you are finished
/You are not finished when you are defeated. You’re finished when you quit.
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Tech history is poorly documented and poorly understood
/It’s often near impossible to know why certain technologies flourished, or what happened to the ones that didn’t. While we’re still early enough in the computing revolution that many of its pioneers are still alive and working to create technology today, it’s common to find that tech history as recent as a few years ago has already been erased. Why did your favorite app succeed when others didn’t? What failed attempts were made to create such apps before? What problems did those apps encounter — or what problems did they cause? Which creators or innovators got erased from the stories when we created the myths around today’s biggest tech titans?
All of those questions get glossed over, silenced, or sometimes deliberately answered incorrectly, in favor of building a story of sleek, seamless, inevitable progress in the tech world. Now, that’s hardly unique to technology — nearly every industry can point to similar issues. But that ahistorical view of the tech world can have serious consequences when today’s tech creators are unable to learn from those who came before them, even if they want to.
Anil Dash writing in Medium
regrets
/Will anyone lying on their deathbed wish they had had the chance to go to more church meetings? -Christopher Levan
The Indecision Cycle
/No-brainer decisions, like jumping in a pool to rescue a drowning child, are driven by a very fast-thinking part of the brain (known as the prefrontal cortex). When you jump in to save a theoretical child in need, you’re driven by that emotional part of your brain — and you don’t spend time analyzing how deep the water is, how to best approach the rescue, etc.
Most tasks, however, utilize rational parts of our brain. Unfortunately, these are the same parts of our minds that helped us avoid danger in primitive times. As a result, we approach an Excel spreadsheet the same way we foraged for food as cavemen — by looking at all the possible dangers behind it, and constantly analyzing the best approach. It’s a slow and inefficient process that causes procrastination, and stress only makes it worse.
The key here is to end the indecision cycle by to activating the proper parts of your brain.
While you cannot immediately flush out procrastination out of your system, you can start by conditioning your mind into focusing on what is important and knowing that you can do it (or at least take a crack at it) during the 5-second window.
Elle Kaplan writing in Medium
When God closes a door..
/When God closes a door, he opens a window... And then pushes you right out.
Articles of Interest - April 23, 2018
/***TECHNOLOGY
Chinese man caught by facial recognition at pop concert BBC
An Elaborate Hack Shows How Much Damage IoT Bugs Can Do WIRED
This wearable device can respond to your thoughts The Verge
Style Is an Algorithm Racked
***BIG DATA & AI
Machine learning meets Chaos Theory—and artificial-intelligence algorithms can apparently predict the future of chaotic systems Quanta Magazine
The intersection of Artificial Intelligence and the practice of law—the tech tools now available to lawyers Big Law Business
The TSA will soon start incorporating machine learning into scanners at airport security checkpoints GNC
How to create “deep fake” videos and the implications Hackernoon
***SOCIAL MEDIA
17 Ways Your Friends Are Lying To You On Social Media Cracked
Two things people get wrong about Snapchat, and two things Snap got wrong building its business Recode
Q&A: How Pew Research Center identified bots on Twitter Pew Research Center
What's Not Included in Facebook's 'Download Your Data' WIRED
***PRIVACY
Palantir Knows Everything About You Bloomberg
Four U.S. senators seek details on unusual cellular surveillance in DC area CNBC
Facebook Is Steering Users Away From Privacy Protections Wired
***PRODUCING MEDIA
The BBC is letting you download more than 16,000 free sound effect samples from its archive Music Radar
Phew, we’ve apparently solved 97% of the podcast measurement problem — everybody relax Nieman Lab
A Complete Guide to Video Production Management Story Hunter
***INTERNET
The Internet has serious health problems, Mozilla Foundation report finds Ars Technica
Web's inventor discusses digital monopolies, privacy threats Associated Press
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
State of the Media: Audio Today 2018 Nielsen
***JOURNALISM
How to build a story out of “no comment” comments Dynamics of Writing
Lawyers: Journalist was detained by ICE because of reporting Associated Press
How a Web marketer sneaked her pseudonym into U.S. News New York Times
The Field Guide to Security Training in the Newsroom
In many communities, the best local journalism is not coming from print Poynter
Meet the journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class Columbia Journalism Review
Why Do Russian Journalists Keep Falling? NPR
