Giving yourself time to play

Play has a positive impact on creativity because— in addition to helping us both mind-wander and diversify— it stimulates positive emotion, which research shows leads to greater insight and better problem solving. Barbara Fredrickson of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, found that positive emotions increase our cognitive resources by expanding our visual attention. When we feel good, we gain the ability to pay attention to a wider range of experiences. We see the big picture rather than getting bogged down in the details. In other words, if you feel stuck in a rut or you can’t think yourself out of a problem or don’t see a way out of a situation, play may be a way of getting “unstuck” and coming up with innovative ideas.

Just as joy and fun can make you more creative, creativity in turn enhances your well- being. The more creative you become, the more joy you invite into your life. Nikola Tesla wrote, “I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. . . . Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”

By naturally tapping into your inner creativity, you reconnect with the joy you had as a child playing. You engage in a positive feedback loop that continues to replenish you with joy and creativity. It makes for an adult life rich with delight and inventiveness.

Stanford psychologist Emma Seppälä writing in the Washington Post

Articles of Interest - July 2

***TECHNOLOGY

Harvard scientists develop material that can change its surface shape at the microscale on the fly  Harvard

Is the Solution to the Data Storage Crunch your DNA?  Wired

Satellites could show airplanes faster long-haul routes in mid-air  Quartz 

Google opens its human-sounding Duplex AI to public testing  CNET 

How roboticists are copying nature to make fantastical machines  Wired

Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up: more detailed maps built from its own data for the first time  Tech Crunch 

***TECHNOLOGY: FACIAL RECOGNITION 

Orlando Airport Will Be First in the U.S. to Scan Faces of All International Passengers  Conde Nash Traveler 

Facial Recognition Software is Not Ready for use by Law Enforcement  Tech Crunch 

This Japanese AI security camera shows the future of surveillance will be automated  The Verge

 ***SOCIAL MEDIA 

The data behind winning Instagram captions  News Whip 

How Instagram Is Eating The World  Forbes

Only 'Influencers' Can Take Photos at This LA Mural and People Are Pissed  Vice

***FACEBOOK

Slate Traffic Plummets as a result of FB’s retreat from the news business  Slate 

Facebook is stepping back from its plan to bring the internet to the world via giant drones Quartz 

Facebook bug randomly unblocked some users from people’s block lists  The Verge

Facebook is buying UK’s Bloomsbury AI: It’s all about fighting fake News  Tech Crunch 

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA  

In both the U.S. and China, more people say they’ll watch matches via live video online than via terrestrial, cable, or satellite television  Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Quartz sale doesn’t give digital media players much to cheer about  Columbia Journalism Review  

***JOURNALISM

How can design processes help your newsroom?  Medium

Post dismisses reporter for lax attribution in ‘aggregated’ news stories  Washington Post

News outlets join forces to track down children separated from their parents by the U.S.  Poynter 

Advertising is not journalism  Union-Tribune 

Small-town American newspapers are surprisingly resilient  Economist

Why LinkedIn wants to make original journalism  The Drum 

***THE VALUE OF JOURNALISM

How we know journalism is good for democracy  Local News Lab 

Can journalists counteract hatred toward the press? It starts with explaining what we do  Poynter 

The Importance Of Local Journalism  NPR 

***JOURNALISM: THE CAPITAL GAZETTE SHOOTING  

Dave Barry: My heart aches for Capital Gazette shooting victims  Miami Herald

The war against the press comes to the local newsroom  Columbia Journalism Review

More than 350 org. and individuals sign condemnation of mass murder at the Capital Gazette and negative environment for journalists  The Student Press Law Center

Trump says Maryland shooting 'filled our hearts with grief'  CNN

Trump’s press attacks didn’t cause the Annapolis tragedy: But there is a connection  Washington Post

Former Capital Gazette reporter grieves colleagues who died in Annapolis shooting  Delaware Online 

An act of violence against one journalist is an attack on all of us  Union-Tribune

Trump won’t Lower Flag for Cap Gaz Shooting as he has for Other Mass Shootings  Mashable      

***JOURNALISM: SAFETY 

The Newsroom Is No Longer a Safe Place  Politico

How Rare Are Attacks On Journalists?  NPR

Defend Yourself AND the News Provides: practical advice for turbulent times  RTDNA

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

2018 Research: Women and people of color in local TV and radio news   RTDNA

***TEACHING JOURNALISM 

How VR in Journalism Education Keeps Learners Abreast With a Rocky Media Landscape  eLearning Inside 

***FAKE NEWS

Rapidly expanding fact-checking movement faces growing pains  Washington Post

Adobe is using machine learning to make it easier to spot Photoshopped images  The Verge

A Web Tool That Lets People Choose Their Own ‘Sources of Truth’  The Atlantic

Americans may appreciate knowing when a news story is suspect, but more than a third will share that story anyway  Knight Foundation 

***FAKE NEWS OUTSIDE THE U.S.

A guide to anti-misinformation actions around the world  Poynter 

Fake news, rumour and censorship in the Middle Kingdom  Monday Note

***BIG DATA & AI 

One day AI programs may need therapists—seriously  Axios 

Ways to think about machine learning and avoid some of the misconceptions out there  Ben Evans Blog

How Quantum Computing Works and Why It’s Important  Medium

Is the Solution to the Data Storage Crunch your DNA?  Wired 

How to Execute R and Python in SQL Server with Machine Learning Services  Data Science Central 

The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in 8 U.S. Cities are central to an NSA spying initiative that has for years monitored billions of emails, phone calls, and online chats  The Intercept 

***THE INTERNET

How to fix what has gone wrong with the internet  Economist 

Our Online Behavior is a Design Problem  Medium  

The story of the internet is all about layers  How the internet lost its decentralised innocence Economist 

Ecommerce Website Redesign: A Technical SEO Checklist  Search Engine Journal

Stopping the internet from getting too concentrated will be a slog, but the alternative would be worse  Economist

Make Wikipedia Even Better  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***PERSONAL GROWTH 

Malcolm Gladwell's 12 Rules for Life  Revisionist History Podcast  Revisionist History

Why are Russians so stingy with their smiles?  The Conversation

Being rational all the time isn’t going to do you any favors  Quartz

***GRAMMAR

That Adverb in Melania Trump’s jacket  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***WRITING & READING

Instead of abandoning print, the 119-year-old MIT Technology Review is doubling down on it  Harvard's Nieman Lab

How the Self-Publishing Industry Changed, Between My First and Second Novels  LongReads

***LANGUAGE

Koko Is Dead, but the Myth of Her Linguistic Skills Lives On  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Switzerland’s Mysterious Fourth Language  BBC

***LITERATURE

Translators' group brings international literature to Chicago  Chicago Tribune

‘Frankenstein’ Author Mary Shelley on Creativity'  Brain Pickings

Book clinic: which literature would inspire a men’s prison reading group?  The Guardian

Why aren't schools teaching black literature?  Baltimore Sun

Capturing the voice of a brilliant, unorthodox teacher of literature  Economist

Clean, Well-Spoken: Hemingway’s Cuban Spanish  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The 39 best health and science books to read this summer  Stat News

Discover What to Read Next With This 'Instagram for Books'  Life Hacker

***GENDER   

‘Tormented and traumatized’: Rage toward women fuels mass shooters  Washington Post

Women in public-facing journalism jobs are exhausted by harassment  Poynter 

Researchers preferentially collaborate with same-gendered colleagues across the life sciences  BioRx

The midterm elections are shaping up to have a giant gender gap  Vox

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

The Elevation of Anti-Semitic Pseudoscience  Undark

Race-Conscious Admissions Returns to the Spotlight  Chronicle of Higher Ed

New data shows US hate crimes continued to rise in 2017  The Conversation

White supremacist propaganda is inundating college campuses, civil rights group says  Washington Post

***FREE SPEECH

The invincibly ignorant and the intellectual huckster have every right to express their opinions, but their right to free speech is not the right to an audience  New York Times

Is That Opinion Hate Speech? Here’s A Checklist To Find Out  Daily Infographic

***LEGAL ISSUES

Campus Lawyers’ Deepest Fear: the Protest or Tweet That Spins Into a Free-Speech Crisis Chronicle of Higher Ed

***PRIVACY

California passes strictest online privacy law in the country  CNN

Here are 5 key details in California’s new privacy law  Fast Company

At this Chinese school, Big Brother was watching students — and charting every smile or frown  LA Times

Here's why the NSA just deleted all of the calls and texts it collected since 2015  Tech Republic

***RELIGION

How Antebellum Christians Justified Slavery  Daily Jstor

One of Hillsong's latest hits sparks debate on evolution   Christianity Today

5 facts about Episcopalians  Pew Research Center

Archdiocese of Washington apologizes after Maryland family kicked out of funeral  Fox-5

***MEGACHURCHES

Willow Creek leaders issue public apologies for mishandling allegations  Chicago Tribune

Mega church pastor resigns after investigation into 'inappropriate conduct'  Fox-9 

Pastor of Tacoma megachurch dismissed over accusations of inappropriate behavior  Q13 Fox

***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE U.S.

In El Salvador, Becoming An Evangelical Is A Way Out Of A Gang  NPR

5 facts about religion in India  Pew Research Center

Christian Group Surprises Pride Crowd, Apologizes For Anti-LGBTQ Views  Huffington Post  

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

The “Star-Spangled Banner” in church? Some Christians are questioning the mix of patriotism and God  Washington Post

Supreme Court ruling may pave way for more faith-based pregnancy centers  The Hill

***GOOD NEWS

"Hello Kitty" bullet train to debut in Japan  CBS

Joyful parade fulfills two wishes for 107 year old: When asked what she wanted for her birthday, Myda Lewis said "I want people to be happy"  Stillwater News Press

***ART & DESIGN

Here's What 49 Iconic Disney Characters Would Probably Look Like IRL  BuzzFeed

Duchamp's famous urinal sculpture was actually created by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven  BoingBoing

Winners of the 2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest  The Atlantic

Bookstore photo series perfectly juxtaposes patrons with book covers  BoingBoing

***TRAVEL

National Trust’s List of 11 Most Endangered Places includes Route 66, Mount Vernon  Curbed

19 of the Most Beautiful Streets in the World  Architectural Digest

17 Mistakes Tourists Make When Visiting NYC For The First Time  BuzzFeed  

***FILM

10 Great First Movies For Your Kids  Fatherly

A Montage of Dance Moments from Almost 300 Feature Films  Open Culture

***HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

While Reporting At The World Cup, Female Journalists Are Sexually Harassed  NPR

How Colleges and Organizations Can Stop the Cycle of Faculty Sexual Abuse  Chronicle of Higher Ed

6 women on how they deal with sexism and discrimination at work  Fast Company

***HARASSMENT & ASSAULT ON CAMPUS

How a Student Used Title IX to Force Her College to Change Its Response to Cases of Sexual Assault  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Texas History prof accused of inappropriate behavior and using his social-justice standing to divert the narrative  Stephenville Empire-Tribune

How Colleges and Organizations Can Stop the Cycle of Faculty Sexual Abuse  Chronicle of Higher Ed

A Star Scientist From The Max Planck Society Allegedly Harassed And Bullied Her Colleagues  BuzzFeed News

Acclaimed UC Irvine geneticist who gave millions to the campus resigns due to sexual harassment  LA Times

***CRIME ON CAMPUS

Police officer who fatally shot Antwon Rose II left his campus job after his testimony and evidence didn’t add up  Pittsburg Post-Gazette

Man Killed By Armed Portland State University Officers Had Valid Concealed Carry Permit When He Died  OPB

***SOCIAL ISSUES

Scientists can track the spread of opioids in sewers. But do cities want to know what lies below?  Stat News

***BUSINESS & FINANCE

How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs? Older than you think  Northwestern

Republican tax law hits churches Some nonprofits could start paying taxes for the first time  Politico

Why Startups Are Thriving Outside Silicon Valley  Aspenideas

Can LinkedIn finally kill the business card with new mobile app QR codes?  Tech Republic

