seeing
/You see, but you do not observe. -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) born May 22, 1858)
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Articles of Interest - May 21
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
The decline of Snapchat and the secret joy of internet ghost towns The Verge
Just 4% of Americans say they read most or all of Trump's tweets CNN
Some news outlets want exemption from Facebook's new ad rules CNN
Facebook Stories reveals 150M daily viewers and here come ads Tech Crunch
Social media mojo-ranking service Klout to shutter Ars Technica
Predatory behavior runs rampant in Facebook’s addiction support groups The Verge
With Facebook Live views falling, BuzzFeed looks to Twitch Digiday
***MOBILE
How to Record Calls on Your Smartphone Wired
This tool transforms print pages into social and mobile-ready stories Poynter
***PRIVACY
Parental spy app exposes the information of teens it’s supposed to protect Daily Dot
You Can Send Invisible Messages With Subtle Font Tweaks Wired
***TECHNOLOGY
Flexible, Stick-On Tags Attach Laser Beams to Eyeballs IEEE Spectrum
Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t New York Times
***BIG DATA & AI
An attempt to update the definition of a data science Venture Beat
Military intelligence experts want help with metadata tampering in geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) to enhance cyber security Military Aerospace
The best platforms recognize the value of their own data & leverage machine learning to improve the customer experience Harvard Business Review
NGA is investing more resources in machine learning technologies as it grapples with a deluge of data National Defense Magazine
***JOURNALISM
How a major medical meeting uses embargoes to shape the news, and what the consequences may be Health News Review
Can Robots Do Journalism? (opinion) Media Post
***JOURNALISM OUTSIDE THE U.S.
Prominent Mexican Journalist Joins A Long List Of Those Killed NPR
In Western Europe, Public Attitudes Toward News Media More Divided by Populist Views Than Left-Right Ideology Journalism.org
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Salt Lake Tribune lays off a third of its newsroom Salt Lake Tribune
The 'hire a crowd' business operates openly and makes journalism even more difficult Poynter
***FAKE NEWS
Inside Facebook’s race to separate news from junk PBS
Fake Facebook accounts and online lies multiply in hours after Santa Fe school shooting Washington Post
Searching for Alternative Facts Data & Society
In Houston, journalists are sorting rumors from fact live on TV Poynter
***PERSONAL GROWTH
A Life Tip for Graduates Becoming (my blog)
***GRAMMAR
Who Cares Whether It’s One Space or Two? Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Do We Prevent Typos and Other Errors From Appearing in Our Stories? Propublica
***WRITING & READING
Why a Daily Habit of Reading Books Should be Your Priority, According to Science Inc.com
Are ebooks dying or thriving? The answer is yes Quarz
***LANGUAGE
A Linguist Explains Why 'Laurel' Sounds Like 'Yanny' It’s the audio version of The Dress. The Atlantic
Who Legislates Language Change? Newspaper Stylebooks Chronicle of Higher Ed
Enlisting computers to analyze historical texts, Historians are spotting patterns in language that were once invisible Christian Science Monitor
‘Newfangled’: a Word Much Older Than You Think Chronicle of Higher Ed
Millions of U.S. citizens don’t speak English to one another. That’s not a problem. Washington Post
***LITERATURE
Dutch researchers uncover dirty jokes in Anne Frank’s diary Associated Press
Tom Wolfe, Dead at 88, Had an Expansive Lexicon The Atlantic
Ernest Hemingway’s death significantly improved his relationship with the FBI Muck Rock
***GENDER
Book Review: the trajectories of women scientists during World War One The London School of Economics and Political Science
Men Are Sarcastic, Women Are Hot: Gender and Language in Rate My Professors Chronicle of Higher ED
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Texas State U. Police Chief Resigns Amid Racial Tensions on Campus Chronicle of Higher Ed
Affirmative Action Benefits Everyone — Including Asian Americans Huffington Post
‘Why Are Black People So Loud?’ One University Says It’s OK to Ask Chronicle of Higher Ed
How We Made AI As Racist and Sexist As Humans The Walrus
***FREE SPEECH
Careful what you say in this university, its speech policies are those of Soviet Russia USA Today
Remembering a major victory for free speech, 40 years later The Hill
***LEGAL ISSUES
Congress' latest move to extend copyright protection is misguided Wired
Hasbro just trademarked the smell of Play-Doh The Verge
