Articles of Interest - March 26

***TECHNOLOGY

12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech  LinkedIn

***JOURNALISM

L.A. County has repeatedly violated state open records laws, L.A. Times lawsuit alleges  LA Times

Snopes has its site back. But the legal battle over its ownership will drag on for months  Poynter 

The best practices for interviewing children  Columbia Journalism Review

How to Build a Digital Newsroom with Developers and Journalists Working Together  PBS Media Shift

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Local news isn’t dying out: It’s being killed off by corporate greed  Salon

***FAKE NEWS

The New Threat of 'Leak-Flavored' Propaganda: A reporter lost his job when real documents told a false story  Bloomberg

Google News Initiative will fight fake news with new subscription, security features  Mashable

Can “Extreme Transparency” Fight Fake News and Create More Trust With Readers?  Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Can AI solve the internet's fake news problem? A fact-checker investigates  Popsci

Fill in the blanks: What’s still missing from the study of fake news? (A whole lot)  Harvard’s Nieman Lab

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA 

Is tech finally killing radio? Don’t let iHeart’s bleeding fool you  Digital Trends

***BIG DATA & AI

What training one of YouTube's video moderation machine learning tools looks like at the ground level  WIRED

Applying analytics/data mining/machine learning to the semiconductor design and manufacturing  Semi-Engineering

How do the different machine learning platforms stack up from a performance perspective  Datamai

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Emoji are being used as evidence in court—and people are confused  Daily Dot

***FACEBOOK

Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica Debacle: Why This Data-Privacy Storm Is Different, And What’s Next  Variety

How To Change Your Facebook Settings To Opt Out of Platform API Sharing  Electronic Frontier Foundation

Facebook’s New Data Restrictions Will Handcuff Even Honest Researchers  WIRED

Former Facebook Insider Says Company Cannot Be Trusted To Regulate Itself  NPR

The Best Alternative For Every Facebook Feature  WIRED

Facebook Admits It May Collect Data About Your Calls and Text Messages. Here’s How to Turn It Off  TIME

***MOBILE 

Desktop dies on weekends  Axios

***PERSONAL GROWTH

The green fig tree  Becoming (my blog)

What People Find Most Charming About You, Based On Your Myers-Briggs Type  Bustle

***GRAMMAR

‘Elected to lead, not to proofread’: Typos, spelling mistakes are commonplace in Trump’s White House  The Washington Post

***WRITING & READING

Who doesn’t read books in America?  Pew Research

***LANGUAGE

The phrase “useful idiot” seems to be everywhere  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LITERATURE

Readings of Maya Angelou’s poems inspire gathering at Providence’s First Baptist Church in America  Providence Journal

***GENDER  

Women’s-Studies Students Across the Nation Are Editing Wikipedia  The Chronicle of Higher Education

A feminist glossary because we didn't all major in gender studies  USA Today

Female presidents now in the majority at Cal State  LA Times 

Parents protested a 'pornographic' assignment. Now Billings schools may change how teachers pick outside materials  Billings Gazette

More States Move To End 'Tampon Tax' That's Seen As Discriminating Against Women  NPR

Asexuality is still hugely misunderstood. TV is slowly changing that  Vox

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

“Implicit bias” tests help people feel morally superior, even when their results show bias  Quartz

What's the Difference Between a Frat and a Gang?  The Atlantic

Sympathy for white Austin bomber stirs debate about race  PBS

Alaska’s Unique Civil Rights Struggle  Daily Jstor

***FREE SPEECH

First Amendment Free Food Festival: Students sign away their First Amendment rights in exchange for a free meal  The Times-News  

Are liberal college students creating a free speech crisis? Not according to data  NBC News

***LEGAL ISSUES

"Blurred Lines" Verdict Upheld by Appeals Court in Win for Marvin Gaye Family  Hollywood Reporter

Section 230: A Key Legal Shield For Facebook, Google Is About To  NPR

Justices Skeptical About California Law Being Challenged By Anti-Abortion Clinics  NPR

Advertising in a Digital Age: The Do's and Don’ts of Attorney Websites  Law.com

***RELIGION

Memphis megachurch pastor resigns following sexual abuse investigation  USA Today

Hollywood's big bet on Christian movies  The Week

Pope backs tattoos as they can help priests connect with the 'culture of the young'  Telegraph 

Brainwashing May Sound Like Fiction, But This Is How It Works In Real Life   Digg

How evangelicals became an anxious minority seeking political protection  The Atlantic

Animated Map Shows How the Five Major Religions Spread Across the World (video)

After years of inquiries, Willow Creek pastor denies misconduct allegations  Chicago Tribune

The ‘Father Of Christian Rock’ Larry Norman’s Battles With Evangelicalism  WAMU

***ART & DESIGN

Netflix created their own font, and it’s going to save the company millions  Ad Week

The Crazy Stories Behind 6 Of The World’s Rarest Colors  Co.Design

Logical Fallacies In Design Critiques  Prototypr

***MUSIC

CDs and vinyl are more popular than digital downloads once again  The Verge

The music business had its second year in a row of big-time growth, thanks to streaming  Recode

***FILM

The Geometry Of Emotion: How Paul Thomas Anderson Uses Hot Dog Shapes In His Films To Create Mood (video)

***STUDENT MEDIA 

Washington New Voices bill officially signed into law, becoming 14th state to protect rights of student journalists  Student Press Law Center

Study Abroad Student Who Claims $7K Lost in JFK Bag Fiasco Gets Back Single Boot, Bikini Top  NBC New York

Student Newspaper Retraction for Plagiarism  Observer

***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

How to design a career you want  Millie Tran

How to Negotiate…When You’re Already Getting That Promotion  Girl Boss

This Is What An A+ LinkedIn Summary Looks Like  Girl Boss 

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

Ex-student suing Univ. of Illinois over dismissal based on sex-assault allegations  News-Gazette

Rape victim accuses Cerritos College leaders of negligence  Press Telegram

What To Know About The Terrible Anti-Trafficking Bill That Forced Craigslist To Shut Down Its Personals Section  Digg

Predictive Analytics and the War on Human Trafficking  Enterprise Tech

Dean of Students Jokes About Sexual Assault  Inside Higher Ed

***HEALTH

American Adults Just Keep Getting Fatter  New York Times

Paper used to support WHO guidelines on preventing infections “has no scientific validity”  Retraction Watch

***FAMILY

Some Simple Advice For Figuring Out How Much Screen Time To Give Your Child  Digg

***SCIENCE

Infographics Show How the Different Fields of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Fit Together  Open Culture

***PSYCHOLOGY

Brainwashing May Sound Like Fiction, But This Is How It Works In Real Life  Digg

The Noisy Fallacies of Psychographic Targeting  WIRED

***PHILOSOPHY

I and Thou: Philosopher Martin Buber on the Art of Relationship and What Makes Us Real to One Another  Brain Pickings

Philosophy for Beginners: A Free Introductory Course from Oxford University  Open Culture

***SOCIAL ISSUES

As Pedestrian Deaths Spike, Scientists Scramble for Answers  WIRED

***ETHICS

Cambridge Analytica Scandal Raises New Ethical Questions About Microtargeting  NPR

***RESEARCH

The domination of English-language journal publishing is hurting scholarship in many countries (opinion)  Inside Higher Ed

Is fake peer review today's leading cause of retractions?  Publons

On ‘lower impact’ publishing – it’s better than you might think  Occam’s Typewriter

***HIGHER ED

Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped U.S. Colleges  Bloomberg

Schools are moving toward a model of continuous, lifelong learning in order to meet the needs of today’s economy  The Atlantic

Machine Learning, Big Data and the Future of Higher Ed  Inside Higher Ed

More poor students are going to college than in the past. And yet the number who graduate is falling even further behind  New York Times

Washington College fires its president following harassment of faculty members  The News Tribune 

***HUMANITIES & STEM

A University of Wisconsin campus pushes plan to drop 13 majors — including English, art, history, sociology, philosophy, French, German and Spanish  The Washington Post

UW-Stevens Point students occupy administration buildings in "Save Our Majors" Protest  Stevens Point Journal

***STUDENT LIFE

University of Alabama expels student after video of racial slurs  ALcom

University police surveil student social media in attempt to make campus safer   The FIRE

Looking for ways for students to do more self-assessment of their work  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The green fig tree

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out.

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

The Shackles of Convenience

In the developed nations of the 21st century, convenience — that is, more efficient and easier ways of doing personal tasks — has emerged as perhaps the most powerful force shaping our individual lives and our economies. This is particularly true in America, where, despite all the paeans to freedom and individuality, one sometimes wonders whether convenience is in fact the supreme value.

We need to consciously embrace the inconvenient — not always, but more of the time. Nowadays individuality has come to reside in making at least some inconvenient choices. You need not churn your own butter or hunt your own meat, but if you want to be someone, you cannot allow convenience to be the value that transcends all others. Struggle is not always a problem. Sometimes struggle is a solution. It can be the solution to the question of who you are.

Tim Wu writing in The New York Times

The multitude Books is a great evil!

Flash back to the year 1455. German Johannes Gutenberg prints his first book, the Latin Vulgate Bible. As Gutenberg’s press reaches across Europe, the Bible is translated into local languages. Poorly-produced copies of the Bible and mediocre literature soon thrive, leading to claims that the printing press must be controlled to avoid chaos and loss of intellectual life. Martin Luther complains, “The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no measure of limit to this fever for writing.” 

Comparisons are being made between the effects of the printing press to the advent of the internet.

Stephen Goforth

 

Articles of Interest - March 19

***FAKE NEWS

A Game That Lets you Make Your own Fake News  NPR

YouTube Will Link Directly to Wikipedia to Fight Conspiracy Theories  Wired

A guide to anti-misinformation actions around the world  Poynter  

Susan Wojcicki on YouTube's Fight Against Misinformation  Wired

Facebook Announces Plan To Combat Fake News Stories By Making Them Actually Happen  The Onion

How governments are trying to fight misinformation  Poynter

DC councilman apologizes for promoting conspiracy theory that weather is controlled by Jews  The Hill 

5 takeaways from First Draft’s identifying misinformation course  Journalist’s Resources

***MOBILE

Eight things your phone's camera can do—other than snapping selfies  PopSci

Clicking is dead; long live scrolling  RTDNA

***PRODUCING MEDIA

Nearly one-in-five Americans now listen to audiobooks  Pew Research

How to Write a Clear Video Production Brief  Video Strategist

How to make your product photography shine  Tech Republic

***INTERNET

Why Wikipedia Works  New York Magazine

Roughly one in four Americans is online ‘constantly’  Recode

The Best Time of Day to Send Email  Life Hacker

***SOCIAL MEDIA

WeChat Exceeds a Billion Users  Fox Business News

Five ways social media can be good for teens  Washington Post

There's a Healthier Way to Consume Your Media  How Stuff Works

***FACEBOOK

50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach  The Guardian

How to see all the weird apps that can access your data on Facebook  Mashable

How Facebook likes could profile voters for manipulation  Associated Press 

Cambridge Analytica: Warrant sought to inspect company  BBC  

Is Your Data Safe on Facebook? Not Really  CNN

How to Turn Off Apps in Facebook That May See your Personal Data  USA Today

***TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft starts testing voice dictation in latest Office apps  Zdnet

Hooked on Hardware? Tech Giants Face Tough Questions Over Device Addiction  Variety

VR is still a novelty, but Google’s light-field technology could make it serious art  MIT Technology Review

Google is opening up Maps so game developers can create the next Pokémon Go  The Verge

FBI releases catalog of Nikola Tesla’s writings seized after his death  MuckRock 

***PRIVACY

Critics Concerned About Privacy Issues As Biometric Scanning Increases  NPR

The latest Cambridge Analytica scandal shows it may be too late to stop them  The Atlantic

***JOURNALISM

Welcome to Newscycle: The World’s Most Exhausting Cycling Workout  McSweeneys

Shep Smith Has the Hardest Job on Fox News   TIME

New EU regulations will have serious implications for newsrooms worldwide  Columbia Journalism Review

