review

Is Alzheimer’s ‘coming for you’? NY Times uses anecdote and an old blood test to warn it might be Health News Review

***SCIENCE

Why are scientists filing lawsuits against their critics? The Verge

Still No Science Advisor at the White House MIT Technology Review

***PSYCHOLOGY

Angry people die sooner Daily Mail

How to Detect When People Are Using the Truth to Lie to You Life Hacker

***PHILOSOPHY

Billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman says his masters in philosophy has helped him more than an MBA Business Insider

How a Skeptic Became a Stoic Chronicle of Higher Ed

Why Does Materialism Get Such A Bad Rap? Digg

***PRODUCTIVITY

An ex-Google data scientist studied thousands of successful people on Wikipedia — here's what they have in common The Independent

***BUSINESS & FINANCE

Why business school can be dangerous, according to two of Silicon Valley's biggest names Business Insider

How Much You Should Pay Your Babysitter, According to Where You Live Offspring

***RESEARCH

A US Research Integrity Advisory Board is long overdue Nature

This Ivy League Scientist Did A Bunch Of Food Surveys And Somehow Got The Same Number Of Responses Each Time BuzzFeed News

Rewarding negative results keeps science on track (opinion) Nature

Poisoning the well with a within-person design? What’s the risk? Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

PLOS Reports $1.7M Loss In 2016 Scholarly Kitchen

***HIGHER ED

'Elitists, crybabies and junky degrees': Education advocates see growing disdain for U.S. universities (opinion) Washington Post

Interactive graph on the rising cost of college Market Watch

‘Ring by Spring’: How Christian Colleges Fuel Students’ Rush to Get Engaged Chronicle of Higher Ed

***TEACHING

How to Measure Success Without Academic Achievement Ed Surge

How to Escape Grading Jail Chronicle of Higher Ed

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Withering Humanities Jobs: Full-time jobs in English and languages continue to decline, reaching a new low Inside Higher Ed

Big Legal Win for Trans Academic: Federal jury awards $1.165 million, finding discrimination in tenure denial by Southeastern Oklahoma State University Inside Higher Ed

Academic fraud: A question of morals, integrity Straits Times

November 20, 2017

articles of interest - Nov 20

November 20, 2017/ Stephen Goforth

***BIG DATA & STATISTICS

It's time to add quantum technology to the intellectual toolkit of today’s national security policymakers and analysts: here's a quant tech primer for national security pros War on the Rocks

A twist on neural networks intended to remedy a weakness of today’s machine learning systems: the possibilities of Capsule networks Wired

An AI ready to argue with you based on your morals MIT

We urgently need an academic institute focused on algorithmic accountability New York Times

The Pentagon scraped 1.8 billion social media posts over 8 years as part of a global surveillance program-then dumped it on a publicly accessible Amazon cloud server-thanks to a defunct government contractor named VendorX reports Upgrade

Free O’Reilly ebook on how to build real-time data pipelines with Kafka and Spark Memsql and O'Reilly

A simple explanation and comparison of the Apache Spark platform for large-scale SQL, batch processing, stream processing, and machine learning IT World

NSA: shaken to the core by security breaches and spilled secrets: America’s largest and most secretive intelligence agency had been deeply infiltrated says NYT New York Times

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Uptick In Teen Depression Might Be Linked To More Hours NPR

How Instagram Is Changing the Way We Design Cultural Spaces Smithsonian Magazine

Last Year, Social Media Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries MIT Technology Review

What Your Twitter Says About You & Your Mental Health, According To New Research Elite Daily

Facebook adds trust indicators to news articles in an effort to identify real journalism The Verge

How One Woman's Digital Life Was Weaponized Against Her Wired

How Brands are Experimenting with Video on Instagram Stories Video Strategist

***PRODUCING MEDIA

Publishers are wary of Facebook and Google but must work with them - It’s complicated Economist

Not every article needs a picture: It is dumb to keep forcing images into every story online The Outline

***INTERNET

Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing' The Guardian

Spam is Back The Outline

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

FCC votes to loosen media ownership rules CNBC

Entercom Finalizes Merger With CBS Radio, Becoming No. 2 Radio Operator in US Bliiboard

Bad news from Mashable, BuzzFeed, and Vice shows times are rough for ad-supported digital media Nieman Journalism Lab

***JOURNALISM

The Washington Post’s new feature Counterpoint will use AI to show you opinion articles with a different perspective than the one you are reading Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Do Facebook and Google have control of their algorithms anymore? A sobering assessment and a warning Poynter

The Washington Post on Reddit surprises users with its non-promotional, ultra helpful presence Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Journalism Made Possible Because of the Freedom of Information Act-here’s our strange attempt to get you to care about it Propublica

‘Plagiarism-Infested Sports Section’ discovered at California newspaper iMediaEthics

Welcome to your local library, which also happens to be a newsroom Poynter

Reporters Committee appeals to D.C. Circuit Court for information on FBI impersonation of journalists, arguing FBI's initial search for relevant records was inadequate Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

The Washington Post Is A Software Company Now Fast Company

After Roy Moore threatens to sue AL.com, the publisher puts him on notice to preserve all documents for their countersuit BongBong

***TEACHING JOURNALISM

Why We Need to Teach More Business Skills in the J-School Classroom PBS Media Shift

***FAKE NEWS

Drudge Linked regularly to Russia propaganda in 2016 Washington Post

Russian troll describes work in the infamous misinformation factory NBC News

Fixing Misinformation is a Misguided and Insufficient Strategy Medium

Should Facebook Notify Readers When They’ve Been Fed Disinformation? Fast Company

Today’s biggest threat to democracy isn’t fake news—it’s selective facts Quartz

Journalists share tips for discerning which news is 'fake' The Daily Times

'Way too little, way too late': Facebook's factcheckers say effort is failing The Guardian

‘Breakthrough’ for enlarged prostates? Northwestern’s aggressive PR pitch lacks data and context Health News Review

At Snopes a Peek Down the Right Wing Rabbit Holes The Daily Beast

***PERSONAL GROWTH

I Used to Be a Human Being Becoming (my blog)

Yes, You Have Implicit Biases, Too (opinion) The Chronicle of Higher Education

***WRITING & READING

'OK’ Is a 4-Letter Word The Chronicle of Higher Education

‘The Right to Tell People What They Do Not Want to Hear’ The Chronicle of Higher Education

***LANGUAGE

Mon Dieu! Ma Déesse! The Chronicle of Higher Education

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

Q&A: AP’s new race reporter on how her beat is everywhere Columbia Journalism Review

Evaluating Job Satisfaction of Latino Journalists in Multimedia Newsrooms University of Texas, El Paso

Homeland Security official resigns after comments linking blacks to ‘laziness’ and ‘promiscuity’ come to light Washington Post

This Is Where Hate Crimes Don’t Get Reported (visual graphics) Propublica

***FREE SPEECH

Sheriff threatens to bring disorderly conduct charges against the driver of a truck displaying a profane anti-Trump message Houston Chronicle

A University’s Free-Speech Committee Pledges Transparency — Then Closes Its Meetings to the Public The Chronicle of Higher Education

Williams College president: Don’t ignore the real threats in the debate over free speech Washington Post

On overseas satellite campuses, academic freedom is more often promised than practiced The Fire

***LEGAL ISSUES

‘The Slants’ trademark registered today, six years after the application was first filed Washington Post

Trump's Tweets Could Undercut Feds' Silence in Public Records Case: In a FOIA case about the "Russia dossier," Judge is considering what President Trump may or may not know when he tweets National Law Journal

The newspaper ad that changed everything CNN

***TECHNOLOGY

A New Gene-Editing Therapy Would Benefit Kids Most—Here’s Why They Won’t Get It Yet MIT Technology Review

UC Berkeley professor's eerie lethal drone video goes viral San Francisco Gate

***RELIGION

The Enduring Appeal of Creepy Christianity National Review

Ex-members say church uses power, lies to keep grip on kids Associated Press

Newsmax's 100 Most Influential Evangelicals in America News Max

A bisexual Christian man is suing Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission after it refused to hire him because of his sexual orientation Seattle Times

