happiness depends
/Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. –Leo Tolstoy
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Desensitized to Lying
/When you’re exposed to a strong smell, at first the smell is extremely noticeable, but eventually you stop noticing it as much. With time, any stimulus — a loud noise, a strong perfume, etc. — is likely to provoke a smaller response. The same goes with lying.
We get desensitized to our own lying as the areas of our brain that correlate with negativity become less active. This makes it easier for us to lie in the future.
“The first time you cheat — let’s say you’re cheating on your taxes — you feel quite bad about it,” Tali Sharot, a University College London neuroscientist. But then the next time you cheat, you’re less likely to get that negative feeling. That makes it easier to lie again. And the cycle escalates from there.
Brian Resnick writing in Vox
articles of interest - Nov 6
/***JOURNALISM
Why I Believe in the Future of Journalism as a 10-year-old Reporter Newsweek
Miami demands media stop showing photos of firefighters fired in noose incident Miami Herald
Why it's important to name the shooter Poynter
Plaintiff in Russia dossier suit argues BuzzFeed isn't a real news organization Money Magazine
More in U.S. getting news from multiple social media sites Pew Research Center
It's a journalist's duty to keep collected information safe. Here are some ways to get started Poynter
***FAKE NEWS
Learning To Spot Fake News: Start With A Gut Check NPR
Twitter Sidestepped Russian Account Warnings, Former Worker Says Bloomberg
Dilbert vs. Trump: Why False Facts Have Power Tech News World
***PRODUCING MEDIA
How On Earth Did Email Newsletters Become Popular Again? Medium
How Vimeo Is Preparing For The Future Of Video Storytelling Fast Company
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Particle physics reveals there is more to wonder about one of the Seven Wonders of the World Science News
Who’s the 2017 World Series champ? Big Data! What the Astros did to win the analytics arms race Tech Republic
Intelligence collection and analysis is a mess in the US intelligence community The Hill
What the founding fathers of Apache Spark are saying and doing about its future ZD Net
The Kaggle 2017 State of Data Science and Machine Learning report Kaggle
A new system that automatically produces code optimized for sparse data MIT
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Do social media threaten democracy? Economist
Representatives From Facebook, Twitter And Google Testify About Russia's Election Influence NPR
Once considered a boon to democracy, social media have started to look like its nemesis Economist
Why Is the U.S. So Susceptible to Social-Media Distortion? (opinion) New Yorker
How Russia Weaponized Social Media With 'Social Bots' NPR
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Our attitudes are shaped much more by our social groups than they are by facts on the ground Becoming (my blog)
Why we pretend to know things Vox
This Is Why We Default To Criticism (And How To Change) Fast Company
***WRITING & READING
7 Pieces of Expert Writing Advice Daily Jstor
***LANGUAGE
The Randomness of Language Evolution The Atlantic
Why You Still Should Learn a Language in the Age of Pixel Buds Daily Jstor
***GENDER
Looking For A Home When Your Name Is Hispanic And Finding Discrimination Instead NPR
Pop Art Posters Celebrate Pioneering Women Scientists: Download Free Posters of Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace & More Open Culture
Gender Bias in Peer Review Scholarly Kitchen
Orange County High-School Students Rebel Against Confederate Mascot The Daily Beast
***FREE SPEECH
Rethinking free speech on campus - Free to be crude and mean Economist
University of Oregon president pens powerful reflection on being shouted down The FIRE
Free speech at American universities is under threat Economist
***LEGAL ISSUES
Taylor Swift’s Team Issued a Defamation Threat Against a Website With 76 Twitter Followers Spin
'Cosby Show' Producer Sues BBC for Using Clips in Bill Cosby Doc Hollywood Reporter
***ART & DESIGN
Professor's artwork uses US flags to make KKK-style hoods CNN
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
FCC Releases Proposed Order to Modify Media Ownership Rules Comm Law Blog
***RELIGION
The NFL Allows Churches To Show Regular Season Football Games: Understanding when and how you can show NFL games in your church Plagiarism Today
Meet the Woke Young People Trying to Make Christianity Cool Again Vice
'It's Our Right': Christian Congregation In Indonesia Fights To Worship In Its Church NPR
The racism in Gen. Kelly’s Civil War comments runs deep in the strand of evangelicalism that helped elect Trump (opinion) Religious Dispatches
What does the revival of Protestantism Mean for the Developing World Economist
Church shootings are so common that there’s a database for them Quartz
Religious leaders and former gang members join forces to reduce crime CBS News
Why evangelicals are deeply skeptical of gun control laws (opinion) Chicago Tribune
Younger evangelicals have never been in a moral majority. This changes how they see politics Economist
***RELIGION AND MUSIC
How Bob Dylan found God, and his fans found another boxset to buy ABC News (Australia)
Review: Thinking Twice About Bob Dylan's Gospel Phase With New Bootleg Box Rolling Stone
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Can We Still Rely On Science Done By Sexual Harassers? Wired
How Human Resources Handles Sexual Misconduct NPR
Finding the Words We Need to Talk About Sexual Assault and Harassment Daily Jstor
Sexual harassment: Who suffers, and how Journalism Resources
***HEALTH
The Limits of Behavioral Economics in Medicine New York Times
***SCIENCE
There is “much more to scientific impact than citations” Nature
How To Win An Argument According To Science Daily Jstor
***PSYCHOLOGY
Carl Jung Psychoanalyzes Hitler Open Culture
“Psychologists really are trying to turn their field around Science News
How One Psychologist Is Tackling Human Biases in Science Nautil.us
Sleep protects against learning fear The Naked Scientist
What eyes and odours reveal about sexual attraction Economist
***CRITICAL THINKING
The work of 213,284 kids was analyzed. These are the writing and critical-thinking skills that stumped students Washington Post
5 Tips for Critical Thinking: What can you do to critically think better in day-to-day situations? Psychology Today
***PHILOSOPHY
Death: A Free Philosophy Course from Yale Helps You Grapple with the Inescapable Open Culture
How Alvin Plantinga Paved the Way for Christian Philosophy's Comeback Christianity Today
***PRODUCTIVITY
Google Calendar on the web gets a fresh new look Tech Crunch
***ETHICS
Dealing with Unethical or Illegal Conduct in Higher Education The Scientist
Tiny human brain organoids implanted into rodents, triggering ethical concerns Stat News
***RESEARCH
Prominent scientist sues critic of his work for $10 million Mashable
Do We Need An Adoption Service for Orphan Data? Discover Magazine
Who owns patient data in clinical research? Collabrx
Academic journal publishing is headed for a day of reckoning The Conversation
***HIGHER ED
As ed-tech companies gather more data, they struggle to find its best uses Inside Higher Ed
Evaluating the evidence on micro-aggressions and trigger warnings Economist
Can Design Thinking Redesign Higher Ed? Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Surprising Revolt at the Most Liberal College in the Country The Atlantic
GOP tax overhaul would eliminate tax breaks used by colleges and students Inside Higher Ed
College apologizes for ‘House of Cards’ email Columbia Tribune
200 universities just launched 600 free online courses. Here’s the full list Quartz
Christian Writer Banned From Liberty University Campus After Criticizing Trump Ally NPR
Anthony Scaramucci spoke at Liberty University Salon
***HUMANITIES /STEM
‘Digital’ Is Not the Opposite of ‘Humanities’ (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
There Is No Such Thing as ‘the Digital Humanities’ (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Study English Lit to acquire 'marketable' skills? That's a bad argument (opinion) LA Times
***TEACHING
How students to steal professors’ passwords on campus and to change grades Inside Higher Ed
In a Volatile Climate on Campus, Professors Teach on Tenterhooks New York Times
Dropping The F-Bomb In Class? Teachers Weigh In NPR
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student Newspaper publishes Letter from the Editor in Protest of Treatment by Administrators Indiana Daily Student
***STUDENT LIFE
Georgetown students vote not to take action against pro-heterosexual-marriage campus group Washington Post
Six Myths About Choosing a College Major New York Times
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Senior faculty members on three campuses face disciplinary action or resign over harassment allegations Inside Higher Ed
Professional Development beyond Citations and the Standard Process Scholarly Kitchen
After threats of dismissal, a tenured professor is cleared of plagiarism charges Durango Herald
Abusers and Enablers in Faculty Culture Chronicle of Higher Ed
Matching your tasks to your Energy
/When considering how to best match your tasks to your energy it’s helpful to consider all the different kinds of work you do, and when would be the best time to do them. Even if you know that you’re naturally a morning person, for example, that alone may not help you best arrange all of your activities, since you can’t do everything first thing. Are you writing? editing? coding data? researching citations for a literature review? creating slides? preparing lecture notes for class? For each activity, consider when you would be best able to do that work well.
You might not know the answers to all those questions yet — so simply observing when you are intuitively drawn to do certain kinds of work, and how difficult or easy it is to complete the task at different times of day, can help you design your schedule to better match your tasks to your energy.
