ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
making friends
/You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie (born Nov. 24, 1888)
Suicide's lack of Closure
/There’s an inherent lack of closure to suicide. Even when people write notes, they can reveal so little. Suicides often leave loved ones, acquaintances and co-workers to question themselves for the rest of their lives. And in their own grief, they, too, can entertain dangerous thoughts.
“With suicide you have that added trauma to it,” said Julie Cerel, the president of the American Association of Suicidology. “The ‘why’ question of trying to search for meaning when there’s no meaning available—If I only had a note. If I only talked to the last person that they talked to. The ‘onlys’ can be torturous.’” Last year, Cerel published a study examining the consequences of suicide and found that each one could affect as many as 135 other people.
The fundamental mystery of suicide has long made it an object of fear and contempt within the medical establishment. Since the 1950s, public health officials have tried hotlines, individual therapy, group therapy, shock therapy and forced hospitalizations. Doctors have taken away people’s shoelaces and belts and checked in on attempt survivors every 15 minutes to make sure they are still safe. They have coerced patients into signing contracts swearing that they would not kill themselves. They have piled on psychiatric medications with ever-more invasive side effects, only to watch the number of suicides continue to climb.
Jason Cherkis writing in the Huffington Post
Articles of Interest - Nov 19
/***TECHNOLOGY
Scientists Create Fabric Alternative to Batteries for Wearable Devices University of Massachusetts
20 Americans Die Each Day Waiting for Organs. Can Pigs Save Them? New York Times
The Fax Is Not Yet Obsolete: Law and medicine still rely on the device, Maybe they shouldn’t The Atlantic
Thin, Flexible new Solar Cells Could Soon Line Your Shirt Wired
A scientist’s work linking minds and machines helps a paralyzed woman escape her body The New Yorker
What is a Bot? Wired
***BIG DATA & AI
The Data Scientist Tracking America’s White Supremacists MotherBoard
The definition of artificial intelligence is constantly evolving, and the term often gets mangled MIT technology Review
How Facebook uses machine learning to fight ISIS and Al-Qaeda propaganda MIT Technology Review
The rare form of machine learning that can spot hackers who have already broken in MIT Technology Review
What’s the best way to learn the programming language R? (Preferably, for free) Quartz
Public Attitudes Toward Computer Algorithms Pew Research Center
***SOCIAL MEDIA
YouTube uses algorithms that are tailored to advance already popular content and drive viral videos The Atlantic
How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Bringing Her Instagram Followers into Congress New York Times
Instagram Influencers Selling Custom Photo Presets The Atlantic
Inside the Pricey War to Influence your Instagram Feed Wired
Instagram Cracks down on apps that give fake follows and likes Mashable
Following the discovery of targeted disinformation campaigns Facebook tried to discredit protesters New York Times
6 Takesaways from the Times Investigation New York Times
Facebook Messenger rolling out new ‘Unsend’ feature, here’s how to use it 9 to 5 Mac
Report: Even Facebook Employees Are Bummed About Facebook Gizmodo
***MOBILE
The Ubiquity of Smartphones, as Captured by Photographers The Atlantic
People are Freaking out over the iPhone Curser Trick Mashable
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
How Hackers Are Stealing High-Profile Instagram Accounts The Atlantic
Your Drone Can Give Cops a Surprising Amount of your Data Wired
How to Tell if Your Account Has Been Hacked Motherboard
Surveillance Kills Freedom by Killing Experimentation Wired
***PRODUCING MEDIA
How Podcasts became a seductive and sometimes slippery mode of storytelling The New Yorker
Pandora wants to map the “podcast genome” so it can recommend your next favorite show Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***INTERNET
Google goes down after major BGP mishap routes traffic through China ArsTechnica
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
How much have younger viewers bailed on traditional TV? New stats are alarming USA Today
Justice Department Demands Major TV Broadcasters Stop Sharing Advertising Data Hollywood Reporter
***JOURNALISM
Consumers love smart speakers: They don’t love news on smart speakers (At least not yet) Harvard’s Nieman Lab
'Under The Wire' Tells The Story Of War Correspondent Marie Colvin's Last Moments NPR
Newsrooms transform to cover the 21st century Axios
New York Times Publisher Touts Future of Digital Journalism Caixin
NPR host Terry Gross: 8 tips on How to Talk to People New York Times
***LOCAL JOURNALISM
Better Local Journalism, by Local Reporters, Is the Goal of a New Database New York Times
Facebook is Launching it’s first Journalism program to fund local journalism in the UK Mashable
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Media salaries lean higher for writing than video, photo (trend #8) Axios
***JOURNALISM & DIVERSITY
The Racial Makeup of NPR’s newsroom NPR
Racial and ethnic minorities make up less than 17 percent of newsroom staff Columbia Journalism Review
Missing the Story : Diversity in Media Columbia Journalism Review
