being good
/I'm pretty sure that most of what we consider being good in this culture is just having disdain for the right things. David Wong
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
And how are you mad?
/When first looking out for a partner, the requirements we come up with are coloured by a beautiful non-specific sentimental vagueness: we’ll say we really want to find someone who is ‘kind’ or ‘fun to be with’, ‘attractive’ or ‘up for adventure…’
It isn’t that such desires are wrong, they are just not remotely precise enough in their understanding of what we in particular are going to require in order to stand a chance of being happy – or, more accurately, not consistently miserable.
All of us are crazy in very particular ways. We’re distinctively neurotic, unbalanced and immature, but don’t know quite the details because no one ever encourages us too hard to find them out. An urgent, primary task of any lover is therefore to get a handle on the specific ways in which they are mad. They have to get up to speed on their individual neuroses. They have to grasp where these have come from, what they make them do – and most importantly, what sort of people either provoke or assuage them. A good partnership is not so much one between two healthy people (there aren’t many of these on the planet), it’s one between two demented people who have had the skill or luck to find a non-threatening conscious accommodation between their relative insanities.
The very idea that we might not be too difficult as people should set off alarm bells in any prospective partner. The question is just where the problems will lie: perhaps we have a latent tendency to get furious when someone disagrees with us, or we can only relax when we are working, or we’re a bit tricky around intimacy after sex, or we’ve never been so good at explaining what’s going on when we’re worried. It’s these sort of issues that – over decades – create catastrophes and that we therefore need to know about way ahead of time, in order to look out for people who are optimally designed to withstand them. A standard question on any early dinner date should be quite simply: ‘And how are you mad?’
Articles of Interest - Dec 4
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Here’s how to use the newly redesigned Snapchat (Hint: It’s not as hard) Recode
Snapchat redesigns confusing app as user growth stalls CNN
5 ways social media has reshaped the PR industry PR Daily
OMG! Texting is 25 years old CNET
10 Things You Can Do Now to Up Your Social Media Game in 2018 Media Shift
***INTERNET
Google Street View can predict voting patterns and race Journalism Resources
***TECHNOLOGY
Should Law Enforcement Need a Warrant to Track Your Cell Phone? Scientific American
When Robots Invade the Kitchen Wired
Deciding At What Age To Give A Kid A Smartphone NPR
What DNA Home Testing Can Tell You NPR
Blockchain: A new technology for global health development? Journalism Resources
***JOURNALISM
Who's that interrogating you? These tools can help you avoid a sting Poynter
Here are three tools that help digital journalists save their work in case a site shuts down Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Small-market newspapers in the digital age Columbia Journalism Review
The woman who tried to sting The Washington Post also lied to a Student Press Law Center intern Student Press Law Center
Is It Ever OK for Journalists to Lie? Politico
'Rope. Tree. Journalist' T-shirt was on sale at Walmart.com until RTDNA spoke up Poynter
How can journalists responsibly cover neo-Nazis? A media scholar gives his advice Vox
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Trump's attacks on CNN helped their revenues far more than his praise helped Fox News, new figures suggest The Independent
New Secret LA Weekly owners cut nearly half the staff LA Times
***FAKE NEWS
A satirical fake news site apologized for making a story too real Poynter
How can we stop the train wreck of fake news on Facebook? MuckRack
Experts Say Facebook's Latest Attempt To Stop Fake News Isn't Foolproof NPR
Do teens care about ‘fake news?’ Recode
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Five ways to fix statistics Nature
MIT and Harvard: we just built one of the largest quantum computer "simulators” ever MIT Tech News
The leap forward this year may be when AI and intelligent process automation are harnessed together IT Proportal
Choosing hyperparameters with population-based training Deep Mind
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Alone Together Becoming (my blog)
Why Trying New Things Is So Hard to Do New York Times
Museum of Failure Opens in LA NBC Los Angeles
***WRITING & READING
How to Get Your Mind to Read New York Times
Wrestling With ‘/s’ (sarcasm) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
‘Nothing to See Here’: the Evolution of a Catchphrase Chronicle of Higher Ed
A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest Open Culture
Just Google It: A Short History of a Newfound Verb Wired
Why One Dictionary Made 'Complicit' Its Word Of The Year NPR
What Are the Most Effective Strategies for Learning a Foreign Language?: Six TED Talks Provide the Answers Open Culture
***LITERATURE
Why So Many Adults Love Young-Adult Literature: Over half of today’s YA readers are over the age of 18 The Atlantic
***GENDER
Children are victims in the latest identity-driven culture war Economist
Women in Academia Unite Scholarly Kitchen
