In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story. -Jeff Bezos
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ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Child rearing is an art
/Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once. The trick is accepting limits while insisting on standards. Character may not be malleable, but behavior is. The same parents can raise a dreamy, reflective girl and a driven, competitive one—the job is not to nurse her nature but to help elicit the essential opposite: to help the dreamy one to be a little more driven, the competitive one to be a little more reflective.
Adam Gopnik writing in The New Yorker
Articles of Interest – June 4
/***INTERNET
Mary Meeker’s 2018 internet trends report: the most highly anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley Recode
GDPR For Publishers: What You Need to Know Media Vine
A scientific list of the most popular memes on the internet Quartz
***TECHNOLOGY
Your next potato chip could come from a 3-D printer MIT Tech Review
Watch What Happens Inside the Body When You Talk Curiosity
Microsoft confirms it's buying GitHub for $7.5 billion Engadget
The battle for responsible technology Poynter
***BIG DATA & AI
Who Is Going To Make Money In AI? Here’s an educated guess Towards Data Science
How data science and the role of data scientist evolved over the years Analytics India
Why Thousands of Researchers Are Boycotting Nature’s Upcoming AI Journal Gizmodo
To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect Quantum Magazine
Satellite imagery is revolutionizing the world. But should we always trust what we see? The Conversation
Notes from Coursera Deep Learning courses by Andrew Ng Slide Share: TessFerrandez
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Survey: Which Social Media Platforms among Teens Pew Research Center
I wrote a negative Yelp review — and it made my life a nightmare New York Post
Trust is the new currency of the digital age (opinion) Business Times
How Instagram’s algorithm works Tech Crunch
Facebook Tried to Rein In Fake Ads: It Fell Short in a California Race New York Times
Avoiding Career Death by Twitter TechNewsWorld
The entire country of Papua New Guinea will have access to Facebook turned off for a month Post Courier
Facebook's decision to kill its "Trending" feature proves that algorithms are not always the answer Quartz
Facebook is shutting down trending topics feature CNN
One Woman's Facebook Success Story: A Support Group For 1.7 Million NPR
Facebook defends sharing user data with phone makers CNN
***MOBILE
America is losing the war against robocalls Economist
A New Threat to Your Finances: Cell-Phone Account Fraud Comsumer Reports
***PRIVACY
Does China’s digital police state have echoes in the West? Economist
How Americans have viewed government surveillance and privacy since Snowden leaks Pew Research Center
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Drones Are Revolutionizing the Way Film and TV Is Made TIME
Canon isn't selling film cameras any more Quartz
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Print gets a lot more advertising than eyeballs.. and mobile is just the opposite Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***JOURNALISM
These are the most important announcements Apple made for news publishers today Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Roseanne’s comments get 16 times the coverage of the estimated Hurricane Maria’s toll of 4,600 deaths Columbia Journalism Review
The Wall Street Journal reporter who doggedly kept asking a simple question - does this technology even work? New York Magazine
It’s exhausting being a reporter in the Trump era: A new documentary captures the toll at the New York Times Washington Post
How Alexandra Bell Is Disrupting Racism in Journalism The New Yorker
So you wanna be a journalist? Columbia Journalism Review
There is no fake news in Showtime's winning 'Fourth Estate' Baltimore Sun
AP Stylebook update: Multiple emoji are emoji Poynter
NPR is getting rid of some of its news blogs (with more blog “changes” to come) Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***JOURNALISM MISTAKES
Many journalists fail to question new Cancer Society colorectal cancer screening guidelines Health News Review