***FAKE NEWS
How Will We Outsmart A.I. Liars? For better and worse, humans are only improving their ability to deceive themselves with technology New York Times
Are Birds Actually Government-Issued Drones? So Says a New Conspiracy Theory Making Waves Audubon
How The Wall Street Journal is preparing its journalists to detect deepfakes Harvard’s Nieman Lab
California's Wildfires Have Spawned a Truly Weird New Conspiracy Theory Gizmodo
If You Hate the Media, You’re More Likely to be Fooled by a Fake Headline Harvard’s Nieman Lab
How the public, news sources, and journalists think about news in three communities News Co. Lab
***FAKE NEWS & WHAT’S APP
Burned to death because of a rumour on WhatsApp BBC
Notifications every 2 minutes: This in-depth look at how people really use WhatsApp shows why fighting fake news there is so hard Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Importance of Leisure Becoming (my blog)
Vacation is a poor substitute for leisure Quartz
The 6 Email Newsletters That Will Help You Build Leadership Skills Forbes
How to Talk to People You Don’t Agree With, With Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt LifeHacker
10 paradoxes that will stretch your mind Big Think
***WRITING & READING
This bookstore just sold a book that had been on a shelf for nearly 28 years Mashable
How to make $6,000 a day writing Instagram quotes — sort of Vox
Paul Schrader Says Creating, Writing Is "A Form of Therapy" Hollywood Reporter
***LANGUAGE
Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year CNBC
The Hidden Life of Modal Verbs Jstor
Personification is Your Friend: the Language of Inanimate Objects Jstor
27 Beautiful Words Writers Rarely Use But Totally Should BuzzFeed
***LITERATURE
What Book Changed Your Mind? Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Hottest Trend in American Literature Isn’t From the U.S. The Atlantic
The Bizarro World of Literary Studies Chronicle of Higher Ed
***GENDER
First woman passes special forces assessment on path to becoming Green Beret CNN
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Hate crimes rose 17 percent last year, according to new FBI data MSNBC
Drunk man shouts 'Heil Hitler, Heil Trump,' does Nazi salute during Baltimore performance of 'Fiddler on the Roof” Baltimore Sun
Fallout continues for white male students at Wisconsin high school accused of giving Nazi salute USA Today
Dunkin' Donuts owner calls police on woman using free Wi-Fi Yahoo
Sam's employee asked to retake photo with 'Black Panther' shirt after member complains WJLA
Duke mural honoring synagogue shooting victims defaced with Swastika NBC News
***FREE SPEECH
Should the First Amendment apply to Facebook? It’s complicated Recode
Free Speech Or Hate Speech: When Does Online Hate Speech Become A Real Threat? NPR
***LEGAL ISSUES
Reminder: Cutting-and-Pasting Photos from the Internet Is Hazardous to Your Legal Health Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Conan O'Brien's Joke Copyright Defense Hits Snag Hollywood Reporter
***RELIGION
Why Tenth Avenue North Isn't Afraid to Tackle Taboo Subjects In Christian Music Billboard
State Baptist group boots Kentucky churches for supporting LGBTQ hires Courier-Journal
Christian composer Kurt Kaiser, writer of 'Pass It On,' dies at 83 Waco Tribune
80 Years Since The Catholic University Of America Vocalized Opposition To The Nazis NPR
Stephen Colbert reveals why he returned to Catholicism after losing his faith Fox News
***CONVERSiON THERAPY
Conversion therapy: A debunked practice aimed at "converting" homosexuals CBS
Keeping Focus on the Family Honest on Reparative Therapy The Throckmorton Blog
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Rubio cites Bible verse amid recount criticisms: ‘You cannot count what is not there’ The Hill
Trump ‘make the bible great again’ billboards World Religious News
***GOOD NEWS
Mother's hunch helped save a hiker's life on the Pacific Crest Trail CBS News
'Batkid' Miles Scott is cancer free 5 years after saving San Francisco NBC News
9-year-old starts family knitting club to make hats and scarves for those in need The Week
Blind runner finds love with woman who volunteered to train him for marathon MSNBC
Mercy nurses give Mega Millions winnings to 2 of their own going through heartbreak KMOV
93-Year-Old Woman Is Saved from California Wildfires by Her Friend, the Garbage Collector People
***ART & DESIGN
Watch: Stan Lee on "To Tell The Truth" game show in 1970 (14m) BongBong
7 Female Impressionists Every Art History Lover Should Know Artsy
***FILM
Watch the First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1910): It's Newly Restored by the Library of Congress Open Culture
***STUDENT LIFE
Northern Michigan U. Compensates 4 Who Were Threatened With Punishment for Speaking of Suicide Chronicle of Higher Ed
No 'Parks & Rec' jokes: Oregon's teen mayor is here to get stuff done Oregon Live
A professor at UT San Antonio was recorded calling the police on an African American student who had propped her feet up on the seat in front of her Inside Higher Ed
Generation Z Is The Most Racially And Ethnically Diverse Yet NPR
Half of the post-millennial generation is non-white Axios
The Bridesmaids Are Multiplying: The role is almost entirely symbolic—but it’s only getting more popular The Atlantic
How College Caused Me To Read Less (opinion) Study Breaks
***INTERNSHIPS
4 Internships LA Times
Summer DC Scholarship Program DC Internships
Spring Internships The Student Press Law Center ($490 a week)
Investigative journalism internship Center for Public Integrity, Washington, D.C.
***JOBS
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Fewer office holiday parties this year, a sign of #MeToo liability fears CBS News
Former Title IX Official Outlines Changes To How Colleges Handle Sexual Assault Cases NPR
Sharp Divide Over Trump Administration's Title IX Overhaul Inside Higher Ed
Dartmouth women sue school over sexual assault, harassment New York Post
Ed Dept. Proposes Enhanced Protection For Students Accused Of Sexual Assault NPR
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Guns in America: our relationship with firearms in 5 charts Wired
Critics step up bid to stop US school using electric shocks on children The Guardian
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
This researcher studied 400,000 knitters and discovered what turns a hobby into a business Washington Post
How Stan Lee transformed the comics business Economist
***ENVIRONMENT
Why covering the environment is one of the most dangerous beats in journalism Harvard’s Nieman Lab
How to Stop Using So Much Disposable Plastic Life Hacker
***HEALTH
As social media ‘influencers,’ patients are getting a voice. And pharma is ready to pay up Stat News
Medical Advice You Can Trust The Week
Startup Offers To Sequence Your Genome Free Of Charge, Then Let You Profit From It NPR
Alcohol is killing more people, and younger. The biggest increases are among women USA Today
Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy linked to autism diagnosis Stat News
***VACCINATIONS
Junk science promoted by bots and trolls results in North Carolina chickenpox outbreak BoingBoing
School with major chickenpox outbreak has high vaccination exemption rate USA Today
3 ethical reasons for vaccinating your children The Conversation
***DIET & EXERCISE
Low-carb diet: does cutting carbs really help keep weight off? Vox
There's a Major Change in The Latest US Exercise Guidelines. Here's What You Need to Know Science Alert
***TRAVEL
50 Strange But True Facts About the U.S. CN Traveler
2019 Fodor’s Travel NO List San Jose Mercury News
How Samantha Brown Got Her Start: Women Who Travel Podcast CN Traveler
***FOOD
Public Perspectives on Food Risks Pew Research Center
6 airplane foods you should avoid, according to food safety experts CNBC
***PARENTING
Stop talking to your kids about politics (opinion) The Week
Online or offline? Parents are struggling with their children’s screen time use Evening Standard
***ANIMALS
30 dogs under 30 The Week
The 18 Best Dogs in Netflix’s Dogs, Ranked Vulture
***PSYCHOLOGY
The Replication Crisis: Can academic psychology be trusted? BBC
Super recognisers: the people who never forget a face The Guardian
The Best Way To Save People From Suicide Highline
Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk NPR
Freud versus Jung: a bitter feud over the meaning of sex Aeon
***NEUROSCIENCE
The Human Brain is a Time Traveler New York Times
A new study says alcohol changes how the brain creates memories BigThink
***HISTORY
Why the Enlightenment was not the age of reason (opinion) Aeon
How would you Draw History? New York Times
***ETHICS
Can judging be automated? Axios
How to use science fiction to teach tech ethics BoingBoing
***RESEARCH
Handing Science Over to the Machines The Spike
Correction to climate change study highlights flaws in peer-review process CBC
Widespread plagiarism detected in many medical journals based in Africa Nature
Scholar behind predatory journals exposé says study ‘backfired’ Times Higher Education
Here Comes ‘The Journal of Controversial Ideas’ -Cue the Outcry Chronicle of Higher Ed
The more authors, the more retractions Appam
Will Blockchain Revolutionize Scholarly Journal Publishing? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
How One University Went From Proposing to Cut 13 Mostly Liberal-Arts Programs to Eliminating Only 6 Chronicle of Higher Ed
Study finds female chairs improve departments' gender diversity and equity Inside Higher Ed
A Fifth of Private Colleges Report First-Year Discount Rate of 60 Percent, Moody’s Says Chronicle of Higher Ed
What You Need to Know About the Proposed Title IX Regulations Chronicle of Higher Ed
Hate Crimes on Campuses Are Rising, New FBI Data Show Chronicle of Higher Ed
Liberty University official accused of attempted murder, abduction WSLS
Azusa Pacific students file grievances over reinstatement of LGBTQ relationship ban San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond to close in 2019 Baptist News
Cal Lutheran to hold memorial service for alumnus killed in Thousand Oaks shooting 10New
David Jang’s Christian University Charged in $35 Million Fraud Scheme Christianity Today
***TEACHING
The Future Of Learning? Well, It's Personal NPR
A Little Music Before We Begin Chronicle of Higher Ed
How to Create a Welcoming Culture for Autistic Students Chronicle of Higher Ed
10 alternatives to PowerPoint PR Daily
***STUDENT MEDIA
Western Kentucky Student Newspaper shakes up camps with report: More than 500 mold reports on campus in past year College Heights Herald
Harvard's student newspaper just elected the first black woman president in its 145-year history CNN
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