Throwing Away your Children’s Art

When I first tried throwing away my own young children’s art…I felt an ache as I pitched it into the trash. There’s a moment when a child first presents you with her art, holding it out with the last split second of attention she can muster after completing it. That moment contains a burst of pride on both your parts, and a frisson of mutual love. But in the end, your pride lasts longer than the child’s does. Eventually, and soon, it must move on to another venture. Theirs always does, but yours lingers, heartstrings tugged.

It’s the wish to prolong this moment artificially, I think, that motivates the urge to keep and curate your children’s art for posterity. You convince yourself there’s some future where your child will want to return to that moment of pride and love through the act of witnessing the thing she made so long ago.

Don’t fall for it. You’re only trying to make yourself feel better. You’ll never quite be able to tell which moment your children will remember, and it’s not as if you can regulate that memory on their behalf anyway. And besides, childhood is made from a thousand moments just like this. There’s no way to hold on to all of them.

Of course, you shouldn’t throw something away that your kids say they want to keep. But absent that urge, and particularly in the early years before it develops, most children’s art exists to be destroyed. The point of life isn’t to prolong youth, but to have grown up. That requires discarding things along the way, and enjoying the appropriate relief. That’s the kind of activity a parent ought to put their moral and aesthetic weight behind.

Mary Townsend writing in The Atlantic

the tough stuff

There is no use saying you have community or love for each other if it does not get down into the tough stuff of life. -Francis Schaeffer

Articles of Interest - Nov 5

***THE MIDTERMS 

Apple News will launch a real-time election results hub on November 6  Tech Crunch

How to follow live midterms coverage if you don't have cable  Poynter

Exit polls, election surveys and more: A guide for the 2018 midterms  Pew Research

Election 2018: voting tools, discounted rides, and everything else you need to know to vote The Verge

Loaded With Data and Whiz-Bang Effects, Maps Are the Real Stars of Election-Night TV New York Times

How To Watch The Midterms: An Hour-By-Hour Guide  538

Midterms Speed Read: All You Need to Know About Tuesday's Vote  Bloomberg

***TECHNOLOGY & THE MIDTERMS  

File-Sharing Software on State Election Servers Could Expose Them to Intruders  Propublica

Will 'deepfakes' disrupt the midterm election?  Wired 

Exit pollsters make changes after 2016 breakdown  Politico

 ***SOCIAL MEDIA 

The Growth of Reddit  QuillBot Blog 

Social media growth is over in the U.S. — which is its most valuable market  Recode

Designing people’s Instagram Stories is now a million-dollar business  Fast Company  

Youtube’s push to counter toxic videos with ‘good’ creators  Wired

Twitter Lost 9 Million Users in the Last Quarter  Fortune  

LinkedIn Is Now Home To Hyperpartisan Political Content, False Memes, And Troll Battles  BuzzFeed News

Liberal Democrats more likely than other groups to be politically active on social media  Pew Research Center 

***SOCIAL MEDIA: INFLUENCERS

Influencer marketing is BS  The Next Web

How to Spot Fake Social Media Influencers  Business News Daily 

***SOCIAL MEDIA: FACEBOOK

Facebook revenue, user growth falls short of expectations  CNN

We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them  Vice

***SOCIAL MEDIA: INSTAGRAM  

Inside the lives of full-time fitness Instagrammers Digg

Cristiano Ronaldo Passes Selena Gomez as Most Followed Person on Instagram Bleacher Report

Yes, Everyone on Instagram Is Having More Fun Than You Outside Online

***MOBILE 

How I Became A Celebrity In China By Losing My Cellphone (video)  BuzzFeed

France Moves To Ban Smartphones In Schools  NPR

***JOURNALISM

The Truth Is Worth It: Perseverance (video)  New York Times

Women Journalists talk about Covering Violence  Women Across Frontiers  

Here’s how much bots drive conversation during news events  Wired  

The “Rebirth” of Local News  The Whole Story

***JOURNALISM & POLITICS 

What newsrooms are doing and should be doing on election day  Poynter 

Midterms in the local news void  Columbia Journalism Review  

Gannett steps away from printed election results  Harvard’s Nieman Lab

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM 

The New York Times is on pace to earn more than $600 million in digital this year, halfway to its ambitious goal  Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Newsroom employees are less diverse than U.S. workers overall  Pew Research

***FAKE NEWS

Deepfake-busting apps can spot even a single pixel out of place  MIT Technology Review 

How Online Conspiracy Theories Make Their Way Into The Mainstream  NPR

When conspiracy theories inspire vigilante justice  The Week 

Russia's Fake Viral Videos Are Next Level  Digg  

Twitter Says It Is Ready for the Midterms, but Rogue Accounts Aren’t Letting Up New York Times

A college instructor (in journalism, no less) causes waves with a conspiracy theory  Washington Post

***PERSONAL GROWTH 

The Four skills of Daring Leadership  Becoming (my blog)

Brené Brown knows what makes a great leader — and most politicians wouldn’t make the cut  Washington Post

Acting like an extrovert has benefits, but not for introverts  Aeon 

My Life Cleanse: One Month Inside L.A.'s Cult of Betterness  GQ

The surprising benefits of coming in second place  BigThink 

***WRITING & READING

Book lovers in England form a human chain to help move their beloved local bookstore  CNN

The Worst Writing Advice in the World  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Antarctica scientist allegedly stabs colleague for spoiling the endings of books  LA Times  

The Power of a Conversation in Writing  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Family pays fine for 84-year-old overdue library book  Shreveport Times

***LITERATURE

What's the most influential book of the past 20 years?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Growing Up Surrounded by Books Has a Lasting Positive Effect on the Brain, Says a New Scientific Study  Open Culture

12 Angry Women In Literature Who Don't Apologize For Their Rage  Bustle

157 Animated Minimalist Mid-Century Book Covers  Open Culture 

***GENDER    

Make your passion project happen: Apply to the Women’s Leadership Accelerator  Journalists

Who Decides Gender?  Economist 

How does research productivity relate to gender? Analyzing gender differences for multiple publication dimensions  Springer 

Why women leave the workforce  Axios 

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It  New York Times 

I Threw Away My Robert E. Lee Portrait  The Atlantic

Nixon, the Racial Slur, and Me  Chronicle of Higher Ed

‘Are You Actually an M.D.?’: A Black Doctor Is Questioned as She Intervenes on a Delta Flight  New York Times

A US military training manual describes Saudis as having “Negro blood” in their ancestry: The military has a history of offensive material in their documents  Vox

National Geographic’s November cover falls back on a racist cliché  Vox

***RACE: ANTI-SEMITISM

Anti-Defamation League Report Says Online Anti-Semitism Is A 'Daily Occurrence'  NPR  

Twitter Listed A Trending Topic For "Kill All Jews" After A Brooklyn Synagogue Was Vandalized  BuzzFeed News

How Anti-Semitism Is Tied To White Nationalism  NPR

I live among the neo-Nazis in eastern Germany. And it’s terrifying  The Guardian

He Was Shot In A Hate Crime. It Only Strengthened His Judaism  NPR

***RACE & POLITICS

Identity Politics: Journalism And Race  NPR

Hispanic voters more engaged in 2018 than in previous midterms  Pew Research 

'Jim Crow's Last Stand' In Louisiana May Fall To Ballot Measure  NPR

***FREE SPEECH

US Declines in Internet Freedom  Tech Crunch  

Free speech on campus isn't so free when it's tied up in red tape  Washington Examiner

***LEGAL ISSUES 

Appeals court ruling continues decade-long legal battle between Georgia State and 3 publishers over what constitutes "fair use" of course materials  Inside Higher Ed

The Supreme Court won’t take up Net Neutrality Washington Post

***TECHNOLOGY 

Quantum physicists found a new, safer way to navigate  Wired

***BIG DATA & AI 

How machine learning may help in the hunt for the source of mysterious viruses  Stat News 

Machine learning algorithm helps identify which animal species are most likely to be hosts for deadly diseases  Nature 

A deep learning performance cheat sheet: simple and complex tricks that can help you boost your deep learning models accuracy  Towards Data Science  

Can developers work on machine learning along with data scientists? That’s the claim  Your Story 

3 Common Mistakes That Can Derail Your Team’s Predictive Analytics Efforts Harvard Business Review 

A skeptic’s guide to thinking about AI  Fast Company 

***PRIVACY & SECURITY 

Signal has a clever new way to shield your identity  Wired

Have the Midterms Been Hacked? An Election Security Q&A  Bloomberg

***PRODUCING MEDIA 

The producer's handbook to mixing audio stories   NPR  

Your horror noise background  Horrorli 

GoPro turns to an eagle to show off Hero7’s video stabilization technology  Digital GTrends

***INTERNET

The inventor of the web says the internet is broken — but he has a plan to fix it  CNBC

Is an Internet Bill of Rights Necessary?  Information Week 

***RELIGION

Donations to library skyrocket after Christian Fundamentalist checks out and burns LGBTQ children's books  Des Moines Register 

U.S. Baptist missionary from Indiana killed in Cameroon: family  Reuters

An illiterate Christian farmhand was sentenced to death for insulting Islam and held in solitary confinement for more than 8 years  NPR 

Supreme Court agrees to hear case challenging huge cross as violation of church and state  The Hill

Ark Encounter has been ‘very busy,’ founder says: Admission numbers show decline   Kentucky.com 

“Make the Gospel Great Again": Large billboard of Trump & Bible Verse Removed  KMOV  

Megachurch Pastor Sues the authors of a longtime watchdog blog for Libel  Christianity Today 

Why I Heartily Disagree With the Pastor’s Reasons for Suing Bloggers  The Wartburg Watch  

Freddie Mercury’s family faith: The ancient religion of Zoroastrianism (opinion)  Religious News Service

