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
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
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.
Moral Hypocrisy
/It pays to be wary of those who are the quickest and loudest in condemning the moral failings of others – the chances are that moral preachers are as guilty themselves, but take a far lighter view of their own transgressions. In one study, researchers found that people rated the exact same selfish behaviour (giving themselves the quicker and easier of two experimental tasks on offer) as being far less fair when perpetuated by others. Similarly, there is a long-studied phenomenon known as actor-observer asymmetry, which in part describes our tendency to attribute other people’s bad deeds, such as our partner’s infidelities, to their character, while attributing the same deeds performed by ourselves to the situation at hand. These self-serving double standards could even explain the common feeling that incivility is on the increase – recent research shows that we view the same acts of rudeness far more harshly when they are committed by strangers than by our friends or ourselves.
Christian Jarrett writing in The British Psychological Society’s Research Digest
Articles of Interest - Feb 11
/***TECHNOLOGY
Scientists connect a human brain and 'rat cyborg' brain together CNET
The Fortnite Marshmello event represents something different by many orders of magnitude Wired
The future of lawn care? This Dallas company's robots mow the yard for you WFAA
***SOCIAL MEDIA
15 Instagram Feeds That Help Make the World More Wondrous Atlas Obscura
How Many Hashtags Should I Use On Instagram In 2019? This Is What The Experts Recommend Bustle
An early Facebook investor throws up his hands: We’ve been ‘Zucked’ Washington Post
Twitter discloses daily active user count for first time Axios
Snapchat, no longer bleeding users, tests Android app redesign Mashable
***MOBILE
How does photography (& taking selfies) affect you? We tried to find out (video) Wired
All 230 New Emojis for 2019 (video) Emojipedia
***JOURNALISM
Mass. legislator proposes government commission to examine journalism industry Boston Globe
The Rise of the Robot Reporter New York Times
Craigslist founder donates $15 million for journalism ethics San Francisco Gate
Former 'NYT' Executive Editor Jill Abramson Responds To Plagiarism Allegations NPR
Did A Robot Write This? How AI Is Impacting Journalism Forbes
Lessons for Journalists from conflict mediation training The Whole Story
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Which platforms are driving more traffic to news websites? Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Amid Layoffs, McClatchy News CEO Got a $900,000 Bonus in 2017 Miami New Times
The alternative to your dying local paper is written by one person, a robot, and you Recode
This TV News Anchor Says Her Boss Called Her Natural Hair Too "Unprofessional" For Broadcast Buzzfeed News
***FAKE NEWS
Facebook adds new fact-checking partner Axios
Peering under the hood of fake-news detectors MIT Technology Review
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Extension will detect your unsafe passwords Wired
Big Telecom Sold Highly Sensitive Customer GPS Data Typically Used for 911 Calls Motherboard
Many Popular iPhone Apps Secretly Record your Screen Tech Crunch
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Is it time for every publisher to “pivot to podcasts”? What’s News in Publishing
LinkedIn Debuts LinkedIn Live, a new video broadcast Service Tech Crunch
***INTERNET
Each State’s Most-Googled Relationship Question Century Link Quote
What happens when you try to live without the big five (Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple) Subtraction
Russia Is Considering An Experiment To Disconnect From The Internet NPR
***BIG DATA & AI
MIT Tech: machine learning is now witnessing a downfall Analytics Insights
Startups help companies track their competition with spy satellites Seattle Times
Top 10 Machine Learning Programming Languages Analytics Insights
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Do you understand a thing or only its definition? Becoming (my blog)
How To Sound Smart CollegeHumor
3 simple habits that can protect your brain from cognitive decline Fast Company
***WRITING & READING
The Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: A Free Online Atlas That Helps Preserve Writing Systems That May Soon Disappear Open Culture
A Patron Returned a Book to a Maryland Library Nearly 75 Years After It Was Due Mental Floss
***LANGUAGE
A College Lost Its Languages One by One. Can 3 Professors Save Spanish? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Entertainment Studios Will Launch Spanish-Language Weather Channel In 2020 Deadline
***LITERATURE
T.S.Eliot's Cat The Daily Star
J.D. Salinger’s Family To Publish Trove Of Secret Works The Guardian
McDonald’s Happy Meals Now Come With Roald Dahl Books Instead of Toys in New Zealand Mental Floss
Welcome to the Bold and Blocky Instagram Era of Book Covers Vulture
The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury Literary Hub
***GENDER
Over a Third of Generation Z Knows a Non-Binary Person The Daily Beast
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
When school dress codes depend on the color of your skin Washington Post
A class of Black 6th grade students recreated famous book covers for Black History Month Hello Giggles
Black Farmers Once Comprised 14% Of America's Farmers. Today, It's Less Than 2%. What Happened? Digg
The Conversation the Press Isn’t Having: Even when people of color do very American things, they still aren’t seen as being members of American culture (opinion) The Atlantic
***BLACKFACE
Photos of blackface, KKK robes and nooses lurk alongside portraits in old college yearbooks Washington Post
VCU and predecessors yearbooks show racist imagery as late as 1989, students held “Slave Sale” fundraiser Commonwealth Times (VCU student newspaper)
More Anger Over Blackface Yearbook Photos Inside Higher Ed
About a third of Americans say blackface in a Halloween costume is acceptable at least sometimes Pew Research Center
The complicated, always racist history of blackface Vox
***FREE SPEECH
Boy, 10, takes knee during pledge of allegiance at NC city council meeting WMCA-TV
Michigan RAs told not to remove racist or other offensive language from dormitory doors: Officials say they can't suppress free expression Inside Higher Ed
When Colleges Confine Free Speech to a ‘Zone,’ It Isn’t Free ACLU
***LEGAL ISSUES
Wave of concussion lawsuits to test NCAA's liability Associated Press
Too Many Graduates at some Law Schools Fail to pass the Bar USA Today
What’s New With Emoji Law? Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***CRIME
