a dream -APJ Abdul Kalam
/A dream is not what you see in sleep. A dream is what does not let you sleep.
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
articles of interest - August 21
/***JOURNALISM
The Fallout From Sportswriting's Filthiest F-Up Deadspin
Being a Journalist is Terrible for Your Mental Health Tonic
Journalists are being jailed and tortured to bring you real news (opinion) Sacramento Bee
Eric Bolling’s defamation suit is bad for journalism (and bad for Eric Bolling) Salon
The Sexist Journalism Test Journo Terrorist
Photographer behind graphic Charlottesville image recounts near-death experience Columbia Journalism Review
New Media and the Messy Nature of Reporting on the Alt-Right Wired
This week should put the nail in the coffin for ‘both sides’ journalism Washington Post
Lessons for the news media from Charlottesville Nieman Lab
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Alaska Dispatch News Will Be Able to Pay Carriers, But Newspaper is Still On the Brink Editor and Publisher
Tronc purges senior leadership at the Los Angeles Times Poynter
***TECHNOLOGY
Forget Tough Passwords: New Guidelines Make It Simple NPR
Apple Kills Off Its First and Only FM Radio Radio Survivor
Quantum Internet Is 13 Years Away. Wait, What's Quantum Internet? Wired
Google's Anti-Bullying AI Mistakes Civility for Decency Motherboard
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Machine Learning in Python The Free Code Camp
Google uses machine learning to help journalists track hate Engadget
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Some Are Troubled By Online Shaming Of Charlottesville Rally Participants NPR
LinkedIn can’t block scrapers from monitoring user activity Engadget
Google updates Docs, Sheets and Slides with new collaboration features TechCrunch
Facebook is making the News Feed easier to navigate Engadget
***PRODUCING MEDIA
The perfect blog post length or publishing frequency doesn't exist Moz
The Effects of New Formats on Loudness Radio World
***INTERNET
“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33% of US searches Ars Technica
5 Tips to Help Show ROI from Local SEO Moz
A Stanford psychologist says internet culture isn’t as toxic as it feels Quartz
Who Owns the Internet? New Yorker
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The path to wisdom Becoming (my blog)
***CRITICAL THINKING
Tribal Epistemology Neurologica blog
Why people believe in conspiracy theories – and how to change their minds Business Insider
***PHILOSOPHY
Baylor Launches Center for Christian Philosophy Baylor
***GRAMMAR
Tricky Punctuation Tips for Business Writers Business Journalism
***WRITING & READING
Be More Than A Bookstore: A Brick-And-Mortar Shop's Key To Success NPR
Mainstream journalism seems to lack an adequate way of referring to the body part involved in Taylor Swift's lawsuit against a groper Chronicle of Higher Ed
The single reason why some people can't write, according to a Harvard psychologist LinkedIn
***LITERATURE
OC Alt-Right Book-Burning Event Canceled After Organizers Claim Leftists Wanted to Attack Them OC Weekly
Book review: ‘Wild Things’ dives into kids’ literature Columbia Dispatch
Pop Culture Happy Hour: A Look At Literary Adaptations NPR
***ART & DESIGN
The Paintings of Jim Carrey: “Painting Frees Me, from the Past and Future, from Regret and Worry” Open Culture
***MUSIC
How A Recording Studio Accident Helped Shape The Music Of The '80s Digg
Hear the Beach Boys’ Angelic Vocal Harmonies in Four Isolated Tracks from Pet Sounds Open Culture
***FILM
The French Film Critic Who Saw Jerry Lewis’s Infamous Holocaust Movie—and Loved It Vanity Fair
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Looking at Music Royalty Issues for Radio and TV Broadcasters Broadcast Law Blog
Here’s why publishers won’t stop pivoting to video Recode
***GENDER
Author discusses Book on Gender in Higher Ed Inside Higher Ed
The persistent crime that connects mass shooters and terror suspects: Domestic Violence Washington Post
Study finds adherence to gender norms around femininity is linked to gender disparities in selection of programs of study Inside Higher Ed
Sports writers still struggle covering violence against women Columbia Journalism Review
Are men seen as 'more American' than women? The Conversation
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
College leaders across the country unite to condemn racism USA Today
Procter and Gamble's new anti-racism ad is roiling white America Quartz
U of Florida Rejects Request for White Supremacist to Speak Inside Higher Ed
Alt-Right, Alt-Left, Antifa: A Glossary of Extremist Language New York Times
How to describe extremists who rallied in Charlottesville Associated Press
White Supremacists love the Middle Ages (opinion) In The Middle
A lot of our ideas about bilingual children are total myths Quartz
What I Saw in Charlottesville Auburn Seminary
The unintended Consequences of Brown v Board of Education (podcast) Revisionist History
People of Colour Talk About the Times They ‘Code Switched’ VICE
Can You Fire Someone for Being a White Supremacist? Bloomberg
***FREE SPEECH
UVa Student Newspaper Editor Reverses Position On Alt-Right After Charlottesville NPR
Public colleges, the cancellation of white nationalist events, and the First Amendment The FIRE
Tensions grow inside ACLU over defending free-speech rights for the far right LA Times
Cambridge press agrees to block access in China to more than 300 articles from a key journal for scholarship on the nation Inside Higher Ed
ACLU of California splits from national group regarding speech that promotes violence Talking New Media
***LEGAL ISSUES
The U.S. Is Trying to Seize 1.3 Million Visitor Logs, DreamHost Says The Atlantic
Appeals Court Revives Defamation Lawsuit Against New York Times Over Slavery Quote Hollywood Reporter
Legal Grounds to Turn Away White Supremacist Speakers Inside Higher Ed
The FCC's Shady Cyberattack Claims Gizmodo
Are we really litigating trademark references in white-on-white text in 2017??? Yes, we are Technology and Marketing Law Blog
Eminem's Legal Battle Against New Zealand Political Party Spills Into U.S. Court Hollywood Reporter
***SOCIOLOGY
Sociologists talk about teaching in the political now Inside Higher Ed
***HEALTH
Osteoarthritis Is Much More Common Now Than In Ancient Knees, Study Suggests : Shots - Health News NPR
Many Nurses Lack Knowledge of Health Risks for New Mothers, Study Finds Propublica
***BUSINESS
What a study of thousands of people on Wikipedia Found Business Insider
***HIGHER ED
An Inside Look At How Colleges Work (podcast) WNYC
How can we send students out into the world with huge college debt loads and not teach them what this means? (opinion) Hechinger Report
More states are allowing guns on college campuses The Conversation
IT productivity paradox in higher education ‘overstated,’ study suggests Inside Higher Ed
Some Liberty University Grads Are Returning Their Diplomas To Protest Trump NPR
Pensacola Christian College kicked out student after he was identified as a protester in Charlottesville Inside Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES /STEM
President’s arts and humanities committee resigns over Trump’s Charlottesville response Politico
There's a hidden message in the WH arts committee's letter CNN
***TEACHING
The Best Way to Test Students? Make Them Explain It On Video Wired
How Do Teachers Talk About Hate Speech? NPR
***RELIGION
It got Clinton's pastor into trouble for plagiarism, but who first preached 'It's Friday, but Sunday's coming'? Christianity Today
God or the divine is referenced in every state constitution Pew Research Center
Greg Laurie tells SoCal Harvest crowd: ‘We need a spiritual awakening’ after Charlottesville violence Orange County Register
The ‘Splainer: Did a solar eclipse darken the skies during Jesus’ crucifixion? Religion News Service Religious News Service
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
In Contrast To Business Councils, Trump's Evangelical Advisers Stay Put NPR
Evangelical leader praises Trump's 'bold, truthful' statement about Charlottesville Washington Examiner
Megachurch pastor resigns from Trump’s evangelical council Washington Post
***STUDENT MEDIA
The Cav Daily and its amazing “Unite the Right” coverage (Part I) Dynamics of Writing
American Bar Association unanimously passes resolution supporting New Voices, a state-by-state movement to ensure student press Student Press Law Center
How SB Nation Profits Off An Army Of Exploited Workers Deadspin
High school journalists who busted bogus principal aren’t done asking questions Poynter
***STUDENT LIFE
Will Students Stay Away From White Supremacists? Inside Higher Ed
As students return to college campuses, parents question if their kids will be safe CNBC
How SB Nation Profits Off An Army Of Exploited Workers: Rampant use of unpaid internships Deadspin
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Baylor settles with woman who said rape by football player was ignored, attorney says Dallas News
How Section 230 Helps Sex Trafficking Victims (and SESTA Would Hurt Them) Technology and Marketing Law Blog
***RESEARCH
Online research recruitment as a linguist The Research Whisperer
What Merits Correction? The Grumpy Geophysicist Grumpy Geophysicist
An example of the “what does not kill my statistical significance makes it stronger” fallacy Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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
China uses a quantum satellite to transmit potentially unhackable data CNBC
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
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
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
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.
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
***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
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
***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
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
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
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
insides and outsides
/Don’t compare your insides to other people’s outsides.
choose
/Choose the relationship rather than the ideology.
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
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
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
***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
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
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
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
a role to play
/We have a role to play in one another’s wholeness. Dean Nelson
something glorious
/The world is already full of successes. Do something glorious. Robert Pensky
reasoning someone out of something
/You cannot reason someone out of something he or she was not reasoned into. Jonathan Swift
Be a rebel
/Having a naysayer can be motivating. Rebel against a dream crusher from your past. -Jonathan Adler
sitting quietly
/All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Blaise Pascal
articles of interest - wk of July 24
/***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
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
***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 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
***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
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
BYU adjunct: I was fired for Facebook post asserting that homosexuality and transgenderism are not sins Washington Post
you're an original
/You were born an original. Don't die a copy. -John Mason
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 Family — It 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
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
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
***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
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
***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
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
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
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