July 09, 2018

Being Unmasked as an Imposter

July 09, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

As you might expect, failure isn’t all that popular an activity. And yet, not everyone reacts to it by breaking out in hives. While many of the people (in a recent study) hated tasks that they didn’t do well, some people thrived under the challenge. They positively relished things they weren’t very good at—for precisely the reason that they should have: when they were failing, they were learning.

For growth people, challenges are an opportunity to deepen their talents, but for “fixed” people, they are just a dipstick that measures how high your ability level is. Finding out that you’re not as good as you thought is not an opportunity to improve; it’s a signal that you should maybe look into a less demanding career, like mopping floors.

This fear of being unmasked as the incompetent you “really” are is so common that it actually has a clinical name: impostor syndrome. A shocking number of successful people (particularly women), believe that they haven’t really earned their spots, and are at risk of being unmasked as frauds at any moment. Many people deliberately seek out easy tests where they can shine, rather than tackling harder material that isn’t as comfortable.

Megan Mcardle writing in the Atlantic

July 07, 2018

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -Marcel Proust

July 07, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

July 06, 2018

Giving yourself time to play

July 06, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

Play has a positive impact on creativity because— in addition to helping us both mind-wander and diversify— it stimulates positive emotion, which research shows leads to greater insight and better problem solving. Barbara Fredrickson of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, found that positive emotions increase our cognitive resources by expanding our visual attention. When we feel good, we gain the ability to pay attention to a wider range of experiences. We see the big picture rather than getting bogged down in the details. In other words, if you feel stuck in a rut or you can’t think yourself out of a problem or don’t see a way out of a situation, play may be a way of getting “unstuck” and coming up with innovative ideas.

Just as joy and fun can make you more creative, creativity in turn enhances your well- being. The more creative you become, the more joy you invite into your life. Nikola Tesla wrote, “I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. . . . Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”

By naturally tapping into your inner creativity, you reconnect with the joy you had as a child playing. You engage in a positive feedback loop that continues to replenish you with joy and creativity. It makes for an adult life rich with delight and inventiveness.

Stanford psychologist Emma Seppälä writing in the Washington Post

July 05, 2018

The last act of a dying organization is to get out a new and enlarged edition of the rulebook.

July 05, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

July 05, 2018

Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action. -Oswald Chambers

July 05, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

July 03, 2018

Laughter is like an instant vacation.

July 03, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

July 02, 2018

Articles of Interest - July 2

July 02, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

***TECHNOLOGY

Harvard scientists develop material that can change its surface shape at the microscale on the fly Harvard

Is the Solution to the Data Storage Crunch your DNA? Wired

Satellites could show airplanes faster long-haul routes in mid-air Quartz

Google opens its human-sounding Duplex AI to public testing CNET

How roboticists are copying nature to make fantastical machines Wired

Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up: more detailed maps built from its own data for the first time Tech Crunch

***TECHNOLOGY: FACIAL RECOGNITION

Orlando Airport Will Be First in the U.S. to Scan Faces of All International Passengers Conde Nash Traveler

Facial Recognition Software is Not Ready for use by Law Enforcement Tech Crunch

This Japanese AI security camera shows the future of surveillance will be automated The Verge

***SOCIAL MEDIA

The data behind winning Instagram captions News Whip

How Instagram Is Eating The World Forbes

Only 'Influencers' Can Take Photos at This LA Mural and People Are Pissed Vice

***FACEBOOK

Slate Traffic Plummets as a result of FB’s retreat from the news business Slate

Facebook is stepping back from its plan to bring the internet to the world via giant drones Quartz

Facebook bug randomly unblocked some users from people’s block lists The Verge

Facebook is buying UK’s Bloomsbury AI: It’s all about fighting fake News Tech Crunch

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

In both the U.S. and China, more people say they’ll watch matches via live video online than via terrestrial, cable, or satellite television Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Quartz sale doesn’t give digital media players much to cheer about Columbia Journalism Review

***JOURNALISM

How can design processes help your newsroom? Medium

Post dismisses reporter for lax attribution in ‘aggregated’ news stories Washington Post

News outlets join forces to track down children separated from their parents by the U.S. Poynter

Advertising is not journalism Union-Tribune

Small-town American newspapers are surprisingly resilient Economist

Why LinkedIn wants to make original journalism The Drum

***THE VALUE OF JOURNALISM

How we know journalism is good for democracy Local News Lab

Can journalists counteract hatred toward the press? It starts with explaining what we do Poynter

The Importance Of Local Journalism NPR

***JOURNALISM: THE CAPITAL GAZETTE SHOOTING

Dave Barry: My heart aches for Capital Gazette shooting victims Miami Herald

The war against the press comes to the local newsroom Columbia Journalism Review

More than 350 org. and individuals sign condemnation of mass murder at the Capital Gazette and negative environment for journalists The Student Press Law Center

Trump says Maryland shooting 'filled our hearts with grief' CNN

Trump’s press attacks didn’t cause the Annapolis tragedy: But there is a connection Washington Post

Former Capital Gazette reporter grieves colleagues who died in Annapolis shooting Delaware Online

An act of violence against one journalist is an attack on all of us Union-Tribune

Trump won’t Lower Flag for Cap Gaz Shooting as he has for Other Mass Shootings Mashable

***JOURNALISM: SAFETY

The Newsroom Is No Longer a Safe Place Politico

How Rare Are Attacks On Journalists? NPR

Defend Yourself AND the News Provides: practical advice for turbulent times RTDNA

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

2018 Research: Women and people of color in local TV and radio news RTDNA

***TEACHING JOURNALISM

How VR in Journalism Education Keeps Learners Abreast With a Rocky Media Landscape eLearning Inside

***FAKE NEWS

Rapidly expanding fact-checking movement faces growing pains Washington Post

Adobe is using machine learning to make it easier to spot Photoshopped images The Verge

A Web Tool That Lets People Choose Their Own ‘Sources of Truth’ The Atlantic

Americans may appreciate knowing when a news story is suspect, but more than a third will share that story anyway Knight Foundation

***FAKE NEWS OUTSIDE THE U.S.

A guide to anti-misinformation actions around the world Poynter

Fake news, rumour and censorship in the Middle Kingdom Monday Note

***BIG DATA & AI

One day AI programs may need therapists—seriously Axios

Ways to think about machine learning and avoid some of the misconceptions out there Ben Evans Blog

How Quantum Computing Works and Why It’s Important Medium

Is the Solution to the Data Storage Crunch your DNA? Wired

How to Execute R and Python in SQL Server with Machine Learning Services Data Science Central

The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in 8 U.S. Cities are central to an NSA spying initiative that has for years monitored billions of emails, phone calls, and online chats The Intercept

***THE INTERNET

How to fix what has gone wrong with the internet Economist

Our Online Behavior is a Design Problem Medium

The story of the internet is all about layers How the internet lost its decentralised innocence Economist

Ecommerce Website Redesign: A Technical SEO Checklist Search Engine Journal

Stopping the internet from getting too concentrated will be a slog, but the alternative would be worse Economist

Make Wikipedia Even Better Chronicle of Higher Ed

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Malcolm Gladwell's 12 Rules for Life Revisionist History Podcast Revisionist History

Why are Russians so stingy with their smiles? The Conversation

Being rational all the time isn’t going to do you any favors Quartz

***GRAMMAR

That Adverb in Melania Trump’s jacket Chronicle of Higher Ed

***WRITING & READING

Instead of abandoning print, the 119-year-old MIT Technology Review is doubling down on it Harvard's Nieman Lab

How the Self-Publishing Industry Changed, Between My First and Second Novels LongReads

***LANGUAGE

Koko Is Dead, but the Myth of Her Linguistic Skills Lives On Chronicle of Higher Ed

Switzerland’s Mysterious Fourth Language BBC

***LITERATURE

Translators' group brings international literature to Chicago Chicago Tribune

‘Frankenstein’ Author Mary Shelley on Creativity' Brain Pickings

Book clinic: which literature would inspire a men’s prison reading group? The Guardian

Why aren't schools teaching black literature? Baltimore Sun

Capturing the voice of a brilliant, unorthodox teacher of literature Economist

Clean, Well-Spoken: Hemingway’s Cuban Spanish Chronicle of Higher Ed

The 39 best health and science books to read this summer Stat News

Discover What to Read Next With This 'Instagram for Books' Life Hacker

***GENDER

‘Tormented and traumatized’: Rage toward women fuels mass shooters Washington Post

Women in public-facing journalism jobs are exhausted by harassment Poynter

Researchers preferentially collaborate with same-gendered colleagues across the life sciences BioRx

The midterm elections are shaping up to have a giant gender gap Vox

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

The Elevation of Anti-Semitic Pseudoscience Undark

Race-Conscious Admissions Returns to the Spotlight Chronicle of Higher Ed

New data shows US hate crimes continued to rise in 2017 The Conversation

White supremacist propaganda is inundating college campuses, civil rights group says Washington Post

***FREE SPEECH

The invincibly ignorant and the intellectual huckster have every right to express their opinions, but their right to free speech is not the right to an audience New York Times

Is That Opinion Hate Speech? Here’s A Checklist To Find Out Daily Infographic

***LEGAL ISSUES

Campus Lawyers’ Deepest Fear: the Protest or Tweet That Spins Into a Free-Speech Crisis Chronicle of Higher Ed

***PRIVACY

California passes strictest online privacy law in the country CNN

Here are 5 key details in California’s new privacy law Fast Company

At this Chinese school, Big Brother was watching students — and charting every smile or frown LA Times

Here's why the NSA just deleted all of the calls and texts it collected since 2015 Tech Republic

***RELIGION

How Antebellum Christians Justified Slavery Daily Jstor

One of Hillsong's latest hits sparks debate on evolution Christianity Today

5 facts about Episcopalians Pew Research Center

Archdiocese of Washington apologizes after Maryland family kicked out of funeral Fox-5

***MEGACHURCHES

Willow Creek leaders issue public apologies for mishandling allegations Chicago Tribune

Mega church pastor resigns after investigation into 'inappropriate conduct' Fox-9

Pastor of Tacoma megachurch dismissed over accusations of inappropriate behavior Q13 Fox

***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE U.S.

In El Salvador, Becoming An Evangelical Is A Way Out Of A Gang NPR

5 facts about religion in India Pew Research Center

Christian Group Surprises Pride Crowd, Apologizes For Anti-LGBTQ Views Huffington Post

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

The “Star-Spangled Banner” in church? Some Christians are questioning the mix of patriotism and God Washington Post

Supreme Court ruling may pave way for more faith-based pregnancy centers The Hill

***GOOD NEWS

"Hello Kitty" bullet train to debut in Japan CBS

Joyful parade fulfills two wishes for 107 year old: When asked what she wanted for her birthday, Myda Lewis said "I want people to be happy" Stillwater News Press

***ART & DESIGN

Here's What 49 Iconic Disney Characters Would Probably Look Like IRL BuzzFeed

Duchamp's famous urinal sculpture was actually created by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven BoingBoing

Winners of the 2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest The Atlantic

Bookstore photo series perfectly juxtaposes patrons with book covers BoingBoing

***TRAVEL

National Trust’s List of 11 Most Endangered Places includes Route 66, Mount Vernon Curbed

19 of the Most Beautiful Streets in the World Architectural Digest

17 Mistakes Tourists Make When Visiting NYC For The First Time BuzzFeed

***FILM

10 Great First Movies For Your Kids Fatherly

A Montage of Dance Moments from Almost 300 Feature Films Open Culture

***HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

While Reporting At The World Cup, Female Journalists Are Sexually Harassed NPR

How Colleges and Organizations Can Stop the Cycle of Faculty Sexual Abuse Chronicle of Higher Ed

6 women on how they deal with sexism and discrimination at work Fast Company

***HARASSMENT & ASSAULT ON CAMPUS

How a Student Used Title IX to Force Her College to Change Its Response to Cases of Sexual Assault Chronicle of Higher Ed

Texas History prof accused of inappropriate behavior and using his social-justice standing to divert the narrative Stephenville Empire-Tribune

How Colleges and Organizations Can Stop the Cycle of Faculty Sexual Abuse Chronicle of Higher Ed

A Star Scientist From The Max Planck Society Allegedly Harassed And Bullied Her Colleagues BuzzFeed News

Acclaimed UC Irvine geneticist who gave millions to the campus resigns due to sexual harassment LA Times

***CRIME ON CAMPUS

Police officer who fatally shot Antwon Rose II left his campus job after his testimony and evidence didn’t add up Pittsburg Post-Gazette

Man Killed By Armed Portland State University Officers Had Valid Concealed Carry Permit When He Died OPB

***SOCIAL ISSUES

Scientists can track the spread of opioids in sewers. But do cities want to know what lies below? Stat News

***BUSINESS & FINANCE

How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs? Older than you think Northwestern

Republican tax law hits churches Some nonprofits could start paying taxes for the first time Politico

Why Startups Are Thriving Outside Silicon Valley Aspenideas

Can LinkedIn finally kill the business card with new mobile app QR codes? Tech Republic

I spent 2 days on a bus with a billionaire and a celebrity author while they toured America to invest $150 million in local business Business Insider

How regulators can prevent excessive concentration online Economist

30 Fake Business Blog Posts Someone Should Have Written Already Medium

***ENVIRONMENT

Rising seas: 'Florida is about to be wiped off the map' The Guardian

How can climate policy stay on top of a growing mountain of data? The Guardian

Hawaii Bans Common Sunscreens To Protect Coral Reefs NPR

***HEALTH

Hundreds of new genes may underlie intelligence—but also autism and depression Science Mag

Modified polio vaccine extends lives in U.S. brain cancer study Reuters

Marketing firm Exactis leaked a personal info database with 340 million records Wired

With Funding Scarce, HealthNewsReview.org Hurtles Toward Closure Undark

Seemingly Healthy Food For Kids That Have Shocking Amounts of Sugar Daily Infographic

***HEALTH & TECHNOLOGY

Amazon could radically change how you get prescriptions CNN

Kids of millennials may never know a doctor visit without AI Tech Republic

***FAMILY

Helicopter parenting is bad for children The Times

U.S. women are postponing motherhood, but not as much as those in most other developed nations Pew Research Center

America's work-life balance isn't so great Axios

***SCIENCE

The first-ever interstellar object observed traveling through Earth's solar system confirmed to be a comet, but does not exhibit usual dust trails Science Mag

***PSYCHOLOGY

The surprising thing the 'marshmallow test' reveals about kids in an instant-gratification world LA Times

Live Nation rigged an entire concert to measure the biometrics of music fans Fast Company

One day AI programs may need therapists Axios

A big collaboration is trying to understand diseases of the psyche Economist

The Famous Break Up of Sigmund Freud & Carl Jung (video) Open Culture

New Jersey to Suspend Prominent Psychologist for Failing to Protect Patient Privacy Pro Propublica

Psychologists Looked In The Mirror … And Saw A Bunch Of Liberals Here’s how this might affect their research FiveThirtyEight

Campus mental health forums pay off, study shows Ed Dive

***NEUROSCIENCE

Why your brain never runs out of problems to find The Conversation

The eye's structure holds information about the health of the mind: It is a window to the brain Economist

One sentence with 7 meanings unlocks a mystery of human speech Wired

***PHILOSOPHY

What’s the point of philosophy? A new philosophy paper says there isn’t one Quartz

***PRODUCTIVITY

The best tools and tech to create a podcast in 2018 Poynter

***RESEARCH RETRACTIONS

CDC retracts finding that farmers have the highest suicide rate in the country New Food Economy

Scientists Rarely Admit Mistakes: A New Project Wants to Change That Undark

***RESEARCH REPLICATION

Statistical Rituals: The Replication Delusion and How We Got There Sage Journalism

Improving analysis and reporting of incomplete data will make reproducibility and replicability efforts easier (abstract) Social Science & Medicine

Can We Science Our Way out of the Reproducibility Crisis? PLOS

***RESEARCH

CrossFit’s strident spokesperson (and Liberty U grad) Russell Berger was winning a war against junk science — until his anti-LGBT bigotry got him fired Buzzfeed News

The Benefits and Pitfalls of Google Scholar Cambridge University Press

Some science journals that claim to peer review papers do not do so Economist

African scientists launch their own preprint server Nature

Sports science journal has just banned a flawed statistical method FiveThirtyEight

Philip Zimbardo defends the Stanford Prison Experiment, his most famous work Vox

How Dennis Wall became the ‘bad boy’ of autism research Spectrum News

***HIGHER ED

A College Considers Taking the ‘Liberal’ Out of ‘Liberal Education’ Chronicle of Higher Ed

Defining and Delivering on Quality in Higher Education Medium

What Does Justice Kennedy’s Retirement Mean for Higher Education? Chronicle of Higher Ed

Western Illinois Will Lay Off 24 Faculty Members, Including 7 With Tenure Chronicle of Higher Ed

Notre Dame students sue school, White House over birth control policy Reuters

AD: Baylor regents displayed racism, preferred misleading report on rape scandal Waco Tribune

***HUMANITIES & STEM

Digital Humanities and the Child Separation Crisis Wired

Why it's so hard to diversify STEM fields California Sunday

***TEACHING

What Podcasts Can Teach Us About Teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed

University develops rubric to certify students' soft skills Ed Dive

***ACADEMIC LIFE

No More Chili Pepper: RateMyProfessors Ditches ‘Hotness’ Ratings Chronicle of Higher Ed

In Nigeria, a battle against academic plagiarism heats up Science Magazine

Why the Supreme Court Ruling on Unions Could Be Good for Adjuncts Chronicle of Higher Ed

Second of 3 Dartmouth professors under criminal probe quits Union Leader

Was a Renowned Literary Theorist Also a Spy? Chronicle of Higher Ed

Liberty University professor arrested and charged with online sexual exploitation of a minor News Advance

***STUDENT MEDIA

How is college radio faring in the streaming era? Economist

In California, journalists lean on student reporters for education coverage Columbia Journalism Review

Student photojournalist who sued to retain copyright for his work is vindicated Student Press Law Center

Student journalist investigates lack of sexual misconduct records for teachers Columbia Journalism Review

***STUDENT LIFE

Should Working Learners Get a Tax Break? Chronicle of Higher Ed

Why Teen Employment Numbers Are Down NPR

The Rise of College ‘Grade Forgiveness’ The Atlantic

The share of teens with summer jobs has plunged since 2000, and the type of work they do has shifted Pew Research Center

As A Mental Health Crisis Sweeps Across Colleges, Students Step Up To Fix It Huffington Post

California Will Be Fourth State to Sue Navient Over Student Loans New York Times

June 30, 2018

Those who turn back know only the ordeal, but they who persevere remember the adventure. -Milo L. Arnold

June 30, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

June 29, 2018

The view you adopt for yourself

June 29, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value. How does this happen? How can a simple belief have the power to transform your psychology and, as a result, your life?

Believing that your qualities are carved in stone — the fixed mindset — creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over. If you have only a certain amount of intelligence, a certain personality, and a certain moral character — well, then you’d better prove that you have a healthy dose of them. It simply wouldn’t do to look or feel deficient in these most basic characteristics.

I’ve seen so many people with this one consuming goal of proving themselves — in the classroom, in their careers, and in their relationships. Every situation calls for a confirmation of their intelligence, personality, or character. Every situation is evaluated: Will I succeed or fail? Will I look smart or dumb? Will I be accepted or rejected? Will I feel like a winner or a loser? . . .

There’s another mindset in which these traits are not simply a hand you’re dealt and have to live with, always trying to convince yourself and others that you have a royal flush when you’re secretly worried it’s a pair of tens. In this mindset, the hand you’re dealt is just the starting point for development. This growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts. Although people may differ in every which way — in their initial talents and aptitudes, interests, or temperaments — everyone can change and grow through application and experience.

Do people with this mindset believe that anyone can be anything, that anyone with proper motivation or education can become Einstein or Beethoven? No, but they believe that a person’s true potential is unknown (and unknowable); that it’s impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training.

Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

June 25, 2018

Articles of Interest - June 25

June 25, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

***TECHNOLOGY

IBM Touts Breakthrough Technology As Computer Debates A Person NPR

A new type of battlefield network is in development Economist

This AI program could beat you in an argument—but it doesn’t know what it’s saying MIT Technology Review

Control robots with brainwaves and hand gestures MIT Technology Review

‘Stealth’ material hides hot objects from infrared eyes University of Wisconsin-Madison

***TECHNOLOGY: WEARABLES

The reason thousands of Swedish people are inserting microchips into themselves Quartz

Snap’s Spectacles are now basically a GoPro for your face Quartz

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

The future of TV advertising in today’s digital world MARTech

Forecast growth in global ad spending, by medium The Atlas

***JOURNALISM

What journalists can learn from their local TV weather forecast American Press Institute

Advocates are becoming journalists. Is that a good thing? Columbia Journalism Review

The decline and fall of entertainment reporting Columbia Journalism Review

Reddit launches a ‘News’ tab into beta testing TechCrunch

The Augmented Newsroom: How will AI impact the journalism we know? Medium

***JOURNALISM: INTERVIEWS

Times under fire for agreeing to White House terms on Miller interview Columbia Journalism Review

National Enquirer sent Trump stories to Michael Cohen before publication CNN

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Freelancers are precarious. When should they push back? Columbia Journalism Review

Tronc finally realizes it has a stupid name New York Post

***TEACHING JOURNALSIM

LinkedIn can be an avenue to new audiences, Maryland students find Poynter

Journalism head at Wayne State resigns amid misconduct investigation The South End

***FAKE NEWS

What Advertising History says about the Future of Fake News New York Times

Reuters study: the duopoly should fight fake news faster & brands must hone in on misplacement The Drum

Americans grapple with recognizing facts in news stories Reuters

Conservatives & Liberals both take to propaganda on Russian TV NPR

MediaWise teaches 500 teens to fact-check the internet Poynter

Truepic, a startup that detects deepfake pictures and videos, just raised $8 million Quartz

Americans believe two-thirds of news on social media is misinformation Poynter

The Best Defense Against Fake News in Social Media Tech News World***THE INTERNET

19 Incredibly Useful Websites You’ll Wish You Knew Earlier Medium

Is your website ADA-compliant? Avoid becoming a litigation target Miami Herald

***BIG DATA & AI

The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities are central to an NSA spying initiative that monitors billions of emails, phone calls, and online chats The Intercept

New AI method increases the power of artificial neural networks by speeding the training of algorithms Phys.org

Work boycott by Google engineers refusing to build security tool to win military contracts Bloomberg

Chinese Hackers Target Satellite, Geospatial Imaging, Defense Companies Bleeping Computer

Facebook uses “in-painting” where a program fills in a space with what it thinks belongs there to replace closed eyes with open ones Tech Crunch

Sloppy reporting of statistics in research papers is widespread but now, an algorithm may limit the hiding places for untrustworthy scientific paper Economist

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Twitter users are analytical in the morning, angsty at night Wired

Buying Instagram is probably the smartest thing Facebook has ever done Quartz

The news that bots share on Twitter tends not to focus on politics Pew Research Center

***FACEBOOK

Facebook Watch Aims to Reinvent TV With New Interactive Shows Variety

Facebook blocks ad for actual news claiming it's 'political' Mashable

***MOBILE

Rebel developers are trying to cure our smartphone addiction — with an app Washington Post

Google’s Augmented Reality tape measure app comes to Android phones Ars Technica

***PRIVACY

Supreme Court cracks down on government snooping through cellphone location records USA Today

Bill could give Californians unprecedented control over data Wired

***PRODUCING MEDIA

Google's new podcast app could turbocharge the industry Wired

Best YouTube Videos of All Time, Ranked Thrillist

***PERSONAL GROWTH

I can prove you are no smarter than a pigeon Becoming (my blog)

How We Got to Be So Self-Absorbed: The Long Story (book review) New York Times

Everyone suffers when you apologize for asking questions Fast Company

***GRAMMAR

A ‘New Yorker’ Style Book Chronicle of Higher Ed

9 grammar rules you're probably breaking without realizing it Business Insider

***WRITING & READING

Librarian Nancy Pearl Picks 7 Books For Summer Reading NPR

I’ve Quit Writing Personal Essays About Quitting Things: A Personal Essay (satire) The New Yorker

The Best Algorithm-Driven Writing Instruction You Can Imagine Inside Higher Ed

***LANGUAGE

From Snoopy to Shark Bait: The Top Slang Word in Each State Mental Floss

Librarian Nancy Pearl Picks 7 Books For Summer Reading NPR

***LITERATURE

Top 20 picks for the best books of the year so far Amazon

Read a Huge Annotated Online Edition of Frankenstein: A Modern Way to Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Classic Novel Open Culture

Library Association Removes Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Name from Award Associated Press

***GENDER

Long Term Trend: Fewer men in the workforce, higher percentage of women New York Times

If you don’t have gender equality in your newsroom, it’s like running on one leg Harvard's Nieman Lab

How the New York Times and Gizmodo tackle gender diversity in the newsroom journalism.co

Why Women Don’t Code Quillette

Why don’t women code? A UW lecturer’s answer draws heat Seattle Times

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

SNL’s Black Jeopardy: An Oral History Vulture

***FREE SPEECH

UW to pay $122,500 in legal fees in settlement with College Republicans over free speech Seattle Times

Speaking of speech: What should colleges do when controversial figures want to come to campus? Washington Post

***LEGAL ISSUES

Do undocumented immigrants have the right to a day in court? The Supreme Court answered in 1896 Quartz

How to Lose a Copyright Case: Court Finds Photos of Teeth Lack Sufficient Bite Law.com

***SUMMER TRAVEL

2018’s Best & Worst States for Summer Road Trips Wallet Hub

10 Summer Travel Scams You Need to Take Seriously Reader’s Digest

***PHOTOGRAPHY & DESIGN

The best photography portfolio websites for showing off your work Digital Trends

How Do We Design Workplaces That Support Mental Health And Well-Being Forbes

***RELIGION

Amid #MeToo fallout, Southern Baptist males quietly leaving jobs Baptist News Global

Aimee Semple McPherson: The L.A. evangelist who built the world's first megachurch LA Times

Rachel Held Evans: The Ever-evolving influence of a ‘Bible nerd’-turned author Washington Post

Key findings on the global rise in religious restrictions Pew Research Center

Ken Ham Calls Andy Stanley a ‘False Teacher’ Christian Headlines

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

What Role Does Religion Play In American Politics? NPR

Jeff Sessions' pastor addresses 'firestorm' over church charges against AG CNN

***GOOD NEWS

Teen's encounter with deaf-blind man on flight goes viral King-5

A man helped a woman stranded in a wheelchair: What he did next went viral Washington Post

Town's oldest resident gets her own birthday parade CBS-17

Eau Claire woman discovers neighbor is her long-lost sister WISN

***MUSIC

Tracing an ’80s hip-hop beat back to 1910: Linking Stravinsky to Planet Rock (video) Recode

Cook County inmates call new jail recording studio 'a blessing'; officials hope it reduces recidivism Chicago Tribune

***FILM

10 Best Movies of 2018 So Far Rolling Stone

***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

6 Simple Guidelines to Keep in Mind When Updating Your LinkedIn Profile Picture Inc. Magazine

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

Interim president of Michigan State objected to the use of the color teal, which victims of Larry Nassar's sexual abuse have adopted as a symbol of solidarity Freep

FBI: Sexual assaults on flights increasing 'at an alarming rate' CNN

Ohio State Shuts Down Office That Helped Sexual-Assault Victims Chronicle of Higher Ed

Former Wisconsin student gets Light Sentence for of sexual assaults Chicago Tribune

***BUSINESS & FINANCE

How to Vet Charities for Immigrant Children Consumer Reports

***ENVIRONMENT

As Carbon Dioxide Levels Rise, Major Crops Are Losing Nutrients NPR

A history of modern capitalism from the perspective of the straw The Atlantic

***HEALTH

Brain Balance's Approach To Autism, ADHD: High Hopes, High Costs And Slim Science NPR

Smoking hits all-time low in U.S. NBC

DNA Snippet Once Called 'Junk' Found To Drive The Development Of Embryos NPR

The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready? The Atlantic

Herpes Viruses And Alzheimer's: A Possible Link NPR

I learned I have Sleep Apnea – its more serious than many people realize New York Times

The debate over precision medications NPR

***PSYCHOLOGY

WHO classifies 'gaming disorder' as mental health condition CNN

Most shooters got their guns legally, didn't have diagnosed mental illness, new FBI report says USA Today

Police Shootings And Mental Health NPR

Extremely hot weather makes people more unhappy than getting a divorce Quartz

Hawaii Becomes 12th state to ban conversion therapy for minors MuckRock

***NEUROSCIENCE

Brain imaging is illuminating the neural patterns behind pain’s infinite variety The New Yorker

Scientists Discover fundamental rule of brain plasticity: when a synapse strengthens, its neighbors weaken MIT

***PHILOSOPHY

The Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers Open Culture

What happened when philosophers set up a public booth to answer anyone’s question Quartz

An Introduction to Ivan Ilyin, the Philosopher Behind the Authoritarianism of Putin’s Russia & Western Far Right Movements Open Culture

***PRODUCTIVITY

Overscheduling Your Days Can Wreck Your Productivity Life Hacker

Robots? Training? Factories Tackle the Productivity Puzzle New York Times

***HISTORY

New Archive of Middle Eastern Photography Features 9,000 Digitized Images Open Culture

***RESEARCH

US gov delays Revisions to Common Rule Delayed Until January 21, 2019 Ropes & Gray LLP

Institutional versus commercial email addresses: which one to use in your publications? The London School of Economics and Political Science

How Much Editorial Misconduct Goes Unreported? Scholarly Kitchen

Stop saying that publication metrics don’t matter, and tell early-career researchers what does Nature

Medical journals should embrace preprints to address the reproducibility crisis International Journal of Epidemiology

Regression to the mean continues to confuse people and lead to errors in published research Statistical Modeling Causal Inference & Social Science

***RESEARCH: THE PUBLISHERS

Introducing the Free Journal Network – community-controlled open access publishing The London School of Economics and Political Science

Tips to avoid predatory journals and conferences University Affairs

How do you choose a journal when it’s time to submit a paper? Scientist Sees Squirrel

***RESEARCH & MISCONDUCT

How Much Editorial Misconduct Goes Unreported? Scholarly Kitchen

In science, is brilliance ever an excuse for bad behaviour? Australian Broadcasting Corporation

***RESEARCH & PEER REVIEW

The 3 Types of Peer Reviewer Chronicle of Higher Ed

The BMJ’s Patient Review Initiative — A Novel Expansion of Peer Review Scholarly Kitchen

Peer Review is Not Scientific: How a process designed to ensure scientific rigor is tainted by randomness, bias, and arbitrary delays Medium

***RESEARCH: AFTER PUBLICATION

Return of Research Results to Study Participants JAMA Network

Resubmitting your study to a new journal could become easier Nature

***HIGHER ED

DeVos urged to probe Chinese spying at U.S. universities Politico

Faculty Layoffs possible at Quincy College The Patriot Ledger

Northeastern University Is Now Handing Out Echo Dots to Its Students Mental Floss

UCLA's mobile app gauges campus climate issues by reaching students through their phones Inside Higher Ed

Why I changed my mind about diversity in academia Washington Post

***HIGHER ED: ACCREDITATION

It’s time for advocates and policymakers to take up accreditation reform The Hill

Southern Accreditor Places 4 Institutions on Probation Inside Higher Ed

***TEACHING

Hands-on learning is a necessary part of college, but here’s what it doesn’t teach students (opinion) Washington Post

Not Just for Video Games: Virtual Reality Joins the Classroom Chronicle of Higher Ed

***ONLINE CLASSES

A program's price is a major factor -- but not the deciding one -- as online students decide where to enroll Inside Higher Ed

10 business classes you can take online for free CNBC

Why College Tuition Is Actually Higher For Online Programs Forbes

***STUDENT LIFE

Eastern Michigan athletes sue school for dropping their sports M-live

68% of millennials worry about debt every day Axios

Student debt is killing entrepreneurship Quartz

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Appeals court affirms UW-Oshkosh professor records release under open records law National Review

Colleges Can Hire Adjunct Faculty Cheap — but Does that Harm Education National Review (opinion) National Review

1,300 Professors Sign Letter Condemning Separation of Immigrant Families as Child Abuse Gizmodo

Academic Group Rebukes U of Nebraska-Lincoln Associated Press

June 23, 2018

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. –Aristotle

June 23, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

June 22, 2018

What loves drives them to do

June 22, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

It isn’t that those who love you ignore your inadequacies. They will, instead, pitch in to help and cheer you along. They will allow you the opportunity to grow and chances to fail. This is what love drives them to do.

June 21, 2018

Market research shows the average user touches their cellphone 2,617 times a day. -Washington Post

June 21, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

June 18, 2018

Articles of Interest - June 18

June 18, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

***JOURNALISM

Americans and the News Media: What they do — and don’t — understand about each other American Press Institute

In The Quest For Comment, Hurry Up And Wait NPR

Do journalists deserve some blame for America’s mass shootings? Quill

You’re probably not quoting enough women. Let us help you. Columbia Journalism Review

Doxxing, assault, death threats: the new dangers facing US journalists covering extremism The Guardian

What should count as breaking news in text alerts? NPR

With its Facebook Watch news show, Alabama’s Reckon wants to make a national audience care about local news Harvard’s Nieman Lab

As Newspapers Disappear, Local Governments Become Less Fiscally Responsible, Says New Study Forbes

The documentary series The Fourth Estate tries to humanize the journalists who report the news—It can’t help but fall into a trap The Atlantic

What Research on ‘Measurable Journalism’ Tells Us About Tech, Cultural Shifts in Digital Media PBS Media Shift

NPR (yet again) writes uncritically about ketamine for mental illness NPR

Tiny Alabama Town tries to stop Media from attending City Council meetings without Council Approval—gets national attention, backs down Jackson County Sentinel

Meet the victims of violence against journalists Quill

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

'LA Times' New Owner Plans To Compete With 'New York Times,' 'Washington Post' NPR

More suitors line up as Tronc sells California newspapers New York Times

***FAKE NEWS

‘The real horror is not knowing what to believe’: Scenes from the Fake News Horror Show Columbia Journalism Review

Nine takeaways from Knight-supported research on restoring trust in news Medium

Can a Chrome plugin help solve the fake news problem? Columbia Journalism Review

Telling the difference between factual and opinion statements in the news Pew Research Center

How To Tell Whether A News Source Is Credible Action 4 Media Education

Wikipedia vandalism could thwart hoax-busting on Google, YouTube and Facebook Poynter

Quiz: How well can you tell factual from opinion statements? Pew Research Center

***TECHNOLOGY

MIT Engineers Build Magnetic 3D-Printed Structures That Can Change Shape Near-Instantaneously Digg

Blockchain visually explained Flowing Data

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Pedestrian Lane for ‘Smartphone Zombies’ Opens Up in China NBC New York

How to Pose for a Photograph New York Times

Instagram Will No Longer Alert Users About Screenshots Teen Vogue

***FACEBOOK

A state-by-state breakdown of Facebook users impacted by the Cambridge Analytica scandal Business Insider

If You’re A Facebook User, You’re Also a Research Subject Bloomberg

Facebook’s Perennial ‘Potential’ in Local Street Fighting

***PRIVACY

Increased amounts of data and surveillance are transforming justice systems Economist

It is hard now to avoid street-level surveillance Economist

Police can bypass encryption and monitor anything Economist

***INTERNET

The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results LifeHacker

***BIG DATA & AI

A python library that lets programmers and software developers easily integrate object detection with as little as 10 lines of code Towards Data Science

DeepMind AI learns to reconstruct scenes from images Axios

The promise and peril of big-data justice-can algorithms accurately predict where crime will occur? Economist

A simple evolutionary step in data processing: Data Lake architecture (and its functional requirements) SmartCat

The world may soon be awash in advanced, lethal drones Public Integrity

Wondering whether AI can replace a job? it is better to ponder whether it could replace humans at a specific task Economist

A contentious Pentagon using machine-learning algorithms to interpret drone-surveillance imagery was hacked by people in Russia Wired

***PERSONAL GROWTH

5 internal contributions to anger Becoming (my blog)

Gossiping Is Good The surprising virtues of talking behind people’s backs (opinion) The Atlantic

How to Avoid a Life of Regret LifeHacker

***WRITING & READING

‘New York Times’ Gets Rid of Copy Editors; Mistakes Ensue The Chronicle of Higher Ed

A Marketing Site Deleted Over 7,000 Articles After It Was Caught Stealing Fact-Checks And Plagiarizing BuzzFeed

Princeton Graduate wins Harvard Thesis Prize, kind of: Plagiarism hits the Ivy Leagues Archinect

***LANGUAGE

Imposter syndrome and pansexual among new words added to oxford English dictionary Independent

What does it mean to “bear arms”? Big Data Chimes in Economist

Inside Amazon's painstaking pursuit to teach Alexa French Wired

‘Fudging’ in Flight: Dubbed Movies on Airplanes Chronicle of Higher Ed

How language shapes the way we think (video) TED talk

***LITERATURE

88 books to enjoy this summer: the TED reading list TED

***GENDER

The US gender gap in math is starkest in the richest, whitest school districts Quartz

10 New or Lesser-Known Female Theologians Worth Knowing Christianity Today

Domestic Violence Expert Resigns From NFL Players Association Commission NPR

Study: editors of major political science journals demonstrate no systematic bias against female authors—Yet women authors remain underrepresented in the field Inside Higher Ed

Canada moves to make its national anthem gender-neutral CNN

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

A Hidden Strength of Minority-Serving Colleges: Meeting Students Where They Are The Chronicle of Higher Ed

Harvard records show discrimination against Asian-Americans Reuters

I am raising my daughter to speak three languages: A stranger demanded I 'speak English' to her LA Times

***FREE SPEECH

No Consensus on Free Speech Inside Higher Ed

Snowflakes and Free Speech on Campus Inside Higher Ed

***LEGAL ISSUES

How a Legal Brawl Between Two Rich Guys Could Change How We Think About DNA Gizmodo

Librarian sues Equifax—gets surprise win VT Digger

The “sovereigns of cyberspace” and state action: the first amendment’s application—or lack thereof—to third–party platforms BTIJ

Twitter and the First Amendment in court Technology & Marketing Law Blog

***RELIGION

Charitable giving in US tops $400 billion for first time AP News

A growing social movement is trying to bring scientific rigour to philanthropy Economist

Teaching Children To Ask The Big Questions Without Religion NPR

An all-white church intended to give its building to a black congregation. The plan fell apart. Washington Post

Why many white evangelicals are not protesting family separations on the U.S. border Washington Post

***SOUTHERN BAPTISTS

Wave of scandals confront Southern Baptists CNN

Georgia Baptist church expelled from Southern Baptist Convention over racial discrimination charges The Tennessean

Pence Speech Riles Some As Southern Baptists' Moderates Gain Strength NPR

A Lot of Southern Baptist Leaders Are Upset at Mike Pence’s Convention Speech Relevant Magazine Relevant Magazine

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Jeff Sessions own church calls policy of separating immigrant families "a shocking violation of the spirit of the Gospel" AL.com

Sessions cites Bible to defend immigration policies resulting in family separations CNN

Evangelicals Push Back On Sessions' Use Of Bible Passage To Defend Immigration Policy NPR

What the Bible really says about government (opinion) The Week

Religious Groups Criticize Trump Immigration Policies NPR

***MEGACHURCHES

The rise and fall of a Seattle megachurch through the eyes of an anthropologist KUOW

Billboard Company Pulls Down Texas Megachurch's 'Christian Nation' Signs Because They're 'Anger Provoking' IJR

***GOOD NEWS

'Our valedictorian:' Wake County family buys massive billboard space to congratulate son WRAL

Man on mission to mow lawns for free in all 50 states stops in Nashville Fox 17

Note to Daddy: Young sisters send balloon to Heaven, receive incredible answer KHOU

Woman saves pregnant mother, 3-year-old boy from drowning in pool The Indy Channel

***ART & DESIGN

New design tools on the block UX Design

What to consider when choosing colors for data visualization Data Wrapper

***FILM

The Problem With DC Action Scenes (video) Nerdwriter1

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

After Tronc: Here are 5 corporate rebranding disasters you probably forgot about Fast Company

Best YouTube Videos of All Time, Ranked Thrillist

The ad industry’s top buzzwords in 2018 Quartz

***STUDENT MEDIA

If restaurants ran like college papers, diners would starve to death JournoTerrorist

***STUDENT LIFE

This College Student Gave a Presentation on Wakanda That Fooled His Professor io9

Teen sex and drug use at lowest rates in decades, CDC finds CBS News

Professors talk on their favorite summers in college The Daily Californian (Berkeley student newspaper) Daily Cal

Google Wants to Play a Bigger Role in Your College Search—Here’s What You Need to Know The Chronicle of Higher Ed

Younger generations make up a majority of the electorate, but may not be a majority of voters this November Pew Research

Fire Dept Rescues College Student who Climbed Tree (and didn’t know how to get down) Fox 6

Leaked Memo From Conservative Group Cautions Students to Stay Away From Turning Point USA The Chronicle of Higher Ed

You people are the worst! Millennials now blamed for bad tipping USA Today

Requiring students to live in dormitories is a revenue boost for colleges but doesn't necessarily improve the student experience Forbes

***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

Cut these 5 outdated things from your resume Moneyish

Lawsuits and #MeToo changed internships — for the better Quill

10 smart women give advice to this year's interns Pardot

Recent Film Grads, Welcome to the Gig Economy Video Strategist

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

What happens when complaints by angry students go viral and how the university responded The Chronicle of Higher Ed

“Sexual harassment is pervasive throughout academic science, driving talented researchers out of the field and harming others’ careers” Nature

Scholars heard the NYU professor was under a Title IX investigation. They threw support behind her The Chronicle of Higher Ed

A student filed the lawsuit this week against a Florida fraternity alleged to have shared videos taken without permission Washington Post

***SOCIAL ISSUES

Suicide rates are increasing in almost every state Axios

U.S. Abortion Attitudes Remain Closely Divided Gallup

Suicide Rates In The U.S. Are Climbing Faster Among Women Than Men NPR

Georgia Court Green Lights Snapchat Speeding Selfie Lawsuit The Newspaper

Facebook Plans to Team Up With 15 Community Colleges. What Will That Entail? The Chronicle of Higher Ed

***BUSINESS & FINANCE

Millionaires Now Own Half of World's Personal Wealth Bloomberg

***ENVIRONMENT

To avoid humans, more wildlife now work the night shift The Conversation

***HEALTH

Why eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist Quartz

Does Vitamin D Really Protect Against Colorectal Cancer? NPR

What consumer DNA data can and can’t tell you about disease risk Science News

Why STDs are soaring in America Economist

Depression and suicide risk are side effects of more than 200 common drugs Vox

Viruses love what we’ve done with the planet Quartz

***HEALTH RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY

How AI is improving the speed and precision of medical treatments Economist

Two studies: Some CRISPR-edited cells may lead to tumors Stat News

New medical device auto-deploys treatment during heart attacks to halt heart failure MIT

Errors Trigger Retraction Of Study On Mediterranean Diet's Heart Benefits NPR

***FAMILY

7 facts about American dads Pew Research

The Dangers of Distracted Parenting: parents should worry less about kids’ screen time—and more about their own The Atlantic

***PSYCHOLOGY

Many Common Drugs May Be Making People Depressed NPR

The Stanford Prison Experiment was a fraud. The most famous psychological studies are often wrong, fraudulent, or outdated Vox

The Lifespan of a Lie: Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment? Medium

Alternate Rom-Com Endings if the Heroines had Therapists The Bella Donna Comedy

IQ scores are falling and have been for decades CNN

A new study ranks US states in order of psychopathy Quartz

***NEUROSCIENCE

We now know what a spiritual awakening looks like inside the brain Big Think

Brains May Teeter Near Their Tipping Point Quanta Magazine

***PHILOSOPHY

The Philosopher as Bad Dad (opinion) New York Times

Personalism is the philosophy we need (opinion) New York Times

A philosopher thinks technology could make anarchists’ dreams come true Quartz

***HISTORY

History gets a conservative twist in Michigan social studies standards Briggemi

***RESEARCH

Publishers can ensure that citations of zombie publications are caught Nature

Deciding what to replicate Pedermisager

What happens when researchers make mistakes Associated Press

***HIGHER ED

Some want to get rid of college majors – here’s how that could go wrong The Conversation

Many States Get Mediocre Grades in 2 Studies of Degree Attainment by Race and Ethnicity The Chronicle of Higher Ed

A small college had removed much of its website—including the names of all faculty and the president’s name Ottawa Citizen

Sweet Briar College Is Placed on ‘Warning’ by Accreditor The Chronicle of Higher Ed

Elon University sued over treatment of donor’s son The Times

***HIGHER ED & FINANCE

Is Congress about to cut nearly $15 billion from student-aid programs? (opinion) Hechinger Report

Beyond Tuition: How Innovations in College Affordability Are (Or Aren’t) Helping Students EdSurge

Michigan Christian university wins suit against abortion-pill mandate Free

***TEACHING

GPAs don’t really show what students learned: Here’s why Washington Post

UCSD Instructor Faces Backlash After She Belittles Student on Class Forum The Chronicle of Higher Ed

***TEACHING ONLINE

The Number of Students Taking in Online Courses Is Quickly Rising, But Perceptions Are Changing Slowly EdSurge

What Do Online Students Want? 3 Findings From a New Survey Offer Some Clues The Chronicle of Higher Ed

EdX introduces support fee for free online courses Inside Higher Ed

Why is YouTube blocking education videos from MIT? Daily Dot

***ACADEMIC LIFE

What Happens When an Adjunct Instructor Wants to Retire? The Chronicle of Higher Ed

A seven-time "Jeopardy!" winner faces prison for sneaking into the email accounts of others at her school Yahoo News

Disrupting the faculty member evaluation model Education Dive

June 13, 2018

The Process

June 13, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

Don’t think about the national championship. Think about what you needed to do in this drill, on this play, in this moment. That’s the process: Let’s think about what we can do today, the task at hand.

Nick Sabin, Alabama football coach

June 11, 2018

Articles of Interest - June 11

June 11, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

***FAKE NEWS

New technology makes it alarmingly easy to make realistic videos of people saying and doing things they've never done The Week

The French Parliament is debating a bill that would attempt to restrain the spread of fake news New York Times

How to use digital tools to archive and verify videos Current

Peer review could have helped short-circuit the Theranos fake news scandal Stat News

4 reasons 'fake news' tricks us and what we can do Futurity

Russian Disinformation Campaign Operates openly in DC The Daily Beast

***JOURNALISM

Almost seven-in-ten Americans have news fatigue Pew Research Center

People Are Absolutely Horrified By How Awkward This Local News Segment Is (San Diego's KUSI shows viewers how not to do TV news) BuzzFeed News

Why is your newsroom so hard to contact? Poynter

Across Western Europe, public news media are widely used and trusted sources of news Pew Research Center

Do journalists make good entrepreneurs? Columbia Journalism Review

Daniel Radcliffe Will Fight for Ethical Journalism in New Broadway Play The Observer

Why wordsmiths matter more than ever in 21st century digital journalism Medium

***JOURNALISM & REPORTING

Governments resist citizens on public records Herald Tribune

Best practices for covering suicide responsibly Poynter

How a major medical meeting uses embargoes to shape the news, and what the consequences may be Health News Review

***TEACHING JOURNALISM

Craigslist founder gives $20 million to journalism school CNN

The role of a reporter is shifting, as are the economics of education. With this new calculus, does journalism school still have a place in our profession? Columbia Journalism Review

***SOCIAL MEDIA

A Facebook bug changed the privacy settings for 14 million users Recode

Snapchat’s decline and the secret joy of internet ghost towns The Verge

***INTERNET

Here are some of the ways you might be doing email newsletters inefficiently (and how to do them better) Harvard Nieman Lab

Encyclopedia Britannica wants to fix false Google results Wired

How The Alt-Right Manipulates The Internet’s Biggest Commenting Platform BuzzFeed

How much is each internet feature worth to you? NPR

Report: Facebook is Primary Referrer For Lifestyle Content, Google Search Dominates Rest Media Post

Flash gets in one more security fail before retirement Wired

***TECHNOLOGY

Is technology bringing history to life or distorting it? Washington Post

The race to send robots to mine the ocean floor Wired

***BIG DATA & AI

Study: AI better than dermatologists at detecting skin cancer CBS News

Why Data Scientists Should Consider Adding ‘IoT Expert’ to Their List of Skills Datanamia

Machine learning can run on tiny, low-power chips, and that this combination will solve a massive number of problems Pete Warden Blog

The roles of data scientists and data engineers share overlapping core skill sets are different and are not easily interchangeable CTOvision

A team of MIT scientists announced recently that they'd created "the world's first psychopath AI" MIT

Three techniques to improve machine learning model performance with imbalanced datasets Medium

***PERSONAL GROWTH

4 options when dealing with false guilt Becoming (my blog)

5 Ways To Handle Negative Conversations At Work GirlBoss

***GRAMMAR

America's most misspelled words (so far in 2018) CNET

Infinitives Can Be Split: Grammar Conservatives Face the Shock Chronicle of Higher Ed

***WRITING & READING

Understanding story structure by dissecting Ali Wong’s standup special (a visualization) Pudding

6 Ways to Beat Writer’s Block Chronicle of Higher Ed

How to Copyedit The Atlantic The Atlantic

'Nationalistic' Think Tank Plagiarised Chinese, US, Australian Writings The Wire

***LANGUAGE

Email, the French Way Chronicle of Higher Ed

A Sneaky Theory of Where Language Came From The Atlantic

***LITERATURE

The 100 stories that shaped the world BBC

How Tolkien created Middle-earth The Guardian

The Year of 'Frankenstein' Inside Higher Ed

***GENDER

Charting the rise of three women in journalism Poynter

The Different Words We Use to Describe Male and Female Leaders Harvard Business Review

Book Review: Science and Suffrage in the First World War The London School of Economics & Political Science

The Ninety-Nines Was Amelia Earhart’s Club for Female Aviators Atlas Obscura

***GENDER & RESEARCH

Signing my peer review – unintended consequences and gender Washington University

Research: Adequate statistical power in clinical trials is associated with the combination of a male first author and a female last author eLife

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

The most successful ethnic group in the US may surprise you Ozy

Police Are Being Used To Exclude Black People From Public Places NPR

***FREE SPEECH

Louisiana governor signs campus free speech bill into law The FIRE

How Chinese students exercise free speech abroad Economist

***LEGAL ISSUES

Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your trademark restrictions Boston Globe

Restaurant owner says copyright infringement lawsuit a ‘big scam’ Boston Herald

***RELIGION

Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson has pulled out of giving key sermon at upcoming convention Washington Post

Sex Offenders Groom Churches Too: How predatory behavior goes undetected in congregations Christianity Today

Bavaria Requires Crosses on All Public Buildings. Church Leaders Disagree Christianity Today

What Religion Gives Us (That Science Can’t) (opinion) New York Times

Religion is uniquely human, but computer simulations may help us understand religious behavior The Conversation

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

The legislative assault by Christian nationalists to reshape America The Guardian

***RELIGION IN THE WORKPLACE

CrossFit Just Fired Its Spokesperson Who Said LGBT Pride Is A “Sin” BuzzFeed

Brownsburg teacher says transgender name policy goes against his religious beliefs Indy Star

***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE U.S.

Crocodile kills Ethiopian pastor during lake baptism BBC

5 facts about religion in India Pew Research Center

The surprising history of “God Bless America” Washington Post

***GOOD NEWS

Man Finds $1 Million Winning Lottery Ticket—and Tracks Down the Lucky Owner: 'It Felt Good' People

This NFL Player Saw an American Airlines Passenger In Trouble. His Stunning Reaction Went Viral Inc.

A 6th-grade teacher wrote 'Invite me to your Harvard graduation!' -- 21 years later, the student did just that CNN

4-year-old superhero using his power to feed the homeless CBS News

Man mistakenly runs full Fargo marathon instead of half Grand Forks Herald

Toddler makes 911 call after mom passes out KTRK

Youth football team meets with couple they helped rescue from overturned car Idaho Statesman

***ART & DESIGN

How Century old Design Decisions Impact Teaching Today NPR

The Art World Is Easy to Dislike—Here Are Some Reasons Not to New York Times

***MUSIC

The musical diversity of pop songs Pudding

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

Next year, people will spend more time online than they will watching TV—That’s a first Recode

***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

Need an entry-level job at a store? It can be harder now Associated Press

What editors at NPR, BuzzFeed News, Deadspin look for in an applicant The Atlantic

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

The problem of sexual harassment in higher education isn’t a new one Splinter News

Sexual Harassment In The Workplace Is More Common Than You Think Daily Infographic

Hiring a Diversity Officer Is Only the First Step: Here Are the Next 7 Chronicle of Higher Ed

#MeToo Complaints Swamp Human Resources Departments NPR

Why Do Colleges Keep Failing to Prevent Abuse? Inside Higher Ed

A valedictorian went off-script to talk about sexual assault: Then her school cut her mic USA Today

The results of a survey that asked men about everything from workplace harassment to consent Glamour

***SOCIAL ISSUES

Where killings go unsolved: See interactive map of major US cities Washington Post

What researchers found after analyzing data gathered from 20 million stops in North Carolina CityLab

ICE Came for a Tennessee Town’s Immigrants. The Town Fought Back New York Times

***ENVIRONMENT

A Harvard professor says his company should be able to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, at industrial scales, by 2021 The Atlantic

***HEALTH

The Belt That Listens to Your Bowels New Yorker

The World’s Largest GMO Study Was Launched By Russians In 2014: Then It Disappeared BuzzFeed News

Almost 40% of peer-reviewed dietary research turns out to be wrong. Here’s why New Food Economy

How Science Helps the Warriors Sleep Their Way to Success Wired

***FAMILY

How much screen time is too much for kids? The Guardian

New findings on "marshmallow test" Inside Higher Ed

Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children The Atlantic

The Perils Of Pushing Kids Too Hard, And How Parents Can Learn To Back Off NPR

***SCIENCE

Sloppy Science Happens More Than You Think Leaps Mag

Scientists Are Subverting Formal Publishing. Well, Some of Them Wired

Physicists at Fermilab say they have strong evidence for the existence of a new type of particle Physics World

***PSYCHOLOGY

What The Controversy Over Facebook's Privacy Policy Reveals (psychologically) NPR

Ten of every eleven psychiatric patients housed by the government are incarcerated: Here's what this crisis looks like from the inside Esquire

The Kids Who Are Cleared to Leave Psychiatric Hospitals—But Can’t The Atlantic

CDC: U.S. Suicide Rates Have Climbed Dramatically NPR

***NEUROSCIENCE

What Time Feels Like When You’re Improvising: The neurology of flow states Nautil

***CRITICAL THINKING

What editors at NPR, BuzzFeed News, Deadspin look for in an applicant Columbia Journalism Review

***RESEARCH

Impact of Social Sciences – Software updates: the “unknown unknown” of the replication crisis The London School of Economics & Political Science

Has Google Become a Journal Publisher? Scholarly Kitchen

Give every paper a read for reproducibility Nature

How Scientific Publishers Can End Bullying And Harassment In The Sciences Forbes

Avoid Ethics Issues in Science Publishing with These 5 Questions ASM

***HIGHER ED

UVa Library’s Plan to Cut Stacks by Half Sparks Faculty Concerns Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Cost of College (visualized) New York Times

Lobbying group for independent colleges says it's open to expanding federal data collection on student outcomes but.. Inside Higher Ed

DePaul University lays off dozens of staff Chicago Sun-Times
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/depaul-university-lays-off-dozens-of-staff/

Customer Service Is Misguided in the Classroom but Crucial in Advising Chronicle of Higher Ed

Sex and Gender on the Christian Campus (opinion) New York Times

Catholic U. Trustees Clear Path to Cut the Faculty by 9 Percent Chronicle of Higher Ed

$5 million to Chapman University from billionaire Charles Koch sparks an uproar Daily News

***TEACHING

The Numbers That Explain Why Teachers Are in Revolt New York Times

Asking students to work out a problem using nothing but what they already know Chronicle of Higher Ed

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Appeals Court Sides with Cornell in Tenure Dispute Inside Higher Ed

UNM professors suing university over unequal pay KRQE

Professors Decide Whether to Teach Summer Courses — for Cuts in Pay Chronicle of Higher Ed

***STUDENT LIFE

Where Are Millennials Moving – 2018 Edition Smart Asset

Why do so many students drop out of college? And what can be done about it? Washington Post

Millennials and retirement: How bad is it? Politico

Four big blunders young adults make with their health insurance CNBC

What Millennials Earn In Every State, Mapped Digg

Millennials are moving to the exurbs in droves Axios

June 08, 2018

How to cover up your fatal flaw

June 08, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

When did it become acceptable to embrace the characteristics that others have identified as detrimental to our mutual professional success?

I suspect many of the people who trot out their fatal flaws are attempting to create a defense shield to protect themselves from further criticism:

"You will not speak of my fatal flaws because I have mentioned them first and am therefore immune to your potential condemnation."

It’s a classic offense-as-defense strategy. That approach may work for a while but eventually it prompts some pointed questions:

"If you know you talk too much, why do you continue to take up all the air time?"

"If you know you are considered dismissive, why do you believe it is in your best interest to denounce the perspectives of anyone who thinks differently than you do?"

"If you know you overpromise and underdeliver, what makes you think people will continue to take you seriously?"

"Why do you assume steamrolling over others is a sustainable strategy?"

It is good to be self-aware. But demonstrating self-awareness, while at the same time showing a lack of discipline to fix issues of concern, is worse than being clueless about our shortcomings. When people close to us offer consistent and considerable feedback about a behavior that is not serving us well, we need to listen up. Dismissing feedback that does not comport with the way we see ourselves is understandable, but it is not strategic.

The most effective people I know sometimes whimper for a bit after receiving constructive criticism, but they quickly put a plan in place to modify the annoying or offending behaviors. By doing so, they demonstrate respect and appreciation for those brave enough to share difficult truths that are offered with the very best intentions. We need our colleagues to help us be better, but they can’t help if we’re not listening.

Allison Vaillancourt writing in the Chronicle of Higher Ed

June 06, 2018

Child rearing is an art

June 06, 2018/ Stephen Goforth

Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once. The trick is accepting limits while insisting on standards. Character may not be malleable, but behavior is. The same parents can raise a dreamy, reflective girl and a driven, competitive one—the job is not to nurse her nature but to help elicit the essential opposite: to help the dreamy one to be a little more driven, the competitive one to be a little more reflective.

Adam Gopnik writing in The New Yorker