Natalie Houston writing in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
articles of interest - week of Oct 30
/***TECHNOLOGY
U.S. Will Curb ‘Sneak-and-Peek’ Searches Microsoft Sued Over Bloomberg
Amid GMO Strife, Food Industry Vies For Public Trust In CRISPR Technology NPR
Gene editing takes another step forward Economist
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Most employed data scientists gained their skills through self-learning or a MOOC.. not a traditional CS degree Tech Republic
A survey of CIOs on Machine learning plans and obstacles Enterprisers Projects
Supervised learning without training wheels Economist
Inside the automated brain: what AI sees when they’re watching us Quartz
“Best-Ever Algorithm” for Huge Streams of Data Quantam Magazine
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Day in the Life of a Snapchat editor Digiday
How Russian Propaganda Spreads On Social Media NPR
The Worst Tweeter In Politics Isn’t Trump Harvard's Nieman Lab
With Huge Fines, German Law Pushes Social Networks To Delete Abusive NPR
CNN’s three month-old daily Snapchat show The Update avoids the “bells and whistles and flashes” Harvard's Nieman Lab
***SOCIAL MEDIA: TWITTER
Twitter Says It Will Ban Ads From Russian News Agencies After Interference In 2016 Election NPR
Some Guidelines for Using Twitter Chronicle of Higher Ed
How to Spot a Twitter Bot Life Hacker
***SOCIAL MEDIA: FACEBOOK
Does Facebook Use Your Phone's Microphone To Eavesdrop On Your Conversations? Digg
America doesn't trust Facebook The Verge
Facebook's Blind Spot: Connecting The World, For Better Or Worse NPR
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
The FCC just ended a decades-old rule designed to keep TV and radio under local control The Washington Post
Myspace Looked Like It Was Back. Actually, It Was A Pawn In An Ad Fraud Scheme BuzzFeed
***JOURNALISM
The Most Revealing Moment in the New Joan Didion Documentary New Yorker
Journalism’s New Patrons: California nonprofit targets individual donors Columbia Journalism Review
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
LA Weekly is being sold to Semanal Media, a mysterious new company LA Times
How Jeff Bezos Reacts to 'Negative' Amazon Articles in Washington Post Fortune
How leading American newspapers got people to pay for news Economist
News personalization could help publishers attract and retain audiences—in the process making political polarization even worse Nieman Reports
***FAKE NEWS
The media's definition of fake news vs. Donald Trump's Politifact
The Fact-Checking Army Waging War on Fake News PBS Media Shift
How Snapchat Has Kept Itself Free of Fake News Bloomberg
Facebook Stumbles With Early Effort to Stamp Out Fake News Bloomberg
Italy Takes Aim At Fake News With New Curriculum For High School Students NPR
***WRITING & READING
The BuzzFeed Style Chronicle of Higher Ed
Journaling with a Helping Hand Study Break
An Artificial Intelligence Bot Writes Stories of the Macabre Atlas Obscura
***LANGUAGE
A history of slang charts the change in taboos Economist
Sir Thomas Browne’s Vulgar Errors Jstor
The Survival of British English Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
The Sad Story of A.A. Milne and the Real-Life Christopher Robin Jstor
New Documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold Now Streaming on Netflix Open Culture
The Man Whose Snowy Day Helped Diversify Children’s Books Jstor
Literature: What is it Good For? Study Break
***GENDER
A pernicious and underappreciated source of gender bias may be affecting faculty hiring Sage Journals
Even when women speak less, they are perceived as talking more Applied Psycholinguistics
Measuring the implicit biases we may not even be aware we have The Conversation
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination NPR
Black Clemson student government vice president alleges racism is behind impeachment trial Inside Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
University of California to open free speech center in Washington DC San Francisco Gate
Sessions’ Justice Dept. Is Wading Into Another Campus Free-Speech Case Chronicle of Higher Ed
After a Year of Tumult, Evergreen State Revises a Policy on the Use of Campus Space Chronicle of Higher Ed
Senate hearing explores free speech on college campuses Inside Higher Ed
Congress unlikely to push federal mandate on campus free speech Education Dive
***LEGAL ISSUES
U.S. Solicitor General Will Argue Against Gay Couple in Supreme Court Case involving Refusal on religious grounds to Bake a Wedding Cake for a Same-sex Couple National Law Journal
Google Responds to Lawsuit Accusing YouTube of Censoring Conservatives Hollywood Reporter
Judge tosses libel lawsuit against AP by Russian oligarch tied to Manafort Politico
***RELIGION
5 facts about Protestants around the world Pew Research Center
After I Adopted Two Black Babies, I Realized My Church Was Full Of Racists Splinter
Buzzfeed takes the time to dig into Megachurch and gets this complex story right Get Religion
The real reason Muhammad Ali converted to Islam Washington Post
Indiana court rules sex offenders can go to church with children: What questions does this raise? Get Religion
George Washington’s church to remove plaque honoring him Daily Mail
How could The Los Angeles Times dodge faith in a story about Kershaw family, mission work? (opinion) Get Religion
Satanic church shames district over corporal punishment New York Post
How the prosperity gospel is sparking a major change in the world's most Catholic country Washington Post
***MARTIN LUTHER
How Martin Luther Changed the World The New Yorker
The Nazis Exploited Martin Luther’s Legacy. This Berlin Exhibit Highlights How Religious News Service
Could the Reformation Have Happened Without Luther? (podcast) The Pietist Schoolman
500 Years Later, Some Issues That Martin Luther Raised Remain NPR
Martin Luther’s ‘dream’ church? It wasn’t in Europe Religion News Service
What to Do about Martin Luther? Context
How Did Martin Luther Become So Popular? Sojourners
3 Ways to Remember the Reformation The Pietist Schoolman
***ART & DESIGN
You draw the chart on how life has changed in the last 60 years BBC
The Washington Post’s augmented reality app to carve a pumpkin Washington Post
Source’s guide for making charts Open News
***MUSIC
How Advertisers Get Away With Using Fake Versions of Your Favorite Songs Pitchfork
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student newspaper takes a close look at school's sexual-misconduct procedure: Finds the university's president is the final arbiter in all cases The Daily Texan
***STUDENT LIFE
Isolation, loneliness for college students persists in a partisan era on college campuses Inside Higher Ed
Georgetown students have filed a discrimination complaint against a campus group promoting heterosexual marriage Washington Post
Clemson Student Vice President who Refused to Stand during the National Anthem is Impeached- will Face Trial New York Times
Millennials it Turns out are Loyal and just as boring as previous workers Economist
Millennials are doing better than the baby-boomers did at their age Economist
Fascism Reached My College Campus, and Now I Can't Look Away The Daily Dot
Opioids on College Campuses New York Times
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
A Look At Workplace Policies Meant To Prevent Sexual Harassment NPR
Suicide, investigation and a lawsuit follow booze-fueled UC Davis School retreat Sacramento Bee
***SOCIOLOGY
List of featured speakers for sociology conference, most of them men, sparks debate and backlash Inside Higher Ed
***HEALTH
Troubling Legacy Of Tuskegee Study, Henrietta Lacks Still An Obstacle In Medical Research NPR
A Paper Claiming Wi-Fi Is Linked To Autism Has Been Accused Of Pseudoscience BuzzFeed
Scientists And Surgeons Team Up To Create Virtual Human Brain Cells NPR
***SCIENCE
A statistical fix for the replication crisis in science The Conversation
Criticizing a scientist’s work isn’t bullying Slate
***NEUROSCIENCE
Algorithm can identify suicidal people using brain scans The Verge
Why it’s time to lay the stereotype of the ‘teen brain’ to rest The Conversation
***RESEARCH
The Cookie Crumbles: A Retracted Study Points to a Larger Truth New York Times
Physicists cozy up to double-blind peer review Physics Today
What it would be like without peer review The Times Literary Supplement
The Publishing Trap! A Table game of scholarly communication The London School of Economics and Political Science
Predatory conferences ‘now outnumber official scholarly events’ Times Higher Ed
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Play has a positive impact on creativity Becoming (my blog)
We're Not As Good At Remembering Faces As We Think We Are NPR
Self-awareness as a leader in higher education does not mean being proud of your faults Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
A Broadening Battle Over Archives to Share Papers Inside Higher Ed
Four stubborn money myths about private college education News OK
Supposed campus guidelines on costumes not always what they seem Inside Higher Ed
Why we shouldn’t rely on data and algorithms to fix the humanities Chronicle of Higher Ed
Senate Hearings Explore Free Speech on College Campuses Inside Higher Ed
John Grisham: A Candid Conversation on the Villain in his new Thriller: For-Profit Colleges Chronicle of Higher Ed
Christina College founded by Tim LaHaye can't explain $20 million in expenses CBS-8
Patriotic Education Course at Christian liberal arts college Inside Higher Ed
Liberty U. President Says Trump Could Be ‘Greatest President Since Abraham Lincoln’ Chronicle of Higher Ed
Gay and in Love at an Evangelical College New York Times
***TEACHING
Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Encourages Conversations About Teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed
What’s the Ideal Mix of Online and Face-to-Face Classes? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
The University of Arkansas system is considering changing its tenure policy to allow professors to be fired for "disruptive conduct" Chronicle of Higher Ed
A faculty strike in Ontario highlights the potential of digital picketing Chronicle of Higher Ed
What to Say After a Student Dies Chronicle of Higher Ed
Professors Are Complicit in Football Players’ Brain Damage (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Pernicious Silencing of the Adjunct Faculty Chronicle of Higher Ed
3 Dartmouth Psych Profs accused of serious misconduct are on leave Washington Post
Play and creativity
/Play has a positive impact on creativity because— in addition to helping us both mind-wander and diversify— it stimulates positive emotion, which research shows leads to greater insight and better problem solving. Barbara Fredrickson of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, found that positive emotions increase our cognitive resources by expanding our visual attention. When we feel good, we gain the ability to pay attention to a wider range of experiences. We see the big picture rather than getting bogged down in the details. In other words, if you feel stuck in a rut or you can’t think yourself out of a problem or don’t see a way out of a situation, play may be a way of getting “unstuck” and coming up with innovative ideas.
Just as joy and fun can make you more creative, creativity in turn enhances your well- being. The more creative you become, the more joy you invite into your life. Nikola Tesla wrote, “I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. . . . Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”
By naturally tapping into your inner creativity, you reconnect with the joy you had as a child playing. You engage in a positive feedback loop that continues to replenish you with joy and creativity. It makes for an adult life rich with delight and inventiveness.
Stanford psychologist Emma Seppälä writing in the Washington Post
articles of interest - week of Oct 23
/***JOURNALISM
Is your journalism valuable? Poynter
The Guardian’s Mobile Innovation Lab introduced a new type of article for evolving stories Medium
How Fox 32 became the most engaging news publisher on Facebook Digiday
13 things I learned from six years at the Guardian Medium
Pioneering Virtual Reality and New Video Technologies in Journalism New York Times
How to find the useful information hidden on every website Poynter
Five ways to take advantage of Excel list features Tech Republic
Study: Readers are hungry for news feed transparency Columbia Journalism Review
Russian Radio Journalist Stabbed In Neck Amid Anti-Media Violence Huff Post
Czech President holds up replica Ak-47 marked ‘for journalists’ in press conference The Independent
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Journalism’s Broken Business Model Won’t Be Solved by Billionaires New Yorker
Social media crackdowns at the Times and Journal will backfire Columbia Journalism Review
Journalism’s Broken Business Model Won’t Be Solved by Billionaires The New Yorker
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
How Educators Can Discuss Journalists’ Coverage of Violence PBS Media Shift
***FAKE NEWS
Why I Love Fake News (opinion) Politico
Tightening Political Ad Disclosure Rules May Not Curb 'Fake News,' IAB Says Media Post
At New York event, Facebook stays tight-lipped on fake news Poynter
What do ordinary people think fake news is? Poor journalism and political propaganda Columbia Journalism Review
Facebook's new media guidelines are focused on stopping fake news Engadget
Schools fight spread of 'fake news' through news literacy lessons Educational Dive
How to avoid being part of the fake news problem when big stories break Mashable
University of Haifa to offer course on 'fake news' and propaganda Jerusalem Post
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
At BuzzFeed, a Pivot to Movies and Television New York Times
Young subscribers flock to old media Politico
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Openness to new Experiences Linked with Creativity Becoming
Brain Training Can Improve Memory, But Won't Make You A Genius NPR
***GRAMMAR
Who gives a !@#$ about an Oxford comma (opinion) Daily Cal
***LANGUAGE
Appalachian English Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Day A Texas School Held A Funeral For The Spanish Language NPR
***LITERATURE
Getting Students Excited About Literature Chronicle of Higher Ed
***GENDER
The Sexism That Permeates the Academy (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Maria Anna Mozart Was a Musical Prodigy Like Her Brother Wolfgang, So Why Did She Get Erased from History? Open Culture
Don’t Sanctify Us Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
92 Percent Of African Americans Say Black Americans Face Discrimination Today NPR
Study finds high school teachers have differing expectations of black and white students Inside Higher Ed
Poll: Most Americans Say They Are Discriminated Against, Regardless Of Race NPR
***FREE SPEECH
Does Disruption Violate Free Speech? (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
Federal Judge Unseals New York Crime Lab’s Software for Analyzing DNA Evidence Propublica
Hollywood Confronts a Copyright Argument With Potential for Mass Disruption Who really owns the CG characters in blockbuster films Hollywood Reporter
California judge tosses $417 million talc cancer verdict against Johnson & Johnson Reuters
The Supreme Court Justices Need Fact-Checkers New York Times
***TECHNOLOGY
CRISPR Bacon: Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs NPR
The Fervor Around Blockchains Explained in Two Minutes Wired
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
The Big Data policing revolution has arrived as predictive technologies analyze the future risk Tech Crunch
With commercial satellite imagery, computer learns to quickly find missile sites in China Space News
The 1st demonstration of the ability of quantum machines to outperform classical computers could be just months way MIT Technology Review
Intelligence leaders caution that AI cannot and should not replace the role of the human analyst Fed Tech Magazine
The hardware needs of AI and the hardware needs of traditional software development are diverging in a big way Electronic Engineering Journal
Machine learning demo with your webcam and GIFs Flowing Data
***SOCIAL MEDIA
What Does Facebook Consider Hate Speech? Take Our Quiz New York Times
Social Media Is Scholarship Chronicle of Higher Ed
Facebook splitting news feed could force companies to re-think social media marketing Tech Republic
Facebook's video could finally catch up to YouTube Mashable
Twitter will reveal who's paying for its political ads LA Times
Why the Fact-Checking at Facebook Needs to Be Checked New York Times
How Russians Attempted To Use Instagram To Influence Native Americans BuzzFeed
Snapchat Reportedly Has Piles of Unsold Spectacles Laying Around Daily Dot
The viral story of Taiwan Jones, who learned he failed his midterms on Twitter, doesn’t add up Washington Post
Facebook Tests News Feed that Replaces Publishers with Friends Daily Dot
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Adobe's New Video Editing Tool Looks Incredible (And A Bit Unsettling) Digg
How to edit 360 photos in Photoshop Digital Trends
#SceneStitch: Adobe MAX 2017 (Sneak Peeks) Adobe
60 Second Docs: Freelancers are Opening Windows to the World Video Strategist
***RELIGION
California Gov. Brown vetoes bill prohibiting faith-based codes of conduct Highland News
White Evangelicals Used to Dominate Christian Zionism, but Not Anymore The Atlantic
Why is a popular interfaith website giving a disgraced misogynistic pastor a platform? (opinion) Washington Post
A misleading article claims millennials are ditching religion for witchcraft and astrology Get Religion
“Almost Like Praying”: The Religious Work of “Hamilton” Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda Religion Dispatches
A new organization will score churches’ on their positions on homosexuality Religious News
Was the Reformation a mistake? A Catholic and a Protestant debate Religion News Service
500 Years Since 95 Theses, Martin Luther's Legacy Divides Some Of His Descendants NPR
Religious tourism center in Mission Valley approved by San Diego City Council Fox-5
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Calif. Megachurch Pastor Blurred Church-State Lines by Featuring Candidate During Service Modesto Bee
Why I am ditching the label ‘evangelical’ in the Trump era Washington Post
***ART & DESIGN
A New Book Gives Us the World as Seen by Black Female Photographers Vogue
2,000+ Architecture & Art Books You Can Read Free at the Internet Archive Open Culture
The Anatomy of a Thousand Typefaces Medium
***MUSIC
Hallelujah!: You Can Stream Every Leonard Cohen Album in a 22-Hour Chronological Playlist (1967-2016) Open Culture
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Study finds patterns of harassment and sexist treatment of scholars in far-flung locations that offer few of the protections of campuses Inside Higher Ed
Before media firestorms, decades of assaults Axios
Ed Dept. Vigil for victims of sexual assault on campus and in protest changes to federal Title IX Inside Higher Ed
***SOCIOLOGY
Why Some Professions Have Higher Divorce Rates Life Hacker
***HEALTH
Why Hospitals Need Better Data Science Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review
Video on how drug companies make you pay for wasted medicine Tiny Letter
Anger Over Stereotypes in Textbook Inside Higher Ed
***BUSINESS
This calculator that shows you how long it takes the Kardashians to earn your annual salary Missy Empire
***SCIENCE
Cambridge Site Crashes After Posting Stephen Hawking's Thesis NPR
***PHILOSOPHY
***RESEARCH
New web services are helping authors make data-driven decisions when choosing which journal to submit to The London School of Economics & Political Science
It is time to restore Rules for Authorship of scientific publications Wiley Online Library
The Facebooking of Scholarly Research Scholarly Kitchen
About that peer-review crisis: There isn’t one, at least in terms of quantity, according to a new study of article submissions Inside Higher Ed
Researchers may be part of the problem in predatory publishing CMAJ News
When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy New York Times
***HIGHER ED
MIT Introduces Digital Diplomas Inside Higher Ed
Improving Federal Accountability for Higher Education American Progress
Western accrediting agency picks unconventional new leader Inside Higher Ed
George Fox University lands national accreditation for Master of Social Work program George Fox
Analysis: Liberty U a rare haven for conservative speakers Campus Reform
***TEACHING
***STUDENT LIFE
Tips on how to visit a college campus The Philadelphia Tribune
A Christian College Student’s Playlist Study Breaks
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
Journalism internships with November deadlines Student Press Law Center
***STUDENT MEDIA
A student newspaper retracts an article for made-up quotes The Rotunda Online
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Transcripts reveal prof’s tough tenure fight with WSU Detroit News
Professors’ Productivity Declines With Age, Right? Maybe Not Chronicle of Higher Ed
Openness to new Experiences Linked with Creativity
/The aspect of our personality that appears to drive our creativity is called openness to experience, or openness. Among the five major personality traits, it is openness that best predicts performance on divergent thinking tasks. Openness also predicts real-world creative achievements, as well as engagement in everyday creative pursuits.
In our research, published in the Journal of Research in Personality, we found that open people don’t just bring a different perspective to things, they genuinely see things differently to the average individual.
Our findings suggest that the creative tendencies of open people extend all the way down to basic visual perception. Open people may have fundamentally different visual experiences to the average person.
It might seem as if open people have been dealt a better hand than the rest of us. But can people with uncreative personalities broaden their limited vistas, and would this be a good thing?
There is mounting evidence that personality is malleable, and increases in openness have been observed in cognitive training interventions and studies of the effects of psilocybin.
Luke Smillie and Anna Antinori writing in The Conversation
what direction
/The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
articles of interest - Oct 16
/***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
When Does a Sexual Advance Amount to Sexual Harassment? An Attorney Explains Hollywood Reporter
Students storm a professor’s class at Columbia to protest the university’s handling of rape cases Inside Higher Ed
#MeToo made the scale of sexual abuse go viral. But is it asking too much of survivors? Washington Post
***ART & DESIGN
11 Optical Illusions Found in Visual Design Prototypr
Art About Racism: Closed to the Public Inside Higher Ed
Christie’s Unveils a Lost Leonardo da Vinci in New York Vogue
Two new studies paint an intriguing picture about the payoff of arts training Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Futura Became The Most Ripped-Off Typeface In History Fast Co.
***MUSIC
Hear Bob Dylan's Lost Gospel Masterpiece 'Making a Liar Out of Me' Rolling Stone
Hear 1,500+ Genres of Music, All Mapped Out on an Insanely Thorough Interactive Graph Open Culture
A billionaire’s quirky quest to create a mecca for Bob Dylan fans. In Tulsa, Oklahoma The Washington Post
***FILM
The History of Film Censorship The FIRE
***JOURNALISM
The State of Technology in Global Newsrooms ICFJ
The Journalism of Why: How we struggle to answer the hardest question Poynter
Donald Trump just issued a direct threat to the free and independent media (opinion) CNN
GOP lawmaker drafts bill requiring journalists to register with police The Hill
Tips for Data Journalism in the Shadow of an Overbroad Anti-Hacking Law ACLU
10 Journalism Tips That Never Go Out of Style (video) YouTube
Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist The Guardian
Not a revolution (yet): Data journalism hasn’t changed that much in 4 years, a new paper finds Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Is Brand Journalism Just for Big Businesses? Business2Business
The New York Times posts social media guidelines online for their newsroom accounts Talking New Media
***FAKE NEWS
Twitter Bots Are Trying To Influence You. These Six Charts Show You How To Spot One BuzzFeed News
These two studies found that correcting misperceptions works. But it’s not magic Poynter
Facebook Says Its Fake News Label Helps Reduce The Spread Of A Fake Story By 80% BuzzFeed News
Researchers developing a platform to detect image manipulation Rochester Institute of Technology
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Living purely in opposition to something, rather than for something, hollows you out inside Becoming (my blog)
The flaws a Nobel Prize-winning economist wants you to know about yourself Quartz
***LANGUAGE
An argument over the evolution of language, with high stakes Economist
On Dictionary Day, a tribute to books that offer the last word on language Poynter
***LITERATURE
Mississippi School District pulls ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ from its Curriculum over Language Sun-Herald
To Read This Experimental Edition of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, You'll Need to Add Heat to the PagesOpen Culture
***GENDER
Why Photography Can’t Get Woke Bloomberg
Women still earn a lot less than men, despite decades of equal-pay laws. Why? Economist
ASNE's latest diversity survey shows some progress, but newsrooms are still mostly white and male Poynter
***FREE SPEECH
Students Divided on Free Speech Inside Higher Ed
Hecklers shout down California attorney general and Assembly majority leader at Whittier College Washington Post
Why Are Millennials Wary of Freedom? (opinion) New York Times
***LEGAL ISSUES
When is a Facebook ‘like’ a crime? Washington Post
Does the Internet Archive Need the Copyright Rhetoric to Be Useful? Illusion of More
Supreme Court Turns Away Challenge To Google's Trademark Media Post
Microsoft’s fight with the feds over foreign servers is headed to Supreme Court The Verge
Benching NFL players for protesting during the anthem would be illegal (opinion) Vox
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act Turns 20 Media Law Monitor
***TECHNOLOGY
Tech has made life better, say 42% of Americans Pew Research Center
Social bots as a threat to democracy BoingBoing
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
The 1st demonstration of the ability of quantum machines to outperform classical computers could be just months way Technology Review
Intelligence leaders caution that AI cannot and should not replace the role of the human analyst Fed Tech Magazine
Machine learning demo with your webcam and GIFs Flowing Data
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Snapchat is getting closer and closer to being a truly useful app with Context Cards Quartz
What Facebook Did to American Democracy The Atlantic
The New York Times Issues Social Media Guidelines for the Newsroom New York Times
Nearly half of U.S. teens prefer Snapchat over other social media Recode
***PRODUCING MEDIA
What do you need to know before creating a podcast? Better News
Deepgram opens up its machine transcription platform to everyone Tech Crunch
***RELIGION
Africa's "reverse missionaries" are trying to bring Christianity back to the United Kingdom Quartz
Hell House: The evangelism strategy that aims to scare people into heaven Christianity Today
How a growing Christian movement is seeking to change America The Conversation
Just What Is the Museum of the Bible Trying to Do? Politico
Sneak peek: DC's huge new Museum of the Bible includes lots of tech — but not a lot of Jesus Washington Post
Female church executive named lead pastor of Willow Creek Chicago Tribune
A growing share of Americans say it’s not necessary to believe in God to be moral Pew Research
Church denies First Communion to fashion-loving girl because she wanted to wear a suit Washington Post
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Why evangelicals love Trump Politico
Trump, unlikely religious favorite, hails Christian values Washington Post
Donald Trump and the Dawn of the Evangelical-Nationalist Alliance Politico
***SOCIOLOGY
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts calls data on partisan gerrymandering “sociological gobbledygook” Inside Higher Ed
First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society MIT Technology Review
***HEALTH
This Company Is Trying To Disrupt The Braces Industry And Dentists Are Fighting Back BuzzFeed
***SCIENCE
NASA's visitor center offers a video game filled with bad facts and grammar errors The Verge
***PSYCHOLOGY
Confirmation bias: Why you make terrible life choices Medium
Find Out Which Cognitive Biases Alter Your Perspective Life Hacker
***PRODUCTIVITY
Lessons on Productivity Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HISTORY
I have a message for you (12 minute documentary) New York Times
The Secret Lives of Leonardo da Vinci The New Yorker
***RESEARCH
ResearchGate has reportedly started to take down large numbers of research papers Inside Higher Ed
China’s festering problem of systemic research fraud New York Times
Transparent peer review Nature Index
A study examines 70 years of engineering retractions, finding the main reason for retraction was unethical conduct Taylor & Francis Online
New web services are helping authors make data-driven decisions when choosing which journal to submit to The London School of Economics & Political Science
It is time to restore Rules for Authorship of scientific publications Wiley Online Library
The Facebooking of Scholarly Research Scholarly Kitchen
***HIGHER ED
***TEACHING
They Once Cheated in Class. Now They Teach Chronicle of Higher Ed
A new study shows that students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens Business Insider
***STUDENT LIFE
Student art exhibit at Penn prompts fierce debate over suicide Inside Higher Ed
Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety? New York Times
Research says college students no more narcissistic than previous generations at that age Inside Higher Ed
University student charters planes to bring supplies to Puerto Rico WTAE
America’s top universities deny students fair hearings The FIRE
***STUDENT MEDIA
How to cover free speech issues on university campuses Student Press Law Center
***JOBS
You Probably Need a Public Portfolio Even If You're Not a Freelancer or a "Creative" Life Hacker
Living in Opposition
/I've never been around an activist group that didn't turn into an endless series of petty purity tests. I was raised in a church where everyone was looking for more and more inconsequential things to judge each other by.. The natural evolution is toward tighter and tighter criteria for what behavior gets you shunned from the group. The end result is that the central cause can be as pure as the driven snow, and yet the tone will get more and more toxic over time, the members becoming less and less charitable with each other.
You hear experts talk about how extremists get "radicalized." But it really isn't a mystery, and we all form less-murderous versions of this. All it takes is a closed like-minded social circle in which it's considered unacceptable to disagree with the group, and then devote that group to hating something. It doesn't even matter if the thing truly deserves hating -- it still turns toxic. In fact, it works better if it does. "How can you criticize any flaw in our group's behavior when the other side is Nazis! That's literally saying that both sides are the same! The mere existence of pure evil on the other side mathematically means our side is pure good!"
At that point, no criticism is possible and there is nothing to moderate the rage. The rhetoric ratchets higher and higher as each member tries to top each other (to prove their own righteousness by demonstrating they hate the target most), and there is no method for reining it in. Anyone from the inside who takes a moderate tone can be shouted down with accusations of being an enemy sympathizer.
Living purely in opposition to something, rather than for something, hollows you out inside. To be a whole human being, you have to spend your life building something good.
David Wong writing for Cracked
articles of interest - Oct 9
/***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Algorithms have already gone rogue Wired
Does the new theory “information bottleneck” crack open the black box of deep neural networks? Wired
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Local Media Consortium to partner with Facebook-owned CrowdTangle
How to use Tweetdeck and advanced search to make Twitter useful again Poynter
Survey: Facebook (FB) is the big tech company that people trust least Quartz
Key trends in social and digital news media Pew Research Center
9 ways to make your dog famous on Instagram Hapers Bazaar
Meet the millennials who are making a living from livestreaming The Guardian
Snapchat to launch augmented reality art platform TechCrunch
***PRODUCING MEDIA
The Three Fundamental Moments of Podcasts' Crazy Rise Wired
How to Make Short-Form Videos as Tutorials, and Why You Might Want To Chronicle of Higher Ed
Rethinking audio editing on mobile Medium
The state of podcasting in five charts Digiday
Podcasts, Smart Speakers Lead the Way at Next Radio Radio World
Try This: Podcasting made audio great again. It could be even better. Two tools to help Poynter
The Boom In Political Podcasting NPR
***JOURNALISM
The rise of virtual reality journalism Columbia Journalism Review
Day One takeaways from ONA-17 Medium
Day Two: Following the Future of Journalism with #ONA17 MediaShift
ProPublica’s New Project to Work With Local Newsrooms ProPublica
Our addiction to links is making good journalism harder to read The Coffeelicious
Beyond 800 words: new digital story formats for news BBC
How J-Schools Are Adding Social Media, Curation, Analytics to Editing Classes Media Shift
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Los Angeles Times Newsroom, Challenging Tronc, Goes Public With Union Push New York Times
A course in freelancing? Yes, and not only that, it's a master's degree Poynter
***FAKE NEWS
The science behind why fake news is so hard to wipe out Vox
Facebook tries fighting fake news with publisher info button on links TechCrunch
***TECHNOLOGY
Google's New Live-Translating Earbuds Look Absolutely Incredible Digg
Inside Apple’s Quest To Transform Photography BuzzFeed News
Video Games for people with disabilities Economist
Who’s afraid of disruption? Economist
***PERSONAL GROWTH
To take a step without feet Becoming (my blog)
How We Make Up Our Minds The New York Times
***GRAMMAR
The Rise of the Restrictive Comma Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING & READING
The weekly routine of writer Ann Friedman Extraordinary Routines Extraordinary Routines
***LANGUAGE
Two new slang words that show the effects of electronically mediated communication on our speech Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
Kazuo Ishiguro Is Awarded Nobel Prize In Literature NPR
Jill Bialosky Says Plagiarism Claims ‘Should Not Distract’ From Her Poetry Memoir New York Times
Austenistan: Jane Austen’s books are remarkably relevant to women in Pakistan today 1843 Magazine
Students, teachers ponder literature in an age of technology Meridian Star
***GENDER
Jeff Sessions Just Reversed A Policy That Protects Transgender Workers From Discrimination BuzzFeed News
***FREE SPEECH
Free Speech Advocate Silenced: An ACLU official was the latest to be blocked from speaking on campus Inside Higher Ed
College students and the First Amendment: What the right doesn’t want you to know Salon
Blocking a President From Talking: University of Oregon is third institution in two weeks where speakers have had talks disrupted Inside Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
The defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed for publishing an unverified intelligence dossier on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election National Law Journal
NYPD officer: Former tennis star James Blake defamed me as ‘a racist and a goon’ Washington Post
Publishers seek removal of millions of papers from ResearchGate Times Higher Ed
In Comic-Con Dispute, Appeals Court Wants to Hear More About Judge's Gag Order Hollywood Reporter
Authenticity more than any other quality was flagged as a key to success by 22 litigators National Law Journal
U.S. Government, Hollywood Studios Weigh in on Dispute Exploring Reach of U.S. Copyright Law Hollywood Reporter
Hyperlinking to Sources Can Help Defeat Defamation Claims–Adelson v. Harris Eric Goldman
***PRIVACY
Despite massive hack, Equifax wins IRS contract for fraud-detection The Verge
***RELIGION
An AI god will emerge by 2042 and write its own bible. Will you worship it? Venture Beat
Key facts about government-favored religion around the world Pew Research Center
Sessions outlines broad exemptions for religious freedom Politico
Princeton Student Group Excises 'Evangelical From Name Due to Negative Perceptions Washington Free Beacon
The Satanic Temple Wins Appeal in Missouri Abortion Case Patheos
Christian radio host Delilah trusting God as she loses her second child to a suicide Christianity Today
Religion on the College Campus First Things
***MUSIC
This music production tool is the reason why all new music sounds the same Quartz
Language of Hip Hop The Pudding
***FILM
Honest Trailers creator suspended over accusations of sexual harassment and assault AV Club
Men, women and films: How pronounced is the gender divide on the silver screen? 1843 Magazine
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Some colleges opt to outsource Title IX investigations, hearings Inside Higher Ed
***HEALTH
With The Swab Of A Cheek, This Company Knows When You're Likely To Die Forbes
Human Brain Has A Direct Link To The Immune System After All NPR
***PSYCHOLOGY
Children have got much better at a famous psychological test Economist
My Depression Is Like Having A Bad Dog BuzzFeed News
***NEUROSCIENCE
How Stress Can Change Your Brain: An Animated Introduction Open Culture
Understanding the Influential MindScientific American Scientific American
***ETHICS
Is It Ethical to Visit a Country With Human Rights Violations? CN Traveler
***PHILOSOPHY
How philosophy can solve your midlife crisis Phys.org
***PRODUCTIVITY
Productive on six hours of sleep? You’re deluding yourself, expert says Chicago Tribune
***HISTORY
Stalin’s famine, a war on Ukraine Economist
***POLITICS
The Partisan Divide on Political Values Grows Even Wider People
America's Political Divide Intensified During Trump's First Year As President The Atlantic
***RESEARCH
The Big Bang Theory recap: 'The Retraction Reaction Entertainment Weekly
What separates a predatory publisher from a legitimate science publisher? PLOS
Research papers are becoming less readable Chemistry World
Publishers seek removal of millions of papers from ResearchGate Times Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
How Technology Is Transforming the Way We Teach and Learn Singularity Hub
Hate fliers have appeared on hundreds of campuses, largely due to the efforts of groups looking to make recruiting inroads Chronicle of Higher Ed
Tennessee congressmen support end of DACA after Christian colleges ask President Trump to keep it The Stampede (Milligan College student newspaper)
Nondenominational Christian University Closing Inside Higher Ed
How to prepare students for the rigors of higher education: The 2017-2018 Bilingual Christian College Guide Christianity Today
Puerto Rico's plight has Olivet Nazarene University student worried Daily Journal
***TEACHING
Instructors, Did You Ever Cheat When You Were a Student? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Professors are the new therapists Slate
***STUDENT LIFE
5 Tips for Feeling Organized in College Study Breaks
Students Are Demanding More Help With Mental Health And Say Universities Aren’t Keeping Up BuzzFeed News
Ex-student sues Montana State University alleging Disabilities Act violations Bozeman Daily Chronicle
What everyone gets wrong about 'millennial snowflakes' BBC
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student government and college paper in Pennsylvania clash over publishing budget SPLC
Young Sheldon sends student newspaper editor into an existential death spiral AV Club
To Take a Step Without Feet
/This is Love: to fly toward a secret sky,
To cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First, to let go of life.
In the end, to take a step without feet;
to regard this world as invisible,
and to disregard what appears to the self.
Heart, I said, what a gift it has been
to enter this circle of lovers,
to see beyond seeing itself,
to reach and feel within the breast.
My soul, where does this breathing arise?
How does this beating heart exist?
Bird of the soul, speak in your own words,
and I will understand.
The heart replied: I was in the workplace
the day this house of water and clay was fired.
I was already fleeing that created house,
even as it was being created.
When I could no longer resist, I was dragged down,
and my features were molded from a handful of earth.
Rumi
creating
/God does not create in order to acquire something but in order to share Himself.
Policing people’s grammar online is never really about grammar
/One of the many unexpected side effects of the internet is that it’s shown us just how many people appear to lose the capacity for emotional self-regulation when confronted with a misused semicolon. Scroll through the comments section of any publication or simply sign on to Twitter, and you’ll find plenty of examples of people who treat typos and grammatical errors not just as ordinary mistakes, but as a kind of moral offense.
When a grammar stickler obsesses over the proper placement of an apostrophe in a Facebook status or a blog post, they’re not engaging with the actual content. How many times have we seen an online commenter whose only remark on a post about the author’s struggles with body image is “It’s their not there,” or a Twitter acquaintance who proudly screenshots a typo in a New York Times article on science education? The instinct to publicly criticize and police linguistic errors is also a way to avoid wading into the muck of other people’s thoughts and feelings, and redirect the conversation back toward oneself.
Because young or poor or immigrant populations are often among those who may not conform to traditional English grammar and spelling and punctuation usage, focusing on linguistic deviations can reinforce the barriers of privilege.
Sarah Todd writing in Quartz
articles of interest - Oct 2
/***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
The Coming Software Apocalypse (check the comments section) The Atlantic
Cloud platforms are offering machine learning users alternatives to open source tools: the advantages and cautions Search Business Analytics
Microsoft launches new Machine Learning tools for developers all related to the Azure Machine Tech Crunch
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Ready Or Not, Twitter Is Doubling A Tweet's Character Limit To 280 NPR
Twitter Wipes Hundreds of Russian Operative Accounts Geek
Russian-Linked Election Ads Highlight Scope Of Facebook's Power NPR
Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is? New York Mag
Russia Continues To Use Social Media To Influence Public Opinion In The U.S. NPR
Facebook is hiring another 1,000 people to review and remove ads Recode
***INTERNET
Google turns 19: Here are 19 random facts about the search engine giant Recode
The ‘Google Trick’ to Get Around Paywalls Is Getting Shut Down New York Mag
***TECHNOLOGY
The Coming Software Apocalypse The Atlantic
The internet isn’t forever. Is there an effective way to preserve great online interactives and news apps? Harvard's Nieman Lab
***SECURITY
The Equifax Hack Has the Hallmarks of State-Sponsored Pros Bloomberg
Most Americans think the government could be monitoring their phone calls and emails Pew Research
***JOURNALISM
As crisis unfolds in Puerto Rico, journalists help connect familiesColumbia Journalism Review
Where we are on getting people to pay for online news Harvard's Nieman Lab
Tension between Trump and the media? That’s nothing compared to journalism’s worst crisis (opinion) Washington Post
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback. Here's why. Poynter
The secret cost of pivoting to video Columbia Journalism Review
The Design of Newspapers: Why The News Industry is Changing Medium
***FAKE NEWS
Paul Horner, Fake News Purveyor Who Claimed Credit For Trump's Win, Found Dead At 38 NPR
Facebook and Google’s algorithms prioritized fake news in the wake of Las Vegas shooting Mic
***GRAMMAR
The power of the comma: The punctuation mark most likely to start fights between grammar gurus The Economist
***WRITING & READING
The World According to Dan Brown New York Times
Writing Well about Terrible People Incisive.nu
***LANGUAGE
Johns Hopkins University eliminates Russian Major Inside Higher Ed
***GENDER
The state of women in computer science: An investigative report Tech Republic
Saudi Arabia To End Ban On Women Driving NPR
Cute Outfits and the Academic Career Chronicle of Higher Ed
This Is the Job Where Women Make the Most Compared to Men Fortune
Trump’s White House Froze an Equal pay Rule Women are fighting to Save Washington Post
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
White American men are a bigger domestic terrorist threat than Muslim foreigners Vox
Air Force Academy Leader Responds To Racial Slurs On Campus NPR
Hispanic dropout rate hits new low, college enrollment at new high Pew Research
***FREE SPEECH
Sessions’ Justice Dept. Will Weigh In on Free-Speech Cases. What Should Campuses Expect? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Berkeley’s Leader Saw Hints That ‘Free Speech Week’ Was a Stunt. Here’s Why She Planned for It Anyway. Chronicle of Higher ED
***LEGAL ISSUES
Seven legal questions about Trump deleting his tweets Columbia Journalism Review
Appeals court sides with Texas cheerleaders who sued to display Bible verses at football gamesDallas News
Mississippi restaurant sued after Christian waitress is allegedly fired for wearing a skirt to work Washington Post
***RELIGION
Tenn. church suspect's car had note referencing retaliation for Dylann Roof's Charleston attack ABC News
500 Years After Martin Luther, Does The Protestant Reformation Still Matter? (opinion) The Daily Beast
The Justice Department is intervening in a case at Georgia Gwinnett College involving a student’s claim that he was prevented from religious proselytizing on campus. Chronicle of Higher Ed
Fired by ESPN for a racist headline, he’s finding his second chance as a Catholic priest Washington Post
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Evangelicals urge more action from Trump against 'alt-right' CNN
Roy Moore, Christian theocrat Vox
A short history of Roy Moore’s controversial interpretations of the Bible Washington Post
***ART & DESIGN
An SNL skit for designers YouTube
Online Design: Nested Symbols & Auto-Updating Styleguides
Naked Mona Lisa By Da Vinci, Discovered In France, Is Rocking The Art World Forbes
A Five Minutes Guide to Better Typography Pierrick Calvez
***MUSIC
3 myths about streaming... and 3 truths about the music industry today Music Business Worldwide
Streaming has pushed Latin music into the mainstream The Economist
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
The Meteoric rise of a new Way of Watching Media in America Changes how we Monetize its Consumption Broadcasting & Cable
5 Branded Videos That Reached Over 100,000 Likes Video Strategist
***HEALTH
The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life: the new sleep science The Guardian
Cancer Warnings on Coffee May Be Coming to California Food & Wine
Pain Cream Invented, But Untested NPR
Nobel Prize In Medicine Is Awarded To 3 Americans NPR
***SCIENCE
Hip-hop star creates GoFundMe page to prove to him that the world is, in fact, curved Gizmodo
Why We Find And Expose Bad Science Medium
Wikipedia shapes language in science papers Nature
***PSYCHOLOGY
The Cause Of Your Worst Mistakes? A Psychological Gremlin You've Never Heard Of Forbes
The Sorrow and the Shame of the Accidental Killer: How do you live after unintentionally causing a death? The New Yorker
Psychology beats business training when it comes to entrepreneurship The Economist
***PHILOSOPHY
Yes, your kid will do something with that philosophy degree after all Washington Post
***BUSINESS
Huge volumes of data make real-time insurance a possibility The Economist
***POLITICS
How Every NFL Team’s Fans Lean Politically FiveThirtyEight
***HISTORY
Tom Cruise's 'American Made' just latest case of film recasting history Union-Tribune
***ETHICS
Scientists gave kids real guns for an experiment. Now ethicists are weighing in Mic
Ethical investment is booming. But what is it? The Economist
***RESEARCH
An Ivy League Prof Tries To Do Damage Control For His Bogus Food Science BuzzFeed News
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Social proof is a much more effective persuasion technique than purely evidence-based proof Becoming (my blog)
This gene explains why some people crave adventure more than others Mashable
***HIGHER ED
154 incidents of hate speech and violence at more than 120 campuses nationwide BuzzFeed News
How Artificial Intelligence Is Disrupting the Education Industry Huffington Post
White nationalist fliers removed from University of Tennessee campus Knox News
For-profit University of Phoenix Phasing Out 20 Campuses Phoenix NewTimes
Assessment Competitors LiveText and Taskstream Merge Inside Higher Ed
DeVos assailed by protesters at college campuses in Boston, Washington Washington Post
How Schools Got into the Job-Prep Business Jstor
Colorado Christian University orders student athletes to stand for national anthem Denver Post
At Christian Colleges, Theology Can Complicate Sexual-Assault Prevention Chronicle of Higher Ed
Christian college Won’t Play Opponents Who Kneel During National Anthem Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Amid Professors’ ‘Doom-and-Gloom Talk,’ Humanities Ph.D. Applications Drop Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Using Digital Archives to Teach Data Set Creation and Visualization Design Chronicle of Higher Ed
AAU reports on efforts to improve science teaching at research universities Inside Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Colleges Recruit a New Kind of Athlete: Video Gamers Fortune
Assortative mating: People tend to marry spouses with similar levels of education The Economist
The Keg in the Frat House New York Times
Where Students Get Valued Advice on What to Study in College Gallup
80 Evergreen State College Students Are Penalized for Protests Chronicle of Higher Ed
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
DeVos Should Want to Educate Men About Rape New York Times
An Overview of Congress’ Pending Legislation on Sex Trafficking Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Why Ph.D.s in the natural sciences and engineering leave academe Inside Higher Ed
Sociology professor arrested for assaulting student The Tab
Research suggests students are biased against female lecturers The Economist
One-third of Ph.D.s lose interest in academic careers, but not for lack of jobs Cornell
CUNY Lecturer Charged With Running Fake Health Certificate Program New York Times
Former Montana State professor sues for wrongful termination Bozeman Daily Chronicle
***CRIME ON CAMPUS
USC faculty member detained by police after reporting an active shooter on campus. There wasn’t one Washington Post
Social Proof
/We constantly compare our actions and beliefs to those of our peers, and then alter them to fit in. This means that if our social group believes something, we are more likely to follow the herd.
