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Articles of Interest - Nov 12
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Study shows that social media limits made people feel less lonely Engadget
Advertisers see value in people with as few as 1,000 followers: the nanoinfluencers New York Times
***MOBILE
Why robocalls have taken over your phone The Verge
The quiet revolution that's making your phone smarter than you at photography Tech Radar
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
How Secure Were The Midterm Elections? NPR
The Best Security and Privacy Tech to keep your Friends Safe Tech Crunch
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Welcome to the age of the hour-long YouTube video Wired
This website lets you make your own emojis BongBong
***INTERNET
Pew Research Center Says Half Of Adults Use YouTube To Learn New Things NPR
***JOURNALISM
The New York Times is digitizing more than 5 million photos dating back to the 1800s Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Apple News’s Radical Approach: Humans Over Machines New York Times
Conflict Photographer Lynsey Addario on Art, Love, and War Big Think
A journalist’s dilemma: wanting to do more to help than tell the story The Ground Truth Project
In cities across America, this morning’s newspaper told you there was an election yesterday — but nothing about it Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Following investigation, Houston Chronicle retracts eight stories Houston Chronicle
Why are some women “news avoiders”? New research suggests one reason has to do with emotional labor Harvard’s Nieman Lab
The Many Voices of Journalism Columbia Journalism Review
The commercial use of FOIA in the service of corporate interests New York Times
So Many College Students Get News on Snapchat Mashable
***FAKE NEWS
These news anchors are professional and efficient: They’re also not human Washington Post
Free Speech and Journals’ Responsibility in Vaccine Debates PLOS
The Acosta Video Debate Is the Future of Fake News Medium
Don’t want to fall for fake news? don’t be lazy Wired
Find Out If You Got Duped By The Internet With This Week's Fake News Quiz BuzzFeed News
WhatsApp awards $1 million for misinformation research Poynter
***STUDENT MEDIA
Dear Journalism Students, You Are NOT The Enemy Dynamics of Writing
Pepperdine Journalism Student Reacts To Thousand Oaks Shooting NPR
***STUDENT LIFE
Gen-Z employees don’t do email Fast Company
Somebody at Hasbro Apparently Thought Monopoly for Millennials was a great idea Mashable
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Tyranny of Clock Time Becoming (my blog)
Do We Grow Less Tolerant of Language Change as We Age? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING & READING
How To Become A Great Writer: George Orwell Medium
Writing advice from author Katie Kitamura PBS
30 Words Of Wisdom From Writers, To Inspire You Through The Rest Of NaNoWriMo Bustle
***LANGUAGE
Arabic has a low profile: Part of the reason is that it is not really a single language at all Economist
Why Do Quarterbacks Say 'Hut Hut Hike?' Digg
Blasphemy and the Strange World of Linguistic Crimes Chronicle of Higher Ed
Where Do We Begin? Language Learning and Grammar Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
The Real Names of 42 Fictional Characters Mental Floss
Read up with our favorite end-of-year books Wired
The Women of Brooklyn’s Well-Read Black Girl Book Club The Cut
***GENDER
Midterms Were Billed 'The Year Of Women' And Indeed They Were NPR
The 2018 Gender Gap Was Huge FiveThirtyEight
How the women in charge of programming at CNN are changing the news we see Fast Company
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
‘We are armed now’: In Kentucky, shootings leave a black church and the white community around it shaken Washington Post
School district investigates boys' apparent Nazi salute taken during prom NBC-15
Local racist angry at protestors in Orange, Texas BoingBoing
Key takeaways about Latino voters in the 2018 midterm elections Pew Research Center
***LEGAL ISSUES
Is Banning Reporters From The White House Legal? Jim Acosta's Press Pass Suspension Sparked Outrage Bustle
The idea of intellectual property is nonsensical and pernicious Aeon
***TECHNOLOGY
Is The Pentagon Modifying Viruses To Save Crops — Or To Wage Biological Warfare? NPR
The 7 Craziest Ways CRISPR Is Being Used Right Now Medium
Radars, Cameras, and Lidar: How Self-Driving Cars See the Road Wired
We Tried Facebook’s New Portal Device (So You Don’t Have To) New York Times
***BIG DATA & AI
Machine learning algorithms don’t yet understand things the way humans do — with sometimes disastrous consequences New York Times
Distinguishing between different types of data scientists..which to hire and what they need to succeed Harvard Business Review
The first proof that quantum computers can outstrip conventional technology Axios
***RELIGION
A Christian Radio Network is edging ever closer to becoming the Trump radio network: Sebastian Gorka Associated Press
Lead Singer for Christian Band Provided Freddy Mercury’s vocals in Bohemian Rhapsody Movie Relevant Magazine
Pepperdine Student, Cal Lutheran Grad Among California Shooting Victims Christianity Today
Randy Alcorn on Evangelical Sex Scandals: Bad Pastors Just Reappear at New Churches, Repeat Sins Christian Post
Baptist attitudes about alcohol may be shifting, observers say The Alabama Baptist
Unification Church Proclaims Christian Era is Over; Next Week Christian Entertainers Open for God’s Daughter Throckmorton Blog
Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren recovering after emergency surgery OC Register
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Faith leaders denounce Trump proclamation denying asylum outside border crossings Religious News Service
Texas Megachurch pastor calls Democrats 'some kind of religion that is basically godless' KHOU
***GOOD NEWS
Fisherman in New Zealand rescues toddler floating at sea Associated Press
9 year old designs Virginia county's "I Voted" sticker CBS News
Heartwarming Photos of Acts of Kindness MSNBC
First-of-its-kind surgery allows child with polio-like illness AFM to walk again CBS News
Boy Has Dished Out More Than 65,000 Doughnuts To Cops To Say Thank You MSNBC
***ART & DESIGN
Why are tech companies making custom typefaces? ARUN
Recycled Packing Materials Sculpted Into Elaborate Renaissance Costumes by Suzanne Jongmans This is Colossal
The top submissions to Nat Geo's 2018 photography contest National Geographic
Why Do Filmmakers Love van Gogh? New Yorker
David Hockney's Portrait of an Artist and the priciest works by living artists ever sold at auction CBC
The Size of Things: Now with Context: An artist models the universe at 1/190 millionth scale Scholarly Kitchen
A New Online Database, Will Feature Works by 600+ Overlooked Female Artists from the 15th-19th Centuries Open Culture
Mary Baldwin shut down an art exhibit after two days when some students said images were racist Inside Higher Ed
***MUSIC
Inside the booming business of background music The Guardian
BMI tells Trump campaign Rihanna's work has been removed from their license agreement LA Times
The Album is in Trouble, and the Music Business Probably Can’t Save it Rolling Stone
Andrea Bocelli Becomes First Classical Artist to Hit No. 1 on Billboard Artist 100 Chart Billboard
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Vice Media to cut workforce by up to 15%, consolidate websites Market Watch
***FILM
The 50 Greatest Movie Dance Scenes of All Time Vulture
***JOURNALISM MOVIES
Review of A Private War: A Journalist Puts Her Life on the Line Chicago Sun-Times
What Makes a Great Movie About Journalism? New Republic
***JOBS
10 Impressive Questions to Ask in a Job Interview The Cut
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
A Professor Accused of Sexual Harassment Faces Novel Penalty: Prospective Students May Read All About It Chronicle of Higher Ed
Dear Dads: Your Daughters Told Me About Their Assaults. This Is Why They Never Told You (opinion) Washington Post
He Spent Four Days In Jail For Sex Crimes Against A Minor: Prosecutors Want Him In Prison BuzzFeed News
Uber has defined 21 categories of sexual misconduct, from leering to rape Quartz
How Schools Can Reduce Sexual Violence NPR
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Mass incarceration is a political choice. It can be undone Economist
Firearms And Dementia: How Do You Convince A Loved One To Give Up Their Guns? NPR
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Visualizing the World's Tech Giants 2018 by Market Cap How Much
To Give a Great Presentation, Distill Your Message to Just 15 Words INNOVATION 3 Business Models That Could Bring Million-Dollar Cures to Everyone Harvard Business Review
***ENVIRONMENT
The ozone layer appears to be successfully repairing itself BBC
Big Oil claims it's doing its part to combat climate change: A new study finds it's not even close Business Insider
***HEALTH
The key to a long life has little to do with ‘good genes’ Wired
Why Doctors Hate Their Computers The New Yorker
Autism Linked to Zinc Deficiency in Childhood Newsweek
The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome: Unexplained brain injuries afflicted dozens of American diplomats and spies The New Yorker
US cigarette smoking rate reaches new low CNN
Fewer than One in Three Americans Meet New Physical Fitness Guidelines Real Talk 910
Do gut bacteria make a second home in our brains? Science Mag
Something Happened to U.S. Drug Costs in the 1990s New York Times
***FOOD
These Men Ate Poison So You Could Have the FDA Gizmodo
Do you love or loathe coffee? Your genes may be to blame National Geographic
The Curse of the Honeycrisp Apple Bloomberg
Every State's Most Important Food Innovation Thrillist
***CHILDREN
Digital Media Is 'Like Cocaine' for Babies’ Developing Brains US News & World Report
Designer Babies Aren’t Futuristic. They’re Already Here MIT Tech Review