China wages war on apps offering news and jokes Economist
The Importance of Journalism in the Age of "Fake News" U-Mass Media
Digital media research: The most interesting studies of early 2018 Journalism Resources
Journalists, it's unethical to ignore your online security Poynter
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Report for America Supports seeks to install 1,000 journalists where Cutbacks Hit Hard New York Times
Why Are Newspaper Websites So Horrible? CityLab
Local media struggle to hold Sinclair accountable The Conversation
Reinventing Local TV News Harvard’s Nieman Reports
***FAKE NEWS
A PSA About Fake News From Barack Obama - It’s Not What It Appears (video)
Just the Facts – an interview with Brooke Binkowski of Snopes.com Mile O’Brien blog
Americans Favor Protecting Information Freedoms Over Government Steps to Restrict False News Online Journalism.org
Dis/misinformation: less talking, more doing Medium
Fake news flourishes when partisan audiences crave it Economist
Documentary in the Time of Fake News at The 21st Annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Filmmaker Magazine
Ted Koppel delivers a brief history of fake news to the Stanford community Stanford
Asian countries launch phoney assaults on fake news Economist
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Lessons from The Victorian Internet Becoming (my blog)
Why BAD Photographers THINK They're Good (video) Jamie Windsor
***WRITING & READING
Culture Shapes the Brain: How Reading Changes the Way we Think Medical Express
The surprising benefits of a read-aloud reading group The Research Whisperer
***LANGUAGE
Can You Explain What a Shibboleth Is? Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Race to Save the World's Disappearing Languages National Geographic
How to Teach the Rhythm of Language: Stop Counting Syllables! Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
How Stories have Shaped the World BBC
If Henry David Thoreau were alive today, he would be pissed NBC News
***GENDER
''Time's' 2018 Most Influential People list has record number of women, people under 40 USA Today
When Will the Gender Gap in Science Disappear? The Atlantic
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Mayor responds after Tennessee lawmakers punish Memphis for removing Confederate statues WREG-TV
A Lesson In How To Overcome Implicit Bias NPR
In a Proudly Diverse Australia, White People Still Run Almost Everything New York Times
How American Racism Influenced Hitler The New Yorker
***FREE SPEECH
Joliet Junior College settles ‘free speech zone’ lawsuit Chicago Sun-Times
***LEGAL ISSUES
Q&A: Lawyer behind Hannity revelation at Cohen hearing speaks Columbia Journalism Review
Too often juries comprise 12 confused men (and women) Economist
Supreme Court Preview: Immigrants' Rights And Notice To Appear NPR
New Hampshire Court Dismisses Defamation suit filed by a patent owner unhappy that it had been called a “patent troll” Electronic Frontier Foundation
Court sides with human in copyright fight over monkey selfie Washington Post
***RELIGION
More women are coming forward with accusations of inappropriate encounters with Megachurch pastor Bill Hybels Christianity Today
Criticism of Christians and Chick-fil-A Has Troubling Roots Bloomberg
What is hell? The Conversation
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Church of The DonaldNever mind Fox. Trump’s most reliable media mouthpiece is now Christian TV Politico
Dozens of evangelical leaders meet to discuss how Trump era has unleashed ‘grotesque caricature’ of their faith (opinion) Washington Post
Political Dealing: The Crisis of Evangelicalism Fuller
White evangelical support for Donald Trump at all-time high BongBong
There’s a ‘red evangelicalism and a blue evangelicalism’: Faith leaders gather to discuss their common future Religious News Service
***ART & DESIGN
The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font Quartz
Sound-Wave Tattoo Digg
***MUSIC
Personality predicts musical preference Economist
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
University has refused to release names of students found to have committed sexual misconduct Western Washington University
School warns student not to speak out on sexual assault case-without legal justification The Breese (James Madison University’s student-run newspaper)
Vice Media is sued after employee is assaulted on assignment NBC News
Alaska Man's Revelation Shine A Light On Sex Abuse In The State NPR
What Happens When A Community Tries To Address Its Own Sexual Harassment Issues NPR
***BUSINESS
10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings The Conversation
Bike-share companies are transforming US cities – and they’re just getting started The Conversation
***ENVIRONMENT
Scientists stumbled upon a plastic-eating bacterium—then accidentally made it stronger PopSci
Americans waste 150,000 tons of food each day – equal to a pound per person The Guardian
Climate change schism: Evangelical Christians divided on human role in global warming NBC News
***HEALTH
Some mutations tied to autism may be passed down from fathers Spectrum News
Antidepressants in pregnancy tied to changes in babies' brains Reuters
Home Testing Kit Will Check For Sexually Transmitted Diseases NPR
The vaccine dilemma: how experts weigh benefits for many against risks for a few Stat News
***PSYCHOLOGY
Mariah Carey says she has bipolar disorder; a psychiatrist explains what that is The Conversation
This is what love does to your Brain: It's really an Addiction Vox
***NEUROSCIENCE
Brain scans may help diagnose neurological, psychiatric disorders Science Daily
Do adult human brains renew their neurons? Economist
***PHILOSOPHY
Why I Left Academic Philosophy Medium
***RESEARCH
A Remedy for Broken Science, Or an Attempt to Undercut It? Undark
Paper Accepted…Unless the Letter Was Forged The Scholarly Kitchen
***HIGHER ED
IoT Applications in Education KD Nuggets
For-profit colleges lose when two-year colleges offer B.A. degrees Hechinger Report
Opinion: It’s Time to Reconsider The Role And Future of Community Colleges Times of San Diego
Nonprofits poised to unseat U of Phoenix as the largest online Inside Higher Ed
How Liberty University Built a Billion-Dollar Empire Online New York Times
***HUMANITIES / STEM
Forget coding. It’s the soft skills, stupid. And that’s what schools should be teaching (opinion) Washington Post
***TEACHING
How to Turn Your Exams Into Learning Opportunities Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Trauma Can Alter Your Teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Who Doesn’t Get Overtime Pay? Online Instructors, for One Chronicle of Higher Ed
As pay and benefits stagnate, nontenured faculty and graduate students in Illinois, Chicago look to unions Chicago Tribune
Language of Ph.D Defenses Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
SGA president who threatened college newspaper gets impeached College Media Matters
Berkeley Student paper reports on Squirrel Candidacy to Student Senate The Daily Californian
***STUDENT LIFE
A majority of U.S. teens fear a shooting could happen at their school, and most parents share their concern Pew Research
Most colleges say applicants' social media profiles are 'fair game,' survey says Cleveland.com
When Disadvantaged Students Overlook Elite Colleges The Atlantic
University of Portland Boots Tennis Player From Roster After “Violent, Misogynistic” Remarks Willamette Week
Poll: Majority of millennials are in debt, hitting pause on major life events NBC News
Boston College Philosophy Professor Offers Students Extra Credit for Going on First Date Daily Signal
The Victorian Internet
/Tom Standage writes in his book The Victorian Internet, “That the telegraph was so widely seen as a panacea is perhaps understandable. The fact that we are still making the same mistake today is less so. The irony is that even though it failed to live up to the utopian claims made by about it, the telegraph really did transform the world.”
The Internet, like the telegraph, offers tremendous potential for altering the world in a positive way. But we would be wise to temper our enthusiasm.
As Standage suggests, “Better communication does not necessarily lead to a wider understanding of other points of view: the potential of new technologies to change things for the better is invariably overstated, while the ways in which they will make things worse are usually unforeseen.”
Stephen Goforth
new horizons
/Where there is passion and desire, there will always be new horizons.
your story
/What will the world miss if you don’t tell your story? - Donald Miller
Orange Buttons are the Best
/An appeal to authority is a false claim that something must be true because an authority on the subject believes it to be true. It is possible for an expert to be wrong, we need to understand their reasoning or research before we appeal to their findings. In a design meeting you might hear something like this:
“Amazon is a successful website. Amazon has orange buttons. So orange buttons are the best.”
Feel free to switch out ‘Amazon’ and ‘orange buttons’ for anything you want; you get an equally week argument. We could argue back that Amazon is surviving on past success and that larger company are often hard to innovate so shouldn’t be used as a design influence. We could point out that Jeff Bezos has a reputation for micro-managing and ignoring the evidence provided by usability experts he has hired. As a result, we could point out that Amazon is possibly successful in spite of its design not because of it. But the words ‘often’, ‘reputation’ and ‘possibly’ make all these arguments equally week and full of fallacies.
When we counter any logical fallacy, we want to do it as cleanly as possible. In the above example, we only need to point out that many successful websites don’t have orange buttons and many unsuccessful sites do have orange buttons. Then we can move away from the matter entirely unless there is some research or reason available to explain the authorities decision.
