Articles of Interest - March 28
/***THE INTERNET
How Geopolitics and Commerce are Fragmenting the World Wide Web (book review) Economist
Google Reveals Top Ranking Factors For Search Results Media Post
How one programmer broke the internet by deleting a tiny piece of code Quartz
***ART AND DESIGN
How physics and math helped create modernist painting Aeon
Nonverbal Man With Autism and Synesthesia Set to Host First Solo Art Exhibit ABC News
How Critical Thinking Sabotages Painting premium (Creating art is a very different skill than articulating what art is about-subscription) Chronicle of Higher Ed
What's The Point Of That Weird Minimalist Art? (video) PBS
A Guide to the Beautiful, Elaborate ‘Jungle’ of Script Typefaces Wired
***RESEARCH
Retractions rise to nearly 700 in fiscal year 2015 Retraction Watch
The mismeasure of scientific significance Stats.org
***GENDER ISSUES
North Carolina Bans Local Anti-Discrimination Policies New York Times
Gender-Specific Terms Replaced in Ohio Supreme Court Rules, Forms Court News Ohio
What Sexual Harassment Does to Female Gamers New York Mag
Hate and racism in the South gave rise to ‘social justice journalism’ Poynter
Feminist economics deserves recognition as a distinct branch of the discipline Economist
***LEGAL ISSUES
Donald Trump Wants To 'Open Up' Libel Laws So He Can Sue News Outlets NPR
Rich people are paying lawyers to get truthful stories deleted from the internet Business Insider
The FBI Drops Its Case Against Apple After Finding a Way Into That iPhone Wired
***IMAGES
Google Makes Its $149 Photo Editing Software Now Completely Free to Download Open Culture
One picture from the Brussels attacks is a lesson in the delicate art of propaganda The Guardian
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter has changed how your timeline works. Here's how to fix it Chronicle of Higher Ed
We’re More Honest With Our Phones Than With Our Doctors New York Times
Teen Girls Flip The Negative Script On Social Media NPR
Inside the world of Twitter's favorite depressive Elle
Smartphone 'voices' not always helpful in a health crisis Associated Press
Social media have made the world more democratic—for now Economist
Inside Facebook’s Quest to Be Your Bestie—By Owning Your Memories Wired
Even easier communications and ever-growing data mountains are transforming politics Economist
Social media now play a key role in collective action Economist
Worries about fraud and fragmentation may prompt a shake-out in the crowded online-ad industry Economist
***BIG DATA
Streaming analytics speeds decision making by high velocity real-time data diving. Here's an overview Inside Big Data
MIT’s 1-year $75k #BigData finishing school (& its many rivals)-Is it really necessary? For many, the answer is no Financial Times
Machine learning intro with limited math & theoretical constructs Economist
***RELIGION
Birth Control At The Supreme Court: Does Free Coverage Violate Religious Freedom? NPR
Evangelicals Key To Republican Support For Israel NPR
New Kansas Law Lets Campus Religious Groups Restrict Members ABC News
Pope Washes Feet of Muslim Migrants at Easter Week Mass TIME
A religious gender gap for Christians, but not for Muslims Pew Research
Little Sisters argue contraception case at Supreme Court Baltimore Sun
***ADVERTISING
Mobile Advertising: Ad-blocking may not quickly spread to smartphones Economist
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
U.S. Ad Market Forecast 2016: A Good Year, But Some Slowdowns For TV, Radio Media Post
A startup seeks to keep the conventional TV station alive in the digital era Economist
***JOURNALISM
Vice Media Traffic Plummets, Underscoring Risky Web Strategy Variety
The Internet is pushing the American news business to New York and the coasts (Rather than create geographic diversity, digital news has pushed the industry into a few tight clusters. That has real impacts on the journalism we get) Nieman Labs
Ohio TV station tries to convince its viewers to cancel their newspaper subscriptions Daily Dot
British journalism is 94% white and 55% male, survey reveals The Guardian
Blendle Is Here To Re-Invent The Way You Consume Journalism Huffington Post
Wesleyan student government revokes student newspaper's funds Student Press Law Center
***STUDENT LIFE
When Depression Hits, Teens Find Help NPR
Why are our kids so miserable? Quartz
Here's What Young People Care About. Listen And Learn NPR
How millennials should deal with baby boomers at work (opinion) LA Times
The Disturbing Truth About Anxiety and Depression in College (Why was I so unhappy after finally making it to college? And what was my cure?) Psychology Today
Young, Broke, and Scared of the IRS: The Millennial Tax Trap Bloomberg
How millennials should deal with baby boomers at work (opinion) LA Times
What Happens When Millennials Run the Workplace? New York Times
A Wave of Sexual-Assault Cases Kindles Anger on Baylor’s Campus (subscription) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***SCIENCE
Data & Narrative: Our Brains Like Numbers But Love A Good Story Digg (video)
Big-name scientists may end up stifling progress in their fields Economist
Science Needs to Learn How to Fail So It Can Succeed Wired
*PERSONAL GROWTH
Don't forget the blue goat Becoming (my blog)
***PHILOSOPHY
What happened when the World Bank asked a philosophy professor to consider its policies Quartz
***ETHICS
The Ethics of Doing Ethics (over view of ethical issues that arise in research into ethics) Springer
***WRITIN’ AND READIN’
An Exercise in Bad Writing Chronicle of Higher Ed
Virginia Woolf Offers Gentle Advice on “How One Should Read a Book” Open Culture
***LANGUAGE
The theories of the world’s best-known linguist have become rather weird Economist
***LITERATURE
***HIGHER ED
How LinkedIn Views Its Role in Education (subscription) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Does Engineering Education Breed Terrorists? (Nascent terrorists seem to be drawn to engineering. Their education may further radicalize them) Chronicle of Higher Ed
AAUP Slams Education Dept. and Colleges Over Title IX Enforcement Chronicle of Higher Ed
AAUP: Title IX as a Threat to Academic Freedom Inside Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
A Professor and His College Fight over Learning Outcomes Chronicle of Higher Ed
What You Teach Is What You Earn: Study Finds Large Salary Gaps based on Discipline Inside Higher Ed
What Tenured and Tenure-Track Professors at 4-Year Colleges Made in 2015-16 Chronicle of Higher Ed