Assaults against Muslims in U.S. surpass 2001 level Pew Research Center

'We are heavily armed,' Tampa church warns Fox 13

Amy Julia Becker: I'm a Christian, but please don't call me evangelical Tulsa World

University chaplain, 46, becomes the Methodist Church's first transgender minister after hiding her true identity for more than 40 years Daily Mail

Victims 'told not to report' Jehovah's Witness child abuse BBC

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Washington Post Magazine's in-depth profile of televangelist Paula White and her role as pastor to President Trump Washington Post

Church leaders hold a rally in Alabama against Roy Moore’s candidacy for US Senate Daily Mail

Poll: Majority Of Evangelicals Would Support Satan If He Ran As Republican Candidate BabylonBee

86 Alabama Baptist pastors sign letter against sex abuse AL.com

A diverse group of Christian theologians release a Declaration to challenge the corruption of Christians in the US Religious News Service

***THE BIBLE MUSEUM

$500-million Museum of the Bible opens amid controversy Tulsa World

How to go to the Museum of the Bible: Tickets, transportation and all the info you need Washington Post

D.C.’s Newest Museum Has a Provenance Problem The Chronicle of Higher Ed

D.C.’s new Bible museum says it wants to avoid politics. But its opening gala is at the Trump hotel Washington Post

***ART & DESIGN

89-Year-Old Japanese Grandma Discovers Photography, Can’t Stop Taking Hilarious Self-Portraits Now Japan Inside

Aesthetics & the Sciences of Mind Philosophy Now

Can a Social-Justice App Be Art? The New Yorker

***MUSIC

A simple twist of faith: Reconsidering Bob Dylan’s “Christian period” Salon

8 Famous Guitar Tones That Were Recorded Straight Into Reverb News

An Interactive Map of Every Record Shop in the World Open Culture

Charles Manson was not a good songwriter BongBong

***FILM

A twitterbot that generates hypothetical Hallmark holiday movies BongBong

***STUDENT LIFE

Ohio State isn’t the first college where students are accused of cheating via GroupMe Inside Higher Ed

Student sues university for ADA violations over service dog in sorority house CNN

Grad Students Are Freaking Out About the GOP Tax Plan Wired

7 Tips For Dating Outside of Your Political Preference Study Breaks

***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

He quit JetBlue by sliding out of a plane. Now he has advice for the rogue Twitter employee Washington Post

How making other people’s coffee prepared me for a job in PR MuckRack

News internships (Summer 2018), Associated Press

Summer 2018 Intenrship Institute on Political Journalism in Washington, DC.

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT.. ON CAMPUS

What the Weinstein Effect Can Teach Us About Campus Sexual Assault New York Times

Notre Dame’s new practice of allowing “alternative resolutions” instead of the traditional Title IX hearings has worried campus advocates for survivors Inside Higher Ed

Student speaks out following rape investigation at Hudson Valley Community College News 10

Sexual Harassment and Assault in Higher Ed: What’s Happened Since Weinstein The Chronicle of Higher Ed

A new website generates too-real “apologies” for men accused of sexual misconduct Vox

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT.. IN THE NEWSROOM

CJR Survey: Reporting Sexual Misconduct in Newsrooms Columbia Journalism Review

New York Times suspends top White House reporter amid investigation into sexual harassment allegations AOL News

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

Why Some Survivors Of Sexual Harassment And Assault Wait To Tell Their Stories NPR

Pentagon discloses data on sexual assault reports on military bases Reuters

Supreme Court Ruling Could Limit Workplace Harassment Claims, Advocates Say NPR

The myth of the male bumbler The Week

When It Comes To Sexual Harassment Claims, Whose Side Is Human Resources On? NPR

Reckoning With Sexual Harassment NPR

They were sexually harassed at work. They reported it. Here’s what happened Washington Post

Social Media Posts May Complicate Prosecution Of Sexual Assault NPR

***HEALTH

They’re probably taking your blood Pressure Wrong NPR

‘Breakthrough’ for enlarged prostates? Northwestern’s aggressive PR pitch lacks data and context Health News Review

Skipped breast cancer treatments common HarvardKennedy School Shorenstein Center

***SCIENCE

Flat Earthers Now Have Their Own International Conference Because Science And Logic No Longer Matter Digg

Why Stupid Things are Smarter Together Digg

***PSYCHOLOGY

The Serial-Killer Detector The New Yorker

***CRITICAL THINKING

To think critically, you have to be both analytical and motivated Arstechnica

Get Students to Reflect on the Logical Fallacies in Arguments Teacher Boot Camp

***PHILOSOPHY

Tech has a big talent gap, and companies are hiring philosophy majors, says the CEO of CA Technologies CNBC

Why philosophy is so important in science education Quartz

***ETHICS

An AI That Argues With You Based On Your Morals MIT

A Note About Racked’s Ethics Policy Racked

More than 50 tech ethics courses, with links to syllabi BongBong

***RESEARCH

Survey finds high levels of research misconduct in Middle East Times Higher Ed

Need a paper? Get a plug-in: A collection of web-browser plug-ins is making the scholarly literature more discoverable Nature

Reviewer bias in single- versus double-blind peer review PNAS

The Replication Crisis in Economics Wired

Impact of Social Sciences – Metrics, recognition, and rewards: it’s time to incentivise the behaviours that are good for research and researchers The London School of Economist and Political Science

You’re a Researcher Without a Library: What Do You Do? Medium

Scientist puts his dog on the editorial boards of seven predatory journals as proof of their negligence BongBong

***HIGHER ED

Higher ed's nuanced strategy gives it options for navigating tax reform debate Inside Higher Ed

We urgently need an academic institute focused on algorithmic accountability New York Times

Are Academics ‘Asleep at the Wheel’? Op-Ed on Tech’s Influence Draws Scholars’ Fire The Chronicle of Higher Education

For-profit colleges in America relaunch themselves as non-profits Economist

Wheaton’s endowment reaches $450 million, avoids potential new tax Wheaton

Still no word from San Diego Christian; inewsource responds anyway inewsource

Moody Bible to Close Spokane Campus, Cut Chicago Faculty Christianity Today

***HUMANITIES /STEM

How the Humanities helps our veterans The San Diego Union-Tribune

Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom The Chronicle of Higher Education

How studying humanities can help you get a job The Week

***TEACHING

Do Professors Need Automated Help Grading Online Comments? Inside Higher Ed

Yagoda on Last-Naming Professors The Chronicle of Higher Education

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Faculty Members at One More University Push Back at Online Programs The Chronicle of Higher Education

Another Bad Year for History Jobs Inside Higher Ed

Students do not trust teaching by foreign lecturers who speak English with unfamiliar accents Inside Higher Ed

The Dangers of Tweeting at Conferences The Chronicle of Higher Education

Professors are losing academic freedom Washington Post

This Transgender Professor Just Won A $1 Million Jury Verdict In A Major Case Against a University BuzzFeed

November 20, 2017

I Used to Be a Human Being

November 20, 2017/ Stephen Goforth

In the last year of my blogging life, my health began to give out. Four bronchial infections in 12 months had become progressively harder to kick. Vacations, such as they were, had become mere opportunities for sleep. My dreams were filled with the snippets of code I used each day to update the site. My friendships had atrophied as my time away from the web dwindled. My doctor, dispensing one more course of antibiotics, finally laid it on the line: “Did you really survive HIV to die of the web?”

But the rewards were many: an audience of up to 100,000 people a day; a new-media business that was actually profitable; a constant stream of things to annoy, enlighten, or infuriate me; a niche in the nerve center of the exploding global conversation; and a way to measure success — in big and beautiful data — that was a constant dopamine bath for the writerly ego. If you had to reinvent yourself as a writer in the internet age, I reassured myself, then I was ahead of the curve. The problem was that I hadn’t been able to reinvent myself as a human being.

Andrew Sullivan writing in New York Magazine

November 13, 2017

articles of interest - Nov 13

November 13, 2017/ Stephen Goforth

***JOURNALISM

Journalists boycott Disney films in solidarity with the L.A. Times CNN

Public radio rethinks its approach to journalism Columbia Journalism Review

Disney Backs Off L.A. Times Ban Following Backlash Hollywood Reporter

Unusual experiment reveals the power of non-mainstream media: Scholars found that small media outlets have a big effect on Twitter discussions Arstechnica

Here's why your local TV news is about to get even worse The Conversation

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Trump wants to punish CNN by breaking up the AT&T/Time Warner deal Recode

Gannett announces management reorganization Talking New Media

***FAKE NEWS

One Way to Fight Fake News: reading laterally Chronicle of Higher Ed

When fake news will be made by pros Monday Note

***BIG DATA & STATISTICS

What should this student do? His bosses want him to p-hack and they don’t even know it! Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

How a data scientist protects his children from the dangers of the tech world The Next Web

Chances are good that classic machine learning will get you where you want to go. And if it can't, the deep learning door is always open House of Bots

How to Invest in AI with few pure-play options and high valuations? And what actually qualifies as an AI stock? Morningstar

Discussion of why Ethics in AI is still a mess, and what practical steps might change the picture Wired

How to Invest in Artificial Intelligence: While there are few pure-play options and valuations are high, experts say it’s wise to pick your spots now Morningstar

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Apple (AAPL) revealed which emoji Americans use the most Quartz

Snapchat redesign is in the works amid weak growth in users and ad sales LA Times

ESPN will produce a daily version of SportsCenter exclusively for Snapchat Recode

***PRODUCING MEDIA

In $25 billion video game industry, voice actors face broken vocal cords and low pay The Washington Post

Instagram is also a huge source of Russian propaganda on social media (Pinterest’s not safe either) Nieman Journalism Lab

Trump's Official Portrait and the Language of Lighting Petapixel

***PERSONAL GROWTH

How to Spot a Liar Becoming (my blog)

Why Canceling Plans is So Satisfying The Cut

***WRITING & READING

Ph.D.s Are Still Writing Poorly, Part 1 Chronicle of Higher Ed

Does English Grammar Allow you to use an Accusative as part of the Subject of a Sentence? (“me and [name]”) Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LANGUAGE

Would language be better if it were polished to perfection? Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LITERATURE

For Dostoevsky, epilepsy was a matter of both life and literature PBS

How a young Ernest Hemingway dealt with his first taste of fame The Conversation

***GENDER

The Perpetrators Of America's Worst Mass Shootings Have One Glaring Thing In Common Digg

Study finds male Ph.D. candidates submit and publish papers at significantly higher rates than female peers on the same campus Inside Higher Ed

Transgender issues sharply divide Republicans, Democrats Pew Research Center

Gender and citation impact in management research Science Direct

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

On diversifying data journalism The Bureau Investigates

To Help Combat Racism, Kansas State U. Will Cancel Classes (for 2 Hours) Chronicle of Higher Ed

***FREE SPEECH

Survey suggests students aren’t the only ones who may have difficulty with free expression on campus. It turns out the public -- across party lines -- is conflicted as well Inside Higher Ed

What’s Fueling the Free-Speech Wars? Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LEGAL ISSUES

Court demands that search engines and internet service providers block Sci-Hub Science Magazine

Taylor Swift's Attorney Rebuked Over Letter Demanding Article's Retraction WBGO

The History and Philosophy of Copyright (video) PetaPixel

Court Rejects Gossip Site’s Fair Use Defense Technology & Marketing Law Blog

A $10 million defamation suit filed by a Stanford University professor against a critic and a journal Retraction Watch

Lisa Bloom Says Bill O'Reilly Is Libel-Proof Hollywood Reporter

Facebook Defeats Lawsuit By User Suspended Over ‘Bowling Green Massacre’ Technology & Marketing Law Blog

***RELIGION

Religious Employers May Not Be Able to Take Away Your Birth Control After All Life Hacker

Here's why this Houston megachurch is flying Russia's flag outside Houston Chronicle

Clergy spouses: Privacy, isolation concerns abound Times Record News

Religion a part of national identity in Central, Eastern Europe Pew Research Center

Key takeaways about Orthodox Christians Pew Research Center

New Museum Invites Visitors To 'Engage' With The Bible NPR

Tennessee Baptist church fights conference shunning over hiring of female pastor USA Today

Buddhism Is More ‘Western’ Than You Think New York Times

A suggestion for younger evangelicals: Lose the label (commentary) Religion News

Baptist convention denounces racism, but not the Confederate flag Baptist News

***RELIGION AND MASS SHOOTINGS

Praying In Response To Mass Shootings NPR

Churches Rethinking Security in the Wake of Texas Shooting NPR

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

No, Christians Don't Use Joseph and Mary to Explain Child Molesting Accusations (opinion) Christianity Today

Roy Moore's alleged pursuit of a young girl is the symptom of a larger problem in evangelical circles LA Times

***MUSIC

What music do psychopaths like? More Bieber, less Bach Washington Post

***HEALTH

A Link Between Alcohol and Cancer? It’s Not Nearly as Scary as It Seems New York Times

Genetically Altered Skin Saves A Boy Dying Of A Rare Disease NPR

The Gross Inequality of Organ Transplants in America New Republic

How Conjoined Twins Are Making Scientists Question the Concept of Self The Walrus

Why Working Women With Migraines Suffer in Silence Splinter News

***PSYCHOLOGY

Christmas Music Could Harm Your Mental Health IFL Science

Psychology's Renaissance Annual Review of Psychology

Brain Scientists Look Beyond Opioids To Conquer Pain NPR

***PHILOSOPHY

The Examined Life: Know Thyself #1 Wireless Philosophy

How Philosophy Makes Progress Daily Nous

On Putnam's Regulative Ideal of Decency Digressions Impressions

***ETHICS

Naming abusers online may be “mob justice” but it’s still justice Quartz

***RESEARCH

Dealing with error and bias in academic research PsyArXiv

Academic journal publishing is headed for a day of reckoning The Conversation

'Null' research findings aren't empty of meaning. Let's publish them Stat News

Why developing countries are particularly vulnerable to predatory journals The Conversation

Publish and perish and buyer beware Otago Daily Times Online News

Reviewing Better Medium

***HIGHER ED

UW-Superior Suspends 25 Programs: Faculty Say They Were Not Consulted Before Programs Were Suspended Wisconsin Public Radio

Congressional committee discusses bill designed to define anti-Semitism; some say it is too broad to be effective on college campuses Inside Higher Ed

When College Classrooms Become Ideologically Segregated, Everyone Suffers NBC News

How Student Concentrations Are Changing at Harvard The Crimson

***TEACHING

Will They Remember Writing It? Helping instructors design a meaningful writing assignment Chronicle of Higher Ed

***STUDENT MEDIA

Syllabus at Duke barred staffers of campus paper from class on hedge funds Inside Higher Ed

The rise of the campus meme Daily Californian

Tips For Writing Your College Admissions Essay The Onion

***STUDENT LIFE

After 10-Hour Hearing, Clemson U. Students Vote Not to Remove Black Leader Chronicle of Higher Ed

Survey shows declines in new international students after years of growth Inside Higher Ed

OSU students caught cheating via "GroupMe" app Local 12

***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

Paid journalism internships with December deadlines Student Press Law Center

Program to bring interns of color to nonprofit newsrooms Inn.org

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

Trainers, Lawyers Say Sexual Harassment Training Fails NPR

College let teachers quietly leave after alleged sex abuse, and pushed students for silence Boston Globe

Profile of advocate against campus sexual assault who hopes to change the culture of college athletics The Ringer

***ACADEMIC LIFE

What’s to be done about the numerous reports of faculty misconduct dating back years and even decades? Inside Higher Ed

November 12, 2017

happiness depends

November 12, 2017/ Stephen Goforth

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. –Leo Tolstoy

November 10, 2017

Desensitized to Lying

November 10, 2017/ Stephen Goforth

When you’re exposed to a strong smell, at first the smell is extremely noticeable, but eventually you stop noticing it as much. With time, any stimulus — a loud noise, a strong perfume, etc. — is likely to provoke a smaller response. The same goes with lying.

We get desensitized to our own lying as the areas of our brain that correlate with negativity become less active. This makes it easier for us to lie in the future.

“The first time you cheat — let’s say you’re cheating on your taxes — you feel quite bad about it,” Tali Sharot, a University College London neuroscientist. But then the next time you cheat, you’re less likely to get that negative feeling. That makes it easier to lie again. And the cycle escalates from there.

Brian Resnick writing in Vox