This effect of social influence on behaviour was nicely demonstrated back in 1961 by the street corner experiment. The experiment was simple (and fun) enough for you to replicate. Just pick a busy street corner and stare at the sky for 60 seconds.
Most likely very few folks will stop and check what you are looking at – in this situation Milgram found that about 4% of the passersby joined in. Now get some friends to join you with your lofty observations. As the group grows, more and more strangers will stop and stare aloft. By the time the group has grown to 15 sky gazers, about 40% of the by-passers will have stopped and craned their necks along with you. You have almost certainly seen the same effect in action at markets where you find yourself drawn to the stand with the crowd around it.
The principle applies just as powerfully to ideas. If more people believe a piece of information, then we are more likely to accept it as true. And so if, via our social group, we are overly exposed to a particular idea then it becomes embedded in our world view. In short social proof is a much more effective persuasion technique than purely evidence-based proof, which is of course why this sort of proof is so popular in advertising (“80% of mums agree”).
Mark Lorch writing in Business Insider
articles of interest - Sept. 25
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
How Baby Boomers Use Social Media Daily Infographic
Facebook adds human reviewers after 'Jew haters' ad scandal BBC News
What We Do and Don’t Know About Facebook’s New Political Ad Transparency Initiative ProPublica
WhatsApp gets blocked behind China's 'Great Firewall,' joining Facebook and Instagram Mashable
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Digital Tools Available Now to Add Power and Simplify Every Journalist’s Job Editor and Publisher
10 Photoshop editing skills every photographer should know Tech Radar
A Deep Data Dive into the Power of Branded Video Video Strategist
***INTERNET
Google's Inbox and Gmail finally turn addresses and phone numbers into interactive links Tech Republic
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
***JOURNALISM
The future of news is humans talking to machines Nieman Lab
Post-Dispatch demands charges be dropped against reporter covering protest St. Louis Today
Twitter dustups are a reminder: Journalists, you are what you tweet Poynter
Turkey’s purge of 'dissent' is destroying press freedom Huck Mag
The Media Has A Probability Problem FiveThirtyEight
Journalism Resource Guide on Behavioral Health The Carter Center
Out of ‘Spotlight,’ the movie, comes the Spotlight Fellowship Boston Globe
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Broadcaster opts to hire local reporters over parachute coverage Columbia Journalism Review
Fort Wayne’s News-Sentinel Is Ending Its Print Edition and Moving to Digital Ad Week
***FAKE NEWS
That Hilarious Tweet About an Instructor’s Big Mistake? Almost Certainly Fake Chronicle of Higher Ed
Snopes.com and the Search for Facts in a Post-Fact World Wired
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Microsoft launches new Machine Learning tools for developers all related to the Azure Machine TechCrunch
It’s important to be able to separate fact from fiction-Here are eight myths about Big Data & Predictive Analytics Information Week
Flash technology accelerates predictive analytics software Search Storage
linguistics is not being applied in the single most important arena that needs it: artificial intelligence Chronicle of Higher Ed
Machine learning Is making video game characters smarter using procedural rendering Fast Company
Google’s advice on how publishers can take advantage of machine learning Google
Apple’s ‘Neural Engine’ infuses the iPhone with AI smarts Wired
The Amazing Ways Coca Cola Uses Artificial Intelligence And Big Data To Drive Success Forbes
***GRAMMAR
Ben Yagoda applauds the new Chicago Manual of Style's (limited) acceptance of singular they Chronicle of Higher Ed
A Word, Please: Context is key to some editing rules LA Times
***WRITING & READING
The Psychological Benefits of Writing Regularly Medium
Poetry For Kids Who Are 'Just No Good At Rhyming' NPR
***FREE SPEECH
A chilling study shows how hostile college students are toward free speech (opinion) Washington Post
Views among college students regarding the First Amendment: Results from a new survey Brookings
Jury to Decide Whether or Not "Comic-Con" Has Become Generic Hollywood Reporter
Experts Criticize Survey on student Attitudes on First Amendment and violence as “junk science” Inside Higher Ed
When to pull the FIRE Alarm: Common types of censorship on campus The FIRE
Shia LaBeouf Says Calling Bartender "Racist" Was Protected Speech Hollywood Reporter
‘Substantial cost’: University of California foots major security bill for free speech Washington Post
A Cop With A Tattoo He Swears Isn’t A “Nazi Tattoo” Says A Lot About Police Free Speech BuzzFeed
The Limits Of Free Speech In Germany NPR
Germany’s New Social Media Law Puts a Price on Hate Speech PBS Media Shift
***LEGAL ISSUES
Defamation Lawsuit Against Donald Trump Gains Support From Law Professors Hollywood Reporter
Federal Judge Rejects Couple’s Argument for Refusing Gay Customers NBC News
Iowa's Supreme Court Hears Dispute Over $75 Speeding Ticket NPR
All-Star Concert to End Global Poverty Brings Lawsuit Over Video Footage Hollywood Reporter
Carter Page, former Trump adviser, suing over Huffington Post, Yahoo News articles iMediaEthics
Starz Beats 'Power' Copyright Lawsuit Hollywood Reporter
***RELIGION
America’s Shifting Religious Makeup Could Spell Trouble For Both Parties FiveThirtyEight
Colin Kaepernick vs. Tim Tebow: Christianity on its knees The Washington Post
Filipino Megachurch Buys Entire Ghost Town in Connecticut for $1.8 Million Next Shark
Lawsuit claims a North Texas medical group tried to force staff to be ‘more godly’ Dallas News
More Than Big Hair and Money: Jim, Tammy Faye and the Media “Holy Wars” of the 80s Religious Dispatches
20% of Americans Are on the Threshold of Religion Christianity Today
James Faulkner, Jim Caviezel, Olivier Martinez to Star in ‘Paul, Apostle of Christ’ Variety
***RELIGION: PREACHERS IN THE NEWS
Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress says kneeling NFL players should thank God they're not being shot in the head Dallas News
Benny Hinn Is My Uncle, but Prosperity Preaching Isn’t for Me Christianity Today
Erica Lea to Become First Openly LGBTQ Lead Pastor of Mennonite Church USA Sojourners
Reverend David Mainse 1936-2017 Context
LA pastor detained by ICE since July released from custody Daily News
*** RELIGION: MUSIC
Remembering the Influential Life of Rich Mullins ChristianHeadlines
American Idol winner performs the national anthem with a Bible verse written on her hand New York Daily News
Christian singer Natalie Grant undergoing thyroid surgery Daily Herald
***TENNESSEE CHURCH SHOOTER
Masked gunman rampages through Nashville church; usher uses personal weapon to subdue shooter Washington Post
Suicide threat and domestic disputes: Antioch church shooting suspect had history with police The Tennessean
***ART & DESIGN
When AI Design Websites Wired
***MUSIC
Bob Dylan's New Bootleg Series Will Spotlight Gospel Period Rolling Stone
Hear the Pieces Mozart Composed When He Was Only Five Years Old Open Culture
Taylor Swift Sued Over "Shake It Off" Lyrics Hollywood Reporter
***FILM
Martin Scorsese to Teach His First Online Course on Filmmaking Open Culture
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Is There A 'Better Way' To Handle Campus Sexual Assault? NPR
Ruling in high-profile sexual harassment case suggests that foreign students in online courses have no recourse under Title IX Inside Higher Ed
Colleges Must not Turn back the Clock on Efforts to Combat Sexual Assault (opinion) Washington Post
What You Need to Know About the New Guidance on Title IX Chronicle of Higher Ed
What Does the End of Obama’s Title IX Guidance Mean for Colleges? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***CAMPUS SAFETY
After fatal shooting of a student, experts question why Georgia Tech doesn’t arm its officers with stun guns Inside Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Do We Still Value the Dissertation? The Chronicle of Higher Education Chronicle of Higher Ed
White, male faculty earn higher salaries than women, minorities at public universities Journalists Resources
Article on the supposed benefits of Western colonialism has prompted calls for retraction Inside Higher Ed
***BUSINESS
The Most Important Rule for Startup Success Jstor
***HEALTH
Brain stimulation partly awakens patient after 15 years in vegetative state Stat News
Boston scientists test ‘chatbot’ that offers spiritual, emotional guidance to terminally ill Washington Times
***SCIENCE
Majority of Americans rely on general outlets for science news but more say specialty sources get the facts right about science Journalism.org
Key takeaways on Americans’ science news habits Pew Research Center
All people with blue eyes have a common ancestor Business Insider
Academic Myth Busters Part Two: Four scientific myths that your teachers passed off as true Study Breaks
California Finally Has an Official State Dinosaur Atlas Obscura
***PHILOSOPHY
On Retraction in Philosophy Digressions & Impressions
Descartes Is Not Our Father: History tells us he invented modern philosophy. That history is wrong. New York Times
Intuition: Epistemology Wireless Philosophy
***SOCIAL ISSUES
This Stanford Professor Has a Theory on Why 2017 Is Filled With Jerks New York Magazine
***RESEARCH
British Press Watchdog Says Climate Change Article Was Faulty New York Times
Finding typos in a paper post-publication Academia Obscura
Do We Need A Self-Citation Index? The Scholarly Kitchen
Is predatory scientific publishing “becoming an organized industry”? Physics Today
A Call for Honesty in Christian Scholarship Patheos
***HIGHER ED
The Education Department Will Allow Two Large For-Profit Colleges To Become Nonprofits BuzzFeed
Student Protestors And Their Faculty Allies At The Evergreen State College Win A Battle But Lose The War Huffington Post
5 Wheaton College football players face felony charges in hazing incident Chicago Tribune
Lawyers -- Email of former Baylor president David Garland raises red flags ESPN
***TEACHING
Survey: Blended Learning on the Rise Campus Technology
Teaching Online Takes More Time Than in Person Inside Higher Ed
Do Laptops Help Learning? A Look At The Only Statewide School Laptop Program NPR
***STUDENT MEDIA
University of Louisville pulls funding from student newspaper Courier-Journal
University of Mississippi Cartoonist harassed by White Supremacists Cartoonist Rights
***STUDENT LIFE
Study: teens increasingly put off traditional markers of adulthood Washington Post
Resources to Take Advantage of Your Senior Year Study Breaks
Students Have new Ways of Measuring Degrees of Success Washington Post
UW student creates controversial clothing line NBC-15
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
BuzzFeed Emerging Writers Fellowship 2018 BuzzFeed
Dow Jones News Fund arranges summer internships
articles of interest - Sept 18
/***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
61% of young adults in U.S. watch mainly streaming TV Pew Research Center
The magazine industry finds itself fighting on unfamiliar terrain, best suited to their rivals Talking New Media
***JOURNALISM
How to cover DACA as a student journalist: advice from professionals Student Press Law Center
Journalist from Mexico denied entry to U.S. for D.C. press event CBS News
Report for America aims to get 1,000 journalists in local newsrooms in next 5 years Poynter
How the Birmingham Mail Separated Print from Digital to Save the Newspaper PBS Media Shift
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
No Apology, No Explanation: Fox News And The Seth Rich Story NPR
BuzzFeed News embraces video, skips the ‘pivot’ Columbia Journalism Review
***FAKE NEWS
WSJ, Getty unpublish fake photographs from phony conflict reporter imediaethics
***TECHNOLOGY
Apple’s FaceID Could Be a Powerful Tool for Mass Spying (opinion) Wired
Apple's Facial Recognition Software Has Privacy Advocates Worried NPR
iPhone X price, features widen gap between haves and have-nots CNET
What It Might Take To Stop The Data Breaches NPR
A long-range, frugal new chip could be just what a smart city needs Economist
***TECHNOLOGY: FACIAL RECOGNITION
Ever better and cheaper, face-recognition technology is spreading Economist
Advances in AI are used to spot signs of sexuality Economist
Researchers produce images of people’s faces from their genomes Economist
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
The Amazing Ways Coca Cola Uses Artificial Intelligence And Big Data To Drive Success Forbes
How technology is changing the culture of the intelligence community Federal News Radio
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Dude is pumped to discover Snapchat's ridiculous new feature Mashable
Confessions of an Instagram influencer: Brands just want big numbers Digiday
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Phones Are Changing How People Shoot and Watch Video Wired
Tell a Story with your Data with StorylineJS Chronicle of Higher Ed
***INTERNET
Equifax hired a music major as chief security officer Mediaite
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The “No one to blame but themselves” rule Becoming (my blog)
6 Reasons Good People Turn Into Monsters Cracked
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Science tries to make sense of humanities: This is your brain on art Washington Post
***GRAMMAR
The meaning of Entitlement Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING & READING
How Reading Rewires Your Brain for More Intelligence and Empathy Big Think
***LANGUAGE
Research Shows Spanish Speakers Take Longer To Learn English. Why? NPR
Merriam-Webster adds 'alt-right' and 'sriracha' and 250 more words to its dictionary LA Times
***GENDER
Women dominate journalism schools, but newsrooms are still a different story Poynter
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
What ESPN Employees Are Saying About The Jemele Hill Situation On Their Private Message Board DeadSpin
How the U.S. Hispanic population is changing Pew Research
4 Books That Will Help You Understand Race in Modern America Study Breaks
***FREE SPEECH
Arguments over free speech on campus are not left v right Economist
What Lies Ahead in the Campus-Speech Wars? Experts discuss the challenges they see on the horizon — and what colleges can do about them Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Free Speech-Hate Speech Trade-Off (opinion) New York Times
What Lies Ahead in the Campus-Speech Wars? Experts discuss the challenges they see on the horizon — and what colleges can do about them Chronicle of Higher Ed
Some Americans don’t believe Muslims, atheists have First Amendment rights Religion News Service
Incidents at Harvard and Catholic Universities run counter to narrative about campus speaker controversies Inside Higher Ed
How First Amendment Battles Are Shaping Up in the Social Media Age Hollywood Reporter
***LEGAL ISSUES
Website Inaccessible to Visually Impaired Violated the Americans with Disabilities Act Lexology
Facebook Wins Appeal Over Allegedly Discriminatory Content Removal–Sikhs for Justice v. Facebook Technology and Marketing Law Blog
How Spotify's Argument in Copyright Lawsuit Could Upend the Music Industry's Newfound Recovery Billboard
If ESPN Wants to Discipline Jemele Hill, She Might Have Law on Her Side New York Times
Conan O'Brien to Probe Whether Copyright Office Was Duped by Tom Brady Joke Hollywood Reporter
Doubling (& Tripling) Down on Trademark Protection For Secret Menu Items–In-N-Out v. Smashburger Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***RELIGION
A Booming New Jersey Evangelical Church whose fiery founder who embraced the K.K.K. New York Times
Houston Church Blocks Jewish Lesbian From Volunteering to Help Hurricane Victims Newsweek
Died: Nabeel Qureshi, Author of ‘Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus’ Christianity Today
'Jesus People' – a movement born from the 'Summer of Love' LA Times
***ART & DESIGN
Banksy is back with artwork that expertly skewers how institutions treat street art Mashable
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Liberalism and the Campus Rape Tribunals New York Times
***SOCIAL ISSUES
As U.S. marriage rate hovers at 50%, education gap in marital status widens Pew Research Center
***HEALTH
What Makes People Like (and Dislike) Their Doctors? Priceonomics
***HEALTH: CANCER
Science will win the technical battle against cancer. But that is only half the fight Economist
New types of therapy mean cancer is going to become ever more survivable Economist
Understanding cancer’s unruly origins helps early diagnosis Economist
Enrolling the immune system in the fight against cancer Economist
Today’s anti-cancer tools are ever better wielded Economist
The developing world needs better cancer strategies Economist
***BUSINESS
Why American Workers Pay Twice as Much in Taxes as Wealthy Investors Bloomberg
***PSYCHOLOGY
The Social Life of Opioids: New studies strengthen ties between loss, pain and drug use Scientific American
***PHILOSOPHY
Feminism and the Future of Philosophy New York Times
Philosophy, Descartes and the dance of life The Guardian
***PRODUCTIVITY
The Silicon Valley avant-garde have turned to LSD in a bid to increase their productivity 1843 Magazine
***RESEARCH
This search engine makes finding public records less painful Poynter
“Do You Expect Me to Just Give Away My Data?” Eos
Creating Incentives to Address the Replication Crisis in Science Undark
COPE Ethical Guidelinesfor Peer Reviewers Pub Ethics
Publishing in parallel: when two societies work together Royal Society
***HIGHER ED
How U.S. News college rankings promote economic inequality on campus Politico
The subtle ways colleges discriminate against poor students, explained with a cartoon Vox
Report Faults U. of Virginia on Response to White-Supremacist Rally Chronicle of Higher Ed
Christian Universities: Moving Ahead by Standing Still (opinion) Context
***TEACHING
Atmospheric scientist at Illinois is on leave after refusing to provide lecture slides to student with disabilities Inside Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Five reasons you should join your college newspaper Medium
UT Austin journalist assaulted while covering protest Student Press Law Center
***STUDENT LIFE
Georgia Tech Student-Activist Shot Dead by Campus Police Fox 5 Atlanta
Student reporters kicked out of “open” student government meeting Student Press Law Center
Students lose roughly four in 10 of the credits they accumulate before transferring: The transfer route in California is a "complex and costly maze” Inside Higher Ed
How Successful Valedictorians Are After High School Money Magazine
As Millennials Get Older, Many Are Buying SUVs To Drive To Their Suburban Homes NPR
Why Millennials should be really worried about the Equifax breach Money Magazine
DACA student targeted by classmate says university has done nothing to help CBS News
Yale University will discontinue the terms “freshman” and “upperclassman” in its official documents Inside Higher Ed
How to choose a student credit card USA Today
How to Decide If Moving Off Campus Is Right for You Study Breaks
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Evergreen professor at center of protests resigns; college will pay $500,000 The Seattle Times
Republicans view professors more ‘coldly’ than Democrats do Pew Research Center
How a Group of Instructors Is Standing Up to the Right-Wing Outrage Machine Chronicle of Higher Ed
College puts adjunct on leave over tweet about teaching 'future dead cops' Inside Higher Ed
the opportunity
/Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford