Articles of Interest about Higher Ed - Sept 9

***HIGHER ED

Institutions are trying to figure out how to introduce a growing population of older students to their campuses 

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/09/03/college-orientations-rise-adult-learners

   
Why Liberal Arts Is Critical For Building A Successful Business Career

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymolinsky/2019/09/04/why-liberal-arts-is-critical-for-building-a-successful-business-career/

The Rise of the Comfort College

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-09/free-speech-is-no-longer-safe-speech-at-today-s-elite-colleges

***THE COST OF COLLEGE

What Is the Cost of College Doing to Families? 

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/09/college-cost-indebted-zaloom/597181/

Student-loan behemoth tightens its ties to Trump and DeVos

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/09/student-loans-donald-trump-betsy-devos-1712812

The Rise of the Comfort College

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-09/free-speech-is-no-longer-safe-speech-at-today-s-elite-colleges

***HUMANITIES

New study shines light on what worries journal editors in the arts, humanities and social sciences

www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/09/06/new-study-shines-light-what-worries-journal-editors-arts-humanities-and-social

Why Liberal Arts Is Critical For Building A Successful Business Career

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymolinsky/2019/09/04/why-liberal-arts-is-critical-for-building-a-successful-business-career/#7ec729e42d03

***TEACHING

1 in 5 college students takes math courses that repeat what they already know
http://theconversation.com/1-in-5-college-students-takes-math-courses-that-repeat-what-they-already-know-117730

Cheating, Inc.: How Writing Papers for American College Students Has Become a Lucrative Profession Overseas
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/us/college-cheating-papers.html

A study says smooth-talking professors can lull students into thinking they've learned more than they actually have 

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/09/09/study-how-smooth-talking-professors-can-lull-students-thinking-theyve-learned-more

***ACADEMIC LIFE 

The true costs of research and publishing  

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/true-costs-research-and-publishing

Dozens of NYC college professors feature in national database of pervy

https://nypost.com/2019/09/07/dozens-of-nyc-college-professors-feature-in-national-database-of-pervy-professors/

Journals should take action against toxic peer reviews 

https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/linda-beaumont-research-journals-should-take-action-against-toxic-peer-reviews

***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS

‘Someone’s Gotta Tell the Freakin’ Truth’: Jerry Falwell’s Aides Break Their Silence  

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/09/jerry-falwell-liberty-university-loans-227914 

Why teach journalism at religious private colleges? 

https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2019/8/10/why-teach-journalism-at-religious-private-colleges-lets-start-with-some-creation-theology-

Southern Baptist seminary student accused of rape later committed other crimes, records show 

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Southern-Baptist-seminary-student-accused-of-rape-14407682.php

  
University is not a harder version of high school (and more first-timer advice)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/first-person/article-university-is-not-a-harder-version-of-high-school-and-more-first/

Baptist College Handbook Authorizes ‘Full Access’ to Students’ Social Media Accounts  

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/september/louisiana-college-handbook-social-media-access.html

Secular Student Alliance has seen growth at religiously affiliated colleges

https://religionnews.com/2019/09/06/secular-student-alliance-has-seen-growth-at-religiously-affiliated-colleges/

***STUDENT LIFE

 Sorry, Being Born Rich Still Leads to Success More Than Working Hard in School 

https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/evbgqk/sorry-being-born-rich-still-leads-to-success-more-than-working-hard-in-school

22 Things They Don't Teach In High School That You Learn Pretty Much Immediately In College 

https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/college-high-school-tweets

5 mistakes to avoid when applying for medical school

https://news.elearninginside.com/5-mistakes-to-avoid-when-applying-for-medical-school/

The view of people under 30 about Family, God, & Patriotism  The Atlantic 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/america-without-family-god-or-patriotism/597382/

LAWSUIT: Campus police said he should’ve been ‘smarter’ than to exercise his First Amendment rights. Now he’s suing.

https://www.thefire.org/lawsuit-campus-police-said-he-shouldve-been-smarter-than-to-exercise-his-first-amendment-rights-now-hes-suing

Record High Marijuana Use and Vaping among College Students 

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/09/09/study-college-students-using-marijuana-e-cigarettes-record-rates

No greatness

And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth. -Leo Tolstoy (born Sept. 9, 1828)

Being ridiculous

Being ridiculous is one of the best ways to tell the truth. -Nadya Tollokonnikova

Data doesn’t say anything. Humans say things.

Data is not a perfect representation of reality: It’s a fundamentally human construct, and therefore subject to biases, limitations, and other meaningful and consequential imperfections.  

The clearest expression of this misunderstanding is the question heard from boardrooms to classrooms when well-meaning people try to get to the bottom of tricky issues:  “What does the data say?”  

Data doesn’t say anything. Humans say things. 

