we know not
/We know what we are, but not what we may be. – Shakespeare
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
finding the time
/We find time for anything we really want to do.
Change Talk
/Sermonizing about goals is change-talk. But it is not growth-talk. Each one has a place and a time, but don't mistake one for the other. We can fool ourselves, thinking we are moving forward into growth.. when really, on the inside, we are idle, going nowhere.
Stephen Goforth
living out truth
/We can only acquire the truth as part of the process whereby we learn to live out the truth. C. Stephen Evans
our disguise
/We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
our own facts
/We are entitled to our own opinions but not to our own facts. Daniel Moynihan
articles of interest - Dec 26
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Why Snapchat’s Design is Deliberately Confusing Prototypr.io
How Facebook Is Transforming Disaster Response Wired
Fake news sets off Twitter confrontation between Pakistan and Israel CBS News
U.S. Customs requesting social media details at border The Stack
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
SoundExchange Releases Most Recent Finance Data Billboard
IHeartMedia’s Debt Refinancing Faces Static As Radio’s Prospects Weaken Deadline
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
The reigning absurdity in the digital news economy Monday Note
‘A very blunt instrument’: The potential and power of mobile notifications Columbia Journalism Review
***BIG DATA
Fencemarking vs. Benchmarking: how to uncover insights using both methods Inside Big Data
Why Deep Learning is radically different from Machine Learning Medium
Big Data, Software Continue to Stump Defense Programs National Defense Magazine
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Hurting from Loss Becoming (my blog)
Make Yourself Happier by Doing One Creative Thing Every Day LifeHacker
***HIGHER ED
K-State Freshman says he plans to drop out; Diatribe against General Education Courses goes Viral Inside Higher Ed
The Gay Rights policies of evangelical colleges and campus groups are increasingly out of sync with student views (sub req.’ed) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING& READING
Professors at America's elite colleges pick one book every student should read in 2017 Business Insider
***LITERATURE
The Art of Cutting Up Shakespeare Jstor
***GENDER ISSUES
Transition Team’s Request on Gender Equality Rattles State Dept. New York Times
How Women Finally Broke Into the Sciences Jstor
***RACE
Legislators criticize UW-Madison professor's course on race (“The Problem of Whiteness”), tweets about shooting of officers Wisconsin State Journal
Oregon: Professor in Blackface Violated Anti-Harassment Policy Inside Higher Ed
Drexel Condemns Professor's Tweet: University issues statement on Christmas Day over post that said "all I want for Christmas is white genocide" Inside Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
Encryption App ‘Signal’ Fights Censorship With a Clever Workaround Wired
D.C. appeals court rules that bloggers who compared professor to Jerry Sandusky may be sued for defamation Inside Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
New York Appeals Court Rules No Public Performance Rights in Pre-1972 Sound Recordings Billboard
Adding Derogatory Caption to Photo Meme Can Be False Light Unconstitutional Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Lawsuit, DOJ review spur Princeton to change mental-health policy Philly.com
Police Department’s Social Media Policy Is Unconstitutional Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***RELIGION
Anti-Trump Evangelical Faces Backlash NPR
One University Confronts Tensions Over Islam With Its Neighbors (sub. req.’ed) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why God is a curvy, black woman in 'The Shack' and some Christian critics say it's 'heresy' Chicago Tribune
How a Defense of Christianity Revolutionized Brain Science Nautilus
Megachurch pastor ignites debate after suggesting that Christianity doesn’t hinge on Jesus’ birth Washington Post
Amy Grant On Faith, Songwriting And Christmas Blues NPR
***JOURNALISM
2016’s Great San Diego Journalism Voice of San Diego
***FAKE NEWS
A Professor Once Targeted by Fake News Now Is Helping to Visualize It Chronicle of Higher Ed
Will Search Algorithms Detect Fake News? Media Post
5 new automated fact-checking projects underway Digiday
***FAKE NEWS & PHOTOS
Shutterstock's VP Of Engineering Kevin Lester Talks Reverse Image Search IBT
How Photos Fuel the Spread of Fake News Wired
Artificial intelligence is going to make it easier than ever to fake images and video The Verge
***FAKE NEWS & THE CLASSROOM
Fake News Antidote: Teaching Kids To Discern Fact From Fiction NPR
Teaching 'Truthiness': Professors Offer Course On How to Write Fake News Ed Surge
***STUDENT MEDIA
College Students fight delay of newspaper over provocative Democrat and Chronicle
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Ex-Stanford professor: I was pushed out after reporting sexual harassment The Guardian
Lawsuit: MSU failed to act on early claims of sex abuse by school and USA Gymnastics doctor ESPN
***RESEARCH
The Irony Effect: How the scientist who founded the science of mistakes ended up mistaken Slate
How Academia, Google Scholar And Predatory Publishers Help Feed Academic Fake News Forbes
Once a Year, Scientific Journals Try to Be Funny. Not Everyone Gets the Joke Smithsonian Magazine
***HEALTH
What happens when machine learning meets biology? How big data is redefining biotechnology Tech Republic
Scanning reveals what pregnancy does to a mother’s brain The Economist
Rewriting the Code of Life The New Yorker
***PSYCHOLOGY
EEOC to Employers: Remember Mental Health Conditions are Disabilities Too National Law Review
Researchers Examine Whether First Impressions Are Lasting NPR
What psychologists really think about you lying to your kids about Santa Washington Post
Technology and today’s vast and immensely underserved mental health population Tech Crunch
***PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy Professors Debate God’s Existence Graphic (student newspaper)
A Crash Course in Existentialism: A Short Introduction to Jean-Paul Sartre & Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World Open Culture
the same horizon
/We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon -Konrad Adenauer
just religious talk
/The way we live is what we believe. The rest is just religious talk.
excellence
/There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
– David Starr Jordan
articles of interest - Dec 19
/***WRITING& READING
Why We Say Too Much When We Write Online Jstor
Nietzsche’s 10 Rules for Writing with Style (1882) Open Culture
***LANGUAGE
Some People’s Brains Are Wired for Languages Scientific American
The state of languages in the U.S. a statistical portrait Report from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
***LITERATURE
'Bars Medley': Classic Literature Remixed Into Hip-Hop And Verse NPR
Jane Austen and the Value of Flaws Jstor
***GENDER ISSUES
'Nat Geo' Explores Gender Options, Puts 9-Year-Old Transgender Girl On Cover Media Post
***RACE
Racism Was Served by Silence. Justice Requires Free Speech for All Chronicle of Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
Panel discussion on The Future of The First Amendmentat the 92nd Street Y in New York City (video) Future.Today Summit
Free Speech on Campus, and Its Limits Chronicle of Higher Ed
If students think a faculty member is racist, they have every right to say so. But nobody has a right to limit someone else’s speech Chronicle of Higher Ed
Maine man wins right to wear ‘horns of power’ in license photo Religion News Service
***LEGAL ISSUES
As radio industry prepares for fight with Global Music Rights, announces new deal with ASCAP Complete Music Update
Sex-Trafficking Victims Press Supreme Court To Hear Appeal Over Backpage Ads Media Post
Record Label Urges Supreme Court To Hear Appeal Over 'Golden Oldies' Media Post
***TECHNOLOGY
Who said what inside the Trump tech meeting Recode
***BIG DATA & STATS
The six best books for data geeks Financial Times
Why Google bought the AI firm DeepMind Economist
A Data Scientist Gives the 2016 Election Polls a postmortem Information Management
Twitter cuts off Geospatial data access for Police Intellegence Centers The Verge
Fake News and Data Mining: Mapping Today's media for intel analysis In Homeland Security
Spelling out the ABCs of Bayesian statistics in Layperson's Terms RW Connect
***FILM
From Caligari to Hitler: Imagining the Tyrant - Between the Lines Klye Klgalern
The Surreal Filmmaking of David Lynch Explained in 9 Video Essays Open Culture
***SOCIAL MEDIA
She staged a viral story. You fell for her hoax. She thinks that’s beautiful Washington Post
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Whatever happened to the audio slideshow? Online Journalism Blog
You can now broadcast live video from the Twitter app The Verge
A sense of ennui and overdetermination binds the audience of NPR podcasts together in a bloc of obnoxious explainerism (opinion) The New Inquiry
***MUSIC
'The Jingle King' Tracks Decline Of Original Music In Advertising NPR
***ART & DESIGN
Art in a Time of Atrocity (opinion) New York Times
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Traditional Media Braces For 6% Ad Drop Media Post
***JOURNALISM
Why The Media Use Anonymous Sources NPR
Predictions for Journalism 2017 Nieman Journalism Lab
Ethics in stunt journalism The Outline
***FAKE NEWS
The real history of fake news Columbia Journalism Review
We’ve had fake news, fake science — and now, ‘fake tech’ Recode
Fixing Fake News The ACLU
Solving the Problem of Fake News The New Yorker
Want to Fight Online BS? We’ve Got Your Crash Course Wired
How Can Students Be Taught to Detect Fake News and Dubious Claims? (sub. req.’ed) Chronicle of Higher Ed
In a world of fake news, real journalism must be paid for The Guardian
6 Tips for Identifying Fake News Quick & Dirty Tips
What Americans Really Think About Fake News Vocativ
***FAKE NEWS & FACEBOOK
Facebook to start putting warning labels on 'fake news' CNN
What Facebook hasn’t said about its plan to fight fake news The Washington Post
7 signs that will help you spot fake news before you share it on Facebook Mashable
Facebook will use third party fact checkers, then flag disputed news Talking New Media
Facebook drains the fake news swamp with new, experimental partnerships Columbia Journalism Review
Why Facebook's fake news measures won't stamp out imposter publishers Digiday
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
As Mr. Trump tries to burn the media village down, he may just be saving it (opinion) New York Times
Innovation gone bad: The best of the worst ideas in media experimentation Columbia Journalism Review
NY Times Public Editor takes paper to Task for Preaching the Gospel of Diversity, but Not Following it New York Times
Fake news is a convenient scapegoat, but the big 2016 problem was the real news Vox
***SCIENCE
Can the behavioral sciences self-correct? A social epistemic study Science Direct
***HEALTH
How America's diet has changed over time Pew Research Center
Reuters finds lead levels higher than Flint’s in thousands of locales Reuters
***PSYCHOLOGY
Does Online Therapy Really Work? Jstor
Inside the messy world of anonymous therapy app Talkspace The Verge
***PHILOSOPHY
Which Philosophy Can Best Explain 2016? Vice
How to Live Without Irony (opinion) New York Times
***BUSINESS
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Line Between Good and Evil Becoming (my blog)
***RELIGION
Why Do Many Christians Think Calvinists Are Arrogant Jerks? Christian Post
The Religious Literacy in Journalism with New York Times Religion Writer Laurie Goodstein (video) Harvard Divinity School
Key findings on how world religions differ by education Pew Research Center
‘Spiritual warfare,’ ‘demonic attacks.’ The role religion played in home for sex-trafficking victims Sacramento Bee
ECFA: evangelical organizations based in the US received $16 billion in 2015 Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability
Q&A: The Muslim-Christian education gap in sub-Saharan Africa Pew Research Center
***RELIGION & POLITICS
Richard Mouw: Despite Trumpism, I’m not quitting evangelicalism (opinion) Religious News Service
How to Talk to a Trump Evangelical at Christmas (opinion) Religious Dispatches
Why Hillary Clinton Bombed With White Evangelical Voters: As with Wisconsin, she didn’t show up Slate
***HIGHER ED
Most Colleges Will Change Overtime Policies Despite Judge’s Blocking of New Rules Chronicle of Higher Ed
Some small colleges are finding clever ways to stay open Economist
Beach Boys' 'California Girls' too offensive? One university says San Diego Union Tribune
Gun-friendly Liberty University to open on-campus shooting range Washington Post
***TEACHING
The Good News About Learning by the Numbers Chronicle of Higher Ed
Online Classes: The Essentials of Digital Accessibility THE (transforming education through technology) Journal
***RESEARCH
Federal grant proposals are public information, so why do scientists get cranky when you seek a copy? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Peering across the Copyright DMZ (book review) Scholarly Kitchen
***STUDENT LIFE
Students face high fees and continued risks when they use college-sponsored banking products Report from the federal Consumer Financial Protection Service
Why are so many students failing to find good jobs after college? Washington Post
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Amid Lurid Sexual Assault Allegations, Minnesota Football Team Drops Threatened Boycott Chronicle of Higher Ed
You!
/There is no one alive who is youer than You. - Dr. Seuss
The Line
/It was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. Even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained; and even in the best of all hearts, there remains a small corner of evil.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
We're Lost Our Mirrors
/Societies have rites of passage to help members deal with change. When these cues are missing and we have nothing in our lives to affirm that change is appropriate and timely, we’ve lost our mirrors. This is when a dependable support system can step up to make the difference. Just like the recovering alcoholic needs reminders about what a healthy identity looks like, we need a trusted circle of friends to remind us that the change in our lives is both positive and necessary. And we need that circle to encourage us to embrace the new identity and not the old one.
Stephen Goforth
thruth springs
/Truth springs from argument amongst friends. –David Hume
your day!
/Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way. -Dr. Seuss
keeping your soul
/To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul-would you understand why that is much harder? -Ayn Rand
articles of interest - Dec 12
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Instagram Launches Live Video Life Hacker
Facebook is working on a new feature that will showcase lists of curated content from publishers directly in the News Feed Business Insider
Users Aren't Enough: Why Yik Yak Is The Latest Casualty Of A Changing Market Fast Company
College students explain why Yik Yak dropped off on campus USA Today
Facebook Backs 360-Degree Live Streams Media Post
***BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Native ads are still very confusing to many readers Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Quartz Global Executives Study: The Media Habits of the World’s Busiest People Quartz
***INTERNET
New Wayback Machine – Beta Chronicle of Higher Ed
Pick out live radio streams from an image of a globe Boing Boing
***JOURNALISM
The year of augmented writing Harvard’s Nieman Lab
When Did the Media Become a “Watchdog?” Daily Jstor
***FAKE NEWS
Weather Channel to Breitbart: Stop using us to mislead public on climate change CBS News
Most Americans Who See Fake News Believe It, New Survey SaysBuzzFeed News
A BuzzFeed News Poll found that 75% of American adults who were familiar with a fake news headline viewed the story as accurate BuzzFeed News
Why The Fake News Debate Gets It Wrong Forbes
The Cynical Gambit to Make ‘Fake News’ Meaningless The Atlantic
Washington Post fake news story blurs the definition of fake news Columbia Journalism Review
6 Tips for Identifying Fake News Scientific American
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
The NYT to unveil enhanced, redesigned Arts section Friday, new digital features and services Talking New Media
Breaking News is shutting down Poynter
***SCIENCE
Editorial: “Is science in big trouble?” Elsevier
***HEALTH
U.S. Dementia Rates Are Dropping Even as Population Ages New York Times
***PSYCHOLOGY
When A Psychologist Succumbed To Stress, He Coined The Term 'Burnout' NPR
The Science of Why We Laugh Open Culture
***PHILOSOPHY
Ryan Holiday Sells Stoicism as a Life Hack, Without Apology New York Times
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Closing Doors that seem like opportunities Becoming (my blog)
Self-Control Is Just Empathy With Your Future Self The Atlantic
The Story of Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About the Way We Think (a new book by From Michael Lewis) New York Times
New Study: Pessimism May Be Bad for Your Heart UPI
***WRITING& READING
A letter to my writing students on why they have more freedom to create than they seem to think Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
‘Fascism’ could be the word of the year, Merriam-Webster says Boston Globe
***LITERATURE
Bibliomania, the Dark Desire For Books That Infected Europe in the 1800s Atlas Obsura
A Beginner’s Guide To Icelandic Literature The Reykjavik GrapeVine
***GENDER ISSUES
Author discusses new book about how arrival of women in American higher education changed colleges’ sense of moral mission Inside Higher Ed
New Research: Sexist men have psychological problems Washington Post
U.S. transgender people harassed in public restrooms: landmark survey Reuters
***FREE SPEECH
Restrictive Campus Speech Policies See Record Decline The Fire
Public University Threatens Student with Expulsion for Anti-Lynching Protest The FIRE
A review of newspaper theft and vandalism at colleges across the country SPLC
***LEGAL ISSUES
Ex-coach Art Briles sues Baylor officials for libel, conspiracy ESPN
What Legal Recourse Do Victims Of Fake News Stories Have? NPR
Yes, You Can Post That Negative Online Review, Says Congress NBC News
Songwriters Accuse Radio Stations of 'Illegal Cartel' NBC News
Shirley Caesar Sues DJ Suede Over Unauthorized #UNameItChallenge Song HipHopDX
***BIG DATA
Spelling out the ABCs of Bayesian statistics in layperson’s terms RW Connect
17 Microsoft Researchers: Past the past the Tay chatbot to what's ahead in AI Fortune
You’re not getting value from your Data Science -here’s why Harvard Business Review
***ART & DESIGN
How Pablo Picasso And Diego Rivera Influenced Each Other NPR
How Big Data is set to change the art market: Sophisticated data tools aim to improve knowledge and boost confidence The Art Newspaper
How To Understand a Picasso Painting: A Video Primer Open Culture
***RELIGION
Evangelicals propose truce over LGBTQ rights in hopes of ‘Fairness for All’ LGBTQ Nation
Fairness for All: Evangelicals Explore Truce on LGBT and Religious Rights: It worked in Utah, But national effort by the CCCU and NAE will be more complicated Christianity Today
Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council Bridges Religious Lines To Fight Discrimination NPR
The Book of Mormon touted as fourth most influential work in American literature Salt Lake Tribune
Evangelical preacher ruins Christmas by telling dozens of kids waiting to see Santa that he is not real The Daily Mirror
***MUSIC
Jazz Recordings With a Sense of History and Discovery New York Times
Patti Smith Sings Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rains Gonna Fall” at Nobel Prize Ceremony & Gets a Case of the Nerves Open Culture
The Genius of Paul McCartney’s Bass Playing in 7 Isolated Tracks Open Culture
When It Comes To CDs In 2016, Mozart Outsells Beyonce, Adele And Drake NPR
***STUDENT MEDIA
A College Newspaper Takes the Right Stand Bloomberg
Should You Enroll in Adulting School? NY Mag
Illinois accused of billing scheme at University radio station Chicago Tribune
***STUDENT LIFE
Immigrant students share what college means to them, and their fears as they wait for Donald J. Trump and his administration to take office Chronicle of Higher Ed
Recreational marijuana legal in your state? Not on campus USA Today
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Helping Professors Find Time to Think: The mission of faculty development has begun to broaden beyond the traditional focus on teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed
Montana State University professor fights firing Bozeman Daily
On-campus cybersecurity sometimes impedes academic freedom Business Insider
***HIGHER ED
Baylor and U. of Louisville Get Heat From Accreditor Chronicle of Higher Ed
NCAA Rules Ex-Official at Cal State-Northridge Committed Academic Misconduct Chronicle of Higher Ed
Building a Network to Help First-Generation Students Succeed Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why Universities Need Scholarly-Communications Experts (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Some colleges are refusing to call themselves 'sanctuary' campuses because states could cut their funding Business Insider
Mike Pence's Voucher Program in Indiana Was a Windfall for Religious Schools Mother Jones
***TEACHING
Why I Don’t Edit Their Rough Drafts Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Can Students Be Taught to Detect Fake News and Dubious Claims? (sub. req.’ed) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RESEARCH
Reproducibility Crisis Timeline: Milestones in Tackling Research Reliability PLOS
Dear plagiarist’: A scientist calls out his double-crosser Stat News
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
A Sex-Assault Case Pits Privacy Against Transparency Chronicle of Higher Ed
Former Students Say Stanford Tried To Buy Its Way Out Of Title IX Investigations BuzzFeed News
Stanford releases a "questions and answers" article to refute various reports about the institution's handling of sexual-assault cases Stanford Press Release
A Sexual Assault Survivor Chronicle of Higher Ed
to do right
/To do right because of reputation, to do right because it is the correct thing, to do right to escape criticism, all such motives will fail sooner or later. To do right because I love is the one and only lasting motive. "Love never fails." G. Campbell Morgan