Becoming
/Becoming is superior to being - Paul Klee
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Clothed with Happiness
/In Bermuda, Johnny Barnes decided to put on a prodigal display in 1986. He would stand at the Crow Lane roundabout in Hamilton, where most of the rush-hour traffic came past, and tell each passing motorist how sweet life was and how much he loved them. His days had long overflowed with happiness, in his garden and in his jobs as a railway electrician and a bus-driver, where he had taken up the habit of waving and smiling to anyone who passed as he ate his lunchtime sandwiches. He had lavished joy on his wife Belvina, “covering her with honey”, as he put it. But there was plenty left over.
For 30 years he went to the roundabout every weekday morning. He would rise at around 3am, walk two miles to his post, stay for six hours shouting “I love you!”, smiling and blowing kisses, and then walk home again. He was there in the heat, his wide-brimmed straw hat keeping off the sun, and there in the rain with his umbrella. Only storms deterred him and eventually, the creakings of old age… Over the years, he transmitted his radiant happiness to drivers hundreds of thousands of times.
Johnny Barnes, Bermuda’s “greeter” died on July 9th at the age of aged 93. Read more in The Economist.
Articles of Interest - August 8
/***PSYCHOLOGY
The clearest proof yet that your job is killing you Washington Post
Who You Hate Depends on How Smart You Are, Study Finds Vice
What do Lisa Kudrow, aka Phoebe from Friends, Colin Firth and Natalie Portman have in common? They’ve published psychology papers Discover Magazine
What if Addiction Is Not a Disease? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Carl Jung Explains Why His Famous Friendship with Sigmund Freud Fell Apart in Rare 1959 Audio Open Culture
Spotify’s incredibly addictive playlists are based on simple behavioral psychology Quartz
***SCIENCE
After another stumble, is fMRI brain scanning learning from its mistakes? Stat News
Should science fraudsters have to serve jail time? Stat News
***MEDICAL
When Pregnant Women Need Medicine they encounter a Void NPR
Turning Surgical Sutures into Sensors Economist
Why Don't Doctors Recognize Cardiac Arrest? The Atlantic
I'm an OB-GYN treating women with Zika: This is what it's like The Conversation
***NEUROSCIENCE
The Brain that Couldn’t Remember New York Times
How Hackers could get inside your head with brain malware MotherBoard
After another stumble, is fMRI brain scanning learning from its mistakes? Stat News
***TECHNOLOGY
Watch out, ladies: Your period-tracking app could be leaking personal data Washington Post
Your.MD chatbot could save your life (or misdiagnose a mosquito bite) Venture Beat
Turning surgical sutures into sensors Economist
***ART AND DESIGN
How To Make Your Not-So-Great Visual Design Better Medium
Spend 50% less time thinking about pixels and 50% more time thinking about the experience Medium
Introducing BuzzFeed’s Design Process Medium
How Tools Have Shaped the Role of the Designer ux Design
91-year-old woman fills in crossword at museum - only to discover it was a £60,000 artwork Telegraph
***SOCIAL MEDIA
The IOC is cracking down on Olympic GIFs Washington Post
Can Candid Conversations Happen Online Without The Trolls? NPR
Meet the Internet’s ‘greatest liar,’ whose Twitter death hoaxes have fooled millions Washington Post
Professors Assign Students to Post to BuzzFeed. You’ll Never Believe What Happens Next Chronicle of Higher Ed
What Is a ‘Serious Academic’? Social-Media Critique Provokes a Backlash Chronicle of Higher Ed
Snapchat's biggest threat is its own design: Why Snapchat needs to start stealing from Instagram The Verge
What Instagram Stories say about the state of social media Washington Post
***BIG DATA / STATS
Why my fellow students aren’t interested in doing data science for you (and how to get them interested) Venture Beat
A list of automated Data Science and Data Mining platforms KD Nuggets
Spend 50% less time thinking about pixels and 50% more time thinking about the experience Medium
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Difference between a change and a Transition Becoming (my blog)
What do you want your obituary to say? Here are two amazingly different stories Economist
Do Your Friends Actually Like You? New York Times
New research shows that even severe stress can have an upside Economist
***GENDER ISSUES
Convincing the VC Bro-nopoly to Fund Female-First Companies Wired
Mansplaining Is Real! But Male Self-Citation in Academic Work Isn’t So Simple Slate
‘The man responsible': NBC broadcaster draws ire after crediting world record to swimmer’s husband Washington Post
The Media Is Saying And Doing A Bunch Of Sexist Stuff During The Olympics Huffington Post
Gender Self-Identification: M or W? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Supreme Court Blocks Order In Favor Of Trans Student Seeking Bathroom Access Huffington Post
A closer look at the gender gap in presidential voting Pew Research
***LEGAL ISSUES
The Supreme Court Will Consider a Case About Copyrighting Cheerleading Uniforms Mother Board
Who owns your tattoo? Maybe not you The Conversation
***GRAMMAR
Diagramming Trump Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING& READING
Why Your Texts Sound Angry When You Add A Period The Conversation
Scholars Talk Writing: Steven Pinker Chronicle of Higher Ed
4 Places Writers Leave Money on the Table Copyblogger
Maya Angelou Reads Her Poem, “The Human Family,” in New iPhone Ad Released for the Olympics’ Opening Ceremony Open Culture
***LANGUAGE
A Word for Parents who’ve lost children in War Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
The Blurred Line Between Propaganda and Literature Truth Dig
The Last Bookstore: A Short Documentary on Perseverance & the Love of Books Open Culture
Of Thee I Read: The United States in Literature New York Times
Book Readers Live Longer Lives, According to New Study from Yale University Open Culture
***RESEARCH
Why That “Drug That Halts Alzheimer’s” Story Is Probably Not True BuzzFeed
A statistical definition for reproducibility and replicability Bioorxiv
How much is scientific research being led by narcissists? Times Higher Ed
***JOURNALISM
SPJ is Not Behind a Mass Media Conspiracy to Skew Coverage of Terrorism Spinetwork
Can mythbusters like Snopes.com keep up in a post-truth era? The Guardian
The Octagon on New York City's Roosevelt Island named Historic Site in Journalism SPJ News
A Food Critic’s Plagiarism Roils Richmond Journalism Washingtonian
How journalists can do their crucial job in the next 100 days (opinion) Washington Post
New York Times launches text-message journalism for Rio Olympics CNN
Should a journalist should look at a journal’s impact factor while covering a study? (opinion) Health Journalism
CHORP, the future of news (video) John Oliver
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Famous Headlines, Rewritten For Facebook's New Clickbait Policy The Atlantic
***RELIGION
Israel accuses World Vision's Gaza director of diverting cash to Hamas The Guardian
Chinese students are flocking to Christian high schools in the US Business Insider
The Anti-Human-Trafficking Crusader: Agnes Igoye is building a law-enforcement system to protect Uganda’s girls The Atlantic
Ibtihaj Muhammad: First US Olympian to compete in hijab Religious News Service
Which countries still outlaw apostasy and blasphemy? Pew Research
***RELIGION & POLITICS
Donald Trump And A Church Steeped In 'Positive Thinking' NPR
How the polls inflate Trump’s evangelical vote (opinion) Religious News Service
***STUDENT MEDIA
Journalism Teachers Now Protected From Retaliation Under Law Ed Week
Student newspaper at the University of Central Florida closes after 48 years Student Press Law Center
***STUDENT LIFE
College Meal Plans: What to Do With All Those Leftover Swipes New York Times
College Student Killed While Playing ‘Pokemon Go’ Huffington Post
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
When a recruiter emails you, don't jump to these 3 conclusions too quickly USA Today
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Should a Professor lose his job over Refusing to put is Learning Outcomes on his Course Syllabus Inside Higher Ed
I'm a serious academic, not a professional Instagrammer The Guardian
I’m a non-serious academic. I make no apologies for this The Guardian
***ETHICS
How A Child's Gender May Affect Parents' Willingness To Bend The Truth NPR
***HUMANITIES /STEM
The Liberal Arts in the Real World Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
Calif. Bill Would Give New Bias Protections to Gay Students at Religious Colleges (lawmakers appear poised to pass the groundbreaking measure) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Mastering logic, grammar, and rhetoric Chronicle of Higher Ed
In China Some Schools are Playing with more Creativity, less Cramming NPR
Estimating Student Workload for Your Courses Chronicle of Higher Ed
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Why Isn’t Baylor Under Title IX Investigation? A Records Request Yields Laughably Little Chronicle of Higher Ed
Law Professors Defend Use Of Preponderance Standard In Campus Rape Cases Huffington Post
A Journalist Says Rape Culture Is Systemic in College Football Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Can We Stop Sexual Assault At Music Festivals? NPR
arguments worth having
/Parents who browbeat their kids into being obedient and agreeable may not be giving them the best preparation for the real world. A new study shows that encouraging teens to argue calmly and effectively against parental orders makes them much more likely to resist peer pressure.
University of Virginia researchers observed more than 150 13-year-olds as they disputed issues like grades, chores, and friends with their mothers. When researchers checked back in with the teens two and three years later, they found that those who had argued the longest and most convincingly—without yelling, whining, or throwing insults—were also 40 percent less likely to have accepted offers of drugs and alcohol than the teens who had caved quickly.
“We found that what a teen learned in handling these kinds of disagreements with their parents was exactly what they took into their peer world,” study author Joseph P. Allen tells NPR.org. The key to having a constructive debate with your kids, experts say, is listening to them attentively and rewarding them when they make a good point—even if you don’t end up reaching a mutual agreement. “Think of those arguments not as a nuisance,” Allen says, “but as a critical training ground” for wise, independent decision-making.
Imaginary Friends
/There's a little bit of evidence that adults who are novelists or musicians, for example, tend to remember the imaginary friends they had when they were children. It's as if they are staying in touch with those childhood abilities in a way that most of us don't. Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.