In Japan, gospel music is a big hit—and an evangelistic tool  World Magazine 

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Washington state lawmaker pens ‘Biblical Basis for War’: Calls for killing all non-Christian men who don't 'yield'  New York Daily News 

Trump’s evangelical advisers meet with Saudi Crown Prince and discuss Jamal Khashoggi’s murder  Washington Post 

Why this shrinking religious group might be among America’s last “swing voters”  Vox

How will Evangelicals vote in the midterms?  MSNBC 

***GOOD NEWS 

Indiana Vending Machine Dispenses Clean Clothing and Blankets to People Without Homes  Mental Floss 

A doughnut store owner had to keep working long days and couldn't visit his ailing wife so the neighborhood starting buying out all of his doughnuts  OC Register  

Fisherman jumps on entangled whale's back, cuts it free  SFGate 

A woman saved her husband during cardiac arrest: After he awoke, she gave birth to their son Washington Post

***ART & DESIGN

The Art Institute of Chicago now offers full access to 52,000 high-res images of their collection This is Colossal 

Why are CEO photos so weird?  Vox 

***MUSIC  

Music improves social communication in autistic children  Science Daily

What do Bob Dylan’s drawings reveal about his music?  Economist  

***FILM

The 100 Greatest Foreign-Language Film  BBC

Aretha Franklin Gospel Film Finally Has a Release Date, 46 Years After It Was Made  New York Times 

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA  

Is Radio Destined To Become The Next Blockbuster Video? (opinion)  Hypebot  

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT 

False Statistic on Sexual Harassment Spreads  Inside Higher Ed 

A Year Later, Americans Are Deeply Divided Over The #MeToo Movement  NPR

Google employees walk out over sexual harassment scandals  CNN

American business and #MeToo Economist   

***SOCIAL ISSUES 

Rise of the tribe: Experts predict that the radicalization of Western populations will only get worse  Axios 

Suicide Is Twice as Common as Homicide in the U.S.—and More Often Involves Guns—New Study Says  Fortune  

***BUSINESS & FINANCE

The Three Words You Should Never Use in a Work Email—And What to Say Instead  TIME

Is Emailing 'Just Checking In' Really That Bad?  Life Hacker 

Amazon has banned more than 5,700 of its top reviewers in the last 2 years as it increasingly cracks down on review abuse  Business Insider 

***ENVIRONMENT

The poor world and the rich world face different problems with their waste  Economist 

A growing number of entrepreneurs are capitalizing on China’s air pollution crisis by selling bottled air. But who is it actually helping?  The Hustle 

Supreme Court won't block children's climate change lawsuit  CNN

Emerging economies are rapidly adding to the global pile of garbage  Economist

The world's oceans are warming far faster than thought  Axios

***HEALTH

Here's How Much Your Work Suffers When You're Sleep Deprived  Curiosity

Cannabidiol is being touted as a magical elixir But maybe it’s just a fix for our anxious times  New York Times

The Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Language of Dieting  The Atlantic

Why do some people get CTE? It may be in their genes  CNN

Three partially paralyzed patients regain control over their leg muscles via precisely timed electrical stimulation to the spinal cord  Nature 

Flu’s success owes much to its genetic mutability  Economist 

***TRAVEL

Nebraska’s new tourism slogan is "Honestly, it's not for everyone"  Quartzy  

Why some millennials think travel is more important than sex  Vox 

More than 200 British Airways passengers have been trapped in a three-day flight from hell from Orlando to London that was stuck for two days in two different airports  New York Post 

America's 25 most popular national parks  Thrillist

***FAMILY

The rise of the 4-letter baby name: The latest baby name trends include short, vowel-centric names  Quartz

***PSYCHOLOGY 

A simpler, better way to diagnose mental illness: Patterns of speech may be telltales of particular symptoms  Economist 

5 of the strangest psychology cases in history  BigThink 

***NEUROSCIENCE  

A comprehensive 'parts list' of the brain identifies at least 133 different types of brain cells, lays groundwork to catalog their properties and role in brain function  Allen Institute  

Neuroscience Discovers how the Brain experiences Time  Psychology Today 

***PRODUCTIVITY

10 productivity myths  Fast Company

Scared to take time off work? The productivity drive is making victims of us all  The Guardian

11 Time Management Myths That Are Hurting Your Productivity  Forbes

***HISTORY 

"Spanish flu” probably killed more people than both world wars combined  Economist

***ETHICS

Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from  MIT Technology Review 

Colleges Grapple With Teaching the Technology and Ethics of A.I.  New York Times

***RESEARCH 

A tool for checking authors’ retraction histories  The Ochsner Journal  

Sloppy Science: According to a new book by Marion Nestle, the unstated goal of most company-sponsored studies is to increase the bottom line  New York Times

More than 30% of about 150 researchers surveyed considered it acceptable to cite a paper that they had not read  Research Integrity and Peer Review

Heart failure study paused over concerns about disputed cell therapy papers  Stat News

How long does it take researchers to stop using the name of a Nazi doctor with a disease named for him?  Springer 

Meet Octopus, a new vision for scientific publishing  Science Mag 

Most Chinese scientists admit writing academic papers just to get promoted, survey finds  South China Morning Post 

A study fails to replicate, but it continues to get referenced as if it had no problems  Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science  

A USC professor is facing accusations of “data fabrication, exaggerating outcomes and fraud  USC student media  

Lethargic Biomedical research results from adopting a doctrine that is incompatible with the principles of creative scientific discovery  Organisms

***HIGHER ED

Public universities less affordable for low-income students and less accessible for members of minority groups  Inside Higher Ed 

Faced with steep budget cuts, several University of Wisconsin System campuses have targeted academic programs to try to save money  Inside Higher Ed

New book renews debate about donor influence: New book outlines how rich donors have become more assertive about how their money should be used  Inside Higher Ed

Savannah State University announces layoffs amid student enrollment decline  Savannah Now

Foxconn’s $100M deal with the University of Wisconsin has students worried  The Verge

This Kentucky college is the latest to split from Kentucky Baptist Convention   Kentucky.com

Iowa Wesleyan may close at the end of this semester  Inside Higher Ed

Liberty U Sells Student Email Addresses to Campaign The News & Advance  

 ***TEACHING

Self-Directed Learning and Augmented Reality: How to Teach Gen Z  Chronicle of Higher Ed

They may have a reputation for being entitled but one professor found undergrads to be thoughtful and open to creative teaching approaches  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***ACADEMIC LIFE 

Professors Are the Likeliest Mentors for Students, Except Those Who Aren’t White  Chronicle of Higher Ed  

The latest campus flap over politics and academic freedom started with a fart joke Chronicle of Higher Ed

***STUDENT LIFE 

Millennials running for office in record numbers  MCNBC  

Inside the new industry of teaching you how to be an adult City Lab 

***STUDENT MEDIA  

Southwestern College Student Newspaper recognized with national award for holding law enforcement agencies accountable  Student Press Law Center 

Student details his descent into alcoholism and rebirth after rehab  Sparton (student newspaper for Castleton University)

Should student journalists endorse political candidates?  Student Press Law Center 

Right-Wing Hate Groups Are Recruiting Video Gamers NPR

two ways to approach life

There are only two ways to approach life – as a victim or as a gallent fighter – and you must decide if you want to act or react.. A lot of people forget that. -Merle Shain

Articles of Interest – Oct 29

***TECHNOLOGY

This tiny wasp-inspired drone can pull 40 times its own weight Science Mag

Two moms, no dad? Gene editing allows same-sex mice to have babies National Geographic

How the digital age is impacting police warrant  Police One

***BIG DATA & AI 

Microsoft revamps Cognitive Toolkit and other machine learning tools to integrate them with Apache Spark  InfoWorld

Hadoop administrators beware: There is a botnet that is actively looking for unsecured Hadoop  eWeek

There are 23,749 results for “data scientist” in the US on the job pages of LinkedIn. Where did we get the job title from?  Quartz 

 ***SOCIAL MEDIA 

First Twitter Gave Me Power. Then I Felt Hopeless. What I learned from growing up online Vice

Instagram’s “digital kidnappers” are stealing children’s photos and making up new lives Quartz  

WhatsApp introduces stickers on iOS and Android at last The Next Web

Snapchat struggles to curb user exodus  CNN 

Twitter’s rumored killing of the “like” button highlights its misplaced priorities Vox

8 facts about Americans and Facebook  Pew Research Center

***MOBILE 

Three settings you can change on your phone right now to help you focus  Quartz

Holographic screen may be next innovation for phones  Associated Press 

***PRIVACY & SECURITY 

Forget Password Managers, Your Brainwaves Could Be Your Next Login Inverse  

Trump’s tapped phone may be the largest White House breach ever: former official Fast Company

***INTERNET 

Gmail Usage Hits The 1.5 Billion Mark  Media Post 

The Next Big Internet Threat You think election interference is as bad as it can get? Something even worse is just around the corner  Politico  

***JOURNALISM

The Economist's print edition launches a dedicated data journalism page for better visual storytelling Journalism.co  

What journalists can learn from truth-telling comedians  Medium  

What the digital divide means for journalists reaching rural readers  Columbia Journalism Review

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

How to successfully pitch The New York Times (or, well, anyone else)  Nieman Journalism Lab 

New media hiring slowdown: Openings at Vox, Buzzfeed, and Vice at lowest levels Thinknum 

The clause freelance writers should fight to remove from their contracts  Columbia Journalism Review  

***FAKE NEWS 

Deep Fakes: How they are made and how they can be detected  NBC News  

The bizarre Justin Bieber burrito incident reminds us not to believe everything online The Verge

As misinformation crisis deepens, ‘fake news’ becomes less accurate  International Journalists’ Network