Many Turn to YouTube for Children's Content, News, How-To Lessons Pew Research Center
Parents worry more about bullying than anything else Economist \
The school bully has moved online and is following children home Economist
***SCIENCE
Frequent inbreeding may have caused skeletal abnormalities in early humans Science Mag
Stem Cells Remember Tissues’ Past Injuries Quanta Magazine
***PSYCHOLOGY
Super Empaths Are Real, Says Study Vice
Study: young men obsessed with building muscles have higher mental health risks Big Think
Researchers discover a link between nonverbal synchronization and relationship success Big Think
Veteran Suicide (podcast) Axios
***NEUROSCIENCE
Sadness Circuit Found In Human Brain NPR
How to train your brain to accept change, according to neuroscience NBC News
***HISTORY
Is Donald Trump the Andrew Jackson of Our Time? Chronicle of Higher Ed
We once trusted too much in inevitable progress: We got World War The Washington Post
***RESEARCH
The largest database of scientific retractions just went live and makes the process a whole lot easier HowStuffWorks
Scientists struggle with confusing journal guidelines Nature
Rash Of Retractions Highlight Flaws In Science, But Also Self-Correction WGBH
Why Fake Data When You Can Fake a Scientist? Medium
***HIGHER ED
How Americans voted on 6 key higher ed ballot measures Education Dive
The future of work won't be about degrees, it will be about skills CNBC
Feds Prod Universities to Address Website Accessibility Complaints Inside Higher Ed
What the results of the Midterm Elections Mean for Higher Ed Chronicle of Higher Ed
Florida’s College of the Arts will increase its faculty by over 10 percent Inside Higher Ed
Universities under investigation for poor website accessibility Education Dive
The Hottest New Place for University Satellite Campuses: Los Angeles Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Trump Administration Just Reissued Rules Allowing Employers “Religious Or Moral” Exemptions To Covering Birth Control Buzzfeed News
After California massacre, sister universities show support for Pepperdine Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES
We Need Cutting-Edge Humanities More Than Ever Pacific Standard
As Humanities Majors Decline, Colleges Try to Hype Up Their Programs The Atlantic
Employers Want Liberal Arts Grads Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
5 Teaching Tips From ‘How Humans Learn’ Chronicle of Higher Ed
The ‘Holy Grail’ of Class Discussion Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Can Schools Better Persuade Students To Show Up For Class? NPR
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Invisible police in senior academia Neurochambers
Connecticut community college professor put on paid administrative leave for giving Nazi salute Hartford Courant
An academic reported sexual harassment: Her university allegedly retaliated The Verge
The Tyranny of Clock Time
/Clock time is that linear time by which our life is measured in abstract units appearing on clocks, watches, computers, and calendars. These measuring units tell us the month, the day, the hour, and the second in which we find ourselves, and decide for us how much longer we have to speak, listen, eat, sing, study, pray, sleep, play, or stay. Our lives are dominated by our clocks and watches. In particular, the tyranny of the one-hour slot is enormous. There are visiting hours, therapeutic hours, and even happy hours. Without being fully aware of it, our most intimate emotions are often influenced by the clock. The big wall clocks in hospitals and airports have caused much inner turmoil and many tears.
Clock time is outer time, time that has a hard merciless objectivity to it. Clock time leads us to wonder how much longer we have to live and whether “real life” has not already passed us by. Clock time makes us disappointed with today and seems to suggest that maybe tomorrow, next week, and next year it will really happen. Clock time keeps saying, Hurry, hurry, time goes fast, maybe you wil miss the real thing! But there is still a chance.. Hurry to get married, find a job, visit a country, read a book, get a degree…Try to take it all in before you run out of time.”
Clock time always makes us depart. It breeds impatience and prevents any compassionate being together.
Henri Nouwen, Donald McNeill, Douglas Morrison from the book Compassion
There will come a point
/There will come a point in the race, when you alone will need to decide. You will need to make a choice. Do you really want it? You will need to decide. -Rolf Arands, a runner
Throwing Away your Children’s Art
/When I first tried throwing away my own young children’s art…I felt an ache as I pitched it into the trash. There’s a moment when a child first presents you with her art, holding it out with the last split second of attention she can muster after completing it. That moment contains a burst of pride on both your parts, and a frisson of mutual love. But in the end, your pride lasts longer than the child’s does. Eventually, and soon, it must move on to another venture. Theirs always does, but yours lingers, heartstrings tugged.
It’s the wish to prolong this moment artificially, I think, that motivates the urge to keep and curate your children’s art for posterity. You convince yourself there’s some future where your child will want to return to that moment of pride and love through the act of witnessing the thing she made so long ago.
Don’t fall for it. You’re only trying to make yourself feel better. You’ll never quite be able to tell which moment your children will remember, and it’s not as if you can regulate that memory on their behalf anyway. And besides, childhood is made from a thousand moments just like this. There’s no way to hold on to all of them.
Of course, you shouldn’t throw something away that your kids say they want to keep. But absent that urge, and particularly in the early years before it develops, most children’s art exists to be destroyed. The point of life isn’t to prolong youth, but to have grown up. That requires discarding things along the way, and enjoying the appropriate relief. That’s the kind of activity a parent ought to put their moral and aesthetic weight behind.
Mary Townsend writing in The Atlantic
the tough stuff
/There is no use saying you have community or love for each other if it does not get down into the tough stuff of life. -Francis Schaeffer
Articles of Interest - Nov 5
/***THE MIDTERMS
Apple News will launch a real-time election results hub on November 6 Tech Crunch
How to follow live midterms coverage if you don't have cable Poynter
Exit polls, election surveys and more: A guide for the 2018 midterms Pew Research
Election 2018: voting tools, discounted rides, and everything else you need to know to vote The Verge
Loaded With Data and Whiz-Bang Effects, Maps Are the Real Stars of Election-Night TV New York Times
How To Watch The Midterms: An Hour-By-Hour Guide 538
Midterms Speed Read: All You Need to Know About Tuesday's Vote Bloomberg
***TECHNOLOGY & THE MIDTERMS
File-Sharing Software on State Election Servers Could Expose Them to Intruders Propublica
Will 'deepfakes' disrupt the midterm election? Wired
Exit pollsters make changes after 2016 breakdown Politico
***SOCIAL MEDIA
The Growth of Reddit QuillBot Blog
Social media growth is over in the U.S. — which is its most valuable market Recode
Designing people’s Instagram Stories is now a million-dollar business Fast Company
Youtube’s push to counter toxic videos with ‘good’ creators Wired
Twitter Lost 9 Million Users in the Last Quarter Fortune
LinkedIn Is Now Home To Hyperpartisan Political Content, False Memes, And Troll Battles BuzzFeed News
Liberal Democrats more likely than other groups to be politically active on social media Pew Research Center
***SOCIAL MEDIA: INFLUENCERS
Influencer marketing is BS The Next Web
How to Spot Fake Social Media Influencers Business News Daily
***SOCIAL MEDIA: FACEBOOK
Facebook revenue, user growth falls short of expectations CNN
We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them Vice
***SOCIAL MEDIA: INSTAGRAM
Inside the lives of full-time fitness Instagrammers Digg
Cristiano Ronaldo Passes Selena Gomez as Most Followed Person on Instagram Bleacher Report
Yes, Everyone on Instagram Is Having More Fun Than You Outside Online
***MOBILE
How I Became A Celebrity In China By Losing My Cellphone (video) BuzzFeed
France Moves To Ban Smartphones In Schools NPR
***JOURNALISM
The Truth Is Worth It: Perseverance (video) New York Times
Women Journalists talk about Covering Violence Women Across Frontiers
Here’s how much bots drive conversation during news events Wired
The “Rebirth” of Local News The Whole Story
***JOURNALISM & POLITICS
What newsrooms are doing and should be doing on election day Poynter
Midterms in the local news void Columbia Journalism Review
Gannett steps away from printed election results Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
The New York Times is on pace to earn more than $600 million in digital this year, halfway to its ambitious goal Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Newsroom employees are less diverse than U.S. workers overall Pew Research
***FAKE NEWS
Deepfake-busting apps can spot even a single pixel out of place MIT Technology Review
How Online Conspiracy Theories Make Their Way Into The Mainstream NPR
When conspiracy theories inspire vigilante justice The Week
Russia's Fake Viral Videos Are Next Level Digg
Twitter Says It Is Ready for the Midterms, but Rogue Accounts Aren’t Letting Up New York Times
A college instructor (in journalism, no less) causes waves with a conspiracy theory Washington Post
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Four skills of Daring Leadership Becoming (my blog)
Brené Brown knows what makes a great leader — and most politicians wouldn’t make the cut Washington Post
Acting like an extrovert has benefits, but not for introverts Aeon
My Life Cleanse: One Month Inside L.A.'s Cult of Betterness GQ