They say what they notice or look for in data—data that only exists in the first place because humans chose to collect it, and they collected it using human-made tools. Data can’t say anything about an issue any more than a hammer can build a house or almond meal can make a macaron. Data is a necessary ingredient in discovery, but you need a human to select it, shape it, and then turn it into an insight.  Data is therefore only as useful as its quality and the skills of the person wielding it.   

Andrea Jones-Rooy writing in Quartz   

Articles of Interest about Religion - Sept 4

***RELIGION

Evangelical Leader Claims Teaching Kids Basic Science Causes Mass Shootings   

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/tony-perkins-mass-shootings-080832225.html

Hillsong’s Chelsea Taylor Is in the ICU Following a Brain Aneurysm 

https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/hillsongs-chelsea-taylor-is-in-the-icu-following-a-brain-aneurysm

Why Did Christianity Thrive in the U.S. Between 1870 and 1960   

https://daily.jstor.org/christianity-in-the-us/

Southern Baptist megachurch denies liability in sex abuse lawsuit    

https://baptistnews.com/article/southern-baptist-megachurch-denies-liability-in-sex-abuse-lawsuit/#.XW1RxUJlDn4

Harry Potter books removed from St. Edward Catholic School due to 'curses and spells' https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/religion/2019/08/31/harry-potter-books-removed-st-edward-catholic-school/2168489001/

We are American evangelicals raising our family in England: Here’s what we saw when we drove across the U.S.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/09/03/we-are-american-evangelicals-raising-our-family-england-heres-what-we-saw-when-we-drove-across-us/

How the female body became the scapegoat for white evangelicals    

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/08/29/how-female-body-became-scapegoat-white-evangelicals/

***DENOMINATIONS

Amazon fires deepen a split between Brazil’s evangelicals and their fellow Christians   

https://religionnews.com/2019/08/28/amazon-fires-deepen-a-split-between-brazils-evangelicals-and-their-fellow-christians /

Another Denomination Changes Its End Times Doctrine   

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/august-web-only/premillennialism-evangelical-free-church-efca-end-times.html

Black minister to his mostly white ELCA denomination: ‘We need to rethink church’   

https://religionnews.com/2019/08/28/black-minister-to-his-mostly-white-elca-denomination-we-need-to-rethink-church /

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Study Shows Increasing Political Divide Between Younger and Older White Evangelicals 

https://sojo.net/articles/study-shows-increasing-political-divide-between-younger-and-older-white-evangelicals

How Pat Robertson's Christian TV empire created a "shadow government" — and led to Donald Trump

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/29/how-pat-robertsons-christian-tv-empire-created-a-shadow-government-and-led-to-donald-trump/

Why white evangelicals should panic

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/evangelical-leaders-are-tidying-the-kitchen-while-the-house-burns-down/2019/08/29/49d09a14-ca95-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html

Evangelical leaders are tidying the kitchen while the house burns down (opinion)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/evangelical-leaders-are-tidying-the-kitchen-while-the-house-burns-down/2019/08/29/49d09a14-ca95-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html

Globally, Many Evangelicals Lean Left: What that means for America’s Future

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/30/globally-many-evangelicals-lean-left-what-that-means-americas-future/

***RELIGION & FILM 

'Hail Satan' Film Portrays Satanists As Trolls Fighting Christian Privilege  

https://religionunplugged.com/news/2019/8/29/hail-satan-film-shows-satanists-as-trolls-fighting-christian-privilege

Christian film 'Overcomer' opens in top 3 at box office, grosses $8.2M

https://christiantoday.com/article/christian-film-overcomer-opens-in-top-3-at-box-office-grosses-8-2m/133121.htm
 

***RELIGION & BUSINESS

LifeWay’s Stores Are Closing. But Its Christian Books Will Be in More Stores Than Ever

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/september/lifeway-christian-stores-closing-authorized-dealer-section.html

***RELIGION & MUSIC

Hip-Hop: The Songs That Shook America: Kanye’s Jesus Walks 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEyFR7V1mZU

Bob Dylan's overlooked Christian music

https://sojo.net/articles/bob-dylans-overlooked-christian-music

***RELIGION & LGBTQ

Mississippi Wedding Venue Owner says No ‘Mixed’ or ‘Gay’ Couples, because of our Christian Faith   

www.deepsouthvoice.com/index.php/2019/09/01/no-mixed-or-gay-couples-mississippi-wedding-venue-manager-says-on-video/

Evangelical Conversion therapy group founder comes out as gay, apologizes: 5 Facts

https://heavy.com/news/2019/09/mckrae-game/

Articles of Interest about Lit, Journalism, Writing & Languages - Sept 3

***GRAMMAR

Trump’s Twitter War on Spelling  New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/us/politics/trump-twitter.html

AP Stylebook Changes Hyphen Guidance, Ushering In Total Chaos  The Big Lead

https://thebiglead.com/2019/08/28/ap-stylebook-hyphen-change-guidance

In Love With Language, but Not Necessarily With Each Other  New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/books/review/the-grammarians-cathleen-schine.html

***WRITING & READING 

What Critics of Student Writing Get Wrong  Chronicle of Higher Ed

https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-Critics-of-Student/247054

How I’m using AI to write my next novel  Vox

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/8/30/20840194/ai-art-fiction-writing-language-gpt-2

Cracking the code of dyslexia  CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cracking-the-code-of-dyslexia/

***JOURNALISM

How Colombia’s Datasketch wants to make data visualization easier for Latin American newsrooms

www.storybench.org/how-colombias-datasketch-wants-to-make-data-visualization-easier-for-latin-american-newsrooms/

At Least 11 Journalists Killed This Year In Mexico  NPR

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/31/756200213/at-least-11-journalists-killed-this-year-in-mexico

You might make a good producer if...  RTDNA

https://rtdna.org/article/you_might_make_a_good_producer_if

Why Teens Are Creating Their Own News Outlets  Teen Vogue

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/teens-creating-own-news-outlets-instagram-text-message

The New York Times use of FOIAs  New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/02/reader-center/foia-freedom-of-information-public-records.html

***JOURNALISM STUDENTS

Hey, future journalists: 50 pieces of advice for making your college years count  RTDNA https://rtdna.org/article/hey_future_journalists_50_pieces_of_advice_for_making_your_college_years_count

Ability to adapt has become more important than ever for journalism interns  Community Newspapers https://communitynewspapers.com/featured/ability-to-adapt-has-become-more-important-than-ever-for-journalism-interns /

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Obituaries keep local newspapers afloat

https://www.axios.com/obituaries-local-newspapers-77ddfa04-b54e-46ee-9fb7-a2aa641559fb.html

***FAKE NEWS

These “Canadian” Websites And Facebook Pages Are Actually Run From Overseas

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/canadian-websites-and-facebook-pages-run-overseas

Frank Abagnale of Catch Me If You Can on how not to get scammed  Vox

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/8/29/20836745/frank-abagnale-scam-me-if-you-can

Inside the deeply weird fake seed scams that are all over Amazon Mashable

https://mashable.com/article/fake-seed-scam-amazon-ebay/

Hijacked Reviews on Amazon Can Trick Shoppers Consumer Reports

https://www.consumerreports.org/customer-reviews-ratings/hijacked-reviews-on-amazon-can-trick-shoppers/

These deepfakes of Bill Hader are absolutely terrifying  CNET

https://www.cnet.com/news/these-deepfakes-of-bill-hader-are-absolutely-terrifying/

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Researchers studying Facebook's impact on democracy threaten to quit  Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-election-research/researchers-studying-facebooks-impact-on-democracy-threaten-to-quit-idUSKCN1VI04F

Here’s how to filter and delete your old tweets — and why that’s an OK thing to do  Poynter

https://www.poynter.org/tech-tools/2019/heres-how-to-filter-and-delete-your-old-tweets-and-why-thats-an-ok-thing-to-do /

What drives our addiction to social media  The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/23/social-media-addiction-gambling

***LANGUAGE 

A new book spells out the magic of language  Economist

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/08/22/a-new-book-spells-out-the-magic-of-language

What’s the best way to teach children a second language? New research produces surprising results The Conversation

https://theconversation.com/whats-the-best-way-to-teach-children-a-second-language-new-research-produces-surprising-results-122059

***LITERATURE 

Artificial Intelligence doing Wonders in the Field of Literature  Analytics Insight

https://www.analyticsinsight.net/artificial-intelligence-doing-wonders-in-the-field-of-literature/

Emojis Are Language Too: A Linguist Says Internet-Speak Isn’t Such a Bad Thing  New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/books/review/because-internet-gretchen-mcculloch.html

7 Best Places for Literature Lovers in Paris  Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com/7-best-places-literature-lovers-paris-1456124

***POETRY

Waffle House has an official poet laureate: For real  Atlanta Magazine

https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/waffle-house-has-an-official-poet-laureate-for-real /

In the first trailer for Apple TV Plus’ Dickinson, the famous poet gets turnt  The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/26/20833766/apple-tv-plus-emily-dickinson-series-trailer-first-look-hailee-steinfeld

This Indianapolis nurse quit her job to become a poet. Now people hire her to write poems  Indy Star

https://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/arts/2019/08/30/indianapolis-woman-leaves-nursing-pursue-poetry-full-time-feel-heal-poetry/1930922001 /

Do You Actually Know The Difference Between Taylor Swift And History's Greatest Poets?  BuzzFeed  

https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephenlaconte/taylor-swift-lyrics-famous-poets-quiz

Butchering poetry: Verse vs. worse  Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/gene-weingarten-who-is-the-better-poet-gene-and-his-editor-face-off/2019/08/30/0d909a14-b9d7-11e9-bad6-609f75bfd97f_story.html

The greatest mistake you can make

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.-Elbert Hubbard

Articles of Interest about Higher Ed – Sept 2

***HIGHER ED 

Two universities suffered devastating cyberattacks just before students returned to campus: Is the timing a coincidence? Inside Higher Ed 

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/27/two-universities-targeted-hackers-just-new-school-year

California Lawmakers Consider Abortion Pills On Campus  NPR 

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/31/756200290/california-lawmakers-consider-abortion-pills-on-campus

On college campuses, managing the tension between inclusion and ideas  Washington Post 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/on-college-campuses-managing-the-tension-between-inclusion-and-ideas/2019/08/30/38bd0ca4-b798-11e9-bad6-609f75bfd97f_story.html

University’s attempt to hid behind FERPA the names of those responsible for sex assault goes to state supreme court  Daily Tar Heel

https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2019/08/dth-v-folt-oral-arguments-0828

***THE COST OF COLLEGE  

The Colleges In The US With The Best And Worst Return On Investment, Visualized  Digg  

www.digg.com/2019/colleges-with-best-return-on-investment

California Will Pay for Two Years of Community College for First-Time Students NBC LA 

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/free-tuition-community-college-california-newsom-558756021.htm 

How Paying for College Is Changing Middle-Class Life  New York Times 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/opinion/sunday/college-tuition.html

***TEACHING

Many professors say that teaching students how to email them properly is a necessary gift that keeps on giving Inside Higher Ed 

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/29/professors-offer-advice-teaching-students-how-email-them

Teaching Online Will Make You a Better Teacher in Any Setting  Chronicle of Higher Ed

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Teaching-Online-Will-Make-You/247031

***ACADEMIC LIFE 

Columnist tries to get professor in trouble over bedbug joke  NPR

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/28/755177135/the-internet-saga-that-followed-a-tweet-comparing-bedbugs-and-a-columnist

Professor removed from classroom after voicing support for Antifa  Des Moines Register 

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/2019/08/23/kirkwood-community-college-professor-voices-support-antifa-jeff-klinzman-donald-trump-anti-fascist/2099475001/

Abuse case professor ‘could have been stopped sooner’ (sub. req.’ed) Times Higher Ed

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/abuse-case-professor-could-have-been-stopped-sooner

***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS  

Lose Your Faith at an Evangelical College? That’s Part of the Process  Christianity Today 

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/august/evangelical-students-faith-crisis-christian-higher-ed-cccu.html

Court to decide whether Title VII protects LGBT employees Religious Liberty TV 

http://religiousliberty.tv/title-vii-employment-discrimination-cases-supreme-court.html

Kentucky Christian announces sixth president  Journal-Times 

https://www.journal-times.com/news/kentucky-christian-announces-sixth-president/article_3f4f0a90-c995-11e9-9dcb-f7db0a389c9b.html

Wheaton bookstore opens under new management  Wheaton Record 

http://www.wheatonrecord.com/news/wheaton-bookstore-opens-under-new-management 

University of Mobile has some of nation’s best dorms, one of top campuses  Yellow Hammer News 

https://yellowhammernews.com/report-university-of-mobile-has-some-of-nations-best-dorms-one-of-top-campuses/

Campbell University student charged with communicating threat of mass violence  WRAL 

https://www.wral.com/campbell-university-student-charged-with-communicating-threat-of-mass-violence/18600070/

***LIBERTY UNIVERSITY

Falwell steered Liberty University land deal benefiting his personal trainer Reuters 

https://in.reuters.com/article/usa-falwell-trainer/exclusive-falwell-steered-liberty-university-land-deal-benefiting-his-personal-trainer-idINKCN1VH28G

Jerry Falwell's Systematic Censorship at Liberty University Is Shocking—and Bound to Backfire (opinion) Newsweek 

https://www.newsweek.com/jerry-falwells-systematic-censorship-liberty-university-shocking-bound-backfire-opinion-1456453 

Jerry Falwell Jr. wants Liberty to be the evangelical Notre Dame of college football  LA Times 

https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2019-08-27/liberty-football-hugh-freeze-jerry-fallwell-jr-donald-trump

Jerry Falwell Jr. Reportedly Used Liberty University Property to Cut Personal Trainer a ‘Sweet Deal’ Law & Crime 

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/jerry-falwell-jr-reportedly-used-liberty-university-property-to-cut-personal-trainer-a-sweet-deal/

Liberty University Faculty Member Arrested for Filming Girls  Roanoke.com 

https://www.roanoke.com/news/crime/botetourt-man-accused-of-unlawful-filming-photographing-of-minors/article_99f069eb-a2c2-5f63-b695-876c29726313.html

Liberty's Hugh Freeze coaches game from hospital bed Sporting News 

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/libertys-hugh-freeze-coaches-game-from-hospital-bed/zal7mpd9le401j494ew9gwrcp 

At Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Jr. bets on big-time football, with a disgraced coach Washington Post 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/at-liberty-university-the-power-and-the-glory-and-the-football/2019/08/29/818f29e2-c9c4-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html

Liberty University Students Just Got $600,000 Worth of MyPillow Products Friendly Atheist 

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/08/22/liberty-university-students-just-got-600000-worth-of-mypillow-products/

Baseball's Greatest Myth Has Roots in Point Loma  Voice of San Diego 

https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/sports/baseballs-greatest-myth-has-roots-in-point-loma/

***RESEARCH  

Sociologist says journal dismissed her paper because she'd shared it elsewhere as a preprint Inside Higher Ed

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/26/sociologist-says-journal-rejected-her-paper-because-shes-shared-it-elsewhere

Why I said no to peer review this summer  Nature 

www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02470-2

To Justify Using Weed, Pregnant Women Cling to an Old and Dubious Study  Undark 

https://undark.org/article/jamaica-study-cannabis-researchers-pregnancy/ 

Why do professors who are women publish less research than men? Here’s what we found  Washington Post 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/27/why-do-female-professors-publish-less-research-than-men-do-heres-what-we-found/

Journal Indexing: Core standards and why they matter  London School of Economics & Political Science 

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/08/22/journal-indexing-core-standards-and-why-they-matter/

Do researchers trust each other’s work?  Times Higher Ed

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/do-researchers-trust-each-others-work

5 features of a highly cited article  Nature 

https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/five-features-highly-cited-scientific-article

Value pluralism in research integrity  Research Integrity 

https://researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41073-019-0076-4

Librarians and some academic publishers are optimistic about the possibility of reaching new agreements to make more academic articles fully open  Inside Higher Ed

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/30/pursuing-new-kind-“big-deal”-publishers

***STUDENT LIFE

Rise in suicides emphasizes need to help teens deal with despair

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/rise-suicides-emphasizes-teens-need-help-depression-despair

Poll: Patriotism, religion, kids, lower priorities for younger Americans  The Hill 

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/458752-patriotism-religion-kids-lower-priorities-for-younger-americans-poll

SAT Drops 'Adversity Score' Meant to Level Playing Field  Time 

https://time.com/5662537/sat-dropping-adversity-score/

Why do college textbooks cost so much? 7 questions answered  The Conversation 

https://theconversation.com/why-do-college-textbooks-cost-so-much-7-questions-answered-121969

Tufts Ph.D. ‘Punished’ for Reporting Adviser’s Fabricated Research, Lawsuit Claims  The Daily Beast

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristy-meadows-tufts-university-graduate-punished-for-reporting-advisers-fabricated-research-lawsuit

Prof required students at her Penn research center to sign blanket nondisclosure agreements leaving students vulnerable to abuse  Inside Higher Ed 

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/30/marybeth-gasman-required-students-her-research-center-sign-blanket-nondisclosure

Why We Need to Talk More About Mental Health in Graduate School  Chronicle of Higher Ed 

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-We-Need-to-Talk-More-About/247002

Ultimate Guide to Marketing to Gen Z  Daily Infographic 

https://www.dailyinfographic.com/gen-z-marketin

Here’s how you can tell who will do well in College

The best predictor of who will do well in college is not how smart the student is but their understanding of intelligence: Is it something the student puts on display or is it something that changes with learning?

Many first-year college students are settling into their dorms and getting ready for classes this week. I like to show my students a news story I wrote in graduate school covered in red marks. When that paper was returned to me, I could have said to myself, "I can't do this" or I could adjust, trying different strategies and working out what I needed to do to improve. The first attitude assumes either I can do it or I can't. If you can, you do it immediately. You show your intellegence. The second attitude assumes success is a matter of approach and persistence. You have to ask what might be perceived as dumb questions until you figure it out. When I wrote that paper covered in red marks (and there were many of them) I had no idea I was just a few years away from working at a national news network where writing would be a central part of my job. 

Stephen Goforth  

God whispers

God whispers to us in our pleasures. speaks in our conscience,  but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world –CS Lewis

BrainShift

Under the right circumstances, a subconscious neurobiological sequence in our brains causes us to perceive the world around us in ways that contradict objective reality, distorting what we see and hear. This powerful shift in perception is unrelated to our intelligence, morals, or past behaviors. In fact, we don’t even know it’s happening, nor can we control it. 

(We) found that it happens in two distinct situations: those involving high anxiety and those associated with major reward. 

Under these conditions, all of us would do something just as regrettable as the headline-grabbing stories above, contrary to what we tell ourselves. Phrased differently, we don’t consciously decide to act a fool. Rather, once our perception is distorted, we act in ways that seem reasonable to us but foolish to observers.

Robert Pearl writing in Vox

afraid to laugh

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. 

Articles of Interest - August 26, 2019

***JOURNALISM

BuzzFeed’s new MoodFeed recommends content based on how you’re feeling Tech Crunch  

Hispanic Journalists Group Cuts Ties To Fox News  NPR

The nation’s largest Hispanic journalism group says it no longer wants Fox News sponsoring its convention: Here’s why that’s a bad idea (opinion)  Michael Koretzky blog 

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA  

The rise of advertising activism  Axios

Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV  New York Times

Google: Publishers Lose Half Of Ad Revenue From Cookie Blocking Media Post  

***FAKE NEWS

Pick a topic, and this website will generate realistic fake news about it  Fast Company 

They Crowdfunded for Their Dead ‘Baby Boy.’ Cops Say It Was This Doll  The Daily Beast

Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder  Scientific American

Woman lied about cancer in attempt to get charity to fund £15k wedding  BBC

Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder  Scientific American

***BIG DATA & AI 

Are we telling stories or just making a point/elucidating an argument and calling it narrative?  Medium 

What’s the difference between analytics and statistics? The Chief Decision Scientist of Google has an answer  Toward Data Science 

The validity of detecting data fabrication using statistical tools  Psyarxiv

While “data science is a team sport” watch for “the warning signs” of watering down the process by “searching for solutions explainable to absolutely everyone”  Nielsen

***INTERNET

Google is cracking down on its employees’ political speech at work  Vox 

How Do I Automatically Expand Gmail Conversations?  Life Hacker 

Why so many of your favorite YouTube videos are secretly infomercials  Washington Post  

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Facebook's new "clear history" tool doesn't actually delete anything  New York Times

***PRIVACY & SECURITY 

Ransomware Attack Affects Computers In 22 Towns In Texas  NPR 

Just how much our digital lives are tracked: Basically there is no privacy on the internet  New York Times

How to Prevent Spammers From Infiltrating Your Google Calendar  Life Hacker 

***PRODUCING MEDIA

How Conan O’Brien and Other Top Hosts Are Tapping Into the Podcast Revolution  Variety

***PERSONAL GROWTH  

Pluck the Day   Becoming (my blog)

***WRITING & READING

In defense of reading the same book over and over again  Vox  

Gwyneth Paltrow hired personal book curator for her home  Page Six

***LITERATURE

Duplicity, Grace and Violence: New Spanish-Language Fiction New York Times 

Is Fan Fiction a Helpful Literacy Tool?  Jstor 

The religious dimensions of Toni Morrison's literature  Sojourners 

How can academics keep up with the literature? (sub. req.’ed)  Times Higher Ed

***POETRY 

New & Noteworthy Poetry From James Tate, Jana Prikryl and More  New York Times

Poetry book wins top award for theological writing  Premier

***GENDER    

STEM scholarships for women could face more Title IX  challenges  Ed Dive 

Women May Be More Adept Than Men At Discerning Pain  NPR

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES 

Justice Dept. sent anti-Semitic post to immigration judges  Associated Press

The algorithms that detect hate speech online are biased against black people  Vox

On Hyphens and Racial Indicators  Jstor 

Reflecting a demographic shift, 109 U.S. counties have become majority nonwhite since 2000 Pew Research Center  

***FREE SPEECH 

The global gag on free speech is tightening Economist

Don’t Use These Free-Speech Arguments Ever Again  The Atlantic

***LEGAL ISSUES  

Why Child Social Media Stars Need a Coogan Law to Protect Them From Parents Hollywood Reporter  

California Bar Investigator Begins Probe in Exam Leak  Big Law Business 

***CRIME & COURTS

Police Photoshopped His Mug Shot for Lineup: He's Not the Only One  New York Times 

Every crime map needs context. This USC data journalism project aims to scale it  Nieman Lab 

***RELIGION

The Rise of the Bible-Teaching, Plato-Loving, Homeschool Elitists  Christianity Today

Could Trump Drive Young White Evangelicals Away From The GOP?  FiveThirtyEight  

Judge orders veterans’ charity accused of misappropriating funds to cease operations A judge entered a court order prohibiting the Veterans Christian Network from operating  Chicago Sun-Times  

Christians targeted in Burkina Faso amid violence by Islamist militants Washington Post

Tourism To Israel Is On The Rise, With More U.S. Evangelical Christians Visiting  NPR

Trump is the evangelicals’ enforcer (opinion)  Washington Post  

North Carolina police officer fired for following the 'Billy Graham Rule,' lawsuit says NBC News

The Righteous Gemstones Shines Its Satire on a Televangelist Empire  Christianity Today

Megachurch pushes conversion therapy on Instagram, Facebook with #OnceGay  Daily Dot

Unearthed tapes, letters show Southern Baptist leaders’ support for pastor who faced sex scandal  Houston Chronicle

How anti-Semitic beliefs have taken hold among some evangelical Christian Washington Post  

Kentucky supreme court hearing case of Christian printer who refused to make gay pride t-shirts  Newsweek

An Existential Reading List for Middle-Aged Men (four Nazarene men and their annual retreat)  The Atlantic  

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Why Some Christians ‘Love the Meanest Parts’ of Trump  The Atlantic

Theologians condemn Christian Nationalism in open letter  Washington Examiner

America Needed Spies During World War II: Many Missionaries Were Ready and Willing Christianity Today

MSNBC’s Joy Reid names every Trump-loving evangelical leader who refused to take her call on Trump’s ‘chosen one’ claim   Raw Story

***GOOD NEWS

Boy Scouts restore neglected historic black cemetery in Virginia  The Week 

Customer services representative 800 miles away helps save life of man having a stroke  mlive

Strangers take West Virginia man on 8-hour road trip so he can be there for his son's birth  The Week  

Mom and daughter discover new bug species when daughter over-waters flower garden  ABC News 

NJ Couple Buys Out Payless Store, Then Donates All the Shoes to a Women’s Shelter  NBC-10

***REALLY?!

Couple face up to six years in jail for taking sand from Italian beach  CNN  

Man lugging life-size doll found in dumpster raises alarm  KSHB

88-Year-Old Man Tried to Shoot Nephew at Work Due to Damaged Cuckoo Clock Fox-61

McDonald’s worker burned by ‘smoldering’ dollar bill given at drive-thru, cops say NewJersey.com

This German city will give you $1.1M if you can prove it doesn't exist Associated Press

A NASA astronaut is accused of hacking her estranged spouse's bank account from space NBC News

'I was grossed out': Doctors find brown recluse spider in woman's ear  KSHB

***ART & DESIGN

Persuasive Cartography: An Interview with Map Collector PJ Mode  Jstor

***MUSIC 

How Artist Imposters and Fake Songs Sneak Onto Streaming Services Pitch Fork

How Dave Brubeck’s Time Out Changed Jazz Music  Open Culture

Mister Rogers Demonstrates How to Cut a Record Open Culture

***SOCIAL ISSUES 

Silicon Valley’s Crisis of Conscience  New Yorker  

How many steps it takes to get an abortion in each state  Axios

***BUSINESS & FINANCE

Yes, You Actually Should Be Using Emojis at Work  WSJ 

Is My Millennial Co-Worker a Narcissist, or Am I a Jealous Jerk?  New York Times

The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials  The Atlantic

***ENVIRONMENT

Perfect Storm Hits U.S. Recycling Industry  NPR 

Windmills and Batteries to Attract Billions in the Green Energy Revolution  Bloomberg 

What’s recyclable, what becomes trash — and why  NPR 

***HEALTH

Measles is on the rise: outbreak grows to over 1,200 cases in 30 states  Newsweek 

Why a Promising, Potent Cancer Therapy Isn't Used in the US  Wired

Detecting Fake Pills With Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance  Spectrum  

What Happens To Your Body & Brain If You Don't Get Sleep? Neuroscientist Matthew Walker Explains  Open Culture 

How Many Steps Should You Take a Day?  New York Times

The Complicated Issue of Transableism  Jstor 

***MEDICAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY

Optic nerve stimulation to aid the blind  EPFL 

Scientists Attempt Controversial Experiment To Edit DNA In Human Sperm Using CRISPR  NPR

Smart sensors listen to healing wounds  BBC 

***TRAVEL

Seven Wonders of the World: The best 1-star reviews  Washington Post 

***SPORTS & GAMES 

Can Chess Survive Artificial Intelligence?  The New Atlantis  

Extreme Ironing: The Insane Sport You Probably Never Knew About Sad & Useless

***FOOD

Restaurants Are A Risky Business So They Often Resort To Tricks — Like Reusing Leftover Bread Digg

A deadly fungus could wipe out the world’s favorite banana—again Quartz  

Social media users are horrified after it emerges not everyone cleans the bottom of their dishes Daily Mail Online

***FAMILY & SOCIETY

A half-century after ‘Mister Rogers’ debut, 5 facts about neighbors in U.S. Pew Research

***ANIMALS 

Bird Twitter Is My Oasis in Internet Hell  Gizmodo 

The number of animal welfare citations is dwindling  Washington Post

***SCIENCE

Scientists transmit record amount of quantum data using "qutrit", a particle that can be polarized in three directions and carries more information than a quantum bit  MIT Tech Review

Space is dead: A challenge to the standard model of quantum  Big Think 

***PSYCHOLOGY 

How Memories Form and Fade  Cal Tech

Is psychological science headed for a split?  Psychology Today 

The age of comfort TV: why people are secretly watching Friends and The Office on a loop The Guardian 

A parking garage had 6 suicides in 4 years: Signs on the walls are trying to prevent more Washington Post

***NEUROSCIENCE   

Circuit found for brain's statistical inference about motion: Brain's equation for prediction looks like a Bayesian inference Science Daily 

The most-detailed, highest-resolution list of the components of the human brain ever compiled  Allen Institute

***POLITICS

Electoral College members can defy voters, court rules  Associated Press 

***RESEARCH 

Detection of data fabrication using statistical tools  Psyarxiv

Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database  Nature 

The summer slump happens in scientific publishing, too  Massive Sci

Addressing research misconduct and improving scientific integrity in China  Science Direct 

Dozens of Canadian researchers have faced discipline for integrity breaches  The Globe & Mail 

***HIGHER ED

Pew survey finds majority of Republicans continue to hold negative views of higher ed  Inside Higher Ed

Handshake, popular career-services platform, now open to all students  Inside Higher Ed

What the Numbers Can Tell Us About Humanities Ph.D. Careers  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays  Vice  

***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS 

How the Supreme Court’s sex discrimination cases could affect BYU and hundreds of faith-based colleges  Deseret News  

Christian college mired in litigation  Ocone Enterprise 

Olivet Nazarene University Leader to Retire After 30 Years  US News

Historic Christian colleges are facing financial crises that are forcing big changes: Some haven’t survived  World Magazine 

***TEACHING

The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You About College Teaching  Inside Higher Ed

How teachers are preventing high-tech cheating in the classroom  USA Today 

What the Freshmen Know  Inside Higher Ed 

An Argument for Accepting Late Work  Faculty Focus

***ACADEMIC LIFE 

Kansas professor charged with secretly working on Chinese government program  Washington Examiner 

Mississippi prof, who went to Georgetown Prep with Brett Kavanaugh, sues HuffPost  Clarion Ledger 

Arizona Professor Showed QAnon Video in Class, Students Say  Phoenix New Times

***STUDENT LIFE

Bureaucrats Put the Squeeze on College Newspapers  The Atlantic

Robots bearing snacks are about to overrun college campuses  Cnet 

I Manipulated Lonely Teachers to Steal Tests in High School  Vice 

Want To Make Friends In College? Make Them Food In Your Dorm Room  Digg 

Most U.S. teens who use cellphones do it to pass time, connect with others, learn new things  Pew Research Center

When College Dormitories Become Health Hazards  New York Times

17 College Campuses That Tested Their Students's Sanity  BuzzFeed

Dorm to Table: College Start-Ups Take Aim at Food Industry  New York Times

Pluck the Day!

“Carpe diem,” is taken from Roman poet Horace’s Odes, written over 2,000 years ago. As everyone and their grandmother knows by now, “carpe diem” means “seize the day.”

But “carpe diem” doesn’t really mean “seize the day.” As Latin scholar Maria S. Marsilio points out, “carpe diem” is a horticultural metaphor that, particularly seen in the context of the poem, is more accurately translated as “plucking the day,” evoking the plucking and gathering of ripening fruits or flowers, enjoying a moment that is rooted in the sensory experience of nature. “Gather ye rose-buds while ye may” is the famed Robert Herrick version.  

Gathering flowers as a metaphor for timely enjoyment is a far gentler, more sensual image than the rather forceful and even violent concept of seizing the moment. We understand the phrase to be, rather than encouraging a deep enjoyment of the present moment, compelling us to snatch at time and consume it before it’s gone, or before we’re gone.

“Seizing” the day brings up images of people taking what they can get, people who can get things done—active, self-reliant individuals who are agents in pursuit of their own happiness, reflected in the #YOLO-infused, instant-gratification-obsessed consumer culture that exhorts us to “Just Do It” by buying products.

Chi Luu writing in Jstor Daily

your Calcutta

Find your own Calcutta. -Mother Teresa (born Aug. 26, 1910)

Good questions

Good questions outflank easy answers.  -Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson

Showing Initiative

Many people wait for something to happen or someone to take care of them. But people who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done. 

Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Your Greater Goal

We often imagine that we generally operate by some kind of plan, that we have goals we are trying to reach. But we’re usually fooling ourselves; what we have are not goals but wishes. Our emotions infect us with hazy desire; we want fame, success, security – something large and abstract. 

Clear long-term objectives give direction to all of your actions, large and small. Important decisions became easier to make. If some glittering prospect threatens to seduce you from your goal, you will know to resist it You can tell when to sacrifice a pawn, even lose a battle, if it serves your eventual purpose.   

Robert Greene, 33 Strategies of War

The use of life

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.  -William James