***FAKE NEWS OUTSIDE THE U.S.

Iranian Propaganda Targeted Americans, with Tom Hanks  The Atlantic

The British Government has decided to no longer use the term “fake news”  CBS News 

Case study in fake news for all journalism schools  South China Morning Post 

***STUDENT LIFE & FAKE NEWS 

Fake news is making college students question all news  Poynter 

Younger Americans better at telling factual news statements from opinions  Pew Research Center  

***PERSONAL GROWTH 

 The Shape of a Moral Hero  Becoming (my blog)

***WRITING & READING 

Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read?  New York Times

***LANGUAGE

This Dictionary Time Machine Tells You Which Words Were First Printed the Year You Were Born  Gizmodo 

Why Linguistics Matters  Chronicle of Higher Ed

How the term ‘false flag’ migrated to the right  Columbia Journalism Review 

6 facts about English language learners in U.S. public schools  Pew Research Center

***LITERATURE

How an Army propaganda writer became China’s most controversial novelist  New Yorker  

The Great American Read  PBS 

How an essay about sailing taught a writer to embrace her fears as she worked up to writing her memoir  The Atlantic 

Nicole Chung’s Adoption Memoir, “All You Can Ever Know,” Is an Ode to Sisterly Love (book review) 

How do languages develop words for colors? A fascinating look at a commonality in human language development  Scholarly Kitchen

***GENDER   

Nielsen Reporting To Identify Same Gender Spouse And Partner Audiences  Deadline

An online map lets people log instances of gender inequality  Mashable 

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

Netflix Says It Does Not Use Race to Target Viewers Hollywood Reporter

Anti-Semitic Incidents Increasing, ADL Says  NPR

***FREE SPEECH

How Colleges Make Themselves Easy Targets Shutting down speech bolsters the university's opponents  Chronicle of Higher Ed  

European Court Won't Tolerate Blasphemy as Free Speech Hollywood Reporter

***LEGAL ISSUES  

Libel law is having a moment  Columbia Journalism Review

What is rarer than the unicorn? A dress protected by copyright?  The 1709 Blog  

***RELIGION

The Politician Who Sued God  Mental Floss

This Town Is Tearing Itself Apart Over Non-Christians Owning Houses  Vice 

Muslim Groups Raise Thousands For Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Victims  MSNBC 

More Citation Problems at the American Association of Christian Counselors  The Throckmorton Blog

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Ministers interrupt Sessions, are removed from religious freedom conference  NBC News

***GOOD NEWS 

The Japanese Man who Saved 6 Million Jews with his Handwriting  New York Times

6-Year-Old with Diabetes Sells Pumpkins to Buy a Service Dog —Raises Over $24K People

Shoeshiner donates $202,000 in tips to children's hospital  Today

Teen invents artificial intelligence treatment for pancreatic cancer Inside Editions

The shoe-shiner donated $200K to UPMC Children's Hospital  Post-Gazette

Woman Donates Her Wedding After Calling Off Engagement  People  

Pizza Shop Manager Drives 3 Hours to Bring Dying Man His Favorite Pizza Christian Headlines

Cops recover stolen Krispy Kreme van, give doughnuts to homeless people ABC News

***ART & DESIGN

Portrait painted using artificial intelligence sells for $432,000 Design Boom

Our Favorite Typefaces of 2017  Typographica

***FILM

Watch a Private Eye Fact-check Detective Movies (video) New York Magazine

Horror, Horror, Read All About It: The newspaper ads for 1980s horror movies could be as fun to scrutinize as the films themselves. A fan who collected the ads shares highlights  New York Times

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA  

The future of media in driverless cars depends on who owns the data Axios

***STUDENTS & GRADES 

College Greeks are known for high GPAs and making more money after graduating — but new research says it's not as straightforward as it seems  Business Insider 

A new study correlates a freshman’s grade point average to the length of time her peers spent studying in high school  National Bureau of Economic Research

***STUDENTS & JOBS

Study: a positive job outlook for new college graduates  Detroit News

Graduate student assistants at campuses across the U.S. are pushing for $15 per hour  Inside Higher Ed

***STUDENT LIFE

Has Fortnite peaked? Twitch viewership is declining  Thinknum 

Georgia Tech students sues Senator for snatching his cellphone when he tried to ask a question Washington Post 

Millennial Gigs vs. Baby Boomer Careers  Vice 

Live-streaming news network The Cheddar Buys RateMyProfessors.com  Axios

***STUDENT MEDIA  

A Student Newspaper Covers the Pittsburg Mass Shooting  Pitt News 

What happens when your alma mater screws up an open-records release and then sics the Department of Justice on you  Dynamics of Writing 

Student media guide to publishing political ads  Student Press Law Center

***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS 

6 Tips for Landing Journalism Fellowships  Media Bistro

Why New-Job Anxiety Is Actually Good  The Cut 

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT 

Student's sexual-assault lawsuit against Univ of Michigan and one of its professors accuses the institution of having been “deliberately indifferent”  M-Live   

Introducing the #MeToo Fund: Covering Solutions to Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault  The Whole Story

200+ Googlers plan company-wide walkout Thu. Nov 1 over alleged sexual harasser protection  BoingBoing 

***SOCIAL ISSUES 

There is nothing inevitable about America’s over-use of prisons A 40-year prison binge has done nothing to guard Americans against crime  Economist

The Digital Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids Is Not What We Expected  New York Times

***BUSINESS & FINANCE

Slowly But Surely, Americans Are Softening Their Negative Impression of Business  Fortune

Nearly one-in-five teens can’t always finish their homework because of the digital divide  Pew Research Center

***ENVIRONMENT

The Sailors Who Hunt Garbage for Science Gizmodo 

Five energy and environment ballot questions to watch  The Hill 

***HEALTH

Americans Life Expectancy Dropping  Bloomberg  

Miscarrying at Work: The Physical Toll of Pregnancy Discrimination  New York Times 

Importance of infant diet in establishing a healthy gut  Newcastle University

Anti-vaccine billboard goes up in Huntington  Herald-Dispatch 

***FOOD 

Remembering The Woman Behind The Classic American Green-Bean Casserole  NPR  

Gilroy, “the garlic capital of the world”  Curbed 

New Jersey man tells podcast how he's eaten pizza every day for 37 years  Philly Voice

***ANIMALS 

China is assigning poor social credit scores to crappy dog owners  South China Morning Post   

The CDC guidelines for dressing up your pet chicken on Halloween  Quartz

30 Fantastically Costumed Dogs From the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade  The Cut 

***SCIENCE

How to read and learn from scientific literature, even if you’re not an expert  The Conversation

***PSYCHOLOGY 

Why detained dissidents in China ‘confess’ – and why you would too  Hong Kong Free Press 

A Cooperative Revolution in Psychology (letter to the editor)  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***NEUROSCIENCE  

Cerebellum Plays Bigger Role In Human Thought Than Previously Suspected  NPR 

New Theory of Intelligence May Disrupt AI and Neuroscience  Psychology Today 

***CRITICAL THINKING 

16 Characteristics of Critical Thinkers  Entrepreneur 

***PHILOSOPHY 

Nietzsche, philosophy and madness “I Am Dynamite!” is an approachable biography of a usually forbidding man  AMP 

A Data Visualization of Modern Philosophy, 1950-2018  Open Culture 

***HISTORY 

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom  The Guardian

Leonardo da Vinci Saw the World Differently… Thanks to an Eye Disorder, Says a New Scientific Study  Open Culture 

The Library of Congress Has an Incredible Collection of Early Baseball Cards  Atlas Obscura  

***ETHICS

Ethics in news consumption Can you be a good person if you don’t read the news?  The Outline 

***RESEARCH 

A boy was part of clinical trial—where the researcher violated research rules, failed to alert parents of risks and falsified data to cover up misconduct  Propublica 

Academic Ethics: Should Scholars Avoid Citing the Work of Awful People?  Chronicle of Higher Ed  

How not to fall for a predatory journal  Nature  

In the fierce competition for science funding, even a typeface glitch can be fatal  Stat News

Study finds prior research claiming CEOs tend to be psychopaths was flawed  Ars Technica

***RESEARCH & CHINA

China’s Investment in Stem Cell Studies Based on Bogus Science  Sixth Tone 

How the Chinese censors highlight fundamental flaws in academic publishing  Hong Kong Free Press

***HIGHER ED

Federal Proposal to Redefine Gender Throws College Policies Into Uncertainty  Chronicle of Higher Ed 

The University of Utah canceled classes after a student was shot and killed Monday night outside a dorm on campus  St. Louis Tribune 

190 universities just launched 600 free online courses: Here’s the full list  Quzrtz 

The crazy amount America spends on higher education, in one chart  AEI

 The Case for Christian Colleges (opinion)  National Review

St. Edward’s University in Texas could face censure by the American Association of University Professors  Inside Higher Ed 

John MacArthur Set to Step Down as The Master's University President  Christian Headlines

Revolt at U of the Pacific  Inside Higher Ed 

Wheaton College’s Billy Graham Center Receives $1 Million Dollar Grant  World Religion News

***TEACHING

3 Tips for the Minutes Before Class  Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Why students should read scientific literature  Education Dive 

How One Teaching Center Supports Adjunct Instructors  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Shape of a Moral Hero

What shapes a moral hero? And how does someone choose to save people that others turn away? 

Research on those who rescued Jews during the Holocaust shows that many exhibited a streak of independence from an early age.  

A second characteristic of such heroes and heroines, as the psychologist Philip Zimbardo writes, is “that the very same situations that inflame the hostile imagination in some people, making them villains, can also instill the heroic imagination in other people, prompting them to perform heroic deeds.”  

David Wolpe writing in the New York Times 

your last words

Probably the best thing to do with your last words is to say goodbye to the people you love and not to talk about yourself. -Martha Nussbaum

Freedom's limits

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. - Stephen Covey (born October 24, 1932)

Articles of Interest - Oct 22

***TECHNOLOGY

Water.io building a platform for the future of consumer products: Get ready for a future in which your favorite products act like helicopter parents  Fast Company

Blockchain’s impact on retail: fewer counterfeits, faster product recalls  Vox

Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever  MIT Technology Review

These magical sunglasses block all the screens around you  Wired  

The Pentagon is studying an insect army to defend crops. Critics fear a bioweapon Washington Post

Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin  NPR

 ***JOURNALISM

With help from journalism students, Miami man freed after 12 years behind bars for murder   Miami Herald

Rural areas are rapidly becoming news deserts  Axios 

5 investigative journalism tipsheets  IJNet

Reuters is offering eight $5,000 photojournalism grants  Reuters 

To defend journalism, we need to defend the truth and not just journalists  Vox

Citizens Count on the Illinois Freedom of Information Act but Keep Getting Shut Out  Propublica

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

News industry seeks exemption from Congress to take on Facebook, Google  NOLA

***FAKE NEWS

Faced with a daily barrage of news, college students find it hard to tell what's real and what's 'fake news'  Northeastern 

2014: Nvidia uses tech to prove moon landing couldn't be faked. 2018: Nvidia updates its conspiracy debunk to show how it can be done now  Cnet 

Fake News Is Poisoning Brazilian Politics: WhatsApp Can Stop It (opinion)  New York Times   

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

These New Tricks Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos—for Now  Wired 

Could Somebody Please Debunk This?’: Writing About Science When Even the Scientists Are Nervous  New York Times   

We’re Tracking Misinformation About The Migrant Caravan Headed To The US  BuzzFeed

Disinformation, ‘fake news’ and influence Campaigns on Twitter  Knight Foundation 

***FAKE NEWS & FACEBOOK  

Facebook launches “Hunt For False News” debunk blog as fakery drops 50% Tech Crunch

In Facebook’s Effort to Fight Fake News, Human Fact-Checkers Struggle to Keep Up  Wall Street Journal

Facebook has a fake news 'war room' – but is it really working?  The Guardian

As Midterms Approach, Facebook Ramps Up Disinformation Fight  NPR 

***BIG DATA & AI  

A video about the process of using machine learning to fighting cancer (video) Real Engineering

Why the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics has many problems  Quanta Magazine 

Three common mistakes that consistently plague analytic endeavors  Health Catalyst

 ***SOCIAL MEDIA  

What happens when Facebook goes down? People read the news  Harvard’s Nieman Lab 

Why brands you've never heard of are flooding your feeds  Axios

When Loved Ones Die, What Do We Do with Their Text Messages?  Boston Magazine

***MOBILE 

By the time you finish this article, 400K Americans were probably robocalled  NBC News

Who Is 'Scam Likely,' and Why Are You Receiving Calls From Them?  Digital Trends

Apple fixes its new bagel emoji with cream cheese and a doughier consistency  The Verge

***PRODUCING MEDIA 

Emotion and Identity: the key to compelling mobile videos  Reuters  

 ***PERSONAL GROWTH 

The people behind the AI Curtain: “So much of what passes for automation isn’t really automation"  Becoming (my blog)

***GRAMMAR

Why the book “Do I Make Myself Clear?” is “Dreadful”  Chronicle of Higher Ed Ω

Trump's bizarre grammar boast has Twitter users scratching their heads AOL News

***WRITING & READING

How to Become a Highly Productive Writer  Chronicle of Higher Ed 

New York Times, 12 writers celebrate their favorite libraries  New York Times

Judy Blume’s Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret … to be made into a movie  Deadline

***LANGUAGE

‘Smarmy’: How It Was Born and Survived  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Is your coworker an assclown or an asshat? Linguists explain the difference  Quartz

2018, in a Word. But What Word?  Chronicle of Higher Ed  

How Are We Supposed to Have Fun? The possibility of fun’ as an adjective  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LITERATURE

The genius and legend of Anne Frank’s diary A new graphic adaptation is faithful to its spirit. But her proper medium is words  Economist  

A literary history of New Orleans  Economist

Two Ernest Hemingway stories that were rarely seen to be published next year  NBC News

***GENDER   

Women’s voices are judged more harshly than men’s  Economist

‘Transgender’ Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration  New York Times 

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES 

Is It Still Okay To Use The OK Hand Emoji? The once innocuous hand sign is now being spread by white supremacists as a symbol of white power  Digg

Mapping the predominant race in 11 million neighborhoods across the country  National Geographic 

Charlottesville’s Other Jim Crow Legacy: Separate and Unequal Education  Propublica 

When England play overseas, it is always the voice of the angry, white, male racist that shouts loudest   The Independent  

Government spends millions to guard Confederate cemeteries  Associated Press

***FREE SPEECH

Trump’s Attacks on the Press Are Illegal. We’re Suing: A coalition of free-press advocates is taking on the president  Politico

Kennesaw State, student group settle campus speech lawsuit  AJC 

***LEGAL ISSUES 

Stormy Daniels Loses Her Defamation Suit Against Trump — and Has to Pay His Legal Fees  Yahoo

A Conservative Group’s Closed-Door ‘Training’ of Judicial Clerks Draws Concern  New York Times  

Photographer Suing Andy Warhol's Estate Claims His Work Isn't "Transformative"  Hollywood Reporter

Lawsuits Over Paparazzi Images on Instagram Raise Celebrity Questions Over Right of Publicity The Fashion Law Blog  

***MAGAZINES 

Saturday Evening Post’s archives now available digitally  New York Post

Heads roll at 'Cosmopolitan' amid the magazine industry roller coaster Crain’s New York

***INTERNET 

I Ditched Google for Bing. Here's What I Found—and What I Didn't  Wired  

***RELIGION

Eugene Peterson who translated ‘The Message’ translation of the Bible Dies  Christianity Today 

It’s Getting Harder to Talk About God: The decline in our spiritual vocabulary has many real-world consequences (opinion)  New York Times   

Mediaite founder Dan Abrams to launch Christian sermon streaming network  The Hill

Judge dismisses claims against SBC in Pressler sex abuse case Baptist Standard 

Deep In The Desert, A Case Pits Immigration Crackdown Against Religious Freedom  NPR

Evangelicals Are Confused about Christianity's Core Beliefs, Survey Says  Christian News Headlines

Zondervan Settles Plagiarism Case involving Author Christine Caine  Publishers Weekly 

***RELIGION & HISTORY 

Bible Museum says five of its Dead Sea Scrolls are fake  CNN

Pagans against Genesis Confused, inferior and philosophically unsound: the Greco-Roman critique of the Old Testament could have been written today  Aeon

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network says arms deal is more important than Khashoggi Vice 

Can a Christian foster care group legally reject non-Christian families?  Vox

***GOOD NEWS

Carmel Valley couple spending year aboard hospital ship in Africa Union-Tribune

Fifth Grader Runs 50 5K’s In 50 Days For Grandpa’s Lung Cancer CBS San Francisco

Chicago man makes 500th blood donation: 'You actually get an opportunity to save someone' Chicago Tribune

North Carolina town raises money to build inclusive playground for all kids WRAI

BBQers Set Friendly Rivalries Aside to Serve Meals, Hope to Hurricane Michael Victims Yahoo News

Paralyzed man completes Portland half marathon  KOIN

This tiny pizzeria has served over 142,000 slices to the homeless for free NBC

***ART & DESIGN

Finalists of the 2018 Architectural Photography Awards  My Modern Met

Write people up for their design crimes with this ticket book  Fast Company

Rhythm in web Typography  Better Web Type

Write people up for their design crimes with this ticket book  Fast Company

Two New York City museums announced they would reject funding from Saudi-linked groups for scholarly programs on Middle Eastern  New York Times

Film in the Digital Age: An Interview with 4 Photographers  PetaPixel 

***THE STORY BEHIND THE ART  

Banksy Releases Behind The Scenes Footage Of Art-Shredding Frame  Digg

The Story Behind the Mysterious Guillotine on a Brooklyn Roof  Vice

***MUSIC 

Here are the hits of the past 25 years that we’ll be listening to for the next 100 Slate

He’s sold 150 million albums and been famous for five decades: But do we really know Elton John?  Vulture

Classical music concert in Sweden descends into brawl over rustling chewing gum packet Independent

Sparring Candidates Duet In Music While They Duel For Votes  NPR

How the Sears Catalog Disrupted the Jim Crow South and Helped Give Birth to the Delta Blues & Rock and Roll  Open Culture 

20 Years Of Cher's 'Believe' And Its Auto-Tune Legacy NPR

***FILM

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Finally Lands a Release Date in China Variety

The 30 Best (Truly) Independent Films of the 21st Century The Ringer

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT 

93 women join lawsuit against the University of Southern California over sexual misconduct by university gynecologist  New York Post

The assistant director of Western Washington University's counseling center was fired for sexual harassment  The AS Review 

U. of Texas Overhauls Program on Masculinity to Avoid Stigma  Chronicle of Higher Ed

#MeToo inspires wave of old misconduct reports to colleges Associated Press

***SOCIAL ISSUES 

Edible cottonseed is now a thing — and it could have big implications for world hunger  Vox

Homeless Students in New York Public Schools at Record High  New York Times   

The myth of meritocracy: who really gets what they deserve?  The Guardian

Nearly six-in-ten Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases Pew Research Center 

The average age one would classify someone as “old” is now 74, up from 68 in 2009  Harris-TD Ameritrade

***VOTING 

DHS finds increasing attempts to hack U.S. election systems ahead of midterms  NBC News

Making Sense Of The Patchwork System Known As Voter Registration NPR

***BUSINESS & FINANCE

How to run a calm workplace A management book that is refreshingly different  Economist

What We Often Get Wrong About Automation  Harvard Business Review

The real deal on TV home-remodeling shows  The Washington Post

Nice People Have Emptier Wallets - Scientific American  Scientific American 

Even janitors have noncompetes now: Nobody is safe  The Washington Post

Why no one really knows how many jobs automation will replace  Recode

***HEALTH

Obesity surgery may lower heart attack danger in diabetics  Associated Press 

Feds crack down on stem cell clinics that touted autism treatments, blindness cures  Stat News

What we know about the mysterious polio-like virus spreading across the US.  Quartz

Simple stickers may save lives of heart patients, athletes and lower medical costs for families  Purdue University

Science says fluoride in water is good for kids. So why are these towns banning it?  NBC News 

Antibiotics May Soon Become Useless. Now What?  Wired 

Colorado Facebook groups organize play dates to intentionally share chickenpox  9news 

Fixing Your Hearing and Vision Loss Can Keep Your Memory Sharper  NPR

The Problem With Probiotics  New York Times

***HEALTH & FOOD 

This Is What Would Happen to Your Body if You Only Ate Fruits and Vegetables  Vice

Southern Diet Blamed For High Rates Of Hypertension Among Black Americans  NPR

***FOOD 

Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt  National Geographic

Yamei Kin, The Chinese Doctor Who Introduced Tofu To The West  New York Times 

Why people in rich countries are eating more vegan food  Economist  

A food critic visits New York's pizza museum  (video)  New York Magazine

The man who has eaten at more than 7,300 Chinese restaurants, but can’t use chopsticks and doesn’t care for food  South China Morning Post 

***FOOD PRICES 

All The Ways Restaurants Are Scamming You Into Buying Overpriced Meals (video)  Digg

Coffee Rust Threatens Latin American Crop; 150 Years Ago, It Wiped Out An Empire  NPR

***TRAVEL

30 of the most stunning landscapes to visit in the US.  Conde Nast Traveler

15 Best Fall Hiking Trails: Our Favorite Fall Hikes in the U.S.  Condé Nast Traveler

***SCIENCE

When science hits a limit, learn to ask different questions  Aeon

The big picture: Even scientists are being automated  Axios 

Scientists grow functioning human neural networks in 3D from stem cells  Science Daily

***PSYCHOLOGY 

How one bench and a team of grandmothers can beat depression  BBC 

The limits of fMRI and neuroimaging  The Verge

New evidence that the “chaotic mind” of ADHD brings creative advantages BSP

Addressing Mental Health Effects, a Year After the Tubbs Fire in Sonoma  Wired 

I woke up unable to speak English BBC  

Your Facebook posts can reveal if you're depressed  Wired 

***NEUROSCIENCE  

Electrical properties of dendrites help explain our brain’s unique computing power MIT Tech Review

People who have a good sense of smell are also good navigators Science News

***PHILOSOPHY

The Art of Logic by Eugenia Cheng review – the need for good arguments  The Guardian 

Philosophers Name the Best Philosophy Books: From Stoicism and Existentialism, to Metaphysics & Ethics for Artificial Intelligence  Open Culture 

***PRODUCTIVITY 

I've Interviewed 300 High Achievers About Their Morning Routines: Here's What I've Learned New York Times

***HISTORY  

The history of two slogans: “American Frist” and “The American Dream” Economist

***ETHICS 

Judging by reaction to recent plagiarism cases, I don’t think plagiarism matters much to most Christians Throckmorton Blog

New Plagiarism Allegation Leveled Against Prominent Christian Counselor, Trump Adviser Tim Clinton Augusta Review

***RESEARCH 

This year’s “Worst Pseudoscience Award” Goes to Anti-Vax Fraud Andrew Wakefield  Gizmodo

Retractions are not uncommon and are increasing in frequency  BMJ 

How a typo in a catalog number led to the correction of a scientific paper — and what we can learn from that  Retraction Watch

A blame-free approach to research misconduct  Nature Index

How I got through my publication drought  Science Mag 

The Case Against Alphabetical Naming of Authors  Inside Higher Ed

***RESEARCH & ECONOMISTS 

Do Economics Journals Enforce Their Data Policies? The Replication Network

Economists care about where they publish—to the cost of the profession  Economist

***RESEARCH PUBLISHERS 

An Academic Publisher Vanishes  Discover Magazine  

China awaits controversial blacklist of ‘poor quality’ journals  Nature

The editors of JAMA talk about their experience with retractions  JAMA network 

***HIGHER ED

DeVos Calls Democratic Senator’s Public Criticism of Draft Title IX Rules ‘Unbecoming and Irresponsible  Chronicle of Higher Ed 

In Admissions, Harvard Favors Those Who Fund It, Internal Emails Show The Crimson

Vancouver’s Clark College Closes for a day in Response to Planned Patriot Prayer Protest Willamette Week 

Can an Innovative Online College Help Adults Stay Employed?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

A judge who also works as an adjunct law professor at NYU rejected a $350-million lawsuit against the institution by employees  Washington Square News

Handpicked Attendees for Conservative Speaker at USC over fear of disruption  Inside Higher Ed

The evangelicals creating champions for Trump at Liberty University  The Guardian 

***HIGHER ED & HEALTH 

Hand, foot and mouth disease is breaking out on numerous campuses: officials struggle to contain the spread  Inside Higher Ed

New Purdue Health Plan Boots Employed Spouses  Inside Higher Ed

On College Campuses, Making Overdose Medication Readily Available  NPR

$4000 Giant inflatable colon used for instruction stolen from University of Kansas Cancer Center  Associated Press

***TEACHING

Why One Science Professor Has Students Write a Children’s Book  Chronicle of Higher Ed

To Prevent Loneliness, Start in the Classroom  CityLab

****ACADEMIC LIFE  

Why Does Graduate School Kill So Many Marriages?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Jury: American University discriminated against a former professor on the basis of her age when it denied her tenure  Inside Higher Ed

So Your Ph.D. Program Is Not Going ‘As Planned’?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

University of Montana says 22 faculty members are leaving Missoulian

Professors at Florida International University are demanding the administration eject its Turning Point USA chapter from campus  Miami New Times

***STUDENT LIFE 

College students broadly mistrust news: Fake Kardashian gossip probably won’t help  Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Established firms try dancing to a millennial tune  Economist

UNC student who poured blood and ink on Silent Sam Confederate statue found guilty of misdemeanor  News Observer  

Hoax at Harvard: Impersonator Dupes Dozens With Fictitious George Bush Lecture  The Harvard Crimson  

Mapping Which Neighborhoods Are Buried In Student Debt  CityLab

Why do millennials love bullet journals? Control  Vox 

***STUDENT LIFE: POLITICS  

Millennials Need to Start Voting Before the Gerontocracy Kills Us All  New York Magazine 

College Voting in the 2018 Midterms: A Survey of US College Students  College Reaction

Who you Become

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity. -Dallas Willard

Spotting Liars

We’re bad at accurately interpreting behavior and speech patterns, said James Alcock, professor of psychology at Canada’s York University. Learning is based on getting regular feedback, he told me. Try to add 2 + 2 and someone will tell you whether you got it right or wrong. Over time, that feedback allows you to know when you’re right. But there’s no systematic un-blinding to tell you when you correctly guessed whether you were being lied to. The feedback we get on this is spotty. Often there is none. Sometimes the feedback itself is incorrect. There’s never a chance to really learn and get better, Alcock said. “So why should we be good at it?”

Take people whose job it is to professionally detect lies — judges, police officers, customs agents. Studies show they believe themselves to be better than chance at spotting liars. But the same studies show they aren’t, Alcock said. And that makes sense, he told me, because the feedback they get misleads them. Customs agents, for instance, correctly pull aside smugglers for searches just often enough to reinforce their sense of their own accuracy. But “they have no idea about the ones they didn’t search who got away,” Alcock said.

Maggie Koerth-baker, writing in fivethirtyeight

Articles of Interest - Week of Oct 15

***TECHNOLOGY

The Pentagon is pushing technology that allows the possibility of super-soldiers that remotely control robots with their brains  The Atlantic 

Microsoft to make over 60,000 patents available to the Linux community & join the Open Innovation Network  Ars Techinica

I’m very sorry, but you’re going to have to learn to love the blockchain  Tech Crunch

Teaching Robots to be Comedians  1843

Why we can’t quit the QWERTY keyboard  MIT Tech Review 

At 10 trillion frames per second, this camera captures light in slow motion  Tech Crunch

Nearly a quarter of US households own a smart speaker, according to Nielsen The Verge 

A Drone-Flinging Cannon Proves UAVs Can Mangle Planes  Wired 

Why Gene Editing Will Create So Many Jobs  BBC 

 ***SOCIAL MEDIA  

How self-love got out of control Social media, reality TV, politics … has narcissism become the new normal?  The Guardian

Snapchat launches first slate of original shows  Axios 

The Teens Who Rack Up Thousands of Followers by Posting the Same Photo Every Day  The Atlantic 

An online decency moderator's advice: Blur your eyes  BBC  

People keep dying taking selfies, this study reveals how  The Next Web

Instagram Has a Massive Harassment Problem The Atlantic  

***INSTAGRAM

Why Instagram’s founders are resigning: independence from Facebook weakened  Tech Crunch 

Instagram Tests Tapping instead of Scrolling  Tech Crunch 

***FACEBOOK

Facebook to ban misinformation on voting in upcoming U.S. elections  Reuters

Facebook Hack Included Search History and Location Data of Millions  New York Times

Facebook prototypes Unsend 6 months after Zuckerberg retracted messages  Tech Crunch 

***MOBILE 

The smartphone app that can tell you’re depressed before you know it yourself  MIT Tech Review 

Google's cyber unit Jigsaw introduces Intra, a new security app dedicated to busting censorship Tech Crunch 

***JOURNALISM

We Can Use Robots But We Still Need Journalists  European Journalism Observatory  

How Journalists at Local and National Outlets Are Evolving Different Skill Sets  Harvard’s Nieman Reports  

“Press” offers a look at journalism’s wretched side  Economist

Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter?  Columbia Journalism Review 

Longtime Archivists Outline What They've Learned From Watching Decades Of News  NPR 

2018 has been a brutal year for journalists  Washington Post  

The CIA had a policy of ignoring declassification requirements  MuckRock  

After Journalist Disappears, Companies Reconsider Saudi Investment NPR

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM 

Bloomberg Media is using text-to-audio to keep app users engaged  Digiday

Is Blockchain The Future Of Journalism? Two Entrepreneurs Take A Chance  Forbes 

***TEACHING JOURNALISM 

U. of I. journalism class to study 'Trumpaganda' — the president's approach to the news media Chicago Tribune

What to Teach Journalism Students When Their Field is Under Attack? Editor & Publisher

***FAKE NEWS

Deepfake Videos Are Getting Real and That’s a Problem  Wall Street Journal

The Viral Story About A Competitive Barefoot Runner Demanding People Sweep Up Acorns Is A Hoax  BuzzFeed News

Memo to the media: Stop spreading Trump’s fake news (opinion)   Washington Post

The University of Michigan Center for Social Media Responsibility has released a tool called the "Iffy Quotient" to track the prevalence of misinfo spread on Facebook and Twitter  Univ. of Michigan 

CBS sees surge in US Flat Earthers who say there’s no rover on Mars: ‘Most people think we’re idiots’ Raw Story 
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/cbs-sees-surge-us-flat-earthers-say-theres-no-rover-mars-people-think-idiots/

The Fix for Fake News Isn't Code: It's Human  New York Times

How pro-trust initiatives are taking over the Internet  Axios

Kyrie Irving apologizes to US teachers for spreading flat-earth conspiracy theories  Quartz

Sasse warns of deepfake "perfect storm"  Axios

***BIG DATA & AI  

M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1 Billion  New York Times

Machine Learning fails simple test for children—what it will take to get past an Achilles’ heel of computer vision systems  Quanta Magazine 

Here’s why a few simple rules are often more effective than flashy AI  Axios

The Pentagon is pushing technology that allows the possibility of super-soldiers that remotely control robots with their brains  The Atlantic 

The value of big data/analytics/AI doesn’t come from collecting the data or deriving insight from it —value comes through action  CIO 

No, quantum computing isn’t going to revolutionize AI anytime soon—and that’s according to a panel of experts in both fields  MIT Tech Review 

 ***PERSONAL GROWTH  

Our Kids are Watching Us  Becoming (my blog)

***GRAMMAR

It’s time to talk about “It’s”  The Outline

***WRITING & READING

Stephen King’s 20 Rules for Writers  Open Culture 

A sensible, free guide to negotiating book contracts  BoingBong

***LANGUAGE

Mapping the geographical usage of pop versus soda

When My Class Discussed ‘Mischievious’  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Coca-Cola, trying to mix Maori with English, accidentally puts "Hello, death" on vending machine  BongBong

***LITERATURE

25 National Book Award finalists announced  NPR 

A prestigious university just awarded a literary prize to one of its janitors  Quartz  

Inside the Rooms Where 20 Famous Books Were Written  Literary Hub

How Instagram Saved Poetry  The Atlantic 

Why Should You Read Don Quixote?: An Animated Video Makes the Case   Open Culture 

***GENDER   

New York City creates gender-neutral 'X' option for birth certificates  Reuters

A Deaf Jewish, Asian, Trans Model Just Made History  The Forward 

Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women  Reuters

First-Year Law Students’ Reported Ranking Female Peers by Appearance in Private Group Chat The Cornell Daily Sun  

Here’s what the stark gender disparity among top orchestra musicians looks like  Quartz

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES 

California has a racist past. But removing monuments sparks debate about how to reflect an ugly history  Los Angeles Times

DNA databases are too white: This man aims to fix that MIT Tech Review

***FREE SPEECH

Elon University event highlights First Amendment rights  The Times News

50 Years Later, Raised Fists During National Anthem Still Resonate NPR

***LEGAL ISSUES 

Why is a Lisbon soccer team trying to unmask Portuguese bloggers in US court?  Ars Techica

Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property?  The New Yorker

Stairway To Heaven Is Not Blurred Lines  Tech Dirt

***PRIVACY & SECURITY 

The Employer Surveillance State: The more bosses try to keep track of their workers, the more precious time employees waste trying to evade them  The Atlantic

New Pentagon weapons systems can easily be hacked  Phys.org

It Took 9 Seconds to Guess a DoD Weapons System Password   Wired  

We Are All Research Subjects Now - The Chronicle of Higher Education  Chronicle of Higher Ed

A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying Technology  Electronic Frontier Foundation 

No One Can Get Cybersecurity Disclosure Just Right  Wired  

***PRODUCING MEDIA

The iPad Is Soon, Finally, Getting a Full Version of Adobe Photoshop  Gizmodo

***INTERNET

The Internet’s keepers? Wayback Machine Director Mark Graham outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive  Ars Technica

DuckDuckGo hits new milestone of 30 million private searches per day  The Verge

Dropbox will now scan your images for text  The Verge

Oral History of the Early Days of ICANN: A Perspective From Europe  Circle ID  

***RELIGION

Texas evangelical groups are suing for the right to discriminate against LGBTQ workers Vox 

The US witch population has seen an astronomical rise  Quartz

Millennial Men on Joining, and Then Leaving, the Priesthood  MEL Magazine

Why 3 Christian pastors seek to join 5-member Corona City Council in November  The Press-Enterprise 

***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE U.S. 

U.S. Pastor Released From Turkey After Spending 2 Years In Prison  NPR

China gives legal basis for ‘re-education camps’ for ‘religious extremists’  South China Morning Post 

New Embassy In Jerusalem Attracts Devout Christians From The U.S.  NPR 

***RELIGION AND U.S. POLITICS

'I love him so much I can hardly explain it': Evangelical leaders praise Trump after pastor's release  Politico 

Freed Pastor Brunson thanks Trump in White House meeting  MSNBC 

***GOOD NEWS

Canada surgeon operates on teddy bear for 8-year-old boy  BBC 

Wounded Army vet makes it to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro  CBS News

School social worker writes notes of encouragement to all 600 of his students  Lancaster Eagle Gazette

NYC library lets job seekers check out interview attire  New York Times

New pilot takes elderly residents of his village on their first flight ever  The Times of India 

Toddler in need of a new liver and kidney gets both right before her birthday  ABC News

Soldier Whose House Was Looted Gives Away Money Raised for Him  People  

Texas Boy Thought to Be Nonverbal Can Speak After Dentist Discovers He's 'Tongue-Tied'  Inside Edition

***ART & DESIGN

New font is designed to boost your memory  Cnet 

White supremacists are taking their design seriously—and we should, too  Quartz

A map of every building in America  New York Times 

That Painting of Trump Having a Diet Coke With Abraham Lincoln Is Now Hanging in the White House  TIME 

Buckminster Fuller Creates Striking Posters of His Own Inventions  Open Culture

***MUSIC 

Leonard Cohen wrote a poem called “Kanye West Is Not Picasso”  Consequence of Sound

Trump Signs Sweeping New Music Licensing Legislation  Variety

The ridiculous amount of money baby-boomer rockers still make on tour  Quarz

Why are so many rappers on LinkedIn?  The Guardian

When Lyft passengers find out their driver is actually Chance the Rapper  BongBong

 ***FILM

More and More Movies Are Reflecting Our Fear of the Internet  Wired

‘Call Me By Your Name’ Director Plans Film Inspired by Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ Rolling Stone

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA  

Spotify Launches New Program for Podcasters  Variety  

The Growth of Sinclair’s Conservative Media Empire  The New Yorker

***STUDENT LIFE

Police release body camera videos of college students being pulled over at gunpoint  Yahoo 

Social media videos designed to inspire millennials to help fill more than 200 officer vacancies Union Tribune  

For millennials, a regular visit to the doctor’s office is not a primary concern  Washington Post 

Michigan high school cheerleader gives out pot brownies in exchange for homecoming votes  Freep

How to Get Fortnite on Any Android Phone Now  Life Hacker

The Cornell Note-Taking System: Learn the Method Students Have Used to Enhance Their Learning Since the 1940s  Open Culture 

***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

Producer  Tribune Media, San Diego

Local News Team  The Herald, Rancho Cucamonga

Reporter (entry level)  Woodland Daily Democrat, Woodland

Social Media Intern  Illumina, San Diego

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT  

Anonymous Website Aims to Out Sexual Assaulters at U. of Washington  Chronicle of Higher Ed  

After a year of #MeToo, American opinion has shifted against victims  Economist

Coming To The Right Answer By Themselves: Talking With Boys About Sexual Assault  NPR

Amid #MeToo, New York Employers Face Strict New Sexual Harassment Laws  NPR

#MeToo hashtag used over 19 million times on Twitter  Axios

How 3 Colleges Changed Their Sexual-Assault Practices in Response to a National Survey  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***VOTING

What to Do If You Get Turned Away at the Polls  Life Hacker

Young Voters Might Actually Show Up At The Polls This Year FiveThirtyEight

***SOCIAL ISSUES 

With Kavanaugh Confirmed, Both Sides Of Abortion Debate Gear Up For Battle  NPR

5 facts about U.S. suburbs  Pew Research Center  

Deported parents may lose kids to adoption  Associated Press  

Migrant Children in Search of Justice: A 2-Year-Old’s Day in Immigration Court  New York Times

Selfie deaths: 259 people reported dead seeking the perfect picture  BBC

***BUSINESS & FINANCE 

Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For? New York Times

Uber drivers and other gig economy workers are earning half what they did five years ago Recode 

If you do any of these things online, you could hurt your credit  MSNBC

The Dark Reason So many Millennials are miserable and broke  Moneyish 

From scoreboards to trackers, games have infiltrated work, serving as spies, overseers and agents of social control  Aeon 

***ENVIRONMENT

How to Write About a Vanishing World Scientists chronicling ecological destruction must confront the loss of their life’s work and our planet’s riches  The New Yorker

'Hyperalarming' study shows massive insect loss  The Washington Post 

Among the Ruins of Mexico Beach Stands One House, Built ‘for the Big One’  New York Times

***HEALTH 

If Your Medical Information Becomes A Moneymaker, Could You Get A Cut?  NPR  

Mapping out the nation's opioid crisis county-by-county  Visual Capitalist

***HEALTH: RESEARCH 

Human Retinas Grown In A Dish Reveal Origin Of Color Vision  NPR  

An elusive molecule that sparks multiple sclerosis may have been found  Science Mag

Mosquitoes Genetically Modified To Crash Species That Spreads Malaria  NPR

***HEALTH: PREVENTION 

Sleep: how much do we really need?  The Guaridan  

Vitamin D Supplements Don’t Lead to Stronger Bones  New York Times

***HEALTH: CHILDREN

The average sticker price for U.S. childbirth: $32,093  Axios 

Number of babies born with syphilis has more than doubled since 2013  USA Today  

More kids are going without vaccines  Axios

***FOOD

New Swedish Museum Spotlights World's Most Disgusting Food  NPR

All 50 states, ranked by their food  Thrilist 

Millennials Kill Again. The Latest Victim? American Cheese  Bloomberg

The banana is dying. The race is on to reinvent it before it's too late  Wired

***ANIMALS

Wild chimpanzees share food with friends  Max Planck Society    

Spitfire the whippet jumps 31 feet, sets a new world record for dogs (w/ video)  SB Nation 

Goats will make return to Anaheim – for yoga, not Disneyland  OC Register

More than 100 mountain goats removed from Olympic National Park   The Olympian 

Americans spend $70 billion on pets, and that money could do more good (opinion)  The Conversation

***PSYCHOLOGY 

Why Modern Clinical Psychology May Be in Trouble  Psychology Today 

Reunite After Separation at Birth: An Unethical Psychology Experiment Separates Families  The Atlantic

How to Support Someone Who's Had a Miscarriage, Explained By Redditors  Life Hacker

How to Help Girls With ADHD  Life Hacker

***NEUROSCIENCE  

The heroes of science who are unlocking the brain  Popular Mechanics 

Humans Are Hardwired to Tell History in Stories. Neuroscience Tells Us Why We Get Them Wrong TIME

***PHILOSOPHY

The History of Philosophy Visualized in an Interactive Timeline  Open Culture 

Meet the philosopher behind “the good place”  Quartz 

***PRODUCTIVITY

The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world  The Guardian\

***HISTORY 

The creepiest urban legend in every state  Thrillist 

Only 1 in 3 Americans would pass the U.S. citizenship test  Las Vegas Sun

The Library of Congress Launches the National Screening Room, Putting Online Hundreds of Historic Films Open Culture

The Best Overall History Podcast Is 'In Our Time'  Life Hacker 

***ETHICS

How Americans Described Evil Before Hitler  The Atlantic

Codes of ethics probably don’t work Fast Company

***RESEARCH 

The extremely mad professors:Why 3 academics wrote 20 whole fake papers and think other people got played  The Outline  

How to write a thorough peer review  Nature 

Researcher Requests for Inappropriate Analysis and Reporting  Annals of Internal Medicine   

An Ethics of the System: Talking to Scientists About Research Integrity  Springer

US courts of appeal cases frequently misinterpret p-values and statistical significance: an empirical study  OSF 

Ex-researcher who stole funds sentenced to play piano  Stat News

Was cancer scientist fired for challenging lab chief over authorship?  Science Mag

***HIGHER ED

Report: 4 Million Californians Left College Without Earning a Degree  Inside Higher Ed 

Confidence in Higher Education Down Since 2015  Gallup

Jerry Falwell Jr.: President Trump freed Pastor Brunson from Turkey because Trump is a good and moral person  Fox News

***TEACHING 

How to Improve Your Teaching-Philosophy Statement  Chronicle of Higher Ed

One Way to Help Students Become Knowledge Creators  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Women

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. – Oscar Wilde (born October 16, 1854)

Our Kids are Watching Us

I do a lot of surveys with people between the ages of 20 and 40, and I ask them to describe who they are now and to reflect on their childhood. Now, we have to be very clear that this is a very imperfect method of getting data about people’s childhoods, because there are all kinds of memory biases. But one of the most consistent findings is the association between the person’s current level of materialism and how they perceived their parents using things when they were growing up.

So in other words, parents who act in ways that value things, parents who make a lot of sacrifices to get a lot of things, parents who get a lot of joy from buying things, parents who talk a lot about things—they tend to have adult children who act the same way. Now, part of this is probably some bias as people recall their childhoods, but I don’t think that’s all of it. The helpful thing for parents here—and also the harmful—is yes, peers are really important, but our kids are watching us. Our kids are learning from us. A lot of what kids take to be normal comes from what they see us doing. Kids are going to learn what their relationship with products should be by looking at our relationship with products.  

Marsha Richin quoted in The Atlantic

Articles of Interest - Oct. 8

 ***TECHNOLOGY

The Robots Are Coming To Las Vegas  NPR 

New satellite technology may lead to faster internet  Axios

California passes law that bans default passwords in connected devices  TechCrunch

How Good — And How Secure — Is Facial Recognition Technology?  NPR

History of IoT (graphic)  Daily Infographic 

***BIG DATA & AI 

A new neural network framework claims to be faster and require less training than rivals  ZD Net

U.S. trails behind Russia, China in organizing militarily in space  Axios 

Call it self-automation, or auto-automation if you like—what to do when coders automate their duties, who should reap the benefits  The Atlantic 

 ***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Understanding owned social content is key to an effective social media strategy  Nielson

Google+ to shut down after security bug  CNN

***FACEBOOK 

Why You Shouldn’t Use Facebook to Log In to Other Sites  New York Times

Facebook is making a video camera  Tech Crunch

The new Facebook hoax you should know about  10 News

The Facebook hack exposes an internet-wide failure  Wired 

***MOBILE  

The Presidential Text Alert Has a Long, Strange History  Wired 

How to ‘turn off’ the presidential text alert test  Wired 

Cult of Mac’s 50 Essential iOS Apps [The complete list, sorted!]  Cult of Mac

***INTERNET

See what we searched for over the past two decades  20 years 

Netflix Consumes 15% of the World's Internet Bandwidth  Variety***PERSONAL GROWTH 

Intelligence and personality can be developed  Becoming (my blog)

In Praise of Mediocrity  New York Times 

 ***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA  

Ad industry finally embraces privacy rules  Axios  

Billboards — yes, billboards — are having a heyday in a digital world  Recode

***JOURNALISM

Want razor-sharp focus in your audio stories? This group activity can help  NPR

The Washington Times settles lawsuit with Seth Rich's brother, issues retraction and apology for its coverage  CNN 

A Reporter Who Wore A MAGA Hat While Covering A Trump Rally Has Been Fired  BuzzFeed News

Newsroom employees earn less than other college-educated US workers  Pew Research Center

ProPublica's experimental journalism  Wired 

A beginner's guide to joining NYC's journalism community

***JOURNALISM OUTSIDE THE U.S.

Bulgarian TV host Victoria Marinova raped and killed  Committee to Protect Journalists  

What To Know About The Mysterious Disappearance Of Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi  Digg

Journalist’s Expulsion From Hong Kong ‘Sends a Chilling Message’  New York Times  

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

This is the state of nonprofit news in 2018  Harvard’s Nieman Lab 

Tronc changing name back to Tribune Publishing  Chicago Tribune 

***FAKE NEWS

How the Kavanaugh information war mirrors real warzones  Wired 

More research suggests that Twitter’s fake news “strategy” is either ineffective or nonexistent  Nieman Journalism Lab 

Daniel Radcliffe and the Art of the Fact-Check:  Researching his role in “The Lifespan of a Fact,” the actor embeds in The New Yorker’s fact-checking department  New Yorker 

Even the best AI for spotting fake news is still terrible  MIT Technology Review  

***GRAMMAR

‘Different Than’ or ‘Different From’: Which Should You Say?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***LITERATURE

William Faulkner was really bad at being a postman  Lit Hub

The Chronicles of Narnia being made into new movies by Netflix  Entertainment Weekly

Sikh Poet Jasmin Kaur calls out white feminists for co-opting her work  Daily Dot  

Mary Shelley’s Obsession with the Cemetery  Jstor

***GENDER   

Viral video of Russian woman bleaching manspreaders was anti-feminist propaganda  The Verge

Instagram Now Home to Classic Feminist Literature  New York Times

Female Nobel prize winner deemed not important enough for Wikipedia entry  South China Morning Post 

Largest wave surfed – female  Guinness World Records

CERN suspends physicist over remarks on gender bias  Nature 

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

Iowa State University paid $100,000 to settle a former tennis player's civil-rights complaint  Iowa State Daily  

The Legendary Black Surfer Who Challenged Stereotypes  Atlas Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/who-is-nick-gabaldon-surfer

***DIVERSITY

Explore new data on the race, ethnicity, and gender of students at more than 4,300 colleges and universities  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Building Diversity in Science, One Interaction at a Time  Undark 

***LEGAL ISSUES 

A look at an anonymous sexual-assault-accusations website and the issue of libel  Dynamics of Writing 

Media asks Tennessee high court to boost press protection  Fox 13

UK Copyright if there’s no Brexit deal  The 1709 Blog 

Blogger Defeats Defamation Claims Over Posts Claiming a “Scam”  Technology & Marketing Law Blog

***RELIGION

The Night Missionaries Smuggled One Million Bibles into China  Mental Floss

America’s clergy are teaming up with scientists  Wired 

Paige Patterson, ousted Baptist seminary leader, to teach ethics course  Religion News Service 

'God Friended Me' a CBS faith-based comedy  Washington Times

The Christian Broadcasting Network launches CBN News Channel  Religion News Service

Bayesian inference and religious belief  Andrew Gelman Blog 

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Christian Zionism  Aeon

Christian nationalism, explained through one pro-Trump propaganda film  Vox

***GOOD NEWS 

Local woman, 85, is world's oldest trapeze artist  Union-Tribune

The Sometimes Stranger: Night after night, this Plano man visits his wife with Alzheimer's  Dallas News

Couple that met as kids at St. Jude's gets married there nearly 30 years later  People  

First-grader unable to play outside forms special bond with school resource officer  WKRG

Soldier Whose House Was Looted Gives Away Money Meant for Him  People 

***ANIMALS

Injured Turtle Gets Around With the Help of Custom Wheelchair Made of Legos  Inside Edition

Does it really matter if one animal goes extinct?  Phys Org

***ART & DESIGN

Roald Dahl's Matilda confronts Donald Trump in new statue  CNN 

Meet The MacArthur Fellow Disrupting Racism In Art  NPR

What's The Tallest We Could Theoretically Construct A Building?  Digg

How Jackson Pollock became so overrated (video) 

A Giant Mural of Robin Williams Goes Up in Chicago  Open Culture 

***BANKSY 

Banksy painting 'self-destructs' moments after being sold for $1.4 million at auction  CNN

Banksy show us how he destroyed his art (video)

***SPORTS  

U.S. Charges 7 Russian Intelligence Officers With Hacking 40 Sports And Doping Groups  NPR

***STUDENT MEDIA  

OU College of Law associate dean resigns amid controversy surrounding views published in 2014 book  OU Daily 

***STUDENT LIFE 

College students with preschool-aged children are twice as likely as their childless classmates to drop out of college  Taylor & Francis  

Life After College is Weird: advice on navigating the postgraduate world  New York Times 

‘Selfie’: One Word to Characterize a Generation  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Graduates Are Told They Can Do Anything With Their Degrees. Is That Why They Feel Lost?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Ohio State plans esports program across 5 colleges  Education Dive

***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

Create a ‘Personal Brand,’ and Other Tips Learned During a Day With a Recruiter  Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Key to Career Growth: Surround Yourself with People Who Will Push You  Harvard Business Review

Here are more than 80 journalism internships and fellowships  Poynter 

The Washington Post and Instagram launch a midterm elections fellowship for student journalists  Washington Post

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT  

Dear dads: Your daughters told me about their assaults: This is why they never told you  Washington Post

How Police Investigate Sex Crimes  NPR  

How Daughters Are Talking To Their Fathers About Sexual Assault  NPR

Shamed into silence: Female journalists are disproportionately targeted for sexual harassment and assault — and I'm proof  Poynter 

How Minnesota’s criminal justice system often fails victims of rape and sexual assault Minneapolis  Star Tribune  

***#METOO

After One Year Of Headlines, #MeToo Is Everywhere  NPR

The 84 cases that defined the first year of #MeToo  Vice 

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT ON CAMPUS 

Student-created website allowing for anonymous sexual assault allegations vulnerable to defamation charges  The Daily (Univ of WA student newspaper) 

TCU fires back after conservative comedian proclaims rape culture is a myth  Star-Telegram

Professor blasted for saying sexual assault is a prerequisite for manhood  New York Post

Students protest professor's 'satirical' blog on sexual assault  Fox-5

Rutgers refuses to investigate some sexual harassment claims. Are students at risk?  New Jersey.com  

A high schooler in Texas accuses two other students of raping her: Few believed her.  Her hometown turned against her. The authorities failed her.  Washington Post

***SEXUAL ASSAULT & THE KAVANAUGH HEARING

Brett Kavanaugh And The Problem With #BelieveSurvivors  NPR

The junk science Republicans used to undermine Ford and help save Kavanaugh (opinion)  Washington Post  

Every time Ford and Kavanaugh dodged a question, in one chart  Vox

***SOCIAL ISSUES 

In Louisiana, You Can Be Sent Away for Life Even If Jurors Say You’re Innocent  Mother Jones

 ***VOTING 

Interactive on how easy (or hard) it is to vote in every state  Washington Post 

5 Things You Need to Know About 2018 Election Security  Voice of America 

***BUSINESS & FINANCE

MBA applications in the US have fallen for the fourth year in a row  Quartz

Visualizing the World's Tech Giants 2018  How Much 

***ENVIRONMENT

Climate scientists are struggling to find the right words for very bad news  Washington Post 

Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040  New York Times

***HEALTH

What the Mens’ Calf Size Says About Their Health, According to Science  Fatherly 

How long different drugs stay in your body  IFL Science

How Gym Selfies Are Quietly Changing the Way We Work Out  GQ

Climate and city density key factors governing flu outbreaks: Study  Axios  

A Surgeon So Bad It Was Criminal  Propublica 

***HEALTH & WEIGHT

A lack of insurance is leading more Americans to have weight loss surgery in Mexico  Vox

Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong  The Huffington Post

***FOOD 

Where Did the Taco Come From?  Smithsonian Magazine 

Over one-third of US adults eat fast food at least once a day  CDC

FDA Bans Use of 7 Synthetic Food Additives After Environmental Groups Sue  NPR

***PARENTING 

Raised by YouTube: The platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected  The Atlantic 

Ending Sexual Violence by Raising Better Boys  Slate 

***SCIENCE

Watch Scientists Accidentally Blow Up Their Lab With The Strongest Indoor Magnetic Field Ever  Mother Board

All the planets we've found in the Milky Way — so far  Axios

***PSYCHOLOGY 

I Suffer From Depression and Have PTSD Symptoms  Medium

The Psychological Make-Up of Conspiracy Theorists New research identifies pro-conspiracy ways to see and understand the world  Psychology Today 

***NEUROSCIENCE   

How much control do you really have over your actions? These brain regions provide clues   Science Mag

Best Brain Game To Stave Off Alzheimer's Could Be Your Job  NPR

***PHILOSOPHY

A philosopher explains how our addiction to stories keeps us from understanding history  The Verge

***RESEARCH 

A trio’s systematic trolling of journals yields seven accepted papers  Chronicle of Higher Ed 

'Real' fake research hoodwinks US journals  AFP 

A New Series on Scholarly Productivity: ‘Are You Writing?  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship  Areo Magazine

Why it’s so difficult to correct the scientific record  Less Likely 

How a failed psoriasis study pushed a whole field forward  Salon

What the ‘Conceptual Penis’ Hoax Does and Does Not Prove  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***HIGHER ED

Universities roll out digital student IDs  10 News

UWM is bleeding faculty, but its budget is balanced for the first time since 2012  Journal Sentinel

Hey, Alexa, Should We Bring Virtual Assistants to Campus? These Colleges Gave Them a Shot  Chronicle of Higher Ed 

We Are Building the Most Inclusive, Exclusive Colleges in America!  McSweeney’s 

***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS 

Meet the activists creating safe spaces for LGBTQ students at the nation’s most conservative colleges  Medium 

Brad Paisley and wife team with Christian university to open free grocery store for those in Nashville  World Religion News

Saint Mary's College president abruptly resigns  South Bend Tribune

This SoCal Christian College Supported Gay Relationships: Then It Abruptly Changed Its Mind  LAist 

***TEACHING

What to Do About Contract Cheating  Campus Technology 

Furor Over Blended and Active Learning  Inside Higher Ed 

Survey: 1 in 4 Professors Ban Mobile Phone Use in Class  Campus Technology

5 Tips for Using Multiple-Choice Tests to Bolster Learning  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Updating pedagogy for the mobile phone era  Small Pond Science

***ACADEMIC LIFE  

Meet the Academics Who Nabbed This Year’s MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants  Chronicle of Higher Ed

USC Students rally, call for firing of professor after controversial email  Daily Trojan

For Some Scholars, a Full Professorship Calls for ‘a Lot of Paperwork’ That ‘Doesn’t Mean Anything’  Chronicle of Higher Ed
 

Intelligence and personality can be developed

A “fixed mindset” assumes that our character, intelligence, and creative ability are static givens which we can’t change in any meaningful way, and success is the affirmation of that inherent intelligence, an assessment of how those givens measure up against an equally fixed standard; striving for success and avoiding failure at all costs become a way of maintaining the sense of being smart or skilled. 

A “growth mindset,” on the other hand, thrives on challenge and sees failure not as evidence of unintelligence but as a heartening springboard for growth and for stretching our existing abilities. Out of these two mindsets, which we manifest from a very early age, springs a great deal of our behavior, our relationship with success and failure in both professional and personal contexts, and ultimately our capacity for happiness.

The “growth mindset” creates a passion for learning rather than a hunger for approval. Its hallmark is the conviction that human qualities like intelligence and creativity, and even relational capacities like love and friendship, can be cultivated through effort and deliberate practice. Not only are people with this mindset not discouraged by failure, but they don’t actually see themselves as failing in those situations — they see themselves as learning.

Maria Popova writing in BrainPickings