Articles of interest - Jan 18
/***THE INTERNET
Sadly, the Internet Isn’t Making the World a Better Place - MIT Technology Review
****SCIENCE
Vial and Error: Science’s wonders are oft built on blunders - Chronicle of Higher Ed
String Theory Meets Loop Quantum Gravity (Two leading candidates for a “theory of everything,” long thought incompatible, may be two sides of the same coin) - Quantam Magazine
****PSYCHOLOGY
Many Black Students Don’t Seek Help for Mental-Health Concerns, Survey Finds - Chronicle of Higher Ed
How the sound of your own voice can affect your mood - Vox
The Joy of Psyching Myself Out (Is it possible to think scientifically and creatively at once?) - New York Times
Can a brain scan uncover your morals? - The Guardian
****PHILOSOPHY
Plato’s Cave Allegory Animated Monty Python-Style - Open Culture
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Controlling Emotions - Becoming (my blog)
How to Take Advantage of Boredom, the Secret Ingredient of Creativity - Open Culture
***GRAMMAR
Our National Anthimeria - Chronicle of Higher Ed
So They Say: Fallout from the expansion of "they" - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Everyone Uses Singular 'They,' Whether They Realize It Or Not - NPR
***LANGUAGE
The case of the missing “u”s in American English - Quartz
The totes amazesh way millennials are changing the English language - Washington Post
***LITERATURE
On Oscar Wilde and Plagiarism - Public Domain Review
An Introduction to the World of Haruki Murakami Through Documentaries, Stories, Animation, Music Playlists & More - Open Culture
What Your First Fictional Crush From Literature Says About You – Bustle
***MUSIC & ART
Download 650 Soviet Book Covers, Many Sporting Wonderful Avant-Garde Designs (1917-1942) - Open Culture
All of Bach is Putting Bach’s Complete Works Online: 100 Done, 980 to Come - Open Culture
Will Big Data Write The Next Hit Song? - Datacomony
***RESEARCH
Wikipedia at 15: Millions of readers in scores of languages - Pew Research
Excuses for Plagiarism by Researchers - Retraction Watch
Fake study on moms’ kisses risked sowing confusion just for a laugh - Stat News
The Most-Edited Wikipedia Pages Over The Last 15 Years - FiveThirtyEight
At 15, Wikipedia Is Finally Finding Its Way to the Truth – Wired
The scholarly database JSTOR, recognizing its role as a starting point for research, sees major growth in its ebook program – Inside Higher Ed
***RACE AND GENDER ISSUES
A new survey explains one big reason there are so few women in technology - Vox
Female professors are woefully outnumbered at med schools nationwide - Stat News
When Teamwork Doesn’t Work for Women (In economics, women don’t get full credit for work done with men, says a new study) - New York Times
***HISTORY
7 Little-Known Martin Luther King, Jr. Facts You Weren't Taught in History Class - Mic
***MEDIA
Media, Journalism and Technology Predictions 2016 - Digital Newsreport
Four Keys to Creating a Great Audio Interview - Orbit Media
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter is not broken, and they should stop trying to fix it - Vox
Please watch this video before deciding whether Instagram fame is right for you - Washington Post
Death Hoaxes, Like-Farming, and YouClickbait? Likebait? Why it matters - Snopes
I Found Out My Secret Internal Tinder Rating And Now I Wish I Hadn't - Fast Company
How to Build an Empathetic Social Media Strategy for Times of Tragedy - Moz
The White House Is Now on Snapchat (And Every Other Platform) - Wired
Periscope Now Drops Live Video Into Your Twitter Timeline
Hey Millennials, Your Mom Is About to Follow You on Snapchat - Wired
***BIG DATA
A suite of easy-to-use web tools for beginners that introduce concepts of working with data - Data Basic
5 major data analytics missteps beginners make - Information Management
Favorite 2015 books for data science beginners, machine learning resources, managing data projects - FastForward Labs
Does MIT's advances with the Data Science Machine change the human element in the Big Data process? - - Dataconomy
8 open source Big Data mining tools some suitable for beginners-some remarkably robust for the pro - DataMation
FTC: concerns over how you handle Big Data related to discrimination & privacy - Computer World
A look inside the Facebook algorithm, the human element behind it and the place of user control - Slate
The Secret Weapon of Predictive Analytics: Contextual Integration - Data Informed
I asked a computer to be my life coach. Personal #analytics gets a workout - NPR
How ‘The Revenant’ — and Big Data — Will Change Movies Forever – Yahoo Tech
***RELIGION
Division Over Social Issues Threatens Global Split Among Anglican Churches - NPR
Are Trump's Values Consistent With Evangelicals? - NPR
The Duggars: Sexual Abuse in the Christian Homeschooling Movement - Jstor
New charges against allege Bill Gothard sexually abused women – Washington Post
Trump: Christianity 'under siege' - The Hill
Supreme Court to Consider Churches’ Rights to State Grants (Justices to review whether funds must be offered on same terms as for secular groups) – Wall Street Journal
Christian denominations grapple with graying clergy, ways to appeal to the young – Houston Chronicle
***JOURNALISM
Fifty Years of FOIA: As the Freedom of Information Act turns 50, journalists are innovating new ways to use the law - Harvard's Nieman Lab
Here are some more predictions for journalism in 2016 - Harvard's Nieman Lab
Snopes' Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors - Snopes
The Problem With Journalism Is You Need an Audience - Gawker
Journalism in the movies – Financial Times
Is Making a Murderer ‘Advocacy Journalism’? – The Wrap
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Al Jazeera America is closing because ‘our business model is simply not sustainable…’ - Poynter
****JOBS
5 tips for facing your networking fears - Biz Journals
Code School Udacity Promises Refunds if You Don’t Get a Job - Wired
***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS
Being A Sexual Assault Survivor In College Often Comes With Huge Bills (Experts are noticing the Education Department is increasingly ordering colleges to include financial remedies for victims) - Huffington Post
How 46 Title IX Cases Were Resolved - Chronicle of Higher Ed
****STUDENT LIFE
Pretty Girls Make (Higher) Grades - NPR
The Number Of College Students Seeking Mental Health Treatment Is Growing Rapidly - Huffington Post
***HIGHER ED
Oregon Cancels Branding Contract, Will Spend Money on Academics
The 13 Best ‘Onion’ Stories About Higher Education
5 Ways Elite-College Admissions Shut Out Poor Kids – NPR
Can Statements Faith Be Compatible Academic Freedom – Inside Higher Ed
Wheaton College and creationism (opinion) – Patheos
***TEACHING
Small Changes in Teaching: The First 5 Minutes of Class - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Communicating with Students: A Suggestion About Email - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Mapping a MOOC Reveals Global Patterns in Student Engagement - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Can Teaching Methods Be Patented (Experts attempt to make sense of Khan Academy's patent application for A/B testing in education -- and whether it can even be patented) – Inside Higher Ed