Alison Gopnik, The Philosophical Baby
Articles of Interest August 1
/***TECHNOLOGY
Wearables in the Workplace: Promise and Pitfalls National Law Review
***ART AND DESIGN
How to Design a Google Font Format
Great Products Don’t Happen By Accident: Using playbooks for designing and building products Medium
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Vine’s top stars are fleeing, despite the app’s best attempts to keep them Washington Post
***BIG DATA / STATS
Clearing up confusion about data science by imagining it in terms of the simplifying framework of an avocado Data Science Central
40 Techniques Used by Data Scientists including clustering, pattern recognition, Bayesian stats and more Data Science Central
***GENDER ISSUES
Hillary Clinton’s husband wore a fetching pantsuit to honor her nomination for US president Quartz
***RACE
Investigative journalism org finds racial bias in secret crime algorithm that was supposedly filled false positives Chronicle of Social Change
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Title IX Victory for Man Suing Over Sex Assault Finding Inside Higher Ed
College Is Accused of Inaction After Anonymous Report of Gang Rape Chronicle of Higher Ed
Court: Adjunct may not use Title VII to sue a college for bias Inside Higher Ed
***PERSONAL GROWTH
30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself (1-Stop spending time with the wrong people) Becoming (my blog)
***WRITING& READING
A writing handbook that doesn't just repeat the standard just-say-no dictat about the passive voice Chronicle of Higher Ed
5 ways for PR pros to sharpen their writing PR Daily
***LITERATURE
Dentist Protagonists In Literature NPR
What College Freshmen Are Reading NPR
***RESEARCH
***LEGAL ISSUES
Judge Tosses Out Defamation Lawsuit Filed Against ProPublica, CIR Propublica
***FREE SPEECH
Fighting for Free Speech on America's Campuses New York Times
***RELIGION
Another reason contemporary Christian music sounds ‘cliched and over-produced’ Washington Post
Died: Tim LaHaye, Author Who 'Left Behind' a Long Legacy Christianity Today
On Wikipedia, Pokémon Go Is a Bigger Deal Than the Bible Gizmodo
10 Donald Trump Quotes That Should Horrify His Evangelical Supporters Huffington Post
***JOURNALISM
Delayed, Denied, Dismissed: Failures on the FOIA Front Propublica
When Newspaper Paywalls Come Tumbling Down: Six Motivations Forbes
Despite acquisitions, earnings at Gannett fall as print advertising remains weak Talking New Media
***PSYCHOLOGY
Is Hypnosis All in Your Head? Brain Scans Suggest Otherwise New York Times
Constant Multitasking Is Damaging Millennial Brains, Research Shows Inc
***PHILOSOPHY
The basics of the thorny relationship between science and philosophy ArsTechnia
Philosopher of the month: René Descartes Oxford University Press
***HIGHER ED
A University Makes a Rare Call to Ditch Its Title IX Exemption Chronicle of Higher Ed
Thirteen lessons I wish someone had taught me before I became an academic administrator Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
More Professors Know About Free Textbook Options, but Adoption Remains Low Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Syllabus as a Contract: How do you deal with clever students who find loopholes you didn’t intend? Chronicle of Higher Ed
A Platform to Monitor Learning Inside Higher Ed
Each time You Lie
/Each time you lie, even if you’re not caught, you “become a little more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the making, with each morally valanced action, whether right or wrong, affecting our characters, the people who we are. You become the person who could commit such an act, and how you are known in the world is irrelevant to this state of being.” In the end, who we are inside matters more than what others think of us.
Michael Dirda in a Washington Post review of Plato at the Googleplex by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
the power of evil
/One must face the fact: the power of Evil in the world is not finally resistible by incarnate creatures, however ‘good’. J.R.R. Tolkien
a sign of growth
/One of the sure signs of growth is that you are no longer impressed with how you did it yesterday. -John Maxwell
new lands
/One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. -Andre Gide
Articles of Interest - July 25
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
The Reason Your Feed Became An Echo Chamber — And What To Do About It NPR
Twitter opens account verification to all PR Daily
***BIG DATA / STATS
How the Gurus behind Google Earth Created the Geomapping Mobile Game 'Pokemon Go' Mashable
Silicon Valley's new Religion (and next shiny new thing)- AI and Robots New York Times
How Bayesian Probability can be incorporated into Machine Learning Fast ML
Data Science Tips from Reddit's r/datascience users Data Dependence
40 Techniques Used by Data Scientists including clustering pattern recognition and Bayesian Stats Data Science Central
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Facebook Live Grew Up Quickly. Here’s How Broadcasters Are Jumping In Media Shift
***JOURNALISM
The Case Against the Media. By the Media New York Mag
Report: Outsourcing copy editing doesn’t mean more corrections Poynter
Pentagon revises manual to clarify protections of journalism Associated Press
What 'selfie journalism' can bring to digital reporting International Journalists Network
Student newspaper publishes string of articles critical of the administration, School retaliates by firing adviser Inside Higher Ed
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media NY Mag
The New York Times is trying to narrow the distance between reporters and analytics data Harvard's Nieman Lab
***PSYCHOLOGY
Machine Learning Algorithm Spots Depression in Speech Patterns Motherboard
The Stroop test: how colourful is your language? The Guardian
‘Anatomy of Malice,’ by Joel E. Dimsdale New York Times
***NEUROSCIENCE
Play on! In a first, brain training cuts risk of dementia 10 years later Stat
The neuroscience of “cool” Quartz
***PHILOSOPHY
Why You Don’t Know Your Own Mind New York Times
***ETHICS
Frankenstein’s paperclips: The ethics of AI Economist
Do CRISPR enthusiasts have their head in the sand about the safety of gene editing? STAT
***PERSONAL GROWTH
What you knew, understood and trusted about everything is OVER. That’s the first truth Becoming (my blog)
***WRITING& READING
Everybody's Talking About Plagiarism. What Is It, Exactly? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
English encroaches in Italy The Chronicle of Higher Education
Can’t quit saying ‘um’ and ‘ah’? Just learn how to use them better Quartz
***LITERATURE
How Ernest Hemingway Taught the World to Drink The Daily Beast
***GENDER ISSUES
Sexism In Newsroom Culture Not Unique To Allegations Against Roger Ailes NPR
Why some young evangelical women are increasingly drawn to feminism — and to Hillary Clinton Washington Post
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
‘I Want to Get This Right’: Scenes From a Conference on Campus Sex Assault (sub req'ed) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Former UAF hockey player acquitted of rape says the university won't give him his degree Alaska News
***LEGAL ISSUES
University accessing of a student's health records ends with settlement: $425K for whistleblowers Oregon Live
EFF sues US government, saying copyright rules on DRM are unconstitutional Ars Technica
***ART AND DESIGN
Trump/Pence logo replaced after online ridicule PR Daily
The Fonts of Star Trek Fontshop
***RELIGION
Megachurch pastor’s firing illustrates challenges posed by addiction Baptist News
Poll: Evangelicals differ from most Americans on transgender morality LifeWay
Police brutality not a reality according to most white evangelicals Christianity Today
***RELIGION & POLITICS
Liberty’s Falwell Takes the Stage at Republican convention to support Trump Inside Higher Ed
Polls show evangelicals support Trump. But the term ‘evangelical’ has become meaningless Washington Post
***STUDENT MEDIA
Gannet closes Student-run newspaper years Orlando Sentinel
Student newspaper publishes string of articles critical of the administration, School retaliates by firing adviser Inside Higher Ed
***SCIENCE
We need to talk about the bad science being funded The Conversation
Lying scientists and the lying lies they tell ZDnet
***HIGHER ED
Microsoft announces professional degree program to fill the skills gap Tech Crunch
The student loan debt crisis is overblown, The real problem is college completion rates VOX
Malcolm Gladwell Is Making Enemies In Higher Education. That’s A Good Thing Huffington Post
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Why Social Science Risks Irrelevance Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Should Colleges Really Eliminate the College Lecture? The Atlantic
How One English Professor Plans to Turn Melania Trump Into a Teachable Moment Chronicle of Higher Ed
Cheating Behaviors among Undergraduate College Students Journal of Criminal Justice Education (sub req’d)
Education Dept. Proposes Rules to Clarify State Oversight of Online Courses Dept. of Ed
Students and teachers detail pervasive cheating in a program owned by test giant ACT Reuters
***STUDENT LIFE
Grad Students Treated Like Secretaries in Chinese Science Sixth Tone
Co's Turning to 'reverse mentoring' to tap millennials' knowledge Star Tribune
Study: Gap between Expectations of Personal Attitudes and Religious Diversity among Students Inside Higher Ed
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
3 Reasons Unpaid Internships Are Seriously Not Worth Your Time Huffington Post
There is one type of internship that's more beneficial than others
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Author Discusses How Academics should use social media Inside Higher Ed
***RESEARCH
Does expertise matter in replication? An examination of the reproducibility project: Psychology Science Direct
An 'Epidemic' of Academic Fraud Inside Higher Ed
Articles of Interest - July 18
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
How the gurus behind Google Earth created the geomapping mobile game 'Pokémon Go' Mashable
In Wake Of Shootings, Facebook Struggles To Define Hate Speech NPR
Snapchat Is Ruined Gizmodo
Pinterest Takes a Shot at Camera-Search Technology Wall Street Journal
Facebook plans live video push during conventions Politico
BitTorrent Launches Streaming News Network at Republican Convention AdAge
This Photo App Puts Instagram Filters To Shame PSFK
How to spot a fake Facebook page during a breaking news situation Washington Post
***PRODUCING MEDIA
An Australian Company Spent Two Years Faking Some Of The Internet's Most Viral Videos Digg
How to Measure SEO Success for Recent Content PBS Media Shift
***BIG DATA / STATS
The potency of graph representations is in the simplicity..one can issue complicated queries without knowing code Inside Big Data
After many false starts, what do the clues say will be the AI impact? Danger or opportunity? Economist
Shakespeare and using fuzzy logic systems to deal with imprecise or incomplete data Data Science Central
10 Algorithm Categories for #DataScience heavy lifting: 1- Crunchers 2- Guides.. KD Nuggets
***TECHNOLOGY
A new technique for removing radical propaganda Economist
The Internet of Things: Riding the Wave in Higher Education Educause
Glimpses of an AI-enabled future Economist
Watch As Elite Password Hacking Software Cracks Thousands Of Passwords In Seconds (video) Dr Mike Pound
One-quarter of all US TV households now going without cable and satellite reception Talking New Media
A Smart Typewriter Is a Thing and I’m in Love With It Wired
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Why Pageviews Matter in Measuring Native Ads Media Shift
Buffer for Instagram is Here: 8 Ways to Get Your Best Instagram Marketing Results with Buffer
***JOURNALISM
Live-Tweeting the News: The Risks and Rewards PBS Media shift
Gannet’s Memphis newspaper outsources copyediting Memphis Flyer
3 Ways to Put News Metrics to Work PBS Media shift
Photographers Are Gearing Up for the Republican Convention Like It’s War Wired
How News Organizations Are Using Facebook Live PBS Media Shift
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
How The Washington Post grew digital subscriptions 145 percent Digitday
Live Streaming Breaks Through, and Cable News Has Much to Fear New York Times
The non-religious are now the country’s largest religious voting bloc Washington Post
Evangelicals Rally to Trump, Religious ‘Nones’ Back Clinton Pew Forums
***STUDENT MEDIA
Intern reporter arrested covering Black Lives Matter protests in Baton Rouge Student Press Law Center
***GRAMMAR
Why journalists (and their stylebooks) prefer the more-modest spelling, adviser Chronicle of Higher Ed
Travel Through Literature: The Sun Also Rises Napels Herald
The World’s Best Philosopher of Linguistics Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING& READING
Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling MIT Technology Review
Why Most Academics Will Always Be Bad Writers Chronicle of Higher Ed
When Words Fail (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Psychological Benefits of Writing Regularly Life Hacker
AP Stylebook terms for covering violence GateHouse Newsroom
Walt Whitman Gives Advice to Aspiring Young Writers: “Don’t Write Poetry” & Other Practical Tips (1888) Open Culture
Essential Self-Editing Tips to Deliver Better Copy Tech
***LANGUAGE
How to Navigate by Nostalgia: The Linguistics of Place Names Jstor
***LITERATURE
Why even poets hate poetry (a review of The Hatred of Poetry-By Ben Lerner) Economist
Library of Congress struggles in the Digital Era n+1 magazine
McSweeney’s Meets Internet: A little publisher survives holding tight to its eclectic, literary roots Harvard's Nieman Lab
***RESEARCH
Science Students Learn to Use Social Media to Communicate Research Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RACE
How Americans view the Black Lives Matter movement Pew Research Center
This Sikh Man Has Been Wrongly Accused Of A Terror Attack For A Second Time BuzzFeed
Study Explores Links Between Politics And Racial Bias NPR
The Dark Side of American Soccer Culture New York Times magazine
Can you spot the reason people are upset about Paul Ryan's latest Instagram post? AOL News
The Health Costs of Racism (audio) Science Friday
Sharp differences over who is hurt, helped by their race Pew Research
Racial Tensions Strain Relations In The Workplace NPR
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Snapchat's face-mapping filters empower sexual assault survivors to tell their own stories CBC
Why Society Blames Victims, According To Science Huffington Post
***FREE SPEECH
In a Time of Tension, Universities Craft New Free-Speech Policies (sub. req'ed) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
How copyright trolls plunder both US citizens and… rights holders Fight Copyright Trolls
***RELIGION
IRS probe of televangelist Robert Tilton's church draws court challenge Tulsa World
The Evangelical "Money Cult" (video, opinion) Reason
PCUSA claims MegaChurch Vote to Leave Denomination is Invalid Layman.org
Bible Gateway now lets users search the Bible using emoji Religious News Service
The Eclipse of White Christian America The Atlantic
Evangelicals increasingly say it’s becoming harder for them in America Pew Research
What It’s Like to Escape the Christian Fundamentalist 'Quiverfull' Movement Vice
Are churches key to solving social problems? Fewer Americans now think so Pew Research
Creationist Ken Ham gets busted lying about his Ark exhibit’s abysmal opening day turnout (opinion) Dead State
***RELIGION & POLITICS
Trump’s VP Choice, Backed Controversial ‘Religious Freedom’ Law Chronicle of Higher Ed
What it means that Mike Pence called himself an ‘evangelical Catholic’ Washington Post
Are Trump Supporters Nostalgic For A Fading White, Christian America? NPR
***STUDENT LIFE
Why Those Millennials With Tons of Loans Won’t Refinance Bloomberg
When Millennials Become Managers Chronicle of Higher Ed
Men drinking craft beer, women eating quinoa, and other millennial foodie trends, ranked Washington Post
How to Host Your Parents Without Losing Your Mind Life Hacker
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Becoming a Freelance Academic Chronicle of Higher Ed
So Many Research Scientists, So Few Openings as Professors New York Times
***SCIENCE
The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists Vox
There Is No Scientific Method (opinion) New York Times
No Scientific Method, They Say Science Mag
***PSYCHOLOGY
Your Therapist Is Typing... Digg
***NEUROSCIENCE
Neuroscientists Still Don’t Know Why Music Sounds Good Wired
***PHILOSOPHY
The Entire Discipline of Philosophy Visualized with Mapping Software: See All of the Complex Networks Open Culture
Why You Don’t Know Your Own Mind (opinion) New York Times
***CRITICAL THINKING
Author discusses her new book, Reimagining Popular Notions of American Intellectualism Inside Higher Ed
***PERSONAL GROWTH
You are a liar by default, and you lie most to yourself Becoming (my blog)
There’s more than practice to becoming a world-class expert The Conversation
***ETHICS
Frankenstein’s paperclips: The ethics of AI Economist
Do CRISPR enthusiasts have their head in the sand about the safety of gene editing? STAT
***HIGHER ED
University websites: The so-so, the bad, and the egregious University Affairs
Weeks after Temple president ousted the provost, the board says it will remove the president Inside Higher Ed
US spending on prisons and jails grew three times as fast as spending on education in the last 3 decades Business Insider
Op-Ed: Christian Universities Can't Have It Both Ways NBC News
***HUMANITIES /STEM
What Classics Professors Can Teach the Rest of Us Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Amazon Unveils Online Education Service for Teachers New York Times
A new crop of hands-on universities is transforming how students learn Economist
Do You Assign Enough Reading? Or Too Much? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***CRIME ON CAMPUS
Senate Hearing on Campus Harassment and Bullying Wired
Kansas State University is clashing with the federal government over whether it’s legally required to police off-campus behavior Business Insider
only temporary
/Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Articles of Interest - July 11
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***SOCIAL MEDIA
Instagram expands users to 500M in tightening race with Snapchat USA Today
Twitter to Live-Stream Both National Conventions New York Times
***PRODUCING MEDIA
A new film offers a peek into the lives of editors and authors (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***BIG DATA / STATS
Need to quickly explain Bayes' Theorem & Base Rate Fallacy to someone? Try this short video Wireless Philosophy
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Real change starts with endings, not beginnings Becoming
***GRAMMAR
Evidence that some 19th-century grammarians had completely lost their marbles Chronicle of Higher Ed
Are texts in uppercase letters useful for anything besides annoying your readers? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING& READING
These are the six emotional arcs of storytelling, big data study shows ZME Science
9 Tools for the Accidental Writing Teacher Chronicle of Higher Ed
I reported poetry plagiarism in a PhD, but my university ignored it The Guardian
***GENDER ISSUES
Men cite themselves more than women do Nature
***RACE
How Social Media Impacts The Conversation On Racial Violence NPR
Asian Men Win the Hourly Earnings Race in America Bloomberg
***FREE SPEECH
Sen. rips University in scathing letterhandling of speech deemed offensive Greeley Tribune
***RELIGION
This presidential campaign is proving wrong decades of research on evangelicals Chronicle of Higher Ed
Former Evangelical Pastor Rethinks His Approach To Courtship NPR
Researchers make 'first discovery' of Philistine cemetery BBC
Life-Size Noah's Ark To Open Amid A Flood Of Skepticism NPR
Israel find may help solve mystery of biblical Philistines Associated Press
Who’s not defending Mississippi’s religious freedom law Religious News Service
***JOURNALISM
Young and old news consumers want to get their news in very different ways, says Pew Harvard's Nieman Lab
Pew: Most news sharing remains low-tech, offline Columbia Journalism Review
***STUDENT LIFE
Why It's Never Too Late To Rescue Failing Students NPR
What millennial millionaires are getting wrong about personal finance The Guardian
Millennials will work forever–but they may be happier for it Quartz
A new survey confirms what every parent suspects: College students have no idea of their parents' sacrifice Business Insider
***PSYCHOLOGY
People can guess at your social status based on the way you laugh Quartz
Survey counseling center directors finds anxiety and depression are top issues Inside Higher Ed
As a psychiatrist, I diagnose mental illness. Also, I help spot demonic possession Washington Post
***NEUROSCIENCE
Could Brain Research From The Past 15 Years Really Be Wrong? Forbes
This Is Your Brain on Silence Nautilus
Neuroscience Reveals the Nourishing Benefits That Silence Has on Your Brain Inc
***PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY - Blaise Pascal Seeker
What Is an “Existential Crisis”?: An Animated Video Explains What the Expression Really Means Open Culture
***CRITICAL THINKING
32 Animated Videos by Wireless Philosophy Teach You the Essentials of Critical Thinking Open Culture
Why bad ideas refuse to die The Guardian
***HIGHER ED
When a Chancellor Blocks a Student on Twitter Chronicle of Higher Ed
More dozen athletic programs have committed academic fraud last decade more likely Inside Higher Ed
How Media Coverage Of Campus Scandals Impacts College Applications Huffington Post
Protest at Fuller Seminary Decries “Silence of the White Evangelical Church” About Recent Police Shootings Pasadena Now
***TEACHING
Learning More About Active Learning Chronicle of Higher Ed
NYU at Shanghai experiments with Educational Videos to Study how it can reach Chinese students Online Inside Higher Ed
There’s No Such Thing as Asynchronous Teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed
Roads?
/Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads. Doc Brown, Back to the Future
Articles of Interest - July 4
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
In a blow to publishers, Facebook tweaks News Feed to emphasize friends over the news Poynter
How Twitter is Used at Physics Conferences Springer Blog
Meet Facebook's ruthless algorithm mafia (video) Cnet
Your Facebook Echo Chamber Just Got a Whole Lot Louder Wired
Facebook does the right thing, looks after its own customers Talking New Media
***TECHNOLOGY
Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York The Guardian
***THE INTERNET
UN condemns internet access disruption as a human rights violation The Verge
***BIG DATA
Researchers outline guidelines for ethically dealing with the deluge of data collected about students Inside Higher Ed
Understanding Google's ranking algorithm "Wide and Deep Learning" which has just been open sourced Amey Kamat blog
How neural nets are powering Google's push to put machine learning into all of its products Back Channel
Using Data Sets to anticipate Future Visual representations (video) MIT
Which is more likely to lead to blunders: the complexity of the situation, decision maker's skill or time pressure Technology Review
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Digital media layoffs continue, this time at International Business Times Poynter
***JOURNALISM
10 Things We Learned by Analyzing 9 Million Comments from The New York Times Engaging News Project
The Associated Press will use automated writing to cover the minor leagues Poynter
North Georgia newspaper publisher jailed over open records request Atlanta Journal-Constitution
How an Ohio judge’s ruling threatens journalists’ ability to cover the court system Columbia Journalism Review
How The NY Times Is Using Virtual Reality To Revitalize Storytelling psfk
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Mislabeled As A Memoirist, Author Asks: Whose Work Gets To Be Journalism? NPR
How Much Do We Love TV? Let Us Count the Ways New York Times
Benghazi Report Shows the Internet Is Killing Objectivity Wired
Knight Foundation gives Poynter $758,000 to remake online journalism education Poynter
Dear Journalists: Facebook Is Not Your Friend (It’s Just Using You…) Huffington Post
**SCIENCE
The GOP’s Denial of Science Primed Them for the Illogic of Trump (opinion) Slate
***NEUROSCIENCE
The Mind: Less Puzzling in Chinese? New York Books
Neuroscientists say multitasking literally drains the energy reserves of your brain Quartz
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Here are the (relationship) rules Becoming (my blog)
***GRAMMAR
Me and you need to have a chat about what you call an error Baltimore Sun
It’s Finally Time To Stop Correcting People’s Grammar, Linguist Says Huffington Post
It's not bad grammar Baltimore Sun
An extra period in the Declaration of Independence could change our understanding of the role of government Business Insider
***WRITING& READING
Human Or Machine: Can You Tell Who Wrote These Poems? NPR
How would you respond to these creative essay prompts created by college students? USA Today
Trump Institute Offered Get-Rich Schemes With Plagiarized Lessons New York Times
Copy and Paste Plagiarism in India Nature
***LANGUAGE
Soon Facebook Will Instantly Translate Your Posts Into 44 Languages Wired
***LITERATURE
Book Critic Ruth Franklin On Elie Weisel's Literary NPR
Seattle bookstores tackle the lack of diversity in literature Seattle Globalist
Go Ahead, Judge These Books by Their Covers Wired
***RESEARCH
When Correlation Actually Does Imply Causation Vocativ
***GENDER ISSUES
A third of 2016’s top movies fail the Bechdel test Fusion
Racial, gender wage gaps persist in U.S. despite some progress Pew Research
Men who harass women online are quite literally losers, new study finds Washington Post
Colleges are increasingly creating masculinity programs, aimed at boosting retention while encouraging students to rethink what it means to "be a man." Inside Higher Ed
***RACE
Who Gets Tased? First Statewide Study Reveals Racial Disparities NPR
Do we really become more bigoted with age? Science suggests yes Vox
***FREE SPEECH
Newseum study finds mixed level of public knowledge and support for free-speech principles Student Press Law Center
***LEGAL ISSUES
Exonerated man thanks San Diego lawyers, students from California Western School of Law Union Tribune
U.S. Dept. Of Justice Deals Crushing Blow To Songwriters Forbes
The Fight to Liberate the “Happy Birthday” Song, Told in a Short Documentary Open Culture
***RELIGION
Most American Christians Believe They’re Victims of Discrimination The Atlantic
Conservative Christians Grapple With Whether 'Religious Freedom' Includes Muslims NPR
Steve Green, the man building the Bible museum in Washington, explains what he is up to Economist
***STUDENT MEDIA
When Student Activists Refuse to Talk to Campus Newspapers The Atlantic
New names for student newspaper panned Union Bulletin
***STUDENT LIFE
The myth of millennial entitlement was created to hide their parents’ mistakes Quartz
Why a coding bootcamp probably isn’t right for you Fusion
The real reason so many millennials are living at home Washington Post
Millennials admit using phones to avoid talking to people Cnet
In New Jersey Student Loan Program, Even Death May Not Bring a Reprieve New York Times
***ETHICS
How Should We Respond to ‘Evil’? (opinion) New York Times
***HIGHER ED
"Broadly Evangelical” Liberal Arts College Apologizes to prof 50 years after Tossing him out Christian Today
Student at Risk: Now What? Campus Technology
Faith-based schools decry LGBT rights bill Whittier Daily News
***TEACHING
Make a More Inclusive Syllabus with Tulane’s Accessible Syllabus Project Chronicle of Higher Ed
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Biden and Obama rewrite the rulebook on college sexual assaults Huffington Post
positivity
/A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.- Herm Albright
Here are the Rules
/When someone gives you rules for your relationship whether explicitly or implied (“We can only talk about these subjects and not those subjects over there” or “We will only go to these places together” or “Only contact me in this particular way”) you have to decide whether this comes out of a legitimate concern to keep the relationship in a healthy place or whether it’s an attempt to control you-prompted by insecurity and fear. In other words, is this a request that you become co-conspirators in hiding from painful truths about the person making the request?
Stephen Goforth
The reader
/The reader is like Shadrazad’s Sultan. If you bore me, I’ll cut off your head! But give him a good story and he’ll give you his heart. -From the French film “In the House”
Articles of Interest - June 27
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter is making a huge video push — and tweaking Vine’s six-second limit in the process Recode
Twitter quietly launches tags to location feeds with Foursquare Tech Crunch
Social media apps overwhelmingly dominate mobile traffic Business Insider
How Periscope Is Changing Politics TIME
Google, Facebook quietly move toward automatic blocking of extremist videos Reuters
Who owns the news consumer: Social media platforms or publishers? Columbia Journalism Review
**LEGAL ISSUES
Who owns the news consumer: Social media platforms or publishers? Columbia Journalism Review
Judge: UCSD “stacked the deck” against student accused of cheating Inside Higher Ed
Photographer sues after his photo, used in news stories, is attributed to social media site Student Press Law Center
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Jobs on Creativity: Creativity is just connecting things Becoming (my site)
When you will most likely hit your creative peak, according to science Washington Post
***GRAMMAR
How Mary Norris, the New Yorker's 'Comma Queen,' became a video star Digiday
***WRITING& READING
True: Fact-checking a single Donald Trump speech required 12 AP writers Washington Post
Does Reading on Computer Screens Affect Student Learning? Chronicle of Higher Ed
AP style guidelines for hyphen usage GateHouse Newsroom
***LITERATURE
An Animated Introduction to the Life & Literary Works of Charles Dickens Open Culture
Faith and Sci-Fi: The Christian Universe of "A Wrinkle in Time" Catholic World Report
***RESEARCH
Detecting scientific sloppiness: A surprisingly simple test to check research papers for errors Economist
Science hype and questionable research practices satirized In Trump vs Trump paper Retraction Watch
Why Most Clinical Research Is Not Useful PLOS Journal
Presenting scientific results: A scientific study of the importance of diagrams to science Economist
Harvard Theological Review refuses to retract article despite evidence that the article — about Jesus’s wife — was based on a forgery Retraction Watch
***GENDER ISSUES
Stopping Tenure Clock helps Male professors More Inside Higher Ed
***RACE
It’s official: Minority babies are the majority among the nation’s infants, but only just Pew Research
A sharp spike in racist incidents reported after the Brexit vote Washington Post
3 Key Takeaways From the Supreme Court’s Decision on Race-Conscious Admissions Chronicle of Higher Ed
The real winners of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling are rich, white people Washington Post
Post EU Referendum Racism Documented Online And It’s Really Scary Huffington Post
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
How you can help victims of sex trafficking while traveling Daily Dot
What One Rape Cost Our Family (opinion) New York Times
***TECHNOLOGY
Text messages are often the weakest link in two-step logins Wired
***THE INTERNET
Reweaving the web- A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world Economist
Googling medical symptoms may no longer convince you that you’re dying Arstechnica
***BIG DATA
Trade in data seems very important, but there are no good, er, data on it Economist
Polls v prediction markets-did a Bayesian approach mislead Brexit expectations? Economist
Data science company says data mining software used by spy agencies just got more powerful Fed Scope
***JOURNALISM
Health journalism has a serious evidence problem. Here’s a plan to save it. Vox
FOIA Request on Immigration would cost more than $173K FiveThirtyEight
The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, and the push for digital credibility Columbia Journalism Review
***SCIENCE
The Limits of Science: What We Cannot Know (book review) Economist
How an academic urban legend can spread because of the difficulty of clear citation Andrew Gelman
***PSYCHOLOGY
How Psychology Made the Brexit Vote Inevitable TIME
Minister Tests Ban on Gay-Conversion Therapy Courthouse News
***ETHICS
Should Your Driverless Car Hit a Pedestrian to Save Your Life? New York Times
Do scientific fraudsters deserve a second chance? Stat
***RELIGION
Is Donald Trump now a born-again Christian? Religious News Service
5 key findings about global restrictions on religion Pew Research
How Did Trump’s Speech to Evangelicals Go on Tuesday? Not Great Slate
Survey: White evangelicals say US no longer a Christian nation Religious New Service
Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays Reuters
***FILM & THEATER
Predicting the success of “Hamilton” Economist
***STUDENT LIFE
Spending a few extra years in college may cost you more than you think Washington Post
What Every New College Grad Should Know About Retirement Savings Fortune
The government offers $130 billion to college students. Why aren’t more applying for it? Washington Post
Science suggests genes can hugely influence academic performance Quartz
***HIGHER ED
In College Turmoil, Signs of a Changed Relationship New York Times
Three graduation rates for one college? The baffling government policy that could confuse students Washington Post
What might Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn mean for higher ed? Inside Higher Ed
Tuition at public colleges has soared in the past decade, but student fees have risen faster Washington Post
***CHRISTIAN COLLEGES & LGBTQ ISSUES
Faith-based colleges say anti-discrimination bill would infringe on their religious freedom LA Times
“Tolerant” California Will Not Tolerate Christian Colleges (written by the author of the "Hipster Christianity") (opinion) Brett McCracken
A Response to Biola University’s SB 1146 Opposition (written by 2009 Biola alumni) Campus Pride
***TEACHING
College courses without textbooks? These schools are giving it a shot Washington Post
Why some college professors are telling students to use Wikipedia for class LA Times
Study casts doubt on value of remedial math for college Washington Post