after a lapse of time
/No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. -George Elliot
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Articles of Interest - Dec. 25
/***JOURNALISM 2017
From ISIS to taxes: The AP's top 10 stories of 2017 Morning Joe MSNBC
2017 Top Stories Chartbeat
The Best Journalism of 2017 Sports Illustrated
Predictions for Journalism 2018 Nieman Journalism Lab
Charting the news of 2017: The year's events that most grabbed the world's attention Economist
The media today: What’s coming for journalism in 2018? Columbia Journalism Review
***THE JOURNALISM FILM “THE POST”
'The Post': Pentagon Papers Put The Press Under Pressure NPR
Steven Spielberg's The Post Is the Journalism Movie We Need Today TIME
Fact checking ‘The Post’: The incredible Pentagon Papers drama Spielberg left out Washington Post
Steven Spielberg’s The Post makes an entertaining, timely case for the First Amendment Vox
***FAKE NEWS
Facebook admits its original attempt to end fake news failed Daily Dot
How blockchain technology could prevent fake news from spreading Tech Republic
***TECHNOLOGY
Ready Player One and the Troubled Future of VR Technews World
Meet the robot that passed a college class on philosophy and love CNBC
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
How talk radio stays relevant in the digital age Tech Republic
Tempers flare at FCC over record Sinclair fine CNN
Is Radio Headed For a Digital Cliff? Musicomics
A U.S. Station Switched From Bluegrass to Radio Sputnik—and Got Threats From the Feds Bloomberg
The Return of Vinyl Records Daily Infographic
***JOURNALISM
'Journalism is evolving and so is my thinking on it' Poynter
Mexican journalist shot dead at primary school holiday party Associated Press
The rich tried to save alt-weeklies: They haven't helped Mashable
Russian hackers hunted journalists in years-long campaign Associated Press
Journalism branding: Impact on reporters’ personal identities Journalism Resources
***BIG DATA & AI
Six areas where artificial neural networks prove they can surpass human intelligence Venture Beat
Will Artificial Intelligence Become Conscious? Live Science
A look at what happened at machine learning’s big event Economist
8 game-changing data trends that will impact businesses in 2018 Tech Republic
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Instagram now lets you share live videos through direct messages Tech Crunch
The Best of Reddit in 2017The top posts, communities, AMAs, and other highlights from the past year Reddit
CNN is killing its Snapchat news show only four months after its debut Tech Crunch
***SOCIAL MEDIA: FACEBOOK
Facebook uses age-targeted job advertisements, but is that discriminatory? Daily Dot
Facebook drops 'disputed' tags for news stories The Hill
Facebook ‘Messenger Kids’ lets under-13s chat with whom parents approve Tech Crunch
Who’s Watching Facebook TV? Bloomberg
***PRODUCING MEDIA
The World's Best Film School Is Free on YouTube Wired
There will be an explosion of streaming-video services in 2018. A shakeout is inevitable The World In
The 50 Best Podcasts of 2017 The Atlantic
***INTERNET
You Give Up a Lot of Privacy Just Opening Emails. Here's How to Stop It Wired
Google's Year in Search Google Trends
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Missing the Miracle in the Mundane Becoming (my blog)
***LANGUAGE
Whatever! Marist Poll reveals list of most annoying words Poughkeepsie Journal
The importance of pauses in conversation Economist
Vulnerable Words and the CDC Chronicle of Higher Ed
The strange reinvention of Icelandic: A language both ancient and modern Economist
Merriam-Webster's Word Of The Year Is Feminism NPR
***LITERATURE
The Best Books Atlantic Staffers Read in 2017 The Atlantic
Longreads Best of 2017: Essays Long Reads
Derivative Sport: The Journalistic Legacy of David Foster Wallace Long Reads
Books of the Year 2017 Economist
J.R.R. Tolkien Is Our Favorite Father Christmas: For 23 years he role-played in holiday letters to his children Atlas Obscura
***GENDER
Gender Gap in Academic Seminar Questions: Men are far more likely to ask, study finds Inside Higher Ed
The battle to make French a “gender-neutral language” is emphasizing the country’s inherent sexism Quartz
Women Are Invited to Give Fewer Talks Than Men at Top U.S. Universities The Atlantic
Jezebel's Annual, Unscientific List of Best Women, According to Us Jezebel
Women and economics: The profession’s problem with women could be a problem with economics itself Economist
Sinclair Broadcast Group Sued for Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Hollywood Reporter
***FREE SPEECH
Report: Campus speech codes decline for 10th straight year The Fire
College Students Clash Repeatedly Over Free Speech Issues NPR
***RELIGION
Santa Claus Converts To Calvinism, Moves Everybody To Naughty List Babyonbee
Will the Museum of the Bible become a star DC attraction for tour groups? Washington Post
Cardinal Bernard Law, symbol of church sex abuse scandal, dead at 86 CNN
Texas Rangers pitcher and wife donate mansion and 100 acres of land to a Christian charity that provides camps for children with special needs and chronic illnesses ESPN
John Legend cast as Jesus Christ in upcoming NBC live musical CNN
Christianity Today’s 2018 Book Awards Christianity Today
Calif. Megachurch Accused of Practicing Occult in Use of 'Destiny Cards' Christian Post
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Can Evangelicalism Survive Donald Trump and Roy Moore? (opinion) The New Yorker
Sam Bee: Trump’s devout evangelical following is “an Aryan death cult” (opinion) Salon
***ART & DESIGN
A Strict Olympic Crackdown on Russian Logos and Typography New York Times
California artist weaves faith into acclaimed works, show Religion News Service
***IMAGES
The Most 2017 Photos Ever The Atlantic
Ye Olde Photoshoppe: The manipulation of photographs goes back a surprisingly long way 1843
***MUSIC & AUDIO
Bob Dylan's Gospel Period Sidemen Share Memories of His Most Divisive Era Billboard
How bands display their history on the stage Economist
***FILM
The Next Bechdel Test: We pitted 50 movies against 12 new ways of measuring Hollywood’s gender imbalance FiveThirtyEight
Cult Hit 'The Room' Set for Wide Theatrical Release (Exclusive) Hollywood Reporter
Film remakes that should stay on the storyboard Economist
Every Steven Spielberg Movie, Ranked Vulture
Not even “The Last Jedi” will reverse Americans’ retreat from cinemas Economist
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
This year has seen an explosion of rage about sexual harassment: Will it lead to lasting change? Economist
At Vice, Cutting-Edge Media and Allegations of Old-School Sexual Harassment The New York Times
***RELATIONSHIPS
The rise of long-distance marriage: Financial necessity is encouraging more couples to live apart Economist
***HEALTH
U.S. life expectancy declines for a second straight year and it’s fueled by the drug crisis Washington Post
Silencing is golden: A new era of medicine will come into view The World In
***SCIENCE
The High School Student's Simple Explanation Of Relativity Will Boggle Your Mind Digg
Why Is M-Theory the Leading Candidate for Theory of Everything? Quantam Magazine
***PSYCHOLOGY
Tasks for My Psychological Task Rabbit McSweeneys
Can you really be addicted to sex? 1843
The holiday-suicide myth and the intractability of popular falsehoods The Conversation
***PHILOSOPHY
10 Schools of Philosophy and Why You Should Know Them Big Think
***RESEARCH
Politics Moves Fast. Peer Review Moves Slow. What’s A Political Scientist To Do? FiveThirtyEight
Online tools enable unprecedented access to science research Physics Today
How Badly Can Cherry-Picking and Question Trolling Produce Bias in Published Results? Springer
***RESEARCH & GENDER
Women are held to a higher standard in peer review VOX
***HIGHER ED
Legal Pot? Doesn’t Matter, Colleges Say Inside Higher Ed
Higher Ed New Media Consortium Suddenly Ceases Operations Campus Technology
How much did hacker who taunted Rutgers cost the school? NewJersey.com
What Colleges Need to Know About the Tax Overhaul Poised to Become Law Chronicle of Higher Ed
A Nonprofit Funneling thousands of dollars to student-government campaigns across the country The New Yorker
***TEACHING
Don’t cede the online-education terrain to people whose courses are nowhere nearly as good as your own Chronicle of Higher Ed
Authors of statistics textbook proudly declared, in a footnote, that no one reads footnotes. Photos of the footnote keep going viral Inside Higher Ed
Use of Free Textbooks Is Rising, but Barriers Remain Chronicle of Higher Ed
Controversial question spotted on UCCS final exam KOAA
A Brief History of Students Secretly Recording Their Professors Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
E-sports come of age: Why the e-sports industry will boom The World In
Dreamers’ Make Desperate Plea on Capitol Hill Chronicle of Higher Ed
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
Want to freelance? Join SPJ's freelancer directory Society of Professional Journalists
Internship Photo Department Patagonia, Ventura, California
2018 Summer Producer Intern National Football League Culver City, California
***ACADEMIC LIFE
On Faculty and Mental Illness Chronicle of Higher Ed
Answers to Christmas Quiz
/1. What did the angels sing to the shepherds?
Nothing. Luke 2:13,14 tells us, "Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel praising God and SAYING, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace to men on whom his favor rests." No where in the Bible does it say that angels sing. Of course, Scripture never says they don't either.
2. In what direction did the Wise Men look to see the star in the sky?
The West. Matthew 2:1,2 reads, "After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, 'Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him." The Wise Men were in the East and they saw the star in the Western sky. Had they been traveling toward a star in the East, they would have started from somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea.
3. Where did the wise men go to see the baby?
The house--not the stable. Matthew 2:9-11 says, "After (the Wise Men) had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the HOUSE, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshipped him…" By the time the Wise Men would have arrived, Mary and Joseph would have left the stable. It would have taken a while for the Wise Men to arrive. Perhaps a couple of years, since Herod killed children in Bethlehem under the age of two.
4. How many wise men were there?
We don't know. Three is the traditional number, but Scripture only tells us of three gifts.
5. In which season of the year was Jesus born?
Probably Spring. Luke 2:8 tells us, "And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night." It is unlikely they would have been living in the fields during Winter. Spring is the most likely time.
6. What did Mary ride on to Bethlehem?
We don't know. Christmas cards may favor a donkey, but Scripture doesn't tell us.
7. What did the wise men ride on?
We don't know. Christmas cards may favor a camels, but Scripture doesn't tell us.
8. In what country did the Christmas tree originate?
Germany
9. In what century did Christmas celebrations begin?
The 4th century. Christmas carols began in the 14th and 15th centuries. Christmas cards were first sent in the early 19th century.
10. Was there ever an original, real Santa Claus?
Yes. In the 4th Century AD, Nicholas showed acts of kindness and charity early in his life. He served as bishop of Myra (now in Turkey) and was considered a saint since the 6th century.
11. What Christmas tradition commemorating the birth of Jesus did St. Francis of Assisi begin?
The nativity scene.
12. What is frankincense?
a. a precious metal
b. a precious fabric
c. a precious perfume
d. an Eastern monster story
Answer: c. a precious perfume
13. What is Myrrh?
a. an easily shaped metal
b. a spice used for burying people
c. a drink
d. aftershave lotion
Answer: b. a spice used for burying people
14. Did Jesus tell us to remember his birth?
No.
15. What did Jesus tell us to remember?
He told us to remember his death. "…Do this in remembrance of me" Luke 22:19.
Note: All verses from the New International Version
The Digital Deluge
/Distractions clearly affect performance on the job. In a recent essay, Dan Nixon of the Bank of England pointed to a mass of compelling evidence that they could also be eating into productivity growth. Depending on the study you pick, smartphone-users touch their device somewhere between twice a minute to once every seven minutes. Conducting tasks while receiving e-mails and phone calls reduces a worker’s IQ by about ten points relative to working in uninterrupted quiet. That is equivalent to losing a night’s sleep, and twice as debilitating as using marijuana. By one estimate, it takes nearly half an hour to recover focus fully for the task at hand after an interruption. What’s more, Mr Nixon notes, constant interruptions accustom workers to distraction, teaching them, in effect, to lose focus and seek diversions.
Articles of Interest - Dec 18
/***TECHNOLOGY
Robots that Look like Animals (video)
Google Glass, Oculus, HoloLens: The Race for Augmented Reality Glasses Starts Now Wired
CRISPR gene editing moved into humans in 2017Debates about when and how to use the tool in humans take on new urgency Science News
In China, a Three-Digit Score Could Dictate Your Place in Society Wired
AIM, aka AOL Instant Messenger, dead at 20 NY Daily News
Video games could fall foul of anti-gambling laws Economist
***BIG DATA & AI
A quantum communications satellite: The Chinese really beat us on this one Science News
Five programming languages with hidden flaws vulnerable to hackers Tech Republic
AI hedge funds embrace machine learning Economist
***SOCIAL MEDIA
The top 10 memes of 2017, according to Google Daily Dot
Worker rushes back to burning factory in China for phone Daily Mail
Former Facebook exec won't let own kids use social media, says it's 'destroying how society works' Fox News
Hard Questions: Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us? Facebook Newsroom
Facebook's Partnership With Fact-Checkers Gets Off To A Rocky Start NPR
How much news makes it into people’s Facebook feeds? Our experiment suggests not much Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Facebook news feed changes could affect your business's post engagement Tech Republic
***MOBILE
Voice assistants used by 46% of Americans, mostly on smartphones Pew Research Center
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Descript gets $5M to make sound editing like a Word document Tech Crunch
Don’t Compromise Your Ethics When Telling Stories in VR Medium
***INTERNET
Five Times the Internet Was Actually Fun in 2017 New York Times
How a dorm room Minecraft scam brought down the internet Wired
Gmail Quietly Offers New Unsubscribe Feature Media Post
***JOURNALISM
Public colleges limiting journalist access Columbia Journalism Review
New York Times D.C. bureau adds fact-checker Politico
Goodbye to Storify Chronicle of Higher
Longform video leads the way Harvard’s Nieman Lab
How do you use an Anonymous Source? Washington Post
Show a little vulnerability Harvard’s Nieman Lab
The 10 Best Journalism Movies Washington Post
Not fake news, just plain wrong: Top media corrections of 2017 Poynter
Record number of journalists jailed Committee to Protect Journalism
Jealousy List 2017 Bloomberg
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
An insider’s account of the booming business where ads want to be journalism, sort of Traffic
WikiLeaks recognised as a 'media organisation' by UK tribunal The Guardian
Pope Begs Journalists To Avoid 'Sins Of Communication' : The Two-Way NPR
Newspaper Advertising Costs & How to Succeed on a Budget Fit Small Business
New owner to retire iconic Time Inc. name New York Post
***FAKE NEWS
The Numbers Behind Fake News Daily Infographic
‘False News’ Is Safer Than ‘Fake’ Chronicle of Higher
Yes, the Truth Still Matters New York Times
Pope Francis: fake and sensationalised news 'a very serious sin' The Guardian
Google News To Delist Publications That Intentionally Mislead Readers, Mask Country Of Origin Media Post
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
'The Atlantic' Rebuilds Paywall For 2018 Media Post
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Importance of Making Mistakes Becoming (my blog)
The Batman Effect: Dressing up as a superhero might actually give your kid grit Quartz
Why It Feels So Good to Cancel Plans Last Minute, and How to Stop Life Hacker
For Veterans, a Path to Healing 'Moral Injury' New York Times
Why We Pull Away From Those We Love The Most Digg
***GRAMMAR
This Is The Daily Stormer's Playbook: A leaked style guide reveals they’re Nazis about grammar Huffington Post
The Fine Line Between Errors and Dialect Differences Chronicle of Higher
***WRITING & READING
Poetry's Not Dead, And Here Are Books To Help Appreciate It NPR
The Weaponization of Plagiarism Plagiarism Today
For baby’s brain to benefit, read the right books at the right time The Conversation
20 Words and Phrases for Better Essays Daily Infographic
***LANGUAGE
Oxford's word of the year is a less obvious, more obscure choice Mashable
Beyond “I can’t even” Chronicle of Higher
***LITERATURE
Researchers had an AI bot write a new Harry Potter chapter and it was terrifying The Guardian
You can thank Facebook, Hulu, and Instagram for some of the year’s bestselling books Quartz
Three Books That Capture America In Poetry NPR
***GENDER
The Growing Partisan Divide Over Feminism The Atlantic
42% of US working women have faced gender discrimination on the job Pew Research Center
At ESPN, the problem for women runs deep Boston Globe
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Court Decision Could Force Changes To ATF's Undercover Operations NPR
***LEGAL ISSUES
Slovenian magazine apologizes to US first lady Melania Trump Associated Press
Scandalous Trademarks No Longer Taboo, Court Rules Hollywood Reporter
***RELIGION
R.C. Sproul, theologian and religious broadcaster, dies at 78 USA Today
5 facts about Christmas in America Pew Research
Suit: Ernest Angely's Megachurch Swindled Mentally Ill Woman out of more than 300K CBS Chicago
How A Priest Convinced Robert Mugabe To Step Down NPR
Christian Club Sues University After Being Booted off Campus Iowa City Press-Citizen
Ernest Angley's church and TV station being sued for defaulting on $3.6 million loan Akron Beacon Journal
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
This Evangelical Leader Denounced Trump. Then the Death Threats Started Politico
Religious Bias Is Distorting American Foreign Policy (opinion) The Atlantic
An Evangelical Evaluation Of Trump's First Year NPR
After Trump and Moore, some evangelicals are finding their own label too toxic to use Washington Post
***ART & DESIGN
Guerrilla Public Service Redux 99 Percent
Better design helps differentiate opinion and news Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***MUSIC
Nielsen 360 Study Finds Consumers Love Streaming Music, But Radio Still Strong Billboard
Algorithm is a dancer: Is YouTube starting to determine vinyl reissues? The Vinyl Factory
U2 on 2017's 'Swing to Extremism' and Why Unity Is As Important As Resistance Billboard
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. will pay almost 41% more for the music it plays on its satellite-radio service starting next year Fox Business News
Thelonious Monk’s 25 Tips for Musicians (1960) Open Culture
In a new podcast, our host explores the craft of writing about music Poynter
***FILM
How The Post Became the Hottest Screenplay in Hollywood Vanity Fair
James Earl Jones Didn't Believe Darth Vader Was Luke's Father Hollywood Reporter
Movies You Missed: 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' NPR
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Resources for combating sexual harassment in the newsroom Society of Professional Journalists
There Is No Moral Relativity in Sexual Harassment (opinion) Chronicle of Higher
Women and Power in the Workplace New York Times
Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Support 'Zero Tolerance' On Sexual Harassment NPR
Catholic Church Singled Out In Australian Sex Abuse Report: The Two-Way NPR
How you can use public records to cover campus sexual assault Student Press Law Center
When harassment drives women out of journalism Vox
Gender discrimination comes in many forms for today’s working women Pew Research
We Got Government Data On 20 Years Of Workplace Sexual Harassment Claims: These Charts Break It Down BuzzFeed
***FAMILIES
Down Syndrome Families Divided Over Abortion Ban NPR
Parents giving children alcohol too young, researchers say BBC
***HEALTH
How healthy is your state? The disparities are stark Stat News
3-D printed microfibers could provide structure for artificially grown body part Penn State
The Future of Genomic medicine The Naked Scientist
'Why am I so tired?' The 10 most-Googled health questions in 2017 CNN
Why New Blood Pressure Guidelines Could Lead to Harm New York Times
CDC director tells staff ‘there are no banned words,’ while not refuting report Stat News
You (and most of the millions of holiday travelers you encounter) are washing your hands wrong The Conversation
***ENVIRONMENT
The world is drowning in ever-growing mounds of garbage Washington Post
Each U.S. Family Trashes 400 iPhones’ Worth of E-Waste a Year National Geographic
***SCIENCE
CDC gets list of forbidden words: fetus, transgender, diversity Washington Post
***PSYCHOLOGY
Older Adults' Forgetfulness Tied To Faulty Brain Rhythms In Sleep : Shots - Health News NPR
***NEUROSCIENCE
Offbeat brain rhythms during sleep make older adults forget UC Berkeley
***PHILOSOPHY
Pickle: A Philosophy and Ethics Podcast for Kids WNYC
God's Answer to Nietzsche, the Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard BigThink
***HISTORY
***RESEARCH
How many papers really end up without a single citation Nature
Strong evidence of bias against research from low income countries BMJ blog
Predatory publishing can no longer be called … a fly in the chardonnay of scholars Scholarly Kitchen
***HIGHER ED
The Political Divide Over Higher Education in America Gallup Poll
Baking Common Sense into the FERPA Cake: How to Meaningfully Protect Student Rights and the Public Interest Notre Dame Journal of Legislation
With an Employee Facing Deportation, Wesleyan’s President Speaks Out Chronicle of Higher Ed
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump contraception rule Washington Post
Arkansas Baptist president fired over 'lack of transparency' to board, college says Arkansas Online
Students combat human trafficking Northwest Nazarene
***TEACHING
Automatic Course Syllabus Maker Chronicle of Higher
Peer instruction and polling changes teaching Chronicle of Higher
When Students Aren’t as Prepared as They Look on Paper Chronicle of Higher
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Ph.D.s Are Still Writing Poorly, Part 2 Chronicle of Higher
***STUDENT LIFE
The College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots Atlas Obscura
doing evil
/Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Blaise Pascal
We prefer the Apps
/The family that is eating together while simultaneously on their phones is not actually together. They are, in writer Sherry Turkle’s formulation, “alone together.” You are where your attention is. If you’re watching a football game with your son while also texting a friend, you’re not fully with your child — and he knows it. Truly being with another person means being experientially with them, picking up countless tiny signals from the eyes and voice and body language and context, and reacting, often unconsciously, to every nuance. These are our deepest social skills, which have been honed through the aeons. They are what make us distinctively human.
No wonder we prefer the apps. An entire universe of intimate responses is flattened to a single, distant swipe. We hide our vulnerabilities, airbrushing our flaws and quirks; we project our fantasies onto the images before us. Rejection still stings — but less when a new virtual match beckons on the horizon.
Andrew Sullivan writing in New York Magazine
how to know yourself
/Make things = know thyself.
Feeling Like Getting Married
/Part of the reason we feel like getting married is to interrupt the all-consuming grip that love has over our psyches. We are exhausted by the melodramas and thrills that go nowhere. We are restless for other challenges. We hope that marriage can conclusively end love’s painful rule over our lives.
It can’t and won’t: there is as much doubt, hope, fear, rejection and betrayal in a marriage as there is in single life. It’s only from the outside that a marriage looks peaceful, uneventful and nicely boring.
Lying to ourselves
/Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. -Fyodor Dostoevsky
living in opposition
/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
Articles of Interest - week of Dec 11
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Instagram tests standalone messaging app CNN
Teenagers are growing more anxious and depressed Economist
How Duterte Turned Facebook Into a Weapon—With Help From Facebook Bloomberg
10 Things You Can Do Now to Up Your Social Media Game in 2018 PBS Mediashift
Fourth Judge Says Social Media Sites Aren’t Liable for Supporting Terrorists–Pennie v. Twitter Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***MOBILE
Video will make up 75 percent of mobile traffic in five years Recode
Apple reveals 2017’s most popular apps, music and more Apple
Google’s research team releases three new experimental photo apps for Android & iOS 9 to 5 Google
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Facebook offers free music and sound effects for video makers The Next Web
How the New Media Rebellion in Video is Reshaping the Publishing World Tubular Insights
***INTERNET
Sad poop emoji gets flushed after row BBC
Page Not Found: A Brief History of the 404 Error Wired
How Email Open Tracking Quietly Took Over the Web Wired
How Bots Are Threatening Online Discourse PBS MediaShift
Before Net Neutrality, There Was Radio Regulation Jstor
***TECHNOLOGY
Netflix pulls some Big Brother nonsense with your data Mashable
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
AI's brightest minds are still figuring out how to understand their creations Quartz
Microsoft has set up an internal AI University to try and get around the skills shortage Business Insider
Machine Learning to catch a Hacker Tech Republic
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
The TV business is changing, giving auteurs creative opportunities they’ve never had before 1843 Magazine
How brands secretly buy their way into Forbes, Fast Company, and HuffPost stories The Outline
***JOURNALISM
Good video for classes about the process of reporting on a story Washington Post
ProPublica announces 7 newsrooms for its Local Reporting Network Poynter
Local newspaper ‘headline’ goes viral after proofreading error PR Daily
How do you use an anonymous source? The mysteries of journalism everyone should know Washington Post
Journalism’s New Patrons: Enterprise journalism emerges in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains Columbia Journalism Review
How Washington Post journalists broke the story of allegations against Roy Moore Washington Post
Report: The repeal of net neutrality will hurt local news Poynter
Your 17 favorite tools for journalism from 2017 Poynter
***JOURNALISM: THE NEW MOVIE “THE POST”
Steven Spielberg's homage to The Washington Post is a fine movie, but not history Poynter
Steven Spielberg's The Post: The story behind the new Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep movie First Post
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
The 3 types of news subscribers: Why they pay and how to convert them YouTube
The journey from print to radio storytelling: A guide for navigating a new landscape NPR
Boston Herald files for bankruptcy protection to pursue sale Reuters
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
How OZY is Equipping Educators for Changing Media Audiences PBS Media Shift
Preparing students for careers through journalism classes Salina
Let’s welcome experts to our journalism schools Monday Note
***FAKE NEWS
How can we stop the train wreck of fake news on Facebook? Muckrack
This website helps you find related fact checks — and it was built by a 17-year-old Poynter
BBC to help students identify 'fake news' BBC
When news breaks, Google still can’t separate rumor from fact The Outline
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Why trying new things is so hard Becoming (my blog)
Optimism Medium
How Labels Can Affect People's Personalities And Potential NPR
Evaluating Personality Tests NPR
***LANGUAGE
It’s Nerve-wracking not Nerve-wrecking Chronicle of Higher Ed
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2017: ‘Feminism’ Associated Press
Suspicion, Italian StyleHow does one teach in a world of fake news? William Germano examines a strategy to help young students understand what a lie looks like Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro accepts Nobel Prize, recounts its meaning in Nagasaki Japan Times
***GENDER
Dad writes brilliant letter to school after daughter was sent off for a makeover Metro
The Credibility Gap in Academe Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Gender Balance of The New York Times Best Seller list Pudding
She Showed a Video in Class in which the use of gender-neutral pronouns was debated: Now She’s a Hero to Some, a Pariah to Others Chronicle of Higher Ed
Maternity leave is like a vacation, right? A feminist comic The Guardian
Pentagon Officials Say Transgender People Can Enlist In Military Next Year NPR
How do your views on gender compare with those of other Americans? Pew Research
Sexual Harassment Training Doesn’t Work. But Some Things Do New York Times
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
The Boston Globe’s new investigative series on racism Boston Globe
Ask Code Switch: Who Can Call Themselves 'Brown'? NPR
***FAMILIES
Read this before you have a baby (especially if you're a woman) The Guardian
How Spanking Affects Later Relationships The Atlantic
A global snapshot of same-sex marriage Pew Research
***LEGAL ISSUES
Lawsuit Over Mashup of 'Star Trek' and Dr. Seuss Gets Past Alpha Quadrant Hollywood Reporter
Jury sides with San Diego in Comic Con trademark battle CBS News 8
***RELIGION
Types of Church Mcsweeneys
Evangelicals and Domestic Violence: Are Christian Men More Abusive? A sociologist looks at the data on domestic abuse against women Christianity Today
Died: ‘God’s Smuggler’ and ‘The Cross and the Switchblade’ ‘The Hiding Place’ Coauthor John Sherrill Christianity Today
American evangelist leads rare event in communist Vietnam Associated Press
Pope Francis Suggests Translation Change To The Lord's Prayer NPR
Died: Harry Blamires, the C. S. Lewis Protégé Who Rediscovered ‘The Christian Mind’ Christianity Today
Is the Term “Evangelical” Over? Context
US evangelical preacher, Franklin Graham, should be banned from entering UK, critics say The Guardian
***RELIGION AND THE MIDDLE EAST
To Some Zionist Christians And Jews, The Bible Says Jerusalem Is Israel's Capital NPR
Creation Festival Founder Arrested for Alleged Child Molestation Christianity Today
Make way for a new wave of cosmopolitanism in the Middle East The Economist
***RELIGION AND MUSIC
Rockin' for the One who is the Rock March Shrednes
Gospel music as a tool to uproot drug abuse New Times
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Trump is losing (some) white evangelicals Religious News Service
God’s Plan for Mike Pence (opinion) The Atlantic
The Christian Right Has A New Strategy On Gay Marriage FiveThirtyEight
White evangelicals are now more tolerant of immoral behavior by elected officials than the average American The Atlantic
Why evangelicals are OK with voting for Roy Moore The Conversation
***ART & DESIGN
The Vibrant Color Wheels Designed by Goethe, Newton & Other Theorists of Color (1665-1810) Open Culture
2017 Book Covers We Loved Spine Magazine
***MUSIC
What Apple is likely to do with Shazam, the early name-that-tune iPhone app USA Today
The Sound of Modern Pop Peaked This Year — and Now It Needs to Change Vulture
***FILM
Movies You Missed: 'It's A Wonderful Life' NPR
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Two female scientists talk about the troubling misogyny they've faced in online communities Warm Regards Podcast
I Spoke Up Against My Harasser — and Paid a Steep Price Chronicle of Higher Ed
Local TV news has a harassment problem — from people who watch the news Vox
A High-Profile Anti-Tobacco Crusader Is Being Sued For Sexual Harassment BuzzFeed
Zero newsrooms responded to CJR’s request for information about sexual harassment policies Columbia Journalism Review
Women and men in both parties say sexual harassment allegations reflect ‘widespread problems in society’ Pew Research
Why do women get all attractive if they don't want to be harassed? Glad you asked Baltimore Sun
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & POLITICS
Sexual Harassment Charges Put Politicians On Defensive NPR
Legislators Move To Take On Sexual Harassment In Their Own Halls NPR
Paul Pressler, former Texas judge and religious right leader, accused of sexually assaulting teen for years Texas Tribune
Charges Of Sexual Impropriety Upends Congress NPR
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & HIGHER ED
What Happens When Sex Harassment Disrupts Victims’ Academic Careers Chronicle of Higher Ed
Can Sexual Predators Be Good Scholars? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Dirty Old Men on the Faculty (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
KU pays $395,000 to settle Title IX lawsuits by women who alleged sexual assaults by football player Lawrence Journal-World
***HEALTH
The other big drug problem: Older people taking too many pills Washington Post
The body changes dramatically during pregnancy — and that might mean medication doses are all wrong Stat News
***SCIENCE
Everything We Know About Physics in One Neat Infographic Big Think
Another example of why replication is important in science The Scientific Method Economist
The trouble with big science is essentially that it is a profiteering enterprise Los Angeles Review of Books
***PSYCHOLOGY
Bad News for the Highly Intelligent: Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests Scientific American
Why are America's farmers killing themselves in record numbers? The Guardian
I study liars. I’ve never seen one like President Trump The Washington Post
***NEUROSCIENCE
Neuroscientists Just Launched an Atlas of the Developing Human Brain Wired
Stopping A Plan Already In Motion Could Give You A Headache NPR
***CRITICAL THINKING
Fined for "doing math without a license" in Oregon: State will let engineer refer to himself as an 'engineer' The Register
***PHILOSOPHY
Western philosophy asks, “What is being?” Japanese philosophy asks, “What is nothingness?” Quartz
Why physicists need philosophy OUPblog
***HISTORY
The Mayflower generation and the burden it bears Economist
***ETHICS
Baby Born To Uterus Transplant Patient Raises Ethics Questions NPR
‘Doxxing’ someone, even if he’s a Nazi sympathizer, poses a serious ethical dilemma CNBC
***RESEARCH
Scientific peer review: an ineffective and unworthy institution (opinion) Times Higher Education
Jeffrey Beall’s boss at the University of Colorado, Denver weighs in on the closure of Beall’s list, and scientific publishing in general (PDF) Shea Swauger, College & Research Libraries News
A Guide to Spotting Shady Statistics The Open Notebook The Open Notebook
Some big pharmaceutical companies are meeting legal standards for disclosing results—but many studies still go unreported The-Scientist
A “quantitative review” of a book about priming research touches on replications, publication bias and other issues Replication-Index
A new book looks at academic fraud and how the response to it has changed over the years Inside Higher Ed
Detecting image manipulation in the world of science Lab News
It's Gonna Get a Lot Easier to Break Science Journal Paywalls Wired
***HIGHER ED
Rural America’s Neglected Higher-Education Problem The Atlantic
Moody’s Downgrades Higher Ed’s Outlook From ‘Stable’ to ‘Negative’ Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why One University Wants to Close Lots of Small Libraries and Create ‘Hubs’ Wisconsin State Journal
How Can Colleges Head Off Homegrown Extremism? Chronicle of Higher Ed
The University of Baltimore has cut nearly 400 employees' salaries in an effort to reduce costs amid falling enrollment Baltimore Sun
Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education The Atlantic
An MIT Dean Planned a University With No Classrooms. Here’s Where It Stands Chronicle of Higher Ed
An institution eliminates its English major, but more has been lost than a degree program Chronicle of Higher Ed
Christian University announces plans to sell radio station Andersonian
A graduating senior reflects on why she chose to stay at her evangelical college after coming out Newnownext
Christian colleges want protection for the DREAMers San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Aspiring journalists at conservative Liberty University see themselves as the antidote to ‘fake news’ Washington Post
***TEACHING
End of Semester Bingo McSweeneys
What I Know About My Students Chronicle of Higher Ed
Teaching Is a Private Act. How Can Professors Open Up About It? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Dirty Old Men on the Faculty Chronicle of Higher Ed
Academic Conference Panels Are Boring Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Coronado students protest alleged censorship KGTV-TV
At 130 years, The Daily Collegian says goodbye to daily print. But our mission remains the same Collegian
***STUDENT LIFE
This College Student Is Stuck Wearing a Christmas-Tree Costume to Class After Actually Getting All the Retweets She Asked For New York Magazine
Stressed Out Kids Are More Likely to Become Bad Decision Makers Vice
What A Tax Overhaul Could Mean For Students And Schools NPR
The Importance of Dumb Mistakes in College New York Times
'Millennials': Be Careful How We Use This Label NPR
Why is choosing a college major so fraught with anxiety? Washington Post
if then
/If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
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