The surprising benefits of coming in second place BigThink
***WRITING & READING
Book lovers in England form a human chain to help move their beloved local bookstore CNN
The Worst Writing Advice in the World Chronicle of Higher Ed
Antarctica scientist allegedly stabs colleague for spoiling the endings of books LA Times
The Power of a Conversation in Writing Chronicle of Higher Ed
Family pays fine for 84-year-old overdue library book Shreveport Times
***LITERATURE
What's the most influential book of the past 20 years? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Growing Up Surrounded by Books Has a Lasting Positive Effect on the Brain, Says a New Scientific Study Open Culture
12 Angry Women In Literature Who Don't Apologize For Their Rage Bustle
157 Animated Minimalist Mid-Century Book Covers Open Culture
***GENDER
Make your passion project happen: Apply to the Women’s Leadership Accelerator Journalists
Who Decides Gender? Economist
Why women leave the workforce Axios
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It New York Times
I Threw Away My Robert E. Lee Portrait The Atlantic
Nixon, the Racial Slur, and Me Chronicle of Higher Ed
‘Are You Actually an M.D.?’: A Black Doctor Is Questioned as She Intervenes on a Delta Flight New York Times
National Geographic’s November cover falls back on a racist cliché Vox
***RACE: ANTI-SEMITISM
Anti-Defamation League Report Says Online Anti-Semitism Is A 'Daily Occurrence' NPR
Twitter Listed A Trending Topic For "Kill All Jews" After A Brooklyn Synagogue Was Vandalized BuzzFeed News
How Anti-Semitism Is Tied To White Nationalism NPR
I live among the neo-Nazis in eastern Germany. And it’s terrifying The Guardian
He Was Shot In A Hate Crime. It Only Strengthened His Judaism NPR
***RACE & POLITICS
Identity Politics: Journalism And Race NPR
Hispanic voters more engaged in 2018 than in previous midterms Pew Research
'Jim Crow's Last Stand' In Louisiana May Fall To Ballot Measure NPR
***FREE SPEECH
US Declines in Internet Freedom Tech Crunch
Free speech on campus isn't so free when it's tied up in red tape Washington Examiner
***LEGAL ISSUES
Appeals court ruling continues decade-long legal battle between Georgia State and 3 publishers over what constitutes "fair use" of course materials Inside Higher Ed
The Supreme Court won’t take up Net Neutrality Washington Post
***TECHNOLOGY
Quantum physicists found a new, safer way to navigate Wired
***BIG DATA & AI
How machine learning may help in the hunt for the source of mysterious viruses Stat News
A deep learning performance cheat sheet: simple and complex tricks that can help you boost your deep learning models accuracy Towards Data Science
Can developers work on machine learning along with data scientists? That’s the claim Your Story
3 Common Mistakes That Can Derail Your Team’s Predictive Analytics Efforts Harvard Business Review
A skeptic’s guide to thinking about AI Fast Company
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Signal has a clever new way to shield your identity Wired
Have the Midterms Been Hacked? An Election Security Q&A Bloomberg
***PRODUCING MEDIA
The producer's handbook to mixing audio stories NPR
Your horror noise background Horrorli
GoPro turns to an eagle to show off Hero7’s video stabilization technology Digital GTrends
***INTERNET
The inventor of the web says the internet is broken — but he has a plan to fix it CNBC
Is an Internet Bill of Rights Necessary? Information Week
***RELIGION
Donations to library skyrocket after Christian Fundamentalist checks out and burns LGBTQ children's books Des Moines Register
U.S. Baptist missionary from Indiana killed in Cameroon: family Reuters
Supreme Court agrees to hear case challenging huge cross as violation of church and state The Hill
Ark Encounter has been ‘very busy,’ founder says: Admission numbers show decline Kentucky.com
“Make the Gospel Great Again": Large billboard of Trump & Bible Verse Removed KMOV
Megachurch Pastor Sues the authors of a longtime watchdog blog for Libel Christianity Today
Why I Heartily Disagree With the Pastor’s Reasons for Suing Bloggers The Wartburg Watch
Freddie Mercury’s family faith: The ancient religion of Zoroastrianism (opinion) Religious News Service
In Japan, gospel music is a big hit—and an evangelistic tool World Magazine
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Washington state lawmaker pens ‘Biblical Basis for War’: Calls for killing all non-Christian men who don't 'yield' New York Daily News
Trump’s evangelical advisers meet with Saudi Crown Prince and discuss Jamal Khashoggi’s murder Washington Post
Why this shrinking religious group might be among America’s last “swing voters” Vox
How will Evangelicals vote in the midterms? MSNBC
***GOOD NEWS
Indiana Vending Machine Dispenses Clean Clothing and Blankets to People Without Homes Mental Floss
Fisherman jumps on entangled whale's back, cuts it free SFGate
A woman saved her husband during cardiac arrest: After he awoke, she gave birth to their son Washington Post
***ART & DESIGN
The Art Institute of Chicago now offers full access to 52,000 high-res images of their collection This is Colossal
Why are CEO photos so weird? Vox
***MUSIC
Music improves social communication in autistic children Science Daily
What do Bob Dylan’s drawings reveal about his music? Economist
***FILM
The 100 Greatest Foreign-Language Film BBC
Aretha Franklin Gospel Film Finally Has a Release Date, 46 Years After It Was Made New York Times
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Is Radio Destined To Become The Next Blockbuster Video? (opinion) Hypebot
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
False Statistic on Sexual Harassment Spreads Inside Higher Ed
A Year Later, Americans Are Deeply Divided Over The #MeToo Movement NPR
Google employees walk out over sexual harassment scandals CNN
American business and #MeToo Economist
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Suicide Is Twice as Common as Homicide in the U.S.—and More Often Involves Guns—New Study Says Fortune
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
The Three Words You Should Never Use in a Work Email—And What to Say Instead TIME
Is Emailing 'Just Checking In' Really That Bad? Life Hacker
Amazon has banned more than 5,700 of its top reviewers in the last 2 years as it increasingly cracks down on review abuse Business Insider
***ENVIRONMENT
The poor world and the rich world face different problems with their waste Economist
Supreme Court won't block children's climate change lawsuit CNN
Emerging economies are rapidly adding to the global pile of garbage Economist
The world's oceans are warming far faster than thought Axios
***HEALTH
Here's How Much Your Work Suffers When You're Sleep Deprived Curiosity
Cannabidiol is being touted as a magical elixir But maybe it’s just a fix for our anxious times New York Times
The Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Language of Dieting The Atlantic
Why do some people get CTE? It may be in their genes CNN
Flu’s success owes much to its genetic mutability Economist
***TRAVEL
Nebraska’s new tourism slogan is "Honestly, it's not for everyone" Quartzy
Why some millennials think travel is more important than sex Vox
America's 25 most popular national parks Thrillist
***FAMILY
The rise of the 4-letter baby name: The latest baby name trends include short, vowel-centric names Quartz
***PSYCHOLOGY
5 of the strangest psychology cases in history BigThink
***NEUROSCIENCE
Neuroscience Discovers how the Brain experiences Time Psychology Today
***PRODUCTIVITY
10 productivity myths Fast Company
Scared to take time off work? The productivity drive is making victims of us all The Guardian
11 Time Management Myths That Are Hurting Your Productivity Forbes
***HISTORY
"Spanish flu” probably killed more people than both world wars combined Economist
***ETHICS
Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from MIT Technology Review
Colleges Grapple With Teaching the Technology and Ethics of A.I. New York Times
***RESEARCH
A tool for checking authors’ retraction histories The Ochsner Journal
More than 30% of about 150 researchers surveyed considered it acceptable to cite a paper that they had not read Research Integrity and Peer Review
Heart failure study paused over concerns about disputed cell therapy papers Stat News
Meet Octopus, a new vision for scientific publishing Science Mag
Most Chinese scientists admit writing academic papers just to get promoted, survey finds South China Morning Post
A study fails to replicate, but it continues to get referenced as if it had no problems Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
A USC professor is facing accusations of “data fabrication, exaggerating outcomes and fraud USC student media
***HIGHER ED
Public universities less affordable for low-income students and less accessible for members of minority groups Inside Higher Ed
Faced with steep budget cuts, several University of Wisconsin System campuses have targeted academic programs to try to save money Inside Higher Ed
New book renews debate about donor influence: New book outlines how rich donors have become more assertive about how their money should be used Inside Higher Ed
Savannah State University announces layoffs amid student enrollment decline Savannah Now
Foxconn’s $100M deal with the University of Wisconsin has students worried The Verge
This Kentucky college is the latest to split from Kentucky Baptist Convention Kentucky.com
Iowa Wesleyan may close at the end of this semester Inside Higher Ed
Liberty U Sells Student Email Addresses to Campaign The News & Advance
***TEACHING
Self-Directed Learning and Augmented Reality: How to Teach Gen Z Chronicle of Higher Ed
They may have a reputation for being entitled but one professor found undergrads to be thoughtful and open to creative teaching approaches Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Professors Are the Likeliest Mentors for Students, Except Those Who Aren’t White Chronicle of Higher Ed