New York Times Cites Old Mistaken Study Andrew Gelman Blog
***JOURNALISM OUTSIDE THE U.S.
A Reporter Was Beaten to Death in Mexico, Becoming the Sixth Journalist Killed There This Year TIME
Russian journalist and Kremlin critic shot and killed in Ukraine The Hill
The killing of a journalist exposed something rotten in Slovakia Economist
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Tronc buys Virginian-Pilot from Landmark for $34 million Sun Herald
Tronc’s selling, and buying, and just generally shapeshifting Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***FAKE NEWS
'Messing with the Enemy' takes on dark side of social media MSNBC
Only You Can Fight Fake News WIRED
The Legal War on Alex Jones The New Republic
Facebook is Giving Scientists its Data to Fight Misinformation WIRED
The Londoner: Is anti-fake news unit a fake itself? Evening Standard
***STUDENT MEDIA
After papers were removed, a Seattle student newsroom pushed back Columbia Journalism Review
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Life Beyond the Glowing Screen Becoming (my blog)
Japan’s biggest bestseller is a philosophy book on “The Courage to be Disliked” Quartz
***GRAMMAR
The weasel voice in journalism: Don’t blame grammar for the shortcomings of headline-writers Economist
National Spelling Bee 2018: The most commonly misspelled words at the national spelling bee Quartz
***WRITING & READING
Resources and ideas from a collaborative session on interactive fiction at this year’s Computers & Writing conferences Chronicle of Higher Ed
To make beat writing more compelling, let’s rescue the offbeat story Poynter
Interactive fiction in the classroom Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
A Week on Language Twitter: new words and usages on social media Chronicle of Higher Ed
Filler words: One of the toughest part of a foreign language to master Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
The best children's books of the year for 2018 Bank Street
Writing Tips And Pointed Opinions From The Late Tom Wolfe Forbes
Original map of Winnie-the-Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood Flowing Data
***GENDER
11 women executives on the greatest risk they ever took Fast Company
How Reese Witherspoon female-driven storytelling company is channeling women’s voices into top-tier entertainment Fast Company
Women are more likely to wait longer for a health diagnosis and to be told it’s ‘all in their heads’ BBC
One More To Go: Illinois Ratifies Equal Rights Amendment NPR
How Disney is turning women from across the company into coders Fast Company
The Hidden Women of Architecture and Design The New Yorker
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
68% of white evangelicals think America shouldn’t house refugees Vox
At least 8 white nationalists running for federal office MSNBC
***FREE SPEECH
Why the struggle for academic freedom is the struggle for democracy Chronicle of Higher Ed
A student at the center of a dispute over free speech can return to his religious studies class Post Gazette
***LEGAL ISSUES
PUBG Corp. Sues Epic Games for Copyright Infringement Variety
He Said No, Fox News Used His Images Anyway PetaPixel
Advocacy groups knock ‘unjust’ copyright-extending CLASSICS Act TechCrunch
***ART & DESIGN
The Intuitive and the Unlearnable: Why some designs won’t ever stop sucking Medium
Want to make great art? Stop making art Fast Company
***MUSIC
Was Classic Rock a Sound, or a Tribe? The Atlantic
10 Surprising Skills You Gain From Music Lessons Daily Infographic
***STUDENT LIFE
Forty-five percent of teens are online ‘almost constantly’ — and they don’t know if it’s good for them Washington Post
Put a Ring on It? Millennial Couples Are in No Hurry New York Times
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
What Your Resume Should Look Like in 2018 TIME
These paid journalism internships are still accepting applications Student Press Law Center
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Equipping Women to Stop Campus Rape (opinion) New York Times
Older teens less likely to think sexting would get them in trouble Journalism Resources
#MeToo Complaints Swamp Human Resource Departments NPR
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
This Map Shows the Best-Paying Company In Every State TIME
The myth of outliving your retirement savings Reuters
***ENVIRONMENT
Climate Change: “Could You Do Any Better Than We Did?” Two volumes for future generations Boston Review
***HEALTH
Podcast: The new & (un)improved doctor-patient relationship Health News Review
Coffee benefits: Caffeine makes you more social, as well as active Quartz
Health alert said American diagnosed with brain injury like reported in Cuba Washington Post
LA Times provides careful take on early brain/diabetes research–except for the headline Health News Review
Elder Abuse (video/language) John Oliver
