Too many people
/Too many people die with their music still in them. Oliver Wendell Holmes
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Don't Be a Hack
/A hack, Robert McKee says, is a writer who second-guesses his audience. When the hack sits down to work, he doesn’t ask himself what’s in his own heart. He asks what the market is looking for. The hack condescends to his audience. He thinks he’s superior to them.
The truth is, he’s scared to death of them or, more accurately, scared of being authentic in front of them, scared of writing what he really feels or believes, what he himself thinks is interesting. He’s afraid it won’t sell. So he tries to anticipate what the market (a telling word) wants, then gives it to them.
In other words, the hack writes hierarchically. He writes what he imagines will play well in the eyes of others. He does not ask himself, What do I myself want to write? What do I think is important? Instead he asks, What’s hot, what can I make a deal for?
The hack is like the politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He’s a demagogue. He panders.
It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you’ve sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.
Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
throw your heart
/Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.
Articles of Interest - Feb 26
/***TECHNOLOGY
Social networks are broken—This man wants to fix them MIT Technology Review
Robot vs Human Testing Wired
Driverless cars can operate in California as early as April Recode
Scientists create optical lens that acts as 'artificial eye' based on the anatomy of human eyeball Harvard
Children struggle to hold pencils due to too much tech, doctors say The Guardian
***JOURNALISM
Local Reporting Is Dying. This Training Corps Wants to Bring It Back. Pacific Standard PS Mag
With in-article chat bots, BBC is experimenting with new ways to introduce readers to complex topics Nieman Lab
Journalism has a catch-22 problem with visuals Poynter
Journalism is a risky business Washington Post
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
After years of testing, The Wall Street Journal has built a paywall that bends to the individual reader Nieman Journalism Lab
***FAKE NEWS
How to Inoculate the Public Against Fake News Defense One
A viral fake about Sylvester Stallone highlights a major flaw in Facebook’s fact-checking tool Poynter
Why Can Everyone Spot Fake News But The Tech Companies? BuzzFeed
Strategies on checking for fake news Union-Tribune
Can we keep media literacy from becoming a partisan concept like fact checking? Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***BIG DATA & AI
The best books for learning modern statistics (and they’re free) Quartz
***SOCIAL MEDIA
On Social Media, Lax Enforcement Lets Impostor Accounts Thrive New York Times
There is no easy fix for Facebook’s reliability problem Monday Note
***MOBILE
What is Google Reply (and How It Works) Tom’s Guide
Apple Plans Giant High-End iPhone, Lower-Priced Model Bloomberg
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Sitting in on Remote Meetings? Working at a Standing Desk? Follow These Tips Wired
The Pros & Cons of Scripted vs Unscripted Video Video Strategist
***INTERNET
The Father Of The Internet Sees His Invention Reflected Back Through A 'Black Mirror' NPR
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Defeating Procrastination Becoming (my blog)
***GRAMMAR
The serious implications of poking fun at the grammar of people who speak and write English as a second language The Chronicle of Higher Education
‘What Is Your Position on Citation?’ The Chronicle of Higher Education
Syntax change: one of the mistakes made by doom-mongers who believe English itself is under threat The Chronicle of Higher Education
***LANGUAGE
Did humans speak through cave art? New paper links ancient drawings and language’s origins MIT
In the world of voice-recognition, not all accents are equal Economist
A Written Language Without an Alphabet Scholarly Kitchen
***LITERATURE
Petition calls for separating LGBT materials in Iowa library Washington Post
Aliens Would Probably Like It If You Gave them Flowers: A Geek’s Guide to Steven Pinker WIRED
How Do You Launch a New Generation of Native American Writers? BuzzFeed News
***GENDER
Judge gives grandparents custody of Ohio transgender teen CNN
Signs defending white privilege appear around Burlington campuses Burlington Free Press
'You Have Dark Skin And You Are Beautiful': The Long Fight Against Skin Bleaching NPR
How Girls and Women "Camouflage" Their Autism The Atlantic
Gender Gap at the Olympics Wall Street Journal
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
U.S. hate groups proliferate in Trump's first year, watchdog says Reuters
***FREE SPEECH
It's the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech Wired
California's IMDb Age Censorship Law Declared Unconstitutional Hollywood Reporter
***LEGAL ISSUES
John Oliver, HBO Beat Coal Executive's Defamation Lawsuit Hollywood Reporter
4 of the Most Influential Supreme Court Cases Being Decided in 2018 Study Breaks
Appeals Court Rules The Civil Rights Act Protects Gay Workers NPR