The Internet Isn’t Forever: When an online news outlet goes out of business, its archives can disappear as well. The new battle over journalism’s digital legacy  LongReads

Layoffs Hit 'Chicago Tribune' Newsroom  NPR

Why off-the-record is a trap reporters should avoid  Poynter

See bottom of article for one of the most-memorable correction notes  New York Times

Q&A with Lisa Tozzi of BuzzFeed News  The Editor's Desk 

New 'dialogue journalism' project will immerse itself in gun debate  Poynter

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

How Digital News Startups Choose Between For-Profit and Non-Profit Status  PBS Media Shift

Is this strip-mining or journalism? ‘Sobs, gasps, expletives’ over latest Denver Post layoffs  Washington Post

***TEACHING JOURNALISM

Rise of ‘fake news’ producing more journalism majors  Market Watch

***BIG DATA & AI

Generative adversarial networks will make hoaxes/doctored video/ forged voice clips easier to execute than ever before  Quartz

Tech's Next Big Wave: Big Data Meets Biology  Fortune

Deep learning algorithms about to descend from the clouds and get into your gadgets  Spectrum

Why the age-old problem of siloed data persists and some concrete advice to CIOs on how to break down the walls  Search CIO

If the US Gov wants to Modernize Fed Tech then working with Startups & Innovators means Agencies must get rid of Barriers  NextGov

***PERSONAL GROWTH

The I’m-not-biased bias  Becoming (my blog) 

We Asked Experts How to Let Go of Grudges  Vice 

The person who’s best at lying to you is you  Quartz 

What Do Personality Quizzes Really Tell You?  Daily Jstor

Some people with A.D.H.D. may be naturally suited to our turbocharged world  New York Times 

***TEACHING

‘How Much Do You Want Your Final to Count?’  Chronicle of Higher Ed

How Technology Can Equalize Learning Differences  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Rethinking Laptop Bans (AGAIN) and Note Taking  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***WRITING & READING

Why Reading Books Should be Your Priority, According to Science  Inc.

How a professional book aficionado packs reading for a trip. Yes, there's strategy  Chicago Tribune

How do you talk about gender when the words ‘simply don’t exist’ in your language?  PRI

***SOCIAL ISSUES

The Destructive Dynamics of Political Tribalism  New York Times

80 percent of mass shooters showed no interest in video games, researcher says  CBS News

App to record Police Conduct sends the video directly to an ACLU server so even if the police illegally confiscate your phone they won’t be able to delete the incriminating video  ACLU 

***LANGUAGE

Asian-American Author Explains The Beautiful Struggle Behind ‘Chinglish’  Huffington Post

Language is the last frontier for Hollywood film-makers  Economist

***LITERATURE

A John Oliver spoof of the Pence family’s new children’s book is an instant Amazon bestseller  Quartz

Harper Lee's Estate Sues Aaron Sorkin Over 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Broadway Adaptation  NPR 

Madeleine L’Engle’s granddaughter helps explain how a strange error had gone uncorrected over innumerable printings of ‘A Wrinkle in Time’  The Daily Beast

America's Most Widely Misread Literary Work  The Atlantic

***GENDER  

Women Lose Out to Men Even Before They Graduate From College  Bloomberg

How do you talk about gender when the words ‘simply don’t exist’ in your language?  PRI

A State-By-State Guide To The Top Women's History Landmarks In America  Forbes

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys  New York Times

1963 Loyola Ramblers remembered for NCAA championship and inspiring social change  Chicago Tribune

***FREE SPEECH

ACLU sues Georgia city over sign ban; city reverses decision  AP News

Arizona State University on-campus event will continue despite lawsuit  KTAR

The Campus Free Speech Crisis is a Myth (opinion)  Washington Post

Some Pundits Say There's No Campus Free Speech 'Crisis.' Here's Why They're Wrong  Reason  

***LEGAL ISSUES

Electronics-recycling innovator faces prison for trying to extend computers' lives  LA Times

School district charges Newspaper $500 for public records—to pay the attorney who had to review them first  Magnolia Sate 

Charlottesville witness files defamation suit against InfoWars and other far-right figures  CNN

***RELIGION

A Quiet Exodus: Why Black Worshipers Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches  New York Times

Film Review: This story of Christian band MercyMe's breakout song ‘I Can Only Imagine’  Variety

70,000+ Religious Texts Digitized by Princeton Theological Seminary, Letting You Immerse Yourself in the Curious Works of Great World Religions  Open Culture 

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

After Alignment With Trump, Some Evangelicals Are Questioning Movement's Leaders  NPR

The Governor Of Mississippi Just Signed The Most Restrictive Abortion Law In The Country  BuzzFeed News

***HISTORY

The Passionate Photo Colorizers Who Are Humanizing the Past  Atlas Obscura

***ART & DESIGN

Beautifully Designed Map Shows the Literal Translations of Country Names Open Culture

Linda Nochlin on “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists”  Daily Jstor

The Comics Crusader: How ComiXology’s David Steinberger is taking the art form out of hobby shops, onto the iPad—and into the mainstream  Traffic

How AI and machine learning are changing the arts  Venture Beat

***MUSIC

How the rise of voice activation devices is changing the music industry and adland  The Music Network 

SXSW: Music Journalism Panel Illuminates Streaming’s Impact on Editorial Decisions  Variety

***VIDEO GAMES

A treasure trove of handheld video games from the '80s added to the Internet Archive  Mashable

Someone is making a multiplayer trash robot you steer through an actual river   The Verge

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA 

Radio giant iHeartMedia files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, its apps and events play on  USA Today

***STUDENT LIFE

How Millennials today compare with their grandparents 50 years ago Pew Research

Students at Marshall University, in West Virginia, are using dating apps to solicit votes in student-government elections  Marshall Parthenon

All the Insane Ways Millennials Handle Their Snail Mail  MEL Magazine

Teens Get ‘Corporal Punishment’ in Rural Arkansas for joining the nationwide student walkout against gun violence  The Daily Beast

***JOBS 

Candidacies Killed by a Typo  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

Campus rape victims often find more justice in college than in court  The Guardian

Congress demands Pentagon, DOJ investigate child sex assault  Associated Press

Education Dept. Stops Providing Details on Resolved Title IX Cases  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Rutgers professor, 75, accused of sexually harassing 29-year-old student  NewJersey.com

***ACADEMIC LIFE

The Professor Is In: The Ethics of Backing Out  Chronicle of Higher Ed

At California’s top public universities, why a dearth of Latino professors matters  Cal Matters 

How Not to Be an Academic Snob Out  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Inequality in Academic Disciplines  Inside Higher Ed

***BUSINESS

How to Motivate Your Employees: Give Them Compliments and Pizza  The Cut

Google makes push to turn product searches into cash  Reuters

***ENVIRONMENT

The patterns of migratory birds in an Amazing Visualization  National Geographic

Using hair, makeup and skincare to make Cape Town’s water crisis relatable for Americans  Glamour

***HEALTH

AI can spot signs of Alzheimer’s before your family does  MIT Tech Review  

Americans are exercising more, but the obesity rate is growing  The Atlas

A New Documentary About Adults On Adderall — And Not Just For ADHD  NPR

Tech's Next Big Wave: Big Data Meets Biology  Fortune

Many common drugs, not just antibiotics, may kill off gut microbes  State News

***FAMILY

How Missouri is the nation’s leader in child marriages  Kansas City Star

There is such a thing as the favorite child  Fatherly  

Babies Think Logically Before They Can Talk  Scientific American

***SCIENCE

Is science really facing a reproducibility crisis, and do we need it to? (opinion)  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

5 Ways to Defend Science in 2018  TIME

***PSYCHOLOGY

There’s an Upside to Being Sad and Lonely: A Talent for Reading People  Mental Floss

A history of loneliness  The Conversation

A Neuroscientist Explains: psychology's replication crisis – podcast  The Guardian

The Long History of Computer Science and Psychology: Understanding that legacy can help us stop the next Cambridge Analytica  Slate

***RESEARCH

The Augmented Researcher: What Does 2018 Hold for AI in Publishing?  RD Mag

Statistical errors may taint as many as half of mouse studies  Spectrum   

Preprints and Citations: Should Non-Peer Reviewed Material Be Included in Article References?  The Scholarly Kitchen

A famed archaeologist faked several of his ancient findings and may have run a "forger's workshop"  Live Science

Peer Review Fails to Prevent Publication of Paper with Unsupported Claims About Peer Review  Scholarly Kitchen

The I’m-not-biased bias

People outperformed their friends at predicting how anxious they’d look and sound when giving a speech about how they felt about their bodies. But they did no better than their friends (or than strangers who had met them just eight minutes earlier) at forecasting how assertive they’d be in a group discussion. And when they tried to predict their performance on an IQ test and a creativity test, they were less accurate than their friends.

People know themselves best on the traits that are tough to observe and easy to admit. Emotional stability is an internal state, so your friends don’t see it as vividly as you do. With the most evaluative traits, you just can’t be trusted. You probably want to convince everyone—and yourself—that you’re smart and creative.

This is why people consistently overestimate their intelligence, a pattern that seems to be more pronounced among men than women. It’s also why people overestimate their generosity: It’s a desirable trait. And it’s why people fall victim to my new favorite bias: the I’m-not-biased bias, where people tend to believe they have fewer biases than the average American.

Adam Grant writing in the Atlantic

Defeating Procrastination

Procrastination is a side effect of the way we value things. Task completion (is) as a product of motivation, rather than ability. In other words, you can be really good at something, whether it’s cooking a gourmet meal or writing a story, but if you don’t possess the motivation, or sense of importance, to complete the task, it’ll likely be put off.

Getting something done is a delayed reward, so its value in the present is reduced: the further away the deadline is, the less attractive it seems to work on the project right now. 

People who characterize themselves as procrastinators…discount the value of getting something done ahead of time even more than other people. 

Procrastination, in psychological terms, is what happens when the value of doing something else outweighs the value of working now.

This way of thinking suggests a simple trick to defeat procrastination: find a way to boost the subjective value of working now, relative to the value of other things. You could increase the value of the project, decrease the value of the distraction, or some combination of the two.

Elliot Berkman and Jordan Miller-Ziegler writing in The Conversation

Articles of interest - Week of March 12

 ***SOCIAL MEDIA

China’s WeChat Isn’t Just An App—It’s A Cross-Cultural Education  Fast Company

Snap Plans Biggest Round of Layoffs Yet  Cheddar

New study shows a third of millennials are quitting social media  USA Today

Instagram Influencers Are All Starting To Look The Same. Here's Why  HuffPost

YouTube, the Great Radicalizer  The New York Times

***MOBILE

The Subtle Nudges That Could Unhook Us From Our Phones  Wired 

How to stop annoying robocalls on your iPhone or Android phone  The Verge

***PRODUCING MEDIA

How to shoot the best video on your smartphone  Medium

Nearly one-in-five Americans now listen to audiobooks   Pew Research

***INTERNET

Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet  New Yorker

Washington state has passed laws protecting net neutrality   The Verge

30% of all sites now run on WordPress  The Next Web

The web can be weaponised – and we can't count on big tech to stop it  (Tim Berners-Lee)  The Guardian

***TECHNOLOGY

Passenger drones are a better kind of flying car  Economist

A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service that is 100% Fatal  MIT Technology Review

***BIG DATA & AI

Google’s free machine learning crash course  Open Culture

Top 5 tech buzzwords of 2018  BBN Times

Leaked NSA tool territorial dispute shows agency's list of enemy hackers   Wired

Blockchian has implications for almost every industry—here are 6 industries already using blockchain to drive business value right now  Tech Republic

Subtle changes to images/text/audio can fool AI systems into perceiving things that aren’t there—and this hallucination problem is proving tough to fix  Wired

Things to know about machine learning: a quick guide  Tech Republic 

Leaked NSA spy tool 'EternalBlue' has become a hacker favorite for exploiting windows.. a likely "go-to tool for attackers for years to come"   Wired

Why one Hadoop user switched from open source to go with a company that provides a higher-service version of the software  Information Week

Curious about chaos engineering? Here's a cheat sheet  Tech Republic

***CODING

Apple's Swift Programming Language Is Now Top Tier  Wired

Tools I wish I had known about when I started coding  Medium

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA 

What happens to billboards and radio when cars drive themselves  Axios

WLUP-FM ‘The Loop’ sold to Christian broadcasting company  Chicago Sun-Times

The Disconnect, a magazine you can only read if you’re offline  The Disconnect

China moves Media Under Cabinet-Level Control  Variety

'Make TV more like digital TV': Networks are removing clutter to improve TV viewing  Digiday

Live sports audiences are getting older  Axios

***JOURNALISM

Reuters is taking a big gamble on AI-supported journalism  Wired

How to read less news but be more informed, according to a futurist  Quartz

Where have all the big, wow-inducing digital stories gone?  Poynter  

Death of investigative journalist sparks mass protests in Slovakia   The Guardian

A bad precedent: Removing news stories from online  Union-Tribune 

Press freedom is waning in Myanmar  Economist

Bob Woodward defends objectivity in journalism: “My job is not to take sides”   Vox

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

New Media Buys the ‘Austin American-Statesman’  Texas Monthly

Sinclair's new media-bashing promos rankle local anchors  CNN

Facebook aiming to launch News for Watch this summer  Axios

***FAKE NEWS

The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News  The Atlantic

We need to get better at covering studies about fake news  Poynter

The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News  The Atlantic

When wire services make mistakes, misinformation spreads quickly  Poynter

Why It’s Okay to Call It ‘Fake News’  The Atlantic

***PERSONAL GROWTH

The People who can help you see yourself for who you are  Becoming (my blog)

Your coworkers are better at rating some parts of your personality than you are  The Atlantic

***GRAMMAR

Trying to Like ‘Unlike’  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Why Do we Love to Complain about Language  The Guardian

14 Grammar Myths You Should Stop Believing  Business Insider

***WRITING & READING

Wrestling With Auto-Correct  The New York Times

Does Alcohol Recovery Kill Great Writing?  The New York Times

***LANGUAGE

Enrollment in Most Foreign-Language Programs Continues to Fall  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Congratulations, everybody: ‘Dumpster fire’ is now a dictionary entry, and here’s why  The Washington Post

The ‘Haves’ and ‘Haven’ts’ of the Past  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LITERATURE

British right-wing media mocks "snowflake students" for thinking that Frankenstein's Monster is a sympathetic character  Gizmodo   

Rebels and Rebellion in Classic Chinese Literature  Global Voices

Publishers rejected her, Christians attacked her: The deep faith of 'A Wrinkle in Time' author Madeleine L'Engle  Washington Post

Is literature next in line for virtual-reality treatment?  Economist 

***GENDER  

Being Promoted May Double Women's Odds of Getting Divorced  Fortune

Kansas GOP votes to ‘oppose all efforts to validate transgender identity’  Kansas.com

Idaho Must Allow Gender Changes on Birth Certificates, Judge Rules  TIME

The status of women of color in the U.S. news media 2018: full report  Women’s Media Center

Harvard University faculty members voted on Tuesday to include penalties for members of single-gender social groups in the student handbook  The Harvard Crimson 

 Survey Finds Many Transgender Teachers Face Discrimination On The Job  NPR 

Five Women  This American Life

Articles on gender bias are funded less often and published in journals with a lower Impact Factor than articles on comparable instances of social discrimination  Scientometrics

Sweden tries to increase gender equality on the web: Together with Wikimedia  Economist

Recognizing and Avoiding Bias  Scholarly Kitchen

Women in majority-male workplaces report higher rates of gender discrimination  Pew Research

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

20 Black Women You Need To Know   Refinery

California's public college campuses are so diverse, but their faculty and leaders aren't, a new study says  LA Times

National Geographic acknowledges past racist coverage  Associated Press

***FREE SPEECH

More U.S. College Students Say Campus Climate Deters Speech  Gallup

College students support free speech — unless it offends them  Washington Post

People in less democratic countries are more likely to say China and Russia respect personal freedoms  Pew Research

***LEGAL ISSUES

Creator of Pepe the Frog is suing Infowars  LA Times

The Big Push To Reform Music Copyright For The Digital Age  Forbes

***RELIGION

Conspiracy Theorists Arrested After Harassing Sutherland Springs Pastor  Snopes

Billy Graham and the emergence of Christian media  NOQ Report

Requirement to tell foster kids the Easter Bunny is real violated Christian couple’s charter rights, judge rules  Toronto Star

Madeleine L’Engle’s Christianity was vital to A Wrinkle in Time  Vox

The article removed from Forbes, “Why White Evangelicalism Is So Cruel”  Political Orphans

Why Generation Z is less Christian than ever -- and why that's good news (opinion)  Fox News

I’m a scholar of the “prosperity gospel.” It took cancer to show me I was in its grip  Vox

Church Of Scientology Launching OTT TV Network  Media Post

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

The Atlantic: How Evangelicals 'lost their way' (video)  Morning Joe

A dispute over real estate roils Jerusalem: Israeli politicians want to make churches pay taxes on their businesses  Economist

How evangelicals, once culturally confident, became an anxious minority seeking political protection from the least traditionally religious president in living memory  The Atlantic

 Evangelical Leaders Launch Prayer Campaign for Dreamers; Urge Congress to Act as DACA Expires  Christian Post

***MUSIC

Is Leonard Cohen the New Secular Saint of Montreal?  The New York Times

Mozart’s Diary Where He Composed His Final Masterpieces Is Now Digitized and Available Online  Open Culture

***STUDENT MEDIA 

Yale University's chief investment officer, criticizing student journalists  Yale Daily News

College newspapers forge a future for journalism  Daily Tar Heel

What Research Says About Video Games And Violence In Children  NPR

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

University will pay $249K to settle a lawsuit that accused campus police officers of interrogating a student for nearly 8 hours after she filed a rape report  US News

Harvard professor retires amid allegations of sexual misconduct  CNN

Sexual assault in marriage needs to be part of the #MeToo conversation  Vox

The Problem With ‘Inappropriate’  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***BUSINESS

The Nope Button will call your phone when a coworker is hanging out by your desk too long

Fewer employers testing for drugs as marijuana legalization spreads  AL.com

***HEALTH

Major Medical Associations Feud over Diabetes Guidelines  NPR

For all their risks, opioids had no pain-relieving advantage in a yearlong clinical trial  LA Times

You can't 'overload' a child's immune system with vaccines  NY Daily News

Fast genome tests are diagnosing some of the sickest babies in time to save them  Technology Review

For diabetics, a high-fiber diet feeds gut microbes, lowering blood sugar  Stat News

Many Women Come Close To Death In Childbirth  NPR

***HEATH CARE COSTS

Health Care So Expensive? Some of the Reasons You’ve Heard Turn Out to Be Myths  New York Times

Probe Into Generic Drug Price Fixing Set To Widen  NPR

The real reason the U.S. spends twice as much on health care as other wealthy countries  Washington Post

Over 500 Canadian doctors protest raises, say they're being paid too much (yes, too much)  MSNBC

***RELATIONSHIPS

How can I help? 23 ways to support someone going through a tough time  Medium

A lack of empathy is shaped by genetics, according to new research  Quartz

***SOCIAL ISSUES

Americans unify against foreign threats. Can we unify without one?  Vox

***PSYCHOLOGY

Synesthesia’s mysterious ‘mingling of the senses’ may result from hyperconnected neurons  Science

How to Prime Your Brain to Be Happy  GQ

Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath  The Atlantic

Exercise can be a very effective way to treat depression. So why don’t American doctors prescribe it?  Slate

After a stroke, her decades of severe depression vanished  Washington Post

Psychopaths pay less attention to what other people are thinking  New Scientist

New Brain Research Suggests Stress Is Contagious  Medical Daily Times

***ETHICS

Bioethics article retracted for…ethics violation  Retraction Watch 

Bioethics: Key Concepts and Research  Daily Jstor

***STUDENT LIFE

Gen Z is quitting social media in droves because it makes them unhappy, study says  PR Weekly 

Texas college students, fearing opioid deaths, teach each other to reverse overdoses  Houston Chronicle 

It’s time to cut the cord — with your college student  WTOP

Student-body Prez Election on hold: Candidates posted offensive tweets  Columbia Missourian

***RESEARCH

The Augmented Researcher: What Does 2018 Hold for AI in Publishing?  RD Mag

Is plagiarism a problem in economics? Survey of editors says … yes  Retraction Watch

False investigators and coercive citation are widespread in academic research The London School of Economics  Political Science

I refuse all review requests with deadlines < 3 weeks. Here’s why, and how Scientist Sees Squirrel

The potential harm to patients when clinicians don’t receive consistent notifications about retracted data  Retraction Watch

***HIGHER ED

Purdue’s controversial deal to buy for-profit Kaplan University gets final OK  Journal & Courier 

Teaching Newsletter: How One University Seeks to Shore Up the Sophomore Year  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Fight at Sac State library may have broken out after a student sneezed, witness says  Sacramento Bee

The University of Arizona Tracked Students’ ID Card Swipes to Predict Who Would Drop Out   Gizmodo

An Economist Argues That Our Education System Is Largely Useless  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Why Enrollment Is Rising at Large Christian Colleges: Many Christian-based schools charge lower tuition compared with other private colleges, experts say  US News & World Report  

***TEACHING

Race and Gender Bias in Online Courses: Study finds instructors are much more likely to respond to comments from white male students than from others  Inside Higher Ed

Authors of premier medical textbook didn’t disclose $11 million in industry payments  Stat News

Professors are banning laptops in class: I’d Be an ‘A’ Student if I Could Just Read My Notes  Wall Street Journal

Why Are so Many High School Graduates Bad Writers When they Arrive at College?  Inside Higher Ed 

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Golden West College professor on leave after video shows her telling Asian-American couple to 'go back to your home country'  LA Times

Spam invitations to junk journals and concocted conferences are not just annoying; they do actual harm  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Leaving my Ph.D. program turned out to be a smarter decision than applying  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Prominent Columbia University neuroscientist fired for ‘serious behavioral violations’: the university is closing his lab  Science Magazine

 

The people who can help you see yourself for who you are

Romantic partners and close friends might be more informed, because they’ve observed you more—but they can also have blurrier vision, because they chose you and often share that pesky desire to see you positively. You need people who are motivated to see you accurately. And I’ve come to believe that more often than not, those people are your colleagues. The people you work with closely have a vested interest in making you better (or at least less difficult). The challenge is they’re often reluctant to tell you the stuff you don’t want to hear, but need to hear.

Adam Grant writing in The Atlantic

Articles of Interest - March 5

***TECHNOLOGY

Edible Graphene Is Here, And Electronics In Your Food Are Coming  Fast Company

New Orleans is testing predictive policing technology  The Verge

Determining The Average Apple Device Lifespan  Asymco

The Design Tricks That Make Smartphones Addictive—And How to Fight Them  Mental Floss

Has dopamine got us hooked on tech?  The Guardian

Self-driving cars offer huge benefits—but have a dark side  The Economist 

Robotic labs for high-speed genetic research are on the rise:  The design of synthetic lifeforms could become a new industry  Economist

Driverless vehicles will change the world, just as cars did before them Economist

CRISPR ‘gone wild’ has made stocks swoon, but studies show how to limit off-target editing  Stat News

Thousands of people think that the government is using implanted chips and electronic beams to control their minds  Wired

***FAKE NEWS

Here Come the Fake Videos, Too  New York Times

Digital-age tools and technology give rise to fake videos  ASU

Twitter to explain on Capitol Hill how hoax against Miami Herald was perpetrated  McClatchy Washington Bureau

Facebook to End News Feed Experiment in 6 Countries That Magnified Fake News  The New York Times

Facebook Doesn't Know How Many People Followed Russians on Instagram Wired 

Reddit says Russian propaganda was shared by ‘thousands’ ahead of the 2016 election  Recode

The language that the Russians used were Clues  Wired 

How To Empower Users To Fight Fake News  Fast Company

Facebook working on approach to classifying satirical news pieces  Washington Post

***PRIVACY & SECURITY

Equifax finds its big data breach hit an additional 2.4 million people  LA Times

Covert 'Replay Sessions' Have Been Harvesting Passwords by Mistake  Wired

A 1.3Tbs DDoS Hit GitHub, the Largest Yet Recorded Wired

EFF launches redesigned Surveillance Self-Defense site  Electronic Frontier Foundation

***BIG DATA & AI

Microsoft will let government clients run Azure on their own servers, esp. for on-premise servers (such as in a military operation or in an embassy abroad)  CNBC

SCOTUS will decide whether a US warrant extends to digital—the Microsoft Supreme Court case has big implications for data  Wired

Machine learning self defense: how to not shoot yourself in the foot  Naked Security

Why Artificial Intelligence Needs To Learn How To Follow Its Gut  Wired 

A Data Scientist Was Sick of Seeing Spam on His Facebook so He Built a Fake News Detector: Could AI & computer learning could be the key to helping us separate fact from fiction?  Motherboard

Problematic black boxes: what to do about AIs acting without humans grasping why  Economist  

Can you do data science in a graphical user interface? Hadley Wickham says no  Meetup

**THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA 

P&G demands more out of its digital advertising  Reuters

***JOURNALISM

Face recognition: what use is it to newsrooms?  BBC News Labs

Music journalism: 'It's not dying. Actually, it's changing...'  Musically

A journalism educator wonders: How can I teach students how to maintain their credibility?  Poynter

‘They can’t kill us all’: Slovakian journalists defiant after murder  The Guardian

How Broadcasters Are Making Two-Way Experiences with Interactive Content  PBS Media Shift

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Why recent subscribers chose to pay for news  American Press Institute

How Hearst Newspapers changes its paywall to drive reader loyalty  Digiday

 ***SOCIAL MEDIA

The Biggest YouTube Videos of 2018 (So Far)  Thrillist

What You Need To Know About Vero, The Latest Hot Social Network  Refinery29

Evan Spiegel Is Doubling Down on Snapchat’s Biggest Failure  Vanity Fair

Social Media Use 2018: Demographics and Statistics  Pew Research Center

YouTube Doesn't Know Where Its Own Line Is  Wired

More than a third of all US adults use Instagram now  The Verge

Yes the ‘cheerleader effect’ is real – and you can make it work in your favour   The Conversation

***TWITTER

Twitter rolls out private bookmark feature for tweets  CNN

Escaping Twitter’s Self-Consciousness Machine  The New Yorker

Twitter is sick. The prognosis is grim  Washington Post 

Twitter Seeks Health Metrics To Help It Improve Its Platform  Wired

***FACEBOOK

Publishers Are Switching Domain Names To Try And Stay Ahead Of Facebook’s Algorithm Changes  BuzzFeed News

How Trump Conquered Facebook—Without Russian Ads: Why Russia’s Facebook ads were less important to Trump’s victory than his own Facebook ads  Wired

Facebook goes after LinkedIn with job postings expansion  CNN

How to Turn Off Facebook's Face Recognition Features  Wired

How to Ditch the News Feed Algorithm and Take Back Facebook  Motherboard

Facebook Under Fire for Bizarre Child Predator Survey Question  TechNewsWorld

Should satire be flagged on Facebook?  Poynter

***PRODUCING MEDIA

Adobe is Developing Photoshop for Your Voice  Medium

***INTERNET

Rural Communities Take Broadband Into Their Own Hands  NPR

11% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?  Pew Research Center

Google: Only 8% of Chrome users use Flash plugin on a daily basis  Tech Republic

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Your Gift to the World  Becoming (my blog)

***GRAMMAR

The Fictional Possessives-With-Gerunds Rule  Chronicle of Higher Ed

In the court of common usage, an old pronoun is losing its case  Economist

***WRITING & READING

The Tough-Love Approach to Writing  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LANGUAGE

Can the World’s Biggest Dictionary Survive the Internet?  The Guardian

The Language In “Black Panther” Is Totally Real. Here’s How To Speak It  Fast Company

***GENDER  

The distressingly unsurprising story of what happens when prominent (usually male) dissertation advisers fail to do their job  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The 5 most popular programming languages among female developers  Tech Republic 

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

Why Race Should Be Included In The Conversation About Arming Teachers  NPR

Antisemitic incidents in US soar to highest level in two decades  The Guardian

The First Time My White Husband Witnessed Someone Discriminate Against Me for the Color of My Skin  Glamour

***FREE SPEECH

Supreme Court Considers Free Speech Vs. Retaliatory Arrests   Associated Press

Georgia Supreme Court Voids Murder Trial Gag Order  RTNDA 

***LEGAL ISSUES

New Front In Data Privacy At The Supreme Court: Can U.S. Seize Emails Stored Abroad  NPR

Playboy Drops Misguided Copyright Case Against Boing Boing  Electronic Frontier Foundation

The ACLU is suing the US over separation of mother, child seeking asylum  Associated Press

Video News Aggregator Loses Fair Use Defense  Technology & Marketing Law Blog

***RELIGION

Pennsylvania Church Holds 'Blessing' Ceremony Featuring AR-15 Rifles  NBC San Diego

5 facts about U.S. evangelical Protestants  Pew Research Center 

People Like Billy Graham Are Why I Quit Christianity  Vice

Demand for exorcisms is up threefold in Italy, so Vatican is holding conference  USA Today

The Devil in My Dad: The 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980’s  Elle

Some churches drop ‘Baptist’ from names to gain new members  Columbus Dispatch

Battle over religion in public schools waged in one of America's fastest-growing cities  Religious News Service

How Trump And Race Are Splitting Evangelicals  FiveThirtyEight

Endeavor Content Invests in Newly Launched Faith-Based Production Company  Hollywood Reporter

