Articles of Interest - Feb 1
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
How Two Guys Built the Ultimate GIF Search Engine - Bloomberg
Snapchat: Not just for kids anymore (subscription) - The Week magazine
The End of Twitter - New Yorker
One Billion People Now Use Whats App – Wired
****PSYCHOLOGY
New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time - Quantam
Best apps... For mental health therapy (subscription) - The Week
Psychologists have found that a spiritual outlook makes humans more resilient to trauma – Quartz
****PHILOSOPHY
Concordia philosophy professor publishes book on religious diversity – The Concordian
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The day pain died.. Oct. 16, 1846 - Becoming (my blog)
***BIG DATA
Here's a nice summary of what's at stake in the practical ethics of machine intelligence - Fast Forward Labs
Crisis in Intel education (the intellectual acumen of the national security community is rapidly declining) - Vice News
How Big Data is changing disruptive innovation - Harvard Business Review
***GRAMMAR
Them, Themself, and They - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Samuel Johnson's great English Dictionary of 1755 (prescriptivism v descriptivism) - The Economist
***LANGUAGE
How‘-Phobic’ Became a Weapon in the Identity Wars - New York Times
This Little Red Book Confronts Sexism in the Chinese Language – Wired
***LITERATURE
Taking Literature to the Streets (From vending machines to coffee sleeves, a number of projects around the world are using guerrilla marketing tactics to promote) – The Atlantic
***JOURNALISM
6 Quick Ways to Spot Fake News - Snopes
A Code of Ethics for Journalism Nonprofits – The New Yorker
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Politico implodes - Washington Post
Crowdfunding enables diverse new frontier for journalism projects - Pew Research
***RACE & GENDER ISSUES
Researchers have found a major problem with ‘The Little Mermaid’ and other Disney movies - Washington Post
Study finds "driving while black" really is a crime in Florida - Vox
Vice launches a paid summer fellowship for “underrepresented communities” – Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Does diversity look different at a Christian university? – Inside Higher Ed
Representative Barbies - Jstor
***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS
White House launches a cappella contest to combat campus assault - USA Today
***FREE SPEECH
A statement at the heart of the debate over academic - Economist
***LEGAL ISSUES
Copywrong: Students often clash with administrators over copyright law - Student Press Law Center
Freedom ofInformation Acts (The Idealist puts Aaron Swartz’s legacy at the center of the copyright debate) – Bloomberg Businessweek
Why Colleges Hide Behind This One Privacy Law All The Time - Huffington Post
***DESIGN
The ‘Memoire’ Typeface Changes Like a Memory as You Use It - Wired
***RELIGION
5 key findings about faith and politics in the 2016 presidential race - Pew Research
Alabama pastor on Syrian refugees: ‘God gave us specific instructions to destroy these people’ – Yellow Hammer News
***STUDENT LIFE
Millions of young people in U.S. and EU are neither working nor learning - Pew Research
United States of Adderall – Huffington Post
This infographic shows how big the student loan bubble is going to grow - Business Insider
***HIGHER ED
The crisis in intelligence education (the intellectual acumen of the national security community is rapidly declining) - Vice
Inside the secret gay movement at one of America’s most homophobic colleges - Fusion
Wheaton Professor Claims White Privilege & Sexism Are Behind Larycia Hawkins Controversy - Patheos
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Feeding English Majors in the 21st Century (A new course teaches undergraduates in the humanities how to market themselves for the new economic normal) - The Chronicle of Higher Ed
Computer Science, MeetHumanities: in New Majors, Opposites Attract (Stanford University sees such integration as a way to bring in students who are drawn to the arts but feel that they need computing skills for their careers) - The Chronicle of Higher Ed
****ACADEMIC LIFE
Are Academics Disproportionately Gay? – Inside Higher Ed
Academics Get Real (Adjuncts and tenure-line faculty members unite on Twitter under #realacademicbios to pull back the curtain on their emotional lives) – Inside Higher Ed
#Delete AcademiaEdu or Don't? (Controversy about Academia.edu considering charging users to promote their work illustrates the delicate subject of the role money plays in scholarly publishing) - Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
The Limits of Facts in Teaching - Chronicle of Higher Ed