***HEALTH: DRUGS & PILLS
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: What journalists need to know Journalists Resources
Study finds most popular vitamin, mineral supplements provide no health benefit Fox 8
***HEALTH TECH
Ingestible “bacteria on a chip” could help diagnose disease MIT
Computers can diagnose stroke victims now The Week
***HEALTH & CHILDREN
A new study links early childhood obesity to lower IQ scores Quartz
Gene therapy is saving children’s lives—but screening to discover who needs it is lagging behind MIT Tech Review
***SCIENCE
Questioning Truth, Reality and the Role of Science Quantam Magazine
Henrietta Lacks Gets Immortalized in a Portrait: It’s Now on Display at the National Portrait Gallery Open Culture
There Are No Laws of Physics: There’s Only the Landscape Quantam Magazine
***PHILOSOPHY
The Russian Philosopher Who Sought Immortality in the Cosmos Atlas Obscura
Why read Aristotle today? Aeon
***HISTORY
The only World War II battle fought on North American soil WNCT
***RESEARCH
Can It Really Be True That Half of Academic Papers Are Never Read? Chronicle of Higher Ed
All publishers are predatory - some are bigger than others Scielo
Fewer than two out of every 10,000 scientific papers remain influential in their field decades after publication Nature Index
Authorship credit varies across scientific disciplines — and even within the same field Nature
Alphabetical name ordering in Research Harms Collaborations London School of Economics and Political Science
South Korean apps are outsourcing academic fraud to freelance ghostwriters Quartz
***RELIGION
Televangelist seeks donations for $54M private jet, claims God is behind the idea NOLA
Study: Infant Mortality Rates Higher in Christian Fundamentalist Communities US News & World Report
American Bible Society to require church attendance, sexuality codes Religious News Service
Atheists Are Sometimes More Religious Than Christians The Atlantic
Southern Baptist seminary drops bombshell: Why Paige Patterson was fired Washington Post
Joel Osteen and the making of Lakewood Church Houston Chronicle
Christ art removed from Lexington SC church for being Catholic The State
Judge: 'In God We Trust' on Money isn't Religion Endorsement Associated Press
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Dinesh D'Souza, America's greatest conservative troll, explained Vox
Trump Pardons Dinesh D’Souza and Weighs Leniency for Rod Blagojevich and Martha Stewart New York Times
Conservative Christian attorneys gain influence under Trump Associated Press
***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE U.S.
China is secretly imprisoning close to 1 million people to get them to renounce their religion Business Insider
Key findings about religion in Western Europe Pew Research Center
***GOOD NEWS
Couple discovers safe filled with cash, gold, diamonds worth $52G in their backyard New York Daily News
Two pilots spend savings on plane to rescue migrants in Mediterranean Sea NBC News
How The Internet Is Changing The Way Dogs Find Homes BuzzFeed
***HIGHER ED
The University Is Not an Aristocracy: So why do we value selectivity over social mobility? Chronicle of Higher Ed
When a College Takes on Student Poverty, it can only do so much The Atlantic
Higher-Ed Groups Warn Against Visa Restrictions for Chinese Students Chronicle of Higher Ed
Christian College president apologizes for equating sexual assaults with gay relationships Des Moines Register
Recent grad to Christian colleges: LGBT issues not going away M-live
Catholic University of America faculty vote raises stakes in battle with president Religion News Service
***LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
Liberty U is making a film about a man who says God told him Trump would become president Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Tense History behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address Religious Dispatches
What to expect from a new Liberty University film Washington Post
***TEACHING
What 6 Colleges Learned About Improving Their Online Courses Chronicle of Higher Ed
Ideas for Creating an Effective Syllabus for Online Learning Faculty Focus
***ACADEMIC LIFE
A Self-Care Strategy for Beleaguered Academics: Every teacher needs a magic briefcase Chronicle of Higher Ed
Don’t Blame Tenured Academics for the Adjunct Crisis Chronicle of Higher Ed
life beyond the screen
/Kevin Kelly writes, “Even the tiniest disposable item with a bar code shares a thin sliver of our collective mind.” Sharing in the increasing webness of things surrounding us is essential part of functioning in our digital society. If you have hung out on the cusp of technological adoption, waiting for the latest and most advanced devices to drop, you know how technology can monopolize our time and question any non-technological solution as inferior or important. The Internet is our exotic travel destination, a portal to bossy technologies.
Here’s the choice you have: You can grab the bullhorn of digital culture and plug into the belly of the machine or we can keep the cornucopia of technology at arm’s length to more easily remember who we are apart from it.
Somewhere there’s a balance between chasing the latest fad (simply because it is new) and becoming irrelevant to the conversation (because we choose to ignore transitions, remaining in our comfort zone). These extremes are the simplistic ditches we can fall into, when we would rather not have to regularly think hard and deal with uncertainty…and they will remain the temptations of anyone involved in the process of journalism.
As you decide where to place yourself in the technological embrace, remember there’s life beyond the screen.
Stephen Goforth
the important thing
/The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
–Charles Dubois
the glowing screen
/When we grab a glowing screen first thing in the morning what are we trusting for nourishment? What are we imprinting on our day?
When your appliances work as police informants
/Suppose police suspect a man of organizing a political protest that turned violent, muses the ACLU’s Nathan Wessler, who argued the Carpenter case (on digital privacy) for the ACLU before the Supreme Court. The suspect’s smart meter and thermostat confirm that a handful of people showed up at his home and stayed there the two nights before the demonstration; the suspect’s smart refrigerator ordered a bunch of soda and snack food on those days, which was all consumed; after someone asked Alexa to play some music in his living room, a voice in the background said, “Tomorrow, we’re going to really show them”; and that night, the suspect’s smart mattress recorded him sleeping fitfully and his heart beating faster than normal. The police arrest the man on conspiracy and other charges. He eventually proves he’s innocent – some old friends visited from out of town, and planned a day of sightseeing—but not before a legal nightmare turns his life upside down.
"There’s not a person among us who doesn’t have private aspects of their life that could create difficulty for them if they were exposed,” Wessler says. “And misinterpreted.”
David Henry writing in 1843
do well with what you have
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The trouble is, you think you have time. -Jack Kornfield
Articles of Internet - May 28
/***TECHNOLOGY
Few Rules Govern Police Use of Facial-Recognition Technology Wired
New Tech May Make Prosthetic Hands Easier for Patients to Use North Carolina State
So Long, Glassholes: Wearables Aren't Science Projects Anymore Wired
The Murky Legal Consequences of Smart Homes The Marshall Project
Scientists figured out a way to implant holographic brain images Daily Dot
6 Essential Steps to Becoming a Drone Pilot Story Hunter
***BIG DATA & AI
How facial software (allegedly) can identify liars The Week
Is learning to code in middle age a fool’s errand or a committed act of digital citizenship? 1843 Magazine
A new machine-learning system tries to predict whether an online conversation is going to get nasty right from the get-go Technology Review
Google & Coursera are launching a machine learning specialization consisting of five courses Tech Crunch
Why the future of AI depends on high school girls The Atlantic
There are some decent free online training courses designed to get you up to speed on Hadoop Business News Daily
Escaping the scandals but getting the big data right Information Age
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Pro-ISIS propaganda finds fertile ground on Google Plus platform The Hill
Trump Can't Block Critics on Twitter. What This Means For You Wired
Facebook is beating Snapchat on its own invention — stories: Why stories have taken off Axios
‘Content Providers’ Easily Find Ways Around Facebook’s Rules Snopes
‘A fun adventure, not a business’: The Weather Channel stopped publishing video on Facebook Digiday
Facebook is updating how you can authenticate your account logins Tech Crunch
***PRIVACY
Amazon is selling police departments a real-time facial recognition system The Verge
California Eyes Data Privacy Measure NPR
***INTERNET
F.B.I.’s Urgent Request: Reboot Your Router to Stop Russia-Linked Malware New York Times
Stealthy, Destructive Malware Infects Half a Million Router Wired
The Quiet Death of WHOIS Plagiarism Today
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Media’s Two-Front Spending War Visualization Traffic
Impatient, distracted consumers upend the media landscape Axios
3 Steps for Bringing the Oldest Form of Advertising Into the Digital Age Adweek