***SOCIAL ISSUES

How Different Income Groups Spend Money  Flowing Data

Photojournalist James Nachtwey captures America's opioid epidemic at the personal level  TIME

Born in the Late 70s or Early 80s? Now There’s Finally a Name for Your Generation  My Modern Met

***GOOD NEWS

Chuck Feeney: the billionaire who gave it all away  Irish Times

***ART & DESIGN

Photography Competition 2018: The Winners  National Geographic Traveller

Drone photography is just normal photography now  Quartz

***MUSIC

The Hamilton Soundtrack Gets the “Weird Al” Yankovic Treatment With a New Polka Medley  Slate 

Mozart’s Diary Where He Composed His Final Masterpieces Is Now Digitized and Available Online  Open Culture

***STUDENT MEDIA 

Professor grabs student journalist and deletes photos after classroom was photographed  The Vermont Cynic

Sunshine laws, The Sunflower and the student government at WSU’s attempt to smack the student newspaper around  Dynamics of Writing

Wichita State student newspaper faces funding cut  The Wichita Eagle

Critical administrators. Closed meetings. Proposed funding cuts. What the heck is going on at Wichita State University?  Student Press Law Center

***STUDENT LIFE

Millennials projected to overtake Baby Boomers as America’s largest generation  Pew Research Center

The Generation Gap in American Politics: Wide and growing divides in views of racial discrimination  People

Defining generations: Where Millennials end and post-Millennials begin  Pew Research Center

Student newspaper publishes hardcore porn and sexual violence photo spread  The College Fix

Pro-Trump College Group Won’t Tell the Feds What the Hell It’s Doing  The Daily Beast

Go Ahead, Millennials, Destroy Us  New York Times

College Sues Former Student Who Won’t Leave Her Dorm Room  Snopes

Exclusive: Congress requires many unpaid interns to sign nondisclosure agreements  Vox

Millennials lost money to scams more often than their grandparents  USA Today 

Helicopter parents don’t stay at home when the kids go to college — they keep hovering  Washington Post

***JOBS 

Do Resume Typos Matter? Here’s What Hundreds Of LinkedIn Users Say  Fast Company

Edit tests are out of control, say journalists in search of jobs  Columbia Journalism Review

Stop Confusing Your Job Skills With Your Credentials  Fast Company

***BUSINESS

Most Companies Have No Idea Where They Are Going  TechNewsWorld

Most employees waste 32 days of productivity per year on bad enterprise apps  Tech Republic

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

Consent in the Digital Age: Can Apps Solve a Very Human Problem?  New York Times

#UsToo movement targets sexual harassment in science  Chemistry World

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT ON CAMPUS

Here’s how a national database could help colleges fight sexual assault  The Hill

Stanford joins growing list of institutions that publish reports with aggregate data on sexual-assault and sexual-harassment cases and outcomes  Stanford

Campus advocates for sexual-assault prevention at Stanford University met to demand that it use a quotation chosen by Brock Turner’s victim for a memorial plaque  Stanford Daily

Arizona professor with dropped charges not allowed on campus  Arizona Daily Sun

The student who was harassed online when she created a petition not to rehire the coach  406 MT Sports

Lawsuit: Prominent faculty member accused of rape, repeated assaults, and an attempt to involve her boyfriend in murdering the faculty member’s ex-wife  Democrat & Chronicle 

More Women Come Forward to Report Sexual Harassment by Harvard Professor  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Ex-MSU professor, 'renowned' robotics expert accused of $400K fraud  MLive

***HEALTH

Still Thirsty? It's Up To Your Brain, Not Your Body  NPR

Here's How Often You Should Clean Everything In Your House  Mental Floss

20 years ago, research fraud catalyzed the anti-vaccination movement. Let’s not repeat history  Vox

New Study Finds Childhood Obesity Remains On the Rise in America  Fatherly  

People are dying because we misunderstand how addicts think  Vox

Like It Or Not, Personal Health Technology Is Getting Smarter  NPR

Tattoos Can Now Start Monitoring Your Medical Conditions: Harvard and MIT Researchers Innovate at the Intersection of Art & Medicine  Open Culture

***SCIENCE

Remarkable Photo of a Single Atom Wins Science Photography Contest  My Modern Met

How your sense of smell may affect your politics: An ancient trait creates political leanings  Economist

***PSYCHOLOGY

We need new kinds of antidepressants, in addition to pills  Vox

The most neurotic places in the US, according to 1.5 billion tweets  Quartz

The surprisingly weak scientific case for emotional support animals  Vox

***PRODUCTIVITY

The Productivity Paradox—Why Doing More Doesn't Get More Done  Hello Sign

***ENVIRONMENT

North Pole surges above freezing in the dead of winter, stunning scientists  Washington Post

The known unknowns of plastic pollution: So far, it seems less bad than other kinds of pollution (about which less fuss is made)  Economist

***RESEARCH

Barney’s aquatic traits and how pregnant women stay upright: At this annual science conference, even humor has thorough research methods behind it  Arstechnica

Is it time to nationalise academic publishers?  Times Higher Education

How to write a first-class paper  Nature

***HIGHER ED

Amid Fear of Foreign Influence, Colleges’ Confucius Institutes Face Renewed Skepticism  Chronicle of Higher Ed

A former Cornell fraternity house closed over accusations of rape and violations of suspension policies, is being remodeled to provide a space for alternative campus groups  Cornell Sun

There Is No Case for the Humanities  Chronicle of Higher Ed

A Conservative Underground Surfaces at a Christian University as an anonymous newsletter spreads all over campus  Inside Higher Ed

 Students who are openly gay and Christian challenge Ozark Christian College, other religious colleges  Joplin Globe

***TEACHING

The forgetting curve explains why humans struggle to memorize  Quartz

 Tech Devices in the classroom (a student editorial)  Georgia State Signal 

The Case for Inclusive Teaching  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Your Gift to the World

If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don’t do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.

You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite the Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter farther along its path back to God.

Creative work is not a selfish act of a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.

Steven Pressfield, The Art of War