ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Work & the Project of Living
/Americans have forgotten an old-fashioned goal of working: It’s about buying free time. The vast majority of workers are happier when they spend more hours with family, friends, and partners, according to research conducted by Ashley Whillans, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. In one study, she concluded that the happiest young workers were those who said around the time of their college graduation that they preferred careers that gave them time away from the office to focus on their relationships and their hobbies.
How quaint that sounds. But it’s the same perspective that inspired the economist John Maynard Keynes to predict in 1930 that Americans would eventually have five-day weekends, rather than five-day weeks. It is the belief—the faith, even—that work is not life’s product, but its currency. What we choose to buy with it is the ultimate project of living.
Derek Thompson writing in The Atlantic
Articles of Interest - March 4
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Why the Life-Insurance Industry Wants to Creep on Your Instagram New Yorker
Apps Give Private Data To Facebook Without User's Knowledge or Permission NPR
Facebook Slammed For Listing Users Phone Numbers Media Post
Two years after going public, Snap’s problems are still all about growth Recode
***TECHNOLOGY
China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced MIT Technology Review
Silicon Valley Raises Questions On Ethics Of New Technology And Social Media NPR
On Remote pacific island children now get life-saving vaccines from drones Fast Company
***JOURNALISM
The New York Times is taking its opinion video coverage in a new, YouTube direction Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Poll: How does the public think journalism happens? Columbia Journalism Review
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
What you need to know before starting your Journalism crowdfunding campaign European Journalism Centre
PAC-Connected Activists Set Up ‘Local News’ Outlets Snopes
***FAKE NEWS
How to spot fake photos online Fast Company
The anti-vaxxers' impact The Week
The Fake Sex Doctor Who Conned the Media Into Publicizing His Bizarre Research Gizmodo
Widower, stepdaughter who blamed panhandler for woman's stabbing death in Baltimore arrested in her killing Baltimore Sun
***FAKE NEWS: MOMO
The Momo Challenge Is Not Real The Atlantic
How local TV news stations are playing a major (and enthusiastic) role in spreading the Momo hoax Harvard’s Nieman Lab
How to Not Fall for Viral Scares Like Momo Wired
Schools, police and media told to stop promoting Momo hoax The Guardian
***MOBILE
Your smartphone screen is probably disgusting: Here's how to clean it USA Today
Want a Folding Phone? Hold out for Glass Wired
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Why Are Bots Unable to Check "I Am Not a Robot" Checkboxes? Quora
‘You can track everything’: the parents who digitise their babies’ lives The Guardian
Major Airlines Confirmed There Are Cameras On Some Seatback Entertainment Screens Bustle
A second life for the 'do not track' setting—with teeth Wired
How to set up a VPN for increased security and privacy The Verge
Social networks put your privacy at risk, even when you don’t have an account Quartz
***PRODUCING MEDIA
What’s new in WordPress 5.0? Creative Bloq
This app makes it easy to create shareable video content, and it's on sale Mashable
***INTERNET
The surprisingly complex journey a text message takes every time we hit 'send.' Vice
The Life of a Comment Moderator for a Right-Wing Website New York Times
***BIG DATA & AI
The qualities that make for a successful data science team KD Nuggets
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Mental Fog Begins to Lift Becoming (my blog)
Crossing Divides: The friends who are good for your brain BBC News
A Harvard Psychologist Shows How to Change Those Limiting Beliefs You Still Have About Yourself Inc
***GRAMMAR
The three most useless English language “rules” you can ignore Quartz
When Did the Verb “To Be” Enter the English Language? Daily Jstor
***WRITING & READING
The Surprising Origin Of Using Symbols Like #$%@! To Represent Curse Words In Print (video) Digg
Vatican spokesman Fr. Thomas Rosica resigns from college board after plagiarism apology; Jesuits withdraw award Catholic News Agency
Self-plagiarism: When is re-purposing text ethically justifiable? London School of Economics & Political Science
Plagiarize-Proof Your Writing Assignments Faculty Focus
***LITERATURE
Sorry, but Jane Eyre Isn’t the Romance You Want It to Be Daily Jstor
***GENDER
Cycling race in Belgium is delayed because a woman almost caught the male riders – who started first Chicago Tribune
How neuroscience is exploding the myth of male and female brains New Scientist
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
France: An old hatred grows stronger The Week
Bill Jenkins, Who Tried to Halt Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Dies at 73 New York Times
***FREE SPEECH
Trump says he'll issue order protecting campus free speech Associated Press
The Tyranny Of Copyright: How A Once-Humble Legal Issue Has Tormented A Generation Of Speech Tech Dirt
***LEGAL ISSUES
In Retrospect, Expert’s ‘How To Make Child Pornography’ Exhibit Might Have Been A Bad Idea Above the Law
Supreme Court To Decide Fate Of World War I Memorial Cross On Public Land NPR
How a flare-up at Harvard Law could undermine legal rights for everybody else The Week
Disability Rights Group Sues San Diego Over Scooters On Sidewalks NPR
***LEGAL ISSUES: COPYRIGHT
Fortnite dance lawsuits are bad for copyright and bad for culture The Verg
Community Theaters Kill 'Mockingbird' Productions After Lawsuit Threat NPR
***CRIME
California Keeps a Secret List of Criminal Cops But Says You Can't Have It KQED
Supreme Court: Nebraska county owes $28M for wrongful convictions Associated Press
Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years New York Times
***RELIGION
Christian radio personality 'Uncle Charlie' dies Christian Post
Southern Baptist group clears 6 churches of violating sex abuse standards Christian Post
Nazirite firefighter who promised God not to cut hair settles with Utica on religious lawsuit Utica Observer Dispatch
***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE U.S.
South Africa funeral firm to sue pastor for 'resurrection stunt' BBC News
Egyptian Christians Left With Nowhere To Pray But The Street NPR
***MEGACHURCHES
How a Radio Shock Jock Helped Bring Down a Megachurch Pastor Slate
Megachurch pastor Bill Hybels resigns from Willow Creek after women allege misconduct The Washington Post
***MISSIONARIES
Gospel for Asia Settles Lawsuit with $37 Million Refund to Donors Christianity Today
FBI Raid of Christian Missionary’s Home Found Thousands of Bones Indy Star
***RELIGION & LGBTQ
Methodists reject a proposal to allow openly gay clergy and same-sex marriage CNN
Lesbian Bishop Responds To LGBTQ Ban In United Methodist Church NPR
3 big US churches in turmoil over sex abuse, LGBT policy PBS
Growing Closer After Changing Faiths NPR
Rift over gay rights comes as United Methodists in U.S. have become more accepting of homosexuality Pew Research Center
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Arkansas church insists sign saying ‘heaven has strict immigration laws’ was not political Fox News
***GOOD NEWS
The Book Catapult stayed open by the grace of its competitors The Washington Post
'That tank saved my life:' 95-year-old World War II veteran gets surprise of a lifetime KETV
Montreal man walks the city streets, donating coins he finds to charity Canadian Broadcasting Company
Man restores, donates dozens of power wheelchairs - from a wheelchair KARE
Oklahoma teacher, book collector makes hobby of reuniting families with meaningful bookmarks KFOR
Teacher cuts waist-length hair to support 5-year-old girl bullied for short haircut WLOX
Meet the street nun helping people make a living from New York's cans The Guardian
National Geographic 2019 Adventurer of the Year National Geographic
***REALLY?!
Top Florida Man Stories of All Time Miami Herald
Woman goes to Olive Garden in Utah and announces she stabbed her mother St. Louis Tribune
***ART & DESIGN
You Are Killing Me with Your Tiny Fonts GQ
A Brief History of LGBT+ Design Try Design Lab
Apple picks the winners of its shot on an iPhone photo contest Apple
The Fascinating Legal Conundrum Facing Banksy Fast Company
The Secrets of the World's Greatest Art Thief GQ
The Favourite is an Oscar-nominated design masterpiece Fast Company
Frida Kahlo’s Forgotten Politics Jstor
When Gorgeous Architectural Landmarks Are Also Monuments to Fascism Atlas Obscura
***MUSIC
A Guide to Harry Nilsson, Who You've Loved Forever Without Knowing It Noisey
Dido Returns With Family-Focused Album 'Still On My Mind' NPR
Scam Season Comes for the Orchestra Vulture
***FILM
U.S. Music Industry Posts Third Straight Year of Double-Digit Growth Variety
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Digital ads expected to crush everything else this year Axios
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
When the Bully Is the Boss New York Times
Walmart Is Eliminating People Greeters. Workers With Disabilities Feel Targeted NPR
Five big winners tell what happens when you hit the jackpot, from free milk for life to a mountain of KFC The Guardian
Highly paid architects, TV producers, actors, and accountants live in a work culture that favor the already affluent The Atlantic
Is Business School a Waste of Time? Inc.
***JOB SEARCH ADVICE
Delete these eight words from your resume immediately Yahoo News
Want to Save Everyone's Time in a Job Interview? The Top 6 Questions Smart Companies Are Asking Now Inc
LinkedIn Just Added a Flurry of Features for Members Looking for New Positions Ad Week
***FREELANCING
Ten tips for freelance writing Story Bench
How Freelance Labor Became the Unsung Casualty of Media Layoffs The Observer
Atlas Obscura is looking for freelance pitches for upcoming editions
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Thousands Of Immigrant Children Say They Have Been Sexually Abused While In US Custody BuzzFeed News
Sexual harassment rife in Australian science, suggests first workplace survey Nature
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Woman Delivers Stillborn Baby While in ICE Custody New York Times
Nearly Half of American jail inmates have a mental illness and two-thirds have a drug addition New Yorker
Colonialists are coming for blood—literally Wired
***ENVIRONMENT
Google and DeepMind are using AI to predict the energy output of wind farms The Verge
Meet The White House's New Chief Climate Change Skeptic NPR
***VACCINES
Arizona lawmaker calls mandatory measles vaccine 'communist' amid fight to control outbreaks NBC News
Growing up unvaccinated: My anti-vaxx mother made me a health risk for the whole community USA Today
Measles Outbreaks Prompt More States To Restrict Vaccine Exemptions NPR
***HEALTH RESEARCH
Semi-identical twins 'identified for only the second time' BBC News
Sleeping Late on Weekends Doesn’t Compensate for week-long exhaustion Research Highlights
FDA Expected To Approve Esketamine Nasal Spray For Depression NPR
Machine learning is far from ready for clinical practice of medicine Health Care IT news
***TRAVEL
Here are the Americans speaking at a hate group friendly with sanctioned Russian oligarchs Think Progress
***FOOD
Drinkable' potato chips: the products keeping your phone grease-free The Guardian
Why Are Pretzels Shaped Like That? And 17 Other Food Mysteries, Solved The Daily Meal
***CHILDREN
Being surrounded by green space in childhood may improve mental health of adults SciTech
Give your kid a name that travels well The Week
How To Communicate With Children On Difficult Subjects Such As Death NPR
Storytelling Instead Of Scolding: Inuit Say It Makes Their Children More Cool-Headed NPR
***RELATIONSHIPS
Kentucky man mistakenly gets wife turnips instead of tulips WKRN
Love, Marriage, and the ‘Wife Allowance’ Topic
***ANIMALS
Are Dog Parks Exclusionary? CityLab
Former NFL player travels cross-country with his dog USA Today
‘Pot dogs’ a growing concern for pet owners Cape Cod Times
***SCIENCE
The Unsolved Mystery of the Earth Blobs Earth & Space Science News
Lawmaker: Ky. official state mineral is a rock, state rock is a mineral WAVE
***NEUROSCIENCE
Doctors removed one-sixth of this child’s brain — and what was left did something incredible One Zero
How did reading and writing evolve? Neuroscience gives a clue Phys.org
***PHILOSOPHY
***PRODUCTIVITY
There’s an optimal way to structure your day—and it’s not the 8-hour workday Quartz
6 Tips to Maximize Productivity When You Have ADHD Entrepreneur
***HISTORY
What's the Real American Story? (video) Robert Reich
Almost everything you know about U.S. borders is wrong Chicago Tribune
Border Walls are Symbols of Failure Jstor
***RESEARCH
Scientific Integrity Principles and Best Practices: Recommendations from a Scientific Integrity Consortium SpringerLink
Correlations between submission and acceptance of papers in peer review journals SpringerLink
Preprints as Final Publication (opinion) BioSerendipity
Personality and fatal diseases: Revisiting a scientific scandal Sage
***HIGHER ED
Most Americans don’t realize state funding for Higher Ed fell by billions PBS
The costs of academic publishing are absurd: The University of California is fighting back Vox
A warning about reinventing universities around technology: How UT-Austin’s Bold Plan for Reinvention Went Belly Up Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Political Science Became Irrelevant: The field turned its back on the Beltway Chronicle of Higher Ed
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Mike Pence to give commencement speech at Liberty The Hill University
Facing Title IX investigation, Christian university lets pregnant students stay in dorms The College Fix
***HUMANITIES
***TEACHING
Almost 10,000 students went to this online school last year. 851 stayed the whole time Chalkbeat
My Top 6 Books on Pedagogy Inside Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
College wins lawsuit to cut bad professor's pay Washington Examiner
Ex-Virginia Tech biotech professor found guilty of grant fraud The Roanoke Times
Self-esteem, self-symbolizing, and academic recognition: behavioral evidence from curricula vitae SpringerLink
A professor is accused of stealing a student's invention to make millions CNN
New video shows exactly what was said during a heated discussion at the annual gathering of classicists in January. Does it change anything? Inside Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Am I obligated to take down an embarrassing story if the subject of it asks? Student Press Law Center
***STUDENT LIFE
Where Graduates Move After College Wall Street Journal
Millennials Face $1 Trillion Debt as Student Loans Pile Up Bloomberg
University removed a student's satire website on race relations -- and restored it only after faced with legal pressure Inside Higher Ed
The Mental Fog Begins to Lift
/Over time, you begin to see hints and glimmers of a larger world outside the prison of your sadness. The conscious mind takes hold of some shred of beauty or love. And then more shreds, until you begin to think maybe, just maybe, there is something better on the far side of despair.
I have no doubt that I will eventually repeat the cycle of depression. But now I have some self-knowledge that can’t be taken away. I know that — when I’m in my right mind — I choose hope.
Michael Gerson, published in the Washington Post
When Kids Realize Their Whole Life Is Already Online
/Jaime Putnam, a mom in Georgia, said she has started to be more mindful of the fact that many of her kids’ friends don’t yet know how much information about themselves is out there. Recently she saw on social media that one of her child’s friends got a puppy. She brought it up when she next saw him, and he looked at her, horrified. He had no idea how she had learned that seemingly private information. “It made me realize these kids don’t know what’s being posted all the time,” she said. Now she’s careful about what she reveals. “It kind of feels like you’re maybe crossing a line telling them everything you know about them.”
Taylor Lorenz writing in The Atlantic
Around the Corner
/There are many points in life when we cannot see what awaits us around the corner, and it is precisely at such times, when our path forward is unclear, that we must bravely keep our nerve, resolutely putting one foot before the other as we march blindly into the dark.
Richard C. Morais, The Hundred-Foot Journey
articles of interest - Feb 25
/***JOURNALISM
An Arizona cop threatened to arrest a 12-year-old journalist: She wasn’t backing down Washington Post
Private employers: You can’t forbid your workers from talking to journalists Poynter
Coaching for women in journalism Digital Women Leaders
Five myths about journalism The Washington Post
RCFP receives $10 million investment from the Knight Foundation Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Chart: How the definition of “journalist” is changing Recode
***JOURNALISM OUTSIDE THE U.S.
Rethinking foreign reporting at the AP Columbia Journalism Review
Economic woes hurt Chinese journalists as much as censorship does Economist
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Knight Foundation putting $300 million toward rebuilding local news Poynter
Google May Employ More People Than the Entire U.S. Newspaper Industry Bloomberg
23 Million Patrons of California's Public Libraries Can Now Read The New York Times for Free Online Open Culture
National Enquirer’s biggest investors include California taxpayers and state workers Los Angeles Times
***FAKE NEWS
Liberals and Conservatives Are Both Susceptible to Fake News, but for Different Reasons Scientific American Blog Network
Students with ADHD less likely to enroll in post-secondary education, study says CTV News
The Imperfect Truth About Finding Facts in a World of Fakes Wired
It will take more than NewsGuard’s team of journalists to stop the spread of fake news Recode
***TECHNOLOGY
Apple is prioritizing AR — and that’s a good thing VentureBeat
***BIG DATA & AI
A philosopher argues that an AI can’t be an artist MIT Tech Review
Two satellites almost crashed—here’s how they dodged it Wired
Treat Failure like a Scientist
Can We Trust Scientific Discoveries Made Using Machine Learning? Technology Networks
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Pinterest is blocking search results about vaccines to protect users from misinformation Washington Post
Snapchat is in the middle of an identity crisis Engadget
How to catch a catfisher The Guardian
America’s cops take an interest in social media Economist
Japanese teen's aborted bid to hitchhike across the United States divides social media Japan Times
***YOUTUBE
50 Amazing Skills You Can Learn on YouTube Mental Floss
A pediatrician exposes suicide tips for children hidden in videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids Washington Post
Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis — and let advertisers target them directly LA Times
Facebook's content moderation a mess, employees outraged, contractors have PTSD: Reports BongBong
The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America The Verge
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
ATM Hacking Has Gotten So Easy, the Malware's a Game Wired
California Data Privacy Proposal May Give Law Tough New Teeth Bloomberg
Google 'sorry' for hiding SECRET microphone in home camera – and says it 'forgot' to tell everyone The Sun
Android is helping kill passwords on a billion devices Wired
***PRODUCING MEDIA
National Geographic hit 100 million Instagram followers: To celebrate, it wants your images for free Vox
***INTERNET
Millions of websites threatened by highly critical code-execution bug in Drupal Ars Technica
Heartbreaking: This Man Works For A Website Clickhole
Google Updates Test My Site Speed Tool Media Post
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The most important factor in a relationship Becoming (my blog)
The Good-Enough Life: The desire for greatness can be an obstacle to our own potential (opinion) New York Times
***TEACHING
Students have better educational outcomes in courses taught by those who have "growth mind-sets" than those who believe intelligence is fixed Inside Higher Ed
How One Professor Made Her Assignments More Relevant The Chronicle of Higher Education
***WRITING & READING
I stopped using exclamation points and lost all my friends Wired
The Philosophy of Creative Writing Los Angeles Review of Books
***LANGUAGE
The surprising revival of the Hawaiian language Economist
More children around the world are being taught in English, often badly Economist
***LITERATURE
The myth of Pandora’s box (YouTube) TEDx
23 of the most unforgettable final sentences in fiction Washington Post
***GENDER
The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2019 Women’s Media Center
Women now more educated than men, but lag in workforce Axios
How a women-led news organization is holding the powerful to account in Brazil International Consortium of Investigative Journalist
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Alabama newspaper editor calls on KKK to lynch Democrats BBC
Man shouts Nazi slogans, flashes gun at local coffee shop The Plainsman
Athletes and activists who modeled themselves off Colin Kaepernick have continued their campaigns Inside Higher Ed
Should White Boys Still Be Allowed to Talk?’ Student's essay sets off intense debate Inside Higher Ed
Americans Remain Deeply Ambivalent About Diversity The Atlantic
In 'Won Over,' Judge Chronicles His Evolution on Questions of Race After Growing Up in Jim Crow Mississippi (free registration req.’ed) Law.com
NPR host Lulu-Garcia Navarro on racial and gender diversity in news Vox
Doctors and Racial Bias: Still a Long Way to Go New York Times
***LEGAL ISSUES
Justice Clarence Thomas calls for reconsideration of landmark libel case CNN
Copyright Office Refuses Registration for 'Fresh Prince' Star Alfonso Ribeiro's "Carlton Dance" Hollywood Reporter
Emoji are showing up in court cases exponentially, and courts aren’t prepared The Verge
Justice Thomas Assails Landmark US Libel Ruling That Protects Media Voice of America
US Supreme Court to interpret FOIA Exemption on Trade Secrets Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Judge decides that twin son of binational gay couple entitled to birthright U.S. citizenship LA Times
***RELIGION
Harvest Bible Chapel founder's sons resign as pastors Daily Herald
United Methodists’ LGBT Vote Will Reshape the Denomination Christianity Today
Why a centuries-old religious dispute over Ukraine's Orthodox Church matters today The Conversation
Are Christian leaders more likely to commit sexual sin? (opinion) Christianity Today
***RELIGION & SEXUAL ABUSE
Southern Baptist churches hired dozens of leaders previously accused of sex offenses Houston Chronicle
Southern Baptists Announce Plans to Address Sexual Abuse New York Times
***RELIGION AND THE LAW
***GOOD NEWS
N.J. cop’s $100 tip, touching note for pregnant diner waitress brought her to tears NewJersey.com
D.C. restaurant feeds the poor and homeless every single day WJLA-TV
103-year-old sworn in as junior ranger at Grand Canyon National Park Good Morning America
24-year-old woman becomes first openly autistic person to practice law in Florida WFLA
***ART & DESIGN
The Artist Behind the Famous Bathroom Selfies The Cut
Never forget David Bowie masterminded "the biggest art hoax in history" Salon
Graphic Novels in the Age of Trump New York Times
***MUSIC
Yesterday Trailer (video)
Reporter Jim DeRogatis On R. Kelly Charges NPR
Why Musicians Are Starting Their Own Podcasts — And Why The Podcast Industry Should Pay Attention Bello Collective
***FILM
What's Up, Documentary? An 'Undeniable Golden Age' For Filmmakers NPR
The Oscars and the Illusion of Perfect Representation Images can falsify as well as depict reality; they can mislead as well as inspire New York Times
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Fornite’s January Revenue Dropped 48% in January but the lull likely won’t last long TechCrunch
***JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
This Is the Fastest Growing Job in America Right Now Money
Resume Issues? This Organization Helps Young Adults Land Internships NPR
Advice for student journalists applying to internships the SF Chronicle EIC
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Sex trafficking, prostitution is anything but a 'victimless crime,' experts say USA Today
48% of Female Undergrads at Duke Say They Were Sexually Assaulted While Enrolled The Chronicle of Higher Education
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Record High # of Americans Name Government as Most Important Problem Gallup
How to Create a Social Media Content Strategy Social Media Today
Robert Kraft prostitution scandal exposes depth of modern slavery, sex trafficking industry USA Today
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
6 stats that should surprise companies when dealing with office romances Forbes
A New Benefit: Some Companies Help Workers Pay Down Student Loans NPR
***HEALTH
Extreme fasting: how Silicon Valley is rebranding eating disorders The Guardian
The Devastating Allure of Medical Miracles Wired
Anaesthetists say patients at risk after flawed oxygen guidelines The Guardian
The most effective form of exercise isn’t “exercise” at all Quartz
***VACCINES
High risk: anti-vaxxers in the delivery ward The Guardian
YouTube Just Demonetized Anti-Vax Channels BuzzFeed News
Why women are leading the anti-vaxx movement Medium
How One Woman Is Working To Educate Parents On Vaccinations NPR
***TRAVEL
Grand Canyon tourists exposed to radiation, safety manager says AzCentral
China bars millions from travel for 'social credit' offenses SFGate
***FOOD
The Chicken Is Local, But Was It Happy? GPS Now Tells The Life Story Of Your Poultry NPR
***CHILDREN
How to Grant Your Child an Inner Life New Yorker
When Kids Realize Their Whole Life Is Already Online: Googling yourself has become a rite of passage The Atlantic
What I Gave My Kid Instead of a Smartphone Human Parts
***ANIMALS
Man suffering ‘widow maker’ heart attack says dog saved his life Fox-5
Dog's emotional reaction to 'The Lion King' movie (video) ABC-11
Florida Church Offers Dog-Friendly Service (audio) NPR
***PSYCHOLOGY
Anger Can Be Contagious: Here's How To Stop The Spread NPR
The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell the Future The New Yorker
***PHILOSOPHY
How the World Thinks (podcast) History Extra
***HISTORY
Americans’ ignorance of history is a national scandal New York Times
***RESEARCH
Ways to Detect p-hacking Quora
There’s not really a culture of strong criticism of bad science that happens through peer review NPR
***HIGHER ED
How the US government created a fake university to snare immigrant students The Guardian
Amherst College goes 5 days without the internet Inside Higher Ed
On Campuses, Electric Scooters Meet Speed Bumps The Chronicle of Higher Education
What Single Moms Need to Succeed in College Inside Higher Ed
New study finds “important deficiencies” in university reports of misconduct Retraction Watch
Revolt at USC Over Dean’s Ouster Inside Higher Ed
Most Americans say colleges should not consider race or ethnicity in admissions Pew Research Center
Judges side with Missouri Baptist Convention in its long-running legal battle with Missouri Baptist University News Tribune
***ACADEMIC LIFE
A Vanderbilt faculty member struggles to gain tenure bec of her MeToo activism Inside Higher Ed
UC Berkeley suspends prominent professor accused of sexual harassment SF Chronicle
The most important factor in a relationship
/Communication, no matter how open, transparent and disciplined, will always break down at some point. Conflicts are ultimately unavoidable, and feelings will always be hurt.
And the only thing that can save you and your partner, that can cushion you both to the hard landing of human fallibility, is an unerring respect for one another, the fact that you hold each other in high esteem, believe in one another — often more than you each believe in yourselves — and trust that your partner is doing his/her best with what they’ve got.
Without that bedrock of respect underneath you, you will doubt each other’s intentions. You will judge their choices and encroach on their independence. You will feel the need to hide things from one another for fear of criticism. And this is when the cracks in the edifice begin to appear.
You must also respect yourself. Because without that self-respect, you will not feel worthy of the respect afforded by your partner. You will be unwilling to accept it and you will find ways to undermine it. You will constantly feel the need to compensate and prove yourself worthy of love, which will just backfire.
Respect for your partner and respect for yourself are intertwined. As a reader named Olov put it, “Respect yourself and your wife. Never talk badly to or about her. If you don’t respect your wife, you don’t respect yourself. You chose her – live up to that choice.”
Mark Manson writing in Business Insider
Connecting the Dots
/You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. -Steve Jobs (born Feb. 24, 1955)
Treat Failure like a Scientist
/When a scientist runs an experiment, there are all sorts of results that could happen. Some results are positive and some are negative, but all of them are data points. Each result is a piece of data that can ultimately lead to an answer.
And that’s exactly how a scientist treats failure: as another data point.
This is much different than how society often talks about failure. For most of us, failure feels like an indication of who we are as a person.
Failing a test means you’re not smart enough. Failing to get fit means you’re undesirable. Failing in business means you don’t have what it takes. Failing at art means you’re not creative. And so on.
But for the scientist, a negative result is not an indication that they are a bad scientist. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Proving a hypothesis wrong is often just as useful as proving it right because you learned something along the way.
Your failures are simply data points that can help lead you to the right answer.
An expert on human blind spots gives advice on how to think
/A lot of the issues or problems we get into, we get into because we’re doing it all by ourselves. We’re relying on ourselves. We’re making decisions as our own island, if you will. And if we consult, chat, schmooze with other people, often we learn things or get different perspectives that can be quite helpful.
An active social life, active social bonds, in many different ways tends to be something that’s healthy for people. Social bonds can also be informationally healthy as well. So that’s more on a top, more abstract level, if you will. That is, don’t try to do it yourself. Doing it yourself is when you get into trouble.
David Dunning quoted in Vox
Articles of Interest - week of Feb 18
/***BIG DATA & AI
IBM's AI loses debate to a human Cnet
Update on that study of p-hacking Stat Modeling
7 things we’ve learned about computer algorithms Pew Research Center
Major predictive policing algorithm is fundamentally flawed Motherboard
A look under the hood of an automated fake-news detection system MIT
Some ideas on how to make use of Kaggle to get the data science ball rolling Toward Data Science
***TECHNOLOGY
16% of US adults now own smartwatches Tech Crunch
How Should Self-Driving Cars Choose Who Not to Kill? Medium
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook’s Future Is Private Groups, for Better and Worse Bloomberg
Why Mark Zuckerberg's Writing Style Erodes Our Trust in Facebook The Blog of Slab
The Tinder algorithm, explained Vox
Teenage journalists memorialize hundreds of gun-violence victims Columbia Journalism Review
***MOBILE
US iPhone users spent, on average, $79 on apps last year, up 36% from 2017 Tech Crunch
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism The Guardian
Electric scooter reportedly vulnerable to hijacking hack Cnet
***PRODUCING MEDIA
The best WordPress hosting 2019 Tech Radar
***INTERNET
Ads 'slows down' browsing speeds BBC
How badly is Google Books search broken, and why? Sapping Attention
No, You Can’t Ignore Email: It’s Rude New York Times
Think I’ve Identified Email’s Fundamental Flaw The Cut
“Are you available for a quick task?” – Keep an eye out for the latest phishing scam hitting inboxes TechRadar
***JOURNALISM
A Crackdown On Journalism In The Philippines NPR
Journalists Can't Now Use A Database Of People's Phone Numbers And Addresses Buzzfeed News
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
The New York Times quietly paused its Snapchat channel Digiday
Media Layoffs Hit Peak Since 2009 Great Recession The Wrap
Findings from our national study on reinventing local TV News Storybench
Newsrooms are finally focusing on loyalty over pageviews: Here’s how to actually measure it Poynter
***FAKE NEWS
An Apocalyptic Preacher And QAnon Followers Made A Fake Pope Francis Quote Go Viral Buzzfeed News
Most Canadians trust media, but a similar share worry about fake news being weaponized: survey Global News
Russian Trolls Promoted Anti-Vaccination Propaganda That May Have Caused Measles Outbreak Researcher Claims Newsweek
Why Misinformation Is About Who You Trust, Not What You Think Nautil.us
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was seen in public Monday: Conspiracy theorists still insist she’s dead Washington Post
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Surviving the brain-dissolving internet Becoming (my blog)
Treat Failure Like a Scientist James Clear Blog
I’d like to tell you about the life-changing magic of not getting rid of things Washington Post
What’s all this fuss about “digital detox” — and does it really work? Recode
There's A Gap Between Perception And Reality When It Comes To Learning NPR
***WRITING & READING
The Newest Way To Check Out Library Books In Houston? Vending Machines Houston Public Media Houston Public Media
The Hardest Part of Writing Is Restarting Chronicle of Higher Education Chronicle of Higher Ed
5-Year-Old Logan Brinson Couldn't Find a Library Near Him—So He Opened One Himself Mental Floss
Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction The Paris Review
***LANGUAGE
Slang by state: Words only locals know USA Today
American parents say their children are speaking in British accent after watching too much Peppa Pig iTV
***LITERATURE
Tolkien’s World: An Exhibition Transports Us to Middle-earth New York Times
How an Italian Writer’s Imaginary Garden Became a Place of Literary Pilgrimage Atlas Obscura
***GENDER
The Women Who Contributed to Science but Were Buried in Footnotes The Atlantic
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
11-year-old arrested after refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance Bay News 9
After Black Student Is Kept Out of Class Discussion, NYU School Acknowledges ‘Institutional Racism’ Chronicle of Higher Ed
US border agency sued for detaining two Spanish speakers BBC
When Fred Rogers and Francois Clemmons Broke Down Race Barriers on a Historic Episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (1969) Open Culture
***FREE SPEECH
10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech: 2019 (including Liberty University) The FIRE
What is ‘auditing,’ and why did a YouTuber get shot for doing it? Washington Post
Another Politician Probably Violated the First Amendment By Blocking a Constituent on Twitter Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Federal Judge Thinks The Best Fix For An Accidentally Unsealed Court Doc Is Prior Restraint TechDirt
***LEGAL ISSUES
Fortnite's Appropriation Issue Isn't About Copyright Law, It's About Ethics Waypoint
CNN, Dish Fight This Question in Court: Is The Weather Channel a News Network? Hollywood Reporter
Copyrighting a dance step? Between a Hard (Milly) Rock and a Copyright Office The 1709 Blog
***RELIGION
I was hospitalized for depression. Faith helped me remember how to live Washington Post
Producer of ‘Silent Scream’ anti-abortion film dies Miami Herald
Founder Of Harvest Bible Chapel Fired For Misconduct And ‘Highly Inappropriate Comments’ Chicago CBS
***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE U.S.
Missionaries and nurses trapped in Haiti as protests sweep country CNN
Once a majority, Protestants now account for fewer than a third of Germans Pew Research Center
***RELIGION & SEXUAL ABUSE
Southern Baptist seminary chief regrets embrace of religious leader accused of hiding sex abuse Courier-Journal
More than 100 Southern Baptist youth pastors convicted or charged in sex crimes Houston Chronicle
***RELIGION & CELEBRITIES
Evangelicals claim Justin Bieber, but he won’t claim them Washington Examiner
Hillsong: Is this celeb-filled, Instagram-friendly church the new face of evangelicalism? NBC News
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
A law beloved by evangelicals could stand in the way of Trump’s wall Yahoo News
Wyoming Senate rejects death penalty repeal, one senator citing Jesus' crucifixion as her rationale The Week
***GOOD NEWS
UPS driver’s instincts lead to rescue of elderly man Fox 8
CNY Taco Bell worker writes a feel-good message in each take-out order; customers love it Syracuse.com
Inmates help police rescue Florida baby accidentally locked in car USA Today
Doctors Said His Daughter Might Never Walk (video) Digg
***MUSIC
"Rest in Vinyl” - A Company Will Press Your Ashes into a Working Vinyl Album The Vintage News
***FILM
A Peerless ‘War and Peace’ Film Is Restored to Its Former Glory New York Times
Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Crackpot Theories’ on How Moviegoing Has Changed The Atlantic
‘Office Space’ Turns 20 Variety
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
How the growth and evolution of the over-the-air tv home fits into today’s viewing landscape Nielsen
eSports Joins the Big Leagues Goldman Sachs
***JOBS: FREELANCING
Where to pitch, based on data from the website, Who Pays Writers? Columbia Journalism Review
What do freelance writers make? Storybench
Why Freelancing Creates Anxiety About Money The Cut
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Climate Change Still Seen as the Top Global Threat, but Cyberattacks a Rising Concern Pew Research Center
America’s gun problem, explained in 5 facts Vox
Facebook's security team tracks posts and keeps a possible threat list CNBC
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
What Happens To A Small Town After Walmart Leaves It (video) PBS
The GDP Of Each State, Matched To An Equivalent Country Digg
The Biggest Economic Divides Aren’t Regional—They’re Local New York Times
***ENVIRONMENT
Bold Plan? Replace the Border Wall with an Energy–Water Corridor Scientific American
From marine biology to gallery walls: At Lux, artist Courtney Mattison draws attention to the fragility of our oceans Union-Tribune
Key West bans sunscreens that harm coral reefs CNN
Why polar bears invaded a Russian village The Verge
Massive starfish die-off tied to warming seas Axios
This Scary Map Shows How Climate Change Will Transform Your City Wired
Scientist who resisted censorship of climate report lost her job Reveal News
***HEALTH: PREVENTION
Sneezed-In Tissues For Sale (video) Stephen Colbert
Children are using an unhealthy amount of toothpaste, CDC warns USA Today
Poor sleep could clog your arteries. A mouse study shows how that might happen Science Magazine
***HEALTH: VACCINES
Facebook under pressure to halt rise of anti-vaccination groups The Guardian
Anti-vaxxers are spreading conspiracy theories on Facebook, and the company is struggling to stop them Washington Post
In anti-vaccine rant, wife of top Trump aide says it's time to 'bring back our childhood diseases' The Week
***TRAVEL
Where Not to Travel in 2019, or Ever: Another take on the Christian Missionary who tried to Sentinelese (opinion) The Walrus
***FOOD
The official fast food French fry power rankings LA Times
***RELATIONSHIPS
About 40% of American couples now meet each other online Quartz
Sharing Netflix, Spotify Accounts After Couples Break Up NPR
Dating App Scams Vox
The Cities With the Most Singles Citylab
8 facts about love and marriage in America Pew Research Center
***SCIENCE
How Many Creationists Are There in America? Scientific American Blog Network
Ph.D. Student Breaks Down Electron Physics Into A Swinging Musical NPR
Does scientist immigration harm US science? An examination of the knowledge spillover channel ScienceDirect
Essential elements for high-impact scientific writing Nature
New NASA Mission Will Create Maps of the Sky Like Never Before Popular Mechanics
***NEUROSCIENCE
Depression speeds aging in the brain, a new study shows Quartz
How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past Quanta Magazine
***PHILOSOPHY
Why so many men online love to use “logic” to win an argument, and then disappear before they can find out they're wrong (opinion) The Outline
Google Translate is a manifestation of Wittgenstein’s theory of language Quartz
A global history of philosophy (podcast) BBC
***PRODUCTIVITY
Emotional burnout is fueled by envy The Outline
***HISTORY
How the US has hidden its empire The Guardian
***RESEARCH
Editorial Independence and Journal Ownership in the Age of Open Science The Scholarly Kitchen
Be cautious, skeptical with comprehensive reviews of evidence Association of Health Care Journalists Health Journalism
Study suggests that making reviewers’ reports freely readable doesn’t compromise peer-review process Nature
Replication is on the Rise Arnold Ventures
Major medical journals don’t follow their own rules for reporting results from clinical trials Science Magazine
The Fraud Finder: A conversation with Elisabeth Bik The Last Word On Nothing
***STUDENT MEDIA
As student journalists, how do you report on rape allegations? Pretty much the same way you report on anything else Dynamics of Writing
Student journalists hold power to account, with fewer protections Columbia Journalism Review
Loyola’s Media Policy is designed to hinder student reporting (opinion) Loyola Phoenix
Loyola Student Newspaper Accuses University of 'Trump' Tactics, Dodging Reporters NBC Chicago
***STUDENT LIFE
Historic black church pays off loans of Howard University students The Hill
Tobacco use is soaring among U.S. kids, driven by e-cigarettes Axios
College grads expect to earn $60,000 in their first job—here's how much they actually make CNBC
***ACADEMIC LIFE
College fires longtime professor of English when he asked too many questions about accreditation Inside Higher Ed
Is Email Making Professors Stupid? It used to simplify crucial tasks. Now it’s strangling scholars’ ability to think Chronicle of Higher Ed
Lessons learned from the Wright State strike: professors Inside Higher Ed
***ACADEMICS & PLAGIARISM
Current Policy, Past Investigations Offer Window Into Harvard’s Next Steps In Abramson Plagiarism Case The Harvard Crimson
***HIGHER ED
A Guide to the Changing Number of U.S. Universities US News
Judge says University of Texas at Austin can't revoke a former student's Ph.D. on its own, outside a court of law Inside Higher Ed
Mega-Universities Are On the Rise: They Could Reshape Higher Ed as We Know It Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES
Study documents economic gains from liberal arts education Inside Higher Ed
7 Things You Can Do With Your Humanities Degree Thrive Global
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Louisiana College quits CCCU over LGBT policy Baptist Message
Why Bob Jones University hosted a gender and sexuality conference Greenville Online
Azusa Pacific University: Is a Faculty Purge Imminent? (opinion) Rewire
Surviving the brain-dissolving internet
/I’ve been a technology journalist for nearly 20 years and a tech devotee even longer. Over that time, I’ve been obsessed with how the digital experience scrambles how we make sense of the real world.
Technology may have liberated us from the old gatekeepers, but it also created a culture of choose-your-own-fact niches, elevated conspiracy thinking to the center of public consciousness and brought the incessant nightmare of high-school-clique drama to every human endeavor. It also skewed our experience of daily reality.
Objectively, the world today is better than ever, but the digital world inevitably makes everyone feel worse. It isn’t just the substance of daily news that unmoors you, but also the speed and volume and oversaturated fakery of it all.
And so, to survive the brain-dissolving internet, I turned to meditation.
The fad is backed by reams of scientific research showing the benefits of mindfulness for your physical and mental health — how even short-term stints improve your attention span and your ability to focus, your memory, and other cognitive functions.
Farhad Manjoo writing in the New York Times
Daily Rituals
/Here’s the true secret of life: We mostly do everything over and over. In the morning, we let the dogs out, make coffee, read the paper, help whoever is around get ready for the day. We do our work. In the afternoon, if we have left, we come home, put down our keys and satchels, let the dogs out, take off constrictive clothing, make a drink or put water on for tea, toast the leftover bit of scone. I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak.
Daily rituals, especially walks, even forced marches around the neighborhood, and schedules, whether work or meals with non-awful people, can be the knots you hold on to when you’ve run out of rope.
Anne Lamott, Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair
face and explore
/We have to face and explore directly our inner restlessness, our mixed feelings towards others, and our deep-seated suspicions about the absence of God. -Henri J. M. Nouwen
A one-way ticket to a toxic relationship
/Many people are addicted to the ups and downs of romantic love. They are in it for the feels, so to speak. And when the feels run out, so do they. Many people get into a relationship as a way to compensate for something they lack or hate within themselves. This is a one-way ticket to a toxic relationship because it makes your love conditional — you will love your partner as long as they help you feel better about yourself. You will give to them as long as they give to you. You will make them happy as long as they make you happy. This conditionality prevents any true, deep-level intimacy from emerging and chains the relationship to the bucking throes of each person’s internal dramas.