Great Big Story on Building a Video Storytelling Powerhouse from Scratch — Facebook Live StoryHunter
***JOURNALISM
New mobile journalism guide has free resources for reporters, newsrooms International Journalists’ Network
The Marketplace of Ideas is failing the journalism industry (opinion) Daily Tar Heel
These newsrooms are reinventing journalism education with audience members in the lead Membership Puzzle
Radio presenters and journalists among top jobs for psychopaths Radio Today
Long Beach Press-Telegram Down to One Reporter; Departing Staff Plan New Pub LA Business Journal
Facebook shows once again that it does not understand or value journalism CNBC
Who is watching local TV news? New research provides some surprises Medium
How the Media Helped Legitimize Extremism Wired
In portraying a silver lining to Santa Fe school shooting, news stories mislead public about GoFundMe campaign for victim’s husband Health News Review
What is it that journalism studies is studying these days? Harvard’s Nieman Lab
The Coming Splinternet: How the GDPR Could Threaten Journalism (opinion) Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Showtime's ‘Fourth Estate’ shows how the journalism sausage is made Poynter
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
The Hard Truth at Newspapers Across America: Hedge Funds Are in Charge Bloomberg
News Radio Audience Jumps Following Hurricanes Nielsen
How The Washington Post is building its tech platform, Arc Digiday
Elon Musk wants to fix media mistrust with a dopey rating system. There’s a better way. Washington Post
***FAKE NEWS
Is your fake news about immigrants or politicians? It all depends on where you live Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Facebook Opens Up About False News Wired
How Snopes keeps fact-checking in the era of fake news overload (podcast) 2 girls, 1 podcast
Based on the exact words you type Google is giving you drastically different information Washington Post
Can “Extreme Transparency” Fight Fake News and Create More Trust With Readers? Harvard’s Nieman Report
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Why You Should Stop Being So Hard on Yourself New York Times
***GRAMMAR
There Is No ‘There’re’ There Chronicle of Higher Ed
‘OMG This Is Wrong!’ Retired English Teacher Marks Up a White House Letter and Sends It Back New York Times
***WRITING & READING
Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots BBC
Copy Editors Are OCD. Thank Goodness Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
China is becoming more tolerant of some regional Han languages Economist
Linguists Say We Might Be Able to Communicate With Aliens If We Ever Encounter Them Mental Floss
Language activists are trying to make French gender-neutral Economist
***LITERATURE
The 50 most commonly assigned works of literature at top US colleges Quartz
Philip Roth Discusses His Writing Process NPR
Philip Roth (RIP) Creates a List of the 15 Books That Influenced Him Most Open Culture
***GENDER
Judge rules that transgender teen is protected by Title IX and the Constitution in bathroom controversy American Bar Association
How Social Media Became a Pink Collar Job Wired
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
New study connects white American intolerance and support for authoritarianism NBC News
***FREE SPEECH
Without respectful discourse, free speech isn’t much more than a hostile shouting match. The Atlantic
‘Don’t burn the flag’ and 11 more rules for free speech Washington Post
***LEGAL ISSUES
Who Owns LOVE? A copyright suit over a beloved public artwork CityLab
Court Applies Pre-Digital Age Law to Digital Age Technology Law.com
LGBT wedding cake Supreme Court decision looms, but more cases likely CBS News
Viacom's Victory in 'SpongeBob' Restaurant Trademark Dispute Upheld by Appeals Court Hollywood Reporter
'Star Trek'/Dr. Seuss Mashup Creator Beats Trademark Claims Hollywood Reporter
Makers of ‘Sesame Street’ Sue to Get Raunchy Puppet Movie to Change Its Advertising New York Times
The NFL’s “take a knee” ban is flatly illegal Vox
A Copyright Small Claims Court? (opinion) Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***RELIGION
Oregon principal ousted for making LGBTQ students read Bible as punishment OregonLive
The group least likely to think the U.S. has a responsibility to accept refugees? White Evangelicals. Washington Post
Religion Goes to the Movies - Los Angeles Review of Books LA Review of Books
Conservative Christian guide to nation's capital vows to tell what other tours won't Washington Post
Jesus would like to connect with you on LinkedIn! Inside the Church of England's digital conversion Wired
White nationalists protest outside Tennessee church Fox 17
***SOUTHERN BAPTISTS
Prominent Southern Baptist leader removed as seminary president following controversial remarks about abused women Washington Post
Amid a Southern Baptist scandal, some evangelical women say the Bible’s gender roles are being distorted to promote sexism Washington Post
Controversial Southern Baptist leader still set to give prominent sermon in front of thousands Washington Post
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
From Bible study to Google: How some Christian conservatives fact-check the news and end up confirming their existing beliefs Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Roman Catholics And Evangelicals Move Apart In Their Political Priorities NPR
How Christian media is shaping American politics The Conversation
***ART & DESIGN
What’s Next for Protest Art in the Trump Era? The Atlantic
Plasticine circuits show how today's tech is tomorrow's art Engadget
***MUSIC
What makes good music? Composers and listeners disagree Economist
“This Is America,” the Video, Is a Smash. Will the Song Have Legs? Slat
***JOBS
Three clauses freelancers should know (and negotiate), according to lawyers Columbia Journalism Review
***STATISTICS
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Why Your Next Workplace Harassment Training Might Be in VR Wired
An economics professor at Harvard is under investigation for allegations of sexual harassment The Crimson
A rape victim was just awarded $1 billion. Jurors told her: ‘You’re worth something.’ The Daily New
Ex-ESPN Analyst Argues Network Wasn't "Media Company" in Publishing "Fake Texts" Hollywood Reporter
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Federal officials lost – yes, lost – 1,475 migrant children Arizona Central
Why Do Americans Stay When Their Town Has No Future? Bloomberg
***AMERICA BY THE NUMBERS
America’s graying population in 3 maps The Conversation
The percentage of American adults identifying as LGBT increased to 4.5% in 2017 Gallup
See the progress towards pot legalization in all 50 states Thrillist
What Unites and Divides Urban, Suburban and Rural Communities Pew Research Center
America is changing demographically. Here’s how your county compares Pew Research Center
Religiously, nonwhite Democrats more similar to Republicans than to white Democrats Pew Research Center
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Meet the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies CNBC
See How Your Take Home Pay Compares to Workers Around the World Visualized HowMuch
Fed survey shows 40 percent of adults still can't cover a $400 emergency expense CNBC
***ENVIRONMENT
What a 'Reproducibility Crisis' Committee Found When It Looked at Climate Science Pacific Standard
***HEALTH
Subtle hearing loss while young changes brain function: Early damage could open door to dementia, lead author says Scientific Daily
A nationwide study reported that US cancer deaths have steadily declined for two straight decades NIH
Scientists have figured out exactly how much you need to exercise to slow your heart’s aging process Quartz
What Are Screens Doing to Our Eyes—and Our Ability to See? Wired
The US FDA says there are only risks, no benefits, for a common painkiller used by teething toddlers Quartz
***HEALTH & TECHNOLOGY
Spermbots Offer a Promising New Way to Target Cancer Wired
Ingestible Sensors Electronically Monitor Your Guts Wired
Digital Ambulance Chasers? Law Firms Send Ads To Patients' Phones Inside ERs NPR
Deep brain stimulation found to improve diabetes by increasing dopamine release Science Magazine
***HEALTH CARE COSTS
Vulnerable patients — easy targets for companies willing to sacrifice ethics for profits The Hill
***FAMILY
Parents sue 30-year-old son to move out of house WTNH
American parents invented 1,100 new baby names last year Quartz
***SCIENCE
Science That Is Not Transparent Is Bad Science: Richard Gray On the Citation of Retracted Articles Wiley
Questioning Truth, Reality and the Role of Science Quanta Magazine
***PSYCHOLOGY
The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations CityLab
Personal Space Is an Elaborate, Unconscious Dance The Atlantic
Schizophrenia ‘risk genes’ are not so risky if the mother’s pregnancy was healthy Stat News
Mapping the rising tide of suicide deaths across the United States Washington Post
This Is Why Cognitive Biases Are Harmful (visualization) Daily Infographic
Depression and Anxiety Speed Up Cognitive Aging, Scientists Find Sci-News
***PHILOSOPHY
The "Insanely Low Acceptance Rates" of Philosophy Journals Daily Nous
The Map of Philosophy (video) Open Culture
***HISTORY
The Rulers of Europe: Every Year (video) Cottereau
What Middle-Eastern thinkers discovered long before the west (visualization) Information is Beautiful
***RESEARCH
Writing a page-turner: how to tell a story in your scientific paper The London School of Economics And Political Science
Systems Matter: Research Environments and Institutional Integrity Harvard
There is little evidence to suggest peer reviewer training programmes improve the quality of reviews paper The London School of Economics And Political Science
Non-preferred reviewers and editorial discretion Small Pond Science
How to review a manuscript: Journal editors identify 10 key steps for would-be reviewers American Psychological Association
What’s Up with Data Citations? Scholarly Kitchen
***RESEARCH & REPRODUCIBILITY
Before reproducibility must come preproducibility Nature
A survey on data reproducibility and the effect of publication process on the ethical reporting of laboratory research Clinic Ancerres
***HIGHER ED
New Federal Data Also Show Enrollment Declines Inside Higher Ed
In a setback for UMass Boston, all finalists for top job withdraw following faculty criticism Boston Globe
After ex-employee is accused of fraud, UT hires a former federal prosecutor to investigate internal controls Texas Tribune
A Federal Panel Tries to Regulate Accreditation. But Is Anyone Paying Attention? Chronicle of Higher Ed
College Does Help the Poor (opinion) New York Times
Why Is Undergraduate College Enrollment Declining? NPR
USC President C.L. Max Nikias to step down LA Times
Calvin College will change its name to Calvin University by 2020 Christianity Today
DeVos looks to ease rules on religious colleges Politico
Fuller Seminary to Leave Pasadena Campus Christianity Today
Small Christian College Announces It Will Close Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Trauma Can Interfere With Students’ Learning. Here’s Something Professors Can Do to Help. Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Second Wave of MOOC Hype is Here, and it’s Online Degrees Ed Surge
Do Photos of Teaching on Your Campus Look Staged and Static? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Trauma Can Interfere With Students’ Learning. Here’s Something Professors Can Do to Help. Chronicle of Higher Ed
Teaching Eval Shake-Up Inside Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Proud mom orders ‘Summa Cum Laude’ cake online. Publix censors it Washington Post
'Disgusting and horrible': Community reacts to UO statement after student dies at Shasta Lake OregonLive
College kids want to save the world, just don’t ask them to volunteer Fast Company
Democrats pin midterm hopes on millennials Politico
Inside Gay Students’ Fight to Be Heard at BYU Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENTS & FINANCE
Should Businesses Help Employees Pay Off Their Student Loans? The Atlantic
By the Numbers: Changes in Graduate Student Debt Over Time New America
Eligible for financial aid, nearly a million students never get it Hechinger Report
***ACADEMIC LIFE
U. of Kentucky Moves to Fire Tenured Professor for Telling Students to Buy His Book Kentucky.com
A researcher has agreed to leave WSU in return for a $300,000 settlement over infringement of his academic freedom Seattle Times
***STUDENT MEDIA
Missouri scraps student press freedom bill for third year in a row Student Press Law Center
We never planned to work in a college newspaper. Here’s why we’re glad we did The Collegian
Principal won't renew contract for one of nation’s top journalism advisers Student Press Law Center
A college journalist learns why independent press critical to democracy The Morning Call
Suppressed Press at Christian Colleges: New student coalition is alleging religious institutions are regularly squashing student newspapers Inside Higher Ed
Listen to the Young
/Listen hardest to people younger than you. They are ignorant and generally have lowly jobs, but their fragments of knowledge will be more cutting-edge than yours. -Simon Kuper
Where to Begin
/Begin with the end in mind. -Stephen R. Covey
forget yourself
/Get lost in a book. Watch a sunset. Do things that make you forget yourself.
Winging It
/There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending parent-teacher conferences. Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.
Pamela Druckerman writing in the New York Times
unsolicited advice
/Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth. Mary Schmich
seeing
/You see, but you do not observe. -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) born May 22, 1858)
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