awakening
/A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. -The Quaker Reader
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
people lie
/The reason people lie is to avoid the pain of challenge and it’s consequences.
the point
/The point of life is not to become a more satisfied shopper. -Rod Dreher
articles of interest - Oct 24
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook Says It Still Isn't a Media Company Despite Deciding What's Newsworthy Fortune
Hyperpartisan Facebook Pages Are Publishing False And Misleading Information At An Alarming Rate BuzzFeed
Social-media endorsements are the latest thing in advertising Economist
The Social Mediators: 7 Young Social Stars Share Their Rules For Engagement Fast Company
First Snapchat-Native Documentary Films to Launch From PBS Series POV Variety
***INTERNET
Would You Click on These Fake Gmail Alerts? Motherboard
***TECHNOLOGY
The Feds Already Have Your Face in a Database Gizmodo
The Internet of Things: When Toasters Go Online Blooomberg
Are E-sports Eating Up Traditional Sports Viewership? Watching other people play video games is just as compelling to millennial men as baseball and hockey MIT Technology Review
***ART & DESIGN
Reading Gaol, Where Oscar Wilde Was Imprisoned, Unlocks Its Gates For Art NPR
Tiny Hand Will Be Your New Comic Sans: BuzzFeed News made a font BuzzFeed
108 million web users are color blind. Tips for designing keeping them in mind Ux Planet
Disenfranchised by Bad Design Propublica
***BIG DATA / STATS
Three big data trends that 2016 brought out: Spark, Multi-core Servers, & IoT Dzone
Spark for Scale: the fundamental concepts Social Cops
MachineLearning is like a deep-fat fryer IdleWords
***FREE SPEECH
Writers Group Seeks Middle Ground on Campus Speech Inside Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
The Billion Dollar Copyright Lawsuit that could Legalize a new kind of Scam Fast Company
Rolling Stone Defamation Trial: UVA Student Who Made Up Rape Story Got Tattoo To Mark It Huff Post
***GENDER ISSUES
Education Department opens civil rights investigation at Baylor University Politico
Connie Chung ‘went through hell’ as a woman in journalism Page Six
'Mansplaining' On 'Jeopardy!' Huff Post
***DIVERSITY
Study: Immigrants Face Backlash But Do The Same To The Next Group NPR
***RACE
Graduation Gap for Black Football Players Inside Higher Ed
ProPublica Reveals Discriminatory Pricing By Computer Algorithms NPR
The Importance of Talking Explicitly About Race Chronicle of Higher Ed
Growing Racial Disparities in Student Debt Inside Higher Ed
Every Asian American has been asked this question. A computer gives the best answer Washington Post
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Colleges are debating when to notify students about sexual assaults Business Insider
UNM fires professor tied to sexual misconduct allegations Albuquerque Journal
Education Dept. Opens Title IX Investigation at Baylor Chronicle of Higher Ed
***FILM
How Movie Studios Rejected Scripts During the Silent-Film Era: A Cold, 17-Point Checklist Circa 1915 Open Culture
***RELIGION
Evangelicals are a lot more chill about religion and politics than they used to be Washington Post
Dobson is calling for civil disobedience against a California law Associated Press
RIP Jack Chick, father of the Satanic Panic BongBong
***MUSIC
Bob Dylan Set to Share His Gospel Roots CBN
Hear Igor Stravinsky’s Symphonies & Ballets in a Complete, 32-Hour, Chronological Playlist Open Culture
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Print advertising woes are getting worse Poynter
NBCUniversal is doubling its bet on BuzzFeed by investing another $200 million Recode
AT&T Is Buying Time Warner Because the Future is Google Wired
The Next Generation Of Local, Low-Power FM Stations Expands In Urban Areas NPR
German Chatbot Startup Tries to Help Publishers Reach Larger Audience MediaShift
Newsonomics: Here are 10 storylines we’ll be talking about into 2017 Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***BUSINESS
The full-time MBA is under pressure from specialist degrees and online education Economist
Two economists win the Nobel prize for their work on the theory of contracts Economist
***JOURNALISM
Black Christian producer sues CNN because his colleagues kept saying 'Jesus Christ Daily Mail
Kidnapped Journalist Forced To Explain To ISIS Captors What BuzzFeed News Is The Onion
Writing about think tanks and using their research: A cautionary tip sheet Journalist’s Resources
The power of comics journalism Economist
Hacking: What journalists need to know. A conversation with Bruce Schneier Journalist’s Resources
For journalists battling censorship, focus on people, not politics International Journalists' Network
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
It’s 2016, and we’re still arguing whether newspapers should have websites Poynter
Can A.G. Sulzberger Save The New York Times? Vanity Fair
Gannett announces across chain staff layoffs, while ‘tronc’ acquisition rumors continue Talking New Media
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student newspapers trashed over rape story WFTS-TV
Missouri Journalism School Was A Bit Too Bullish Before Middle Tennessee Game
Liberty Blocks its Student Paper Publishing Column Critical of Trump Inside Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
UC Irvine Is Offering E-Sports Scholarships Fox Sports Radio
Student at Washington University in St. Louis reveals 5 apps that people are talking about on campus Business Insider
***SCIENCE
Keep politics out of science? Fugghedaboutit STAT
***HEALTH
The Cure for Cancer Is Data—Mountains of Data Wired
Millennials took Adderall to get through school. Now they’ve taken their addiction to the workplace Quartz
Electrodes in the brain can mimic sensations from the hand Economist
***PSYCHOLOGY
How The Concept Of Implicit Bias Came Into Being NPR
Colleges Turn Online Text Messaging Services to Help with Counseling Demand Inside Higher Ed
Psychiatric patients wait the longest in emergency rooms Washington Post
A new generation of drugs could change the way depression is treated Economist
Social attitudes to faces: Your class determines how you look at your fellow creatures Economist
Hazards of pointing out bad meta-analyses of psychological interventions PLOS
How do politicians get so comfortable with lying? One theory: practice Vox
***NEUROSCIENCE
Space Brain': Mars Explorers May Risk Neural Damage, Study Finds NBC
There’s Such a Think as Too Much Neuroscience New York Times
Brain study shows how small lies grow into whoppers Stat News
Frequent liars show less activity in key brain structure Science News
***GRAMMAR
***WRITING& READING
Student Writing in the Digital Age Jstor
'Blackacre': A Collection Of Poems About 'Searching And Being Buffeted' NPR
Bye-Bye, Cursive Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize, Redefining Boundaries of Literature New York Times
#TrumpBookReport trends after debate as people imagine Donald Trump's response to literature Telegraph
11 of literature’s best closing lines PR Daily
The 8 Most Misunderstood Witches In Literature Bustle
Oxford University Press: New edition of Shakespeare's works will co-credit Christopher Marlowe Business Insider
***PHILOSOPHY
John Cleese & Jonathan Miller Turn Profs Talking About Wittgenstein Into a Classic Comedy Routine (1977) Open Culture
***PERSONAL GROWTH
How our brain tricks us when visualizing the future Becoming (my blog)
***HIGHER ED
What You Need to Know About the Overtime Rule and Higher Ed Chronicle of Higher Ed
To an enthusiastic crowd at Regent University, Donald Trump makes his case in final days of campaign Virginian Pilot
***TEACHING
LinkedIn Free Courses Week LinkedIn
A Defense of the Multiple-Choice Exam: Its value may be limited, but there is no better way to test whether students have read the material Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts The Atlantic
What was it like to get a PhD in the 1840s? Physics Today
This photo essay shows what it really means to be adjunct faculty Washington Post
***RESEARCH
How many IRB members does it take to screw in a light bulb?" Anonymous
Why Data Citation Is a Computational Problem ACM
Ask The Chefs: What’s Your Favorite ‘Dirty Little Secret’ About Scholarly Publishing? Scholarly Kitchen
defining goals
/The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable.
Denis Waitley
It's Contageous!
/Not only do you tend to hang out with people like yourself, your friends will influence you toward or away from self-control. Even the people you are forced by circumstances to hang out with (like co-workers) have an influence on your behavior.
That's the finding of researchers who asked participants to watch people either select carrot sticks or cookies to eat before taking tests related to self-control (not involving cookies and carrots). Participants who watched someone eat cookies before the tests did not do as well as those who had watched someone decide to eat carrots.
In another test, participants were told to think of a friend with good self-control. This group performed better on a handgrip test (used to measure self-control) than did the participants assigned to think about a friend with weak self-control. Other tests showed similar results.
Their conclusions: If you surround yourself with people who make wise choices, you are more likely to do the same. You can boost your self-control simply by networking with other people who reinforce positive behavior (or vise versa). And when you show a lack of self-control, you are probably influencing someone else to do the same.
Details of the study are published by the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Stephen Goforth
nothing
/Nothing to prove. Nothing to lose.
Slot machines in our pockets
/The capacity of slot machines to keep people transfixed is now the engine of Las Vegas’s economy. Over the last 20 years, roulette wheels and craps tables have been swept away to make space for a new generation of machines: no longer mechanical contraptions (they have no lever), they contain complex computers produced in collaborations between software engineers, mathematicians, script writers and graphic artists.
But it is the variation in rewards that is the key to time-on-device. The machines are programmed to create near misses: winning symbols appear just above or below the “payline” far more often than chance alone would dictate. The player’s losses are thus reframed as potential wins, motivating her to try again. Mathematicians design payout schedules to ensure that people keep playing while they steadily lose money.
Alternative schedules are matched to different types of players, with differing appetites for risk: some gamblers are drawn towards the possibility of big wins and big losses, others prefer a drip-feed of little payouts (as a game designer told Schüll, “Some people want to be bled slowly”). The mathematicians are constantly refining their models and experimenting with new ones, wrapping their formulae around the contours of the cerebral cortex.
Gamblers themselves talk about “the machine zone”: a mental state in which their attention is locked into the screen in front of them, and the rest of the world fades away. A player who is feeling frustrated and considering quitting for the day might receive a tap on the shoulder from a “luck ambassador”, dispensing tickets to shows or gambling coupons. What the player doesn’t know is that data from his game-playing has been fed into an algorithm that calculates how much that player can lose and still feel satisfied, and how close he is to the “pain point”. The offer of a free meal at the steakhouse converts his pain into pleasure, refreshing his motivation to carry on.
These days, of course, we all carry slot machines in our pockets.
Ian Leslie writing in 1843 magazine
articles of interest - Oct 17
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
The Man Who Stood Up To Facebook NRP
Facebook Had an Insane Effect on Voter Registration Gizmodo
How Snapchat is Changing the Way We Communicate PBS Media Shift
***BIG DATA / STATS
How using big data in employment may run afoul of EEOC workplace regs SHRM
Building a framework for and computational AI law: when computer languages and real-world constructs meet Back Channel
The problem with cloud computing is bandwidth: Enter fog computing Forbes
Here’s how The White House wants the U.S. to approach AI R&D Tech Crunch
The cost of forsaking “C.” (get out the Bay Area web/mobile startup echo chamber) Medium
***TECHNOLOGY
'Unsubscribe' Outlines How to Change Your Email Habits NPR
***ART & DESIGN
The History and Usage of Common Symbols Medium
Street Artist Swoon Brings a Spiritual Installation to Detroit The Creators Project
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Don’t insist on knowing who you are before you begin the work Becoming (my blog)
***WRITING& READING
***LANGUAGE
Banter, Locker Room and Otherwise Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Regional Dialects Are Fixing Standard English Atlas Obcura
The Internet Isn’t Changing English. Nor the Converse Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
USA! USA! US … Oh, Never Mind. It’s The Literature Nobel FiveThirtyEight
Why Bob Dylan’s Songs Are Literature New Republic
How does storytelling differ between video games and literature? Gameasutra
***RESEARCH
We got probability wrong and should abandon the well-worn term ‘statistically significant' Aeon
The false academy Springer
Undergraduate academic journals face continuing problems of relevance Columbia Spectator
Access to data: Troubling findings from studies of the past several years The Replication Network
Scientific publishing is self-regulating so poorly that we invite a “Clean Science Act” Scholarly Kitchen
Much academic research is never cited and may be rarely read indicating wasted effort Springer
***GENDER & RACE
Where girls spend the most time on household chores The Atlas
Divided Supreme Court Hears 'Screaming Racial Bias' Juror Case NPR
***SEXUAL ASSAULT & TITLE IX
What a Landmark Finding in a Title IX Case Means for Colleges Wrestling With Sex Assault (sub. req’d) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Title IX Officers Pay a Price for Navigating a Volatile Issue (sub. req’d) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Approaches to Sexual Assault would differ under Clinton, Trump Inside Higher Ed
Workplace Sexual Harassment: A Threat To Victims, A Quandary For Bystanders NPR
Can a syllabus be a form of sexual harassment? Inside Higher Ed
Trump Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct Spur Calls To Assault Hotlines NPR
How To Deal With Sexual Harassment On The Job NPR
Baylor group makes waves with homecoming float targeting sexual assault scandal Houston Chronicle
***FREE SPEECH
Americans more tolerant of offensive speech than others in the world Pew Research
***LEGAL ISSUES
A former UVA dean's defamation lawsuit over the debunked Rolling Stone rape story is about to start Reuters
***RELIGION
Megachurch caught in "social media firestorm" disfellowshipping gay member KVUE
Christian group sues to exempt churches from Massachusetts transgender anti-discrimination law Mass Live
Churches Sue Over Attorney General Over Transgender Law NECNl
Okla. Guv Scrambles To Make Christian-Focused Proclamation More Inclusive Associated Press
Bob Dylan's Biblical imagination The Week
The spiritual abuse in InterVarsity’s treatment of LGBT people Religious News Service
Evangelical campus ministry group asks pro-gay staff to quit Associated Press
***RELIGION & POLITICS
A Christian conservative backlash against Trump seems to be building Boston Globe
Mike Pence Visits Liberty University And Tells Religious Voters To Stick With Trump NPR
Why Trump Tape Caused Only One Evangelical Leader to Abandon Him Christianity Today
Evangelical magazine publishes scathing anti-Trump editorial Yahoo News
***MUSIC
The Man Musicians Call When Two Tunes Sound Alike New York Times
'I Feel Pretty Good': A Moment With Brian Wilson NPR
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
YouTube Crushed TV in Total Debate Viewership Wired
***BUSINESS
More than half the world doesn’t understand this basic financial principle Quartz
***JOURNALISM
Just launched: A tool that will make life easier for FOIA reporters Columbia Journalism Review
At a Christian College, Student Journalism Gets Religious (opinion) New York Times
Why it’s important for news organizations to show their corrections Columbia Journalism Review
An economist makes the case for saving investigative journalism Poynter
A New Book Attempts to Define the Value of Investigative Journalism Nonprofit Quarterly
Publishing Hacked Private Emails Can Be a Slippery Slope Fortune
Google News now has a “Fact Check” tag Poynter
N. Dakota charges reporter with 'riot' for covering protest--but gets slapped down by judge LA Times
Criticism of the News Media Takes On a More Sinister Tone New York Times
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
BuzzFeed News, Twitter to partner on election night special Talking New Media
How CNN is ‘future-proofing’ itself Columbia Journalism Review
***STUDENT MEDIA
An unintended consequence of Title IX: Lack of clarity in the anti-sex discrimination statue is being used to censor student media Student Press Law Center
College newspaper defaced with racist message Union Tribune
***SCIENCE
Is our world a simulation? Why some scientists say it's more likely than not The Guardian
Bob Dylan, the songwriter scientists love to quote Science Mag
***HEALTH
Data Mining Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Human Weight Change MIT Technology Review
Reviews Of Medical Studies May Be Tainted By Funders' Influence NPR
Someone Called Her 'Just A Nurse,' So She Told Them What Being A Nurse Is All About
Welcome to On Call, a newsletter about hospitals and health care Stat News
Doctors’ political leanings Flowing Data
***PSYCHOLOGY
College students nationwide flood mental-health centers Fox News
John Borghi chronicles his experiences with psychology’s century-old problem with p-values Medium
How The Concept Of Implicit Bias Came Into Being NPR
***NEUROSCIENCE
Brain Implant Restores Sense Of Touch To Paralyzed Man NPR
***PHILOSOPHY
Why I Don't Have a Biblical Worldview and You Shouldn't Either, Says Christian Philosophy Professor Christian Post
***ETHICS
Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse, and the AI Constitution BackChannel
***HIGHER ED
Revolt at Liberty U: Students sharply criticize President for endorsement and continued support of Trump Inside Higher Ed
Religiously Serious, Thoughtfully Secular Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
DIY Syllabus: What Goes Into a Syllabus Chronicle of Higher Ed
My Syllabus, My Self New York Times
20 Things Students Say Help Them Learn Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Here's What the Average American Owes After College Fox Business
Want college to pay off? These are the 50 majors with the highest earnings Washington Post
6 Tips For College Students Traveling Alone Huffington Post
capturing passion
/Passion must be captured and directed in order to accomplish actual work.
–Rick Karlgaard
Participate
/Participate in co-creative relationships.
parenthood
/Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. -Marcelene Cox
Articles of Interest - Oct 10
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
A short history of famous people talking about the memes they became Washington Post
You Can All Finally Encrypt Facebook Messenger, So Do It Wired
This bot expertly baits Internet imbeciles into losing arguments Washington Post
Facebook Workplace Tries to Muscle In on Your Job Wired
Why Bloomberg, ESPN and others aren't doing Facebook Instant Articles Digiday
5 Top Tips and Tools For the Social Media Reporter PBS’s Media Shift
***INTERNET
SEO Trek: The Search for Google RankBrain* Moz
***BIG DATA / STATS
How data analytics is helping to fight human trafficking Datanami
How Big Data is changing education Smart Data Collective
Predicting future human behavior with deep learning: A chat with MIT’s Carl Vondrick KD Nuggets
Big data analytics is the future of intelligence-driven security operations center Data Integration
6 major don'ts when leading big data projects Tech Republic
New report: NoSQL and Hadoop will see the biggest growth in the next five years Cloud Computing
The AI Revolution: why deep learning Is suddenly changing your Life Fortune
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Gratitude and Kindness Becoming (my blog)
***GRAMMAR
Pronoun Challenge in Ann Arbor Chronicle of Higher Ed
Do commas still matter? (opinion) Washington Post
***WRITING& READING
Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators The Atlantic
***LITERATURE
AMaster List of 800 Free Classic eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices Open Culture
***RESEARCH
One reason so many scientific studies may be wrong (opinion) The Conversation
The hard road to reproducibility (opinion) American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fake ethics journal aids cheating scientists Ottawa Sun
***GENDER ISSUES
Exploring the relationship between gender and author order and composition in NIH-funded (opinion) Michael Eisen
***DIVERSITY
UC Berkeley student with disabilities faces obstacles with campus program The Daily Californian
***RACE
A professor is under fire after saying Black Lives Matter is racist like the KKK Washington Post
Comments about NFL player who started national anthem protest cost a Concordia (Mich.) instructor her job Matter Inside Higher Ed
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Baylor U.’s Title IX Coordinator Resigns Chronicle of Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
American U student government launches campaign in support of mandatory trigger warnings -- despite a recently reaffirmed faculty stance against them Inside Higher Ed
Victory for Student Speech Rights: Appeals court revives suit over student complaints about being pressured to participate in medical procedure Inside Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
Antitrust lawsuits against NCAA Inside Higher Ed
New California IMDb Age Law Probably Unconstitutional, Experts Say Hollywood Reporter
***TECHNOLOGY
Google’s New Service Translates Languages Almost as Well as Humans Can MIT Technology Review
Meerkat built a new app in secret, and almost 1 million people are using it The Verge
If there's a tech skills shortage, why are so many computer graduates unemployed? Tech Republic
***ART & DESIGN
Google's New Fonts Chip Away at Written Language Barriers Tech News World
***RELIGION
EEOC's 'I Love You' Bias Suit Falls Short, Health Co. Says Law 360
InterVarsity to Fire Employees Who Support Gay Marriage TIME
Cal State Northridge settles with Christian lab manager who said he was fired for his creationist beliefs Inside Higher Ed
'No excessive weight' says Hillsboro church to worship team Oregon Live
Trump or Jesus? (a test)
American views on issues involving religious liberty, traditional values and civil rights for LGBT people Pew Research
***MUSIC
Philosophy of Jazz Daily Nous
Intricate Map of Alt Music History Wired
***ART
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art (book review) Economist
***JOURNALISM
Younger adults more likely than older to prefer reading news Pew Research Center
Note to journalists: If there’s no report you can read, there’s no study Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
How 2 journalists who’ve never met in real life became a kidney donor and recipient Poynter
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Thomson Reuters to add 400 jobs in Toronto focusing on cognitive computing CBC
***STUDENT LIFE
Don’t worry, millennial underachievers: It’s always been tough to figure out your life Washington Post
College Kids Ask: Is My Costume Racist? The Daily Beast
Who’s Defaulting On Their Student Loans? Vocativ
***HEALTH
Victory for Student Speech Rights: Appeals court revives suit over student complaints about being pressured to participate in medical procedure Inside Higher Ed
Making research reproducible IAP
U.S. government health plans spent over $1 billion on EpiPens over five years Reuters
Medical linguistics: How to spot children’s speaking and listening problems early Economist
***PSYCHOLOGY
4 things every college student must know about mental health on campus USA Today
How to Talk about Conflict of Interest Skeptical Inquiry
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives Economist
What Type of Procrastinator are You? Daily Infographic
***PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy professor under fire for online post (Jason Stanley recently drew national attention for his strong response to a keynote address at the Society of Christian Philosophers’ regional conference about homosexual orientation is a disability) Yale Daily
Philosophy professor calls homosexuality a ‘disability,’ Christian conference condemns him The College Fix
***HIGHER ED
***HUMANITIES /STEM
How Humanities Can Help Fix the World Chronicle of Higher Ed
***CHRISTIAN COLLEGES
One prof fired, Another Criticized over Race comments Inside Higher Ed
Christian colleges are debating whether to arm campus safety officers Washington Post
***TEACHING
Are We Teaching Composition All Wrong? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Open Doors: A New Take on Teaching Observations Chronicle of Higher Ed
being miserable
/Pain and suffering is inevitable, being miserable is optional. - Art Clanin
Taking the Abuse
/When someone stays in an abusive situation, there must be a measure comfort in that identity for the victim. The abused, in effect, says to themselves, "I know what to do when playing this role." To become someone different means acknowledging there is a choice--and with that realization comes the uncomfortable recognition of responsibility.
A victim may tell themselves, “At least in the abusive situation I know the old pain and its ways." Moving toward change means stepping into the unknown. Fear can freeze the victim into making no decision, defaulting to the status quo, keeping the situation the same as it has always been.
Perhaps the abuse fits some part of how they have chosen to define themselves. To choose not to be abused means redefining the identity. In the end, some people would prefer to keep the painful but familiar abuse rather than entering a new kind of pain--one that accompanies building a new identity.
Victims who choose to no longer be victims take an heroic step. It's an empowering choice--and only those who have made a similar decision can fully grasp its breath and courage.
Stephen Goforth
to rise
/One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above little things." -John Burroughs
Articles of Interest - Oct 3
/***TECHNOLOGY
IT is seeing a once-in-a-generation battle between open-source software and cloud computing Economist
The Internet of Things is yet to arrive at the starting blocks of innovation Gigaom
The Mathematical Genius of Auto-Tune Priceonomics
***PERSONAL GROWTH
King gives crown to friend Becoming
***GRAMMAR
Flaws and Strengths of the Oxford Comma Pepperdine student newspaper
As a freelance copy editor, how can I sell myself to potential employers? The Guardian
Early years of English teaching should focus on reading and writing, not abstract grammar Economist
Watch English change Baltimore Sun
***WRITING& READING
How one Amazon Kindle scam made millions of dollars ZDnet
Why I Like the New MLA Handbook Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
To Seek Out New Vowels… Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
A Guide to the Real-Life Homes of the Heroes of Children's Literature Atlas Obscura
Truman Capote ashes sell for $45,000 at auction CNN
***RESEARCH
A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors. The results are concerning Vox
***GENDER ISSUES
Gender equality in 2016? It's complicated Associated Press
***DIVERSITY
Diverse Teams Feel Less Comfortable — and That’s Why They Perform Better Harvard Business Review
Teaching Diversity Online Is Possible. These Professors Tell You How Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RACE
What Should Colleges Do to Discipline Students Who Spew Hate? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why so many college students are getting busted for racist Snapchat posts Fusion
The police surveillance technology intensifying racial discrimination Mashable
***FREE SPEECH
The University of Minnesota is standing by 'Build the Wall' messages as protected, free speech Inside Higher Ed
At DePaul, Free Speech Is Out; ‘Fee Speech’ Is In FIRE
***LEGAL ISSUES
Going to law school? Thinking about law school? What should you read? Leiter Reports
***ART & DESIGN
Your Body Text Is Too Small Medium
***BUSINESS
Yay, It's Time For My Performance Review! (Said No One Ever) NPR
***BIG DATA / STATS
How data science and big data are alike.. and different: digging past the marketing KD Nuggets
***RELIGION
6 facts about U.S. Mormons Pew Research
Key findings about Americans’ views on religious liberty and nondiscrimination Pew Research
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Signing off: CBS is getting out of the radio business — is this finally the end of the medium? Salon
the End of mental_floss (Magazine) Medium
***JOURNALISM
Survey: Americans rely on TV, websites for election news Talking New Media
How 'All the President's Men' Defined the Look of Journalism on Screen Atlas Obscura
Five things I learned at ONA GateHouse
The Science of Headline Writing: Does A/B Testing Headlines Work? Priceonomics
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
What Beacon’s Failure Means for Crowdfunded Journalism PBS Media Shift
Journalists as Strategists: How to Think About Business Now that the Wall Has Come Down PBS Media Shift
New York Times reporters won’t face jail for airing Trump’s taxes Poynter
10 First Amendment experts comment on legality of NYT release of Trump’s tax returns Concurring Opinions
***SCIENCE
Ben Goldacre: fighting bad science (video) ABC (Australia)
***HEALTH
The Accuracy of Bibliographical References Generated for Medical Citation Styles Science Direct
To make big profits, drug companies turn to monopoly shenanigans Stat News
***PSYCHOLOGY
Why is the scientific replication crisis centered on psychology? Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Amy Cuddy’s Response to Critiques of Her Power-Posing Research NY Mag
Psychologist Helps San Quentin Prisoners Find Freedom Through Self-Reflection NPR
The psychological origins of procrastination—and how we can stop putting things off Jstor
***NEUROSCIENCE
***PHILOSOPHY
Quiz From UCR Philosophy Professor Determines If You Are A Jerk CBS Los Angeles
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update Daily Nous
***CRITICAL THINKING
The Myth Of Coincidences And Why We Search For Their Meaning NPR
***TEACHING
Not Just Hillary: Young Women In Debate Face Sexism, Double Standards Huffington Post
The University of Texas system is teaming up with Salesforce to make college courses more like Netflix Business Insider
28 Extremely Disappointing Facts About The Class Of 2020 BuzzFeed
***STUDENT LIFE
Michigan students can now pick their preferred pronouns, but not everyone is happy USA Today
Student loan default rate dips, but ‘considerable work remains,’ education secretary says Washington Post
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
In aftermath of Brock Turner case, California’s governor signs sex crime bill Washington Post
Lawyer: Why the lower standard of evidence in college sexual-assault cases is dangerous (opinion) Washington Post
Talking Through a Problem
/Can’t figure out a complicated problem? Talk about it out loud or doodle on some paper. Psychologists in Spain say their tests show processing information verbally or visually is more effective than remaining silent and still. They put students in separate rooms and gave them the same problems to solve. The students who talked to themselves or drew pictures to map out solutions finished first and scored higher. Psychologist Jose Luis Villegas Castellanos says he isn’t sure why it works this way but believes verbal and visual problems-solving creates greater opportunities to discover the right answers.
Stephen Goforth
Articles of interest - Sept 26
/***TECHNOLOGY
Snapchat’s Wild New Specs Won’t Share Google Glass’s Fate Wired
How Colleges Should Adapt in a Networked Age Chronicle of Higher Ed
***SOCIAL MEDIA
An 18-year-old is suing her parents for posting embarrassing baby pictures on Facebook Fusion
***BIG DATA / STATS
A White House data scientist on knowing when to go with the gut. Washington Post
The medical co.’s using Machine Learning to change healthcare Forbes
***GENDER ISSUES
A designer altered this 'Girls' Life' cover to show what empowerment really looks like Mic
New Book: Gender Shrapnel Inside Higher Ed
***DIVERSITY
NCAA calls on college leaders to sign pledge promising to recruit and interview more women and ethnic minorities for top sports positions Inside Higher Ed
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Forgiveness is Becoming (my blog)
***GRAMMAR
Grammar Snobs Can Now Correct People’s iOS Text Messages Buzz Feed
***WRITING& READING
Don’t Try to Make a Living Writing Short Stories Wired
***LANGUAGE
Bringing up Babel: There are cognitive benefits to raising bilingual children 1843 Magazine
***LITERATURE
How Literature Can Improve Mental Health Open Culture
What Is Shakespeare’s Most Popular Play? Priceonomics
***RESEARCH
Meet the world’s top peer reviewer Stat News
21 Brutal, Honest And Relatable Things That Happened In Academic Publishing BuzzFeed
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Academic Ethics: What Should We Do With Sexual Harassers in Academe? Chronicle of Higher Ed
New Bill Fights Sexual Harassment By Going After Professors’ Grant Money BuzzFeed
U Kentucky is suing its Student Newspaper, trying to Block Sexual Assault Reporting Washington Post
***FREE SPEECH
College Threatens to Punish Students If They Share ‘Self-Destructive’ Thoughts With Friends The Fire
***LEGAL ISSUES
IMDB would be required to remove actors' ages when asked under new California law The Verge
‘So to Speak’ Podcast: ‘Twisting Title IX’ (opinion) The Fire
***RELIGION
Like Katy Perry, I broke up with the conservative evangelical project (opinion) Religious News Service
Many evangelicals favor Trump because he is not Clinton Pew Research
Phillip Yancey Is Downright Baffled By Evangelical Support For Trump Huffington Post
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Number of U.S. low-power FM radio stations has nearly doubled since 2014 Pew Research
***JOURNALISM
The Big Problem Still Plaguing America’s News Media Fortune
When important investigative reporting must compete with Brangelina Columbia Journalism Review
Website ‘Rate My Media’ hopes to increase media accountability through crowd-sourced ratings Talking New Media
How the FDA Manipulates the Media Scientific American
Five takeaways from the ONA 2016 conference Columbia Journalism Review
***SCIENCE
Why bad science persists: Poor scientific methods may be hereditary Economist
***HEALTH
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan pledge $3 billion to cure all diseases Recode
The average person is better off without a fitness wearable, weight loss study finds PBS
Bad science misled millions with chronic fatigue syndrome Stat News
This Globe-Trotting Brain Surgeon Says Doctors Are Doing Medical Missions Wrong Vice
***PSYCHOLOGY
Watching sad films boosts endorphin levels in your brain, psychologists say The Guardian
***HIGHER ED
University May Remove Online Content to Avoid Disability Law Inside Higher Ed
Christian University kicks out freshman who used Racial slur in Social Media Inside Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES /STEM
The Importance of an Arts Education (and How It Strengthens Science & Civilization) Open Culture
***TEACHING
Zero Correlation Between Evaluations and Learning: New study adds to evidence that student reviews of professors have limited validity Inside Higher Ed
LinkedIn unveils new online learning and messaging tools Mercury News
Do Your Students Take Good Notes? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Why students who do well in high school bomb in college Washington Post
When a C Isn’t Good Enough: Some Students being made to Retake Classes if they earn a ‘C’ Inside Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
The Dangers of Faculty Book Club Chronicle of Higher Ed
Breaking up is hard to do
/The time immediately after a bad relationship is filled with promise. It's as if you've rid yourself of something that was weighing you down and keeping you from reaching your full potential. You fell light and clear and free. But this honeymoon with yourself is short-lived and you’re soon in a new relationship fraught with the same old problems. This pattern continues until you finally realize that most of the issues are your own, and that to be truly free, you must break up with yourself.
Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions