spiritual joy
/No one can live without delight and that is why a man deprived of spiritual joy goes over to carnal pleasures-Thomas Aquinas
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
never
/Never miss a good chance to shut up
Articles of Interest - April 17
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook plans a free version of its Slack competitor CNBC
Why You Should Always Let Somebody Else Pick Your Profile Picture Co. Design
Facebook is stepping up efforts to automatically identify fake accounts and Likes The Verge
Supermute Twitter Chronicle of Higher Ed
Mastodon.social is an open-source Twitter competitor that’s growing like crazy The Verge
Instagram is going after Pinterest after successfully copying Snapchat Daily Dot
Facebook faces increased publisher resistance to Instant Articles Digiday
Who Has the Best (and Worst) LinkedIn Profile Photos? Priceonomics
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Video is engaging, but video with sound is captivating Medium
WordPress: The smart person's guide Tech Republic
***INTERNET
Selling Your Internet Browsing History NPR
***TECHNOLOGY
How Google Book Search Got Lost Backchannel
The relentless push to add connectivity to home gadgets is creating dangerous side effects that figure to get even worse MIT Tech Review
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Bots aren’t just service tools—they’re a whole new form of media Quartz
SEC targets fake stock news on financial websites Reuters
Boston Globe’s plan for digital reinvention: Be ready for constant change Poynter
Do today’s newspapers have the ad expertise to compete, build new ad revenue? Talking New Media
***JOURNALISM
A day in the life of a journalist in 2027: Reporting meets AI Columbia Journalism Review
Introducing the Facebook for Journalists Certificate Facebook
Journalism faces a crisis worldwide – we might be entering a new dark age The Guardian
‘Blasphemy’: Journalism student killed in Pakistan for Facebook posts Al Arabiya
Reporter firing shows real threat to public-media independence Columbia Journalism Review
Are Facebook And Google Finally Making Journalism All Better? Yeah, Right. Tube Filter
***FAKE NEWS
Evaluating sources in a post truth world ideas for teaching and learning about fake news New York Times
Colleges turn ‘fake news’ epidemic into a teachable moment Washington Post
Watch this university lecture on calling bullshit Recode
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
NGA’s West Coast base looks to set down roots in Valley w/tech industry as it reaches new heights w/satellite data Federal News Radio
A Wall Street test Big Data’s value: Hadoop packager Cloudera preps to go public Tech Crunch
Neural networks were 1st proposed in 1944: Deep learning’s curious past.. and future MIT
Nearly 2/3’s of all big data projects fail according to research from Gartner. Here are 5 ways to improve the odds Tech Republic
Briefly: The fundamental difference and overlap between Machine Learning, Data Science, AI, Deep Learning, and Statistics Data Science Central
A summary of traditional machine learning methods summarized in one picture Data Science Central
Creating fake data sets out of real ones so that data analysis doesn’t compromise sensitive personal information Tech Republic
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The illusion of understanding can be demonstrated with a simple experiment Becoming (my site)
***GRAMMAR
The range of works in play when we tell someone to look up a word to see what it means Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
***LITERATURE
The fallen woman: prostitution in literature The Guardian
***GENDER
New study suggests female professors outperform men in terms of service -- to their possible professional detriment Inside Higher Ed
Google is accused of underpaying women: The allegation inflames a debate about sexism in Silicon Valley The Economist
Female economists ‘write better but spend longer in peer review’ Times Higher Ed
How Geena Davis became a champion for women on screen The Guardian
***LEGAL ISSUES
Rolling Stone settles with former U-Va. dean in defamation case Washington Post
Melania Trump settles libel lawsuits against London tabloid LA Times
Mercer County judge finds in favor of The Trentonian and freedom of the press The Tentonian
Courts Are Using AI to Sentence Criminals Wired
Could Moderating Your Website Invalidate Your “Safe Harbor”? NSU
Court ruling strengthens journalists' claim of access to emails and other school, college records Student Press Law Center
***RELIGION
‘The Souls Of China' Documents Country's Dramatic Return To Religion NPR
Religious 'nones' projected to decline as share of world population Pew Research Center
Alabama Set To Allow Church To Create Its Own Police Force NPR
How fights over Trump have led evangelicals to leave their churches Washington Post
Supreme Court Scheduled to Hear Important Freedom of Religion Dispute NBC News
Religious restrictions vary in world’s most populous countries Pew Research Center
There may be a lot more atheists than you think Vox
Supreme Court , including Gorsuch, to hear church-state case Washington Post
'The Evangelicals, by Frances FitzGerald (book review) SF Gate
Delaware Republican Lawmaker Walks out on Muslim Prayer NBC 10 Philadelphia
God complex: how religion became the bedrock of modern rap The Guardian
5 facts on how Americans view the Bible and other religious texts Pew Research
***MUSIC
College Apologizes for Trashing Music Majors Inside Higher Ed
American Airlines thought a cello was a safety risk The Week magazine
***FILM
16-Week Crash Course on the History of Movies: From the First Moving Pictures to the Rise of Multiplexes & Netflix Open Culture
***SCIENCE
With new editor Joe Brown, Popular Science is using a “Trojan horse” strategy to take on science skeptics Harvard’s Neiman Lab
***HEALTH
Statistical Thinking: Statistical Errors in the Medical Literature Statistical Thinking
On People Who Take A Small Dose Of Hallucinogens With Their Morning Coffee BBC
How Behavioral Economics Can Produce Better Health Care New York Times
Apple has a secret team working on the holy grail for treating diabetes CNBC
***NEUROSCIENCE
Gut microbes and the brain: Penicillin changes the behaviour of young mice The Economist
Brain scans may reveal mental secret of "Super Agers" CBS News
Neuroscience can now curate music based on your brainwaves, not your music taste Quartz
***PHILOSOPHY
How (And When) To Think Like A Philosopher NPR
Pascal's Wager Explained (video) Susanna Rinard of Harvard University
***PRODUCTIVITY
New to Office 365 in March—co-authoring in Excel and more Office Blogs
***RESEARCH
What Constitutes Peer Review of Data? A Survey of Peer Review Guidelines The Scholarly Kitchen
***HIGHER ED
New York's private colleges and universities don't know what to expect under the state's free tuition program for students attending public colleges Inside Higher Ed
What to Know About New York’s Plan to Offer Free College TIME
Students at Private School Petition to get more Access to Board of Trustees Inside Higher Ed
Taking Stock of FERPA Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
English department tackles history, literature and race through the lens of “Hamilton” The Puget Sound Trail
The Distracted Classroom: Is It Getting Worse? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Professor she gave a failing grade to a troublesome student; he told the media he was unfairly singled out for his Christianity: Next Came a Social-Media Storm Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Faculty Members Criticize Prosecution of Student Whistle-Blower who shared an internal working document with the campus newspaper The Cornell Daily Sun
***STUDENT LIFE
No foul language allowed at Temple University construction site Fox29
What happened to all those unemployable women’s studies majors? Washington Post
Why BuzzFeed says it’s okay to use the word ‘millennial’ Columbia Journalism Review
How college students are fighting human and sex trafficking | News for College Students USA Today
Millennial Hoarders The New Yorkers
***CRIME ON CAMPUS
Virginia Tech Teachers Remember Students' Response To Shooting Tragedy NPR
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Faculty salaries are up slightly year over year, but institutional budgets continue to be balanced “on the backs” of adjuncts and out-of-state students Inside Higher Ed
MSU professor sues Wal-Mart over fishing license that says he cleans toilets Bozeman Daily Chronicle
University of Central Florida reprimands a long-serving professor of art for allegedly demeaning a student Inside Higher Ed
a silly idea
/No man knows how bad he is until he has tried to be good. There is a silly idea about that good people don't know what temptation means. - C.S. Lewis
People think they know something.. because others know it
/People are individually rather limited thinkers and store little information in their own heads. Much knowledge is instead spread through the community—whose members do not often realise that this is the case.
(Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach) call this the illusion of understanding, and they demonstrate it with a simple experiment. Subjects are asked to rate their understanding of something, then to write a detailed account of it, and finally to rate their understanding again. The self-assessments almost invariably drop. The authors see this effect everywhere, from toilets and bicycles to complex policy issues. The illusion exists, they argue, because humans evolved as part of a hive mind, and are so intuitively adept at co-operation that the lines between minds become blurred. Economists and psychologists talk about the “curse of knowledge”: people who know something have a hard time imagining someone else who does not. The illusion of knowledge works the other way round: people think they know something because others know it.
From a review in the Economist of “The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone” by Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach
This is Love
/"This is love: Not that we loved God. It is that he loved us and sent his Son to give his life to pay for our sins." 1 John 4:10
“In this is love..” or another translation could be “In this way is seen the true love."
God didn’t look down and say, “Boy, I see you love me. I think I’ll love you.” Or “You’re a nice guy, I really like that.”
Instead:
You were rebellious, arrogant, self-centered. God said, “I love you.”
You ignored him, fought him, were bored with him. God said, “I love you.”
You spit in his face, yelled at him, shook your fist. God said, “I love you.”
That’s what John means here.
We see what real love is by looking at what God did. He loved us with a desire to restore us, to make us whole.
Stephen Goforth
rushed steps
/No man walks with dignity who’s steps are rushed.
a sense of failure
/Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action. - Oswald Chambers
dead fish
/Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream -Malcolm Muggeridge
articles of interest - April 10
/***TECHNOLOGY
New technology will automatically send you video if you show up in a crowd shot on an MLB broadcast USA Today
Why everything is hackable Computer security is broken from top to bottom Economist
The Changing Use of American Leisure Time 1843 Magazine
***ART & DESIGN
Why Authoritarians Attack the Arts New York Tunes
This Extraordinary New Museum Doesn't Actually Have Any Art Harpers Bazaar
***MUSIC
Classical music, made easy: How to distinguish Bach from Beethoven Economist
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Record labels could yank their music off U.S. radio under new bill USA Today
Spotify is testing lossless audio. Can you hear the difference? The Verge
***JOURNALISM
Here are the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes Poynter
Internet ‘Predator’ Scam Targets Local Journalists San Diego Free Press
Teaching Journalism in the Trump Era: Ben Yagoda Chronicle of Higher Ed
What I Learned About Justice Reporting From Inside Prison: A former prison journalist on what’s missing from criminal justice coverage (opinion) The Marshall Project
ProPublica shows Journalists how to tweet Columbia Journalism Review
10 Investigative Reporting Outlets to Follow Bill Moyers & Co.
Tiny, family-run newspaper wins Pulitzer Prize for taking on big business Poynter
***FAKE NEWS
Facebook Pushes News Literacy to Combat a Crisis of Trust Wired
Google rolls out new 'Fact Check' tool worldwide to combat fake news Christian Science Monitor
What does fake news tell us about life in the digital age? Not what you might expect Harvard Nieman Lab
How do you stop fake news? In Germany, with a law Washington Post
For Facebook and Google, the Best Way to Fight Fake News Is You MIT Tech Review
How Misinformation Spreads On The Internet And How To Stop It NPR
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Creating fake data sets out of real ones so that data analysis doesn’t compromise sensitive personal information Tech Republic
A series of videos for a course called Neural Networks for Machine Learning Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto) on Coursera
Hadoop 3.0 is round the corner-these are the enhancements over the previous major release ZdNet
4 answers to the question: What is the largest inefficiencies in a data scientist’s workflow? Quora
How to avoid common mistakes when thinking about statistics, probability and risk The Conversation
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Introducing Twitter Lite Twitter
***GENDER
Women authors are underrepresented in top political science journals, and are not benefitting from the growth in co-authorship PS: Political Science & Politics
Why Men Don’t Live as Long as Women Nautil.us
NAU professor gets hate calls after docking a point on student's essay for using 'mankind' 12news
The controversial biology of sexual selection: A new book takes aim at evolutionary determinism Economist
***RACIAL ISSUES
New study suggests that the impostor phenomenon can affect various groups of minority students in different ways Inside Higher Ed
Minority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance Premiums Than White Areas With the Same Risk ProPublica
The Data says: Police are more likely to shoot If you’re black Tampa Bay Times
White Supremacists Trying To Recruit On College Campuses NPR
***PERSONAL GROWTH
What does she see in him?! Becoming (my site)
***GRAMMAR
Who do you think you’re apostrophising? The dark side of grammar pedantry The Conversation
English has a traditional solution to gender-neutral pronouns Economist
***WRITING& READING
Automatic Paraphrasing: A Problem for Academia? Plagiarism Today
***LITERATURE
'Hemingway Didn't Say That' (And Neither Did Twain Or Kafka) NPR
How Henry David Thoreau Revolutionized the Pencil Open Culture
Edgar Allan Poe Published a “CliffsNotes” Version of a Science Textbook & It Became His Only Bestseller (1839) Open Culture
***FREE SPEECH
Twitter Sues Homeland Security over Free Speech Issue Wired
The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online Pew Research
***LEGAL ISSUES
In the wake of federal criticism of its accreditation standards, the American Bar Association sanctions another for-profit law school Inside Higher Ed
When Copyright Criticism Is Something Else The Illusion of More
***RELIGION
Texas Baptist children’s home accused of sexual abuse and neglect Star-Telegra
The Changing Global Religious Landscape: Babies born to Muslims will begin to outnumber Christian births by 2035 Pew Research
Christian Music in Trump's America: Two Artists on the Pressure to Keep Quiet Billboard
How religious movies are thriving more than ever before under Trump Business Insider
A resurgence of religious faith is changing China Economist
***STUDENT LIFE
Harvard Students Launch a Free Course on How to Resist Trump Open Culture
QuickTake: Millennials Bloomberg
20 Percent of Millennials Identify as LGBTQ NBC News
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
The High (Dollar) Cost of Sexual Assault: Average of $350K Inside Higher Ed
Laura Kipnis Tackles Campus Sexual Politics In 'Unwanted Advances' NPR
***SCIENCE
***HEALTH
How hospitals could be rebuilt, better than before Technology could revolutionise the way they work Economist
Before you send your spit to 23andMe, what you need to know Stat News
Paralyzed Man Uses Thoughts To Control His Own Arm And Hand NPR
***PSYCHOLOGY
We behave differently on different social media. Derek Thompson wonders whether we act up online or reveal our true nature 1843 Magazine
Treating depression is guesswork. Psychiatrists are beginning to crack the code Vox
***NEUROSCIENCE
Use it or Lose it: Parts of the brain that are used to navigate and plan routes aren’t active when directions are fed to us MIT Tech Review
***CRITICAL THINKING
An Introduction to Game Theory & Strategic Thinking: A Free Online Course from Yale University Open Culture
***ETHICS
When is it OK to shoot a child soldier? Economist
***RESEARCH
Unreadable Science Abstracts Inside Higher Ed
How a Browser Extension Could Shake Up Academic Publishing Chronicle of Higher Ed
Bad Science and Good: Telling the Difference (video) The Arthur Carter Institute of Journalism at New York University
***HIGHER ED
Keeping Up With the Growing Threat to Data Security at Universities (sub. req'd.) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Revising How We Teach Revision Skills Chronicle of Higher Ed
before I die
/My life would be complete if, before I die, I…
the act of creation
/Make things and you will discover yourself. The act of creation reveals who you are.
What I would say to my 22-year-old self
/I worked hard. I was focused, determined, and disciplined. But I did not necessarily allow myself the space and time for creativity and self-expression. I would encourage my 22-year-old self to take a moment to nurture my friendships--in person. Call them, make a plan, do something together--share experience. Laugh out loud every day. -Naomi Simson
common-looking people
/The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he made so many of them.
shadows
/Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. -Walt Disney
Articles of Interest - April 3
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Raising The Snapchat And Instagram Generation Fast Company
Snapchat is becoming a search engine more like Facebook Quartz
Twitter tweaks replies, giving users more characters PR Daily
Inside Snapchat’s Identity Crisis Vanity Fair
Twitter is ditching the egg avatar USA Today
***TECHNOLOGY
Elon Musk’s Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.I. Apocalypse Vanity Fair
Deep neural networks can now transfer the style of one photo onto another The Verge
Cyborgs at work: employees getting implanted with microchips Associated Press
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
How to avoid common mistakes when thinking about statistics, probability and risk The Conversation
What the Dark Web is.. and what it isn’t Smart Data Collective
NPR: “Left unchecked” machine learning “could create all sorts of unintended bias” NPR
Employers are struggling to hire workers who understand Data Science according to new report Inside Higher Ed
Hackathon this weekend to “use #DataScience skills to make a positive impact in the world” GeekWire
A day in the life of a AI company data scientist: “A lot of my time is spent thinking about stuff” econsultancy
***ART & DESIGN
How To Use White Space In Web Design Medium
Google’s New Font Honors Ancient Type Traditions Wired
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
A reporter in a rural district of India uses WhatsApp to broadcast local news — and makes money doing it Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***JOURNALISM
I taught my 5th-graders how to spot fake news. Now they won’t stop fact-checking me Vox
Fox News and Al Jazeera were the top Facebook publishers in February Fast Company
How Facebook and other platform companies promote bad journalism — and what to do about it Poynter
Mexican newspaper shuts down because of violence against journalists The Week
***FAKE NEWS
The Independent launches 5-person team dedicated to debunking fake news Digiday
How Russian Twitter Bots Pumped Out Fake News During The 2016 Election NPR
This Is Not Fake News (but Don’t Go by the Headline) New York Times
***PERSONAL GROWTH
What Growth Requires Becoming (my site)
***GRAMMAR
Don’t work overtime: The final word on the Oxford comma Columbia Journalism Review
***LANGUAGE
Merriam Webster editor on her new book — and why dictionaries matter Entertainment Weekly
AAUP report says adjunct professor was likely fired insisting rigor courses Inside Higher Ed
Trump’s Speeches Are Helping People Learn English. Really Wired
***LITERATURE
Aiming big Data at Literature NPR
The Empathy Effect: Two researchers' say the impact of reading literary fiction is missing from American political life Chronicle of Higher Ed
Flannery O’Connor’s Moments of Grace Daily Jstor
***GENDER
Equal Pay for Men and Women? Iceland Wants Employers to Prove It New York Times
He Keeps Calling Us ‘Females’ Chronicle of Higher Ed
Vice President Pence’s “never dine alone with a woman” rule isn’t honorable. It’s probably illegal Vox
Newsrooms should follow two simple rules for reporting on women’s bodies Columbia Journalism Review
The narrowing, but persistent, gender gap in pay Pew Research Center
***DIVERSITY
Wall Street Journal staffers signed a letter criticizing the control white men have over the newsroom Business Insider
Faculty ‘Diversity Statements’ Are Being Called Threats to Academic Freedom Chronicle of Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
Judge to Trump: No protection for speech inciting violence The Washington Post
A student says school officials stopped him from handing out copies of the Constitution. Now he’s suing Washington Post
***LEGAL ISSUES
Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Disability Standards In Death Row Cases NPR
Appeals court sides with U of New Mexico in case of student who said she was booted from a class for critiquing lesbianism (judges say professors have right to make decisions about what kind of speech is appropriate for academic setting) Inside Higher Ed
***RELIGION
Which Hipster Megachurch Is Right for You? New York Magazine
Beyond The Mike Pence Misogyny Debate, The 3 'Billy Graham Rules' You Haven't Read NPR
Still no sign of leader for White House faith partnership office Religion News Service
***HEALTH
***PSYCHOLOGY
Survey of campus counseling centers finds increased demand for services, as well as additional positions and more diversity in hiring Inside Higher Ed
A brief overview of neuroscience from a statistician working in the field LinkedIn
WHO: Depression Is Now Leading Cause of Ill Health Worldwide Science of Us
Why Millennials Are Struggling With Mental Health At Work Forbes
The Backfire Effect Daily Jstor
***PHILOSOPHY
Søren Kierkegaard: A Free Online Course Open Culture
***RESEARCH
It's not just you: science papers are getting harder to read Nature News
Academics shouldn't focus only on prestigious journals (essay) Inside Higher Ed
As a Reviewer, Each Review is Yours, and Sometimes It Should Be Everyone’s Science Editor
The Economist explains: The problem with scientific publishing The Economist
***HIGHER ED
Here’s a Map of ‘Free College’ Programs Nationwide Chronicle of Higher Ed
Rollins College Controversy Described as 'Fake News Snopes
At U-Va., a ‘watch list’ flags VIP applicants for special handling Washington Post
How to Reduce the Cost of College Textbooks The Scholarly Kitchen
Christian professors circulate letter pledging support marginalized and vulnerable Inside Higher Ed
How taxpayers pay for religious education Indianapolis Star
***TEACHING
A learning strategy has shown clear results (excerpt from “Learn Better”) Wired
***ONLINE CLASSES
680 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in April Open Culture
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Eyewitness to a Title IX Witch Trial Chronicle of Higher Ed
Frustrated Texas senators call for transparency from Baylor after rape scandal Texas Tribune
Victim in Vanderbilt Rape Case Is Shocked That a Suspect Is Speaking on Campuses Chronicle of Higher Ed
Study: Young people still don't completely understand what constitutes sexual assault USA Today
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Report says adjunct professor was likely fired insisting rigor courses Inside Higher Ed
University Seeks to Revoke Tenure of 5 Professors Detroit News
Developing policies to Support academic freedom in the digital era Chronicle of Higher Ed
She called Trump’s election an ‘act of terrorism.’ Now she’s faculty member of the year Washington Post
***STUDENT LIFE
Christian Student in Florida Is Suspended After Dispute With Muslim Professor Orlando Sentinel
College kids are taking the 'dating' out of 'dating apps' Mashable
White millennials are the most apathetic about the American Dream, a new study shows Quartz
Chick-fil-A is cooler than Vice among teens, according to a new Google report titled ‘It’s Lit’ Recode
U.S. District Court affirms First Amendment right to complain in rejecting motion to dismiss former student's complaint Student Press Law Center
What Growth Requires
/Growth requires hard work. The world is a complex place. We all become creatures of habit in the ways we think and act. To learn is to strip away those deeply ingrained habits of the mind. To do so requires that we push ourselves, that we keep building and rebuilding, questioning, struggling, and seeking.
Ken Bain, What the Best College Students Do
the sum of life
/Life is painting a picture, not creating a sum. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
life is about change
/Life is about change, whether good or bad, and being able to adjust accordingly. - Okechukwu Keke
people who make us happy
/Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust