Within Arms Reach

Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.

The people who love me and will be there regardless of the outcome are within arms reach.

This realization changed everything. That's the wife and mother and friend that I now strive to be. I want our home to be a place where we can be our bravest selves are most fearful selves. Where we practice difficult conversations and share our shaming moments from school and work. I want to look at Steve and my kids and say, “I'm with you I'm in the arena. And when we fail, we’ll fail together, while daring greatly.”

We simply can't learn to be more vulnerable and courageous on our own. Sometimes our first and greatest dare is asking for support.

Brené Brown, Daring Greatly

Articles of Interest - Jan 29

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Here's What Facebook's Local News And Events Section Looks Like, Live In Action  BuzzFeed News

‘Never get high on your own supply’ – why social media bosses don’t use social media  The Guardian

Twitter is reportedly working on a new video tool that sounds a lot like Snapchat

Online group members may end up secretly recruited by intel agencies: How and when intel agencies can exploit your social media accounts  MuckRock

The Follower Factory: Buying Fake Twitter Followers  New York Times

Which Publishers Benefit Most from Facebook’s News Feed Change?  Media Shift

Instagram won’t comment on rumored video calling feature  Tech Crunch

***SOCIAL MEDIA: SNAPCHAT

Snapchat Stories Can Now Live Outside the App  Wired

Snap is making it easier for people to watch Snapchat videos, even if they don’t have an account  Recode

Snapchat will now allow you to share and watch videos outside its app  LA Times

***MOBILE

Keep Your Head Up: How Smartphone Addiction Kills Manners and Moods  New York Times

***INTERNET

Here's Why Your Gmail Icon Might Be Blue Now  BuzzFeed News

***TECHNOLOGY

Every study we could find on what automation will do to jobs, in one chart  MIT Technology Review

You Can't Fool YouTube's Copyright Bots  Life Hacker

Google began selling its Clips camera today  The Verge

***JOURNALISM

Man arrested, accused of threatening to kill CNN employees  The Hill

Tech Is Starting to Lose Its War on Journalism (opinion)  Bloomberg

Investigation by 'Indianapolis Star' hailed as proof of local journalism's impact  USA Today

Freelance writers win new $100,000 journalism prize  News Observer

Google tests Bulletin app for crowdsourced, hyperlocal news  Money Mag

'Video journalism forces you to go the extra mile'  The Guardian

Prosecutor praises newspaper that exposed doctor’s abuse  Associated Press

The Untold Story of the Pentagon Papers Co-Conspirators  The New Yorker

Trust In Media, Social Platforms Dips, Traditional Journalism Rises  Media Post

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

The Libraries Bringing Small-Town News Back to Life  The Atlantic

As Local Media Dies, Google Pilots A Program For Unpaid Citizen Journalists  Fast Company

Turmoil at the Los Angeles Times is getting ugly and frightening  LA Observed  

Over 75% of NPR's staff is white, same as the last six years  NPR

Why Social Media Editors Should be Better Integrated into Newsrooms   PBS Media Shift

***FAKE NEWS

Pope warns against 'fake news' and likens it to 'crafty serpent' in Genesis  CNN

What the Pope Gets Wrong About Fake News  Politico  

The era of “truth decay”: 12 things we still don’t know about our weird time  Harvard’s Nieman Lab

WhatsApp: Mark Zuckerberg’s other headache: The popular messaging service shows that Facebook’s efforts to fight fake news may fail  Economist

***BIG DATA & AI

Is “Murder by Machine Learning” the New “Death by PowerPoint”?  Harvard Business Review

Twitter is using machine learning to crop photos to the most interesting part  The Verge

Deep learning vs. machine learning: what's the difference between the two?  Digital Trends

Are You Setting Your Data Scientists Up to Fail by not putting them in the right spots?  Harvard Business Review

AI is giving surveillance cameras digital brains—What happens when digital eyes get the brains to match?  The Verge

Reliable access to the GOES satellites (and GPS) are now jeopardized by increasing demands for radio spectrum for terrestrial wireless systems  Space News

Google’s AutoML promises to help you create machine learning models even if you lack programming experience  Extreme Tech

Forget About Siri and Alexa: When It Comes to Voice Identification, the “NSA Reigns Supreme” The Intercept

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Risk aversion kills innovation  Becoming (my blog)

The Dangers Of Thinking Too Much And Thinking Too Little  Digg

3 Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions  Harvard Business Review

Retraction Heroes  Magzter

What to Say When You Meet the Angel of Death at a Party: After years of living with stage IV cancer, I have some suggestions  New York Times

***GRAMMAR

One East Village Bar is Banning The Word 'Literally' From Its Venue  NBC New York

***WRITING & READING

I Copied the Routines of Famous Writers and It Sucked  Vice

Bonehead Guidance for Would-Be Novelists  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is a terrible writer (opinion)  Slate

***LANGUAGE

Misusing “Pretentious”  Chronicle of Higher Ed

How many are in “a couple (of)”  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LITERATURE

Why Virginia Woolf remains one of literature's most alluring writers  Telegraph

How Mary Shelly's Frankenstein upended 2000 years of literature – by making us the monsters (sign in req’ed)  Telegraph

The second volume of John Ashbery’s collected poems is a tribute  Economist 

How to Spot a Communist Using Literary Criticism: A 1955 Manual from the U.S. Military  Open Culture 

“A Wrinkle in Time” Author Madeleine L’Engle on Self-Consciousness and the Wellspring of Creativity  Brain Pickings

***GENDER  

The Dangers of Keeping Women out of Tech  Magzter

Southern Illinois University Athletics found non-compliant with Title IX regulations  Daily Egyptian (student newspaper)

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

To attract more blacks and Hispanics to STEM, universities must address racial issues on campus  Hechinger Report

Key facts about black immigrants in the U.S.  Pew Research Center

When Dreamers and black colleges meet, American success stories are made  The Hill

Should Students Be Expelled for Posting Racist Videos?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***FREE SPEECH

The End of Academe: Free Speech and the Silencing of Dissent (opinion)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Court rejects Pierce College’s attempt to dismiss lawsuit against its tiny ‘free speech zone’  The FIRE

It's the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech  Wired

So to Speak podcast: Professor Randall Kennedy on ‘The Forgotten Origins of the Constitution on Campus’   The FIRE

***LEGAL ISSUES

Grumpy Cat wins $710,000 payout in copyright lawsuit  BBC News

Song Publisher Agrees "We Shall Overcome" Is in Public Domain in Legal Settlement  Hollywood Reporter

Even a Divided Congress Can Agree on Copyright  Billboard

James Woods' Use of a Question Mark Helps Him Beat Defamation Lawsuit Over Tweet  Hollywood Reporter

Actors’ union argues First Amendment protection isn't absolute and docudrama filmmakers have an obligation to "exercise caution" when depicting a living individual  Hollywood Reporter

State Supreme Court reverses itself on First Presbyterian lawsuit over baptism announcement: Muslim convert’s baptism nearly got him killed  Tulsa World

***BUSINESS

The problem with the craze for mandatory arbitration: Millions of American employees have no recourse to the courts  Economist 

How bad decision making could undermine good innovation  Tech Crunch

Harassed or discriminated against? You may not be able to take your employer to court because of the fine print in your contract  Economist 

***RELIGION

Southern Baptist Convention added as defendant in Pressler lawsuit  Baptist Press

Amid #MeToo, Evangelicals Grapple With Misconduct In Their Own Churches  NPR

Rob Bell is the subject of a new documentary titled The Heretic  Christian Today

Behind the microphone, Jay Sekulow, President Trump's lawyer targets his client's tormentors over Christian radio  LA Times

Poll found 0% of Icelanders under 25 believe Bible creation story  Digital Journal

Are White Evangelicals Sacrificing The Future In Search Of The Past?  FiveThirtyEight

American religious groups vary widely in their views of abortion  Pew Research Center

The share of Americans who leave Islam offset by Muslim converts  Pew Research Center

How the Photographer of a Snake-Handling Pastor Handled the Bite That Killed Him  Patheos 

Across U.S., LGBTQ Christians try to change hearts and minds from the pews  NBC News

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

The evangelical muscle of Trump (opinion)  The Week

Editor in chief of Christianity Today: Falwell’s defense of Trump is “twisted” (opinion)  Christianity Today

White House Bible study comes under fire  Miami OK

In the wake of porn-star allegations, most evangelicals stand by Trump  Washington Post

***ART & DESIGN

Watch how kids and pro artists draw differently based on eye tracking  BongBong

Can Art Help People Develop Empathy?   Daily Jstor

How Did Michelangelo Get So Good?  Daily Jstor

***MUSIC

Why Vinyl Matters: Nick Hornby on Records, High  Reverb News

Study: People Listen To Songs From Other Cultures And Guess: Lullaby, Dance Song, Love Song?  NPR

Study: Music permits the communication of simple ideas between people even when they have no language in common  Economist

After The Vinyl Revival, The Vinyl-Playing Jukebox Is Back  NPR

Artificial Intelligence Writes a Piece in the Style of Bach: Can You Tell the Difference Between JS Bach and AI Bach?  Open Culture

***RELATIONSHIPS

The Washington Post sets up two singles for a date and then chronicles the results on its “Data Lab” —an often painful but entertaining glimpses into the dating lives of others  Washington Post

Her son came out. She called a gay bar for advice. The delightful convo went viral  Upworthy

What Kind of Screen Time Parent Are You? Take This Quiz And Find Out  NPR

***STUDENT MEDIA 

This Student Newspaper Let A Nazi Sympathizer Write For Them  BuzzFeed News

Students re-publish article about teacher's firing after school deleted it  The Washington Post

***STUDENT LIFE

Millennials think they're bad at managing money, even when they're not  Quartz

Study shows drop-off in religious interests of new college students  Inside Higher Ed

Teen explorer makes sandwich for sexist trolls – and leaves it at the South Pole  Metro

College student hunger: How access to food can impact grades, mental health  Journalism Resources

China's millennials are triggering a luxury-goods market boom  Quartz

Virginia University of Lynchburg panel draws little student feedback following fall semester protests  News Advance

Temporarily reinstated, Christian University of Iowa student club glad to be back recruiting  Iowa City Press-Citizen

Some 250 Ohio College Students End Sit-In Over Diversity on Campus  US News

Report asserts that bundled textbooks cost students too much; publishers dispute findings  Inside Higher E

Lesbians and bisexual girls are more likely to be suspended, expelled  Journalism Resources

White Supremacist UCSD Student Disrupts Lecture  The Triton

Will millennials kill Costco?  Washington Post

***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

Facebook is offering scholarships to journalism students  CNET

Apply for NAHJ Facebook Journalism Project scholarship

These tools will save, highlight and share your best work  Poynter

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

U. of Arizona Provost Steps Down After Suit Claims ‘Demeaning’ Treatment of Female Deans  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Michigan State University fans wear teal in support of sexual abuse victims  CBS News

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Former Feinberg Prof. discusses sexuality, academic freedom  Daily Northwestern

***HEALTH

Livers for transplant can now be kept alive at body temperature  Economist

9 out of 10 Dentists Recommend You Toss the Floss  Study Breaks

An ER visit, a $12,000 bill — and a health insurer that wouldn’t pay  Vox

Most Americans Can’t Afford A Minor Emergency  Huffington Post

***SCIENCE

Sequencing the world: How to map the DNA of all known plants and animal species on Earth  Economist

***PSYCHOLOGY

Staying Awake Is A Surprisingly Effective Way To Treat Depression  Digg

***PHILOSOPHY

The problem with Ayn Rand? She isn't a philosopher  Big Think

***PRODUCTIVITY

Time is a human invention that controls how we work  Quartz  

***RESEARCH

iPS research fraud points up challenges for research ethics (opinion)  The Asahi Shimbun

Robust research needs many lines of evidence  Nature

At Harvard, developing software to spot misused images in science  Elsevier

Academic journals are often filled with complex language because they want to make their writing seem grander and more important than it actually is  The BMJ Opinion

Why are we continuing to allow paper journal formats to mangle our science?  The Grumpy Geophysicist

Read the Shortest Academic Article Ever Written: “The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of ‘Writer’s Block'”  Open Culture

***HIGHER ED

Outlook for Higher Ed in 2018 Is Bleak, Ratings Agency Says  Chronicle of Higher Ed

How College May Actually Limit Students’ Exposure to Different Religions  Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Who Has the Most Student Debt? The Wealthiest, a New Analysis Finds  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Mizzou considers phasing out more than two dozen graduate programs  St Louis Post-Dispatch

Closed searches do not produce better college presidents, but they do serve the financial interests of search firms and headhunters (opinion)  The Ithacan

Moody Bible Spokane faculty starting new Christian college  Spokesman

***TEACHING

The Benefits of Having Students Do It Wrong  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Study finds students come up with many ideas in courses that meet midday  Inside Higher Ed

Creating Your Own Attendance “App” with Google Forms  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Risk aversion kills innovation

The secret killer of innovation is shame. You can't measure it, but it is there. Every time someone holds back on a new idea, fails to give their manager must needed feedback, and is afraid to speak up in front of a client you can be sure that shame played a part. That deep fear we all have of being wrong, of being belittled and of feeling less than, is what stops us taking the very risks required to move our companies forward.

If you want a culture of creativity and innovation, where sensible risks are embraced on both a market and individual level, start by developing the ability of managers to cultivate an openness to vulnerability in their teams. And this, paradoxically perhaps, requires first that they are vulnerable themselves.

This notion that the leader needs to be “in charge” and to “know all the answers” is both dated and destructive. Its impact on others I the sense that they know less, and that they are less than. A recipe for risk aversion if ever I have heard it. Shame becomes fear. Fear leads to risk aversion . Risk aversion kills innovation.

Peter Sheaham

room in your heart

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. Winnie The Pooh

speak when you are angry..

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. - Ambrose Bierce

What would you do?

You have applied for a job and the interviewer asks you a question that lands like a bombshell: do you have a boyfriend? Then another: do people find you desirable? And a third: do you think it is important for women to wear bras to work? If you are a woman you probably know what you would do. Perhaps you would refuse to answer, complain or walk out. You would certainly be furious.

This is how 197 female American undergraduates, asked to imagine such an interview, said they would react. But they—and probably you—were wrong. The psychologists who asked them, Marianne LaFrance and Julie Woodzicka, orchestrated a real-life version of this ordeal, by advertising for a research assistant and arranging for male accomplices to interview the first 50 women who applied.

Half were randomly chosen to be asked those three questions. Not one refused to answer, let alone complained or walked out. When they were asked afterwards (and offered the chance to apply for a real job), they said they had felt not anger, but fear.

Videos of the interviews showed how much this supposedly minor sexual harassment threw the women off their stride. They plastered on fake smiles.

In a final twist, the researchers showed clips of the videos to male MBA students. Fake smiles are fairly easy to tell from real ones: they involve fewer facial muscles and do not crinkle the corners of the eyes. But many of the men saw the women as amused, even flirtatious.

The Economist

Gratitude and Self-Control

Studies from my lab show that gratitude directly increases self-control.

Our research also shows that when we make people feel grateful, they’ll spend more time helping anyone who asks for assistance, they’ll make financial decisions that benefit partners equally (rather than ones that allow profit at a partner’s expense), and they’ll show loyalty to those who have helped them even at costs to themselves.

What these findings show is that pride, gratitude and compassion, whether we consciously realize it or not, reduce the human mind’s tendency to discount the value of the future. In so doing, they push us not only to cooperate with other people but also to help our own future selves. Feeling pride or compassion has been shown to increase perseverance on difficult tasks by over 30 percent. Likewise, gratitude and compassion have been tied to better academic performance, a greater willingness to exercise and eat healthily, and lower levels of consumerism, impulsivity and tobacco and alcohol use.

If using willpower causes stress, using these emotions actually heals: They slow heart rate, lower blood pressure and reduce feelings of anxiety and depression. By making us value the future more, they ease the way to patience and perseverance.

Perhaps most important, while these emotions enhance self-control, they also combat another problem of modern life: loneliness. From 1985 to 2004, the percentage of people who reported having at least one friend on whom they could rely and with whom they could discuss important matters dropped to 57 percent from 80 percent. Today, more than half of all Americans report feeling lonely, especially in their professional lives. But study after study has shown that those who are seen as grateful, warm and justifiably confident draw others to them. Because these emotions automatically make us less selfish, they help ensure we can form relationships with people who will be there to support us when we need it.

Cultivating the social emotions maximizes both our “résumé virtues” (those that underlie professional success) and our “eulogy virtues” (those for which we want to be remembered). In nudging the mind to be more patient and more selfless, they benefit everyone whom our decisions impact, including our own future selves. In short, they give us not only grit but also grace.

So as 2018 commences, take more time to cultivate these emotions. Reflect on what you’re grateful to have been given. Allow your mind to step into the shoes of those in need and feel for them. Take pride in the small achievements on the path to your goals.

David DeSteno writing in the New York Times

that's just who I am

“Sorry, but that is the way I am.. I was like this in the beginning, am now, and ever shall be…”  is a handy motto and delusion to hang around your neck when you don’t want to grow up.

Articles of Interest - Jan 22

***PRODUCING MEDIA

Photo format from Google and Mozilla could outdo Apple and JPEG  CNET

This tool makes editing podcasts just as easy as editing text  Poynter

How charities are harnessing the power of VR  The Daily Dot

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Social media is making you miserable. Here’s how to delete your accounts  PopSci

How to prepare for the removal of publisher posts from Facebook’s news feed  Medium

Hard Questions: Social Media and Democracy  Facebook Newsroom

Here’s why people on Twitter are seeing news alerts that they didn’t ask for  Recode

Saving Our Children From Smartphones  Monday Note

***MOBILE

Fake apps can steal your information. Here's how to detect them  Poynter  

Ways to keep your data safe while traveling  Tech Republic

***INTERNET

Which email greeting generates the best response rate?  The Atlas

***TECHNOLOGY

The era of the cloud’s total dominance is drawing to a close  The Economist 

Top Tech books of 2017: Part I  Wired 

The Top Tech Books of 2017: Part II  Wired

Chinese tech companies plan to steal American cloud firms’ thunder: Alibaba aims at matching or surpassing Amazon Web Services by 2019  The Economist

Are programs better than people at predicting reoffending? The short answer is that the two are about the same  The Economist

***JOURNALISM

Everything you need to know about FOIA  Washington Post (FB page video)

Mr. President: Stop Attacking the Press (by Sen. John McCain)  MSNBC

Many in other countries follow news about US closely  Pew Research Center

Dealing with the word 's***hole'  Union Tribune

Southern California is about to experience a journalism vacuum  Medium

Quiz: How well can you identify news trends?  Washington Post

Eight journalists enter 2018 facing criminal charges  RTDNA

There's hope for journalism in the digital age, says Bloomberg's co-founder  The National

As technology develops, so must journalists’ codes of ethics  The Guardian

BuzzFeed is asking readers for questions about the news  BuzzFeed News

The biggest risk to American journalism isn't posed by Trump  The Guardian

***JOURNALISM: THE MOVIE “THE POST”

‘The Post’ inspiration even for those not working in media   College Media Review 

Pitts: ‘The Post’ offers a timely reminder of what journalism is all about  Mercury News

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Accusations Of 'Frat House' Behavior Trail 'LA Times' Publisher's Career  NPR

Editorial backing Trump in ‘shithole’ controversy sparks outrage among newspaper staff  Politico 

Why I’m Done Working In Sports Journalism  Medium

HuffPost: The End Of Citizen Journalism?  Forbes

***FAKE NEWS

A dangerous fake news story about flu shots spread like a virus on Facebook  Fast Company

Americans See More News Bias; Most Can't Name Neutral Source  Gallup

Who Do Americans Believe Is the Most Objective News Source?  Ad Week

The (almost) complete history of 'fake news'  BBC

San Diego Library to Combat ‘Fake News’ with Workshop Series  Times of San Diego

Tech Companies Working On Fixes For Fake News As Midterms Approach  NP

***BIG DATA & AI

5 Lessons Algorithms Must Learn From Journalism: Flipboard's CEO on the importance of bringing humanity to automation  AdWeek

Algorithms Are Opinions Embedded in Code  Scholarly Kitchen

Five of the most innovative use cases for machine learning coming to your business life sooner than you think  Entrepreneur

NGIA staffers are concerned that AI is not yet advanced enough to truly replace most aspects of human analysis  Business Insider

Does Big Data Belong in Courtrooms? Research shows even the best algorithms are no better than humans at predicting recidivism—& neither are very good  Pacific Standard

After decades of AI being viewed as a "future" concept, is it time for your org to finally invest real dollars for real AI applications?  Information Week

Data integrity is becoming all the more important in analysis and validation   KD Nuggets

AI deep neural network model beats humans in reading test: Alibaba says it’s the first time a machine has out-done a real person in such a contest Bloomberg

***REALLY?

This TV Interview Of A Burglary Suspect Should Be In The News Blooper Hall Of Fame  Digg

Florida Man Arrested For Fried Chicken Attack On His Girlfriend  The Smoking Gun

Doughnut-eating contest winner arrested again after doughnut shop robbery  Pilot Online

Lighthearted vigil for burned down Taco Bell draws more than 100  Press Herald

***PERSONAL GROWTH

This is Daring Greatly  Becoming (my blog)

How To Tell If You've Had An Emotionally Healthy Childhood  Digg

***GRAMMAR

Following Up on ‘Off Of’ Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Quotable Guide to Punctuation is entirely devoted to the deployment of punctuation marks  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LANGUAGE

When Is a New Word New? It’s harder than ever nowadays to decide whether a coinage is really new  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Personal pronouns are changing fast: How transgender rights are changing language  The Economist

Naughty Words: Language’s power to shock is one of its strongest weapons, so what happens after we don’t blink an eye?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LITERATURE

A timely history of poop jokes in English  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Life Lessons From Chinese Children's Books Differ From Those In The U.S.  NPR

The Lost Giant of American Literature: A major black novelist made a remarkable début. How did he disappear?  The New Yorker

***GENDER  

Gender Bias, by the Numbers  Inside Higher Ed

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

The Race Beat, Revisited   Harvard’s Nieman Reports

Key findings about U.S. immigrants  Pew Research Center 

***FREE SPEECH

A Forgotten First Amendment Hero  New York Law Journal

Fox Argues Muhammad Ali Super Bowl Segment Is Free Speech Hollywood Reporter

The End of Academe: Free Speech and the Silencing of Dissent  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Court rejects LA College’s attempt to dismiss lawsuit against its tiny ‘free speech zone’  The FIRE

***LEGAL ISSUES

Justice Department Sides With Archdiocese in Lawsuit Against Metro  Washingtonian

As Super Bowl Approaches, Be Careful what you say about the Game  Broadcast Law Blog

Has This Court Decision Rendered the Creative Commons License Unenforceable?  Office of Copyright 

These Trump Tweets Are ‘Not Law,’ Harvard Law Review Study Says  National Law Journal

Breakthrough brings non-addictive opioid alternatives a step closer  The Guardian

How Donald Trump Could Mess With Libel Laws  Hollywood Reporter

***RELIGION

Gospel Singer Kidnapped, Beaten and Robbed  Knox News

Mile High City plays host to Gay Christian Network conference  Denver Post

Hobby Lobby Surrenders 245 More Iraq Artifacts From Smuggled Cache to Federal Government  Newsweek

Popular pastor at North Park University is suspended for officiating gay wedding  Chicago Tribune

Mysterious Dead Sea Scroll deciphered in Israel  BBC 

Satanic Temple challenges Missouri’s abortion law on religious grounds  NBC News

American religious groups vary widely in their views of abortion  Pew Research

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

'$*!*holes' sign outside Dallastown church is about theology, not politics, pastor says  York Daily Record

Former President Carter writing book about religious faith  Associated Press

Madison-based group sues HUD, Ben Carson over records on White House Bible study  Wisconsin Gazette

Trump’s Health Department Expected to Declare Life Begins at Conception, Turn Evangelical Positions Into Policy  Newsweek

The religious activists on the rise inside Trump's health department  Politico

The Trump evangelicals have lost their gag reflex (opinion)  Washington Post 

***MEGACHURCH PASTORS & TELEVANGELISTS

Televangelist Kenneth Copeland giggles with glee as he unveils new $3 million private jet paid for by donations from his followers  Daily Mail

Luis Palau Reveals Stage 4 Lung Cancer, Asks for Prayer  Christianity Today

Interview with Megachurch pastor edited to hide what he said about sexual encounter with teen  The Wartburg Watch

***ART & DESIGN

Giorgio Vasari, the man who created art history: His magnum opus tells you as much about him as it does about the artists he described  The Economist

10,000 Classic Movie Posters Getting Digitized & Put Online  Open Culture

The Artist Transporting Figures from Art History into Modern Life   Artsy

Enroll in Seven Free Courses From the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)  Open Culture

***MUSIC

Benny Goodman Takes Jazz From The Nightclubs To The Concert Halls  NPR

25 Essential Music Podcasts  Pigeons and Planes  Pigeons and Planes

A YouTube Channel Completely Devoted to Medieval Sacred Music: Hear Gregorian Chant, Byzantine Chant & More  Open Culture

Is Vinyl’s Comeback Here to Stay?  Pitchfork

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA 

When the President Uses a Profanity, What Can Broadcast News Do?   Broadcast Law Blog

As TV viewership changes, TV newsrooms must too  RTDNA

How Small Publishers Can Survive and Thrive After Facebook’s News Feed Change  PBS Media Shift

***STUDENT MEDIA 

Student newspaper story about new university president shakes the campus community  The Ithacan

***STUDENT LIFE

Study: while completing college results in improved mental health for graduates of all races, the improvement does not necessarily extend to physical health PNAS

Amazon's Bezos to give $33M for 1,000 Dreamer scholarships  Politico

Eclipsed by urban counterparts, rural nonwhites go to college at equally low rates  Hechinger Report

Expelled student sues College for reinstatement: He accuses the institution of expelling him unfairly last year and violating his Title IX rights  The Dartmouth

'Adolescence now lasts from 10 to 24'  BBC News

Study: Millennials are more likely than Gen Xers to be perfectionists  Quartz 

Students should be paid to study  Huff Post

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

'Beauty Myth' Writer Says Yale Blocked Harassment Claim against famed literary critic and English professor Harold Bloom  New York Times

Many People With Intellectual Disabilities Face Sexual Abuse; Two Therapists Discuss The Impact  NPR

In Their Words, Adults With Intellectual Disabilities Tell Their Sexual Assault Stories  NPR

Congress Is Demanding Answers about how federal science agencies are dealing with sexual harassment in the institutions they fund  BuzzFeed News

The #MeToo movement arrives in China  The Economist

#MeToo shakes sports industry  Sports Business Daily

How #MeToo really was different, according to data  Washington Post

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT ON CAMPUS

Yale settles with student who cited false sex-assault claim  Associated Press

Title IX Failures: Buffalo State failed to investigate an alleged sexual assault or respond to a female athlete’s requests  Inside Higher Ed

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Ph.D.s Are Still Writing Poorly, Part 3  Chronicle of Higher Ed

U. of Arizona Provost Steps Down After Suit Claims ‘Demeaning’ Treatment of Female Deans  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***BUSINESS

 Something doesn’t ad up about America’s advertising market  The Economist

Our Big Mac index shows fundamentals now matter more in currency markets  The Economist

Photos: Here’s what the new Amazon Go cashierless convenience store looks like  Recode 

***HEALTH

NPR’s story on weight loss surgery in teens: Cost info would have improved a well-reported story  Health News Review

What Fitbit's 6 billion nights of sleep data reveals about us  Yahoo News

NY Times ‘Well’ section continues to mislead readers — this time on facial exercises that ‘may make you look 3 years younger’  Health News Review

Breakthrough brings non-addictive opioid alternatives a step closer  The Guardian

How well can you predict the outcome of clinical trials? Not as well as you may think  Stat News

***HEALTH: THE FLU

A Flu Pandemic Today Could Kill As Many As 80 Million People  Scientific American

Confusion reigns on Good Morning America’s ‘complementary natural’ flu remedies report  Health News Review

As Flu Season Strains Hospitals, Doctor Offers Advice For How To Stay Healthy  NPR

How to Avoid Getting the Flu on an Airplane  Life Hacker 

The Flu Pandemic of 1918, As Reported in 1918  Jstor

***FAMILY

Raising a Social-Media Star: The parents of teen internet celebrities get a crash course in a new kind of fame  The Atlantic

The diabolical genius of the baby advice industry  The Guardian

How To Parent From Prison And Other Advice For Life Inside  NPR

How to Raise a ProdigyCan achievement be engineered?  The New Yorker

***SCIENCE

For the first time, China has overtaken the US in terms of the total number of science publications  Nature

Many interested in environment see following science news as a duty  Pew Research Center

The Rise and Fall of China’s Science Superstar  Sixth Tone

***PSYCHOLOGY

Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?  The Guardian

***PHILOSOPHY

Wall Street's Bill Miller gave Johns Hopkins' philosophy department $75 million  Quartz

Investor's $75M gift to Johns Hopkins said to be largest ever to a philosophy department  USA Today

Philosopher of the month: Jean-Jacques Rousseau  OUP Blog

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Handwritten Syllabus & Final Exam for the Philosophy Course He Taught at Morehouse College  Open Culture

***PRODUCTIVITY

Want to Fall Asleep Faster? Add This Tweak To Your Bedtime Routine  Mental Floss

Daniel Pink's 'When' Shows the Importance Of Timing Throughout Life  NPR

***ETHICS

As news outlets ramp up their use of native advertising, the industry must set ground rules and establish a common code of ethics  Harvard's Nieman Report

***RESEARCH

Retracted Publications in Mental Health Literature: Discovery across Bibliographic Platforms  Journal of Liberianship & Scholarly Communication

A journal has canceled a special issue after it discovered the guest editor provided fake credentials  The Scientist

Pressure to publish in the biomedical scientific field: Ethical conflicts or a possible obsessive-compulsive disorder?  European Journal of Internal Medicine

A paper showing how to make a smallpox cousin just got published. Critics wonder why  Science Mag

HHS Delays Compliance Date for Revised Common Rule  Ropes & Gray

Malaysia launches a new national Code of Responsible Conduct in Research  New Straits Times

Make replication studies ‘a normal and essential part of science,’ Dutch science academy says  Science Mag

Hey, here’s a new reason for a journal to reject a paper: it’s “annoying” that it’s already on a preprint server  Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

A New Citation Database Launches Today: Digital Science’s Dimensions   Scholarly Kitchen

***HIGHER ED

Let Ferpa Be Ferpa: Colleges have used Ferpa to prevent the release of newsworthy information  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Why admissions at elite colleges aren’t really about merit   Market Watch

Is Gov. Brown's proposal for a public online community college a good idea? Some educators say  LA Times

The Biggest Problem for State Higher-Ed Policy? Federal Higher-Ed Policy  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Colleges must push back against the bipartisan notion that education on their campuses has been replaced with "indoctrination and political posturing (president of Wesleyan University)  Washington Post

Title IX Failures: Buffalo State failed to investigate an alleged sexual assault Inside Higher Ed

How One University Is Trying to ‘Create a Space for Listening’  Chronicle of Higher Ed

International Student Numbers Decline  Inside Higher Ed

Hooters opens soon in Abilene. One Christian university is less than thrilled  Star-Telegram

Christian university where 'safe spaces' are banned opens in Boston  Independent

***TEACHING

Why You Should Ask Students to Help Design Courses  Chronicle of Higher Ed

To ban or not to ban: Teachers grapple with forcing students to disconnect from technology  Washington Post

The 4 Reasons Why Every College Student Should Become an Instructor  StudyBreaks

Tracking down hired pens used to be hard: Now Students have Twitter  Chronicle of Higher Ed

This is daring greatly

When we spend our lives waiting until we're perfect or bulletproof before we walk into the arena, we ultimately sacrifice relationships and opportunities that may not be recoverable, we squander our precious time, and we turn our backs on our gifts, those unique contributions that only we can make.

We must walk into the arena, whatever it may be—a new relationship, an important meeting, our creative process, or a difficult family conversation—with courage and a willingness to engage. Rather than sitting on the sidelines and hurling judgment and advice, we must dare to show up and let ourselves be seen.  This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly.

Brené Brown, Daring Greatly

Risk aversion kills innovation

The secret killer of innovation is shame. You can't measure it, but it is there. Every time someone holds back on a new idea, fails to give their manager must needed feedback, and is afraid to speak up in front of a client you can be sure that shame played a part. That deep fear we all have of being wrong, of being belittled and of feeling less than, is what stops us taking the very risks required to move our companies forward.

If you want a culture of creativity and innovation, where sensible risks are embraced on both a market and individual level, start by developing the ability of managers to cultivate an openness to vulnerability in their teams. And this, paradoxically perhaps, requires first that they are vulnerable themselves.

This notion that the leader needs to be “in charge” and to “know all the answers” is both dated and destructive. Its impact on others I the sense that they know less, and that they are less than. A recipe for risk aversion if ever I have heard it. Shame becomes fear. Fear leads to risk aversion . Risk aversion kills innovation.

Peter Sheaham

The “Uh Oh” Effect

Resist the “uh oh” effect. Midpoints—of work projects and training regiments can either discourage (the oh no” effect) or motivate (“oh no, time's running out”). UCLA researchers studying teamwork found that the majority of groups did almost no work until halfway to the deadline then suddenly buckled down. Set interim goals and adopt the “chain” technique: Pick a task and mark a calendar with an X every day you do it—the string of X’s serves as an incentive.

Aaron Fernandez writing in Wired Magazine

refutation

Say rather, beloved Agathan, that you cannot refute the truth:  for Socrates is easily refuted.  -Socrates

Articles of Interest - Jan 15

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Here’s how to make sure Facebook shows you the content you want: You can beat the algorithm  Recode

Facebook chooses friends over publishers  Axios

How to post a still frame of a video to Instagram  cNet

This Is the Data Snapchat Doesn’t Want You to See  The Daily Beast

***SOCIAL MEDIA: ADDICTION

Study finds narcissists like fellow narcissists on Instagram  PsyPost

I deleted Facebook off my phone and you should too  Mashable

Are we raising digital monsters?  Union Tribune

Cutting adolescents’ use of social media will not solve their problems  Economist

Parents’ Biggest Dilemma: When to Give Children Smartphones  WSJ (sub req’d)

When will social media companies get serious about their effect on young kids? (opinion)  Quartz

***MOBILE

The Joy of Predictive Text  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***THE INTERNET

The Supreme Court could soon clear the way for states to impose new online sales taxes  Recode

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA 

Digital media companies are headed for a crash, Hearst Magazines president David Carey says  Recode

Media Organizations Grapple With the New Facebook  The New York Times

Facebook feed change sacrifices time spent and news outlets for ‘well-being’  Tech Crunch

Axios Media Trends  Axios

***JOURNALISM

After Donald Trump Said It, How News Outlets Handled It  New York Times

Terry Gross, In Conversation  Vulture

A Crash Course in Breitbart’s Conspiracy Journalism (video)  The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper  

Why NPR Decided To Spell Out And Say Vulgar Word Used By President Trump  NPR

Trying to decide if you should publish that dirty word? Here's a step-by-step guide  Poynter

It’s not “citizen journalism,” but it is “citizens taking notes at public meetings with no reporters around”  Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Five Tips For Creating A Reporter Reel  Newsroom Notes

After Donald Trump Said It, How News Outlets Handled It  New York Times

10 resolutions for newsroom managers in 2018  Columbia Journalism Review

'The Post' reminds us of journalism's responsibility, legacy  Chicago Tribune

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

WaPo hits 2nd year of profitability, plans expansion  Axios

The top 10 newspaper publications in the US Muck Rack

Among U.S. Latinos, the internet now rivals television as a source for news  Pew Research

How virtual reality could change the journalism industry  PBS

***FAKE NEWS

Trump’s ‘Fake News Awards’ could violate ethics rules  Politco

***TECHNOLOGY

CRISPR hits a snag: Our immune systems may attack the treatment  Stat News

Robotic Implants Could Help Remedy a Rare Birth Defect  Discover Magazine

Meet the Woman Using CRISPR to Breed All-Male “Terminator Cattle”Gene editing can change an animal’s sex  MIT Tech Review

Artificial intelligence dominated the Consumer Electronics Show  Economist

One in six Americans owns a smart speaker, according to study  Engadget

***BIG DATA & AI

Supersymmetry, dark matter, GUTs—“some researchers are becoming open to the possibility that the truth-is-beauty argument is a trap, and that the universe is, in fact, fundamentally messy”  Economist

Visualizing the Uncertainty in Data  Flowing Data

Since we are all digital laborers, a new paper suggests data’s role in the economy might include a data-labor union to protect personal data  Economist

AI system sorts news articles by whether or not they contain actual information  Motherboard

Questions mount over fate of SpaceX launched secret satellite—did the satellite suffer some sort of failure or is it “indeed, in orbit”  Washington Post

Survey considers what’s ahead in 2018 for geospatial intelligence as tools like machine learning and artificial intelligence drive next gen capabilities and influence operating decisions  Geospatial World

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Within Arms Reach   Becoming (my blog)

Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person  The New York Times

Why Boys Are Mean To Those They Like (video)  Digg

Improving Ourselves to Death  The New Yorker

The Building Blocks of Personhood: Oliver Sacks on Narrative as the Pillar of Identity  Brain Pickings

***WRITING & READING

How Reading Increases Your Emotional Intelligence & Brain Function: The Findings of Recent Scientific Studies  Open Culture

Redundancy in writing  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Be like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett: If you’re not spending 5 hours per week learning, you’re being irresponsible  Quartz

***LANGUAGE

New Words of 1990  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LITERATURE

Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words  Jstor

Haiti’s Resilience as Seen Through Literature  New York Times

A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season  Brain Pickings

Why the First Novel Created Such a Stir  Jstor

Protesting Through Poetry  NPR

How the written word shaped the written world: Literature is a fundamental part of human history  Economist

W.H. Auden on the Political Power of Art and the Crucial Difference Between Party Issues and Revolutionary Issues  Brain Pickings

Why we still love Henry David Thoreau  New Yorker

***GENDER  

Women in economics must be “significantly clearer writers than men” to get published in major journals and must wait longer, too  New York Times

A Scientist's Gender Can Skew Research Results  NPR

A Political Scientist Says #MeToo: A professor shares her experience of harassment and sees support as well as backlash, enabled in part by a controversial anonymous online forum for political scientists  Inside Higher Ed

'Dancing Backwards in High Heels' - Study finds female professors experience more work demands and special favor requests, particularly from academically "entitled" students  Inside Higher Ed

Google Memo Author Sues Company For Discrimination Against White Males  BuzzFeed

Am I a bad feminist? (Margaret Atwood)  Globe & Mail

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

North Carolina's Racial Gerrymandering Was Unconstitutional  The Atlantic

H&M's Apology for Tone-Deaf 'Monkey' Sweatshirt Misstep 'Not Enough'  Billboard

The gap between the number of blacks and whites in prison is shrinking  Pew Research

***FREE SPEECH

Medical Charity Brings First Amendment Challenge against U.S. Department of Health and Human Services  Washington Post   

Student Group Sues UMass Over Speech and Rally Policies  US News

Richard Spencer supporter sues university, calling security fee for campus speech unconstitutional  Washington Post  

Germany is silencing “hate speech”, but cannot define it  Economist

Trump calls for review of libel laws (again) in his latest salvo against free press CNN

***LEGAL ISSUES

No Level of Copyright Enforcement Will Ever Be Enough For Big Media TorrentFreak 

Legal Footnote: You Have to Look Hard to See the Supreme…  ProPublica

Army challenges Golden Knights trademark; Vegas responds  ProHockeyTalk

***RELIGION

Report Shows It's Increasingly Dangerous To Be A Christian In Many Countries  NPR

Meet the theologian who helped MLK see the value of nonviolence  The Conversation

Secret Documents Reveal Sex Abuse Scandal in Jehovah's Witnesses Church  Newsweek

An evangelical Catholic movement inspires commitment, stirs controversy  Philly.com

Bonhoeffer at the End of Life: Bonhoeffer, Evangelicals and Pastor Mike Hayes  Patheos

Latino Churches Fear Impact of Homeland Security Decisions  Christianity Today

Arson suspects sought in Pasadena church fire   LA Times

Evangelical Chaplain’s Suspension Intensifies Denomination’s Gay Marriage Debate  Religious News Service

A Brief History of Making Deals with the Devil: Niccolò Paganini, Robert Johnson, Jimmy Page & More  Open Culture

Edwin Hawkins, gospel star known for 'Oh Happy Day' dies at 74  LA Times

***MEGACHURCHES

Megachurch Pastor admits to assaulting a teen 20 years ago, gets standing ovation  CBS News

Andy Savage’s Standing Ovation Was Heard Round the World. Because It Was Wrong (opinion)   Christianity Today

How California’s Megachurches Changed Christian Culture  KQED

Former pastor says Angley abused him  Akron Beacon Journal

Publisher cancels book by Tennessee pastor accused of sexual assault  USA Today

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Trump’s ‘s---hole’ remark rattles evangelicals, other Christians  The Wichita Eagle

Trump’s ‘shithole’ comments have enraged many. But some evangelical leaders still back him  Washington Post 

First Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress says sentiment of Trump's vulgar immigration remarks 'on target'  Dallas News

Evangelical rift intensifies over Trump immigration remarks  Associated Press

***ART & DESIGN

Mapbreaking  Prototypr

Russia's Underground Art Finds A Home In The U.S.  NPR

Meet your match: Google app finds famous art you look like  CNET

What’s Up With the Helvetica Font in ‘The Post’?  The Ringer

***MUSIC

Having rescued recorded music, Spotify may upend the industry again  Economist

***BUSINESS

Why Economists Make Terrible Fortunetellers  Jstor

The Real Future of Work: Forget automation. The workplace is already cracking up in profound ways, and Washington is sorely behind on dealing with it  Politico 

The 7 Percent Rule: Why a small fraction of visitors drive most online traffic — and profit  Traffic

***STUDENT MEDIA 

Removal of John Carroll's newspaper adviser upsets former students  Baltimore Sun

***STUDENT LIFE

FIRE files lawsuit on behalf of Illinois student detained by police for ‘Shut Down Capitalism’ flyers  The FIRE

Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic nowadays: But they are also lonelier and more isolated  Economist

Millennials may be terrible, but they get arrested far less often than their parents did  SFGate

It’s Hard To Study If You’re Hungry: Half of all college students struggle with food insecurity, which is closely linked to lower graduation rates  New York Times

***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

The 10 best places to find a job in 2018  CNBC

Internship opportunities, Summer 2018  NBC, Los Angeles

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

Time For Harassers To Be Held Accountable, Female Gamer Says  NPR

The Paradox of Protecting Students: In shielding students from sexual harassers, professors support a broken system  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Are men accused of harassment denied due process? Or are the victims?  Vox

U. of Rochester’s President Resigns as Report Supports Handling of Harassment Case  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Studies of sexual violence on campus don't suffer from a self-selection bias according to a new study  Dignity

Why Psychologist John Pryor Created The Likelihood To Sexually Harass Scale  NPR

***FAMILY

Most dads say they spend too little time with their children; about a quarter live apart from them  Pew Research

The Grandparenting Generation  New Republic

***HEALTH

The economy affects health in an unexpected way  NPR

Severe obesity linked to newly identified gene mutations  Imperial College of London

Researchers find identical twins share molecular similarity  Baylor College of Medicine

How neural stem cells turn into brain cells, may allow treatment of neurological disorders early on  UCLA

A severe flu season is stretching hospitals thin. That is a very bad omen  Stat News

Trump's new assistant Drug Czar: a 24-year-old campaign volunteer with no experience, in charge of billions to end the opioid epidemic  Washington Post

The New Health Care Still Not Convinced You Need a Flu Shot? First, It’s Not All About You  New York Times

***SCIENCE

Scientists Continue to Use Outdated Methods  The Scientist Magazine

Particle Physics hits a wall  Economist

An Oath for Scientists  Sometimes I’m Wrong Blog

***2017

2017’s Best and Worst Brand Names—And 3 Naming Trends For 2018  Fast Company

Star Wars, Meghan Markle, total eclipse drove sales on eBay in 2017  CNBC

***CREATIVITY 

Two new books probe the evolutionary roots of creativity   Economist

***HISTORY

How America’s infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience (a graphic portrayal)  The Nib

Slow Burn: A Podcast About Watergate  Slate

50 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1968  The Atlantic

Watch the History of the World Unfold on an Animated Map: From 200,000 BCE to Today  Open Culture

***RESEARCH 

The statistical methods used to analyze the data can influence the interpretation of the results  Elife Sciences

Funders should mandate open citations  Nature

We Used Broadband Data We Shouldn’t Have — Here’s What Went Wrong  FiveThirtyEight

That positive p-value we reported yesterday? Um, we screwed that up too  Axovant

A New Citation Database Launches Today: Digital Science’s Dimensions  Scholarly Kitchen

***HIGHER ED

An Insider’s Take on Assessment: It May Be Worse Than You Thought (“assessors have known for sometime now that assessment does not work”)   Chronicle of Higher Ed

How to Survive the Robot Takeover: AI is coming for your job — and only a humanities degree can save you  Traffic

Are Prospective Students About to Disappear? New book says most colleges -- and the vast majority of nonelite institutions -- are about to face severe shortage of potential students  Inside Higher Ed

Higher Education Is Drowning in BS  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Educators must help undocumented students feel safe, supported (opinion)  Atlanta Journal Constitution  Get Schooled

Is there still a place for Christian colleges in American higher ed?  Education Dive

Moody Bible President and COO Both Resign, Provost Retires  Christianity Today

***TEACHING

A School's Way To Fight Phones In Class: Lock 'Em Up  NPR 

***ACADEMIC LIFE 

A Scholar, But Not a Professor  Chronicle of Higher Ed

FIRE sues college for ignoring records requests about its firing of Black Lives Matter advocate  The FIRE

Judge Dismisses Suit of LSU Professor Who Was Fired for Obscenities  The Advocate

useful and right

Pragmatism asks, “It is useful?”  Christianity asks, “Is it right?”

sadness

Sadness is a wall between two gardens. Kahlil Gibran

Not Enough

To me, and for many of us, our first waking thought of the day is “I didn't get enough sleep.” And the next one is “I don't have enough time.” Whether true or not, the thought of not enough occurs to us automatically before we even think to question or examine it. We spend most of the hours and the days of our lives hearing, explaining, complaining, or worrying about what we don't have enough of... Before we even set up in bed, before our feet touch the floor, we're already inadequate, already behind, already losing, already lacking something. And by the time we go to bed at night, our minds are racing with a litany of what we didn't get, or didn't get done, that day. We go to sleep burdened by those thoughts and wake up to that revelry of lack... This internal condition of scarcity, this mindset of scarcity, lives at the very heart of our jealousies, our greed, our prejudices, and our arguments with life…

Lynne Twist, The Soul of Money

Self-Control

People with the best self-control aren’t the ones who use it all day long. They’re people who structure their lives so they conserve it.  - John Tierney

Articles of Interest - Jan 8

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Your smartphone is making you stupid, antisocial and unhealthy. So why can't you put it down  The Globe & Mail

There’s a reason using a period in a text message makes you sound angry  Quartz

New Documents Underscore Problems of ‘Social Media Vetting’ of Immigrants  ACLU 

***PRODUCING MEDIA

The 50 Best Podcasts of 2017  The Atlantic 

***INTERNET

Google's New Search Console Gives Up More Data -- 16 Months Worth  Media Post

How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst' chip flaw  Reuters 

***JOURNALISM

Targeted for Death, Journalists Take US to Court on Kill List  Courthouse News

The Rising Wave of Nonprofit Journalism  Nonprofit Quarterly

Reading List: Data Journalism  Open Corporates

Show your work: The new terms for trust in journalism  Press Think

Study: Competition between TV stations spurs investigative journalism  CRJ

One year in, Facebook Journalism Project gets mixed reviews from publishers  Digiday

Top 10 research studies on digital news, social media in 2017  Journalism Resources

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Fewer Americans rely on TV news; what type they watch varies by who they are  Pew Research Center 

How reader funding is helping save independent media across the world   The Guardian

Peter Thiel Is Exploring The Creation Of A Conservative Cable News Network  BuzzFeed

Three reasons why journalism paywalls still don’t work  Quartz

***JOURNALISM: THE POST MOVIE

The Post' Is A Crackling Newsroom Thriller With Electrifying Relevance  NPR

As Trump Targets the Press, His White House Is Screening a Journalism Tribute  The New York Times 

Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham in 'The Post' can help fix #MeToo media damage  USA Today

The Post Is an Urgent Reminder of How Much Journalism Matters. Especially Now  TIME

***FAKE NEWS

Emmanuel Macron: French president announces 'fake news' law   BBC

How Average People Fall For The Flat-Earth Conspiracy  YouTube

How fake news plagued 2017  BBC

Some Real Data on Fake News  Chronicle of Higher Ed

We’ve been told that facts have lost their power, that debunking lies only makes them stronger. Don’t believe it  Slate

Fake News’: Wide Reach but Little Impact, Study Suggests  The New York Times

This new guide is like a cookbook for investigating fake news  Poynter

***TECHNOLOGY

Suspicious Spouses Monitor Partners Digitally, Divorce Lawyers Say  NPR

Chess’s New Best Player Is A Fearless, Swashbuckling Algorithm  FiveThirtyEight

***BIG DATA & AI

4 must have skills every data scientist should learn  Hackernoon

IARPA Throws Down an AI Challenge for Spy Satellite Images: $100,000 in prizes in a competition designed to spawn breakthroughs in imagery analysis  Meritalk

Operationalizing data science—that is, hardening the ops behind data science platforms  Inside Data Science

How the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has been researching  machine learning from the beginning  GCN

Google’s new option cloud computing users: discount processing (with a couple of limitations)  ZdNet

Digital Twins isn't completely new but it is a useful major enabler of event processing  Data Science Central

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA 

Farewell To AM Radio, In The U.K.   RBR

***PERSONAL GROWTH

We Seek Familiarity Becoming (my blog)

***WRITING & READING

10 Common Grant-Writing Mistakes  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LANGUAGE

Word(s) of the Year 2017  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Language classes in the US are finally useful  Quartz

***LITERATURE

Introducing the Librarian Action Figure: The Caped Crusader Who Fights Against Anti-Intellectualism, Ignorance & Censorship Everywhere  Open Culture

***GENDER  

Disequilibrium in Gender Ratios among Authors who Contributed Equally  BioRxiv

Female professors are asked for favors more often than male professors  Science Daily

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

Lecturer’s Critique of Whiteness Crossed the Line Into Harassment, State Investigation Finds  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Supreme Court sides with death row inmate over racist juror claim  Reuters

***LEGAL ISSUES

Arrest of "citizen journalist" raises larger questions about free speech and press freedoms  Texas Monthly

Lawyer Who Orchestrated Citizen Journalist's Arrest Appointed to Superior Court Bench  National Law Review

Woman who accused Roy Moore of unwanted sexual contact sues him for defamation  The Washington Post

Disney's 1998 copyright term extension expires this year and Big Content's lobbyists say they're not going to try for another one  BongBong

***RELIGION

The Unlikely Crackup of Evangelicalism: The problems are real—but exaggerated  Christian Today

Thomas Monson, President of the Mormon Church, Dies at 90  Reuters

Nearly one-third of ‘evangelicals’ don’t follow generally held beliefs  The Alabama Baptist 

FEMA allows churches to apply retroactively for disaster aid  Reuters

Biggest Mennonite Conference Leaves Denomination  Christianity Today

Unraveling the Mysteries of Heaven's Gate  Voice of San Diego

Deep Differences Remain Between Mormon And Evangelical Communities  NPR

Memphis mega-church Pastor Accused of sexual assault  Fox 13

Evangelicalism is spreading among the Chinese of South-East Asia  Economist

How Jim and Tammy Bakker's religious Ponzi scheme collapsed (book review)  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

***ART & DESIGN

High Museum Of Art In Atlanta Promotes Diversity, Increases Nonwhite Visitors  NPR

Personal Data Safety: The Biggest Breaches In the Last Decade  Daily Infographic

***STUDENT MEDIA  

UWM Profs, Staff Accused of Sexual Assault & Harassment But Details Hidden  Media Milwaukee

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

Will anyone employ media heavyweights canned for sexual harassment?  Poynter

Anniston Star's ex-publisher spanked female employees in the 1970s, reports say  AL.com

NPR Investigation Finds Hidden Epidemic Of Sexual Assault  NPR

***ENVIRONMENT 

Explore lightly': Palau makes all visitors sign pledge to respect environment The Guardian

***HEALTH

Fiber Is Good for You. Now Scientists May Know Why  The New York Times

Life expectancy in America has declined for two years in a row  Economist 

***SCIENCE

Violence against scientists is rare in the United States, but occurred at least three times in 2016  AAPL 

The Replication Crisis in Science  The Wire

***NEUROSCIENCE 

Brain-computer interfaces: How brains and machines can be made to work together  Economist

Reading the brain from the outside: Can brain activity be deciphered without opening up the skull?  Economist

The best way of looking at the brain is from within: The hunt for smaller, safer and smarter brain implants  Economist

Turning brain signals into useful information: Once data have been extracted from the brain, how can they be employed to best effect?  Economist

How obstacles to workable brain-computer interfaces may be overcome  Economist

***ETHICS

Integrity goes beyond avoiding misconduct, and scientific integrity has a wider domain than research integrity  Taylor & Francis Online 

***RESEARCH

Why scientists need to do more about research fraud  The Guardian

Research abstracts are commonly inconsistent with their corresponding full reports and thus misleading readers  BMC Medical Research Methodology

Librarians offer a guide to understanding retractions  College & Research Libraries News

The UK’s Research Excellence Framework “forces academics to produce scholarship in greater quantity but of poorer quality”  Times Higher Ed  

An analysis of a paper’s revision history and turnaround time, and the effect on citation  Springer

***HIGHER ED

Most big public colleges don't track suicides, AP finds  Associated Press

Gay Wedding Costs College Pastor Her Job  Inside Higher Ed 

University Will Again Try to Become a Nonprofit  Chronicle of Higher Ed

University announces plans to sell radio station  Andersonian

Moody Bible Institute Lays off one-third of Faculty, Faces Low Student Enrollment  Christian Post

Moody Bible Institute Facing Unprecedented Crisis  Julie Roys Blog

***TEACHING

Teaching Newsletter: Don’t Run From Emotions in the Classroom  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Teaching the Literature Survey Course  Inside Higher Ed

The Chronicle’s Best Ideas for Teaching, 2017  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Desktop Automation  Chronicle of Higher Ed

How to Reach Out to First-Generation Students  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Yes, We Should Teach Character (opinion)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***STUDENT LIFE

Students Identify With 50-Year-Old Supreme Court Case  NPR

President Trump Throws College Republicans Into Disarray  The Atlantic

Berkeley student arrested by Border Patrol while visiting girlfriend in Chula Vista  Union-Tribune

The Future of Trumpism Is on Campus: At colleges across the country, young supporters of the president are demanding that College Republicans fall into line  The Atlantic 

Millennials And The Economy  NPR

***ACADEMIC LIFE

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education sues School over Prof’s firing after she defended Black Lives Matter  MSN

When is it appropriate for a professor to talk about a former student  Washington Post

UCLA lecturer who lost his job has gained another wrinkle: A graduate student who argued on his behalf also lost his position and is claiming retaliation by administrators  Chronicle of Higher Ed

We Seek Familiarity

We believe we seek happiness in love, but it’s not quite as simple. What at times it seems we actually seek is familiarity – which may well complicate any plans we might have for happiness.

We recreate in adult relationships some of the feelings we knew in childhood. It was as children that we first came to know and understand what love meant. But unfortunately, the lessons we picked up may not have been straightforward. The love we knew as children may have come entwined with other, less pleasant dynamics: being controlled, feeling humiliated, being abandoned, never communicating.

As adults, we may then reject certain healthy candidates whom we encounter, not because they are wrong, but precisely because they are too well-balanced (too mature, too understanding, too reliable), and this rightness feels unfamiliar and alien, almost oppressive. We head instead to candidates whom our unconscious is drawn to, not because they will please us, but because they will frustrate us in familiar ways.

We marry the wrong people because the right ones feel wrong – undeserved; because we have no experience of health, because we don’t ultimately associate being loved with feeling satisfied.

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