Ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Stephen Goforth
How do you personally determine when it’s right to say ‘no’ to an ask or opportunity?
I ask myself three questions:
Is this in line with my values?
Will it add significant value to my life? (Skills, increase my network, etc.)
What will I be sacrificing to take on this opportunity?
Claire Wasserman, Founder of Ladies Get Paid in GirlsNightinClub
You walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
***TECHNOLOGY
AI-Powered Baby Translator Wired
Researchers show Siri and Alexa can be exploited with ‘silent’ commands hidden in songs TechCrunch
Virtual reality gaming technology is being used to test for fear of heights and could save lives Quartz
Why learning to code won't save you from losing your job to a robot Tech Republic
Ticketmaster To Use Facial Recognition In Place of Tickets for Venue Entry Bleeping Computer
Google's 'Duplex' Raises Ethical Questions NPR
***BIG DATA & AI
How can we be sure AI will behave? Perhaps by watching it argue with itself MIT Technology Review
Google launches a machine learning software kit that makes it easier for mobile developers to incorporate machine learning into their apps Zdnet
Navigational AI spontaneously develops the equivalent of brain cells used by some mammals to track their location Quanta Magazine
A dozen easy to make data science mistakes CIO
***SOCIAL MEDIA
YouTubers are known for youthful exuberance. So what happens when one gets seriously ill? Washington Post
Facebook quietly rolls out issue ads policy Axios
Facebook, Social Media & the Social Contract Om Malik
How to handle a social media crisis MuckRack
Don’t Blame Phones for Narcissism: A new book argues that 2,500 years of culture have caused an outbreak of self-obsession The New Republic
Nobody Gives A Damn About Your Klout Score TechCrunch
***MOBILE
Cell phones at summer camp: Research explores the effects Science Daily
***PRODUCING MEDIA
This plug-in uses A.I. to create closed captions inside Premiere Pro Digital Trends
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Online advertising grew to $88B last year — more spending than TV TechCrunch
Fox to buy seven TV stations from Sinclair for about $910 million Reuters
Traditional TV is in Trouble New York Times
***JOURNALISM
When Spies Hack Journalism New York Times
How to Make it In Journalism, According to 4 Barrier-Breaking Latinas Remezcla
FX and New York Times partner for new series 'The Weekly'' CNN
Google’s news chief Richard Gingras: “We need to rethink journalism at every dimension” Harvard's Nieman Labs
Trump's latest shot at the press corps: 'Take away credentials?' CNN
The local-national news divide on Google and Facebook Axios
Why Do Journalists Call What They Produce ‘Pieces’? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Finding concussion data can be a headache for reporters Student Press Law Center
Covering rural America: What reporters get wrong and how to get it right Journalist’s Resources
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Can A New Business Model Save Small-Town Papers? NPR
This Is How a Newspaper Dies: It’s with a spasm of profits Politico
***FAKE NEWS
10 tips for verifying viral social media videos Poynter
Documents Reveal How Russian Official Courted Conservatives In U.S. Since 2009 NPR
Pope Francis Charges Journalists To Shun Fake News Independent
I Went to a Flat Earth Convention to Meet Flat Earthers Like My Mom Vice
This Facebook chatbot wants to help you stay ahead of fake news Poynter
Twitter Is The Place To Go For Fake New Science 2.0
***STUDENT MEDIA
How to protect journalism advisers from retaliation Student Press Law Center
Are barriers to reporting on sexual assault surmountable for student journalists? Student Press Law Center
Students’ survey highlights censorship of Christian college newspapers Religious News Service
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Learning from Envy Becoming (my blog)
***WRITING & READING
How to Become a Good Storyteller LifeHacker
7 Freelance Sites for Current and Future Writers Study Breaks
***LANGUAGE
How to change emotions with a word Science looks at the subtleties of semiotics Economist
The evolution of language? There's an app for that Phys.org
***LITERATURE
How America Invented ‘Young Adult’ Fiction for a New Kind of Teenager Zocal Public Square
8 of the Worst moms in Literature New York Times
***GENDER
Jordan Peterson’s crusade to save Masculinity Esquire
A database of female experts in political science #WomenAlsoKnowStuff
Woman who investigated discrimination at UVU says she was fired after looking into male administrators Salt Lake Tribune
Is Your Script Gender-Balanced? Try This Test New York Times
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Non-white scholars are underrepresented in scholarly articles in communications EurekAlert!
What a white guy with a black puppet taught South Africa about white privilege Quartz
Black people in NYC are 8 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana than whites Vox
***FREE SPEECH
Press Freedom Is Under Fire In Southeast Asia NPR
Inside the ‘free speech’ debate that rocked a Wisconsin campus, with ripples across the country PBS
***LEGAL ISSUES
The Law Schools With The Most Unemployed Graduates Above the Law
A two-decades-long feud over what is in the public domain and what is not Hollywood Reporter
***ART & DESIGN
See the 2018 Underwater Photography of the Year award winners Underwater Photography
***MUSIC
'This Is America' - How Musicians Add Perspective To Social Issues The Denver Channel
***RELIGION
Protestants decline, more have no religion in a sharply shifting religious landscape ABC News
Mormon Church Announces End To 100-Year Relationship With Boy Scouts NPR
The Guardian view on US religion: the Christian right is breaking up The Guardian
Megachurch elders apologize for casting doubt on women’s allegations against founder Chicago Tribune
Brother Andrew Turns 90 Religious News Service
Jesus wasn't white: he was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew. Here's why that matters BigThink
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
For evangelicals, Jerusalem is about prophecy, not politics (opinion) CNN
Mitt Romney calls pastor who delivered blessing at Jerusalem embassy opening 'religious bigot' Politico
Salem executives pressured radio hosts to cover Trump more positively, emails show CNN
An Evangelical Journalist finds His Calling at the White House New York Times
***STUDENT LIFE
Cornell University student presents thesis in bra, underwear to protest against 'oppressive beliefs' New York Daily News
TCU Students Suspended, Accused of Cheating Using Popular Study App Quizlet NBC-5 Dallas
Time Demands of Single Mother College Students and the Role of Child Care in their Postsecondary Success Institute for Women's Policy Research
AAUP Says U. of Nebraska Denied Due Process to Grad Student Who Heckled Activist Chronicle of Higher Ed
University of Florida suspends employee who pushed, constrained graduates Al.com
Many Republican Millennials differ with older party members on climate change and energy issues Pew Research
LGBTQ students at Christian colleges refuse to choose between sexuality and faith MLive
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
These are the 10 essential skills that will land you a job in digital media The Next Web
The Most Efficient Way to Keep Your Resume Up to Date LifeHacker
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
NBC Investigation Finds Employees Did Not Feel Comfortable Registering Complaints NPR
All the problems at NBC News aren’t just coincidence. They’re symptoms Washington Post
Female student accused of sexual misconduct sues University of Cincinnati The Hill
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Many countries suffer from shrinking working-age populations Economist
Software that detects human trafficking Economist
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Many results in microeconomics are shaky Economist
How mobile money is spreading Economist
Algorithms are making the same mistakes assessing credit scores that humans did a century ago Quartz
Mobile financial services are cornering the market Economist
The most important books for economists aren’t academic ones Quartz
Blockchain & Remittances Economist
***HEALTH
The Obesity Cure Is Out of Reach in the Heaviest States The Atlantic
Journal retracts paper claiming neurological damage from HPV vaccine Science Mag
Sticker Shock Jolts Oklahoma Patient: $15,076 For 4 Tiny Screws NPR
NIH Pushes for Personalized Medicine: Seeks Health Data of 1 Million People Washington Post
Adopt 5 Healthy Habits, Live 12 to 14 Years Longer New York Times
***FAMILY
Time’s interactive showing you what your name would be if you were born in different years TIME
The Baby-Name Trend That Unites America: In the past decade, new parents have fallen for vowels The Atlantic
7 facts about U.S. moms Pew Research Center
***SCIENCE
The thinking error at the root of science denial The Conversation
When Scientific Fraudsters Slip Through the Cracks: More could be done to weed out bad actors Undark
***PSYCHOLOGY
Can You Overdose on Happiness? The science and philosophy of deep brain stimulation Nautilus
Rates of depression diagnoses in the US, by gender (chart) The Atlas
Memory transferred between snails, challenging standard theory of how the brain remembers StatNews
***PHILOSOPHY
Jean-Paul Sartre was the original self-help guru Quartzy
7 Greek philosophers beyond Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle BigThink
***RESEARCH
The Most Cited Source on Wikipedia SlashDot
The [garbage in, garbage out] Peer Review problem Science-based Medicine
Avoiding the Guise of an Anonymous Review Earth & Space Science News
Thousands of machine-learning scientists have said that they will boycott a new closed-access Nature journal Inside Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
My university doesn't graduate politically correct snowflakes, that's fake news USA Today
What We Gain and Lose as Libraries Change Chronicle of Higher Ed
Missouri Senate Candidate blames higher ed for leftist ideology Columbia Tribune
Among the Hottest Job Markets on Campus: Police Officer Chronicle of Higher Ed
DeVos Moves to Loosen Restrictions on Federal Aid to Religious Colleges New York Times
Alumni: Inappropriate conduct at a Christian college went all the way to the top The State
Liberal students, colleges should learn from Liberty University's civility (opinion) The Hill
***ACADEMIC LIFE
How Not to Be an Academic in the Courtroom Chronicle of Higher Ed
Aristotle described envy not as benign desire for what someone else possesses but “as the pain caused by the good fortune of others.” Not surprisingly these pangs often give way to a feeling of malice. Witness the fact that throughout history and across cultures, anyone who enjoyed a piece of good fortune feared and set up defenses against the “evil eye.” Of course, there is not much talk today about the evil eye, at least not in the West, but it surely isn’t because we are less prone to envy than our ancestors.
One of the reasons envy does not take a holiday is that we never give a rest to the impulse to compare ourselves to one another. I have had students respond with glee to being admitted to a graduate program and then a few days later coyly ask: “Hey, Doc. How many applicants do you think were rejected?” — as in, the more rejected the merrier I can allow myself to be.
Social media has generated new vistas for this compulsion to compare and lord it over others.
“Envy is secret admiration,” Kierkegaard said. As such, if we are honest with ourselves, envy can help us identify our vision of excellence and where need be, perhaps reshape it.
Gordon Marino writing in The New York Times
You never know when you're making a memory.
I believe in intention and I believe in work. I believe in waking up in the middle of the night and packing our bags and leaving our worst selves for our better ones. -Leslie Jamison
You make what seems a simple choice: Choose a man or a job or a neighborhood—and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life. -Jessamyn West
Sixteen rigorous studies of thousands of people at work have shown that people’s coworkers are better than they are at recognizing how their personality will affect their job performance. As a social scientist, if I want to get a read on your personality, I could ask you to fill out a survey on how stable, dependable, friendly, outgoing, and curious you are. But I would be much better off asking your coworkers to rate you on those same traits: They’re often more than twice as accurate. They can see things that you can’t or won’t—and these studies reveal that whatever you know about yourself that your coworkers don’t is basically irrelevant to your job performance.
Adam Grant writing in the Atlantic
You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face.
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy (video)
Twitter Urges All 330 Million Users To Change Passwords After Bug Exposes Them Digg
Snap to Tweak Snapchat’s Redesign After Users Complain New York Times
Instagram quietly launches payments for commerce Tech Crunch
Facebook employee fired over bragging about access to user information Reuters
Facebook’s failed crackdown on fake accounts Washington Post
Despite Facebook News Feed algorithm changes, fake news still thrives Mashable
Facebook might be working on a secret internet satellite CNBC
***SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS
The rise of social media influencers CBS News
CGI Instagram ‘Influencers’ Like Lil Miquela Are About to Flood Your Feeds Wired
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
FCC Approves 100% Mexican Ownership of Radio Stations in California and Arizona Broadcast Law Blog
Declining share of Americans would find it very hard to give up TV Pew Research Center
***JOURNALISM
Facebook Has Begun To Rank News Organizations By Trust, Zuckerberg Says BuzzFeed
Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Understand Journalism The Atlantic
NowThis to launch breaking news channel on Snapchat Axios
How journalists can better cover neglected communities American Press Institute
Taking Visual Journalism Into the Sky With Drones New York Times
The Dangers Of Journalism In Afghanistan NPR
How to Use Twitter to Connect Online Students to News Media Shift
A Newspaper Is Sold, and Cambodians Fear the End of Press Freedom New York Times
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Alden Global Capital is making so much money wrecking local journalism it might not want to stop anytime soon Harvard’s Nieman Lab
4 ways managers can build a more inclusive newsroom for diverse new hires American Press Institute
How The Economist uses its 12-person data journalism team to drive subscriptions Digiday
The case for reimagining news as a finite product Poynter
***FAKE NEWS
Transparency is the Mother of Fake News New York Times
Streaming Services Have a Conspiracy Theory Problem Slate
People who are delusional, dogmatic, or religious fundamentalists are more likely to believe fake news Harvard’s Nieman Lab
People think she's a Parkland 'crisis actor' - conspiracy theorists and the dangers of actual fake news Washington Post
This study is all about what makes people bullshitters Poynter
***PRIVACY
Spy agency NSA triples collection of U.S. phone records: official report Reuters
Microsoft's Nadella says privacy is a human right that needs protecting Cnet
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Pirate Radio Stations Explode on YouTube New York Times
***INTERNET
Free, open-source website-archiving tool Chronicle of Higher Ed
From The Internet Of Things To The Internet Of Thoughts Forbes
***BIG DATA & AI
Intelligence agencies try to take advantage of machine learning and AI c4isrnet
CERN’s attempt to use of machine learning to crunch particle physics data Tech Crunch
One of the next big things in geospatial intelligence is tiny black boxes aboard satellites Space News
The military exchanges have removed Chinese cellphones Military Times
Intelligence community, companies give out satellite imagery to motivate app developers Space News
R language resources to improve your data skills Computer WorldPentagon AI effort Project Maven mines drone live-video feeds using machine learning techniques Space News
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Our sleep habits both reveal and shape our loves Becoming (my blog)
Girls' Night In Readers' Toughest Questions on Self-Care in the Workplace, Answered Girls Night In Club
The Upside of Envy New York Times
***SAN DIEGO
Pedestrian Hit by Car on Rosecrans Street in Midway District Times of San Diego
***GRAMMAR
Mueller's former assistant says grammatical errors prove leaked questions came from Trump The Hill
One space or two between sentences? Washington Post
***WRITING & READING
62 of the World’s Best Independent Bookstores Atlas Obscura
The Right To Browse: A Library Puts Books Into Storage And Readers Cry Foul NPR
The digital age killed cursive. But it can’t kill the signature. Here’s why. Washington Post
Use a Placeholder in Your Writing to Keep From Getting Stuck Life Hacker
The ban on split infinitives is an idea whose time never came Economist
***LANGUAGE
Some of the word-formation processes involved in the coining of names for new media firestorms Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why Are Young People Trying to Talk Fancy? Chronicle of Higher Ed
What Are Your Exceptional Euphemisms This Spring? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
How children’s literature became everybody’s literature Boston Globe
Novelist Ian McEwan's Kid Got a C+ on an Essay About Ian McEwan's Novel Jezebel
J.R.R. Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney and Refused to Let Disney Studios Adapt His Work Open Culture
The Fairytale Language of the Brothers Grimm Daily JSTOR
***GENDER
When Misogynists Become Terrorists (opinion) New York Times
Boy Scouts are dropping the word 'Boy' from flagship program; Girl Scouts shrug USA Today
Wall Street’s Big Gender Lawsuit Is 13 Years in the Making Bloomberg
Most GOP Voters Don’t Ever Want to See a Female President Care2
How does gender influence the academic publishing process? Biomed Central
He Makes a Joke in an Elevator and some are Demanding an Apology Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
America is more diverse than ever — but still segregated Washington Post
What The Uproar Over Kanye West Might Reveal About Black Voters NPR
Centre College students held a sit-in to demand that it deal with issues of racism and discrimination on campus The Advocate-Messager
Ranks of Notorious Hate Group Include Active-Duty Military ProPublica
US labor force participation rate, by race The Atlas
***FREE SPEECH
My Effing First Amendment This American Life
How a tiny protest at the U. of Nebraska turned into a proxy war for the future of campus politics Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
First Amendment Doesn’t Protect Encouraging Readers to Make Anti-Semetic Attacks Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Law school staffer arrested after faking being at work for over a year while hanging out at Hooters in Las Vegas Above the Law
***TECHNOLOGY
Google teams with NBC to build VR content for its TV shows Tech Crunch
The Future of Branding? Synthetic Voices that Sound Just Like Our Own Fast Company
China’s Tech Industry Wants Youth, Not Experience Bloomberg
Want to work for Ikea? Your next job interview could be conducted by a Russian robot Washington Post
What Is Blockchain? Three Videos Explain the New Technology That Promises to Change Our World Open Culture
***RELIGION
North Korea's Secret Christians The Atlantic
Same-sex marriage garners support among most American religious groups, study shows Religious News Service
How American Christians can break free from ‘slaveholder religion’ Religious News Service
Blacks more likely than others in U.S. to read the Bible regularly, see it as God’s word Pew Research Center
For Jehovah's Witnesses, an insular culture and archaic rules have created a "recipe for child abuse." Philadelphia Inquierer
***SOUTHERN BAPTISTS
The Scandal Tearing Apart America's Largest Protestant Denomination The Atlantic
Paige Patterson and Doing the Right Thing for the SBC, Again (opinion) Christianity Today
Southern Baptist leader’s advice to abused women sends leaders scrambling to respond Washington Post
Southern Baptist women want seminary president Paige Patterson fired for remarks News Observer
Baptist group ejects church for pastor's gay rights support WVNS-TV
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Trump marks National Day of Prayer amid hush money scandal Associated Press
***GOOD NEWS
Volunteers rebuild ‘Field of Dreams’ after it was vandalized (video) NBC News
Billionaire NBA owner Glen Taylor visited a rural Iowa class. A shy kid raised his hand — and it changed his life De Moines Register
8 Feel-Good Stories Of Strangers Helping Someone They Didn’t Know Huffington Post
Newly adopted dog saves family from house fire Fox-7
96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2 Million New York Times
4-year-old superhero using his power to feed the homeless CBS News
***ART & DESIGN
Record Label Logos Reagan Ray
***MUSIC
Stream a Vinyl Album By Snapping a Pic of Its Cover Art With This App LifeHacker
Meet The Tech Company Disrupting The Music Industry (And It's Not Spotify) Forbes
***FILM
How Rotten Tomatoes Changed the Film Industry Daily Jstor
'Monkey Selfie' Film in the Works at Conde Nast Hollywood Reporter
***STUDENT MEDIA
Del Mar College administration reviewing newspaper article illustrated with sexual cartoons Kris TV
Did college newspaper break the law with graphic images in sex column? Sacramento Bee
College newspaper essential, valuable addition to LSU LSU now
Stanford Daily retracts article based on off-the-record event iMediaEthics
***STUDENT LIFE
Gamers are the new stars. Esports arenas are the new movie theaters New York Times
Millennials are struggling. Is it the fault of the baby boomers? The Guardian
More than a million Millennials are becoming moms each year Pew Research Center
Student sues neo-Nazi website publisher after 'troll storm' of harassment The Guardian
Millennials stand out for their technology use, but older generations also embrace digital life Pew Research Center
Four face charges in student government protest at Texas State Austin American Statesman
University of Florida Apologizes After Black Graduates Were Manhandled at Commencement TIME
***STUDENTS & FINANCES
Millennials Are Way Poorer Than Boomers Ever Were Vice
Babysitting Rates: How much should you pay your babysitter? UrbanSitter
Harvard University will collectively bargain with its newly formed graduate-student union The Crimson
We must stop universities exploiting the unpaid labour of PhD students The Guardian
***INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
US colleges are enrolling fewer international students; visa data shows a 40% drop since 2015 Quartz
A University in Texas Promised Full Scholarships to Dozens of Nepalese Students. Months Later, It Revoked the Offer Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why Chinese Students Aren’t a Threat (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
10 Things You Should Always Do On Your Last Day of Work Fairy God Boss
Unpaid interns: slaves who pay tuition Journo Terrorists
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Woody Allen’s son helped bring down Harvey Weinstein The Sunday Times
Are you obligated to report sexual harassment at work? CNN
***SOCIAL ISSUES
How Criminals Steal $37 Billion a Year from America’s Elderly Bloomberg
Casting Aside Shame And Stigma, Adults Tackle Struggles With Literacy NPR
Americans are becoming more socially isolated, but they’re not feeling lonelier The Conversation
How Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials Got Their Names Mental Floss
***BUSINESS
Here's the Biggest Export From Each U.S. State Mental Floss
More Employers Avoid Legal Minefield By Not Asking About Pay History NPR
When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 116 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time CB Insights
***ENVIRONMENT
2018’s Greenest States WalletHub
***HEALTH
She didn’t get treated at the ER. But she got a $5,751 bill anyway Vox
Printing body parts in hospital shows 3D tech's growing reach Reuters
9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air World Health Organization
EEG signals accurately predict autism as early as 3 months of age Science Daily
A state-by-state report measuring the quality of health care in the US Commonwealth Fund
Western Diet, With Its High-Fat Content, Linked To Arthritis Medical Daily
Controversial TV celebrity Dr. Oz appointed to Trump’s fitness and nutrition council New York Daily News
America is a health-care outlier in the developed world Economist
Tick & Mosquito Infections Spreading Rapidly, CDC Finds New York Times
***SCIENCE
Amazing Earth Facts To Blow Your Mind (video)
***PSYCHOLOGY
Americans Are A Lonely Lot, And Young People Bear The Heaviest Burden NPR
The Fascinating Science Behind Why We See 'Faces' In Objects Mental Floss
Loneliness is silent, invisible and as deadly as a smoking habit 1843 magazine
***NEUROSCIENCE
Questlove Aims To Save Your Brain: 'Creativity Might Be In Jeopardy' NPR
***PHILOSOPHY
China is paying for Karl Marx’s birthday party in Germany Quartz
***ETHICS
Alfie's story has too many shades of grey for it to be about the calculated application of the law The Telegraph
***RESEARCH
India culls 4,305 dubious journals from approved list Nature India Nature Asia
White papers, working papers, research articles: What’s the difference? Journalists Resource
Research Deluge: Are Researchers Writing More yet Contributing Less? The Scholarly Kitchen
Why are academics not paid royalties on published research papers in IEEE, ACM etc.? (opinion) Stack Overflow
Vague and varied retractions point to weakness in the scientific community Nature Index
Why is the replication crisis centered on social psychology? Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
***HIGHER ED
Court says schools can be liable for suicides but clears MIT Associated Press
Much of our work in Academia has no social value, and we hate doing it Chronicle of Higher Ed
A Stunning Ouster in Tennessee Gets Ugly and Feels Like Political Payback Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why Are States Spending Less on Higher-Ed? Chronicle of Higher Ed
American Higher Education Hits a Dangerous Milestone The Atlantic
State Support for Colleges Declines As Student Diversity Grows New York Magazine
Explosive Lawsuit Against Christian University President Inside Higher Ed
How Grand Canyon University became the world's largest Christian (sub. req’ed) The Business Journals
Catholic University plans to cut full-time faculty by 9 percent Washington Post
Christian colleges at odds with evolving values of students Minnesota Public Radio
Students launch coalition to counter "rampant" student media censorship at Christian universities Student Press Law Center
Small Christian College has a 37 BILLION dollar Endowment Bloomberg
***HUMANITIES
The study of the humanities should be defended for its deeper benefits, not for the jobs associated with the field (opinion) CUNY Academic Commons
***TEACHING
Your Students Learn by Doing, Not by Listening Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why We Must Stop Relying on Student Ratings of Teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed
In Defense (Sort of) of Student Evaluations of Teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed
The 5 Tips for Student Success That a Longtime Instructor Swears By Chronicle of Higher Ed
20 judgments a teacher makes in 1 minute and 28 seconds Hechinger Report
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Three Billboards Outside University College London: A case of approved plagiarism Robert M Chapple
Chinese Arts Professor Awarded With ‘Oscar’ of Design Caught Plagiarizing The Epoch Times
Our sleep habits both reveal and shape our loves. A decent indicator of what we love is that for which we willingly give up sleep.
My willingness to sacrifice sleep reveals less noble loves. I stay up late later than I should, drowsy, collapsed, on the couch, vaguely surfing the internet, watching cute puppy videos. Or I stay up trying to squeeze more activity into the day to pack it with as much productivity as possible. My disordered sleep reveals a disordered love, idols of entertainment or productivity.
My willingness to sacrifice much-needed rest and my prioritizing amusement or work over the basic needs of my body and the people around me reveal of that these good things—entertainment and work—have taken a place of ascendancy in my life.
Tish Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry
Smartphone photography isn’t making us dumber. It’s shifting the way our minds work, refocusing our attention.
Alixandra Barasch is a cognitive scientist at NYU. In her work, she finds that, yes, incessant smartphone camera use can lead to lapses in memory. But, more importantly, she finds a wrinkle: Cameras can also focus our attention to enhance memory.
She’s run similar studies to the one at Stanford, where participants either take photos or don’t take photos while on a museum tour. When instructed to take photos of an exhibit, her participants were more likely to remember visual aspects of their experience (the art and artifacts they saw) than if they didn’t take photos. But there’s a trade-off: The participants snapping photos were less likely to remember information they heard.
Brian Resnick writing in Vox
You are the same today as you will be five years from now except for two things . . . the people you meet and the books you read. -Charles E. Jones
Popular culture presents consumer technology as a never-ending upward progression that continuously makes things better for everybody. In reality, new tech products usually involve a set of tradeoffs where improvements in areas like usability or design come along with weaknesses in areas like privacy & security. Sometimes new tech is better for one community while making things worse for others. Most importantly, just because a particular technology is “better” in some way doesn’t guarantee it will be widely adopted, or that it will cause other, more popular technologies to improve.
In reality, technological advances are a lot like evolution in the biological world: there are all kinds of dead-ends or regressions or uneven tradeoffs along the way, even if we see broad progress over time.
Anil Dash writing in Medium
Winners must have two things: definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today Recode
E-sports evolved from a hobby into an obsession, into a business — and now it is a full-fledged entertainment industry Strategy-Business
***JOURNALISM
A bomber posing as a cameraman killed 10 journalists and 21 others in Afghanistan as they reported on a terror attack The Guardian
Do people really want to watch a Netflix show about BuzzFeed journalism? Columbia Journalism Review
Collaborative journalism: keys to success for transnational projects in Latin America, according to Connectas Knight Center
Why Americans Are Afraid to Talk to Reporters: They Fear Backlash From Their Neighbors, and Are Wary the Media Will Exploit Them Zocal Public Square
How much of what local TV stations post to Facebook is actually local? For many, right around half Harvard’s Nieman Lab
The Pulitzer-laden researcher embedded in the Post newsroom Poynter
Here are eleven amazing data journalism projects. Which one is your favourite? Medium
Explainers are tedious. Fact-checks can feel partisan. Is there a third way? Harvard’s Nieman Lab
How to get notified when audiences post your work to Reddit Poynter
How To Engage In The Comments: A Journalist’s Guide The Coral Project
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
To get to 10 million subscribers, The New York Times is focusing on churn Digiday
Mic faces an uncertain future in a post-Facebook world Digiday
New documentary about the New York Times: The Fourth Estate Media Post
***FAKE NEWS
We’re underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video Vox
Wikipedia Founder Says Internet Users Are Adrift In The 'Fake News' Era New England Public Radio
Is it satire or fake news? Depends on who you ask Poynter
Rain of terror: Egypt to crack down on 'fake' weather reports The Guardian
***SOCIAL MEDIA
What the internet’s biggest mistakes can teach us about the future: A talk with LinkedIn’s CEO Axios
Snapchat will allow users to buy products via augmented reality Axios
WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum resigns from Facebook after clashes over user data Quartz
Social Media ads are a bad deal for small businesses and individuals BongBong
Everything You Need To Know About Reddit Daily Infographic
Is the importance of audience engagement largely anecdotal and abstract? Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Animal influencers: How popular pets on Instagram launch careers CBS News
Everything We Know About the Feud Between These Two Computer-Generated Instagram Influencers The Cut
Fake it till you make it: meet the wolves of Instagram The Guardian
***TECHNOLOGY
The WIRED Guide to Crispr WIRED
I explain Blockchain to my 6-year-old brother Medium
Have We Reached The Tipping Point For Digital? Hello Sign
China's behavior monitoring system bars some from travel, purchasing property CBS News
Snapchat Debuts New Spectacles. We Try Them on for Size WIRED
China is using brain-scanning hats to track workers’ emotions Daily Dot
***BIG DATA & AI
What is explainable AI and why does the U.S. military need It? Medium
An Introduction to Hashing in the Era of Machine Learning Bradfields
No One Is Sure How Good, or Bad, AI Will Get (video)
We need not just privacy law, but consumer protection law for the age of big data The Hill
***PRIVACY
People who submit DNA for ancestors testing are unwittingly becoming genetic informants on their innocent family Miami Herald
Cambridge University rejected Facebook study over 'deceptive' privacy standards The Guardian
Tactics Used To Find Golden State Killer Raise Privacy And Legal Questions NPR
How to Wrestle Your Data From Data Brokers, Silicon Valley — and Cambridge Analytica ProPublica
Dealing with the privacy paradox Monday Note
***INTERNET
Gmail Is Getting a Long-Overdue Upgrade WIRED
Sounding The Alarm About A New Russian Cyber Threat NPR
What the internet’s biggest mistakes can teach us about the future Axios
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Empathy is always a risk Becoming (my blog)
How to Say ‘No’ to Others and ‘Yes’ to Yourself GirlsNightinClub
The App That Reminds You You’re Going to Die The Atlantic
***LANGUAGE
A visit to Europe reveals the omnipresence of English — and the danger of making assumptions about its universality Chronicle of Higher Ed
Can genes change the way languages evolve? Quartz
***WRITING & READING
Rethinking How Students With Dyslexia Are Taught To Read NPR
Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write Monday Note
***LITERATURE
Best Fiction Books — Spring 2018 Medium
10 Book Designers Discuss the Book Covers They Rejected, And Why Electric Literature
Nobel prize in literature may be cancelled in 2018 amid sexual abuse scandal The Guardian
Jane Austen, authority on relationship intricacies, has been cited in 27 legal decisions Vox
***GENDER
This calculator puts a dollar value on the invisible, unpaid work done by women Quartz
The Top Jobs Where Women Are Outnumbered by Men Named John New York Times
Women scarce at top of U.S. business – and in the jobs that lead there Pew Research Center
The Forgotten Gender Nonconformists of the Old West Daily Jstor
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
A new lynching memorial highlights America’s grim legacy of racial terrorism Vox
Race gap narrowing in prescription opioid use Journalists Resources
***LEGAL ISSUES
The Supreme Court ruled that the Patent Office can not only issue patents, but can also retract them Tom’s Hardware
Can Handwriting Be Copyrighted? Scholarly Kitchen
***RELIGION
California Bill Wouldn’t Ban the Bible Fact Check
Southern Baptist leader pushes back after comments leak urging abused women to pray and avoid divorce Washington Post
Key findings about Americans’ belief in God Pew Research
NBA Star Stephen Curry Scores Film and TV Pact With Sony Hollywood Reporter
Black Americans are more likely than overall public to be Christian, Protestant Pew Research Center
Arizona Megachurch Pastor resigns from after sex abuse allegations KTAR-TV
Key findings about Americans’ belief in God Pew Research Center
Most Americans believe in a higher power, but not always in the God of the Bible: 72 percent believe in a higher power of some kind Washington Post
How The Megachurch Phenomenon Has Unintentionally Isolated Small Churches Christianity Today
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Ryan's Dismissal Of House Chaplain Sparks Outrage And Suspicion NPR
***GOOD NEWS
Canada's oldest blood donor Beatrice Janyk, 95, still pumped about giving Vancouver Sun
This mom never went to her prom. Her teenage son just fixed that Washington Post
50 Ways The World is Getting Better A Wealth of Common Sense
The 50 Best Podcasts to Listen to Right Now TIME
***ART & DESIGN
Elements of Typographic Style Kevin Kelly Blog
An AI can realistically “paint in” missing areas of photographs Kottke
***MUSIC
Spotify Redesigns Its Free Tier, With Hopes Of Grabbing Even More Users NPR
***STUDENT MEDIA
A survey of College Media Assoc. Members about student print, broadcast and web media operations College Media
Alumni effort to keep SMU's student newspaper independent is quashed Dallas Morning News
***STUDENT LIFE
Millennials blame boomers for ruining their lives Axios
Student’s death leads to investigation of possible cheating at George Mason Washington Post
Why ‘the Coed’ Vanished From Campus Language Chronicle of Higher Ed
This college professor gives her students extra credit for going on dates Washington Post
Schools are removing analogue clocks from exam halls as teenagers 'cannot tell the time' Telegraph
Some Teens Enter Rehab for Social Media Addiction News on 6
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
How To Calculate Your Freelance Hourly Rate Daily Infographic
High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University NPR
You’ve Graduated, Now What? Advice for Broadcast News Grads RTDNA
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
When Pop Culture Sells Dangerous Myths About Consent The Atlantic
10 Pieces You Need to Read About Sexual Assault and the Church Sojourners
***SOCIAL ISSUES
ProPublica’s news game about seeking asylum ProPublica
7 demographic trends shaping the U.S. and the world in 2018 Pew Research Center
***ENVIRONMENT
Earth Day was April 22, but people seem to be losing interest Quartz
New satellite to spot planet-warming industrial methane leaks The Guardian
***HEALTH
It’s not your imagination. Allergy season gets worse every year Vox
For Faulting a Chinese Tonic, He Got 3 Months in Jail. Then Cheers The New York Times
Why being a night owl may lead to earlier death Vox
Five things you might be surprised affect weight BBC
How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US Vox
Science Explores Benefits Of Probiotics NPR
***FAMILY
About one-third of U.S. children are living with an unmarried parent Pew Research Center
Juvenile delinquents: Boys with hostile fathers commit more crime Journalists Resources
***SCIENCE
Scientists reported the discovery of a new DNA structure inside human cells New Atlas
To argue with flat earthers, use philosophy not science Quartz
New animal study connects brain's smell center with fear response and breathing patterns University of Colorado
***PSYCHOLOGY
Mental Health Facts That Most People Get Wrong Cracked
Psychologists on the Radio Daily Jstor
***PHILOSOPHY
Nobel prize in literature may be cancelled in 2018 amid sexual abuse scandal The Guardian
Ludwig Wittgenstein was one of the great 20th-century philosophers. He also invented the emoji Quartz
***PRODUCTIVITY
4 Weekend Habits That Can Save Time and Boost Your Productivity Next Week Inc.
***ETHICS
Tiny Lab-Grown 'Brains' Raise Big Ethical Questions NPR
***RESEARCH
Advocating for publishing peer review ASAPbio
Workloads influence when authors submit papers to journals Nature
Publish or Perish: Perceived Benefits versus Unintended Consequences The London School of Economics and Political Science
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Liberty University is no longer the largest Christian university Religious News Service
Falwell: By Liberty University’s definition, it’s still the largest Christian university Religious News Service
Christian College student newspaper wins top award Salem News
Lawsuit by Northwest Christian University instructor alleges racial discrimination The Register Guard
***TEACHING
Why We Must Stop Relying on Student Ratings of Teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Semester’s Ending. Time to Worry About Our Flawed Course Evaluations Chronicle of Higher Ed
How We Can Help Students Survive in an Age of Anxiety (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Want to Be a 'Volunteer Adjunct'? Southern Illinois U. Is Hiring Chronicle of Higher Ed
A few selfies in front of Tokyo Tower or the temples of Kyoto won’t be enough to understand the Japanese people. To understand them, you must be willing to live with them, eat their food, work alongside them.
This is one reason, perhaps, why the arrogant end up with few genuine friendships. How can you connect with someone when you think you know everything there is to know?
Empathy is always a risk. On one hand, we risk asking the wrong questions and, as a result, hurting or insulting someone. On the other hand, we risk creating a connection, an emotional two-way street we cannot close, that forces us to feel someone else’s pain and suffering.
Charles Chu writing in Medium
The world says the more you take, the more you have. Christ says the more you give, the more you are. -Frederick Buechner
You are not finished when you are defeated. You’re finished when you quit.
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