I spent 2 days on a bus with a billionaire and a celebrity author while they toured America to invest $150 million in local business  Business Insider

How regulators can prevent excessive concentration online  Economist

30 Fake Business Blog Posts Someone Should Have Written Already  Medium

***ENVIRONMENT

Rising seas: 'Florida is about to be wiped off the map'  The Guardian

How can climate policy stay on top of a growing mountain of data?  The Guardian

Hawaii Bans Common Sunscreens To Protect Coral Reefs  NPR

***HEALTH

Hundreds of new genes may underlie intelligence—but also autism and depression  Science Mag

Modified polio vaccine extends lives in U.S. brain cancer study  Reuters

Marketing firm Exactis leaked a personal info database with 340 million records  Wired

With Funding Scarce, HealthNewsReview.org Hurtles Toward Closure  Undark

Seemingly Healthy Food For Kids That Have Shocking Amounts of Sugar  Daily Infographic

***HEALTH & TECHNOLOGY

Amazon could radically change how you get prescriptions  CNN

Kids of millennials may never know a doctor visit without AI  Tech Republic

***FAMILY

Helicopter parenting is bad for children  The Times

U.S. women are postponing motherhood, but not as much as those in most other developed nations  Pew Research Center

America's work-life balance isn't so great  Axios

***SCIENCE

The first-ever interstellar object observed traveling through Earth's solar system confirmed to be a comet, but does not exhibit usual dust trails  Science Mag

***PSYCHOLOGY

The surprising thing the 'marshmallow test' reveals about kids in an instant-gratification world  LA Times

Live Nation rigged an entire concert to measure the biometrics of music fans  Fast Company

One day AI programs may need therapists  Axios

A big collaboration is trying to understand diseases of the psyche  Economist

The Famous Break Up of Sigmund Freud & Carl Jung (video)  Open Culture

New Jersey to Suspend Prominent Psychologist for Failing to Protect Patient Privacy  Pro Propublica

Psychologists Looked In The Mirror … And Saw A Bunch Of Liberals Here’s how this might affect their research  FiveThirtyEight

Campus mental health forums pay off, study shows  Ed Dive

***NEUROSCIENCE  

Why your brain never runs out of problems to find  The Conversation

The eye's structure holds information about the health of the mind: It is a window to the brain  Economist

One sentence with 7 meanings unlocks a mystery of human speech  Wired

***PHILOSOPHY

What’s the point of philosophy? A new philosophy paper says there isn’t one  Quartz

***PRODUCTIVITY

The best tools and tech to create a podcast in 2018  Poynter

***RESEARCH RETRACTIONS

CDC retracts finding that farmers have the highest suicide rate in the country  New Food Economy

Scientists Rarely Admit Mistakes: A New Project Wants to Change That  Undark  

***RESEARCH REPLICATION

Statistical Rituals: The Replication Delusion and How We Got There  Sage Journalism

Improving analysis and reporting of incomplete data will make reproducibility and replicability efforts easier (abstract)  Social Science & Medicine

Can We Science Our Way out of the Reproducibility Crisis?  PLOS

***RESEARCH

CrossFit’s strident spokesperson (and Liberty U grad) Russell Berger was winning a war against junk science — until his anti-LGBT bigotry got him fired  Buzzfeed News

The Benefits and Pitfalls of Google Scholar  Cambridge University Press

Some science journals that claim to peer review papers do not do so  Economist

African scientists launch their own preprint server  Nature

Sports science journal has just banned a flawed statistical method  FiveThirtyEight

Philip Zimbardo defends the Stanford Prison Experiment, his most famous work  Vox

How Dennis Wall became the ‘bad boy’ of autism research  Spectrum News

***HIGHER ED

A  College Considers Taking the ‘Liberal’ Out of ‘Liberal Education’  Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Defining and Delivering on Quality in Higher Education  Medium 

What Does Justice Kennedy’s Retirement Mean for Higher Education?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Western Illinois Will Lay Off 24 Faculty Members, Including 7 With Tenure  Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Notre Dame students sue school, White House over birth control policy  Reuters

AD: Baylor regents displayed racism, preferred misleading report on rape scandal  Waco Tribune

***HUMANITIES & STEM

Digital Humanities and the Child Separation Crisis  Wired 

Why it's so hard to diversify STEM fields  California Sunday 

***TEACHING

What Podcasts Can Teach Us About Teaching  Chronicle of Higher Ed

University develops rubric to certify students' soft skills  Ed Dive 

***ACADEMIC LIFE 

No More Chili Pepper: RateMyProfessors Ditches ‘Hotness’ Ratings  Chronicle of Higher Ed

In Nigeria, a battle against academic plagiarism heats up  Science Magazine  

Why the Supreme Court Ruling on Unions Could Be Good for Adjuncts  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Second of 3 Dartmouth professors under criminal probe quits  Union Leader 

Was a Renowned Literary Theorist Also a Spy?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Liberty University professor arrested and charged with online sexual exploitation of a minor  News Advance

***STUDENT MEDIA  

How is college radio faring in the streaming era?  Economist

In California, journalists lean on student reporters for education coverage  Columbia Journalism Review

Student photojournalist who sued to retain copyright for his work is vindicated  Student Press Law Center

Student journalist investigates lack of sexual misconduct records for teachers  Columbia Journalism Review

***STUDENT LIFE

Should Working Learners Get a Tax Break?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Why Teen Employment Numbers Are Down  NPR 

The Rise of College ‘Grade Forgiveness’  The Atlantic 

The share of teens with summer jobs has plunged since 2000, and the type of work they do has shifted  Pew Research Center 

As A Mental Health Crisis Sweeps Across Colleges, Students Step Up To Fix It  Huffington Post

California Will Be Fourth State to Sue Navient Over Student Loans   New York Times

The view you adopt for yourself 

For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value. How does this happen? How can a simple belief have the power to transform your psychology and, as a result, your life? 

Believing that your qualities are carved in stone — the fixed mindset — creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over. If you have only a certain amount of intelligence, a certain personality, and a certain moral character — well, then you’d better prove that you have a healthy dose of them. It simply wouldn’t do to look or feel deficient in these most basic characteristics.

I’ve seen so many people with this one consuming goal of proving themselves — in the classroom, in their careers, and in their relationships. Every situation calls for a confirmation of their intelligence, personality, or character. Every situation is evaluated: Will I succeed or fail? Will I look smart or dumb? Will I be accepted or rejected? Will I feel like a winner or a loser? . . .

There’s another mindset in which these traits are not simply a hand you’re dealt and have to live with, always trying to convince yourself and others that you have a royal flush when you’re secretly worried it’s a pair of tens. In this mindset, the hand you’re dealt is just the starting point for development. This growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts. Although people may differ in every which way — in their initial talents and aptitudes, interests, or temperaments — everyone can change and grow through application and experience.

Do people with this mindset believe that anyone can be anything, that anyone with proper motivation or education can become Einstein or Beethoven? No, but they believe that a person’s true potential is unknown (and unknowable); that it’s impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training.

Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

The origins of our anger

Problems of anger begin as seed thoughts of self-pity, discouragement, jealousy, or some other negative thought. One’s thought life is the key ingredient in behavioral and emotional control; therefore thoughts prior to and during times of anger are important. Thoughts give emotional feelings prolonged existence and strength, and lead interpretation to vague emotions.

When anger feelings begin, people should “listen” to themselves think. Their minds are constantly making value judgments, decisions, and comparisons. Therefore, there always exists the opportunity to intercept anger by changing these thoughts.

Gary Collins, Counseling and Anger

Articles of Interest - June 25

***TECHNOLOGY

IBM Touts Breakthrough Technology As Computer Debates A Person  NPR

A new type of battlefield network is in development   Economist 

This AI program could beat you in an argument—but it doesn’t know what it’s saying  MIT Technology Review 

Control robots with brainwaves and hand gestures  MIT Technology Review 

‘Stealth’ material hides hot objects from infrared eyes  University of Wisconsin-Madison

***TECHNOLOGY: WEARABLES

The reason thousands of Swedish people are inserting microchips into themselves  Quartz

Snap’s Spectacles are now basically a GoPro for your face  Quartz

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA  

The future of TV advertising in today’s digital world  MARTech   

Forecast growth in global ad spending, by medium  The Atlas

***JOURNALISM

What journalists can learn from their local TV weather forecast  American Press Institute 

Advocates are becoming journalists. Is that a good thing?  Columbia Journalism Review 

The decline and fall of entertainment reporting  Columbia Journalism Review 

Reddit launches a ‘News’ tab into beta testing  TechCrunch

The Augmented Newsroom: How will AI impact the journalism we know?  Medium

***JOURNALISM: INTERVIEWS 

Times under fire for agreeing to White House terms on Miller interview   Columbia Journalism Review 

National Enquirer sent Trump stories to Michael Cohen before publication  CNN

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Freelancers are precarious. When should they push back?  Columbia Journalism Review 

Tronc finally realizes it has a stupid name  New York Post

***TEACHING JOURNALSIM

LinkedIn can be an avenue to new audiences, Maryland students find  Poynter

Journalism head at Wayne State resigns amid misconduct investigation  The South End

***FAKE NEWS

What Advertising History says about the Future of Fake News  New York Times

Reuters study: the duopoly should fight fake news faster & brands must hone in on misplacement  The Drum

Americans grapple with recognizing facts in news stories  Reuters 

Conservatives & Liberals both take to propaganda on Russian TV  NPR 

MediaWise teaches 500 teens to fact-check the internet  Poynter

Truepic, a startup that detects deepfake pictures and videos, just raised $8 million  Quartz

Americans believe two-thirds of news on social media is misinformation  Poynter

The Best Defense Against Fake News in Social Media  Tech News World***THE INTERNET

19 Incredibly Useful Websites You’ll Wish You Knew Earlier  Medium 

Is your website ADA-compliant? Avoid becoming a litigation target  Miami Herald

***BIG DATA & AI 

The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities are central to an NSA spying initiative that monitors billions of emails, phone calls, and online chats  The Intercept

New AI method increases the power of artificial neural networks by speeding the training of algorithms  Phys.org

Work boycott by Google engineers refusing to build security tool to win military contracts  Bloomberg

Chinese Hackers Target Satellite, Geospatial Imaging, Defense Companies  Bleeping Computer 

Facebook uses  “in-painting” where a program fills in a space with what it thinks belongs there  to replace closed eyes with open ones  Tech Crunch 

Sloppy reporting of statistics in research papers is widespread but now, an algorithm may limit the hiding places for untrustworthy scientific paper  Economist

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Twitter users are analytical in the morning, angsty at night  Wired

Buying Instagram is probably the smartest thing Facebook has ever done  Quartz

The news that bots share on Twitter tends not to focus on politics  Pew Research Center

***FACEBOOK

Facebook Watch Aims to Reinvent TV With New Interactive Shows  Variety

Facebook blocks ad for actual news claiming it's 'political'  Mashable

***MOBILE

 Rebel developers are trying to cure our smartphone addiction — with an app  Washington Post

Google’s Augmented Reality tape measure app comes to Android phones  Ars Technica

***PRIVACY 

Supreme Court cracks down on government snooping through cellphone location records  USA Today 

Bill could give Californians unprecedented control over data  Wired

***PRODUCING MEDIA

Google's new podcast app could turbocharge the industry  Wired 

Best YouTube Videos of All Time, Ranked  Thrillist

***PERSONAL GROWTH 

I can prove you are no smarter than a pigeon   Becoming (my blog)

How We Got to Be So Self-Absorbed: The Long Story (book review)   New York Times

Everyone suffers when you apologize for asking questions  Fast Company

***GRAMMAR

A ‘New Yorker’ Style Book  Chronicle of Higher Ed

9 grammar rules you're probably breaking without realizing it  Business Insider

***WRITING & READING

Librarian Nancy Pearl Picks 7 Books For Summer Reading  NPR

I’ve Quit Writing Personal Essays About Quitting Things: A Personal Essay (satire)  The New Yorker

The Best Algorithm-Driven Writing Instruction You Can Imagine  Inside Higher Ed

***LANGUAGE

From Snoopy to Shark Bait: The Top Slang Word in Each State  Mental Floss

Librarian Nancy Pearl Picks 7 Books For Summer Reading  NPR

***LITERATURE

Top 20 picks for the best books of the year so far  Amazon

Read a Huge Annotated Online Edition of Frankenstein: A Modern Way to Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Classic Novel  Open Culture

Library Association Removes Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Name from Award  Associated Press

***GENDER   

Long Term Trend: Fewer men in the workforce, higher percentage of women  New York Times

If you don’t have gender equality in your newsroom, it’s like running on one leg  Harvard's Nieman Lab

How the New York Times and Gizmodo tackle gender diversity in the newsroom  journalism.co

Why Women Don’t Code  Quillette

Why don’t women code? A UW lecturer’s answer draws heat  Seattle Times

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

SNL’s Black Jeopardy: An Oral History  Vulture

***FREE SPEECH

UW to pay $122,500 in legal fees in settlement with College Republicans over free speech  Seattle Times

Speaking of speech: What should colleges do when controversial figures want to come to campus?  Washington Post

***LEGAL ISSUES

Do undocumented immigrants have the right to a day in court? The Supreme Court answered in 1896  Quartz

How to Lose a Copyright Case: Court Finds Photos of Teeth Lack Sufficient Bite  Law.com

***SUMMER TRAVEL

2018’s Best & Worst States for Summer Road Trips  Wallet Hub

10 Summer Travel Scams You Need to Take Seriously  Reader’s Digest

***PHOTOGRAPHY & DESIGN

The best photography portfolio websites for showing off your work  Digital Trends

How Do We Design Workplaces That Support Mental Health And Well-Being  Forbes

***RELIGION

Amid #MeToo fallout, Southern Baptist males quietly leaving jobs  Baptist News Global   

Aimee Semple McPherson: The L.A. evangelist who built the world's first megachurch  LA Times

Rachel Held Evans: The Ever-evolving influence of a ‘Bible nerd’-turned author  Washington Post

Key findings on the global rise in religious restrictions  Pew Research Center

Ken Ham Calls Andy Stanley a ‘False Teacher’  Christian Headlines  

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

What Role Does Religion Play In American Politics?  NPR

Jeff Sessions' pastor addresses 'firestorm' over church charges against AG  CNN

***GOOD NEWS

Teen's encounter with deaf-blind man on flight goes viral  King-5

A man helped a woman stranded in a wheelchair: What he did next went viral  Washington Post

Town's oldest resident gets her own birthday parade  CBS-17

Eau Claire woman discovers neighbor is her long-lost sister  WISN

***MUSIC

Tracing an ’80s hip-hop beat back to 1910: Linking Stravinsky to Planet Rock (video)  Recode

Cook County inmates call new jail recording studio 'a blessing'; officials hope it reduces recidivism  Chicago Tribune

***FILM

10 Best Movies of 2018 So Far  Rolling Stone

***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

6 Simple Guidelines to Keep in Mind When Updating Your LinkedIn Profile Picture  Inc. Magazine

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

Interim president of Michigan State objected to the use of the color teal, which victims of Larry Nassar's sexual abuse have adopted as a symbol of solidarity  Freep

FBI: Sexual assaults on flights increasing 'at an alarming rate'  CNN

Ohio State Shuts Down Office That Helped Sexual-Assault Victims  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Former Wisconsin student gets Light Sentence for of sexual assaults  Chicago Tribune

***BUSINESS & FINANCE

How to Vet Charities for Immigrant Children  Consumer Reports

***ENVIRONMENT

As Carbon Dioxide Levels Rise, Major Crops Are Losing Nutrients  NPR

A history of modern capitalism from the perspective of the straw  The Atlantic

***HEALTH

Brain Balance's Approach To Autism, ADHD: High Hopes, High Costs And Slim Science  NPR

Smoking hits all-time low in U.S.  NBC

DNA Snippet Once Called 'Junk' Found To Drive The Development Of Embryos  NPR

The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready?  The Atlantic

Herpes Viruses And Alzheimer's: A Possible Link  NPR

I learned I have Sleep Apnea – its more serious than many people realize  New York Times

The debate over precision medications  NPR

***PSYCHOLOGY

WHO classifies 'gaming disorder' as mental health condition  CNN

Most shooters got their guns legally, didn't have diagnosed mental illness, new FBI report says  USA Today

Police Shootings And Mental Health  NPR

Extremely hot weather makes people more unhappy than getting a divorce  Quartz

Hawaii Becomes 12th state to ban conversion therapy for minors  MuckRock

***NEUROSCIENCE  

Brain imaging is illuminating the neural patterns behind pain’s infinite variety  The New Yorker

Scientists Discover fundamental rule of brain plasticity: when a synapse strengthens, its neighbors weaken  MIT

***PHILOSOPHY

The Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers  Open Culture

What happened when philosophers set up a public booth to answer anyone’s question  Quartz

An Introduction to Ivan Ilyin, the Philosopher Behind the Authoritarianism of Putin’s Russia & Western Far Right Movements  Open Culture

***PRODUCTIVITY

Overscheduling Your Days Can Wreck Your Productivity  Life Hacker

Robots? Training? Factories Tackle the Productivity Puzzle  New York Times

***HISTORY

New Archive of Middle Eastern Photography Features 9,000 Digitized Images  Open Culture  

***RESEARCH

US gov delays Revisions to Common Rule Delayed Until January 21, 2019  Ropes & Gray LLP

Institutional versus commercial email addresses: which one to use in your publications?  The London School of Economics and Political Science

How Much Editorial Misconduct Goes Unreported?  Scholarly Kitchen

Stop saying that publication metrics don’t matter, and tell early-career researchers what does Nature

Medical journals should embrace preprints to address the reproducibility crisis  International Journal of Epidemiology   

Regression to the mean continues to confuse people and lead to errors in published research  Statistical Modeling Causal Inference & Social Science

***RESEARCH: THE PUBLISHERS   

Introducing the Free Journal Network – community-controlled open access publishing  The London School of Economics and Political Science

Tips to avoid predatory journals and conferences  University Affairs

How do you choose a journal when it’s time to submit a paper?  Scientist Sees Squirrel

***RESEARCH & MISCONDUCT

How Much Editorial Misconduct Goes Unreported?  Scholarly Kitchen

In science, is brilliance ever an excuse for bad behaviour?  Australian Broadcasting Corporation

***RESEARCH & PEER REVIEW

The 3 Types of Peer Reviewer  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The BMJ’s Patient Review Initiative — A Novel Expansion of Peer Review  Scholarly Kitchen

Peer Review is Not Scientific: How a process designed to ensure scientific rigor is tainted by randomness, bias, and arbitrary delays  Medium

***RESEARCH: AFTER PUBLICATION

Return of Research Results to Study Participants  JAMA Network

Resubmitting your study to a new journal could become easier  Nature

***HIGHER ED

DeVos urged to probe Chinese spying at U.S. universities  Politico

Faculty Layoffs possible at Quincy College  The Patriot Ledger  

Northeastern University Is Now Handing Out Echo Dots to Its Students  Mental Floss

UCLA's mobile app gauges campus climate issues by reaching students through their phones  Inside Higher Ed

Why I changed my mind about diversity in academia  Washington Post

***HIGHER ED: ACCREDITATION 

It’s time for advocates and policymakers to take up accreditation reform  The Hill 

Southern Accreditor Places 4 Institutions on Probation  Inside Higher Ed

***TEACHING

Hands-on learning is a necessary part of college, but here’s what it doesn’t teach students (opinion)  Washington Post

Not Just for Video Games: Virtual Reality Joins the Classroom  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***ONLINE CLASSES

A program's price is a major factor -- but not the deciding one -- as online students decide where to enroll  Inside Higher Ed

10 business classes you can take online for free  CNBC 

Why College Tuition Is Actually Higher For Online Programs  Forbes

***STUDENT LIFE

Eastern Michigan athletes sue school for dropping their sports  M-live 

68% of millennials worry about debt every day  Axios

Student debt is killing entrepreneurship  Quartz 

***ACADEMIC LIFE 

Appeals court affirms UW-Oshkosh professor records release under open records law  National Review 

Colleges Can Hire Adjunct Faculty Cheap — but Does that Harm Education National Review (opinion)  National Review 

1,300 Professors Sign Letter Condemning Separation of Immigrant Families as Child Abuse  Gizmodo

Academic Group Rebukes U of Nebraska-Lincoln  Associated Press 

Articles of Interest - June 18

***JOURNALISM

Americans and the News Media: What they do — and don’t — understand about each other American Press Institute

In The Quest For Comment, Hurry Up And Wait  NPR

Do journalists deserve some blame for America’s mass shootings?  Quill

You’re probably not quoting enough women. Let us help you.  Columbia Journalism Review

Doxxing, assault, death threats: the new dangers facing US journalists covering extremism  The Guardian

What should count as breaking news in text alerts?  NPR

With its Facebook Watch news show, Alabama’s Reckon wants to make a national audience care about local news  Harvard’s Nieman Lab

As Newspapers Disappear, Local Governments Become Less Fiscally Responsible, Says New Study  Forbes

The documentary series The Fourth Estate tries to humanize the journalists who report the news—It can’t help but fall into a trap  The Atlantic

What Research on ‘Measurable Journalism’ Tells Us About Tech, Cultural Shifts in Digital Media  PBS Media Shift

NPR (yet again) writes uncritically about ketamine for mental illness  NPR

Tiny Alabama Town tries to stop Media from attending City Council meetings without Council Approval—gets national attention, backs down   Jackson County Sentinel

Meet the victims of violence against journalists  Quill

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

'LA Times' New Owner Plans To Compete With 'New York Times,' 'Washington Post'   NPR

More suitors line up as Tronc sells California newspapers   New York Times

***FAKE NEWS

‘The real horror is not knowing what to believe’: Scenes from the Fake News Horror Show  Columbia Journalism Review

Nine takeaways from Knight-supported research on restoring trust in news  Medium

Can a Chrome plugin help solve the fake news problem?  Columbia Journalism Review

Telling the difference between factual and opinion statements in the news  Pew Research Center

How To Tell Whether A News Source Is Credible  Action 4 Media Education 

Wikipedia vandalism could thwart hoax-busting on Google, YouTube and Facebook  Poynter

Quiz: How well can you tell factual from opinion statements?  Pew Research Center

***TECHNOLOGY

MIT Engineers Build Magnetic 3D-Printed Structures That Can Change Shape Near-Instantaneously  Digg

Blockchain visually explained  Flowing Data   

 ***SOCIAL MEDIA

Pedestrian Lane for ‘Smartphone Zombies’ Opens Up in China  NBC New York

How to Pose for a Photograph  New York Times

Instagram Will No Longer Alert Users About Screenshots  Teen Vogue

***FACEBOOK

A state-by-state breakdown of Facebook users impacted by the Cambridge Analytica scandal  Business Insider

If You’re A Facebook User, You’re Also a Research Subject  Bloomberg

Facebook’s Perennial ‘Potential’ in Local  Street Fighting

***PRIVACY

Increased amounts of data and surveillance are transforming justice systems  Economist

It is hard now to avoid street-level surveillance  Economist

Police can bypass encryption and monitor anything  Economist

***INTERNET

The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results  LifeHacker

***BIG DATA & AI

A python library that lets programmers and software developers easily integrate object detection with as little as 10 lines of code  Towards Data Science

DeepMind AI learns to reconstruct scenes from images  Axios

The promise and peril of big-data justice-can algorithms accurately predict where crime will occur?  Economist

A simple evolutionary step in data processing: Data Lake architecture (and its functional requirements)  SmartCat

The world may soon be awash in advanced, lethal drones  Public Integrity

Wondering whether AI can replace a job? it is better to ponder whether it could replace humans at a specific task  Economist

A contentious Pentagon using machine-learning algorithms to interpret drone-surveillance imagery was hacked by people in Russia  Wired

***PERSONAL GROWTH

5 internal contributions to anger  Becoming (my blog)

Gossiping Is Good The surprising virtues of talking behind people’s backs (opinion)  The Atlantic

How to Avoid a Life of Regret  LifeHacker

***WRITING & READING

‘New York Times’ Gets Rid of Copy Editors; Mistakes Ensue  The Chronicle of Higher Ed

A Marketing Site Deleted Over 7,000 Articles After It Was Caught Stealing Fact-Checks And Plagiarizing  BuzzFeed

Princeton Graduate wins Harvard Thesis Prize, kind of: Plagiarism hits the Ivy Leagues  Archinect

***LANGUAGE

Imposter syndrome and pansexual among new words added to oxford English dictionary  Independent

What does it mean to “bear arms”? Big Data Chimes in  Economist

Inside Amazon's painstaking pursuit to teach Alexa French  Wired

‘Fudging’ in Flight: Dubbed Movies on Airplanes  Chronicle of Higher Ed

How language shapes the way we think (video)  TED talk

***LITERATURE

88 books to enjoy this summer: the TED reading list  TED

***GENDER  

The US gender gap in math is starkest in the richest, whitest school districts  Quartz

10 New or Lesser-Known Female Theologians Worth Knowing  Christianity Today

Domestic Violence Expert Resigns From NFL Players Association Commission  NPR

Study: editors of major political science journals demonstrate no systematic bias against female authors—Yet women authors remain underrepresented in the field  Inside Higher Ed

Canada moves to make its national anthem gender-neutral  CNN

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

A Hidden Strength of Minority-Serving Colleges: Meeting Students Where They Are  The Chronicle of Higher Ed

Harvard records show discrimination against Asian-Americans  Reuters  

I am raising my daughter to speak three languages: A stranger demanded I 'speak English' to her  LA Times

***FREE SPEECH

No Consensus on Free Speech  Inside Higher Ed

Snowflakes and Free Speech on Campus  Inside Higher Ed

***LEGAL ISSUES

How a Legal Brawl Between Two Rich Guys Could Change How We Think About DNA  Gizmodo

Librarian sues Equifax—gets surprise win  VT Digger

The “sovereigns of cyberspace” and state action: the first amendment’s application—or lack thereof—to third–party platforms  BTIJ

Twitter and the First Amendment in court  Technology & Marketing Law Blog  

***RELIGION

Charitable giving in US tops $400 billion for first time  AP News

A growing social movement is trying to bring scientific rigour to philanthropy  Economist

Teaching Children To Ask The Big Questions Without Religion  NPR

An all-white church intended to give its building to a black congregation. The plan fell apart.  Washington Post

Why many white evangelicals are not protesting family separations on the U.S. border  Washington Post

***SOUTHERN BAPTISTS

Wave of scandals confront Southern Baptists  CNN

Georgia Baptist church expelled from Southern Baptist Convention over racial discrimination charges  The Tennessean

Pence Speech Riles Some As Southern Baptists' Moderates Gain Strength  NPR

A Lot of Southern Baptist Leaders Are Upset at Mike Pence’s Convention Speech  Relevant Magazine  Relevant Magazine

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Jeff Sessions own church calls policy of separating immigrant families "a shocking violation of the spirit of the Gospel"  AL.com

Sessions cites Bible to defend immigration policies resulting in family separations  CNN

Evangelicals Push Back On Sessions' Use Of Bible Passage To Defend Immigration Policy  NPR

What the Bible really says about government (opinion)  The Week

Religious Groups Criticize Trump Immigration Policies  NPR

***MEGACHURCHES

The rise and fall of a Seattle megachurch through the eyes of an anthropologist  KUOW

Billboard Company Pulls Down Texas Megachurch's 'Christian Nation' Signs Because They're 'Anger Provoking'  IJR

***GOOD NEWS

'Our valedictorian:' Wake County family buys massive billboard space to congratulate son  WRAL

Man on mission to mow lawns for free in all 50 states stops in Nashville  Fox 17

Note to Daddy: Young sisters send balloon to Heaven, receive incredible answer  KHOU

Woman saves pregnant mother, 3-year-old boy from drowning in pool  The Indy Channel

***ART & DESIGN

New design tools on the block  UX Design

What to consider when choosing colors for data visualization  Data Wrapper

***FILM

The Problem With DC Action Scenes (video)  Nerdwriter1

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

After Tronc: Here are 5 corporate rebranding disasters you probably forgot about  Fast Company

Best YouTube Videos of All Time, Ranked  Thrillist

The ad industry’s top buzzwords in 2018  Quartz

***STUDENT MEDIA

If restaurants ran like college papers, diners would starve to death  JournoTerrorist

***STUDENT LIFE

This College Student Gave a Presentation on Wakanda That Fooled His Professor  io9

Teen sex and drug use at lowest rates in decades, CDC finds  CBS News

Professors talk on their favorite summers in college  The Daily Californian (Berkeley student newspaper)  Daily Cal

Google Wants to Play a Bigger Role in Your College Search—Here’s What You Need to Know  The Chronicle of Higher Ed

Younger generations make up a majority of the electorate, but may not be a majority of voters this November  Pew Research

Fire Dept Rescues College Student who Climbed Tree (and didn’t know how to get down)  Fox 6

Leaked Memo From Conservative Group Cautions Students to Stay Away From Turning Point USA  The Chronicle of Higher Ed

You people are the worst! Millennials now blamed for bad tipping  USA Today

Requiring students to live in dormitories is a revenue boost for colleges but doesn't necessarily improve the student experience  Forbes

 

***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

Cut these 5 outdated things from your resume  Moneyish

Lawsuits and #MeToo changed internships — for the better  Quill

10 smart women give advice to this year's interns  Pardot

Recent Film Grads, Welcome to the Gig Economy  Video Strategist   

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

What happens when complaints by angry students go viral and how the university responded The Chronicle of Higher Ed

“Sexual harassment is pervasive throughout academic science, driving talented researchers out of the field and harming others’ careers”  Nature

Scholars heard the NYU professor was under a Title IX investigation. They threw support behind her  The Chronicle of Higher Ed

A student filed the lawsuit this week against a Florida fraternity alleged to have shared videos taken without permission  Washington Post

***SOCIAL ISSUES

Suicide rates are increasing in almost every state  Axios

U.S. Abortion Attitudes Remain Closely Divided  Gallup

Suicide Rates In The U.S. Are Climbing Faster Among Women Than Men  NPR

Georgia Court Green Lights Snapchat Speeding Selfie Lawsuit  The Newspaper

Facebook Plans to Team Up With 15 Community Colleges. What Will That Entail?  The Chronicle of Higher Ed

***BUSINESS & FINANCE

Millionaires Now Own Half of World's Personal Wealth  Bloomberg

***ENVIRONMENT

To avoid humans, more wildlife now work the night shift  The Conversation

***HEALTH

Why eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist  Quartz

Does Vitamin D Really Protect Against Colorectal Cancer?  NPR

What consumer DNA data can and can’t tell you about disease risk  Science News

Why STDs are soaring in America  Economist

Depression and suicide risk are side effects of more than 200 common drugs  Vox

Viruses love what we’ve done with the planet  Quartz

***HEALTH RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY

How AI is improving the speed and precision of medical treatments  Economist

Two studies: Some CRISPR-edited cells may lead to tumors  Stat News

New medical device auto-deploys treatment during heart attacks to halt heart failure  MIT

Errors Trigger Retraction Of Study On Mediterranean Diet's Heart Benefits  NPR

***FAMILY

7 facts about American dads  Pew Research

The Dangers of Distracted Parenting: parents should worry less about kids’ screen time—and more about their own  The Atlantic

***PSYCHOLOGY

Many Common Drugs May Be Making People Depressed  NPR

The Stanford Prison Experiment was a fraud.  The most famous psychological studies are often wrong, fraudulent, or outdated  Vox

The Lifespan of a Lie: Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment?  Medium

Alternate Rom-Com Endings if the Heroines had Therapists  The Bella Donna Comedy

IQ scores are falling and have been for decades  CNN

A new study ranks US states in order of psychopathy  Quartz

***NEUROSCIENCE

We now know what a spiritual awakening looks like inside the brain  Big Think

Brains May Teeter Near Their Tipping Point  Quanta Magazine

***PHILOSOPHY

The Philosopher as Bad Dad (opinion)  New York Times  

Personalism is the philosophy we need (opinion)  New York Times

A philosopher thinks technology could make anarchists’ dreams come true  Quartz

***HISTORY

History gets a conservative twist in Michigan social studies standards  Briggemi

***RESEARCH

Publishers can ensure that citations of zombie publications are caught  Nature

Deciding what to replicate  Pedermisager

What happens when researchers make mistakes  Associated Press

***HIGHER ED

Some want to get rid of college majors – here’s how that could go wrong  The Conversation

Many States Get Mediocre Grades in 2 Studies of Degree Attainment by Race and Ethnicity  The Chronicle of Higher Ed

A small college had removed much of its website—including the names of all faculty and the president’s name  Ottawa Citizen

Sweet Briar College Is Placed on ‘Warning’ by Accreditor  The Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Elon University sued over treatment of donor’s son  The Times

***HIGHER ED & FINANCE

Is Congress about to cut nearly $15 billion from student-aid programs? (opinion)  Hechinger Report

Beyond Tuition: How Innovations in College Affordability Are (Or Aren’t) Helping Students  EdSurge

Michigan Christian university wins suit against abortion-pill mandate  Free

***TEACHING

GPAs don’t really show what students learned: Here’s why  Washington Post

UCSD Instructor Faces Backlash After She Belittles Student on Class Forum  The Chronicle of Higher Ed

***TEACHING ONLINE

The Number of Students Taking in Online Courses Is Quickly Rising, But Perceptions Are Changing Slowly  EdSurge

What Do Online Students Want? 3 Findings From a New Survey Offer Some Clues  The Chronicle of Higher Ed

EdX introduces support fee for free online courses  Inside Higher Ed

Why is YouTube blocking education videos from MIT?  Daily Dot

***ACADEMIC LIFE

What Happens When an Adjunct Instructor Wants to Retire?  The Chronicle of Higher Ed

A seven-time "Jeopardy!" winner faces prison for sneaking into the email accounts of others at her school  Yahoo News

Disrupting the faculty member evaluation model  Education Dive

 

5 internal contributions to anger

1-Self-esteem

People who try to be self-sufficient are easily frustrated and angered when they see evidence of their dependence on others. They get angry at themselves for needing others and they get angry at other people for “keeping” them in this weakness.

2-Desire for Power in Relationships

Some people feel threatened by the need to give up power in love relationships. For instance, a batterer may use anger to intimidate others in a quest for power. It’s a way to caution the abused person against using their own power. To avoid rousing their anger, spouses end up tiptoeing around the other to avoid confrontation because the price is too high to pay.

3-Desire to be Perfect

Unrealistic standards must be met for the person to feel worthwhile and accepted.

Whenever there is a perceived loss of perfection, the person becomes depressed (angry with themselves) for small failures. The student who gets a B-plus instead of an A, etc. These people also set up high standards for others to achieve and are quickly judgmental. They are hurt by others who do not join them in the quest for perfection. Even though they may be chronic confessors, but growth comes slow because they don’t want to accept their limitations.

4-Guilt

Unresolved guilt can lead to irritability. People have trouble admitting their faults.

5-Rejection

Rejection leaves people feeling hurt and worthless. When significant others disdain our contributions or act as if we are inferior and unimportant we bolster self-esteem by rejecting others ourselves, using the weapons of anger and hostility.  Since it does not heal the relationship or self-esteem, it is a temporary fix.