The latest campus flap over politics and academic freedom started with a fart joke Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Millennials running for office in record numbers MCNBC
Inside the new industry of teaching you how to be an adult City Lab
***STUDENT MEDIA
Southwestern College Student Newspaper recognized with national award for holding law enforcement agencies accountable Student Press Law Center
Student details his descent into alcoholism and rebirth after rehab Sparton (student newspaper for Castleton University)
Should student journalists endorse political candidates? Student Press Law Center
two ways to approach life
/There are only two ways to approach life – as a victim or as a gallent fighter – and you must decide if you want to act or react.. A lot of people forget that. -Merle Shain
Articles of Interest – Oct 29
/***TECHNOLOGY
This tiny wasp-inspired drone can pull 40 times its own weight Science Mag
Two moms, no dad? Gene editing allows same-sex mice to have babies National Geographic
How the digital age is impacting police warrant Police One
***BIG DATA & AI
Hadoop administrators beware: There is a botnet that is actively looking for unsecured Hadoop eWeek
***SOCIAL MEDIA
First Twitter Gave Me Power. Then I Felt Hopeless. What I learned from growing up online Vice
Instagram’s “digital kidnappers” are stealing children’s photos and making up new lives Quartz
WhatsApp introduces stickers on iOS and Android at last The Next Web
Snapchat struggles to curb user exodus CNN
Twitter’s rumored killing of the “like” button highlights its misplaced priorities Vox
8 facts about Americans and Facebook Pew Research Center
***MOBILE
Three settings you can change on your phone right now to help you focus Quartz
Holographic screen may be next innovation for phones Associated Press
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Forget Password Managers, Your Brainwaves Could Be Your Next Login Inverse
Trump’s tapped phone may be the largest White House breach ever: former official Fast Company
***INTERNET
Gmail Usage Hits The 1.5 Billion Mark Media Post
***JOURNALISM
The Economist's print edition launches a dedicated data journalism page for better visual storytelling Journalism.co
What journalists can learn from truth-telling comedians Medium
What the digital divide means for journalists reaching rural readers Columbia Journalism Review
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
How to successfully pitch The New York Times (or, well, anyone else) Nieman Journalism Lab
New media hiring slowdown: Openings at Vox, Buzzfeed, and Vice at lowest levels Thinknum
The clause freelance writers should fight to remove from their contracts Columbia Journalism Review
***FAKE NEWS
Deep Fakes: How they are made and how they can be detected NBC News
The bizarre Justin Bieber burrito incident reminds us not to believe everything online The Verge
As misinformation crisis deepens, ‘fake news’ becomes less accurate International Journalists’ Network
***FAKE NEWS OUTSIDE THE U.S.
Iranian Propaganda Targeted Americans, with Tom Hanks The Atlantic
The British Government has decided to no longer use the term “fake news” CBS News
Case study in fake news for all journalism schools South China Morning Post
***STUDENT LIFE & FAKE NEWS
Fake news is making college students question all news Poynter
Younger Americans better at telling factual news statements from opinions Pew Research Center
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Shape of a Moral Hero Becoming (my blog)
***WRITING & READING
Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read? New York Times
***LANGUAGE
This Dictionary Time Machine Tells You Which Words Were First Printed the Year You Were Born Gizmodo
Why Linguistics Matters Chronicle of Higher Ed
How the term ‘false flag’ migrated to the right Columbia Journalism Review
6 facts about English language learners in U.S. public schools Pew Research Center
***LITERATURE
How an Army propaganda writer became China’s most controversial novelist New Yorker
How an essay about sailing taught a writer to embrace her fears as she worked up to writing her memoir The Atlantic
Nicole Chung’s Adoption Memoir, “All You Can Ever Know,” Is an Ode to Sisterly Love (book review)
How do languages develop words for colors? A fascinating look at a commonality in human language development Scholarly Kitchen
***GENDER
Nielsen Reporting To Identify Same Gender Spouse And Partner Audiences Deadline
An online map lets people log instances of gender inequality Mashable
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Netflix Says It Does Not Use Race to Target Viewers Hollywood Reporter
Anti-Semitic Incidents Increasing, ADL Says NPR
***FREE SPEECH
How Colleges Make Themselves Easy Targets Shutting down speech bolsters the university's opponents Chronicle of Higher Ed
European Court Won't Tolerate Blasphemy as Free Speech Hollywood Reporter
***LEGAL ISSUES
Libel law is having a moment Columbia Journalism Review
What is rarer than the unicorn? A dress protected by copyright? The 1709 Blog
***RELIGION
The Politician Who Sued God Mental Floss
This Town Is Tearing Itself Apart Over Non-Christians Owning Houses Vice
Muslim Groups Raise Thousands For Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Victims MSNBC
More Citation Problems at the American Association of Christian Counselors The Throckmorton Blog
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Ministers interrupt Sessions, are removed from religious freedom conference NBC News
***GOOD NEWS
The Japanese Man who Saved 6 Million Jews with his Handwriting New York Times
6-Year-Old with Diabetes Sells Pumpkins to Buy a Service Dog —Raises Over $24K People
Shoeshiner donates $202,000 in tips to children's hospital Today
Teen invents artificial intelligence treatment for pancreatic cancer Inside Editions
The shoe-shiner donated $200K to UPMC Children's Hospital Post-Gazette
Woman Donates Her Wedding After Calling Off Engagement People
Pizza Shop Manager Drives 3 Hours to Bring Dying Man His Favorite Pizza Christian Headlines
Cops recover stolen Krispy Kreme van, give doughnuts to homeless people ABC News
***ART & DESIGN
Portrait painted using artificial intelligence sells for $432,000 Design Boom
Our Favorite Typefaces of 2017 Typographica
***FILM
Watch a Private Eye Fact-check Detective Movies (video) New York Magazine
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
The future of media in driverless cars depends on who owns the data Axios
***STUDENTS & GRADES
College Greeks are known for high GPAs and making more money after graduating — but new research says it's not as straightforward as it seems Business Insider
A new study correlates a freshman’s grade point average to the length of time her peers spent studying in high school National Bureau of Economic Research
***STUDENTS & JOBS
Study: a positive job outlook for new college graduates Detroit News
Graduate student assistants at campuses across the U.S. are pushing for $15 per hour Inside Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Has Fortnite peaked? Twitch viewership is declining Thinknum
Georgia Tech students sues Senator for snatching his cellphone when he tried to ask a question Washington Post
Millennial Gigs vs. Baby Boomer Careers Vice
Live-streaming news network The Cheddar Buys RateMyProfessors.com Axios
***STUDENT MEDIA
A Student Newspaper Covers the Pittsburg Mass Shooting Pitt News
What happens when your alma mater screws up an open-records release and then sics the Department of Justice on you Dynamics of Writing
Student media guide to publishing political ads Student Press Law Center
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
6 Tips for Landing Journalism Fellowships Media Bistro
Why New-Job Anxiety Is Actually Good The Cut
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Introducing the #MeToo Fund: Covering Solutions to Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault The Whole Story
200+ Googlers plan company-wide walkout Thu. Nov 1 over alleged sexual harasser protection BoingBoing
***SOCIAL ISSUES
The Digital Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids Is Not What We Expected New York Times
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Slowly But Surely, Americans Are Softening Their Negative Impression of Business Fortune
Nearly one-in-five teens can’t always finish their homework because of the digital divide Pew Research Center
***ENVIRONMENT
The Sailors Who Hunt Garbage for Science Gizmodo
Five energy and environment ballot questions to watch The Hill
***HEALTH
Americans Life Expectancy Dropping Bloomberg
Miscarrying at Work: The Physical Toll of Pregnancy Discrimination New York Times
Importance of infant diet in establishing a healthy gut Newcastle University
Anti-vaccine billboard goes up in Huntington Herald-Dispatch
***FOOD
Remembering The Woman Behind The Classic American Green-Bean Casserole NPR
Gilroy, “the garlic capital of the world” Curbed
New Jersey man tells podcast how he's eaten pizza every day for 37 years Philly Voice
***ANIMALS
China is assigning poor social credit scores to crappy dog owners South China Morning Post
The CDC guidelines for dressing up your pet chicken on Halloween Quartz
30 Fantastically Costumed Dogs From the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade The Cut
***SCIENCE
How to read and learn from scientific literature, even if you’re not an expert The Conversation
***PSYCHOLOGY
Why detained dissidents in China ‘confess’ – and why you would too Hong Kong Free Press
A Cooperative Revolution in Psychology (letter to the editor) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***NEUROSCIENCE
Cerebellum Plays Bigger Role In Human Thought Than Previously Suspected NPR
New Theory of Intelligence May Disrupt AI and Neuroscience Psychology Today
***CRITICAL THINKING
16 Characteristics of Critical Thinkers Entrepreneur