Rob Sutcliffe writing in Prototypr
Articles of Interest - April 16
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Vevo’s YouTube account hack hits popular music videos, causes biggest video ever to disappear The Verge
Facebook is offering a $40,000 bounty if you find the next Cambridge Analytica CNBC
The Book 'Videocracy' explores the power of YouTube MSNBC
One Way to Fight Digital Distraction Chronicle of Higher Ed
This Site Tracks How Wikipedia Is Being Edited in Real-Time Fast Company
***PRIVACY
Gmail.com redesign includes self-destructing emails Ars Technica
Should Social Media Companies Pay Us For Our Data? NPR
Facebook Crossed The Creepy Line And Can’t Go Back BuzzFeed News
As Zuckerberg Smiles to Congress, Facebook Fights State Privacy Laws WIRED
***PRODUCING MEDIA
The State of Video in 2018 Story Hunter
Everything You Need To Know About Video Production Costs Story Hunter
5 Media Publishers to Watch in 2018 Story Hunter
***INTERNET
YouTube and Facebook Are Losing Creators to Blockchain-Powered Rivals Bloomberg
US says Russia targets internet routers for espionage Associated Press
Supreme Court takes up internet sales tax case NBC News
***TECHNOLOGY
SenseTime: The billion-dollar, Alibaba-backed AI company that's quietly watching everyone in China Quartz
Microsoft launches a phishing attack simulator and other security tools TechCrunch
***JOURNALISM
Why Modern Newsrooms Should Mind the Generational Gap Hollywood Reporter
How the Assad Regime Tracked and Killed Marie Colvin for Reporting on War Crimes in Syria The Intercept
Journalists Documented a Massacre. Their Prize: a Prison Cell New York Times
The crisis in journalism has become a crisis of democracy Washington Post
Beyond “Live at Five”: What’s Next for Local TV News? Medium
The end of investigative journalism? Not yet Columbia Journalism Review
Former ProPublica journalists are launching a newsroom to cover the impact of technology on society Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Headlines editors probably wish they could take back Columbia Journalism Review
Pulitzer Prize Winners Associated Press
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
TV news employment surpasses newspapers RTDNA
As a secretive hedge fund guts its newspapers, journalists are fighting back Washington Post
Journalism can profit from the nonprofit model OC Register
The staggering body count as California newspapers founder, and democracy loses LA Times
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
Missouri School of Journalism grapples with what to do about Sinclair Broadcasting Missourian
It Matters a Lot Who Teaches Introductory Courses: Here's Why Chronicle of Higher Ed
***FAKE NEWS
The Rise of the Crisis Actor Conspiracy Movement VICE
The bots beat: How not to get punked by automation Columbia Journalism Review
Can “Extreme Transparency” Fight Fake News and Create More Trust With Readers? Harvard’s Nieman Reports
***BIG DATA & AI
Working for the algorithm Machines will help employers overcome bias Economist
Really Random Numbers thanks to Quantum Physics NPR
Artificial intelligence in the supermarket produce aisles Tech Crunch
Automatic generation of data visualizations using sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural networks Toward Data Science
A dozen major big data analytics tools grouped by storage, cleaning, mining, visualization Datamation
***CODING & HTML
Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom: An inside look at the inner workings of a technology you may take for granted New York Times
Best coding games and toys for kids 2018 Tech Advisor
***ART & DESIGN
This Optical Illusion Where Colors Disappear When You Stare At Them Is Breaking Our Brains Digg
Helvetica Is Now An Encryption Device Fast Company
***MUSIC
What Makes This Song Great? Ep. 1
Kendrick Lamar Wins Pulitzer Prize New York Times
***FILM
Netflix Pulls Out of Cannes Following Rule Change Variety
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Radio isn't dead yet, but its future isn’t exactly healthy cnet
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Search for Unintended Consequences Becoming (my blog)
***WRITING & READING
Why American Students Haven't Gotten Better at Reading in 20 Years The Atlantic
Did the CIA fund creative writing in America? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
Much Ado About ‘Ado’ Chronicle of Higher Ed
Disappearing Languages Interactive
Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice As Much Language Learning Material Fast Company
***LITERATURE
5 Classic Literature Books You Need to Give Another Chance Study Breaks
A poetry professor Deals with a Racial Slur Washington Post
***GENDER
How #MeToo is inspiring a new era of feminist literature Standard
Ever wonder why you've never seen a woman making sushi? This female sushi chef explains why Mashable
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Please Don’t Answer This 2020 Census Survey The New Yorker
***FREE SPEECH
Most College Presidents Worry That Speech Issues Could Trigger Violence Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
***RELIGION
Hybels steps down from Willow Creek following allegations of misconduct Chicago Tribune
Ken Ham Can’t Find Enough Creationist Employees, So He’s Loosening Restrictions Patheos
Why this former religion television reporter is considering divorcing her evangelical family Washington Post
***RELIGION IN COURT
North County pastor sentenced for molesting young relative Fox-5
Ex-Dolphins cheerleader claims NFL discriminated against her because of her faith CBS News
Houston Megachurch Pastor Pleading Not Guilty To Fraud Charges Houston Public Media
Man who cites opposition to abortion for not paying taxes wins Round 1 in court Oregon Lives
Mormon growth continues to slow, especially in the U.S. (opinion) Religion News
Trial of U.S. pastor facing up to 35 years in prison set to start in Turkey NBC News
***RELIGION & BOOKS
Two publishers suspend publication of books by megachurch pastor Hybels in wake of misconduct allegations Chicago Tribune
Tyndale Sued by Boy Who Didn’t Come Back from Heaven Christianity Today
Jimmy Carter, 93, talks about his new book: ‘Faith’ Religious News Service
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Inside the White House Bible Study group BBC
California Bill would Outlaw Gay Conversion ‘Therapy’ San Jose Inside
US vice-president Mike Pence meets Southern Baptist megachurch pastors Christian Today
Who Is Reinhold Niebuhr And What Is His Connection To James Comey? NPR
Colombia’s Next President Could Be an Evangelical Woman Christianity Today
***STUDENT MEDIA
How Parkland student journalists covered the shooting they survived and friends they lost Washington Post
Legal Analysis: Getting the numbers on college censorship Student Press Law Center
Liberty president censors student newspaper over critics Richmond Free Press
University of Toledo newspaper in danger of closing Toledo Blade
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Schools like Harvard Shouldn’t be Investigating Itself (opinion) The Crimson
Did These Women See #MeToo Coming New York Times
Head of Nobel literature prize panel quits over sex abuse scandal The Guardian
***BUSINESS
Gaslighting for Beginners (satire) Medium
***HEALTH
Lyme disease the first epidemic of climate change Aeon
The States Where People Die Young The Atlantic
Too much sitting may thin the part of your brain that's important for memory, study suggests LA Times
***FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
These Maps Show the Average Cost of Childcare in Each State Fatherly.com
It Takes 90 Hours to Make a New Friend Life Hacker
California museum exhibit of awkward family photos Awkward Family Photos
***SCIENCE
Lights, cameras, science: Using video to engage broader audiences The Research Whisperer
Physicists set new record for quantum entanglement Univeristat Unnsbruck
***PSYCHOLOGY
This strange syndrome causes people to think their loved ones have been replaced by identical impostors Washington Post
***PRODUCTIVITY
10 Hidden URLs to Help You Rule the Web Field Guide
***RESEARCH
The ethics of scientific publishing Chemistry World
Researchers who actively push their papers on social media gain more citations, study finds Times Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
College plays a powerful role in achieving the American dream (opinion) The Hill
Justice Department Investigating How Colleges Use Early-Decision Admissions NPR
***HUMANITIES & STEM
Can tech save the humanities? Boston Globe
Dear Humanities Profs: We Are the Problem Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Are 'Learning Styles' Real? The Atlantic
Forgetting makes us smarter. Use these tricks to remember what you need to NBC News
***ACADEMIC LIFE
How Much Did Professors Earn This Year? Barely Enough to Beat Inflation Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Student Loan Reform (opinion) New York Times
More colleges are saying yes to dogs and cats in dorms Washington Post
4 in 10 millennials don't know 6 million Jews were killed in Holocaust, study shows CBS News
Modest Advice for New Graduate Students Medium
First-generation students are disproportionately more unlikely to finish college National Center for Education Statistics
Millennials are the largest generation in the U.S. labor force Pew Research Center
Duke protesters disrupt president's speech to alumni News Observer
The Search for Unintended Consequences
/Any idiot can build a system. Any amateur can make it perform. Professionals think about how a system will fail. It’s very common for people to think about how a system will work if it is used the way they imagine. But they don’t think about how that system might work if it were used by a bad actor or a perfectly ordinary person who is just a little different from what the person designing it is like.
Companies need to be thinking about how each product could actually be used in the real world. If you build a product that works great for men and is going to lead to harassment of women, you have a problem. If you build a product that makes everyone’s address books 5 percent more efficient and then gets three people killed because it their personal information to their stalkers, that’s a problem.
What you need is a very diverse working group that can recognize a wide range of problems, that knows which questions to ask and has support inside the company and in the broader community to surface these issues and make sure they are taken seriously. If they’re in there from day one it makes a huge difference.
Former Google engineer Yonatan Zunger in an interview with NPR
What is love?
/What is love? Tell me through the story of your life. –Krista Tippett
Expand the pie
/What interests of your adversary overlap with your own? Expand the pie before you divide it.
rules against ourselves
/We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. –Homer
Articles of interest - April 9, 2018
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
How to Check if Cambridge Analytica Could Access Your Facebook Data WIRED
An estimated two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts – not human beings Pew Research
How Twitter Bots Help Fuel Political Feuds Scientific American
Zuckerberg is Getting training on how to testify before Congress The New York Times
Facebook Imposes New Restrictions on Ads and Popular Pages WIRED
‘You Are the Product’: Targeted by Cambridge Analytica on Facebook New York Times
***PRIVACY
Financial Analyst Says Most Consumers Don't Realize How Their Data Is Used NPR
***CONSUMING MEDIA
You Are The Media You Eat Medium
How to Balance Your Media Diet Medium
***TECHNOLOGY
US suspects cellphone spying devices in DC Associated Press
A Long-Awaited IoT Crisis Is Here, and Many Devices Aren't Ready WIRED
***BIG DATA & AI
Some data sets for teaching data science Simply Statistics
***INTERNET
Best Mobile Browsers: Microsoft Edge, Firefox Focus, Google Chrome, and More WIRED
***PRODUCING MEDIA
True Crime, Fake Homicide: The Onion's 'A Very Fatal Murder' Podcast NPR
The Cohort: 'Pick the part of the media world you think most needs to exist and start making it' Poynter
Switching Every 19 Seconds: How Our Brains Multitask With New Media Forbes
***JOURNALISM
TV reporter prompts 911 call of ‘crazy lady’ talking to self Seattle Times
Homeland Security to Compile Database of Journalists, Bloggers Big Law Business
Trump's feud with Amazon is really about the Washington Post's success The Guardian
Push Notifications at the NYT New York Times
Unpaid internships and a culture of privilege are ruining journalism (opinion) The Guardian
How Trump thrives in ‘news deserts’ POLITICO
This Is What It Was Like Learning To Report Before Fake News Was The Biggest Problem In The World BuzzFeed
***JOURNALISM & TECHNOLOGY
A Startup Media Site Says AI Can Take Bias Out of News Motherboard
Automated fact-checking has come a long way. But it still faces significant challenges Poynter
Twitter, Facebook, Slack: Using Every Tool to Hear What Readers Think The New York Times
***JOURNALISM & SINCLAIR
KVAL co-anchors refuse to read controversial script Register Guard
I Quit Working For Sinclair And They Sued Me. Here's Why I'm Fighting Back Huffington Post
SPJ disappointed by Sinclair chairman's comments about print journalists Society of Professional Journalists
Sinclair Rescinds Donation Pledge to NPPA for Legal Advocacy NPPA
Sinclair is hiring for hundreds of open positions, amid ‘must-run’ script scandal ThinkProgress
Journalism-school Deans Send Letter to Sinclair: the company has "crossed a line" The Hill
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Local TV is doing way better than you’d think, a new report suggests Nieman Lab
Denver Post Finds Out Why Laying Off A Third Of Your Newsroom Is A Bad Idea Digg
Mapping the future of local news, together Poynter
Why do reporters take the risk to start a media business? These answers might surprise you Medium
Tariffs on Canadian Newsprint threatens American Newspapers (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Lobby State lawmakers to pass a bill barring non-compete clauses for broadcast journalists (opinion) Providence Journal
***FAKE NEWS
A new study suggests fake news might have won Donald Trump the 2016 election Washington Post
How A Teacher In France Is Trying To Help Her Students Spot Fake News NPR
A guide to the (many, similarly named) new efforts fighting for journalism Nieman Lab
The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A Lie From Google NPR
Critics of Dan Rather’s tips about fake news brought up his past. But the points are still solid Washington Post
The Era of Fake Video Begins The Atlantic
Weaponized ‘fake news’ claims are now doing real damage RTDNA
Can “Extreme Transparency” Fight Fake News and Create More Trust With Readers? Nieman Reports
***STUDENT MEDIA
‘It Has to Be Perfect’: Putting Out a Yearbook After the Parkland Shooting The New York Times
SMU to take control of student newspaper Dallas News
WSU president approves cut to student newspaper, but offers other university funding The Wichita Eagle
A 21-year-old dropped out of college to rate dogs on the internet — and now he's making six figures Business Insider
Concern, condemnation after SFCC student newspaper reports on Pitcher scandal disappear Spokesman
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Sharing photos may subtly change how we remember Becoming (my blog)
Why We Like Things That Are Bad For Us Medium
7-Year Follow-Up Shows Lasting Cognitive Gains From Meditation UC Davis
The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death The New Yorker
***WRITING & READING
Expand Your Writing Potential with a Smart Notebook and Pen Chronicle of Higher Ed
Can You Identify a Lower Case G? “An intriguing way of looking at questions about the importance of writing for reading” Scholarly Kitchen
***LANGUAGE
The number of American college students studying foreign languages continues to fall Quartz
Scientists Probe an Enduring Question: Can Language Shape Perception? Undark
Trendy Suffixes, for Fun and Profit Chronicle of Higher Ed
The ‘g’ in Google’s Old Logo Is Really Weird The Atlantic
Think You Know a Word’s Origin? Think Again Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
How Trump Is Shaking Up the Book Industry POLITICO
10 Satirical Covers for the Terrible Books You Can’t Get Away From: Imaginary cover designs for the worst clichés in publishing Electric Literature
Copy Editing and Proofreading a Book: It Takes a Village Chronicle of Higher Ed
25 Amazing Books by Women You Need to Read Mental Floss
Why the literature of antiquity still matters Washington Post
***GENDER
Court: Employers Can’t Pay Women Less Because of their Salary History Washington Post
Female Medics Rushed to Help a Man Who Collapsed in a Sumo Ring. They Were Promptly Told to Leave TIME
Women file to run for US House seats in record numbers Associated Press
Feminist Health Guide 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' Will Stop Publishing NPR
Men are Concerned about what #MeToo is doing to men at work Washington Post
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
On Being Excluded: Testimonies by People of Color in Scholarly Publishing The Scholarly Kitchen
The Billion-Dollar Romance Fiction Industry Has A Diversity Problem NPR
Textbook Racism: How scholars sustained white supremacy Chronicle of Higher Ed
It's time to re-examine diversity and inclusion programs to make real progress The Hill
***LEGAL ISSUES
Has This Man Sued You? A "Copyright Troll" Takes on Hollywood Hollywood Reporter
Music Copyright After 'Blurred Lines': Experts Speak Out Rolling Stone
InfoWars sued by man Alex Jones falsely identified as Parkland gunman The Guardian
So to Speak podcast: Have you been defamed? The FIRE
Judge Judy's $47 Million Salary Isn't Too Much, Rules Real Judge Hollywood Reporter
***RELIGION
Can religion solve El Salvador’s gang problem? 1843 magazine
Bibles pulled from online stores as China increases control of religion CNN
Christian women in the U.S. more religious than their male counterparts Pew Research Center
Witches, Frog-Gods, and the Deepening Schism of Internet Religions WIRED
The most religious regions in the US Gallup
California Lawmakers Consider How To Regulate Homeschools After Abuse Discovery NPR
Texas pastor arrested for failing to report sexual assault Star-Telegram
Billy Graham's regrets, in his own words Christianity Today
***ART & DESIGN
The Inside Story of Reddit's Redesign WIRED
Googles in the Gallary: Mass Art Museums Venture into Virtual Reality The ARTery
***MUSIC
'Just As True': Johnny Cash's Poems Set To Music For New Album NPR
As Boomer Musicians Retire, Concert Industry Faces Uncertain Future Rolling Stone
***FILM
Great Movies About Faith Are Hard To Come By. Enter 'Blue Velvet' Vox
***STUDENT LIFE
Hunger And Homelessness Are Widespread Among College Students, Study Finds : The Two-Way NPR
Parkland highlights political potential of millennials. The question now is if they'll vote LA Times
Food, Housing Insecurity May Be Keeping College Students From Graduating NPR
What do students want most? To be treated with respect The Guardian
Why is the Drinking Age 21? Mental Floss
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Dangerous, growing, yet unnoticed: the rise of America's white gangs The Guaridan
Attack At YouTube Offices Brings Company's Content Policy Into Question NPR
Why Pure Reason Won’t End American Tribalism WIRED
***BUSINESS
2018 Airfare Study – The Best Time to Buy Flights, based on 917 million airfares Cheap Air
Customer service could start living up to its name: How AI can make businesses look more caring Economist
How Baby Boomers, Gen-Xers And Millennials Would Invest $10,000, Visualized Digg
***HEALTH
How To Play Video Games Without Messing Up Your Body Kotaku
Huge trove of unknown viruses found in fish, frogs and reptiles Nature
Fighting Bacterial Infection With…Viruses? Daily Jstor
Food allergy is linked to skin exposure and genetics Northwestern University
There’s no such thing as an ‘opioid-addicted’ newborn Washington Post
***FAMILY
Dishwashing causes more relationship distress than any other household task The Atlantic
'No One Meant To Be In My Office': A Divorce Lawyer's Tips On Staying Together NPR
***PSYCHOLOGY
The Psychology Behind False Confessions Daily Jstor
Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit New York Times
***NEUROSCIENCE
New Brain Maps With Unmatched Detail May Change Neuroscience WIRED
***PHILOSOPHY
Nietzsche on Truth, Lies, the Power and Peril of Metaphor, and How We Use Language to Reveal and Conceal Reality Brain Pickings
Frog and Toad Attend a Philosophy Class Daily Jstor
Want to raise the next Socrates? Teaching children philosophy is easier than you think Big Think
***RESEARCH
Is recycling Methods text from an old paper, to use in a new paper that applies the same techniques, efficient writing – or self-plagiarism? Scientist Sees Squirrel
NIH rejected study of alcohol advertising while pursuing industry funding Stat News
The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete. Here's What's Next The Atlantic
New study helps explain why so many results in animal studies don’t hold up in human trials Science Mag
***HIGHER ED
How Big Colleges Prey On Fan Loyalty To Fight Back Against Scandals Deadspin
Trump’s Man on Campus POLITICO
With Changing Students and Times, Colleges are Facing a Gloomy Picture, Forcing an overhaul of campuses New York Times
***CAMPUS & CRIME
17 Colleges Fell Short On Campus Safety, But The Education Department Didn’t Tell The Schools BuzzFeed
Current/Former faculty members say the Univ. of Chicago has historically has wielded deadly force against the community Chicago Maroon
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
‘Gay on God’s Campus’ Inside Higher Ed
Christian colleges worry about losing federal funding due to policies affirming Biblical view of sexuality Christianity Today
Adjunct Faculty Stage Walkout at Jesuit University Washington Post
Liberty U’s Falwell ‘censors’ student newspaper coverage of event organized by critics Religious News
Shane Claiborne Says Liberty University Threatened to Arrest Him for Organizing Prayer Meeting Christian Headlines
***TEACHING
Building Skills Outside the Classroom with New Ways of Learning New York Times
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
News women blacklisted after speaking out about sexual harassment Columbia Journalist Review
An Arc of Outrage: Despite the clamor, the real conversation about campus sexual assault has hardly begun Chronicle of Higher Ed
Professor Whose Assault Case Prompted Policy Changes at U. of Texas Is Found Dead Fox-7
Piano Students at Utah State U. Endured Humiliation and Sexual Harassment, Report Says Chronicle of Higher Ed
A Candid Legal Debate on Hollywood and #MeToo: "Did the Law Fail Us?" Hollywood Reporter
Why Colleges Shouldn’t Be Handling Sexual-Assault Complaints Chronicle of Higher Ed
Vonda dyer's statement re: Chicago tribune and bill hybels Vonda Dyer’s Blog
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Professors Are Targets In Online Culture Wars; Some Fight Back NPR
A Professor's Testimonial: I Lived out of My Car at College Ozy
Departure of MassArt Professor Saul Levine Raises Academic Freedom Concerns National Coalition Against Censorship
incompatibility
/What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. Tolstoy
striving and struggling
/What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. -Victor Frankl
believe them
/When people show you who they are, believe them. -Maya Angelou
the details
/We think in generalities but live in detail. –Alfred North Whitehead