Lesbian Law Prof Sues Over Rejection as Foster Parent Law.com
***LEGAL ISSUES: COPYRIGHT
Judge rejects copyright claim over CG Characters in Blockbuster Movies, but claims for inducing patent infringement and violating trademarks will move forward Hollywood Reporter
The Big Push To Reform Music Copyright For The Digital Age Forbes
Disney Misused 'Star Wars,' 'Frozen' Copyrights, Says Judge Hollywood Reporter
***RELIGION
Why Are These Christian Non-Profits Telling the IRS They’re Churches? (opinion) Patheos
The Gospel according to Bob Dylan Boston Globe
Our Parent Who Art in Heaven The Chronicle of Higher Education
Pope suggests it's better to be an atheist than a bad Christian CNN
***BILLY GRAHAM
Remembering Billy Graham, "America's Pastor" & Adviser to Presidents Biography
The media savvy of Billy Graham Washington Post
Billy Graham's Record on Race Was Both Ahead and Of His Time Bloomberg
Today’s evangelicals could learn a lot from Billy Graham (opinion) Washington Post
Why Billy Graham Was Determined to Globalize Evangelicalism The Atlantic
Billy Graham was consumed by grace Washington Post
Billy Graham may have been the last bipartisan evangelical leader Washington Post
The Making of Billy Graham: Evangelicalism and Anthropology in the 20th-Century United States Academia.edu
Billy Graham Built a Movement. Now His Son Is Dismantling It Politico
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
In Donald Trump, Evangelicals Have Found Their President (opinion) New York Times
Evangelical Explains: We Evangelicals Are The Biggest Suckers in the US Splinter
***ART & DESIGN
Instagram is killing the way we experience art in museums Quartzy
A sumptuous TV tour of the history of art Economist
The Art of Chinese Propaganda Posters Atlas Obscura
How do the United States state flags look when data decides their designs? True Colors
***MUSIC
Is Music a Universal Language? YouTube
Public broadcaster music library closing, CD’s to be digitised, destroyed Radio Canada International
***FILM
'Darkest Hour' Loves Churchill, But Let's Hope It Tanks His Legacy Digg
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student journalist interviewed classmates as shooter walked Parkland school halls CNN
How accessible is Penn State’s campus for students with disabilities? The Daily Collegian
FIRE alerts students to due process threats using campus newspapers The FIRE
***JOBS
How to Make Your LinkedIn Page Less Boring LifeHacker
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
'New York Magazine': Do You Believe Anita Hill Now? NPR
How common is sexual misconduct in Hollywood? USA Today
Tackling Sexual Harassment On Campus Means Putting Students First (opinion) University Times
Sexual harassment pervades science: This scientist is talking to Congress about how to change that Stat News
***SOCIOLOGY
The Professor of Horrible Deeds: Fred Berlin has done decades of pioneering research on pedophilia — and outraged a lot of people along the way The Chronicle of Higher Education
***HEALTH
Good science keeps debunking the war on pasta and bread Vox
Making anaesthesia safer by tracking brain activity Economist
Single fathers are twice more likely to die early than single mothers or partnered fathers Quartz
Back Pain May Be The Result Of Bending Over At The Waist Instead Of The Hips NPR
What does the world die from? (data visualization) Our World in Data
***HEALTH & TECH
Google’s new AI algorithm predicts heart disease by looking at your eyes The Verge
DeepMind’s new project aims to prevent hospital deaths MIT Tech Review
***RELATIONSHIPS
Yep, people are using avocados to propose on Instagram NBC Today
***NEUROSCIENCE
Hidden Brain: A Study Of Airline Delays NPR
New neurons in the adult brain are involved in sensory learning ScienceDaily
***CRITICAL THINKING
Steven Pinker’s case for optimism“Enlightenment Now” explains why the doom-mongers are wrong Economist
***PHILOSOPHY
Four philosophers who realized they were completely wrong about things Big Think
***RESEARCH
Researchers have finally created a tool to spot duplicated images across thousands of papers Nature
Publisher retracts “conceptual penis” hoax article Retraction Watch
Tool which clinical drug trials have missed deadlines for reporting their results BBC
A guidebook to measuring research Nature
***HIGHER ED
A list of colleges that “are committed to defend the #NeverAgain Movement (website created by undergraduate at the University of California at San Diego) Never Again Colleges
The Great Online School Scam LongReads
Who's Missing From America's Colleges? Rural High School Graduates NPR
After 2016 Election, Campus Hate Crimes Seemed to Jump: Here’s What the Data Tell Us The Chronicle of Higher Education
How to help students avoid the remedial ed trap Hechinger Report
University of Akron pays more than $620,000 a year to two former presidents to teach Cleveland.com
College signs contract with Florida sheriff’s office to have instructors and staff members carry guns Click Orlando
In Times of Scandal, Conflicts With College Lawyers Multiply The Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Misguided Drive to Measure ‘Learning Outcomes’ New York Times
Why Is the Manhattan DA Looking at Newsweek’s Ties to a Christian University? Newsweek
No, a church isn't trying to sex traffic women on college campuses NewJersey.com
Jimmy Carter to give commencement speech at Liberty University The Hill
Louisiana College refused to hire coach because of his 'Jewish blood': Lawsuit Associated Press
What in the World Is Going On Between Olivet U. and Newsweek? The Chronicle of Higher Education
Wheaton College Wins 5-Year Religious Freedom Battle Against Birth Control Mandate Christian Post
***TEACHING
Inclusive Citation: How Diverse Are Your References? The Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Millennials Media Consumption Daily Infographic
Prestigious U.S. colleges won't reject students who protest guns Reuters
Judge dismisses New York Columbia University student's claims over rape reports Reuters
Student-run Christian group sues Georgia school saying its campus speech-zone rules are unconstitutional Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Screen All Teens For Depression, Pediatricians Urge NPR
***ACADEMIC LIFE
She Wrote a Farewell Letter to Colleagues. Then 80,000 People Read It. The Chronicle of Higher Education
resistance to change
/There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Learn by Doing
/Learn by doing. Not sure if you can break into the pharmaceutical industry? Spend six months interning at Pfizer making connections and see what happens. Curious whether marketing or product development is a better fit than what you currently do? If you work in a company where those functions exist, offer to help out for free. Whatever the situation, actions, not plan, generate lessons that help you test your hypotheses against reality. Actions help you discover where you want to go and how to get there.
Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha, The Startup of You
little steps
/There is no giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps. -Peter A. Cohen
Managing Your “Mental Tabs”
/Have you ever had too many Internet tabs open at once? It is a madhouse of distraction. When I feel like my brain has too many tabs open at once, it’s often the result of trying to mentally juggle too many thoughts at the same time.
Writing gives form to your ideas and gets them out of your head, freeing up bandwidth and preventing you from crashing your browser like a late night downward spiral on Wikipedia.
Gregory Ciotti writing in HelpScout
your future self
/Procrastination stems from a failure to “identify sufficiently with your future self” -Robert Hanks
Articles of Interest - Feb 19
/***TECHNOLOGY
Drones that dodge obstacles without guidance can pursue you like paparazzi MIT Technology Review
In the future we won’t edit genomes—we’ll just print out new ones MIT Tech Review
***BIG DATA & AI
Buzzwords Just Create Confusion about Data Science Dark Reading
The misuse, abuse and traps of “statistical significance” Christensen Institute
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Want the Perfect Instagram Photo? This Park Hires a Photographer for You Bloomberg
Facebook’s two-factor authentication system auto-posts replies on your profile The Verge
Snapchat founder says user complaints 'validate' redesign CNN
Why Facebook’s earliest efforts to kill off Snapchat completely backfired Recode
Carry Around Your Google Account's Backup Two-Step Verification Codes in Case Your Phone is Stolen Life Hacker
Tired of texting? Google tests robot to chat with friends for you The Guardian
Google is replacing Facebook’s traffic to publishers Recode
The ‘Stories’ format is coming to Google search next The Verge
What Is Google Really Up To With Chrome Ad Blocking? Popular Mechanics
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Cult of Convenience Becoming (my blog)
The Tyranny of Convenience (opinion) New York Times
The ABCs of Fake Empathy: what it is, what it isn’t and how to cultivate it The Polymath Project
***JOURNALISM
Why ‘Dialogue Journalism’ Is Having a Moment PBS Media Shift
When it comes to press freedom, America is no longer a ‘beacon’ for the world Columbia Journalism Review
The Heartbreak and Frustration of Covering One Mass Shooting After Another New Yorker
How the non-disclosure agreement became a tool for powerful people to stymie journalists from informing the public Columbia Journalism Review
John Oliver: Is He a Journalist, Despite His Protests? Variety
Best practices for reporting through social media during a mass shooting Poynter
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Guide to Audience Revenue and Engagement of News Audiences Columbia Journalism Review
New York Times CEO: Print journalism has maybe another 10 years CNBC
How much U.S. newspapers charge for digital subscriptions American Press Institute
***FAKE NEWS
The most common hashtags tweeted by Russian trolls Quartz
Fake news is an existential crisis for social media Tech Crunch
***LITERATURE
In 'Freshwater,' A College Student Learns To Live With Separate Selves NPR
***GENDER
Education Department says it is no longer investigating transgender bathroom complaints BuzzFeed
Judge gives grandparents custody of Ohio transgender teen CNN
Male and female brain rhythms show differences Science Daily
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
‘Resist White Supremacy’: A sign. A farm. And the fury that followed Washington Post
NBC Insists On Saying 'Pyeongchang' Incorrectly Because 'It's Cleaner' Huffington Post
How Diverse Casting in Branded Videos Expands Your Audience Video Strategist
***FREE SPEECH
The 10 worst colleges for free speech: 2018 The FIRE
***LEGAL ISSUES
Law School Accreditor Proposes Easing Limits on Online Education Inside Higher Ed
Supreme Court Tackles Fourth Amendment Case Involving Cellphone Privacy Law.com
Beyoncé Songs Come to the Olympics. But Who Pays for the Rights? New York Times
Judge Rules News Publishers Violated Copyright by Embedding Tweets of Tom Brady Photo Hollywood Reporter
In-Line Linking May Be Copyright Infringement–Goldman v. Breitbart News Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***RELIGION
Author of “The Faith of Donald J. Trump” is challenged on Morning Joe MSNBC
Charlotte Mother Jailed For Baptism: Mother Reports To Jail WSOC-TV
***ART & DESIGN
A landmark 5Pointz case shows the legal reasons why graffiti is art Quartz
How restaurateur Mr Chow became the unlikely hero of the art world Dazed
What the 5Pointz ruling means for street artists The Conversation
***MUSIC
Classical Music Couples Throughout History NPR
A Town In Mexico Sees Guitar Sales Soar Thanks To The Movie 'Coco' NPR
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Bill Would Hold College Presidents Accountable for Sexual Abuse by Employees Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Moral Responsibility of Restaurant Critics in the Age of #MeToo The New Yorker
Bill Would Hold College Presidents Accountable for Sexual Abuse by Employees Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Call-In: Knowing Sexual Harassers NPR
Breaking the Silence: the #MeToo Moment in Scholarly Communication Scholarly Kitchen
***HEALTH
New malleable 'electronic skin' self-healable, recyclable University of Colorado Boulder
Google AI can scan your eyes to predict heart disease Engadget
***RELATIONSHIPS
No, opposites do not attract The Conversation
8 facts about love and marriage in America Pew Research Center
***GOOD NEWS
A single dad walked 11 miles to work every day—until his co-workers found out CNN
How Two Police Drones Saved a Woman's Life The Atlantic
50 Years Later, Mister Rogers Remains Our Favorite Neighbor NPR
***PSYCHOLOGY
What Color Is a Tennis Ball? The Atlantic
The Psychology Behind Successful Apps (opinion) Media Post
***PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy Relies on Those Double Majors The Splintered Mind
A Celebrity Philosopher Explains the Populist Insurgency New Yorker
***ETHICS
Tech’s Ethical ‘Dark Side’: Harvard, Stanford and Others Want to Address It New York Times
***RESEARCH
Meet the ‘data thugs’ out to expose shoddy and questionable research Science Mag
***HIGHER ED
How Russian Bots Spread Fear at University in the U.S. Inside Higher Ed
In a fast-changing world, nearly everything is unsettled in higher education Inside Higher Ed
What students know that experts don't: School is all about signaling, not skill-building LA Times
Getting from ‘Hello’ to ‘I Do’ on a Christian College Campus Christianity Today
Female students at Christian colleges more likely to experience gender discrimination Christianity Today
***TEACHING
Harnessing the Power of the Developing Brain Chronicle of Higher Ed
Hybrid learning techniques in both online and traditional classes can be better used (opinion) Hechinger Report
Online Courses Are Harming the Students Who Need the Most help New York Times
Future economy demands workers who can learn online The Hill
The lack of meaningful pedagogical training during graduate school Chronicle of Higher Ed
Since the mid-1970s, college students have become increasingly less likely to major in education Market Watch
***STUDENT MEDIA
College PR offices fight against student media to manipulate narrative Student Press Law Center
Student reporter interviews classmates during shooting Fort Worth Star-Telegram
***STUDENT LIFE
The 7 Things Students Think About When Choosing a College Chronicle of Higher Ed
Millennials Are Obsessed With Pets Media Post
College roommates underestimate each other's distress, new psychology research shows Science Daily
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Why I Collapsed on the Job: Academics are silent workaholics—so free to work whenever we want that many of us end up working all the time Chronicle of Higher Ed
Michigan State University Faculty Senate passes no confidence vote in Board of Trustees Michigan Radio
History in the Face of Catastrophe: After my son died, how could I know anything for certain? Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Cult of Convenience
/Everyone, or nearly everyone, is on Facebook: It is the most convenient way to keep track of your friends and family, who in theory should represent what is unique about you and your life. Yet Facebook seems to make us all the same. Its format and conventions strip us of all but the most superficial expressions of individuality, such as which particular photo of a beach or mountain range we select as our background image.
