Recovery

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Outcomes by themselves don't really have an unambiguously positive or negative effect on your happiness. Yes, there are some outcomes—you get a terminal disease, or your child dies—that are pretty extreme, but let's leave those out. But if you think about it, the breakup that you had with your childhood girlfriend, or you broke an arm and were in a hospital bed for two months, when they occurred, you might have felt, “Oh my goodness, this is the end of the world! I'm never going to recover from it.” But it turns out we're very good at recovering from those, and not just that, but those very events that we thought were really extremely negative were in fact pivotal in making us grow and learn.

Raj Raghunathan quoted in the Atlantic

Articles of Interest - May 23

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***SOCIAL MEDIA

The Best Twitter Search Tricks  Digital Inspiration

Reddit Now Lets You Embed Posts for Articles and Blogs  Heat Street

Algorithms, clickworkers, and the befuddled fury around Facebook Trends  Harvard's Nieman Labs

***WRITING& READING

What makes bad writing bad?  The Guardian

George Orwell’s Six Rules for Writing Clear and Tight Prose  Open Culture

Digital news organization style guide  Poynter

***LANGUAGE

The Delightful Language of Commencement  Jstor

A Heated Linguistic Debate: What Makes ‘Redskins’ a Slur?  New York Times

Earpiece Can Translate Foreign Languages On The Fly  PSFK

***RESEARCH

Predatory open access journals: Avoiding profiteers, wasted effort and fraudWiley Online Library

What do psychologists think about marginally significant findings?  Psychological Science Journal

***PERSONAL GROWTH   

The self-renewing man  Becoming

To Boost Happiness, Stack the Pain  Life Hacker

***GENDER ISSUES

Data suggest that couples who have sons are more likely to stay together than those that don’t  1843 Magazine

Why women earn less: Just two factors explain post-PhD pay gap  Nature

Five “Don’ts” for Introducing a Female Speaker (And Why This Matters) (opinion)  Duck of Minerva

Americans’ views of women as political leaders differ by gender  Pew Research Center

***RACE

U.S. Courts Are Using Algorithms Riddled With Racism to Hand Out Sentences  Mic  

***FREE SPEECH

From Black Armbands to the Supreme Court: Mary Beth Tinker and Student Free Speech Rights  FIRE

Columbia University to Open a First Amendment War Room  New York Times

***LEGAL ISSUES

UC students' suit claims Google scanned accounts without permission  San Hose Mercury News

***ART AND DESIGN

How to choose the right mobile keyboard for faster typing on your iPhone or iPad  Tech Republic

***FILM

245 Films by Female Directors You Can Stream Right Now on Netflix  Open Culture 

***BIG DATA  

Trump is right: data does not win elections. But here's what will happen in politics if you ignore  Washington Post

How Big Data Creates False Confidence-we're looking at you Google Flu Trends & Ngrams tool  Nauti 

If the DOD doesn't know whether the #analytics it already has is useful, how can it be ready for more Big Data?   Government Computer News

***JOURNALISM

The Times Regrets the Error. Readers Don’t  New York Times

Ukrainian hackers publish info on thousands of journalists  Associated Press

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Business Insider CEO: 'There Are No Must-Read Publications Any More   Spriegel

The New York Times of the future is beginning to take shape  Poynter

Looking for a sustainable business model for a regional newspaper? Start at the Minneapolis Star Tribune   Poynter

Ripple Takes on Hyper-Local News, But Compensation Issues Remain  Media Shift  

***SCIENCE

When we hype our science, discoveries are diminished (opinion)   Globe and Mail

***PSYCHOLOGY    

Don’t call electroconvulsive therapy ‘shock therapy’  Stat News

The empty brain: Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer  Aeon

***PHILOSOPHY

Chinese philosophy is missing from U.S. philosophy departments. Should we care? (opinion)  The Conversation

***ETHICS

In Search For Cures, Scientists Create Embryos That Are Both Animal And Human  NPR

***SEXUAL ASSAULT  

Law professors issue joint letter saying Education Department guidance to colleges goes too far and poses risks to the rights of accused and of institutions  Inside Higher Ed

LDS church releases statement on BYU sexual assault issue  Utah Valley's Herald Daily  

***STUDENT LIFE

When Students Pay Tuition to work Unpaid Internships  Inside Higher Ed

***ACADEMIC LIFE

US law could increase postdoc pay — and shake up research system  Nature

Professor Cleared and Still Out of a Job  Inside Higher Ed

***HIGHER ED

College enrollment is dropping   CNN Money

Generate Your Next Job Title: Website pokes fun at administrative bloat by generating endless job titles and inflated salaries  Inside Higher Ed

New Book: Institutions are increasingly dependent on active, wealthy parents (harming students with less-involved parents)  Inside Higher Ed

Community Colleges Fret over new Overtimes Rules  Inside Higher Ed

The Truth about Coding Bootcamps  Business Insider

 

Articles of Interest - May 16

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***SOCIAL MEDIA

Social Network Algorithms Are Distorting Reality By Boosting Conspiracy Theories (Talk of Facebook's anticonservative stance is in the news, but the issue of what news social networks choose to show us is much broader than that)  Fast Company

Periscope makes broadcasts permanent by default and introduces search  The Verge

Do aspiring YouTube stars need to pack up and move to L.A.?  Daily Dot

Suicide on Periscope in France is the latest in live-streamed horrors  Washington Post

Facebook's news saga reminds us humans are biased by design  The Guardian

The history of social networking  Digital Trends

Snapchat wants you to be able to take selfies in voting booths  Daily Dot

Social Media, Smartphones And Long-Form Journalism: What's Up With Facebook?  Forbes

The Slack generation: How workplace messaging could replace other missives  The Economist

Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit  Bloomberg

***PRODUCING MEDIA

How Readers Engage with Long-Form Content on Mobile Devices  PBS MediaShift

14 free image resources for content marketers  PR Daily

Things I Learned About Shooting 360 Videos  PBS MediaShift

For the first time, mobile gaming will make more money than traditional videogames  Quartz

***TECHNOLOGY

Here’s looking at you: Smart glasses may have a big future at work  Economist

Twitterbots United: fake followers could wreck the election  Wired

***ART AND DESIGN

How Typography Can Save Your Life  ProPublica

***BIG DATA  

Using data analytics to tackle the information overload among researchers and publishers in science/medical/tech  Inside Higher Ed

Bayesian probability in your everyday life: confirmation/denial of your suspicions. The why over the probability  Inverse

Is the skill shortage subdividing Big Data by tools and education?  Computer World

How Big Data is affecting politics--the dive into social #nalytics and the effort to ‘weaponize data'  Datanami

Our brains employ similar algorithms to those inspired by Bayes’ theorem. Does this mean our Brains are Bayesian?  Scientific American

***JOURNALISM

Jeff Daniels reprises 'Newsroom' anchor role for 2016 presidential elections  USA Today

Snapchat for journalists: a great big guide Online Journalism Blog

The Value of Data Journalism  Real Clear Politics

Buzzfeed Is the Only New Media Organization on Facebook's ‘Most Trusted' List  Motherboard

Nate Silver has a Donald Trump problem: Where does data journalism go now?  Salon

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

A Time and Place for Paid Content (Over six in ten Americans say they are comfortable with companies paying to publish articles that look like news as long as there's a disclaimer)  Harris Poll

Local news startup Ripple apologizes for taking other people's news  Recode

***STUDENT MEDIA  

At Cornell, the College Daily Will No Longer Be Daily  New York Times

Student Reporter Interviews Obama. First Question? The Fafsa  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Language in transition: How student journalists cover transgender issues  Student Press Law Center

Student Newspaper Editors Say School Banned Them From Posting Online because refused to to use "Redskin" in a headline  LevittownNow

How to investigate if your school is inflating gender equity numbers  Reveal

***PERSONAL GROWTH

The Main Thing: Every morning just look at your calendar and ask yourself one question: “What’s the main event today?"  Becoming

Numbers in the News Quiz - 9  Becoming

***GRAMMAR         

East Asian words make it into Oxford English Dictionary  The Guardian

***WRITING& READING

Everyone is deleting pronouns from the beginning of their sentences — here's why  Business Insider

Dashing Through  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***RACE

Reporter Mukhtar Ibrahim gets treated differently at federal courthouse  Minneapolis City Pages

How the Teacher’s Race Affects the Teaching of Race  Chronicle of Higher Ed

How psychologists used these doctored Obama photos to get white people to support conservative politics  Washington Post

***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS

Campus Tour Guides Should Know the Facts About Sexual Assault  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Temple News’ longform piece on sexual assault on campus  Temple News

Push Grows For A 'Scarlet Letter' On Transcripts Of Campus Sexual Offenders NPR

Professors Are Being Forced To Reveal Sexual Assault Confidences, Like It Or Not  Huffington Post

Taking Sexual Assault to Twitter  Inside Higher Ed

***RELIGION

As U.S. Attitudes Change, Some Evangelicals Dig In; Others Adapt  NPR

Atheist Ad Mocking Noah's Ark Park as 'Genocide and Incest' Center Rejected by Billboard  Companies  ABC News

3 reasons conservative Christians will lose the transgender debate (opinion)  Religious News Service

‘Take it off! This is America!’: Man who yanked hijab pleads guilty to religious obstruction   Washington Post

Gender gap in religious service attendance has narrowed in U.S.  Pew Research

Report Reveals cover-up of leading missionary surgeon who sexually abused 22 women and girls  Religious News Service  

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Evangelicals raise hell over Trump's VP search  Politico

Mississippi religious liberty law challenged in court  Baptist News

Trump mounts Twitter war with the Southern Baptist Convention’s chief ethicist  Religious News Service

NBC News Exit Poll Results: Lacking a Clear Champion in 2016, White Evangelicals Voted for Trump  NBC News

Many Evangelicals Are In 'An Awkward Place' With Trump Atop GOP  NPR 

***STUDENT LIFE

Study: Millennials want brand managers out of their ears—and feeds  PR Daily

Chinese University Incentivizes Students To Be Polite  NPR

Young Americans Drink More, Eat Worse, and Stay Skinnier Than Everyone Else Bloomberg

The Minecraft Generation- How a clunky Swedish computer game is teaching millions of children to master the digital world  New York Times

How badly companies misunderstand millennials  Washington Post

***JOBS

Top 10 Mistakes You Might Be Making with Your Job Search  Life Hacker

How to make a good first impression on mobile job apps  USA Today

7 Tips For Job-Seeking Graduates DNA Info

How to ace a Skype interview  USA Today

National Labor Relations Board: Your Employer Can’t Force You To Be Happy At Work  Huffington Post

***SCIENCE

Why scientists should learn to fail, fast and often  StatNews

***PSYCHOLOGY    

Does The Placebo Effect Influence Consumer Product Purchases?  NPR

Suicide rates are rising in America, and in other rich countries  Economist

Major Counseling Organization Protests Tennessee’s Anti-LGBT Counseling Law Huffington Post

***PHILOSOPHY

‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Is Secretly All About Ancient Greek Philosophy  Decider

Teaching Students Philosophy Will Improve Their Academic Performance, Shows Study  BigThink

***HIGHER ED

A growing number of colleges and universities are emphasizing civic engagement in their curriculum  Inside Higher Ed

Discount at Private Schools reach new record levels  Inside Higher Ed

Chilling Higher Ed Cooperation in China?  Inside Higher Ed

Supreme Court Sends Birth-Control Case Brought by Religious Employers Back to Lower Courts (Outcome suggests justices would have split 4-4 on the merits of the case)  Reuters

Academic-Freedom Spat Triggers Wave of Resignations at Religious College  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Texas Christian University misspells its own name in commencement program   Houston Chronicle

Student sit-in at Jesuit School because Dean used the N-Word.. in a book Title  Inside Higher Ed

***TEACHING

Study by faculty members at West Point finds students perform better academically when laptops and tablets are banned from the classroom  Inside Higher Ed

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Rutgers professors vote a second time to seek access to and limits on use of data from Academic Analytics  Inside Higher Ed

Articles of Interest - May 2

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***SOCIAL MEDIA

Hillary Clinton just invented the Snapchat attack ad  Business Insider

The reverse-chronological social media feed is dying  New York Magazine

4 social media rules for handling celebrity passings  PR Daily

UCLA Student Media director resigns to support continuation of publications Daily Bruin

Stanford Daily enjoys record traffic from John Boehner 'Lucifer' scoop  CNN

Wesley College newspaper editor speaks out over controversial cartoons  WMDT

***PRODUCTIVITY

Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy  The Atlantic

Many Grouchy, Error-Prone Workers Just Need More Sleep  NPR

***BIG DATA  

10 Questions for the Nation’s First Chief Data Scientist from Science Friday  Science Friday

You no longer fit a model. Instead, you train the task. Deep Learning: What it is and why it matters  SAS

Data science and machine learning cheat sheets for--Python R Spark Hadoop Hive Django--dozens more  KD Nuggets  

Python, Machine Learning, + Dueling Languages--what's best for serious productivity?  Open Data Science

The Chicago PD's crime analytics mess is an example of one of 4 reasons data analytics in government often fail  Governing

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Transition and Change (Transition is the process of letting go of the way things used to be and then taking hold of the way they subsequently become)   Becoming (my blog)

10 Things You Need To Remember If Your Life Isn’t Turning Out The Way You Thought It Would  Thought Catalogue***RESEARCH

5 Tips to Avoid P-Value Potholes: #5- Some potholes are deliberately hidden (shining light only on p’s less than .05)  PLOS

***RACIAL ISSUES

Do the Words "Race Riot" Belong on an Historical Marker in Memphis?  NPR

***GENDER ISSUES

University of Washington removes cheerleader tryout tips after social media backlash  New York Daily News

Two national college applications will move beyond traditional gender binary  Inside Higher Ed

Job Prospects For The Class Of 2016 Are Pretty Good, Especially For Men  Huffington Post

Sexual harassment training may have reverse effect, research suggests  The Guardian

Women Write War Fiction, Too  Jstor

***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS

Brigham Young Students Claim University Punished Rape Victims For Reporting  NPR

College plans policy review after sex-assault case criticism (Open letter on FB says Georgia school bungled its investigation of his sister’s rape in a dorm room)  Dispatch

***LEGAL ISSUES

It May Soon Be a Lot Harder for the Law to Get Into Your Email  Wired

Google wants to change copyright laws—and that’s a good thing (opinion)   Daily Dot

***RELIGION

A closer look at Jehovah’s Witnesses living in the U.S.  Pew Research Center

Satanists balk at Cruz comparison  The Hill

Congress Likely To Get Its Only Openly Atheist Member In NovemberHuffington Post

Evangelical woman vows to bring pistol into queer-friendly Target bathrooms  Huffington Post

Religious Freedom Face Serious Threats Worldwide  NPR

***MUSIC

How Steely Dan Wrote “Deacon Blues,” the Song Audiophiles Use to Test High-End Stereos Open Culture  

Why Freddie Mercury's Voice Was So Great, As Explained By Science  NPR

Peter Frampton Plays a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR, Featuring Acoustic Versions of His Classic Songs  Open Culture

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

TV networks battle new media threat as Facebook looms over ad war  The Guardian

***JOURNALISM

These Men Finally Understand How Bad Women Have It In Sports Media  Huffington Post

Las Vegas Columnist Quits After Ban On Writing About New Owner  NPR

Facebook and Twitter are buttering up news publishers — here's why  Business Insider

Esquire removes satirical article after criticism  Politico

Google’s test to let media publish directly in search can’t be great news for Twitterrecode

New York Times boss sued over alleged ageist, racist and sexist hiring practices  The Guardian

Journalism Professor Will Go to War for Free Speech, as Long as It Doesn’t Mock Him  Gawker

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Managing the Decline of Print: The New York Times Looks to Cut Costs   Fortune

The news industry can’t cut its way to quality (opinion)  Poynter

Digital publishing news jobs now outnumber those in the newspaper business, BLS reports  Talking New Media

***STUDENT LIFE

A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows  Washington Post

***SCIENCE

False images top form of scientific misconduct  Canadian Medical Association Journal  

Theoretical physicists have a "license to be excited" and "run amok."  Here's why  Science News

***PSYCHOLOGY    

LGBT Activists Criticize Tennessee Law Allowing Therapists To Refuse Patients  NPR

***NEUROSCIENCE

Talking to ourselves: the science of the little voice in your head  The Guardian

The “Brain Dictionary”: Beautiful 3D Map Shows How Different Brain Areas Respond to Hearing Different Words   Open Culture

***ETHICS

New Study: Ashley Madison Hack Study Shows Correlation Between Personal Ethics and Professional Ethics  NPR

How Ethical is Geoscience?   The Grumpy Geophysicist

***PHILOSOPHY

Animated Introduction to 25 Philosophers  Open Culture

 

***LANGUAGE / GRAMMAR

Lawsuit Will Decide Who Owns 'Star Trek' Language Klingon  NPR

A conversation with the world's leading authority on the English language about big data, Google ngrams, and language change  Business Insider

***LITERATURE

The Ultimate Literary Cage Match: Hemingway vs. Faulkner vs. Trump  The Millions

Ian McKellen launches app to make Shakespeare easier to understand  AV Club

The Cover of George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes Less Censored with Wear and Tear  Open Culture

***HIGHER ED

UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi on investigatory leave due to ‘serious questions’  Sacrameto Bee   

Why Colleges’ Brands look so similar (To sell themselves, colleges try to stand out. But often, their marketing efforts look practically identical)  Inside Higher Ed

Law student says he was almost expelled for writing in favor of gay marriage  Fusion

Former ORU student says school is blocking her re-admission over her marriage to a woman  Tulsa World

***TITLE IX

U.S. Publishes Details on Religious Colleges Seeking Title IX Waivers  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Updated List of Institutions that have requested Religious exemptions to Title IX (As of April 1, 2016, 232 colleges had obtained a religious exemption from Title IX and 31 requests are pending)  Dept. of Ed.

NCAA Hesitant to Condemn Religious Institutions that have Requested Title IX Waivers  Inside Higher Ed

Feds Publish Records On Schools Allowed To Discriminate Against LGBT Students  BuzzFeed

Lawsuit: Prof Punished for Opposing Gordon's Title IX exemption request  Inside Higher Ed

Education Dept. Releases Title IX Exemptions, Requests  Inside Higher Ed

***TEACHING

Learning From My Teaching Mistakes  Chronicle of Higher Ed   

A Moment of Clarity on the Role of Technology in Teaching  Chronicle of Higher Ed   

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Professor puts CV of his failures online to give perspective  Associated Press

 

 

Articles of Interest - April 25

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***BIG DATA   

New book focuses on #BigData's dreaded “correlation does not imply causation” problem  Inside Big Data

Gartner "warns of approaching apocalypse for IoT data management" (Needed: lithe strategies for managing data gov)  Smart Data Collective

Data Analytics Myths (#1- Quantitative analysis is better than human intuition)  Electronic Design

10 Questions for the Nation’s First Chief Data Scientist  Science Friday

***WRITIN’ AND READIN’

Readability, Understandability, and ETS  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***GRAMMAR         

Testing for knowledge of a fictive grammaticality distinction  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Why grammar mistakes in a short email could make some people judge you   The Conversation

***LANGUAGE

How to identify any language at a glance  The Week

***RESEARCH

Cancer Research Is Broken (There’s a replication crisis in biomedicine—and no one even knows how deep it runs)  Slate

Want a favorable peer review? Buy One  Stat

You Pay to Read Research You Fund. That’s Ludicrous  Wired

Publication Bias Is Boring. You Should Care About It Anyway  Mother Jones

Power of positive thinking skews mindfulness studies (Trials of mindfulness to improve mental health selectively report positive results)  Nature

***GENDER ISSUES

Restrictions on Women’s Religious Attire  Pew Research

Single women are reshaping America from marriage to politics to the economy  Economist       

***RACE

Bystanders are less likely to help black people in medical emergencies, a study finds  Business Insider

The disturbing racial bias in who we help when they need it most  Washington Post

When It Comes To Flight Safety, When Does Alertness Become Racial Profiling?  NPR

FCC’s mandate won’t help diverse storytellers  San Diego Reader

How Americans pretend to love ‘ethnic food’  Washington Post

How a journalist caught the cops whitewashing their ticketing records  Poynter

Death Row’s Race Problem The case of a Texas death-row inmate, now before the Supreme Court, points to the troubling racial history of capital punishment  Wall Street Journal

***LEGAL ISSUES

Supreme Court rejects challenge to Google book-scanning project  Reuters

***IMAGES

British Library posts 1 million copyright-free images online  Boing Boing

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Live-Streaming Of Alleged Rape Shows Challenges Of Flagging Video In Real Time  NPR

How Facebook plans to take over the world  The Guardian

Facebook Tweaks News Feed To Measure User Time  Media Post

How a dating app for burrito-lovers exposed one of online dating’s biggest myths  Washington Post

Most Americans spend two full workdays a month on Facebook  Quartz

***AUDIO

Breaths Of Fresh Air: The Art Of The Terry Gross Interview  Audible Range

Can audio go viral on Facebook? Here’s what happened when NPR ran an experiment for a month   Harvard's Nieman Lab

***FILM

Just How Does Film Work, Exactly?  Digg

The 100 Most Memorable Shots in Cinema Over the Past 100 Years (video)  Jacob T. Swinney

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Making exterior changes to avoid internal changes  Becoming

A Cautionary Tale Of The Cc Line  Media Post

Numbers in the News: Quiz 7  Becoming

Short sleep may be tied to cold or infection risk  Reuters  

***RELIGION

The Repression of Religious Studies (subscription)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Raunchy Prince was actually a conservative Christian who reportedly opposed gay marriage  Washington Post

Whole Foods Market to sue pastor for cake scam  KGNS-TV

Church Honors ‘Dearly Beloved’ Prince By Putting His Lyrics On Sign Huffington Post

My wife and I are white evangelicals. Here's why we chose to give birth to black triplets (opinion)  Washington Post

Most U.S. Catholics rely heavily on their own conscience for moral guidance  Pew Research

How police took $53,000 from a Christian band, an orphanage and a church  Washington Post

***MUSIC AND ART   

Are Algorithms Ruining How We Discover Music?   FiveThirtyEight

More people are paying to stream music, but the industry is still wobbly  Economist

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

A Bright Side to the Financial Stumbles of Digital Media  New York Times

***JOURNALISM

The Fading Newspaper  Bloomberg

Journalism has an editing crisis, but we can do something about it  Poynter

2016 Pulitzer winners and finalists in journalism and arts  Associated Press

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

A potential bid by the Daily Mail for Yahoo may make sense  Economist

Gannett Makes A Bid For Tribune Publishing  NPR

Bad news: why TV is going the same way as print journalism  The Conversation

The Center for Investigative Reporting bets it can change audio journalism—and itself  Columbia Journalism Review

Want to get a journalism job? Here are the skills you need, according to a new report  Poynter

***STUDENT JOURNALISM

UWS student paper's April Fools' Day issue draws backlash   Duluth News

Journalism Adviser Under Fire Wyoming college accused -- twice now -- of retaliating against a student newspaper by threatening the job of its faculty adviser  Inside Higher Ed

At Some Universities the line between Journalism and Public Relations is Blurred Student Press Law Center

***STUDENT LIFE

When Slogans Replace Arguments: a truly open-minded discussion of race issues (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed

Schools and colleges are requiring fitness trackers for students, but there may be unintended consequences  Daily Dot

Why becoming an adult means something very different when you’re poor Washington Post

***JOBS

Licensing Laws Are Shutting Young People Out Of The Job Market  FiveThirtyEight

Freaked out about Finding a Job? LinkedIn Launches App for Students to Help USA Today

Personal statement: 10 of the most overused openings  Telegraph

***SCIENCE

 Cleaning up bad science  CBC

***PSYCHOLOGY    

This unusual test reveals how smart you are  Washington Post

Explaining The Paradox Of Why You Shouldn't Trust Unanimous Decisions  Digg

1 Question Is All You Need to Judge Someone's Personality  Inc.

 A review of “Unbroken Brain” (Conventional wisdom insists that addiction is a disease, like cancer. But addiction is learned; cancer isn’t. Most people grow out of drug use)  Wall Street Journal

***ETHICS

Spoof Papers And The Ethics of Academic Publishing  Discovery

Do ethicists hinder HIV prevention research?  Reuters

***LITERATURE: SHAKESPEARE

Shakespeare Saw '360 Degrees Of Humanity,' And That's Why He Endures  NPR

Shakespeare Or Batman? That Is The Question  FiveThirtyEight

How the New York Times would write William Shakespeare's Obit  New York Times

400 Years After Shakespeare’s Death, He’s Still Required Reading (Even For Econ Majors)   FiveThirtyEight

Shakespeare: Dead or Alive?  Jstor

***HIGHER ED

How (Not) to Hide a Scandal (There’s a fine line between a marketing campaign and a cover-up. The attempt by UC Davis to get its pepper spray incident off the top of Google searches is a case in point)  Inside Higher Ed

UC-Davis Was Ridiculed for Trying to Sway Search Results. Many Other Colleges Do the Same  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Ed Dept pushed to focus on student achievement and troubled colleges Inside Higher Ed

Report on the future of online education stresses central role of faculty members and instructional designers  Inside Higher Ed

Head of embattled for-profit-college agency resigns  Inside Higher Ed

How Choosing a Cabinet Helped Put One College President in Peril Chronicle of Higher Ed

Hope College Moves Away from Immediate Plan to Fire President  Inside Higher Ed

***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS

Under Fire, Brigham Young Will Review Title IX and Honor Code Enforcement  Chronicle of Higher Ed          

Brigham Young University has a troubling policy of investigating students who report rape  Business Insider

Brigham Young Student Who Sought Immunity for Assault Victims Files Title IX Complaint Chronicle of Higher Ed

WATCH: Fake college acceptance letters highlight sexual assault  USA Today

Lawsuit Takes Aim at Education Dept.’s Title IX Guidance (An accused student blames federal pressure for how his university treated him)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Justice Dept. Slams U. of New Mexico Over Sexual-Assault Policies Chronicle of Higher Ed

Dept. of Justice: Title IX requires violating the First Amendment  FIRE

***TEACHING

Look for the Exceptions (In the process of correcting students’ mistakes, don’t forget to focus some attention on what they’re doing well)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

A Final Round of Advice for Final Exams  Chronicle of Higher Ed