the path to wisdom

The story is told of a wise man who was asked by a student the best way to gain knowledge. He lead the student to a river, where he plunged the young man’s head beneath the surface. He struggled to free himself, but the wise man kept his head submerged. Finally, after much effort, the youth was able to break free and emerge from the water. The wise man asked, “When you thought you were drowning, what one thing did you want most of all?” Still gasping for breath, the man explained, “I wanted air!” The philosopher commented, “When you want knowledge as much as you wanted air, then you will get it!”

Stephen Goforth

articles of interest - August 14

***SOCIAL MEDIA

What do your Instagram photos say about your mental health?  The Verge

Instagram is ruining food (opinion)  Boston Globe

SoundCloud Gets New Investment Round, Lives to Stream Another Day  MotherBoard

South Carolina man dies after running into burning home  Daily Mail

Facebook is rolling out a Trending News section on mobile, now with its own link  TechCrunch

***TECHNOLOGY

An Emoji-trained Algorithm Knows When You’re Being Sarcastic on Twitter  MIT Technology Review

The Guy Who Invented Those Annoying Password Rules Now Regrets Wasting Your Time  Gizmodo

China uses a quantum satellite to transmit potentially unhackable data  CNBC

How Your Apple Wireless Earbuds Could Double as Hearing Aids  MIT  Technology Review

***BIG DATA & STATISTICS

“Neural networks are turning out to be great code crackers”  MIT Tech Review

The religious war between frequentists and Bayesians and its statistical influence on AI  The Register

Struggling with making sense out of the massively growing digital universe despite increasing spend on big data tech  CIO

China uses a quantum satellite to transmit potentially unhackable data  CNBC

Could predictive analytics allow us to anticipate network problems: failures, degradation, performance issues?  NoJitter

Stanford professor Andrew Ng spreads the gospel of AI with a new online school  Wired

An emoji-trained algorithm knows when you’re being sarcastic on Twitter  MIT Tech Review

***PRODUCING MEDIA

TuneIn Raises $50 Million to Prove Online Audio Can Make Money  Bloomberg

***INTERNET

Of those harassed online, nearly half know the harasser  Pew Research Center

***JOURNALISM

We’re in the early stages of a visual revolution in journalism  Recode

Remix: Best Practices for Aggregation on Deadline  PBS Media Shift

How journalists should handle racist words, images and violence in Charlottesville  Poynter

Providence Journal identified its own anonymous source, Will police officer sue?  iMediaEthics

What Data-Mining TV's Political Coverage Tells Us  RealClearPolitics

Apologies & Retractions: Nazi salute, name calling ‘butch queen,’ round-up of journalist Twitter fails  iMediaEthics

Blurring Line of Opinion and Reporting, Scourge of Writers as Brands  PBS Media Shift

Top journalists reveal the best reporting advice they have received  Columbia Journalism Review

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism  The Atlantic

***FAKE NEWS     

Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News  MIT Technology Review

No, these pictures are not from the recent racist rally in Charlottesville  Mashable

How to spot a fake viral video  The Verge

Not Real News: A look at what didn’t happen this week  Associated Press

Who Said What tool brings artificial intelligence to fact-checking audio and video  Journalism.co

***PERSONAL GROWTH

How America Lost Its Mind in a custom-make reality (opinion)  The Atlantic

You Aren't Lazy––You're Terrified: On Paralysis And Perfectionism  Ravishly

Why Entrepreneurs Can’t Hold Regular JobsFortune Insiders  Fortune

***WRITING & READING

Hillary Clinton's pastor plagiarized portion of new book  CNN

The true importance of good spelling  BBC

***LANGUAGE

Robots Gossiping in a Secret Language?  Chronicle of Higher Ed
 

***LITERATURE

1922: The Year That Transformed English Literature  New York Times

Henry David Thoreau, a new biography: This compelling study reveals an enigmatic American writer worthy of reappraisal  Economist

The books that inspire people to get PhDs  Quartz

How Charlotte Brontë came to write “Jane Eyre”  Economist

Book Review: Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories From Book History  Scholarly Kitchen

***GENDER

Would transgender troops harm military effectiveness? Here’s what the research says  Washington Post

Study suggests big difference between how college men describe affirmative consent and how they apply it to their own sexual experiences  Inside Higher Ed

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

How did FaceApp think people would react to their new change-your-race filters?  Washington Post 

College Diversity Officers Face a Demanding Job and Scarce Resources  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Extremist white movement is turning up on college campuses through speakers and leaflets  Inside Higher Ed

What happened when eight states outlawed race-conscious admissions at colleges  Economist

Killings of Blacks by Whites Are Far More Likely to Be Ruled ‘Justifiable’  New York Times

When White Supremacists Descend, What Can a College President Do?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The ‘war on whites’ is a myth — and an ugly one  Washington Post

Intermarriage and U.S. Hispanics: New research  Journalists Resource

***FREE SPEECH

Google Memo Raises Questions About Limits Of Free Speech In The Workplace  NPR

TechDirt, sued by the lawyer who fought Gawker, gets $250,000 to cover freedom of speech issues  Harvard Nieman Lab

Techdirt: Now With More Free Speech Reporting  Techdirt

First Amendment ruling focuses the lens on photojournalists' rights -- again  Student Press Law Center

***LEGAL ISSUES

'Reading Rainbow' Owner Accuses LeVar Burton of "Theft and Extortion" in Lawsuit Hollywood Reporter  Hollywood Reporter

Was Scaramucci’s profanity-laced call recording Illegal?  Associated Press

Fox News Host Eric Bolling Sues Journalist for $50M Over Lewd Photo Allegation  Hollywood Reporter

Country Rap Artist Can't Force Facebook To Remove Page Created By Users  Media Post

Disney Settles Defamation Case With Beef Products Inc.  NPR

LinkedIn Connection Request Doesn’t Violate Non-Solicitation Clause  Technology & Marketing Law Blog

***RELIGION

Christian author Jen Hatmaker on the ‘moxie’ it takes to get your books banned  Religion News Service

The Woes of the Southern Baptist Convention  New York Times

New Books Explore How to be Single and Christian  Publishers Weekly

How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics (opinion)  USC Annenberg Religion Dispatches

What is wrong with white Christians? (opinion)  Religious News Service

Muslims and Islam: Key findings in the U.S. and around the world  Pew Research Center

Canadian pastor faced ‘overwhelming loneliness’ in N Korea labor camp  AFP

Museum of the Bible to offer free admission when it opens in November  Washington Post

Christian Entertainment Company Pure Flix & Paramount release Faith-themed film staring Renee Zellweger  Christian Post  

Charlottesville and Your Church's Response (opinion)  Christianity Today

Tweeting In Church: German Protestants Are Encouraged To Tweet During Services : All Tech Considered  NPR

Like most Americans, U.S. Muslims concerned about extremism in the name of Islam  Pew Research

**MUSIC

A a a a a Very Good Song:  A clever way to avoid hearing the same song every time you plug your phone into the car stereo  Engadget

When Mistakes/Studio Glitches Give Famous Songs Their Personality  Open Culture

Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice?  The Guardian

Music classes for kids should include pop music and electronic composition lessons  Quartz

Metallica Board Of Directors Debates Whether New Riff Will Have Negative Impact On Shareholder Value  The Onion

***FILM

Social Impact Marketer Picture Motion: The Secret Weapon Behind Some Of The Best Known Films  Deadline

Director Destin Daniel Cretton Has Always Lived in The Glass Castle  Vanity Fair

“I’ll Push You” book explores the power of friendship  Northwest Nazarene University

Woody Harrelson On 'Glass Castle' Dad Whose Rages And Redemptions Loomed Large  NPR

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

Who’s Afraid of Sinclair Broadcasting?  Politico

***TEACHING JOURNALISM

$147,000 for a One-Year Master's? In Journalism? Cost of Columbia’s new graduate degree in data journalism slammed by journalists  Inside Higher Ed

Practicing What We Preach: Teaching engagement in j-schools means listening to our students  Medium

Professor says his students-grade-themselves Syllabus was a way to start a conversation  Inside Higher Ed

***SOCIOLOGY

Sociologists call for a systematic response to online targeting of and threats against public scholars  Inside Higher Ed

***HEALTH

The drug crisis that nobody's talking about: One in eight American adults is an alcoholic, study says  Washington Post

Alcoholism among women rises in new study  Daily Mail

Hospice, Designed For The Dying, Is Discharging Many Live Patients   NPR

Monsanto Was Its Own Ghostwriter for Some Safety Reviews  Bloomberg

What does European Health Care Really Look Like?  Economist

Why we fell for clean eating  The Guardian

***SCIENCE

The Ongoing Battle Between Science Teachers And Fake News  NPR

Spreadsheet Risks in Science  Neuroskeptic

***NEUROSCIENCE

Video Games May Affect The Brain Differently, Depending On What You Play  NPR

This Type of Video Game May Actually Harm Your Brain  Fortune

***RESEARCH

Publishing an Unsuccessful Self-replication: Double-dipping or Correcting the Record?  Rolf Zwaan

An Appraisal of the Carlisle-Stouffer-Fisher Method for Assessing Study Data Integrity and Fraud  OvidInsights

Publishing in fraudulent journals is criminal  Times of Higher Ed

***HIGHER ED

As White Supremacists Wreak Havoc, a University Becomes a Crisis Center  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The profit motive is creeping into higher education  Inside Higher Ed

Public Records Appear to Have Been Altered by Former General Counsel, U. of Florida Audit Finds  Chronicle of Higher Ed

University responds to NAACP advisory against travel to Missouri  Columbia Missourian

Are Small Colleges Doomed? Not So Fast  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***HUMANITIES /STEM

Your 'useless' liberal arts degree can give you an edge in tech  USA Today

Students At Most Colleges Don’t Pick ‘Useless’ Majors  FivethirtyEight

***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS

Southern Baptist College announces new classical education minor (press release)  Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Christian College president says 'snowflake' student problem persists in new Book  Today

Colorado Christian University VP pens USA Today editorial against marijuana  USA Today

University Shifts Campus From San Diego to Indy  Inside Indiana Business

Baylor ordered to turn over documents in sex assault lawsuit   Associated Press

Azusa Pacific University sued by Supervisor over alleged cover-up of anti-gay violence  News Release

Disgraced Baylor Coach's Finds New Job at Christian School  Houston Press

'If you mess up, you 'fess up': White urged Baylor openness  Houston Chronicle

***TEACHING

Syllabus Offering Self-Grading Pulled at Georgia  Inside Higher Ed

When Will We Talk About the Syllabus?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Public records appear to have been altered at University of Florida  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Why can’t college graduates write coherent prose?  Washington Post

The Benefits of No-Tech Note Taking: A year after banning students from taking notes on laptops, a professor reports on the results  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***STUDENT LIFE

What I Wish I Had Known Freshman Year of College  Teen Vogue

People who Complain about Millennials are Really just complaining about being old  Quartz

Report: Where students feel most and least ― safe on campus  USA Today

Yes, Smartphones Are Destroying a Generation, But Not of Kids  Jstor

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

Male student one semester from graduating sues UT-Austin over possible expulsion for alleged sexual assault  Daily Mail

Pulling Back on Title IX Enforcement  Inside Higher Ed

Institutions appear to be cracking down on big-name professors in sexual harassment cases  Inside Higher Ed

U.S. Asks Court to Put Hold on Lawsuit as It Reviews 2011 Title IX Guidance  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Lawsuits From Students Accused of Sex Assault Cost Many Colleges More Than $200,000  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Taylor Swift's sexual assault testimony takes aim at one of the most persistent sexist myths today  Quartz

How Schools Handle Title IX Cases for K-12 Students  The Atlantic

***STUDENT MEDIA

Journalism groups rally behind UCSD student media against retaliatory withdrawal of financial support  Student Press Law Center

Snapchat Throws Lifeline To College Papers  Media Post

 

Looking back on failure

When you look back on your choices from a year ago, you should always hope to find a few decisions that seem stupid now because that means you are growing. If you only live in the safety zone where you know you can’t mess up, then you’ll never unleash your true potential. If you know enough about something to make the optimal decision on the first try, then you’re not challenging yourself.

James Clear

articles of interest - August 7

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook is starting to put more posts from local politicians into people’s News Feed  Recode

Twitter is testing a $99 per month subscription that could get you more followers  Business Insider

***PRODUCING MEDIA

Adobe Premiere Clip 101: Editing your videos on your Smartphone   Gadget Hacks

RED Hydrogen One $1,200 smartphone revealed in MKBHD video  Business Insider

How to Get the Perfect Eclipse Shot Using Your Smartphone  Wired

10 Things We Learned Producing a Podcast at a University  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***INTERNET

Use the Wayback Machine to Save Your Favorite Sites Forever  LifeHacker

***TECHNOLOGY

How to make soldiers’ brains better at noticing threats  Economist

How Two Brothers Turned Seven Lines of Code Into a $9.2 Billion Startup  Bloomberg

Inside Andy Rubin's Quest to Create an OS for Everything  Wired

Google Earth Is Trying To Help Stop Slavery In India  Vocativ

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

Pew’s Digital News Fact Sheet tracks the growth of mobile ads and Facebook’s growing share  Talking New Media

***JOURNALISM

China's Few Investigative Journalists Face Increasing Challenges  NPR

How BuzzFeed News revealed hidden spy planes in US airspace with a machine-learning algorithm  Columbia Journalism Review

These are the most — and the least — trusted news sources in the U.S.  MarketWatch

Local TV station records lawsuit underscores North Carolina’s text message troubles  Columbia Journalism Review

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Snopes is owed money, but question remains over how much  Union Tribune

Snopes won the first round in the battle for its site. Round two begins today  Poynter

How the blockchain could save journalism’s business model  Technical.ly

***FAKE NEWS

Why Americans Get Conned Again and Again: Their admiration for ingenuity and gumption leaves room for opportunists  The Atlantic

FBI tracked 'fake news' believed to be from Russia on Election Day  CNN

***PERSONAL GROWTH

The decision that most affects your happiness  Becoming (my blog)

Kids need structure more than warmth from their parents  Quartz

How Information Overload Robs Us of Our Creativity: What the Scientific Research Shows  Open Culture

When Public Speaking, Look at Individuals Instead of the Entire Group  Life Hacker

Scientists made people turn off their notifications for a day, and saw an effect years later  Quartz

***GRAMMAR

Policing people’s grammar online is never really about grammar  Quartz

My new pet peeve is the past perfect (opinion)   Chronicle of Higher Ed

***WRITING & READING

On Writing: Anne Lamott  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LANGUAGE

The rising usage of swear words in literature suggests that American society is becoming increasingly individualistic  Phys.org

***LITERATURE

Free: You Can Now Read Classic Books by MIT Press on Archive.org  Open Culture

‘Dictionary of American Regional English’ Speaks!  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The New PEN America Digital Archive: 1,500 Hours of Audio & Video Featuring 2,200 Eminent Writers  Open Culture

***GENDER  

Male and female journalists still aren’t paid the same. When and how can we demand change?  Poynter

Medicine Is Getting More Precise … For White People  FiveThirtyEight

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

The Asian Bachelorette (comedy video)  Wong Fu Productions

Justice Department To Probe Universities Over Affirmative Action Policies  NPR

Sikhs in America: Hate Crime Victims and Bias  ProPublica

***FREE SPEECH

Campus free speech bill becomes law in North Carolina  The FIRE

***LEGAL ISSUES

Couple Who Declined to Pay Their Wedding Photographer $125 Are Ordered to Pay $1 Million  People  

ACLU Defends John Oliver Against Coal Baron With Hilarious Brief  Huffington Post

A legal battle that's got something for historians, grammar nerds, activists, and copyright nuts: The fight over an iconic civil rights anthem  Hollywood Reporter

The Star Wars Video That Baffled YouTube's Copyright Cops  Wired

National Enquirer Argues False Stories About Celebrity Sex Changes Can't Be Defamatory  Hollywood Reporter

U.S. Supreme Court ruling leads to offensive trademark requests  Reuters

Judge Rules KickassTorrents Founder Properly Charged With Criminal Copyright Conspiracy  Hollywood Reporter

***BIG DATA & STATISTICS

The limitations of Big Data are based within “messy data”  Fortune

AI and music-will machines soon be composing symphonies & hit singles-will we become slaves to the algorithm?  The Guardian

To get computers to think like humans, we need an AI paradigm that reflects top-down knowledge  New York Times

UK big data firm claiming role in Trump & Brexit successes now playing part in African elections  BBC

Can data predict fashion trends? Technology may be disrupting a peculiar business   Economist

Quantum world causality: A new model extends the definition of causality to quantum-mechanical systems  Physics.org

Why China’s AI push is worrying: state-controlled corporations are developing powerful artificial intelligence  Economist

How data science can help us fight human trafficking   The Conversation

***RELIGION

WWE Has Successfully Trademarked The Term ‘3:16’  UpRoxx

Jesus Responds To The WWE Trademarking Bible Verse '3:16' on Colbert Show (video)  YouTube

Israeli Authorities Arrest Antiquities Dealers In Connection With Hobby Lobby Scandal Parallels  NPR

I'm a black pastor. Here's why I'm staying in the Southern Baptist  Washington Post

Does the Bible say there's oil in Israel? Thousands are paying a Dallas company to find out  Dallas News

Assemblies of God national office named in Oregon child sex abuse lawsuit  News-Leader

Why Are There No New Major Religions?  The Atlantic

Only Christians can own cottages at this idyllic Michigan resort   MLive

***RELIGION & FINANCES

The No. 1 Reason Churches End Up in Court Is No Longer Child Abuse  Christianity Today

Christians more than twice as likely to blame a person’s poverty on lack of effort  Washington Post

Robbing God, Literally: 1 in 10 Protestant Churches Experience Embezzlement  Christianity Today

The Pay Gap Is Worse for Pastor-Moms  Christianity Today

***RELIGION & POLITICS

Trump can’t Save Christian America (opinion)  New York Times

***ART & DESIGN

Accidental Wes Anderson: Every Place in the World with a Wes Anderson Aesthetic Gets Documented by Reddit  Open Culture

Why everybody liked Norman Rockwell And why it is probably impossible for a visual artist to have such broad appeal in America now  Economist

3D Scans of 7,500 Famous Sculptures, Statues & Artworks: Download & 3D Print Rodin’s Thinker, Michelangelo’s David & More  Open Culture

***MUSIC

How Leonard Cohen & David Bowie Faced Death Through Their Art: A Look at Their Final Albums  Open Culture

AI and music: will we be slaves to the algorithm?  The Guardian

What Music Do Americans Love the Most? 50 Detailed Fan Maps  New York Times

***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

How to Handle Inappropriate Job Interview Questions  Life Hacker

***HEALTH

Unexpected protection A chance finding may lead to a treatment for multiple sclerosis  Economist

How To Watch The 2017 Solar Eclipse  NPR

Why the ‘gold standard’ of medical research is no longer enough  Stat News 

Baylor should put the brakes on claims based on a tiny study of breast cancer and extrapolated benefits  Health News Review

***SCIENCE

Darpa Wants to Build a BS Detector for Science  Wired

In Breakthrough, Scientists Edit a Dangerous Mutation From Genes in Human Embryos  New York Times 

The rise of unproven stem cell therapies turned this obscure scientist into an industry watchdog  Science Mag

The Eclipse of 1878 Almost Killed the Father of the National Weather Service  Atlas Obscura

***RESEARCH

How to fix the academic peer review system (opinion)  GroundUp

A routine check for Image Manipulation in Research  Springer

Can PhD Students Write Review Papers?  Discover Magazine

***HIGHER ED

University presidents often seem to struggle to issue apologies in controversial cases, but some say they tend to have reason to be cautious  Inside Higher Ed

Trinity Loses Donations, Students After Professor’s Facebook Posts  Hartford Courant

What’s Next on Title IX: Little Appetite for Rollback of Obama Guidelines  Inside Higher Ed

Wichita State University’s name is misspelled on its water tower  Kansas

Justice Dept to investigate the affirmative-action policies of colleges and universities to see if they discriminate against white students  New York Times

How The For-Profit College Art Institutes Found A Savior With Christian Roots  BuzzFeed

***STUDENT MEDIA

Snapchat is working with college newspapers to produce local Discover Stories   The Verge

95-Year-Old Woman Finally Got Her College Diploma And Is Now Moving Back In With Her Parents  Chick Hole

Oklahoma College Newspaper to Begin Charging for Content  Cleveland Leader

University of Central Missouri's student newspaper on hold for the year after budget shortfall  Student Press Law Center

***STUDENT LIFE

The digital native is a myth: The younger generation uses technology in the same ways as older people — and is no better at multitasking  Nature

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (written by a SD State professor)  The Atlantic

Nightclub and dorm footage clears USC student of rape  Daily Mail

Millennials Are Uncertain, Not Entitled   Huffington Post

Millennials Are Blamed for a Lot of Things but They’re Reviving the Vinyl Record Industry  Fortune

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

Federal Sex-Assault Investigations Are Being Resolved More Often. These 11 Cases Show How  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Sex trafficking operation: More than 1,000 arrests across US  CNN

College journalist nabs $2k award for reporting on campus sexual harassment  USA Today

***ACADEMIC LIFE

A Caltech Professor Who Harassed Two Female Students Has Resigned  BuzzFeed

Rutgers prof removed from classroom after controversy over 'threatening' tweets  New Jersey.com

New book tries to help readers cope with that faculty colleague who never liked a new idea or offered to help  Inside Higher Ed

Arrest warrant issued for Northwestern professor in Near North Side stabbing death  Chicago Tribune

University of Kentucky faculty member files federal civil rights lawsuit: School officials fired following criticism the Gov’s Medicaid waiver proposal  Kentucky.com

The University Of Washington Just Fired A Tenured Professor For The First Time  BuzzFeed

Fresno State Removes Adjunct after Anti-Trump Tweets   Inside Higher Ed

 

articles of interest - July 31

***TECHNOLOGY

Adobe is finally killing its hated Flash Player  Mashable

First Human Embryos Edited in U.S.  MIT Tech Review

Hackers break into voting machines in minutes at hacking competition  The Hill

Don’t be the co-worker who sends late-night emails. Use this free tool  Poynter

***BIG DATA & STATISTICS

Big names in statistics want to shake up much-maligned P value  Nature

Google launches free course on Deep Learning: the science of teaching computers how to teach themselves  Open Culture

How predictive analytics is being used at LinkedIn  Predictive Analytics World

China plans to Use AI to "gain global economic dominance by 2030"  MIT Technology Review

Bring neural networks to smartphones  Campus Technology

The 10 coolest big data products of 2017 (So Far)  CNN

How computational psychiatry is using Machine Learning, data mining, and AI to revolutionize mental illness  MIT Technology Review

 ***SOCIAL MEDIA

Privacy Isn't Dead. It's More Popular Than Ever  Wired

The Right Social Media Metrics Are Different For Every Business  Ad Exchange

How Facebook overcame its “coolness” problem, won back the kids who fled it for Snapchat, and secured its dominance of social media  Slate

Study of social media retracted when authors can’t provide data  Retraction Watch

***PRODUCING MEDIA

The Beginner's Guide to Podcasts  Wired

MS Paint is here to stay  Windows Blog

How To Preserve Your Polaroid Photos  NPR

***INTERNET

What Google's New Autoplay Experiment Means for the Future of Search  Wired

Concerned about browsing privacy? Here's how to install Firefox Focus  Tech Republic

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

Twitter reports $116-million loss and flat user growth; its stock drops 13%  LA Times

Jobs’ ex Buys The Atlantic  Forbes

SESAC scores big win in radio royalty rate dispute  The Tennessean

***JOURNALISM

Fact-Checking Website Snopes Is Fighting To Stay Alive  NPR

InVID Wants to Help Journalists Debunk Fake Videos  PBS Media Shift

How to responsibly mix fiction and journalism  Online News Assoc.

Trump Tests the F-Bomb Policy at The New York Times  The Atlantic

What I learned about journalism at the New York Post  Columbia Journalism Review

That R. Kelly ‘cult’ story almost never ran. Thank Hulk Hogan for that  Washington Post

7 words (and more) you shouldn’t use in medical news  Health News Review

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Driving Our Employees Over the EdgeIn an industry that valorizes overwork and toxic coping strategies, we can model something different  Source

News organizations are using Nextdoor to connect with readers block-by-block  Poynter

Fox News And 'New York Times' Clash Over Paper's ISIS Reporting  NPR

White House aide’s tirade tests editors and producers   Associated Press

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Our Minds Have Been Hijacked by Our Phones. Tristan Harris Wants to Rescue Them  Wired

If-then planning is a really powerful way to help you achieve any goal  Becoming (my blog)

One surprising way money can buy happiness, according to scientists  The Washington Post

If you’re 30% through your life, you’re likely 90% through your best relationships  Quartz

Smart People Are More Likely to Stereotype  The Atlantic

What To Tell Kids Instead of "You're So Smart"  Life Hacker

***WRITING & READING

Why I Don’t Ask Students to Write the Thesis Statement First  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Getting Kids Interested In Poetry  NPR

Aiding the Writing-Stalled Professor   Chronicle of Higher Ed

Author discusses her new book of writing advice for academics  Inside Higher Ed

Notorious=famous is not an uncommon mistake and the New York Times made it  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LITERATURE

Jane Austen, 200 years on How an unremarkable Englishwoman became a literary juggernaut  Economist

A map of America through 737 favorite books set in each of the 50 states   StoryMaps

Author Jeannette Walls on "The Glass Castle"  CBS News

The Heretical Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction  The New Yorker

***GENDER  

Following uproar, surgery journal retracts paper with male-only pronouns  Retraction Watch

Trump: I consulted the military about the transgender ban. Military: no, you didn’t  Vox

Bloomberg Quicktake: Transgender Legal Rights  Bloomberg

Transformers: Lost Light #8 Features Trans Women Transformers  Bleeding Cool

***DIVERSITY

7 facts about Americans with disabilities  Pew Research

***RELIGION

Muslims In The U.S. Face Increased Discrimination, PEW Report Says  NPR

Justin Bieber runs over photographer at church and then lays hands on him, police say   Kansas City Star

Demand for exorcists is soaring in France: The Catholic church has left a big gap in the market  Economist

Most White Evangelicals Don’t Believe Muslims Belong in America  Christianity Today

Hobby Lobby thinks the Bible can save America. Now its museum has to convince its critics  PBS

Lesbian mom asks Christian judge to recuse himself from her divorce case citing his stance against homosexuality  New York Daily News

Why some people are so sure they're right, even when they are not  Science Daily

Outlaw pastor Rob Bell shakes up the Bible Belt  CNN

Outback Steakhouse is a chain of Satan  BongBong

Is mega-pastor getting a $110 Million contract from Lakewood Church?  KHOU

President Trump Nominates Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback as Religious Freedom Ambassador  Associated Press

***ART & DESIGN

What is the real role of a design portfolio website?  UXdesign

This algorithmic generative art explores the visual beauty of math  BongBong

***MUSIC

The sound illusion that makes Dunkirk so intense (video)  YouTube

BMI, ASCAP to Combine Music Databases  Broadcasting and Cable

The Rise and Decline of the “Sellout”  Slate

The Best Band Nobody Can Sign  The Fader

***FILM

How Did Akira Kurosawa Make Such Powerful & Enduring Films? A Wealth of Video Essays Break Down His Cinematic Genius  Open Culture

***BUSINESS

30 firms earn half the total profit made by all US public companies  Quartz

***HEALTH

Prescription video games may be the future of medicine  The Verge

The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills  New York Times

Doctors Make The Case Against Taking A Full Course Of Antibiotics  NPR

How Scared Should I Be of Macaroni and Cheese?  The Atlantic

How well do you know your body? Take our quiz  Stat

Beware Scam “Clinical Trials” That Ask You to Pay Money for Unproven Therapies  Life Hacker

***SCIENCE

Don't run biomedical science as a business: Science should abandon its assembly-line mentality and rebuild for quality, not quantity  Nature

***PSYCHOLOGY

England’s Mental Health Experiment: No-Cost Talk Therapy  New York Times

Students say they don't know where to turn for mental health services  Education Dive

Stanford researchers have discovered a simple shift in thinking can make you live longer  Quartz

***PHILOSOPHY

Philosopher Who Praised Risk Died Trying to Save Children From Drowning  New York Times

James Franco Hosts Philosophy Time, a New Videos Series Created to Help Philosophy Reach a Wider Audience  Open Culture

***ETHICS

If you could 'design' your own child, would you?  Washington Post

***RESEARCH

Science needs an IMDb for authors to promote the idea of “data authorship"  New England Journal of Medicine

 Why published research is untrustworthy  Springer

For the majority of researchers, the role of publishing is not so much to ensure the widest possible dissemination of their findings at the lowest cost, but to build up their standing and their professional portfolio  University Affairs

How training can help fix the research reproducibility crisis: Giving researchers better skills analyzing large datasets  Inside Higher Ed

Group of scientists concerned about reproducibility say a p-value cutoff of 0.05 isn’t strict enough  Science Mag

The One-Percent Club For Top-Cited Papers  Scholarly Kitchen

***HIGHER ED

There are 2.4 million fewer college students than there were five years ago  Hechinger Report

Wake Forest Freshmen Get an ‘Irreverent’ Take on Orientation  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Trump Struggles to Find a Leader for White House Initiative on Black Colleges  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Provost says she was denied due process before removal over conflict of interest with Counseling Center  KBTX

Who Is Betsy DeVos?And how did she get to be head of our schools?  NY Mag

Recent Higher Ed Scandals lay Bare the Murky Moral Waters Leaders must Navigate  Inside Higher Ed

***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS

A Series of Modest Steps to Save Christian Higher Education (Step 1: Get rid of as many people who do not teach as possible) (opinion)   Patheos

With more students streaming classes online, Southern Evangelical Seminary plans to sell campus and find smaller facility  Charlotte Observer

The American Association of Christian Counselors Conference Features Court Evangelicals (opinion)  Patheos

***TEACHING

New book about promoting success of at-risk students  Inside Higher Ed

Your Syllabus Doesn’t Have to Look Like a Contract  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***FREE SPEECH

Who should police free speech on college campuses? Congress wants to know  USA Today

***STUDENT LIFE

Student-loan forgiveness has halted under Trump   Associated Press

At Harvard, extraordinary court battle between Ph.D. student and prominent researcher grinds on  Science Mag

***ACADEMIC LIFE

UNC civil rights center may be barred from litigation, raising questions about the role of law schools and academic freedom  Inside Higher Ed

 

 

If-Then Planning

It's called if-then planning, and it is a really powerful way to help you achieve any goal. Well over a hundred studies, on everything from diet and exercise to negotiation and time management, have shown that deciding in advance when and where you will take specific actions to reach your goal (e.g., "If it is 4 p.m., then I will return any phone calls I should return today") can double or triple your chances for success.

Heidi Grant Halvorson, Nine Things Successful People Do Differently

articles of interest - wk of July 24

***BIG DATA & STATISTICS

The implications of deploying Blockchain's decentralised list-keeping technology to replace aspects of government  Economist

Artificial intelligence is guesswork: A Bloomberg quicktake on AI  Bloomberg

Apple launches a machine learning blog focused on research papers and the company’s findings  TechCrunch

Quantum computing is coming for your data - and it may take decades for the hack to come to fruition  Wired

Google releases facets: a visualization tool for big data  Infoq

***TECHNOLOGY

Wanna Help Self-Driving Cars? Turn on Your Phone's Camera  Wired

How Cyber Criminals Are Targeting You Through Text Messages  NBC News

Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years  The Guardian

We’re moving toward a cashless society, and lots of people are going to be left behind  ReCode

 ***SOCIAL MEDIA

Amazon launches shopping social network Spark for iOS  Reuters

Twitter says it’s punishing 10 times more users for being abusive than it was a year ago  Recode

***PRODUCING MEDIA

The Renaissance of the Humble Radio Drama: The medium offers unique opportunities for minority voices and independent creators  Slate

***INTERNET

Ranking Websites by Demographics   Quantcast

With its new feed, Google is preparing for the end of search  Mashable

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

The Sinclair Revolution Will Be Televised. It’ll Just Have Low Production Values  Bloomberg

Google's been running a secret test to detect bogus ads — and its findings should make the industry nervous  Business Insider

Only Two-Fifths Of Ad Execs Say Their Agencies Don't Take Kickbacks  Media Post

Media Companies Lose Out As Advertisers Promote Their Stories on Facebook   BuzzFeed News

***JOURNALISM

Making a Correction 100 years later: A Hot Dog is not a Sandwich  Courier-Journal

Google’s New Feeds Show You the Internet You Want to See  Wired

Q&A: ProPublica’s Lena Groeger on data visualization and writing about design  Columbia Journalism Review

Facebook Updates the ‘Journalism Project’ to Fight Fake News  Fortune

The updated ‘Bloomberg Way’ style guide focuses on best practices for data and multiplatform journalism  Poynter

The War on the Freedom of Information Act  The Atlantic

Comic Book Journalists Discuss the Pitfalls of the Job And How To Break Into The Industry  Bleeding Cool

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

NBC has 30 employees working on a daily news show exclusively for Snapchat  Recode

Confessions of a New York Times Copy Editor: I hardly had time to go to the bathroom  New York Times

Journalism is a public service. Why don’t we fund it like one?  Columbia Journalism Review

Snopes, in Heated Legal Battle, Asks for Funds to Survive  New York Times

***ART & DESIGN

The 5 Best Apps for Sketching on an iPad Pro  Wired

***PERSONAL GROWTH

 Getting Clarity on What’s Important  Becoming (my blog)

***BUSINESS

Wisconsin company says it will put Microchips in employees  BBC

Leadership: Reshaping Business Culture for a digital age  McKinsey & Company

The company isn’t a family  Signal v Noise

How Mobile Devices Perpetuate Weak Business Models  Scholarly Kitchen

***GRAMMAR

Historical Plaque Memorializes the Time Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs Came to Blows Over the Oxford Comma (Or Not)  Open Culture

***WRITING & READING

The death of reading is threatening the soul (opinion: Phillip Yancey)  Washington Post

Of fake PR, serial commas, and four-letter words (opinion)  Saipan Tribune

***LANGUAGE

Why do humans speak so many languages?  Quartz

Correct Latin word installed on UT memorial to Tower sniper’s victims  Austin Statesman

Hemingway’s Cuban English  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Accent Whisperers of Hollywood New York Times

Why it’s so hard to teach English-as-a-second-language students how to use a, an, and the,  Chronicle of Higher Ed

What Do You Call This Hat?The strange case of the knit cap and its many, many regional names  Atlas Obscura

Generic-you has important implications for how people derive meaning from experience  Science Mag

***LITERATURE

Amazon launched 22 years ago this week — here's what shopping on Amazon was like back in 1995  Business Insider

On Teaching, but Not Loving, Jane Austen  The Atlantic

***GENDER  

Months After ‘Transracialism’ Flap, Controversy Still Rages at Feminist Philosophy Journal  Chronicle of Higher Ed

No one is well-served by sexism in Japan  Economist

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

Sikh Scholar Harassed Over Photo of Another Man in Turban  Inside Higher Ed

The Largest U.S. Latino Advocacy Group Changes Its Name, Sparking Debate  NPR

***LEGAL ISSUES

After Supreme Court Decision, People Race To Trademark Racially Offensive Words  NPR

***MUSIC

A breakdown of Beyoncé’s revenue shows how little musicians make out of streaming  Quartz

How SoundCloud's broken business model drove artists away  The Verge

Hip-hop is bigger than rock music for the first time, thanks to nobody buying albums  Quartz

Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning  Y Combinator

A Single Life: An Oscar-Nominated Short About How Vinyl Records Can Take Us Magically Through Time  Open Culture

***SOCIOLOGY

The Field Study Handbook  Wired

***HEALTH

Just Thinking That You're Slacking On Exercise Could Boost Risk Of Death  NPR

Surgery Is One Hell Of A Placebo  FiveThirtyEight

The Pentagon’s handling of munitions and their waste has poisoned millions of acres, and left Americans to guess at the threat to their health   ProPublica

Study combines neuroimaging with machine learning to predict, with 96% accuracy, whether high-risk 6-month-old babies will develop autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by age 2   SharpBrains

Most people addicted to opioids receive no treatment  Economist

Protecting interns and other physicians from depression and suicide (opinion) Stat News

***SCIENCE

Ten Simple Rules for Scientific Fraud & Misconduct  HAL

I’m a Scientist and the Trump Administration Reassigned Me for Speaking up About Climate Change  Washington Post

The Rich get Richer: Relatively few NIH grantees get lion’s share of agency’s funding  Science Mag

Some scientists hate NIH’s new definition of a clinical trial  Science Mag

***PSYCHOLOGY

The Emerging Science of Computational PsychiatryMachine learning, data mining, and artificial intelligence are revolutionizing the study and understanding of mental illness  MIT Technology Review

Psychology’s Replication Crisis and the Grant Culture: Righting the Ship  Sage Publication

A psychologist explains the hard limits of human compassion  Vox

New report on mental health on college campuses: Colleges: colleges, are struggling to provide adequate mental-health services for students  National Council on Disability

***RESEARCH

Upholding Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics  Wiley

So-called Scientific journals accept a Star Wars-themed spoof paper  Discover Magazine

***RELIGION

Mother makes plea to parents over treatment of her special needs son at church Huffington Post

The age of white Christian America is ending. Here's how it got there  Vox

ASU sanctions church for misconduct  Tucson.com

Revisiting Ayn Rand’s anti-religious philosophy  Religion News Service

Is Surfing More Sport or Religion?  The Atlantic

Christian theme park claims it is ‘taking back’ the rainbow from the LGBTQ   Sacramento Bee

***HIGHER ED

Wright State University makes million-dollar boosts to athletics spending while cutting every category of academic funding Inside Higher Ed

Troubled Colleges Rebrand Under Faux-Latin Names   BuzzFeed

Minority serving institutions Completion Rates Higher Than Federal Data Indicate  American Council on Education

Small Christian College Faces More Turmoil in Response to Firing of Much-Loved Longtime Prof  Inside Higher Ed

***STUDENT MEDIA

Student slams Tex-Mex food in college newspaper, Texans shut her down  Click2Houston

***FREE SPEECH

Stop Telling Students Free Speech Is Traumatizing Them  NY Mag

It started when a student corrected his ex’s grammar and tweeted about it. Now he is suspended, and lawyers say First Amendment issues are at stake  Inside Higher Ed

Suspensions for College Students Who Thwarted Free Speech  The Atlantic

Claremont college suspends students for demonstration against pro-police speaker  LA Times

It's Disadvantaged Groups That Suffer Most When Free Speech Is Curtailed on Campus  The Atlantic

How powerful people use criminal-defamation laws to silence their critics  Economist

***STUDENT LIFE

Millennials have a Netflix account. Gen Z is playing video games  Recode

Univ. of Central Florida reverses position on student suspended over viral tweet about ex-girlfriend  USA Today

College Savings Advice (opinion)  New York Times

Few student-athletes with mental illness seek help  USA Today

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

Betsy DeVos Is Right: Sexual Assault Policy Is Broken (opinion)  The New York Times

Catholic University found him responsible for a sexual assault. Now he’s suing the school  Washington Pose

Media Circus Surrounding “Mattress Girl” Case Changes Conversation on Sexual Assault  Inside Higher Ed

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Cal State Fullerton reinstates part-time professor after arbitrator finds no evidence that he attempted to hit a student at a pro-Trump event, as was alleged when he was fired by the university  Inside Higher Ed

BYU adjunct: I was fired for Facebook post asserting that homosexuality and transgenderism are not sins  Washington Post

The Perfect Parent Trap

When perfectionists become parents, their mindsets don't change; they just shift their unreasonable expectations onto their children. Now their kids must be perfect too. In fact, a number of studies have found that perfectionists are so busy worrying about the drive for excellence that they aren't sensitive are responsive to the children's real needs.

Perfectionist parenting is anxious parenting. So that their children never make mistakes, these parents are overprotective, controlling, authoritarian, intrusive and dominating.

(Not that any of it helps: Research at Macquarie University in Australia showed that perfectionist parents’ tendencies to admonish kids and emphasize accuracy didn't decrease errors in children's work.)

Unsurprisingly kids of perfectionists are perfectionists too, adopting the same unreasonable expectations and exaggerated responses to failure. As a result, they're more likely to be anxious and obsessive. According to the University of Louisville researchers Nicholas Affrunti and Janet Woodriff-Borden, every time parents rush into fix something their kids learn their mistakes of threatening and they come to believe they can't be trusted to handle new experiences on the run.

And through their parents’ disengagement, kids learn that love is conditional. The only way to get it? Achieve.

Ashley Merryman, co-author of Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing, writing in ESPN the Magazine, May 11, 2015 issue

articles of interest - wk of July 17

***TECHNOLOGY

Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way  The Atlantic

When You Should (and Shouldn’t) Share Your Location Using a Smartphone  NYTimes

Turning Your iPhone’s Camera into an Assistive Device: Seeing AI  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The problem of bots as they are trained to become better at mimicking humans (opinion)  New York Times

Why no one has 're-invented' email yet  Mashable

***BIG DATA & STATISTICS

It’s not enough to weigh data decisions on the descriptor of big versus small alone. Other things must be considered  Inside Big Data

Intel community learning to speak Trump's language when talking about major national security threats  Chicago Tribune

Paradoxes of Probability and Other Statistical Strangeness  Quillette

 ***SOCIAL MEDIA

India surpasses U.S. as Facebook’s #1 country  The Stack

***PERSONAL GROWTH

The Duty of Encouragement  Becoming (my blog)

Why most people will never be successful  CNBC

Don’t Judge My Estrangement From FamilyIt Saved My Life  The Establishment

***JOURNALISM

Data journalism matters. Here’s what you need to know  The Next Web

An Inside Look at One America News  Washington Post

Report: Republicans think national news media is bad for the country, by an 8 to 1 margin  Poynter

Meet the Journalism 360 Challenge winners and the VR frontiers they want to conquer  Nieman Lab

Google funds automated news project  BBC

What happens to Local News When There is no Local Media to Cover it?  Washington Post

LA Times investigation highlights local news that gets results  Columbia Journalism Review

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Investor group to acquire Chicago Sun-Times  Talking New Media

Sun-Times gets a new owner, but no one is making money in the newspaper business in Chicago  Talking New Media

Print newspapers are dying faster than you think  Vox

Local TV News Fact SheetPew Research Center  Journalism.org

'San Diego Union-Tribune,' Go Fund Me Team To Fund-Raise Around Stories  Media Post

Google says it wants to fund the news, not fake it  The Drum

Newspapers’ Stand Against Tech Giants Won’t Save Them  Slate

The Washington Post takes big data approach to reader comment moderation Talking New Media

Q&A: Jerry Springer on interviewing regular people  Columbia Journalism Review

***FAKE NEW

Fake news fuels nationalism and Islamophobia — sound familiar? In this case, it's in India  LA Times

Computer Scientists Demonstrate The Potential For Faking Video  NPR

There’s a whole new layer of drama in the Mideast crisis: UAE planted fake news to spark fight with Qatar, according to a bombshell report  Vox

Fighting Falsehoods Around the World: A Dispatch on the Growing Global Fact-Checking Movement  Washington Post

Researchers Examine When People Are More Susceptible To Fake News  NPR

***STUDENT MEDIA

Student Journalists Are Our Future—We Should Start Treating Them Like It  The Nation

***GRAMMAR

The Correct Punctuation of Donald Trump, Jr.,’s Name  The New Yorker

The Much-Needed Gap  Chronicle of Higher Ed

‘The Americans Have No Adverbs’  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***WRITING & READING

Blessed Are teh Copy Editors  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The ‘So What?’ Question in your Academic Paper  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LITERATURE

Donald Trump Jr. Reviews Famous Works of Literature   McSweenys

Emily Dickinson’s unquiet passion: A literature professor’s take on Terence Davies’ film  Amherst Bulletin

The Word Choices That Explain Why Jane Austen Endures  New York Times

Stream a 24 Hour Playlist of Charles Dickens Stories, Featuring Classic Recordings by Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles & More  Open Culture

Charting Literary Greatness With Jane Austen  New York Times

Jane Austen Bicentennial: Must-See Sights from Her Life & Literature  Biography

***GENDER  

Women more likely to see online harassment as major problem  Pew Research Center

The "Crazy/Bitch" Narrative About Senior Academic Women (opinion)  Jennifer Berdahl's Blog

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

Arizona's Ethnic Studies Ban In Public Schools Goes To Trial  NPR

Diverse clinical trials are “an issue of an essential ethical principle of justice”  OnNursing

***FREE SPEECH

Spain Struggles To Balance National Security With Free Speech  NPR

Lawsuit Claims School Violated Rights Of Students Trying To Form Pro-Life Club  CBS News

You Can Get Fired For Saying That? Reporter finds a chill wind blowing through free speech on campus these days  Elle

***LEGAL ISSUES

The 'Monkey Selfie' Monkey Just Filed an Appeal  Mother Board

A Supreme Court mystery: Has Roberts embraced same-sex marriage ruling?  Washington Post

An analysis of the Supreme Court's latest First Amendment ruling, Matal v. Tam  Student Press Law Center 