I do not want to deny that making things easier can serve us in important ways, giving us many choices (of restaurants, taxi services, open-source encyclopedias) where we used to have only a few or none. But being a person is only partly about having and exercising choices. It is also about how we face up to situations that are thrust upon us, about overcoming worthy challenges and finishing difficult tasks — the struggles that help make us who we are. What happens to human experience when so many obstacles and impediments and requirements and preparations have been removed?
Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We are at risk of making most of our life experiences a series of trolley rides.
Tim Wu writing in The New York Times
No one is where they are
/"Sometimes I walk down the street, and I’m the only person not plugged in…No one is where they are. They’re talking to someone miles away. I miss them."
A person
/A person is a person through other persons. -Zulu saying
Articles of Interest - Feb 12
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
STUDY: We’re Not Addicted To Smartphones, We’re Addicted To Social Interaction Daily Wire
Jon Gabriel: How to keep social media from rewiring your brain AZcentral
Teens Are Losing It Over Snapchat's Unpopular App Redesign BuzzFeed
Instagram Is Telling People If You Screenshot Their Story In A Test BuzzFeed
Instagram is testing screenshot alerts for stories TechCrunch
Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook—and the World Wired
Facebook hired a full time pollster to monitor Zuckerberg’s approval ratings The Verge
Facebook Messenger’s ‘Your Emoji’ status tells friends what’s up TechCrunch
Facebook losing young users even faster to Snapchat USA Today
Twitter just had its first profitable quarter CNN
Twitter failed to remove hundreds of Russian propaganda videos aimed at Americans CNN
***MOBILE
Your Mobile Phone Can Give Away Your Location, Even If You Tell It Not To Scientific American
Behold, the 157 new emoji for 2018 Ars Technica
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Podcasting Is the New Soft Diplomacy The Ringer
***INTERNET
You Can Now Mute Websites Forever in Chrome LifeHacker
What to Do If Your Favorite Website Won't Load LifeHacker
***TECHNOLOGY
Chinese police are wearing sunglasses that can recognize faces Quartz
***JOURNALISM
How cleaning off your desk can help you figure out what to say no to Poynter
Proposed Journalist Protection Act Would Make Assault Of Reporter A Federal Crime Forbes
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Theresa May announces review into future of newspapers BBC
Newsonomics: Inside Tronc’s sale of the L.A. Times (and all the new questions to come) Nieman Journalism Lab
New York Times Co. Subscription Revenue Surpassed $1 Billion in 2017 New York Times
Can Independent Web Journalism Survive? PBS Media Shift
***FAKE NEWS
He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse BuzzFeed
Overseas Fake News Publishers Use Facebook’s Instant Articles To Bring In More Cash BuzzFeed
Let’s focus on real journalism, not so called ‘fake news’ (opinion) Grand Rapids Herald Review
A Field Guide to Fake News and Other Information Disorders: A Free Manual to Download, Share & Re-Use Open Culture
The far-right sharing fake news — or conservatives sharing conservative journalism? NiemanLab
***BIG DATA & AI
The Argument Against Quantum Computers Quantam Magazine
Behind Artificial Intelligence Lurk Oddball Low-Paid Tasks Wired
3 steps to get clean, structured data you trust IOT for All
Are the Digits of Pi Truly Random? Here’s one for the data geeks among us Data Science Central
Bayesian model selection shows extremely polarized behavior when the models are wrong Phys org
Cloudera looks to be an Apache Hadoop/Spark alternative to making meaning out of the Data Deluge Federal News Radio
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Moment You Feel Becoming (my blog)
***GRAMMAR
Oxford comma dispute is settled as Maine drivers get $5 million Boston
How periods and scare quotes can create emphasis far beyond the squiggles on the page Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
A Language's Popularity Could Influence Its Grammar and Vocabulary The Atlantic
An unsung term that has the magical power of deflecting anger and resentment Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Americans preserved British English BBC
Talking Killer Whales? Gullible Science Journalists More Likely Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
Plagiarism Software Unveils a New Source for 11 of Shakespeare’s Plays New York Times
***GENDER
A word in the Nunes memo that has no male counterpart Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
This is what happens when a class called ‘White Racism’ comes to campus death threats and hate mail keep arriving for the professor Daily Dot
California police worked with neo-Nazis to pursue 'anti-racist' activists, documents show The Guardian
Black History Month posters covered up at University of Tennessee with ones referencing Hitler CBS News
Former Klansman finds Forgiveness and a Friend in a Black Church Philadelphia Inquirer
***RELIGION
Can LGBT Rights and Religious Rights Coexist? Washington Post
Died: James W. Sire, Editor Who Brought Us Francis Schaeffer and Os Guinness Christianity Today
Christian group plans ‘revival’ to protest ‘toxic evangelicalism’ Religious News Service
Ex-CFO stole $100K from Children's Bible Fellowship in Kent: Cops Lohud
The Michigan town where only Christians are allowed to buy houses The Guardian
5 facts about blacks and religion in America Pew Research Center
Racist Bullying? Religious School In Texas Argues Courts Can’t Intervene Huffington Post
***RELIGION AND MUSIC
Natalie Grant reclaims voice from cancer Times FreePress
Trouble No More trailer (video)
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
The complicated history of In God We Trust and other examples Trump gives of American religion Washington Post
3 new books analyze Trump’s faith and his faithful followers Religious News Service
Beth Moore, Jen Hatmaker and other evangelical leaders are publishing a letter urging Trump, Congress to act on immigration The Washington Post
***ART & DESIGN
Compilation of 2017 loops Philip Lueck
***MUSIC
Bob Dylan Updates "The Times They Are A-Changin'" for 2018 (video)
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student-run newspaper says hundreds of copies taken from racks due to controversial story KWCH
***STUDENT LIFE
Over Time, Humanities Grads Close the Pay Gap With Professional Peers Chronicle of Higher Ed
Easily accessible porn prevalent among students Baptist Standard
Preventing suicide: Teen deaths are on the rise, but we know how to fight back USA Today
Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic nowadays - The youth of today Economist
University Won’t Expel student who called himself “the most active white nationalist in the Nebraska area” Chronicle of Higher Ed
Kansas Scrambles To Change Rules After 6 Teens Enter Governor's Race NPR
Dental students took selfie with severed heads at Yale training workshop Associated Press
Transgender student: Professor refused to use preferred pronoun New York Post
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
Digital Media is Driving Job Growth in LA region, report Finds MSNBC
Microsoft releases its LinkedIn resume helper for Word Engadget
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Is There a Smarter Way to Think About Sexual Assault on Campus? New Yorker
Ten women sign letter accusing Northwestern journalism professor Alec Klein of sexual harassment and assault Chicago Reader
Air Force Academy mismanaged sexual assault program, Pentagon says CNN
UNC claims right to shield names of students disciplined for on-campus sex misconduct Herald Sun
UT investigates vandalism connected to professor’s domestic abuse case Statesman
Being Aware Of Abuse May Make People Uncomfortable — And That's OK (by a writing professor) WBUR
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Former William & Mary professor files discrimination lawsuit against college WY Daily
Princeton students leave class after professor allegedly uses N-word Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Northwestern journalism professor accused of misconduct takes leave of absence Chicago Tribune
ICE Detains Chemistry Professor Before He Can Goodbye To His Family Newsweek
How Much Do Professors Work? One Researcher Is Trying to Find Out Chronicle of Higher Ed
Northeastern University professor walks back ‘stupid’ comment on Donald Trump Boston Herald
***SOCIOLOGY
5 facts about crime in the U.S. Pew Research
Talk is cheap: the myth of the focus group The Guardian
***HEALTH
Don't Tell Terminal Cancer Patients It's All Going To Be OK NPR
Many people take dangerously high amounts of ibuprofen Reuters
Are Hand Dryers Actually Full of Bacteria? A Viral Photo Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story The New York Times
Scientists create functioning kidney tissue Manchester
***BUSINESS
When You’re a ‘Digital Nomad,’ the World Is Your Office The New York Times
WeWork: The Perfect Manifestation of the Millennial Id The Atlantic
***PSYCHOLOGY
Why Don't Babies Smile from Birth? Scientific American
The 4 Great Challenges of Christian Counseling Christianity Today
The mental health and loneliness paradox Salon
Major Psychiatric Disorders Have More In Common Than We Thought, Study Finds : The Two-Way NPR
Why You Get Hooked on Candy Crush and Snapchat Bloomberg
People with depression use language differently – here's how to spot it The Conversation
***PHILOSOPHY
Meet the Philosophers Who Give ‘The Good Place’ Its Scholarly Bona Fides Chronicle of Higher Ed
***PRODUCTIVITY
After it stopped posting to Facebook, a Danish broadcaster saw its traffic stability improve Digiday
***HIGHER ED
A library without books? Universities purging dusty volumes Yahoo
Judge blocks UW from billing student Republicans for campus rally Seattle Times
A Crash Course in Crisis Communication for Colleges (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Sexual assault less likely, gender discrimination more likely on Christian campuses Baptist Standard
***TEACHING
Our Students Aren’t In Our Heads With Us: Teach Writing In Your Field With Good Assignment Sheets Chronicle of Higher Ed
This Student Failed Her Assignment Because Her Professor Said "Australia Isn't A Country" BuzzFeed
How One University Connects Students and Mentors With Surprising Success Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why I Stopped Writing on My Students’ Papers Chronicle of Higher Ed
Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed Back The Pace? NPR
How to Help Students of Differing Abilities Chronicle of Higher Ed
another’s skin
/Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin. -Joyce Carol Oates
breaks
/Professionals take breaks. Amateurs don't. Breaks are part of performance. They're not a deviation from performance -Daniel Pink
strength & gentleness
/Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength. -Ralph W. Sockman
Shame cuts you down to size
/Shame is universal, but the messages and expectations that drive shame are organized by gender. These feminine and masculine norms are the foundation of shame triggers, and here's why: If women want to play by the rules, they need to be sweet, thin, and pretty, stay quiet, be perfect moms and wives, and not own their power. One move outside of these expectations and BAM! The shame web closes in. Men, on the other hand, need to stop feeling, start earning, put everything in their place, and climb their way to the top or die trying. Push open the lid of your box to grab a breath of air, or slide that curtain back a bit to see what's going on, and BAM! Shame cuts you down to size.
Brené Brown, Daring Greatly
The mystery of human existence
/The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Articles of Interest - Feb 5
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Here's How Much Instagram Likes Influence Millennials' Choice Of Travel Destinations Forbes
NY State Attorney General On Why He's Going After Fake Social Media Accounts NPR
Newsrooms welcome Facebook's new local news emphasis, but remain wary of its effect Poynter
Public Enemies: Social Media Is Fueling Gang Wars in Chicago Wired
These Social Media Trends Are On The Rise In 2018 Daily Infographic
***JOURNALISM
Would you care if this feature had been written by a robot? BBC
Eddie Adams' iconic Vietnam War photo: What happened next BBC
Know your Journalism Rights: Social media RTNDA
California Congressman introduces Journalism Protection Act to counteract Trump era KTVU-TV
Journalists are fleeing for their lives in Mexico. There are few havens LA Times
***FAKE NEWS
In An Era Of Fake News, Advancing Face-Swap Apps Blur More Lines NPR
'Fake news factories' date back to the 1800s Business Insider
'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth The Guardian
***PRODUCING MEDIA
5 Types of Videos That Will Make Your Brand Stand Out Video Strategist
***INTERNET
Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking Propublica
***BIG DATA & AI
Artificial intelligence is rewiring the news and information ecosystem in novel and unexpected Policy Options
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Self-Control Is Just Empathy With Your Future Self Becoming (my blog)
***LANGUAGE
Oxford English Dictionary adds new words for mansplainers and snowflakes alike LA Times
The Backward Index — A Clever Pre-Digital Dictionary Hack Scholarly Kitchen
Fascinating Etymology Charts Show How Very Unexpected Sets Of Words Are Related Digg
The 36 Letters of the English Alphabet Scholarly Kitchen
***LITERATURE
George Orwell Creates a List of the Four Essential Reasons Writers Write Open Culture
How Alexander Pushkin Was Inspired By His African Heritage Jstor
A Peek at Famous Readers’ Borrowing Records From a Private New York Library Atlas Obscura
***GENDER
Elizabeth Blackwell: Google honors the first female doctor in the US Quartz
***FREE SPEECH
President of Nebraska professors group resigns amid UNL free speech fracas Omaha
Texas Lawmakers Weigh the Limits of Free Speech on Campus: backlash to a controversial “whiteness” column in the campus newspaper The Chronicle of Higher Education
***LEGAL ISSUES
Dr. Phil Prepares for What Could Be the Strangest Copyright Trial Ever Hollywood Reporter
***REALLY?
Swiss university to offer yodeling degree BBC
***RELIGION
A 'Passion of the Christ' Sequel Is in the Works Hollywood
Kenneth Copeland's appearances at a South Carolina Army Base sparks protests WIS-TV
Nick Foles plans to become a pastor after football career WTXF
This Pastor Is Putting His Faith in a Virtual Reality Church Wired
Televangelist Gloria Copeland Tells viewers not to get a flu shot YouTube
In a tough sports town, baptisms and Bible studies fuel many of the Eagles’ stars Washington Post
New study of Millennials and GenZ points to a “massive religious realignment” in America (opinion) Religious News Service
***ART & DESIGN
What my color-blindness taught me about design UX Design Collective
***MUSIC
Hip-hop’s influence and the growth of music streaming mean genres are being broken down Economist
Surfin' Bird History: A Novelty Hit With Wings Tedium
The science behind sound reproduction and the man whose gift he made to the world will continue that mission for the foreseeable future (podcast) Twenty Thousand Hertz
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Students With Disabilities Are Largely Ignored by Colleges’ Assault Prevention, Study Finds The Chronicle of Higher Education
Should Churches Handle Sexual Abuse Allegations Internally? Christianity Today
Women in Congress address sexual misconduct on Facebook more than men Pew Research Center
I lost my church because we were advocating for victims of sexual assault within the evangelical community: Written by the First Victim to Report Larry Nassar Christianity Today
Student sues UT to stop sexual misconduct disciplinary hearing Statesman
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Academics should be collaborating, not competing for pseudoscientific rankings Ummid
Kansas chemistry instructor arrested by ICE while taking his daughter to school Kansas City
***HEALTH
How Math (and Vaccines) Keep You Safe From the Flu Quanta Magazine
***FAMILY
Genes play a role in the likelihood of divorce Economist
***ETHICS
Test how moral (or immoral) you are with this utilitarian philosophy quiz Quatz
***CRITICAL THINKING
The Cognitive Biases That Convince You the World Is Falling Apart LifeHacker
***PSYCHOLOGY
Your friends’ brains process the world the same way as you Quartz
***ETHICS
There's a morality test that evaluates utilitarianism better than the Trolley Problem Quartz
***RESEARCH
Eighty-two cases of offspring named as co-authors University World News
‘Decolonizing’ a Journal Inside Higher Ed
Online forums give investors an early warning of shady scientific findings Stat News
A partial solution to the problem of predatory journals, and a new index of journal quality Alex Holcombe
The future for academic publishers lies in navigating research, not distributing it The London School of Economic and Political Science
It’s time to open the black box of peer review ASAPbio
Paper authorship goes hyper: A single field is behind the rise of thousand-author papers Nature Index
***HIGHER ED
Higher Ed is Headed for a Supply and Demand Crisis Washington Post
Three million Americans are disconnected from higher education Urban Institute
Woman accuses San Diego pastor of 'sexual healing' therapy scheme LA Times
***TEACHING
Can the Large Lecture Be Saved? The Chronicle of Higher Education
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student Journalists Launch Website After They Say School Censored Their Paper NPR
***STUDENT LIFE
Why Students Are Still Spending So Much for College Textbooks The Atlantic
Undocumented and Disillusioned, I Decided to Leave America Washington Post
Screen Addiction Among Teens: Is There Such A Thing? NPR