***RELIGION
Protestants decline, more have no religion in a sharply shifting religious landscape ABC News
10 Evangelical Pastors and Their Wives Among Those Who Perished in Cuban Plane Crash PJ Media
Fake Mormon news story goes viral, claiming the LDS Church has apologized for racism (opinion) Religious News Service
L.G.B.T. Students in Oregon Were Bullied and Forced to Read Bible, Report Says New York Times
Poll: Sharing Faith Is Increasingly Optional to Christians Barna
9 Common Misperceptions About Religious Observances Mental Floss
Seminary leader’s comments on women roil Texas Southern Baptists Austin America Statesman
***GOOD NEWS
Australia's 'Man With The Golden Arm' Retires After Saving 2.4 Million Babies NPR
***ART & DESIGN
Ambient Lit: The ambitious project to redesign fiction for phones Fast Company
Rabbit Town: the selfie-themed museum accused of plagiarizing its art Fast Company
***MUSIC
The Surprising Impact That Music Can Have On Little Kids — And Their Parents NPR
Computers crack the code of pop-song success LA Times
The future of music doesn’t always turn out the way people planned Red Bull Music Academy
***FILM
China Is A Fast-Growing Presence In The World Of Cinema NPR
How the Sounds You Hear in Movies Are Really Made: Discover the Magic of “Foley Artists” Open Culture
This video sums up why Ron Howard gets director credit for Solo: A Star Wars Story The Verge
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Americans are tuning out of TV Axios
***STUDENT MEDIA
Missouri can fix the Supreme Court’s mistake about freedom of the student press KansasCity.com
At SMU, a big fight erupts over its little newspaper as Daily Campus alumni fear censorship Dallas News
***STUDENT LIFE
TCU overturns suspensions for some students accused of using Quizlet app to cheat Dallas News
Millennials’ confidence in business, loyalty to employers deteriorate Deloitte
Class Action Suit Claims Stanford Kicking Out Mentally Disabled Students Courthouse News
KU student who hacked computers and changed his grades is convicted of 4 felonies Lawrence Journal-World
Before you pause that student loan... The Week
More than a million Millennials are becoming moms each year Pew Research
***STUDENT LIFE – AFTER COLLEGE
Interactive data on where college graduates are moving after college (paywall) Wall Street Journal
Report: College majors and student success Georgetown
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
Making Career Moves by Saying No Inside Higher Ed
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Larry Nassar: Michigan State University to pay $500m to abuse victims BBC
Judge dismisses former CU Boulder student's Title IX claim over sex assault investigation Daily Camera
She was sexually assaulted by her youth pastor who later became a megachurch pastor New York Times
UW-Stevens Point assistant dean accused of sexual harassment, rehired at UW-Eau Claire Stevens Point Journal
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Textbook Authors Sue Cengage Over Subscription Model Inside Higher Ed
Appeals Court Sides with Cornell in Tenure Dispute Inside Higher Ed
University teachers are exploited, too CNN
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Suicide Is Rising Among American Farmers As They Struggle To Keep Afloat NPR
How Baby Boomers Broke America TIME
The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy The Atlantic
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
How to manage your money when you’re struggling Poynter
It's not just you: Everything really is getting more expensive CNN
US States Renamed for Countries with Similar GDPs AEI
The Most Popular Infomercial Product in Your State ATT Savings
Unemployment in America, Mapped Over Time Flowing Data
***ENVIRONMENT
We Made Plastic. We Depend On It. Now We're Drowning In It National Geographic
Release of Chemical Pollution study would cause a ‘public relations nightmare’ Politico
America’s landfills may be completely full in just 13 years The Outline
***HEALTH
FDA approves new drug for prevention of migraines CNBC
Why Sitting Is The New Smoking: An Animated Explanation Open Culture
***HEALTH & DIET
How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US Vox
Eggs Are Safe For Diabetics And Heart Health, Study Finds Medical Daily
Almost 40% of peer-reviewed dietary research turns out to be wrong. Here’s why New Food Economy
***FAMILY
Warren Buffett once tested his kids with a slot machine, and he won CNBC
Dear Therapist: My Adult Daughter Thinks I Was an Awful Parent The Atlantic
The U.S. spends less on children than almost any other developed nation Washington Post
American Women Are Having Babies Later The Atlantic
***SCIENCE
Quantum Physics May Be Even Spookier Than You Think Scientific American
Every Cell in Your Body Has the Same DNA. Except It Doesn’t. New York Times
***PSYCHOLOGY
Psychologists have identified a very good reason why unsolicited advice is so annoying Quartz
The supposed loneliness epidemic Claude Fisher Blog
How Social Isolation Transforms the Brain CalTech
***PHILOSOPHY
Sam Harris and the Myth of Perfectly Rational Thought Wired
What’s so Good about Original Sin? (opinion) New York Times
***HISTORY
How America Gets WWII History Wrong (And Why That Matters) Cracked
The WIRED Guide to Robots Wired
***ETHICS
California assisted death law overturned in court Sacramento Bee
MIT Now Has a Humanist Chaplain to Help Students With the Ethics of Tech The Atlantic
***RESEARCH
How Shoddy Statistics Found A Home In Sports Research Five Thirty Eight
Deception, distrust and disrespect Karolinska Institutet
Give every paper a read for reproducibility Nature
Peer review could have helped short-circuit the Theranos fake news scandal Stat News
'Nationalistic' Think Tank Plagiarised Chinese, US, Australian Writings The Wire
How Scientific Publishers Can End Bullying And Harassment In The Sciences Forbes
Scientists are subverting formal publishing. well, some of them Wired
Avoid ethics issues in science publishing with these 5 questions American Society for Microbiology
***HIGHER ED
College May Not Be Worth It Anymore (opinion) New York Times
Yes, College Is ‘Worth It,’ One Researcher Says. It’s Just Worth More if You’re Rich. Chronicle of Higher Ed
Former Utah Valley University employee says school discriminates against women, minorities and non-Mormon employees The Salt Lake Tribune
The disparities in equality at public colleges from state to state Ed Trust
PETA sues Texas A&M over Facebook comments the university removed Dallas Morning News
What states have the most people with a Bachelor’s Degree? Overflow Data
Trilogy Education Services runs coding boot camps for a growing number of universities Inside Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED & FINANCE
Ohio College Proposes Cutting Academic Programs and Faculty Layoffs Cleveland.com
Marylhurst University to close at end of 2018 Lake Oswego Review
Investigations Into For-Profit College Abuses Dismantled Under Betsy DeVos Forbes
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Oklahoma Christian universities win reprieve from contraception mandate Tulsa World
Alumni Allege Rampant Sexual Harassment by Former Christian University President Inside Higher Ed
Catholic U. Plan, Which Could Result in Layoffs of Tenured Profs, Moves Ahead Chronicle of Higher Ed
Ben Carson Tells Liberty University Graduates They Have 'Tremendous Spheres of Influence' TIME
***TEACHING
Give Students More Options When They Have to Take Your Course Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Future of Learning and How It Could Change Your Classroom Chronicle of Higher Ed
One-third of students take at least one class online Washington Post
a Life Tip for Graduates
/Because I graduated in Britain, I missed out on the traditional American commencement ceremony at which a middle-aged bore intones, “You can be whatever you want to be.” Obviously, you can’t be whatever you want to be. The trick is to work out what you should be. -Simon Kuper
religious morality
/There is always a danger of thinking religious morality is the same as cultural norms. (unknown)
stubbing your toe
/You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere. Charles F. Kettering
Saying No
/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
the highest mountain
/You walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
Articles of Interest - May 14
/***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
Learning from Envy
/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
/You never know when you're making a memory.
pack your bag
/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
your choice
/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
Your coworkers are better at rating some parts of your personality
/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
what to do with the towel
/You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face.
Articles of Interest - May 7
/***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
What are you willing to Give up Sleep for?
/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
pretending
/You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry
The Phone Trade-Off
/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
except for two things
/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
What Causes Technological Adoption
/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