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Why America Fails at Gathering Hate Crime Statistics ProPublica
***LEGAL ISSUES
Supreme Court Considers Cellphones And Digital Privacy NPR
Could Joe Scarborough Sue President Trump for Libel? Politico
The Supreme Court’s justices want to enhance privacy protections for a digital age Economist
Watchdog group urges media not to use 'religious freedom' in upcoming Supreme Court case Poynter
***RELIGION
A Beautiful City in the Bible Was Ravaged by Disease and Chaos Because of Climate Change Newsweek
This Evangelical Action Movie Is Giving Away A Free Assault Rifle Fast Company
Temple Baptist Church falls prey to internet meme generator Las Cruces Sun-News
Former LDS bishop calls for church leaders to stop interviewing teens about sexual practices Fox 13
Book review: Family’s agenda behind Washington’s newest museum Washington Post
Samaritan’s Purse Loses Support for Operation Christmas Child VOCM
Christian apologist caught lying about himself for years Raw Story
Ravi Zacharias Responds to Sexting Allegations, Credentials Critique Christianity Today
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
From Roy Moore To Tax Debate, A Spotlight On Christian Nationalism NPR
Westboro Baptist Church Will Protest Trump, Says His Sex Life Puts 'Entire Nation In Peril' Newsweek
Pence tells Christian broadcaster: ‘Trump is a believer’ The Hill
***ART & DESIGN
The rise and rise of performance art Economist
***MUSIC
U2's 'Songs of Experience' Is The Reboot The Band Needed NPR
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
BuzzFeed hit with layoffs, as digital ad dollars fall short Talking New Media
How new media firms such as Vice and BuzzFeed are losing their gloss New Statesman
The nation’s second largest radio company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Toledo Blade
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
MPR drops Keillor over inappropriate conduct Minnesota Public Radio
Judge allows Title IX lawsuit to proceed: The suit seeks monetary damages for alleged "indifference" to a student's report that she was raped Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
#MeToo: reporting on sexual assaults on campus (video)
How common is sexual harassment? Economis
The Legal Recourse For Victims Of Sexual Harassment NPR
How to Start Healing After Sexual Trauma Life Hacker
In Politics, Decisions On Sexual Harassment Allegations A Slow Process NPR
***HEALTH
More than half of U.S. kids will be obese by the time they’re 35, study predicts LA Times
Heart transplants likely to be obsolete within 10 years, says heart surgeon Telegraph
Is the FDA Withholding Data about a Controversial Drug to Protect Its Manufacturer? Scientific American
Smoking cannabis regularly triples severe depression risk, study of Bristol teenagers finds Bristol Post
***RELATIONSHIPS
Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago Economist
People Like People Who Ask Questions NPR
Should I Confess My Internet Stalking to My Date? Wired
Marriage linked to lower dementia risk Fox News
***BUSINESS
This is an American Workday, By Occupation (data visualization) Flowing Data
How Birth Order Relates To Job Success NPR
Here’s all the money in the world, in one chart MarketWatch
How the tax overhaul could affect your bottom line (interactive calculator) Washington Post
***SCIENCE
Technology behind bitcoin could aid science, report says Physics Today
Fallibility in science: Responsible ways to handle mistakes Slide Shares
Why are scientists filing lawsuits against their critics? The Verge
Can science ever be free of our very human biases? (opinion) Laboratory News
***PSYCHOLOGY
Software that finds statistical errors in psychology papers is Surprisingly Accurate Science Mag
Problems in a psychologist’s splashy work on gender ArsTechnica
The “Humans of New York” Photo Project Becomes a 13-Part Video Documentary Series: Watch It Free Online Open Culture
Teenage brains 'not wired for high stakes' BBC
***PRODUCTIVITY
These Gmail searches will dig up stuff you never knew you missed Popular Science
***ETHICS
What's the best way to edit genes with CRISPR? Scientists propose 'rules' to optimize this cutting-edge technology Johns Hopkins University
Do We Have Moral Obligations to Robots? Daily Jstor
Is it ethical for journalists to ask Trump pointedly provocative questions? Harvard’s Nieman Report
***RESEARCH
One Way to Fix Reproducibility Problems: Train Scientists Better The Scientist
Why a Lot of Important Research Is Not Being Done New York Times
The francophone researcher’s dilemma: publish in English or perish? French-speaking researchers are increasingly choosing to publish their scientific articles in English University Affairs
Questionable research practices “are moderately to highly prevalent what they attributed primarily to academic incentive structures” Social Psychology
When a trial fails The New York Times Magazine
Understanding Bias in Peer Review Google Research
Does spin in news stories about medical studies make a difference? BMJ Open
Papers authored by academic and corporate partners are more widely discussed online Nature Index
Authorship wars: academics outline the rules for recognition Times Higher Ed
Federal Trade Commission and National Institutes of Health Take Action Against Predatory Publishing Practices Scholarly Kitchen
***HIGHER ED
What Really Happened At The School Where 'Every Senior Got Into College' NPR
What to Consider When Closing an Academic Program Chronicle of Higher Ed
College Football's Avalanche of Lawsuits Inside Higher Ed
1500+ MOOCs Getting Started in December Open Culture
California sues for-profit school over 'false promises' Associated Press
Christian college’s ‘biblically consistent’ curriculum under fire Times Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Should Laptops Be Banned in Class? An Op-Ed Fires Up the Debate Chronicle of Higher Ed
Don’t Insult Your Class by Banning Laptops (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
What I Know About My Students Chronicle of Higher Ed
Everyone Hates Course Evaluations Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Breitbart, Fox News misidentify Tech's newspaper in 'racist' column The Daily Toreador
After Threatening to Sue a Student Newspaper Writer and Canceled Speech, Scaramucci Resigns From Tufts Advisory Board Chronicle of Higher Ed
Texas State newspaper cuts ties with writer after 'racist' opinion column WFAA
***STUDENT LIFE
Navigating Life On Campus When You're On The Autism Spectrum NPR
Tips to copy edit your résumé The Daily Californian (student newspaper) Daily Cal
Articles of Interest - Nov 27
/***TECHNOLOGY
Will Computers Ever Hear Like People Do? YouTube Video
Americans’ obsession with smartphones shows no sign of abating Talking New Media
NASA Uses Students To Develop Virtual Reality Programs NPR
How much did your town spend on its shot at being Amazon’s second headquarters? MuckRock
Judge: 84-year-old doctor who doesn’t use computer can’t regain license Associated Press
From Linux to Windows 10: Why did Munich switch and why does it matter? Tech Republic
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
How labs are being impacted by microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip technologies, cloud computing, machine learning, and AI Technology Networks
Machine learning is still something businesses are talking about, rather than using in any great numbers IDG connect
Using neural networks to help devises be able to hear like humans (video) Nat and Friends
***SOCIAL MEDIA
How to Join Someone's Instagram Live and Broadcast as a Guest Life Hacker
How LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman would fix social media Recode
Watch Out: If Someone Blocks You on Twitter, You Lose Your DM History With Them Life Hacker
How to Use Instagram's Filters Without Posting Your Photo Life Hacker
***JOURNALISM
Access to city records can take weeks with new online portal Union Tribune
AI Could Help Reporters Dig Into Grassroots Issues Once More MIT Technology Review
The Mexican city where journalism is a life and death matter Irish Times
The best automatic transcription tools for journalists Poynter
Thank you to all the public records officers who make transparency possible MuckRock
Photojournalists in Mexico Show Solidarity Amid the Ruins Harvard’s Nieman Center Reports
***JOURNALISM: THE NYT NAZI PROFILE PIECE
The media today: How not to write about a Nazi Columbia Journalism Review
Where the New York Times article on an American Nazi went wrong Vox
The problem with the New York Times’ chummy profile of a Nazi sympathizer Quartz
The Banality of White Nationalism The Atlantic
The New York Times responded to the outpouring of criticism of its profile of a white supremacist Recode
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
Journalism Schools are on Life Support Michael Koretzky
How Students Covered a Conference Better with Multi-Platform, Multimedia Reporting Media Shift
***FAKE NEWS
In some countries, fake news on Facebook is a matter of life and death Columbia Journalism Review
Journalists, let’s invest in trust, not just expect it Medium
Investigation of fake net neutrality foes has been stymied by the FCC, New York attorney general says Washington Post
‘Fake news’ seized an Idaho city. A local paper ‘jumped right into the coverage’ Columbia Journalism Review
Tim O’Reilly on ways to put the brakes on “fake news” and rebuild trust on the internet Harvard’s Nieman Center Reports
The Fake News Fueling the Uproar Over Self-Driving Vehicles Tech News Review
***PERSONAL GROWTH
err in the direction of kindness: Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial Becoming (my blog)
Alike: a Poignant Short Animated Film About the Enduring Conflict Between Creativity and Conformity Open Culture
***GRAMMAR
***WRITING & READING
At what point do we give up on books? Big data has the answer The Guardian
22 Famous Writers Told Us About The Book They're Most Thankful For BuzzFeed News
Drop the jargon and write like a human with the help of this tool Poynter
***LANGUAGE
Answering a Question With a Question Chronicle of Higher Ed
Moderate alcohol consumption improves foreign language skills Research Digest
Dictionary.com chooses ‘complicit’ as its word of the year Associated Press
***LITERATURE
A Digital Archive of 1,800+ Children’s Books from UCLA Open Culture
University Library to remove 170,000 unused books from its libraries WTAE
Top 10 Misquoted Lines from C. S. Lewis Christianity Today
George Orwell's Life In 'The Last Man In Europe' NPR
Author: Racism revealed in Dr. Seuss' work, children's literature Chicago Tribune
***GENDER
How American Women “Kickstarted” a Campaign to Give Marie Curie a Gram of Radium, Raising $120,000 in 1921 Open Culture
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
The legal profession is diversifying Washington Post
***LEGAL ISSUES
Rosie O'Donnell Beats Slander Lawsuit After Blaming 'View' Producer for Media Leaks Hollywood Reporter
An upcoming Supreme Court case that will determine whether law enforcement should be able to access cell phone data without a warrant Washington Post
Zazzle Loses Copyright Jury Verdict, and That’s Bad News for Print-on-Demand Publishers–Greg Young Publishing v. Zazzle Technology and Marketing Law Blog
***RELIGION
Is There an Evangelical Crisis? (opinion) New York Times
Where young evangelicals are headed (opinion) Alan Jacob’s blog
A TEDx Talk About Growing Up In A New Zealand Christian Cult You Tube
No, the Swedish Church has not banned the male pronoun for God The Local
How the “Christian Netflix” is making hit movies you’ve never heard of VICE
Views of transgender issues divide along religious lines Pew Research
Kentucky Baptists threaten to kick out churches that think it's OK to hire 'practicing homosexuals' Louisville Courier Journal
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
The confused identity of today’s “evangelical” voter (opinion) Vox
***ART & DESIGN
Seeing a Song: Painting What She Hears Open Culture
60-Second Introductions to 12 Groundbreaking Artists: Matisse, Dalí, Duchamp, Hopper, Pollock, Rothko & More Open Culture
***MUSIC
Christian Rock Artist Josh Lovelace Branches Out To Children's Music In Solo Debut NPR
Record Labels Are Rebounding, But This Startup Could Shake Their Dominance Fast Company
What the hell’s happening to music’s trade press? (And what does it mean for the rest of us?) Music Business
***FILM
‘Lady Bird’ sets Rotten Tomatoes record as best-reviewed movie ever Daily Dot
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
FCC Chairman Defends Repeal Of Net Neutrality NPR
The Internet Broke the Media, and There's No Turning Back Bloomberg
Media’s complicated relationship with VC funding Columbia Journalism Review
Smaller Newspapers Are Doing Just Fine, Thank You, New Report Finds Street Fight Mag
***STUDENT MEDIA
Tufts postpones Scaramucci talk after he threatens to sue student who wrote an unflattering opinion piece about him in the student newspaper Washington Post
Millennials are set to be the most unequal generation yet Quartz
***STUDENT LIFE
Where Millennials Come From And why we insist on blaming them for it The New Yorker
After Protest of Working Conditions, Grad Students at American U. of Beirut Lose Jobs Chronicle of Higher Ed
Dutch university says student cannot defend PhD dressed as a pirate Times Higher Ed
15 Items Every Twenty-Something Should Have on Their Bucket List Study Breaks
How Tech Companies Are Catering To Generation Z Teens NPR
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
How To Apologize For Sexual Harassment (Hint: It Takes More Than 'Sorry') NPR
The industries with the worst sexual harassment problem Washington Post
The Celebrity Perv Apology Generator
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE NEWSROOM
One in two women journalists suffer gender-based violence at work International Federation of Journalists
The News Industry Has a Sexual Harassment Problem. #NowWhat? Harvard’s Nieman Center Reports
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN HIGHER ED
Professors urge boycott of University of Rochester over allegations of misconduct CBS News
Michigan State hasn’t faced consequences for enabling the biggest sex abuse scandal in U.S. sports Think Progress
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT REPORTERS
When Sexual Assault Victims Are Charged With Lying (opinion) New York Times
For Some Victims, Reporting a Rape Can Bring Doubt, Abuse — and Even Prosecution Pro Publica
***HEALTH
News headlines claiming two therapies were proven ‘equally effective’ for treating opioid use disorder Health News Review
Loyola U makes data-free claim that a ‘simple’ heart test can distinguish between major depression and bipolar disorder Health News Review
Is Alzheimer’s ‘coming for you’? NY Times uses anecdote and an old blood test to warn it might be Health News Review
***SCIENCE
Why are scientists filing lawsuits against their critics? The Verge
Still No Science Advisor at the White House MIT Technology Review
***PSYCHOLOGY
Angry people die sooner Daily Mail
How to Detect When People Are Using the Truth to Lie to You Life Hacker
***PHILOSOPHY
Billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman says his masters in philosophy has helped him more than an MBA Business Insider
How a Skeptic Became a Stoic Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why Does Materialism Get Such A Bad Rap? Digg
***PRODUCTIVITY
An ex-Google data scientist studied thousands of successful people on Wikipedia — here's what they have in common The Independent
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Why business school can be dangerous, according to two of Silicon Valley's biggest names Business Insider
How Much You Should Pay Your Babysitter, According to Where You Live Offspring
***RESEARCH
A US Research Integrity Advisory Board is long overdue Nature
This Ivy League Scientist Did A Bunch Of Food Surveys And Somehow Got The Same Number Of Responses Each Time BuzzFeed News
Rewarding negative results keeps science on track (opinion) Nature
Poisoning the well with a within-person design? What’s the risk? Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
PLOS Reports $1.7M Loss In 2016 Scholarly Kitchen
***HIGHER ED
'Elitists, crybabies and junky degrees': Education advocates see growing disdain for U.S. universities (opinion) Washington Post
Interactive graph on the rising cost of college Market Watch
‘Ring by Spring’: How Christian Colleges Fuel Students’ Rush to Get Engaged Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
How to Measure Success Without Academic Achievement Ed Surge
How to Escape Grading Jail Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Withering Humanities Jobs: Full-time jobs in English and languages continue to decline, reaching a new low Inside Higher Ed
Big Legal Win for Trans Academic: Federal jury awards $1.165 million, finding discrimination in tenure denial by Southeastern Oklahoma State University Inside Higher Ed
Academic fraud: A question of morals, integrity Straits Times
articles of interest - Nov 20
/***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
An AI ready to argue with you based on your morals MIT
We urgently need an academic institute focused on algorithmic accountability New York Times
Free O’Reilly ebook on how to build real-time data pipelines with Kafka and Spark Memsql and O'Reilly
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Uptick In Teen Depression Might Be Linked To More Hours NPR
How Instagram Is Changing the Way We Design Cultural Spaces Smithsonian Magazine
Last Year, Social Media Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries MIT Technology Review
What Your Twitter Says About You & Your Mental Health, According To New Research Elite Daily
Facebook adds trust indicators to news articles in an effort to identify real journalism The Verge
How One Woman's Digital Life Was Weaponized Against Her Wired
How Brands are Experimenting with Video on Instagram Stories Video Strategist
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Publishers are wary of Facebook and Google but must work with them - It’s complicated Economist
Not every article needs a picture: It is dumb to keep forcing images into every story online The Outline
***INTERNET
Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing' The Guardian
Spam is Back The Outline
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
FCC votes to loosen media ownership rules CNBC
Entercom Finalizes Merger With CBS Radio, Becoming No. 2 Radio Operator in US Bliiboard
Bad news from Mashable, BuzzFeed, and Vice shows times are rough for ad-supported digital media Nieman Journalism Lab
***JOURNALISM
The Washington Post’s new feature Counterpoint will use AI to show you opinion articles with a different perspective than the one you are reading Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Do Facebook and Google have control of their algorithms anymore? A sobering assessment and a warning Poynter
The Washington Post on Reddit surprises users with its non-promotional, ultra helpful presence Harvard’s Nieman Lab
‘Plagiarism-Infested Sports Section’ discovered at California newspaper iMediaEthics
Welcome to your local library, which also happens to be a newsroom Poynter
Reporters Committee appeals to D.C. Circuit Court for information on FBI impersonation of journalists, arguing FBI's initial search for relevant records was inadequate Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
The Washington Post Is A Software Company Now Fast Company
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
Why We Need to Teach More Business Skills in the J-School Classroom PBS Media Shift
***FAKE NEWS
Drudge Linked regularly to Russia propaganda in 2016 Washington Post
Russian troll describes work in the infamous misinformation factory NBC News
Fixing Misinformation is a Misguided and Insufficient Strategy Medium
Should Facebook Notify Readers When They’ve Been Fed Disinformation? Fast Company
Today’s biggest threat to democracy isn’t fake news—it’s selective facts Quartz
Journalists share tips for discerning which news is 'fake' The Daily Times
'Way too little, way too late': Facebook's factcheckers say effort is failing The Guardian
‘Breakthrough’ for enlarged prostates? Northwestern’s aggressive PR pitch lacks data and context Health News Review
At Snopes a Peek Down the Right Wing Rabbit Holes The Daily Beast
***PERSONAL GROWTH
I Used to Be a Human Being Becoming (my blog)
Yes, You Have Implicit Biases, Too (opinion) The Chronicle of Higher Education
***WRITING & READING
'OK’ Is a 4-Letter Word The Chronicle of Higher Education
‘The Right to Tell People What They Do Not Want to Hear’ The Chronicle of Higher Education
***LANGUAGE
Mon Dieu! Ma Déesse! The Chronicle of Higher Education
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Q&A: AP’s new race reporter on how her beat is everywhere Columbia Journalism Review
Evaluating Job Satisfaction of Latino Journalists in Multimedia Newsrooms University of Texas, El Paso
Homeland Security official resigns after comments linking blacks to ‘laziness’ and ‘promiscuity’ come to light Washington Post
This Is Where Hate Crimes Don’t Get Reported (visual graphics) Propublica
***FREE SPEECH
Sheriff threatens to bring disorderly conduct charges against the driver of a truck displaying a profane anti-Trump message Houston Chronicle
A University’s Free-Speech Committee Pledges Transparency — Then Closes Its Meetings to the Public The Chronicle of Higher Education
Williams College president: Don’t ignore the real threats in the debate over free speech Washington Post
On overseas satellite campuses, academic freedom is more often promised than practiced The Fire
***LEGAL ISSUES
‘The Slants’ trademark registered today, six years after the application was first filed Washington Post
Trump's Tweets Could Undercut Feds' Silence in Public Records Case: In a FOIA case about the "Russia dossier," Judge is considering what President Trump may or may not know when he tweets National Law Journal
The newspaper ad that changed everything CNN
***TECHNOLOGY
A New Gene-Editing Therapy Would Benefit Kids Most—Here’s Why They Won’t Get It Yet MIT Technology Review
UC Berkeley professor's eerie lethal drone video goes viral San Francisco Gate
***RELIGION
The Enduring Appeal of Creepy Christianity National Review
Ex-members say church uses power, lies to keep grip on kids Associated Press
Newsmax's 100 Most Influential Evangelicals in America News Max
Assaults against Muslims in U.S. surpass 2001 level Pew Research Center
'We are heavily armed,' Tampa church warns Fox 13
Amy Julia Becker: I'm a Christian, but please don't call me evangelical Tulsa World
Victims 'told not to report' Jehovah's Witness child abuse BBC
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Washington Post Magazine's in-depth profile of televangelist Paula White and her role as pastor to President Trump Washington Post
Church leaders hold a rally in Alabama against Roy Moore’s candidacy for US Senate Daily Mail
Poll: Majority Of Evangelicals Would Support Satan If He Ran As Republican Candidate BabylonBee
86 Alabama Baptist pastors sign letter against sex abuse AL.com
A diverse group of Christian theologians release a Declaration to challenge the corruption of Christians in the US Religious News Service
***THE BIBLE MUSEUM
$500-million Museum of the Bible opens amid controversy Tulsa World
How to go to the Museum of the Bible: Tickets, transportation and all the info you need Washington Post
D.C.’s Newest Museum Has a Provenance Problem The Chronicle of Higher Ed
D.C.’s new Bible museum says it wants to avoid politics. But its opening gala is at the Trump hotel Washington Post
***ART & DESIGN
89-Year-Old Japanese Grandma Discovers Photography, Can’t Stop Taking Hilarious Self-Portraits Now Japan Inside
Aesthetics & the Sciences of Mind Philosophy Now
Can a Social-Justice App Be Art? The New Yorker
***MUSIC
A simple twist of faith: Reconsidering Bob Dylan’s “Christian period” Salon
8 Famous Guitar Tones That Were Recorded Straight Into Reverb News
An Interactive Map of Every Record Shop in the World Open Culture
Charles Manson was not a good songwriter BongBong
***FILM
A twitterbot that generates hypothetical Hallmark holiday movies BongBong
***STUDENT LIFE
Ohio State isn’t the first college where students are accused of cheating via GroupMe Inside Higher Ed
Student sues university for ADA violations over service dog in sorority house CNN
Grad Students Are Freaking Out About the GOP Tax Plan Wired
7 Tips For Dating Outside of Your Political Preference Study Breaks
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
He quit JetBlue by sliding out of a plane. Now he has advice for the rogue Twitter employee Washington Post
How making other people’s coffee prepared me for a job in PR MuckRack
News internships (Summer 2018), Associated Press
Summer 2018 Intenrship Institute on Political Journalism in Washington, DC.
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT.. ON CAMPUS
What the Weinstein Effect Can Teach Us About Campus Sexual Assault New York Times
Notre Dame’s new practice of allowing “alternative resolutions” instead of the traditional Title IX hearings has worried campus advocates for survivors Inside Higher Ed
Student speaks out following rape investigation at Hudson Valley Community College News 10
Sexual Harassment and Assault in Higher Ed: What’s Happened Since Weinstein The Chronicle of Higher Ed
A new website generates too-real “apologies” for men accused of sexual misconduct Vox
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT.. IN THE NEWSROOM
CJR Survey: Reporting Sexual Misconduct in Newsrooms Columbia Journalism Review
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Why Some Survivors Of Sexual Harassment And Assault Wait To Tell Their Stories NPR
Pentagon discloses data on sexual assault reports on military bases Reuters
Supreme Court Ruling Could Limit Workplace Harassment Claims, Advocates Say NPR
The myth of the male bumbler The Week
When It Comes To Sexual Harassment Claims, Whose Side Is Human Resources On? NPR
Reckoning With Sexual Harassment NPR
They were sexually harassed at work. They reported it. Here’s what happened Washington Post
Social Media Posts May Complicate Prosecution Of Sexual Assault NPR
***HEALTH
They’re probably taking your blood Pressure Wrong NPR
‘Breakthrough’ for enlarged prostates? Northwestern’s aggressive PR pitch lacks data and context Health News Review
Skipped breast cancer treatments common HarvardKennedy School Shorenstein Center
***SCIENCE
Flat Earthers Now Have Their Own International Conference Because Science And Logic No Longer Matter Digg
Why Stupid Things are Smarter Together Digg
***PSYCHOLOGY
The Serial-Killer Detector The New Yorker
***CRITICAL THINKING
To think critically, you have to be both analytical and motivated Arstechnica
Get Students to Reflect on the Logical Fallacies in Arguments Teacher Boot Camp
***PHILOSOPHY
Why philosophy is so important in science education Quartz
***ETHICS
An AI That Argues With You Based On Your Morals MIT
A Note About Racked’s Ethics Policy Racked
More than 50 tech ethics courses, with links to syllabi BongBong
***RESEARCH
Survey finds high levels of research misconduct in Middle East Times Higher Ed
Reviewer bias in single- versus double-blind peer review PNAS
The Replication Crisis in Economics Wired
Impact of Social Sciences – Metrics, recognition, and rewards: it’s time to incentivise the behaviours that are good for research and researchers The London School of Economist and Political Science
You’re a Researcher Without a Library: What Do You Do? Medium
***HIGHER ED
Higher ed's nuanced strategy gives it options for navigating tax reform debate Inside Higher Ed
We urgently need an academic institute focused on algorithmic accountability New York Times
Are Academics ‘Asleep at the Wheel’? Op-Ed on Tech’s Influence Draws Scholars’ Fire The Chronicle of Higher Education
For-profit colleges in America relaunch themselves as non-profits Economist
Wheaton’s endowment reaches $450 million, avoids potential new tax Wheaton
Still no word from San Diego Christian; inewsource responds anyway inewsource
Moody Bible to Close Spokane Campus, Cut Chicago Faculty Christianity Today
***HUMANITIES /STEM
How the Humanities helps our veterans The San Diego Union-Tribune
Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom The Chronicle of Higher Education
How studying humanities can help you get a job The Week
***TEACHING
Do Professors Need Automated Help Grading Online Comments? Inside Higher Ed
Yagoda on Last-Naming Professors The Chronicle of Higher Education
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Faculty Members at One More University Push Back at Online Programs The Chronicle of Higher Education
Another Bad Year for History Jobs Inside Higher Ed
Students do not trust teaching by foreign lecturers who speak English with unfamiliar accents Inside Higher Ed
The Dangers of Tweeting at Conferences The Chronicle of Higher Education
Professors are losing academic freedom Washington Post
This Transgender Professor Just Won A $1 Million Jury Verdict In A Major Case Against a University BuzzFeed
I Used to Be a Human Being
/In the last year of my blogging life, my health began to give out. Four bronchial infections in 12 months had become progressively harder to kick. Vacations, such as they were, had become mere opportunities for sleep. My dreams were filled with the snippets of code I used each day to update the site. My friendships had atrophied as my time away from the web dwindled. My doctor, dispensing one more course of antibiotics, finally laid it on the line: “Did you really survive HIV to die of the web?”
But the rewards were many: an audience of up to 100,000 people a day; a new-media business that was actually profitable; a constant stream of things to annoy, enlighten, or infuriate me; a niche in the nerve center of the exploding global conversation; and a way to measure success — in big and beautiful data — that was a constant dopamine bath for the writerly ego. If you had to reinvent yourself as a writer in the internet age, I reassured myself, then I was ahead of the curve. The problem was that I hadn’t been able to reinvent myself as a human being.
Andrew Sullivan writing in New York Magazine
articles of interest - Nov 13
/***JOURNALISM
Journalists boycott Disney films in solidarity with the L.A. Times CNN
Public radio rethinks its approach to journalism Columbia Journalism Review
Disney Backs Off L.A. Times Ban Following Backlash Hollywood Reporter
Here's why your local TV news is about to get even worse The Conversation
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Trump wants to punish CNN by breaking up the AT&T/Time Warner deal Recode
Gannett announces management reorganization Talking New Media
***FAKE NEWS
One Way to Fight Fake News: reading laterally Chronicle of Higher Ed
When fake news will be made by pros Monday Note
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
What should this student do? His bosses want him to p-hack and they don’t even know it! Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
What should this student do? His bosses want him to p-hack and they don’t even know it! Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
How a data scientist protects his children from the dangers of the tech world The Next Web
Discussion of why Ethics in AI is still a mess, and what practical steps might change the picture Wired
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Apple (AAPL) revealed which emoji Americans use the most Quartz
Snapchat redesign is in the works amid weak growth in users and ad sales LA Times
ESPN will produce a daily version of SportsCenter exclusively for Snapchat Recode
***PRODUCING MEDIA
In $25 billion video game industry, voice actors face broken vocal cords and low pay The Washington Post
Instagram is also a huge source of Russian propaganda on social media (Pinterest’s not safe either) Nieman Journalism Lab
Trump's Official Portrait and the Language of Lighting Petapixel
***PERSONAL GROWTH
How to Spot a Liar Becoming (my blog)
Why Canceling Plans is So Satisfying The Cut
***WRITING & READING
Ph.D.s Are Still Writing Poorly, Part 1 Chronicle of Higher Ed
Does English Grammar Allow you to use an Accusative as part of the Subject of a Sentence? (“me and [name]”) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
Would language be better if it were polished to perfection? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
For Dostoevsky, epilepsy was a matter of both life and literature PBS
How a young Ernest Hemingway dealt with his first taste of fame The Conversation
***GENDER
The Perpetrators Of America's Worst Mass Shootings Have One Glaring Thing In Common Digg
Study finds male Ph.D. candidates submit and publish papers at significantly higher rates than female peers on the same campus Inside Higher Ed
Transgender issues sharply divide Republicans, Democrats Pew Research Center
Gender and citation impact in management research Science Direct
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
On diversifying data journalism The Bureau Investigates
To Help Combat Racism, Kansas State U. Will Cancel Classes (for 2 Hours) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
What’s Fueling the Free-Speech Wars? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
Court demands that search engines and internet service providers block Sci-Hub Science Magazine
Taylor Swift's Attorney Rebuked Over Letter Demanding Article's Retraction WBGO
The History and Philosophy of Copyright (video) PetaPixel
Court Rejects Gossip Site’s Fair Use Defense Technology & Marketing Law Blog
A $10 million defamation suit filed by a Stanford University professor against a critic and a journal Retraction Watch
Lisa Bloom Says Bill O'Reilly Is Libel-Proof Hollywood Reporter
Facebook Defeats Lawsuit By User Suspended Over ‘Bowling Green Massacre’ Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***RELIGION
Religious Employers May Not Be Able to Take Away Your Birth Control After All Life Hacker
Here's why this Houston megachurch is flying Russia's flag outside Houston Chronicle
Clergy spouses: Privacy, isolation concerns abound Times Record News
Religion a part of national identity in Central, Eastern Europe Pew Research Center
Key takeaways about Orthodox Christians Pew Research Center
New Museum Invites Visitors To 'Engage' With The Bible NPR
Tennessee Baptist church fights conference shunning over hiring of female pastor USA Today
Buddhism Is More ‘Western’ Than You Think New York Times
A suggestion for younger evangelicals: Lose the label (commentary) Religion News
Baptist convention denounces racism, but not the Confederate flag Baptist News
***RELIGION AND MASS SHOOTINGS
Praying In Response To Mass Shootings NPR
Churches Rethinking Security in the Wake of Texas Shooting NPR
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
No, Christians Don't Use Joseph and Mary to Explain Child Molesting Accusations (opinion) Christianity Today
***MUSIC
What music do psychopaths like? More Bieber, less Bach Washington Post
***HEALTH
A Link Between Alcohol and Cancer? It’s Not Nearly as Scary as It Seems New York Times
Genetically Altered Skin Saves A Boy Dying Of A Rare Disease NPR
The Gross Inequality of Organ Transplants in America New Republic
How Conjoined Twins Are Making Scientists Question the Concept of Self The Walrus
Why Working Women With Migraines Suffer in Silence Splinter News
***PSYCHOLOGY
Christmas Music Could Harm Your Mental Health IFL Science
Psychology's Renaissance Annual Review of Psychology
Brain Scientists Look Beyond Opioids To Conquer Pain NPR
***PHILOSOPHY
The Examined Life: Know Thyself #1 Wireless Philosophy
How Philosophy Makes Progress Daily Nous
On Putnam's Regulative Ideal of Decency Digressions Impressions
***ETHICS
Naming abusers online may be “mob justice” but it’s still justice Quartz
***RESEARCH
Dealing with error and bias in academic research PsyArXiv
Academic journal publishing is headed for a day of reckoning The Conversation
'Null' research findings aren't empty of meaning. Let's publish them Stat News
Why developing countries are particularly vulnerable to predatory journals The Conversation
Publish and perish and buyer beware Otago Daily Times Online News
Reviewing Better Medium
***HIGHER ED
UW-Superior Suspends 25 Programs: Faculty Say They Were Not Consulted Before Programs Were Suspended Wisconsin Public Radio
Congressional committee discusses bill designed to define anti-Semitism; some say it is too broad to be effective on college campuses Inside Higher Ed
When College Classrooms Become Ideologically Segregated, Everyone Suffers NBC News
How Student Concentrations Are Changing at Harvard The Crimson
***TEACHING
Will They Remember Writing It? Helping instructors design a meaningful writing assignment Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Syllabus at Duke barred staffers of campus paper from class on hedge funds Inside Higher Ed
The rise of the campus meme Daily Californian
Tips For Writing Your College Admissions Essay The Onion
***STUDENT LIFE
After 10-Hour Hearing, Clemson U. Students Vote Not to Remove Black Leader Chronicle of Higher Ed
Survey shows declines in new international students after years of growth Inside Higher Ed
OSU students caught cheating via "GroupMe" app Local 12
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
Paid journalism internships with December deadlines Student Press Law Center
Program to bring interns of color to nonprofit newsrooms Inn.org
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Trainers, Lawyers Say Sexual Harassment Training Fails NPR
College let teachers quietly leave after alleged sex abuse, and pushed students for silence Boston Globe
***ACADEMIC LIFE
What’s to be done about the numerous reports of faculty misconduct dating back years and even decades? Inside Higher Ed
happiness depends
/Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. –Leo Tolstoy
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