***RELIGION

Best-selling author Eugene Peterson changes his mind on gay marriage  Religious News Service

Actually, Eugene Peterson Does Not Support Same-Sex Marriage  Christianity Today

Samford pulls plug on student gay-straight alliance  Baptist News

A dubious web site falsely reported the death of the Christian Contemporary music artist Don Moen  Snopes

Conservative Christian reality TV star Toby Willis gets 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to child rape  Raw Story

More Christian than Muslim refugees arrive in U.S. under Trump  Pew Research Center

John Calvin: The Religious Reformer Who Influenced Capitalism  Jstor

Why I’m Leaving the Southern Baptist Convention (opinion)  New York Times

When the Evangelical Establishment Comes After You (opinion)  Religious News Service

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Confidant of Pope Francis condemns US religious right  Associated Press

Trump seen bowing in prayer during Oval Office session  CNN

Trump coped with the Russia scandal by courting evangelicals. Here's why that's worrisome (opinion)  Vox

Trump threatens to change the course of American Christianity  Washington Post

Ethical Questions over Organizational Structure of Trump lawyer’s Christian nonprofits  NPR

***MUSIC

A brief mention in an interview by a British artist breathes life and sales into a niche music theory book  Inside Higher Ed

Why musicians are so angry at the world’s most popular music streaming service  Washington Post

R. Kelly Is Holding Women Against Their Will In A “Cult,” Parents Told Police  BuzzFeed  

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

The Trump Administration’s Fraught Attempt to Address Campus Sexual Assault  The New Yorker

Title IX summit Controversy  Inside Higher Ed

Ed. Dept. Official Apologizes for ‘90%’ Remark on Campus Rape. What’s the Research?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Education Department Official Apologizes For 'Flippant' Campus Sexual Assault Comments  NPR

Columbia University settles Title IX lawsuit with former student involving ‘mattress girl’ case  Washington Post

After Meeting With DeVos, Title IX Activists Say They Still Have Many Questions  Chronicle of Higher Ed

New study of harassment of graduate students by faculty members suggests that the problem is worse than many believe  Inside Higher Ed

At some Texas universities, students accused of rape can transfer without a record  Texas Tribune

***SOCIOLOGY

How bosses are (literally) like dictators: Americans think they live in a democracy. But their workplaces are small tyrannies (opinion)  Vox  

***HEALTH

'Dirt Is Good': New Book Explores Why Kids Should Be Exposed To Germs  NPR

A survey of retracted articles in dentistry  BMC Research Notes

The importance of whistleblowing when it comes to patient safety in healthcare  Journal of Patient Safety

The rise of medical crowdfunding scams  Daily Dot

Lost Mothers: An estimated 700 to 900 women in the U.S. died from pregnancy-related causes in 2016. We have identified 120 of them so far  Propublica

Most Drugs Are Still Safe To Use Years After Their Expiration Date : Shots - Health News  NPR

Is This Photo Real or Fake? A New Study finds most people won’t spot the con  Motherboard  

***SCIENCE

Science has a negativity problem  Science Line

***PSYCHOLOGY

Can Psychedelics Be Therapy? Allow Research to Find Out   New York Times

***NEUROSCIENCE

The neuroscience of inequality: does poverty show up in children's brains?  The Guardian

***CRITICAL THINKING

Why Facts Don't Convince People (and what you can do about it)  (video)  Social Good Now

***HISTORY

The prime minister and the professor  Revisionist History (Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast)

***ETHICS

Outgoing Ethics Chief: U.S. Is ‘Close to a Laughingstock’   New York Times

***RESEARCH

Google Is Shelling Out Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars to Academics Writing Papers About Google  New York Mag

Elsevier discusses how it intends to introduce more transparency into the review process  Elsevier

Strategies to avoid getting Your Research Scooped  HELDA

Tracking the Evolution of Reference Resources  Scholarly Kitchen

***HIGHER ED

New book argues against “zombie leadership” in higher education  Inside Higher Ed

The New Culture War Targeting American Universities Appear to be Working Washington Post

Members of the college-educated class have become amazingly good at making sure their children retain their privileged status  New York Times 

One of America’s most prestigious colleges may try to force its undergraduates to be more egalitarian towards one another––but not to anyone else (opinion)   The Atlantic

Why we need to know more, not less, about what students get from college  Hechinger Report

New Florida law requires colleges to spell out student debt in a yearly report to each student  Sun-Sentinal

Bret Weinstein to Evergreen College Board: Do You Know The Campus Descended Into Literal Anarchy?  RealClearPolitics

The Problem With Helicopter Colleges: Harvard professor Steven Pinker objects to a proposal to ban various undergraduate social clubs (opinion)  The Atlantic

Why This Tech CEO Keeps Hiring Humanities Majors  Fast Company

***TEACHING

The Education Writer Gospel of 'Academically Adrift'  Inside Higher Ed

How Much Time Should You Spend on Teaching?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***STUDENT LIFE

Students Decide their own Political orientation-It isn't handed to you in college (opinion)  New York Times

How Colleges Give Students a Flawed Sense of Living Costs  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Trump Administration Considers Measure to Make Staying in U.S. Harder for Foreign Students  Washington Post

The truth about today’s college students  Washington Post

Students at religious universities are worried about access to birth control. Here's why  USA Today

Private student loan debts are being erased because of incomplete and missing paperwork  New York Times

Grad School Is Hard on Mental Health. Here’s an Antidote  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Under Fire, These Professors Were Criticized by Their Colleges  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Trinity Professor Cleared Of Wrongdoing Following Controversial Facebook Posts  Courant

New Study Charts Recent Proliferation of Faculty Unions (At the center of many of the disputes are clashing interpretations of new guidance on private-college unionization)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

 

Primed for Action

Does your frame of mind before an event make a difference in the outcome? Read this quote from Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink:

Two Dutch researchers did a study in which they had groups of students answer forty-two fairly demanding questions from the board game Trivial Pursuit. Half were asked to take five minutes beforehand to think about what it would mean to be a professor and write down everything that came to mind. Those students got 55.6 percent of the questions right. The other half of the students were asked to first sit and think about soccer hooligans. They ended up getting 42.6 percent of the Trivial Pursuit questions right. The 'professor' group didn't know more than the 'soccer' group. They weren't smarter or more focused or more serious. They were simply in a 'smart' frame of mind and, clearly, associating themselves with the idea of something smart, like a professor, made it a lot easier - in that stressful instant after a trivia question was asked - to blurt out the right answer. The difference between 55.6 and 42.6 percent, it should be pointed out, is enormous. That can be the different between passing and failing.

Call it positive thinking or priming or whatever you like, but don't neglect the mental prep before each "big game." Actors must "get in character" by focusing on the task at hand before the curtain rises. In the same way, give your best effort by first dipping your mind in some positive energy.

Stephen Goforth

articles of interest - July 10

***TECHNOLOGY

Cameras are about to get a lot smaller: The future of photography is flat  Economist

Why You Will One Day Have a Chip in Your Brain  Wired

Nest Founder: “I Wake Up In Cold Sweats Thinking, What Did We Bring To The World?”  Fast Company

A reality check for virtual headsets: VR has been more about hype than substance. Will that change?  Economist

There Are Plenty Of RFID-Blocking Products, But Do You Need Them?  NPR

Two-Factor Authentication is a Mess  The Verge

 ***SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook is getting ready to test paid subscriptions with publications  Digiday

Facebook won’t let people change the headlines in links — and social media managers aren’t pleased  Digiday

***PRODUCING MEDIA

How to record and publish podcasts using Anchor  Journalism.co

When radio ratings got more precise, it changed how programmers saw their audience. Are podcasters heading for something similar?  Harvard’s Nieman Lab

***BIG DATA & STATISTICS

A brief guide for getting started in Python  Medium

Should scientists who use AI include their computers as co-authors on their papers?  Science Magazine    

Can we get AI to explain why it’s making the decision it’s making? Will that get us to trust it?   MIT Technology Review

Is artificial intelligence a job killer? Well, deep neural networks will automate many jobs, but..   The Conversation

How machine learning is already a big part of our lives  Android Authority

Will patients trust their lives to machine learning? The medical algorithm revolution is coming  MIT Technology Review   

***JOURNALISM

Q&A: NPR’s Audie Cornish on the intimacy of interviewing  Columbia Journalism Review

Alcohol industry isn’t just funding studies; it’s also funding journalism to sway public opinion  Health News Review

Why journalism is shifting away from 'objectivity'  Christian Science Monitor

Friend of Murdered Mexican Journalist Sees Lessons in His Death  Voice of San Diego

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

The media needs to ‘get the hell out of the picture,’ Columbia Journalism Review publisher says (opinion)  Washington Post

What we miss when we obsess over Trump’s tweet  Columbia Journalism Review

Google is putting another $24 million into 107 more European journalism projects, including WikiTribune  Harvard’s Nieman Lab

News Outlets to Seek Bargaining Rights Against Google and Facebook  New York Times

***TEACHING JOURNALISM

What Educators Should Understand About Code and Journalism  PBS Media Shift

Grad school for journalism? Your mileage may vary  Muck Rack

***FAKE NEWS

Is fact-checking ‘fake news’ a waste of time?  Futurity

To Test Your Fake News Judgment, Play This Game  NPR

Fake Memoirs: Man Admits He 'Made Up' Rare Brain Disease for Book  Newsweek

Is a chart lying to you? This video has some tips to figure it out  Vox

How fares trust in journalism amid a sea of fake news?  The Guardian

Fake news bots are so economical, you can use them over and over  Harvard’s Nieman Lab

iBooks Author vs Fake News: the fight we deserve  Talking New Media

***PERSONAL GROWTH

The Secret of an Exceptional Life  Becoming (my blog)

The three words that make brainstorming sessions at Google, Facebook, and IDEO more productive  Quartz

***WRITING & READING

College Summer Reading  New York Times

How Do Court Reporters Type So Quickly?  WCCO TV

A magazine piece about a student offered a full ride to Harvard is retracted after the student admits she forged the acceptance letter  Bridge

***LANGUAGE

When Did Colonial America Gain Linguistic Independence?  Jstor

Twitter is useful for many things—including (unexpectedly) for studying dialects  Economist

Nina in Siberia the enormous difficulty of the rules of grammar  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LITERATURE

The inaugural San Diego Festival of Books will take place next month at Point Loma's Liberty Station  Union-Tribune

A Digital Archive of Soviet Children’s Books Goes Online: Browse the Artistic, Ideological Collection (1917-1953)  Open Culture

***GENDER 

The University of Florida is under federal Title IX investigation for its handling of a Sexual assault accusation against a Football Star  Tampa By Times

***FREE SPEECH

The Trump administration is now openly threatening to use the Justice Department as a tool for punishing critical speech  New York Magazine

It's Disadvantaged Groups That Suffer Most When Free Speech Is Curtailed on Campus  The Atlantic

U.S. Court of Appeals sides with First Amendment right to video-record police  Poynter

***LEGAL ISSUES

Failed whistleblower suit is a reminder that public universities are hard to sue  Retraction Watch

$10M defamation lawsuit against Deadspin  Las Vegas Review-Journal

 

 
 

***RELIGION

Oklahoma University halts plans to remove religious symbols from chapel  Inside Higher Ed

The Presbyterian Church in America, Battles Over Gender  The Atlantic

California Beach Party Brings Together Ex-Believers  NPR

Christian-owned Hobby Lobby accused of hypocrisy after being fined for role in smuggling case  Associated Press

Samford won't accept Baptist convention funds after LGBT flap  ALcom

Christian Radio's 'Bible Answer Man' Finds New Faith Home, Deals With Fallout  WFAE

Christian geologist wins battle to study Grand Canyon rocks  New York Post

An atheist Muslim on what the left and right get wrong about Islam  Vox

'Building A Bridge' Between The Catholic Church And LGBT Community  NPR

Is God boosting Stephen Colbert's ratings?  The Week

Vatican outlaws use of gluten free bread for Holy Communion  The Telegraph

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

On abortion, persistent divides between – and within – the two parties  Pew Research

***ART & DESIGN

Why Art Historians Still Ignore Comics  Jstor

How games are impacting urban design  Arstechnica

***MUSIC

The Star-Spangled Banner Verse You've Probably Never Heard  NPR

How Losing SoundCloud Would Change Music  The Ringer

Only Queen can rock an entire stadium without even being there  YouTube

***FILM

The Mummy,' 'The House,' and 'Transformers 5': Hollywood's Problem Isn't Sequels, but Bad Movies  The Atlantic

Hollywood studios dip their toes in virtual reality: Fox, MGM, Warner Brothers and Steven Spielberg are among those investing in the technology  Economist

***HEALTH

'Architecture Of An Asylum' Tracks History Of U.S. Treatment Of Mental Illness  NPR

This Map Shows How Some US Counties Are Prescribing Way More Opioids Than Others  BuzzFeed News

Scientists Aren't Good At Predicting Which Research Will Pan Out  NPR

The Machines Are Getting Ready to Play Doctor: An algorithm that spots heart arrhythmia shows how AI will revolutionize medicine—but patients must trust machines with their lives  MIT Technology Review

A former pediatric intensive care unit nurse: I shared my toddler's hospital bill on Twitter.. First came supporters—then death threats  Vox

The latest technology is even more beneficial for the old than for the young  Economist

U.S. Hospitals Struggle To Protect Mothers When Childbirth Turns Deadly  NPR

***SCIENCE

Many Women Of Color Feel Unsafe Working In Science, New Study Finds   BuzzFeed News

***PSYCHOLOGY

Research Shows Birth Order Really Does Matter  NPR  

Why We Lie: The Science Behind Our Deceptive Ways  National Geographic

Extreme internet use linked to mental illness in teens  The Next Web

The weird power of the placebo effect, explained  Vox

Dads Respond Differently To Daughters Than To Sons, Study Finds  NPR

Police departments in the US are practicing mindfulness to reduce officers' stress—and violence  Quartz

Stephen Fry Identifies the Cognitive Biases That Make Trump Tick  Open Culture

***NEUROSCIENCE  

Pain Before Pleasure Makes The Pleasure Even Better, Study Finds  NPR

***RESEARCH

Should scientists who use artificial intelligence include their computers as co-authors on their papers?   Science Mag

When a Cat Co-Authored a Paper in a Leading Physics Journal (1975)  Open Culture

***HIGHER ED

Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment  The Hechinger Report

UC admission rate for Californian students drops slightly  Mercury News

In dramatic shift, more than half of Republicans now say colleges have a negative impact on the U.S.  Inside Higher Ed

In emails, then-Baylor regent calls students suspected of drinking “perverted little tarts” “very bad apples,” “insidious and inbred” and “the vilest and most despicable of girls”  Waco Tribune-Herald

How Cal Baptist in Riverside inspired Alaskan actor and musician to settle in Southern California  Press Enterprise

Speakers at BYU religious freedom conference concerned about religious liberty in educational institutions  Herald Extra

Christian universities are growing across Africa  Quartz

***TEACHING

AI Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to Cheat  Wired

Anthropologist offers explanation for why faculty members hesitate to adopt innovative teaching methods  Inside Higher Ed

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Judge tosses out campus carry gun lawsuit filed by UT professors  My Statesman

A test question about hot wax has landed a professor in hot water  The Fire