Why Thieves Target Gun Stores The New Yorker
***REALLY?!
For $20, Wildlife Images will put your ex's name on a salmon and feed it to a bear KTVL
Man Wanted By Police for Selling Fake Super Bowl Tickets to His Own Family (He made nearly $1 million) Fatherly
***RELIGION
How highly religious Americans view evolution depends on how they’re asked about it Pew Research Center
Chris Pratt, Justin Bieber, and the rise of the “cool” Christian celebrity Vox
Cross washed ashore in FL may have floated from NC memorial Miami Herald
The Church With the $6 Billion Portfolio New York Times
Half of Millennial Christians Say It’s Wrong to Evangelize Christianity Today
***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE U.S.
The life and death of John Chau, the man who tried to convert his killers The Guardian
***RELIGION & LGBTQ
United Methodists face vote on LGBTQ issues. Will it rip the church apart? Chicago Tribune
Win for Christian Group at Iowa: Judge says university cannot deny recognition because of antigay rules Inside Higher Ed
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Trump emerges as an unexpected champion in the White House for evangelicals ABC News
When Christian Evangelicals Loved Socialism Jstor
***GOOD NEWS
My disabled son’s amazing gaming life in the World of Warcraft BBC
When a Newton family welcomed a baby who is deaf, 20 neighbors learned sign language Boston Globe
Father organises heavy metal festival for his music-loving son Mason, who has cerebral palsy My Good Planet
Two hundred strangers attended Holocaust survivor’s funeral Washington Post
This 92-year-old Wayne firefighter has been battling blazes since WWII NorthJersey.com
Snowball fight! Hundreds show up for epic battle at Tacoma park Q-13
***ART & DESIGN
How artists with disabilities are re-imagining art and tech Immerse
The Secret Lives of Color 99% Invisible
10 Insights on the State of Visual Storytelling in 2019 Aetka
***MUSIC
How Focus Music Hacks Your Brain Cheddar
How To Find The Right Musical Instrument For You Infographic
***FILM
11 Facts About Blazing Saddles on Its 45th Anniversary Metal Floss
Steven Soderbergh’s ‘High Flying Bird’ and the Rise of iPhone Films The Ringer
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms Houston Chronicle
New Tribes Missions Covered up sexual abuse, say missionary kids NBC News
Leavenworth judge blames children in Kansas sex abuse case The Kansas City Star
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Why You Should Work Less and Spend More Time on Hobbies Harvard Business Review
How much you'll need to retire at 55 in every state Digg
***FAMILY
Ultimate Guide To Teen Slang For Parents Daily Infographic
***ENVIRONMENT
The magnetic field near the Arctic is acting weird The Verge
Are We Watching the End of the Monarch Butterfly? New York Times
***HEALTH
Higher education won't prevent mental decline, study finds NBC News
Five-year survival rates for nearly all cancers are on the rise Our World in Data
How it feels to be obese The Atlantic
Hospital Mergers Improve Health? Evidence Shows the Opposite New York Times
***HEALTH & VACCINES
Why measles is back, in five charts Popular Science
Hundreds rally to preserve right not to vaccinate children amid measles outbreak WCTV
Measles outbreaks are everywhere: Here's what you need to know Popular Science
***HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
New disease surveillance tool helps detect any human virus Broad Institute
Self-charging pacemakers are powered by patients' heartbeats Engadget
First dexterous hand prosthesis implanted Chalmers
First-ever in-body gene editing of a live patient Associated Press
Defying Parents, A Teen Decides To Get Vaccinated NPR
***TRAVEL
Travel Tips from a Guy Who Travels Kinda Often Subtraction
5 best trips for solo travelers CNN
Southwest's Plan to Launch Flights to Hawaii Could Start a Fare War to the Aloha State Fortune
***FOOD
8 Foods You've Been Eating All Wrong Metal Floss
Incorrect things We Believed About Food 25 Years Ago (video)
Map Shows the Most Popular Girl Scout Cookie in Each State Fatherly
***ANIMALS
Colorado Runner Kills Mountain Lion In Self-Defense NPR
Scientists Are Totally Rethinking Animal Cognition The Atlantic
***SCIENCE
19 Common Things Science Hasn’t Figured Out Mental Floss
Harvard's top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us Boston.com
For Darwin Day, 6 facts about the evolution debate Pew Research Center
***PSYCHOLOGY
Why keeping secrets may be damaging your mental health Scientific American
The myth of Ted Bundy as a charming guy The Outline
How to Talk to a Friend Struggling With Their Mental Health Life Hacker
Laughter is a uniquely human – and collective – activity Aeon
***PHILOSOPHY
Aristotle’s Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life The Week
3 philosophers set up a booth on a street corner – here’s what people asked The Conversation
***HISTORY
The deadly race to the South Pole (video)
***RESEARCH
Call for retraction of 400 scientific papers amid fears organs came from Chinese prisoners The Guardian
Reflections on Citation Mania ACS Energy Letters ACS
NIH asks federal watchdog to investigate 12 allegations related to foreign influence of biomedical research Science Magazine
What is the single major threat to research integrity?” Experts weigh in Clinical Chemistry
***HIGHER ED
Large donation to a small community college changes the outlook on fund-raising by two-year institutions Inside Higher Ed
Most evangelical college students appreciate LGBT people even if trustees don’t (opinion) Religious News Service
***HUMANITIES
Can larger liberal arts colleges learn from the successes and missteps of small art schools? Inside Higher Ed
As STEM majors soar at UW, interest in humanities shrinks — a potentially costly loss Seattle Times
***TEACHING
Should You Allow Laptops in Class? Here’s What the Latest Study Adds to That Debate Chronicle of Higher Ed
Do Racial Epithets Have Any Place in the Classroom? A Professor’s Suspension Fuels That Debate Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Towson University police warn of a woman on the loose, looking for a date for her son Baltimore Sun
Teens don't use Facebook, but they can't escape it, either Wired
Colleges tracking online interaction NEWS-5
Here’s Why So Many Americans Feel Cheated By Their Student Loans BuzzFeed News
The Silly Stereotypes That Elite-College Students Have About Other Campuses The Atlantic
The Sexualized Messages Dress Codes are Sending to Students Pudding
Tuition or food? How college kids use food pantries to help food insecurity USA Today
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Tenure is again at risk in Iowa Inside Higher Ed
Why left and right both get the meaning of academic freedom wrong Washington Post
Do you understand a thing or only its definition?
/We take other men’s knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make them our own. We are just like a man who, needing fire, went to a neighbor’s house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sat down to warm himself without remembering to carry any back home. What good does it do us to have our belly full of meat if it is not digested, if it is not transformed into us, if it does not nourish and support us?
Montaigne
Assume They’re Wrong
/From military predictions to technological predictions to sports predictions, when experts foretell the future, it’s always safest to assume they’re wrong.
Because they are deeply knowledgeable in a particular field, experts are more prone than others to view the world through a too-narrow lens, assuming that the current trends they understand so well are indicators of what is to come. Their expertise reinforces their confidence in their own analysis, blinding them to contrary data or disconfirming evidence.
As you listen to their smart, persuasive, credible prophecies, just remember: Most of them, most of the time, will be wrong. (You can take my word for it. After all, I’m an expert.)
Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe
Four simple words
/During nearly 20 years writing about health, I’ve had the opportunity to speak with hundreds of top medical experts about how to live well. What I’ve learned from all of them can be summed up in four simple words.
Move. Nourish. Refresh. Connect.
Tara Parker-Pope writing in the New York Times
Tuesday Tech Tools: Learning to Code
/Want to learn some coding? Here are some places to start:
Code Cademy
Learn coding for Free.
The Code Player
DataCamp
Google Code Playground
An advanced educational tool to show code examples of Google Javascript APIs.
Hands on Programming with R (free book)
jQuery
R for Data Science (free book)
Stack Overflow*
One of the most popular programming problem-solving sites. Ask your coding questions as you learn or find chunks of code.
TeamTreehouse
Tuturals on web design, coding, business, etc. Students sign up for annual subscriptions.
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
Learn HTML, CSS, etc.
Find more tools here
Articles of Interest - Feb 4
/***JOURNALISM
The Newseum was a grand tribute to the power of journalism: Here’s how it failed The Washington Post
Immigrant rights attorneys and journalists denied entry into Mexico Los Angeles Times
The Six Forms of Media Bias New York Times
News story lifespan charts FlowingData
Asked To Ignore Racism: 4 Reporters Tell Their Stories Huffington Post
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Loss of newspapers contributes to political polarization Associated Press
How R&D works at the BBC & The New York Times Global Editors Network
***FAKE NEWS
NSA confirms everything is a conspiracy, conspiracy theorists not convinced The Science Post
Fake news sites are simply changing their domain name to get around Facebook fact-checkers Mashable
Snopes says nope to Facebook’s money and leaves fact-checking program The Verge
Snopes and AP stop fact checking for Facebook TechCrunch
A shockingly large majority of health news shared on Facebook is fake or misleading Fact Company
The Deep Roots of Fake News: A new history of the United States traces mass media’s destabilizing effects back to the nation’s birth Scientific American
How analyzing patterns helps students spot deceptive media The Conversation
Veterans of the News Business Are Now Fighting Fakes New York Times
Individually, people aren’t great at judging news sources. En masse, they’re almost the same as professional fact-checkers Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Flickr will start deleting your photos soon Daily Dot
The real problem with posting about your kids online (opinion) The Conversation
Facebook has been paying teens $20 a month for total access to their phone activity The Verge
Does Facebook Really Know How Many Fake Accounts It Has? New York Times
Facebook's plan: One messaging service to rule them all Axios
Facebook: Where Friendships Go to Never Quite Die The Atlantic
10 facts about Americans and Facebook Pew Research Center
Meet the Creator of the Egg That Broke Instagram New York Times
Instagram to blur self-harm images after Molly Russell's suicide BongBonG
***MOBILE
Americans got 26.3B robocalls 2018; many don't answer the phone Twin Cities
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Inside the UAE’s secret hacking team of American mercenaries Reuters
A handy list of ways Facebook has tried to sneakily gather data about you The Next Web
News outlets' email security gap Axios
***INTERNET
Study shows we're spending an insane amount of time online The Next Web
It’s time to ditch Google Analytics Fact Company
Digital trends 2019: Every single stat you need to know about the internet The Next Web
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Saying no to 1000 things Becoming (my blog)
What old story about yourself are you still believing? Here’s how to find it and change It TED ideas
The Dunning-Kruger effect, and how to fight it, explained by psychologist David Dunning Vox
***GRAMMAR
Ariana Grande’s new tattoo has a hilarious misspelling Mashable
Meet the Guardian of Grammar Who Wants to Help You Be a Better Writer New York Times
***WRITING & READING
How to write effectively for international journals Nature
Should plagiarism be a bar to presidency? (sub req’ed) Times Higher Ed
The changing ways Americans read books Axios
Three Writing Rules to Disregard The Paris Review
***LANGUAGE
What happens in our brain when we learn languages? Science Focus
Evolution of the alphabet FlowingData
***LITERATURE
Book Written by Detainee via WhatsApp Gets a Top Prize New York Times
3 Award-Winning Latina Authors Are Symbols Of Hope For Next Generation Of Writers NPR
A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions The New Yorker
***GENDER
Women act more like men when they have to ask women for money Quartz
New Study: Largest U.S. Churches Are Unclear on Women's Leadership Sojourners
Nevada Reaches Major Milestone As First State With Majority Of Women In Legislature NPR
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
James Watson and the insidiousness of scientific racism Wired
Football and the NFL Are Facing White Flight The Atlantic
Magazine censored, editor dropped for covering Henry Ford’s anti-semitic newspaper Columbia Journalism Review
***FREE SPEECH
Mobs target journalists and Turkey hands jail sentences to 28 academics IFEX
Eddie Money's Decision to Fire Drummer Was Expression of Free Speech, Court Rules Hollywood Reporter
Federal Judge Bizarre claim: Boycotts Aren't Protected Speech TechDirt
***LEGAL ISSUES
A look at how unfair the courts can be for those who can't afford fairness New York Times
Michael Jackson & R. Kelly Documentaries Tough to Stop Due to First Amendment Billboard
How O.G. Streetwear Brand FUCT Took a Free Speech Case All the Way to the Supreme Court GQ
Fiji Water's Golden Globes Photobomber Sues Company Over Cardboard Cutouts Hollywood Reporter
The large-scale and potentially extremely illegal social media marketing efforts for the Fyre Fest The Fashion Law Blog
***CRIME
10 Visualizations About Criminal Justice Global Investigative Journalism Network
***TECHNOLOGY
Researchers demonstrate flexible, inexpensive materials that can convert ambient Wi-Fi signals into electricity MIT Tech Review
***BIG DATA & AI
We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next: the era of deep learning is coming to an end MIT Tech Review
***RELIGION
Are religious people happier, healthier? Our new global study explores this question Pew Research Center
How A Long-Lost Guitar Was A Lesson In Grace And Forgiveness NPR
World Vision ousted from Pakistan The Alabama Baptist
SoCal Megachurch pastor Commits Suicide Christian Post
Interfaith panel reflects on the state of faith-based higher education Deseret News
Avril Lavigne crosses over to Christian music with latest Top 5 single Aleteia
Religion makes Americans give Philanthropy
HarperCollins Christian Publishing found guilty of fraud, breach of contract Nashville Post
Students at Sundance see Film Through the eyes of faith Religious News
***GOOD NEWS
Man saves woman's life by giving her CPR — a skill he picked up from watching The Office Tucson.com
Good Samaritans rescue woman and infant son after SUV crashes into pond WMBF-TV
***ART & DESIGN
The women running for president are breaking the rules of branding Fact Company
A funky dictionary with daily used terms in the digital agencies around the world Fakeit
The National Parks’ iconic typeface has never been digitized–until now Fact Company
***MUSIC
Take this test to figure out how tone-deaf you are The Verge
Get Free Ambient Work Music With Flow State LifeHacker
***FILM
15 Movies We Loved at Sundance Vulture
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
BuzzFeed Paid the Teen Making Its Top Quizzes in Free Swag The Cut
Coming to a TV near you: personalized ads Axios
***STUDENT MEDIA
5 simple things Jimmy Breslin did as a reporter and writer that can make student journalists great, too Dynamics of Writing
***STUDENT LIFE
19 Things Your Parents Told You That Turned Out To Be Total BS BuzzFeed
In Growing ‘Wild West’ of Campus Esports, Programs Rush to Lure the Best Players Chronicle of Higher Ed
Are millennials lazy? Studies suggest otherwise King-5
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Yale hires investigator after claims of sexual misconduct against former professor New Haven Register
Michigan State Faulted For Handling Of Sexual Abuse Cases NPR
Priest Responds To Child Sex Abuse Accusations Within Church NPR
***SOCIAL ISSUES
These Maps Reveal the Secret World of Modern Slavery How Much
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
America Needs More Young Workers to Support Aging Population Bloomberg
A worldwide, winner-takes-all race to rule tech Axios
Visualizing how prices have changed over the past 20 years How Much
Student loan debt crushes senior citizens Axios
***ENVIRONMENT
The natural products that could replace plastic BBC
Climate change is altering the color of the oceans Quartz
***HEALTH
America’s Epidemic of Vaccine Exemptions New Republic
We have far less control over our weight than we might wish to think IFL Science
Sleep loss heightens pain sensitivity, dulls brain’s painkilling response Berekley
Cereal companies created a myth about the first meal of the day: Researchers keep debunking it Vox
Extra body fat may be shrinking your brain Fatherly
Teens with anti-vax parents seek out Reddit's help to get secretly vaccinated Salon
***FAMILY
14 Tips for Raising Generous Kids Red Tricycle
***AUTISM
Children with autism may not cave to peer pressure like Non-autistic Children IFL Science
What Happens When Autism Becomes a Literary Device? New York Times
***ANIMALS
Woman runs final 19 miles of marathon while cradling a lost puppy Runner’s World
Iran bans dogs from riding in cars and public walks in Tehran CNN
People Form Human Chain To Rescue Dog From Canal The Dodo
Animal rights group sues UC Davis, demanding videos of alleged abuse of monkeys San Francisco Chronicle
Dad Saves Dog’s Fav Toy Daily Mail
***PSYCHOLOGY
Judge says Tampa conversion therapy ban violates First Amendment free-speech rights Washington Post
Women's Brains Age More Slowly Than Men's NPR
***PHILOSOPHY
The Case for Professors of Stupidity Nautil
How Did Famous Philosophers Promote Racism In America? Houston Public Media
How Accurate Is The Good Place's Philosophy? Marie Claire
Monty Python's Best Philosophy Sketches Open Culture
***PRODUCTIVITY
Multiply time by asking 4 questions about the stuff on your to-do list TED ideas
***HISTORY
After issuing dozens of corrections to high-profile book, historian shuts down his blog Retraction Watch
You Can Now Look At The Faces Of Some Of Britain's Earliest Inhabitants IFL Science
What Popular Histories Often Get Wrong About the Underground Railroad History News Network
***ETHICS
Three Identical Strangers’: The high cost of experimentation without ethics Washington Post
British army permitted shooting of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan Middle East Eye
***RESEARCH
Is Journal Peer-Review Now Just a Game? Milton Packer wonders if the time has come for instant replay MedPage Today
Intellectual Conflicts of Interest Pose Hidden Dangers to Scientific Accuracy OncLive
The journal impact factor: Is it better than coin flipping? Science Direct
Is there a best day for submitting an article for publication? The London School of Economics & Political Science
***HIGHER ED
New efforts on campus focus on ways to capture what students learn outside class -- and how to communicate it to employers Inside Higher Ed
Litigation Is Likely For New Title IX Guidelines NPR
Education by State Wallethub
When Colleges Seek Diversity Through Photoshop Inside Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES
How to Get Grant Money in the Humanities and Social Sciences’ Inside Higher Ed
View that liberal arts majors face lower earning potential is a myth Daily Camera
The Decline of Historical Thinking (and the history major) The New Yorker
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Christian College Professor is suspended for using the N-word while discussing a James Baldwin essay Inside Higher Ed
Christian university denies approving ‘F*** Donald Trump’ theme of convocation The College Fix
Pelosi praises evangelicals in address to Christian college presidents Christian Post
Christian university blocks Ben Shapiro from speaking The Hill
Christian School Under Fire for Allowing Blackface During School Presentation Fox 40
***TEACHING
Are You Assigning Too Much Reading? Or Just Too Much Boring Reading? Chronicle of Higher Ed
How One Professor Learned to Stop Worrying and Drop the Deadline Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
University bans journalism professor from campus; university alert alleges meth use, access to guns Spokesman
Ex-Dentistry Professor Suing USC, Alleges Firing Linked to Complaint Against Supervisor Changing Grades City News Service
University Will Pay Nearly $700,000 in Settlement With Former Provost after she was accused of plagiarism Chronicle of Higher Ed
Saying "no" to 1,000 things
/People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying "no" to 1,000 things.
Steve Jobs
Digital Hoarding
/I have a confession: there are 20,577 unread emails in my inbox, 31,803 photos on my phone and 18 browser tabs currently open on my laptop. Digital clutter has invaded my life and I have no idea what to do with it.
Emerging research on digital hoarding – a reluctance to get rid of the digital clutter we accumulate through our work and personal lives – suggests that it can make us feel just as stressed and overwhelmed as physical clutter. Not to mention the cybersecurity problems it can cause for individuals and businesses and the way it makes finding that one email you need sometimes seem impossible.
Instead of berating ourselves for having too many unread emails or taking too many selfies, perhaps we’d be better off setting aside time to regain control of our digital clutter – one virtual photo album at a time.
Kelly Oakes writing for the BBC
Articles of Interest - Jan 28
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
12 of the Best Social Media Analytics Tools (and How They Can Help Your Business) Social Media Today
3 brands that use social media snark effectively (and deliciously) PR Daily
Tinder agrees to settle age discrimination lawsuit TechCrunch
We Followed YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Down The Rabbit Hole
***SOCIAL MEDIA: THE INFLUENCERS
10 Influencers under 10 Ad Age
2-year-old Instagrammers make more than you Fast Company
Is It Time to Regulate Social Media Influencers? (opinion) New York Magazine
***SOCIAL MEDIA: FACEBOOK
Facebook knowingly duped game-playing kids and their parents out of money Reveal News
Facebook Moves to Block Ad Transparency Tools — Including Ours Propublica
***MOBILE
Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This New York Times
Get Ready for Weird Phones Wired
FaceTime bug lets you hear or see through someone else’s iPhone, even if they haven’t answered BongBong
***PRODUCING MEDIA
How to download Photoshop free or with Creative Cloud Creative Bloq
***JOURNALISM
How Innovative Newsrooms Are Using Artificial Intelligence Global Investigative Journalism Network
I'm glad I didn't give up on journalism" (L.A. Times' Kimi Yoshino) Poynter
Iowa House denying press credentials to influential blogger Associated Press
4chan trolls flood laid off HuffPost, BuzzFeed reporters with death threats NBC News
Crafted storytelling vs raw content Journalism.co
It doesn’t take a ton of nasty comments to sink a reader’s perception of a news site Harvard’s Neiman Lab
ProPublica makes corrections to a story about Oregon’s courts ProPublica
2019 Edelman Trust Barometer Edelman
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Media industry loses about 1,000 jobs as layoffs hit news organizations CNN
The Economist launches daily news podcast with 8 staffers Digiday
What The Latest Layoffs Mean For Digital Journalism NPR
Johns Hopkins University is buying the building that houses the Newseum which will move Washington Post
Cancel in protest? Or stay with a local newspaper that’s being strip-mined for profits? Washington Post
***FAKE NEWS
Why Camera Angles And Bias Support Different Opinions NP
YouTube says it will crack down on recommending conspiracy videos CNN
Just 1% of Twitter users exposed to 80% of fake news during the 2016 U.S. election Venture Beat
Medical News: What Can You Trust? can you know when studies are based on solid science? Bottom Line Inc
Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election Science Mag
Do people fall for fake news because they’re partisan or because they’re lazy? Researchers are divided Harvard’s Nieman Lab
4 ways to know when a conspiracy theory is almost surely false Big Think
The man who helps the internet make fake news Columbia Journalism Review
***BIG DATA & AI
We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next: the era of deep learning is coming to an end MIT Tech Review
Google’s DeepMind AI Is So Good It’s Beating Pro Gamers High Snobiety
Meet the scientists who are training AI to diagnose mental illness The Verge
10 influential data scientists and why you should follow them Tech Beacon
***INTERNET
10 Year Challenge: How Popular Websites Have Changed Arun
Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection For Activist Workers Bloomberg
Google putting money, machine learning into Wikipedia Wired
Meet the man behind a third of what's on Wikipedia CBS News
Three new editing features in Gmail ZDnet
Google Tests Dynamic Email In Android App Media Post
How to Spend Way Less Time on Email Every Day Harvard Business Review
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Routine and Ritual Becoming (my blog)
There's little evidence that digital detoxes improve mental health Quartz
***WRITING & READING
The Most Redundant Words to Delete From Your Writing Medium
Students Want to Write Well; We Don’t Let Them (review of Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities) LA Review of Books
'The New Childhood' makes case that video games, social media are good for kids USA Today
***LANGUAGE
Colleges Lose a ‘Stunning’ 651 Foreign-Language Programs in 3 Years Chronicle of Higher Education
Learning a language means failure, embarrassment and the enrichment of your life LA Times
***LITERATURE
‘Keats is dead...’: How young women are changing the rules of poetry The Guardian
A dazzling array of works from 1923 are now available freely to scholars, artists and writers, opening up new possibilities for teaching and publishing Inside Higher Ed
15 Classic Titles If They Were Written As Clickbait Medium
Why should you read “Fahrenheit 451”? TEDx
***GENDER
India women: First female climbs sacred mountain BBC
Gender Gap most pronounced for publications in top journals London School of Economics and Political Science
This Mom Became The First Woman To Win A 268-Mile Race And Did It While Pumping Breast Milk For Her Baby BuzzFeed News
Why it’s much easier for men to get into the Ivy League than women New York Post
Masculinity And U.S. Extremism: What Makes Young Men Vulnerable To Toxic Ideologies NPR
Transgender pronouns provide challenge, opportunity in workplace San Francisco Chronicle
Ms., Mr. or Mx.? Nonbinary teachers embrace gender-neutral honorific NBC News
UAE's gender equality awards won entirely by men The Guardian
Americans’ views on masculinity differ by party, gender and race Pew Research Center
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Tips for finding and pitching stories with a race-focused angle The Ground Truth Product
Amazon’s facial analysis tech often mistakes dark-skinned women for men, study shows Vox
***LEGAL ISSUES
State judge declares Iowa's "fetal heartbeat" abortion ban unconstitutional Reuters
Supreme Court won’t hear a lawsuit over defamatory Yelp reviews The Verge
Expert witness wins billions—and makes enemies—as he fights companies over public health Science Mag
What Happens to the Billions of Dollars of Counterfeits Seized Every Year? The Fashion Law Blog
Parody Washington Post Leads To Bogus Legal Threat, And A Reminder Of An Old Internet Lawsuit TechDirt
An Analysis of Title I and Title III of The Music Modernization Act Technology & Marketing Law Review
***CRIME
Austin police order deeper investigation after audit finds misclassified cleared rape cases Reveal News
Police Are Failing To Catch Most Shooters In Many Big Cities: Often, They Shoot Again BuzzFeed News
Emergency Blue-Light Phones Are a Symbol of Safety. Is Symbolism Worth Thousands? Chronicle of Higher Education
How police departments make millions by seizing property The Greenville News
***RELIGION
After 24 Years, Scholar Completes 3,000-Page Translation Of The Hebrew Bible NPR
Pilots killed in Monday crash dedicated lives to Christian missions Times Reporter
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Provoked By Trump, The Religious Left Is Finding Its Voice NPR
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quotes the Bible after Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she should leave climate change up to God Business Insider
Trump administration grants waiver to agency that works only with Christian families Washington Post
Like Americans overall, U.S. Catholics are sharply divided by party Pew Research Center
Why Trump is tweeting about studying the Bible Vox
***GOOD NEWS
This girls basketball team lost 102-2, has no wins, yet keeps taking the court Tampa Bay
Golden retriever saves owner by leading an ambulance to him New York Post
Hingham teacher gets emotional surprise in viral video Patriot Ledger
66 Years On, Minn. Navy Medic Reunites With Baby Saved From Ash Can In Seoul WCCO
Couple working on home for charity finds hidden bag of money hidden and give it to the nonprofit Fox 9
Buddhist wins $670,000 in poker tournament, gives it to charity New York Post
Local Chick-fil-A opens Sunday for special needs boy WKRG
Three-year-old boy missing in woods for two days says friendly bear kept him safe The Guardian
When a boy called 911 after tough day at school, Lafayette dispatcher was there to help JC online
***ART & DESIGN
The winners of the 7th annual Ocean Art Photo competition New Atlas
Kamala Harris’s Logo Is a Disaster: Here’s Why The Bulwark
Design Checklist for the Perfect Charts UX Planet
How Color Affects our Perceptions of Art and Brands Medium
***MUSIC
Fender's new acoustic guitar has a million different voices Wired
The Most Sampled Loop in Music History Great Big Story
Spotify data shows how music preferences change with latitude Ars Technica
Every Place in Beatles Lyrics, Mapped Vanity Fair
The History of the Quirky Music Typewriter: Vintage Technologies for Printing Musical Notation Open Culture
A Brief History of Rock Musicians Who Went Electronic Vulture
An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton Pudding
***JOBS
How can you prepare for the future of work? The answer is not “learn to code” Recode
Oscar Mayer on the hunt for its next Wienermobile driver Fox 45
***INTERNSHIPS/SCHOLARSHIPS
Summer 2019 Journalism + Communications Academic Internship Program Washington, DC.
ProPublica is giving away 20 scholarships to help students attend journalism conferences
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Campus police told multiple times of student harassment: They did little—and he murdered her Inside Higher Ed
***SOCIAL ISSUES: IMMIGRATION
Majority of Americans Support High-Skilled Immigration Pew Research Center
They Left Food and Water for Migrants in the Desert – Now They Might Go to Prison Washington Post
World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50% The Guardian
***SOCIAL ISSUES: COVINGTON
PR firm played a key role in Covington Catholic controversy Courier-Journal
Gay valedictorian banned from speaking at Covington graduation 'not surprised' by D.C. controversy NBC News
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Alabama Church Gives $16,500 In Grocery Gift Cards To Furloughed Federal Workers Huffington Post
These are the 10 best freelance gigs and side hustles in 2019 Fast Company
***ENVIRONMENT
Most Americans say weather disasters shifted their views on climate change PBS
Civil penalties for polluters dropped dramatically in Trump’s first two years, analysis shows Washington Post
Activists want to carve Trump’s face into glacier to show climate change is real Metro.co
The New Language of Climate Change Politico
***HEALTH
The Cost of Giving Birth in the U.S. Scientific American Blog Network
The Mental Image of a Loved One Can Keep Down Blood Pressure Psychology Today
Washington is under a state of emergency as measles cases rise CNN
He wanted to see his cancer from the inside. With virtual reality, he can Stat News
This autism dad has a warning for anti-vaxxers Vox
***HEALTH RESEARCH
Scientists may have found a way to kill cancer cells without chemotherapy BigThink
Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying New York Times
***ANIMALS
Man says emotional support alligator helps his depression Associated Press
Watchdog: Animal deaths, including suffocation, at Boston-area lab Boston Herald
Vet Tech Warns Pet Parents After Dog Ingests Meth, THC at Dog Beach NBC San Diego
***SCIENCE
New Netflix Show 'Brainchild' Makes Science Fun For Kids NPR
A 500-Year-Long Science Experiment Started In 2014 The Atlantic
***PSYCHOLOGY
Faking it: how selfie dysmorphia is driving people to seek surgery The Guardian
Got Anger? Try Naming It To Tame It NPR
Art Thief Gives A Picture-Perfect Illustration Of The Bystander Effect Digg
200 cognitive biases rule our everyday thinking Big Think
***NEUROSCIENCE
Brain researchers warn that lack of sleep is a public health crisis New Haven Register
How a Periodic Table of Brains Could Revolutionize Neuroscience Gizmodo
***PHILOSOPHY
Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle New York Times
Søren Kierkegaard On the Perils of Procrastination Philosophy Now
***PRODUCTIVITY
You can’t be productive without routines and rituals. Here’s why Fast Company
These are the most stressed out cities in America Zippia
A Nobel Prize-winning psychologist explains why we’re always wrong about how long tasks take Quartz
***HISTORY
The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it Our World in Data
30 Years After Explosion, Challenger Engineer Still Blames Himself NPR
Historians talk about Walls Rolling Stone
The History of the phrase “Witch hunt!” Vox
***ETHICS
Reuters article highlights ethical issues with native advertising Columbia Journalism Review
‘Sinning against Science Itself’ Adolf Friedrich Nolde’s 1799 Code of Good Research Practice Researchet
***RESEARCH
Should Journal Editors be treated as 'Human Subjects'? Some People think so (opinion) Inside Higher Ed
University’s investigation of a researcher who published hoax papers misses the point of ethical oversight (opinion; sub. req’ed) Times Higher Ed
The humanities do not need a replication drive CWTS
How a ‘low-key’ study needed 89 professionals to approve it and how we can do better BMC
The Open Data Explosion: Scientists are working to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of sharing The Scientist
Indian academics lead the world in publishing in fake journals – tarring the whole education sector Scroll.in
Dear Editor (An Authors' Wish List to Medical Journal Editors) Nature Microbiology
***HIGHER ED
Want to Learn How the World Sees Your College? Look on YouTube Chronicle of Higher Education
College administrators are figuring out how electronic cigarettes, which are exploding in popularity, fit into their antismoking policies Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Yes, Your Syllabus Is Way Too Long Chronicle of Higher Ed
When Online Trolls Show Up in Class, Should Professors Be Able to Ban Them? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
University overhauls its system for faculty evaluation to de-emphasize quantitative metrics Inside Higher Ed
College fires professor accused of giving Nazi salute Associated Press
Website offers ‘complete PhD service’ for £36K (sub. req’ed) Times Higher Ed
Professor says criticism led to closure of program she heads Associated Press
Duke professor warns Chinese students: Speak English on campus or face ‘unintended consequences’ Washington Post
Ave Maria University calls the loan of a former professor who sued the university, possibly forcing him, his wife and their nine children from their home Inside Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student Newspaper at Drexel University to cease print publication College Media Matters
A High School Allegedly Banned Students From Covering A Classmate’s Arrest BuzzFeed News
***STUDENT LIFE
Making a Gap Year More Than an Overseas Vacation Chronicle of Higher Education
Six college experiences that make students confident job seekers Gallup
Student files lawsuit over alleged plagiarism against UC Board of Regents Daily Cal
The Fleecing of Millennials New York Times
Routine and Ritual
/While routine aims to make the chaos of everyday life more containable and controllable, ritual aims to imbue the mundane with an element of the magical. The structure of routine comforts us, and the specialness of ritual vitalizes us. A full life calls for both — too much control, and we become mummified; too little excitement and pleasurable discombobulation, and we become numb. After all, to be overly bobulated is to be dead inside — to doom oneself to a life devoid of the glorious and ennobling messiness of the human experience.
Maria Popova writing in Brain Pickings