***PHILOSOPHY
A Data Visualization of Modern Philosophy, 1950-2018 Open Culture
***HISTORY
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom The Guardian
Leonardo da Vinci Saw the World Differently… Thanks to an Eye Disorder, Says a New Scientific Study Open Culture
The Library of Congress Has an Incredible Collection of Early Baseball Cards Atlas Obscura
***ETHICS
Ethics in news consumption Can you be a good person if you don’t read the news? The Outline
***RESEARCH
Academic Ethics: Should Scholars Avoid Citing the Work of Awful People? Chronicle of Higher Ed
How not to fall for a predatory journal Nature
In the fierce competition for science funding, even a typeface glitch can be fatal Stat News
Study finds prior research claiming CEOs tend to be psychopaths was flawed Ars Technica
***RESEARCH & CHINA
China’s Investment in Stem Cell Studies Based on Bogus Science Sixth Tone
How the Chinese censors highlight fundamental flaws in academic publishing Hong Kong Free Press
***HIGHER ED
Federal Proposal to Redefine Gender Throws College Policies Into Uncertainty Chronicle of Higher Ed
The University of Utah canceled classes after a student was shot and killed Monday night outside a dorm on campus St. Louis Tribune
190 universities just launched 600 free online courses: Here’s the full list Quzrtz
The crazy amount America spends on higher education, in one chart AEI
The Case for Christian Colleges (opinion) National Review
St. Edward’s University in Texas could face censure by the American Association of University Professors Inside Higher Ed
John MacArthur Set to Step Down as The Master's University President Christian Headlines
Revolt at U of the Pacific Inside Higher Ed
Wheaton College’s Billy Graham Center Receives $1 Million Dollar Grant World Religion News
***TEACHING
3 Tips for the Minutes Before Class Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why students should read scientific literature Education Dive
How One Teaching Center Supports Adjunct Instructors Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Shape of a Moral Hero
/What shapes a moral hero? And how does someone choose to save people that others turn away?
Research on those who rescued Jews during the Holocaust shows that many exhibited a streak of independence from an early age.
A second characteristic of such heroes and heroines, as the psychologist Philip Zimbardo writes, is “that the very same situations that inflame the hostile imagination in some people, making them villains, can also instill the heroic imagination in other people, prompting them to perform heroic deeds.”
David Wolpe writing in the New York Times
your last words
/Probably the best thing to do with your last words is to say goodbye to the people you love and not to talk about yourself. -Martha Nussbaum
Freedom's limits
/While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. - Stephen Covey (born October 24, 1932)
Articles of Interest - Oct 22
/***TECHNOLOGY
Blockchain’s impact on retail: fewer counterfeits, faster product recalls Vox
Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever MIT Technology Review
These magical sunglasses block all the screens around you Wired
The Pentagon is studying an insect army to defend crops. Critics fear a bioweapon Washington Post
Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin NPR
***JOURNALISM
With help from journalism students, Miami man freed after 12 years behind bars for murder Miami Herald
Rural areas are rapidly becoming news deserts Axios
5 investigative journalism tipsheets IJNet
Reuters is offering eight $5,000 photojournalism grants Reuters
To defend journalism, we need to defend the truth and not just journalists Vox
Citizens Count on the Illinois Freedom of Information Act but Keep Getting Shut Out Propublica
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
News industry seeks exemption from Congress to take on Facebook, Google NOLA
***FAKE NEWS
Faced with a daily barrage of news, college students find it hard to tell what's real and what's 'fake news' Northeastern
Fake News Is Poisoning Brazilian Politics: WhatsApp Can Stop It (opinion) New York Times
Quiz: How well can you tell factual from opinion statements? Pew Research Center
These New Tricks Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos—for Now Wired
Could Somebody Please Debunk This?’: Writing About Science When Even the Scientists Are Nervous New York Times
We’re Tracking Misinformation About The Migrant Caravan Headed To The US BuzzFeed
Disinformation, ‘fake news’ and influence Campaigns on Twitter Knight Foundation
***FAKE NEWS & FACEBOOK
Facebook launches “Hunt For False News” debunk blog as fakery drops 50% Tech Crunch
In Facebook’s Effort to Fight Fake News, Human Fact-Checkers Struggle to Keep Up Wall Street Journal
Facebook has a fake news 'war room' – but is it really working? The Guardian
As Midterms Approach, Facebook Ramps Up Disinformation Fight NPR
***BIG DATA & AI
A video about the process of using machine learning to fighting cancer (video) Real Engineering
Why the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics has many problems Quanta Magazine
Three common mistakes that consistently plague analytic endeavors Health Catalyst
***SOCIAL MEDIA
What happens when Facebook goes down? People read the news Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Why brands you've never heard of are flooding your feeds Axios
When Loved Ones Die, What Do We Do with Their Text Messages? Boston Magazine
***MOBILE
By the time you finish this article, 400K Americans were probably robocalled NBC News
Who Is 'Scam Likely,' and Why Are You Receiving Calls From Them? Digital Trends
Apple fixes its new bagel emoji with cream cheese and a doughier consistency The Verge
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Emotion and Identity: the key to compelling mobile videos Reuters
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The people behind the AI Curtain: “So much of what passes for automation isn’t really automation" Becoming (my blog)
***GRAMMAR
Why the book “Do I Make Myself Clear?” is “Dreadful” Chronicle of Higher Ed Ω
Trump's bizarre grammar boast has Twitter users scratching their heads AOL News
***WRITING & READING
How to Become a Highly Productive Writer Chronicle of Higher Ed
New York Times, 12 writers celebrate their favorite libraries New York Times
Judy Blume’s Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret … to be made into a movie Deadline
***LANGUAGE
‘Smarmy’: How It Was Born and Survived Chronicle of Higher Ed
Is your coworker an assclown or an asshat? Linguists explain the difference Quartz
2018, in a Word. But What Word? Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Are We Supposed to Have Fun? The possibility of fun’ as an adjective Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
A literary history of New Orleans Economist
Two Ernest Hemingway stories that were rarely seen to be published next year NBC News
***GENDER
Women’s voices are judged more harshly than men’s Economist
‘Transgender’ Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration New York Times
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Mapping the predominant race in 11 million neighborhoods across the country National Geographic
Charlottesville’s Other Jim Crow Legacy: Separate and Unequal Education Propublica
When England play overseas, it is always the voice of the angry, white, male racist that shouts loudest The Independent
Government spends millions to guard Confederate cemeteries Associated Press
***FREE SPEECH
Kennesaw State, student group settle campus speech lawsuit AJC
***LEGAL ISSUES
Stormy Daniels Loses Her Defamation Suit Against Trump — and Has to Pay His Legal Fees Yahoo
A Conservative Group’s Closed-Door ‘Training’ of Judicial Clerks Draws Concern New York Times
Photographer Suing Andy Warhol's Estate Claims His Work Isn't "Transformative" Hollywood Reporter
Lawsuits Over Paparazzi Images on Instagram Raise Celebrity Questions Over Right of Publicity The Fashion Law Blog
***MAGAZINES
Saturday Evening Post’s archives now available digitally New York Post
Heads roll at 'Cosmopolitan' amid the magazine industry roller coaster Crain’s New York
***INTERNET
I Ditched Google for Bing. Here's What I Found—and What I Didn't Wired
***RELIGION
Eugene Peterson who translated ‘The Message’ translation of the Bible Dies Christianity Today
It’s Getting Harder to Talk About God: The decline in our spiritual vocabulary has many real-world consequences (opinion) New York Times
Mediaite founder Dan Abrams to launch Christian sermon streaming network The Hill
Judge dismisses claims against SBC in Pressler sex abuse case Baptist Standard
Deep In The Desert, A Case Pits Immigration Crackdown Against Religious Freedom NPR
Evangelicals Are Confused about Christianity's Core Beliefs, Survey Says Christian News Headlines
Zondervan Settles Plagiarism Case involving Author Christine Caine Publishers Weekly
***RELIGION & HISTORY
Bible Museum says five of its Dead Sea Scrolls are fake CNN
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network says arms deal is more important than Khashoggi Vice
Can a Christian foster care group legally reject non-Christian families? Vox
***GOOD NEWS
Carmel Valley couple spending year aboard hospital ship in Africa Union-Tribune
Fifth Grader Runs 50 5K’s In 50 Days For Grandpa’s Lung Cancer CBS San Francisco
Chicago man makes 500th blood donation: 'You actually get an opportunity to save someone' Chicago Tribune
North Carolina town raises money to build inclusive playground for all kids WRAI
BBQers Set Friendly Rivalries Aside to Serve Meals, Hope to Hurricane Michael Victims Yahoo News
Paralyzed man completes Portland half marathon KOIN
This tiny pizzeria has served over 142,000 slices to the homeless for free NBC
***ART & DESIGN
Finalists of the 2018 Architectural Photography Awards My Modern Met
Write people up for their design crimes with this ticket book Fast Company
Rhythm in web Typography Better Web Type
Write people up for their design crimes with this ticket book Fast Company
Two New York City museums announced they would reject funding from Saudi-linked groups for scholarly programs on Middle Eastern New York Times
Film in the Digital Age: An Interview with 4 Photographers PetaPixel
***THE STORY BEHIND THE ART
Banksy Releases Behind The Scenes Footage Of Art-Shredding Frame Digg
The Story Behind the Mysterious Guillotine on a Brooklyn Roof Vice
***MUSIC
Here are the hits of the past 25 years that we’ll be listening to for the next 100 Slate
He’s sold 150 million albums and been famous for five decades: But do we really know Elton John? Vulture
Classical music concert in Sweden descends into brawl over rustling chewing gum packet Independent
Sparring Candidates Duet In Music While They Duel For Votes NPR
How the Sears Catalog Disrupted the Jim Crow South and Helped Give Birth to the Delta Blues & Rock and Roll Open Culture
20 Years Of Cher's 'Believe' And Its Auto-Tune Legacy NPR
***FILM
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Finally Lands a Release Date in China Variety
The 30 Best (Truly) Independent Films of the 21st Century The Ringer
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
93 women join lawsuit against the University of Southern California over sexual misconduct by university gynecologist New York Post
The assistant director of Western Washington University's counseling center was fired for sexual harassment The AS Review
U. of Texas Overhauls Program on Masculinity to Avoid Stigma Chronicle of Higher Ed
#MeToo inspires wave of old misconduct reports to colleges Associated Press
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Edible cottonseed is now a thing — and it could have big implications for world hunger Vox
Homeless Students in New York Public Schools at Record High New York Times
The myth of meritocracy: who really gets what they deserve? The Guardian
Nearly six-in-ten Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases Pew Research Center
The average age one would classify someone as “old” is now 74, up from 68 in 2009 Harris-TD Ameritrade
***VOTING
DHS finds increasing attempts to hack U.S. election systems ahead of midterms NBC News
Making Sense Of The Patchwork System Known As Voter Registration NPR
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
How to run a calm workplace A management book that is refreshingly different Economist
What We Often Get Wrong About Automation Harvard Business Review
The real deal on TV home-remodeling shows The Washington Post
Nice People Have Emptier Wallets - Scientific American Scientific American
Even janitors have noncompetes now: Nobody is safe The Washington Post
Why no one really knows how many jobs automation will replace Recode
***HEALTH
Obesity surgery may lower heart attack danger in diabetics Associated Press
Feds crack down on stem cell clinics that touted autism treatments, blindness cures Stat News
What we know about the mysterious polio-like virus spreading across the US. Quartz
Simple stickers may save lives of heart patients, athletes and lower medical costs for families Purdue University
Science says fluoride in water is good for kids. So why are these towns banning it? NBC News
Antibiotics May Soon Become Useless. Now What? Wired
Colorado Facebook groups organize play dates to intentionally share chickenpox 9news
Fixing Your Hearing and Vision Loss Can Keep Your Memory Sharper NPR
The Problem With Probiotics New York Times
***HEALTH & FOOD
This Is What Would Happen to Your Body if You Only Ate Fruits and Vegetables Vice
Southern Diet Blamed For High Rates Of Hypertension Among Black Americans NPR
***FOOD
Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt National Geographic
Yamei Kin, The Chinese Doctor Who Introduced Tofu To The West New York Times
Why people in rich countries are eating more vegan food Economist
A food critic visits New York's pizza museum (video) New York Magazine
The man who has eaten at more than 7,300 Chinese restaurants, but can’t use chopsticks and doesn’t care for food South China Morning Post
***FOOD PRICES
All The Ways Restaurants Are Scamming You Into Buying Overpriced Meals (video) Digg
Coffee Rust Threatens Latin American Crop; 150 Years Ago, It Wiped Out An Empire NPR
***TRAVEL
30 of the most stunning landscapes to visit in the US. Conde Nast Traveler
15 Best Fall Hiking Trails: Our Favorite Fall Hikes in the U.S. Condé Nast Traveler
***SCIENCE
When science hits a limit, learn to ask different questions Aeon
The big picture: Even scientists are being automated Axios
Scientists grow functioning human neural networks in 3D from stem cells Science Daily
***PSYCHOLOGY
How one bench and a team of grandmothers can beat depression BBC
The limits of fMRI and neuroimaging The Verge
New evidence that the “chaotic mind” of ADHD brings creative advantages BSP
Addressing Mental Health Effects, a Year After the Tubbs Fire in Sonoma Wired
I woke up unable to speak English BBC
Your Facebook posts can reveal if you're depressed Wired
***NEUROSCIENCE
Electrical properties of dendrites help explain our brain’s unique computing power MIT Tech Review
People who have a good sense of smell are also good navigators Science News
***PHILOSOPHY
The Art of Logic by Eugenia Cheng review – the need for good arguments The Guardian
***PRODUCTIVITY
I've Interviewed 300 High Achievers About Their Morning Routines: Here's What I've Learned New York Times
***HISTORY
The history of two slogans: “American Frist” and “The American Dream” Economist
***ETHICS
Judging by reaction to recent plagiarism cases, I don’t think plagiarism matters much to most Christians Throckmorton Blog
New Plagiarism Allegation Leveled Against Prominent Christian Counselor, Trump Adviser Tim Clinton Augusta Review
***RESEARCH
This year’s “Worst Pseudoscience Award” Goes to Anti-Vax Fraud Andrew Wakefield Gizmodo
Retractions are not uncommon and are increasing in frequency BMJ
How a typo in a catalog number led to the correction of a scientific paper — and what we can learn from that Retraction Watch
A blame-free approach to research misconduct Nature Index
How I got through my publication drought Science Mag
The Case Against Alphabetical Naming of Authors Inside Higher Ed
***RESEARCH & ECONOMISTS
Do Economics Journals Enforce Their Data Policies? The Replication Network
Economists care about where they publish—to the cost of the profession Economist
***RESEARCH PUBLISHERS
An Academic Publisher Vanishes Discover Magazine
China awaits controversial blacklist of ‘poor quality’ journals Nature
The editors of JAMA talk about their experience with retractions JAMA network
***HIGHER ED
DeVos Calls Democratic Senator’s Public Criticism of Draft Title IX Rules ‘Unbecoming and Irresponsible Chronicle of Higher Ed
In Admissions, Harvard Favors Those Who Fund It, Internal Emails Show The Crimson
Vancouver’s Clark College Closes for a day in Response to Planned Patriot Prayer Protest Willamette Week
Can an Innovative Online College Help Adults Stay Employed? Chronicle of Higher Ed
A judge who also works as an adjunct law professor at NYU rejected a $350-million lawsuit against the institution by employees Washington Square News
Handpicked Attendees for Conservative Speaker at USC over fear of disruption Inside Higher Ed
The evangelicals creating champions for Trump at Liberty University The Guardian
***HIGHER ED & HEALTH
Hand, foot and mouth disease is breaking out on numerous campuses: officials struggle to contain the spread Inside Higher Ed
New Purdue Health Plan Boots Employed Spouses Inside Higher Ed
On College Campuses, Making Overdose Medication Readily Available NPR
$4000 Giant inflatable colon used for instruction stolen from University of Kansas Cancer Center Associated Press
***TEACHING
Why One Science Professor Has Students Write a Children’s Book Chronicle of Higher Ed
To Prevent Loneliness, Start in the Classroom CityLab
****ACADEMIC LIFE
Why Does Graduate School Kill So Many Marriages? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Jury: American University discriminated against a former professor on the basis of her age when it denied her tenure Inside Higher Ed
So Your Ph.D. Program Is Not Going ‘As Planned’? Chronicle of Higher Ed
University of Montana says 22 faculty members are leaving Missoulian
Professors at Florida International University are demanding the administration eject its Turning Point USA chapter from campus Miami New Times
***STUDENT LIFE
College students broadly mistrust news: Fake Kardashian gossip probably won’t help Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Established firms try dancing to a millennial tune Economist
UNC student who poured blood and ink on Silent Sam Confederate statue found guilty of misdemeanor News Observer
Hoax at Harvard: Impersonator Dupes Dozens With Fictitious George Bush Lecture The Harvard Crimson
Mapping Which Neighborhoods Are Buried In Student Debt CityLab
Why do millennials love bullet journals? Control Vox
***STUDENT LIFE: POLITICS
Millennials Need to Start Voting Before the Gerontocracy Kills Us All New York Magazine
College Voting in the 2018 Midterms: A Survey of US College Students College Reaction
Who you Become
/The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity. -Dallas Willard
Spotting Liars
/We’re bad at accurately interpreting behavior and speech patterns, said James Alcock, professor of psychology at Canada’s York University. Learning is based on getting regular feedback, he told me. Try to add 2 + 2 and someone will tell you whether you got it right or wrong. Over time, that feedback allows you to know when you’re right. But there’s no systematic un-blinding to tell you when you correctly guessed whether you were being lied to. The feedback we get on this is spotty. Often there is none. Sometimes the feedback itself is incorrect. There’s never a chance to really learn and get better, Alcock said. “So why should we be good at it?”
Take people whose job it is to professionally detect lies — judges, police officers, customs agents. Studies show they believe themselves to be better than chance at spotting liars. But the same studies show they aren’t, Alcock said. And that makes sense, he told me, because the feedback they get misleads them. Customs agents, for instance, correctly pull aside smugglers for searches just often enough to reinforce their sense of their own accuracy. But “they have no idea about the ones they didn’t search who got away,” Alcock said.
Maggie Koerth-baker, writing in fivethirtyeight
Articles of Interest - Week of Oct 15
/***TECHNOLOGY
Microsoft to make over 60,000 patents available to the Linux community & join the Open Innovation Network Ars Techinica
I’m very sorry, but you’re going to have to learn to love the blockchain Tech Crunch
Teaching Robots to be Comedians 1843
Why we can’t quit the QWERTY keyboard MIT Tech Review
At 10 trillion frames per second, this camera captures light in slow motion Tech Crunch
Nearly a quarter of US households own a smart speaker, according to Nielsen The Verge
A Drone-Flinging Cannon Proves UAVs Can Mangle Planes Wired
Why Gene Editing Will Create So Many Jobs BBC
***SOCIAL MEDIA
How self-love got out of control Social media, reality TV, politics … has narcissism become the new normal? The Guardian
Snapchat launches first slate of original shows Axios
The Teens Who Rack Up Thousands of Followers by Posting the Same Photo Every Day The Atlantic
An online decency moderator's advice: Blur your eyes BBC
People keep dying taking selfies, this study reveals how The Next Web
Instagram Has a Massive Harassment Problem The Atlantic
Why Instagram’s founders are resigning: independence from Facebook weakened Tech Crunch
Instagram Tests Tapping instead of Scrolling Tech Crunch
Facebook to ban misinformation on voting in upcoming U.S. elections Reuters
Facebook Hack Included Search History and Location Data of Millions New York Times
Facebook prototypes Unsend 6 months after Zuckerberg retracted messages Tech Crunch
***MOBILE
The smartphone app that can tell you’re depressed before you know it yourself MIT Tech Review
Google's cyber unit Jigsaw introduces Intra, a new security app dedicated to busting censorship Tech Crunch
***JOURNALISM
We Can Use Robots But We Still Need Journalists European Journalism Observatory
How Journalists at Local and National Outlets Are Evolving Different Skill Sets Harvard’s Nieman Reports
“Press” offers a look at journalism’s wretched side Economist
Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? Columbia Journalism Review
Longtime Archivists Outline What They've Learned From Watching Decades Of News NPR
2018 has been a brutal year for journalists Washington Post
The CIA had a policy of ignoring declassification requirements MuckRock
After Journalist Disappears, Companies Reconsider Saudi Investment NPR
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Bloomberg Media is using text-to-audio to keep app users engaged Digiday
Is Blockchain The Future Of Journalism? Two Entrepreneurs Take A Chance Forbes
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
U. of I. journalism class to study 'Trumpaganda' — the president's approach to the news media Chicago Tribune
What to Teach Journalism Students When Their Field is Under Attack? Editor & Publisher
***FAKE NEWS
Deepfake Videos Are Getting Real and That’s a Problem Wall Street Journal
The Viral Story About A Competitive Barefoot Runner Demanding People Sweep Up Acorns Is A Hoax BuzzFeed News
Memo to the media: Stop spreading Trump’s fake news (opinion) Washington Post
CBS sees surge in US Flat Earthers who say there’s no rover on Mars: ‘Most people think we’re idiots’ Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/cbs-sees-surge-us-flat-earthers-say-theres-no-rover-mars-people-think-idiots/
The Fix for Fake News Isn't Code: It's Human New York Times
How pro-trust initiatives are taking over the Internet Axios
Kyrie Irving apologizes to US teachers for spreading flat-earth conspiracy theories Quartz
Sasse warns of deepfake "perfect storm" Axios
***BIG DATA & AI
M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1 Billion New York Times
Machine Learning fails simple test for children—what it will take to get past an Achilles’ heel of computer vision systems Quanta Magazine
Here’s why a few simple rules are often more effective than flashy AI Axios
No, quantum computing isn’t going to revolutionize AI anytime soon—and that’s according to a panel of experts in both fields MIT Tech Review
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Our Kids are Watching Us Becoming (my blog)
***GRAMMAR
It’s time to talk about “It’s” The Outline
***WRITING & READING
Stephen King’s 20 Rules for Writers Open Culture
A sensible, free guide to negotiating book contracts BoingBong
***LANGUAGE
Mapping the geographical usage of pop versus soda
When My Class Discussed ‘Mischievious’ Chronicle of Higher Ed
Coca-Cola, trying to mix Maori with English, accidentally puts "Hello, death" on vending machine BongBong
***LITERATURE
25 National Book Award finalists announced NPR
A prestigious university just awarded a literary prize to one of its janitors Quartz
Inside the Rooms Where 20 Famous Books Were Written Literary Hub
How Instagram Saved Poetry The Atlantic
Why Should You Read Don Quixote?: An Animated Video Makes the Case Open Culture
***GENDER
New York City creates gender-neutral 'X' option for birth certificates Reuters
A Deaf Jewish, Asian, Trans Model Just Made History The Forward
Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women Reuters
First-Year Law Students’ Reported Ranking Female Peers by Appearance in Private Group Chat The Cornell Daily Sun
Here’s what the stark gender disparity among top orchestra musicians looks like Quartz
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
California has a racist past. But removing monuments sparks debate about how to reflect an ugly history Los Angeles Times
DNA databases are too white: This man aims to fix that MIT Tech Review
***FREE SPEECH
Elon University event highlights First Amendment rights The Times News
50 Years Later, Raised Fists During National Anthem Still Resonate NPR
***LEGAL ISSUES
Why is a Lisbon soccer team trying to unmask Portuguese bloggers in US court? Ars Techica
Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property? The New Yorker
Stairway To Heaven Is Not Blurred Lines Tech Dirt
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
New Pentagon weapons systems can easily be hacked Phys.org
It Took 9 Seconds to Guess a DoD Weapons System Password Wired
We Are All Research Subjects Now - The Chronicle of Higher Education Chronicle of Higher Ed
A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying Technology Electronic Frontier Foundation
No One Can Get Cybersecurity Disclosure Just Right Wired
***PRODUCING MEDIA
The iPad Is Soon, Finally, Getting a Full Version of Adobe Photoshop Gizmodo
***INTERNET
The Internet’s keepers? Wayback Machine Director Mark Graham outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive Ars Technica
DuckDuckGo hits new milestone of 30 million private searches per day The Verge
Dropbox will now scan your images for text The Verge
Oral History of the Early Days of ICANN: A Perspective From Europe Circle ID
***RELIGION
Texas evangelical groups are suing for the right to discriminate against LGBTQ workers Vox
The US witch population has seen an astronomical rise Quartz
Millennial Men on Joining, and Then Leaving, the Priesthood MEL Magazine
Why 3 Christian pastors seek to join 5-member Corona City Council in November The Press-Enterprise
***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE U.S.
U.S. Pastor Released From Turkey After Spending 2 Years In Prison NPR
China gives legal basis for ‘re-education camps’ for ‘religious extremists’ South China Morning Post
New Embassy In Jerusalem Attracts Devout Christians From The U.S. NPR
***RELIGION AND U.S. POLITICS
Freed Pastor Brunson thanks Trump in White House meeting MSNBC
***GOOD NEWS
Canada surgeon operates on teddy bear for 8-year-old boy BBC
Wounded Army vet makes it to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro CBS News
School social worker writes notes of encouragement to all 600 of his students Lancaster Eagle Gazette
NYC library lets job seekers check out interview attire New York Times
New pilot takes elderly residents of his village on their first flight ever The Times of India
Toddler in need of a new liver and kidney gets both right before her birthday ABC News
Soldier Whose House Was Looted Gives Away Money Raised for Him People
Texas Boy Thought to Be Nonverbal Can Speak After Dentist Discovers He's 'Tongue-Tied' Inside Edition
***ART & DESIGN
New font is designed to boost your memory Cnet
White supremacists are taking their design seriously—and we should, too Quartz
A map of every building in America New York Times
That Painting of Trump Having a Diet Coke With Abraham Lincoln Is Now Hanging in the White House TIME
Buckminster Fuller Creates Striking Posters of His Own Inventions Open Culture
***MUSIC
Leonard Cohen wrote a poem called “Kanye West Is Not Picasso” Consequence of Sound
Trump Signs Sweeping New Music Licensing Legislation Variety
The ridiculous amount of money baby-boomer rockers still make on tour Quarz
Why are so many rappers on LinkedIn? The Guardian
When Lyft passengers find out their driver is actually Chance the Rapper BongBong
***FILM
More and More Movies Are Reflecting Our Fear of the Internet Wired
‘Call Me By Your Name’ Director Plans Film Inspired by Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ Rolling Stone
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Spotify Launches New Program for Podcasters Variety
The Growth of Sinclair’s Conservative Media Empire The New Yorker
***STUDENT LIFE
Police release body camera videos of college students being pulled over at gunpoint Yahoo
Social media videos designed to inspire millennials to help fill more than 200 officer vacancies Union Tribune
For millennials, a regular visit to the doctor’s office is not a primary concern Washington Post
Michigan high school cheerleader gives out pot brownies in exchange for homecoming votes Freep
How to Get Fortnite on Any Android Phone Now Life Hacker
The Cornell Note-Taking System: Learn the Method Students Have Used to Enhance Their Learning Since the 1940s Open Culture
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
Producer Tribune Media, San Diego
Local News Team The Herald, Rancho Cucamonga
Reporter (entry level) Woodland Daily Democrat, Woodland
Social Media Intern Illumina, San Diego
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Anonymous Website Aims to Out Sexual Assaulters at U. of Washington Chronicle of Higher Ed
After a year of #MeToo, American opinion has shifted against victims Economist
Coming To The Right Answer By Themselves: Talking With Boys About Sexual Assault NPR
Amid #MeToo, New York Employers Face Strict New Sexual Harassment Laws NPR
#MeToo hashtag used over 19 million times on Twitter Axios
How 3 Colleges Changed Their Sexual-Assault Practices in Response to a National Survey Chronicle of Higher Ed
***VOTING
What to Do If You Get Turned Away at the Polls Life Hacker
Young Voters Might Actually Show Up At The Polls This Year FiveThirtyEight
***SOCIAL ISSUES
With Kavanaugh Confirmed, Both Sides Of Abortion Debate Gear Up For Battle NPR
5 facts about U.S. suburbs Pew Research Center
Deported parents may lose kids to adoption Associated Press
Migrant Children in Search of Justice: A 2-Year-Old’s Day in Immigration Court New York Times
Selfie deaths: 259 people reported dead seeking the perfect picture BBC
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For? New York Times
Uber drivers and other gig economy workers are earning half what they did five years ago Recode
If you do any of these things online, you could hurt your credit MSNBC
The Dark Reason So many Millennials are miserable and broke Moneyish
***ENVIRONMENT
'Hyperalarming' study shows massive insect loss The Washington Post
Among the Ruins of Mexico Beach Stands One House, Built ‘for the Big One’ New York Times
***HEALTH
If Your Medical Information Becomes A Moneymaker, Could You Get A Cut? NPR
Mapping out the nation's opioid crisis county-by-county Visual Capitalist
***HEALTH: RESEARCH
Human Retinas Grown In A Dish Reveal Origin Of Color Vision NPR
An elusive molecule that sparks multiple sclerosis may have been found Science Mag
Mosquitoes Genetically Modified To Crash Species That Spreads Malaria NPR
***HEALTH: PREVENTION
Sleep: how much do we really need? The Guaridan
Vitamin D Supplements Don’t Lead to Stronger Bones New York Times
***HEALTH: CHILDREN
The average sticker price for U.S. childbirth: $32,093 Axios
Number of babies born with syphilis has more than doubled since 2013 USA Today
More kids are going without vaccines Axios
***FOOD
New Swedish Museum Spotlights World's Most Disgusting Food NPR
All 50 states, ranked by their food Thrilist
Millennials Kill Again. The Latest Victim? American Cheese Bloomberg
The banana is dying. The race is on to reinvent it before it's too late Wired
***ANIMALS
Wild chimpanzees share food with friends Max Planck Society
Spitfire the whippet jumps 31 feet, sets a new world record for dogs (w/ video) SB Nation
Goats will make return to Anaheim – for yoga, not Disneyland OC Register
More than 100 mountain goats removed from Olympic National Park The Olympian
Americans spend $70 billion on pets, and that money could do more good (opinion) The Conversation
***PSYCHOLOGY
Why Modern Clinical Psychology May Be in Trouble Psychology Today
Reunite After Separation at Birth: An Unethical Psychology Experiment Separates Families The Atlantic
How to Support Someone Who's Had a Miscarriage, Explained By Redditors Life Hacker
How to Help Girls With ADHD Life Hacker
***NEUROSCIENCE
The heroes of science who are unlocking the brain Popular Mechanics
Humans Are Hardwired to Tell History in Stories. Neuroscience Tells Us Why We Get Them Wrong TIME
***PHILOSOPHY
The History of Philosophy Visualized in an Interactive Timeline Open Culture
Meet the philosopher behind “the good place” Quartz
***PRODUCTIVITY
The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world The Guardian\
***HISTORY
The creepiest urban legend in every state Thrillist
Only 1 in 3 Americans would pass the U.S. citizenship test Las Vegas Sun
The Library of Congress Launches the National Screening Room, Putting Online Hundreds of Historic Films Open Culture
The Best Overall History Podcast Is 'In Our Time' Life Hacker
***ETHICS
How Americans Described Evil Before Hitler The Atlantic
Codes of ethics probably don’t work Fast Company
***RESEARCH
The extremely mad professors:Why 3 academics wrote 20 whole fake papers and think other people got played The Outline
How to write a thorough peer review Nature
Researcher Requests for Inappropriate Analysis and Reporting Annals of Internal Medicine
An Ethics of the System: Talking to Scientists About Research Integrity Springer
Ex-researcher who stole funds sentenced to play piano Stat News
Was cancer scientist fired for challenging lab chief over authorship? Science Mag
***HIGHER ED
Report: 4 Million Californians Left College Without Earning a Degree Inside Higher Ed
Confidence in Higher Education Down Since 2015 Gallup
***TEACHING
How to Improve Your Teaching-Philosophy Statement Chronicle of Higher Ed
One Way to Help Students Become Knowledge Creators Chronicle of Higher Ed
Women
/Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. – Oscar Wilde (born October 16, 1854)
Our Kids are Watching Us
/I do a lot of surveys with people between the ages of 20 and 40, and I ask them to describe who they are now and to reflect on their childhood. Now, we have to be very clear that this is a very imperfect method of getting data about people’s childhoods, because there are all kinds of memory biases. But one of the most consistent findings is the association between the person’s current level of materialism and how they perceived their parents using things when they were growing up.
So in other words, parents who act in ways that value things, parents who make a lot of sacrifices to get a lot of things, parents who get a lot of joy from buying things, parents who talk a lot about things—they tend to have adult children who act the same way. Now, part of this is probably some bias as people recall their childhoods, but I don’t think that’s all of it. The helpful thing for parents here—and also the harmful—is yes, peers are really important, but our kids are watching us. Our kids are learning from us. A lot of what kids take to be normal comes from what they see us doing. Kids are going to learn what their relationship with products should be by looking at our relationship with products.
Marsha Richin quoted in The Atlantic