Articles of Interest - March 7
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Why We Post: A global study reveals how people fit social media into their lives The Economist
The dark side of going viral that no one talks about Washington Post
Controversial Calgary-based app Peeple launches Monday Calgary Herald
We calculated the year dead people on Facebook could outnumber the living Fusion
Meerkat Is Ditching the Livestream—And Chasing a Video Social Network Instead Recode
How Facebook’s ‘App for Everything’ Could Revolutionize Media and Marketing Contently
Colbert introduces FB alpha (video) Stephen Colbert
How Snapchat Built a Business Bloomberg
Quiz: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone? Washington Post
***THE INTERNET
The organisation that runs the internet address book is about to declare independence (subscription) The Economist
Infographic: Email Is Eating More of Your Life Than You Think Contently
Engineering the internet is too big a task for one outfit The Economist
***TECHNOLOGY
See that Billboard? It may see you too New York Times
Retailers Experiment With Surveillance Tools Used by Police (Soon, a department store robot may be greeting you by name) Bloomberg
What Comes After Apps (Apps now crowd our devices, but alternatives are in the works) Wall Street Journal
***ART AND DESIGN
Cycloid Drawing Machine (A virtual version of the classic Spirograph toy)
MIT Scientists embraces a new chaos theory: Art New York Times
***BIG DATA
Future Of Big Data: Here's How Amazon, LinkedIn, Salesforce Are Reshaping Elite MBA Programs Business Because
Growing demand for data analytics is reshaping elite MBA programs Business Because
The forces shifting the geospatial industry IT ProPortal
Big Data Myths That Just Won't Die (1-You Need the Perfect Data Scientist) Business.com
So exactly how does one start a career in machine learning? Data Science Central
Child Advocate: Risk scores created by predictive modeling software can endanger children Forbes
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Did you feed the bears? Becoming (my blog)
***WRITIN’ AND READIN’
How Someone with Dyslexia may experience reading Github
Become Your Own Writing Teacher Chronicle of Higher Ed
“The Most Dangerous Writing App” Destroys Your Progress if You Stop Typing Life Hacker
Social Sharing – Can You Write a Post People Trust Enough to Share? Semrush
When robots write poetry The Daily Dot
Coming Down from the Clouds: On Academic Writing Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
French, Spanish, German ... Java? Making Coding Count As A Foreign Language (Florida is poised to become the first state to allow computer coding to fulfill a foreign-language requirement in high school) NPR
***LITERATURE
Jane Eyre and the Invention of the Self (Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel helped introduce the idea of the “modern individual”—a surprisingly radical concept for readers at the time) The Atlantic
Gorgeous new covers for 100 great public domain books BongBong
***SCIENCE & RESEARCH
Statisticians Found One Thing They Can Agree On: It’s Time To Stop Misusing P-Values FiveThirtyEight
Can Science’s Reproducibility Crisis Be Reproduced? Chronicle of Higher Ed
#IAmAResearchParasite (the need for quality data sharing) (opinion) Science Magazine
Human-animal studies academics dogged by German hoaxers (fooled by fake PhD student’s paper on role of alsatians in totalitarianism) The Guardian
PLOS ONE retracting paper that cites “the Creator” Retraction Watch
Many surveys, about one in five, may contain fraudulent data Science Magazine
Evaluating a New Proposal for Detecting Data Falsification in Surveys Pewq Research
How to Keep Bad Science From Getting Into Print (‘Irreproducible’ research is more often due to error than misconduct or fraud, but fighting it is vital-written by the Dean of Harvard Medical School) Wall Street Journal
***RACE & GENDER ISSUES
Why Do Some Women Quit Science? New York Times
How Does Gender Affect One's Willingness To Compete? NPR
Our glass-ceiling index: Still a man’s world (Our index of the climate for working women now includes paternity leave) The Economist
Researchers have found strong evidence that racism helps the GOP win Washington Post
Female medical researchers hit a paper ceiling Stat News
Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men (study) PeerJ
The best—and worst—places to be a working woman The Economist
My Brilliant (White Male) Professors (Study finds students are more likely to use certain words of praise when describing professors who are men or who are in fields with few female and black scholars) Inside Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
A Plagiarism Scandal Is Unfolding In The Crossword World FiveThirtyEight
***RELIGION
Wycliffe Associates Leaves Bible Translation Alliance over ‘Son of God’ for Muslims Christianity Today
Jerry Bridges' Pursuit of Holiness Has Come to an End Christianity Today
Russian Faces Up to Year in Prison for Denying Existence of God NBC
Churches Are Twice as Likely to Fear Refugees as to Help Them (Survey studies how American Protestants are engaging the refugee crisis, and why many are not) Christianity Today
Women relatively rare in top positions of religious leadership Pew Research
This college is launching a bachelor’s degree in gospel music, the first of its kind Washington Post
‘It’s embarrassing to be an evangelical this election’ (opinion written by recent PLNU chapel speaker Jim Wallis) Frost Illustrated
Don’t Take Your Kids to a Megachurch: An Open Letter to Andy Stanley (opinion) Patheos
***RELIGION & POLITICS
Echoing Republican split, evangelicals divide over Trump Associated Press
Evangelical Leaders Question Movement's Support Of Trump NPR
What Wouldn’t Jesus Do? (opinion) New York Times
God files for divorce from Republican Party Religious News Service
***ECONOMICS
Microeconomists’ claims to be doing real science turn out to be true The Economist
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Study Finds Only 40% Of Digital Buys Going To Working Media Media Post
Traditional TV Audience Ages, Big Chunk Of Viewers 65+ Media Post
***JOURNALISM
10 newsgathering and verification tools for newsrooms on a budget First Draft News
'Spotlight' celebrates journalism that couldn't have happened in these countries without press freedom Public Radio International
Forget 'Spotlight': There's a war against journalism Philly.com
10 journalism movies that journalists love Indy Star
Media Veterans Get in on the Nonprofit News Boom (American Media Institute staffs up) Observer'
CUNY’s new Spanish-language journalism program, with big ambitions, opens for applications Harvard's Nieman Lab
***FREE SPEECH
The Glaring Evidence That Free Speech Is Threatened on Campus The Atlantic
Court strikes down student code prohibiting ‘distressing’ speech Student Press Law Center
***JOBS
CV vs. resume: Here's how the two differ USA Today
***PSYCHOLOGY
Psychologists and massage therapists are reporting ‘Trump anxiety’ among clients The Washington Post
***NEUROSCIENCE
Which Exercise is best for the Brain New York Times
The magical thing eating chocolate does to your brain The Washington Post
Couch potatoes may have smaller brains later in life CBS News
***PHILOSOPHY
CUNY philosophy professor takes on Bill Nye (opinion) Plato’s Footnote
Why are so many smart people such idiots about philosophy? (opinion) Quartz
Philosophy’s True Home (The idea that philosophy was and still is isolated from other disciplines ignores much of its history-opinion) New York Times
***STUDENT LIFE
5 facts about online dating Pew Research
Strategies For When You're Starting Out Saddled With Student Debt NPR
Students Enter Global Competition To Counter Extremism NPR
3 Tips for Marketing to Millennials – When You’re Not a Millennial Umbel
Study shows certain types of emails often go unread by students -- but social media isn't the reason why Inside Higher Ed
Fixing The Freshman Year: Here's What College Sophomores Say NPR
How the Great Generational Shift is Causing Transformation in the Very Nature of Employment Gigaom
Outbreaks of norovirus and mumps hit college campuses around the country Inside Higher Ed
Recent study attracting press attention says students use the app to make friends. Some experts doubt it Inside Higher Ed
***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS
Students say Christian College assigned a 500-Word Essay as Punishment.. for Rape Inside Higher Ed
For Sexual Assault Victims, An Effort To Loosen Statutes Of Limitations NPR
University of Texas System instructs its police officers to base sexual assault investigations in neuroscience Inside Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Enough with trashing the liberal arts. Stop being stupid Washington Post
Our current national mood may be revealing something missing in our educational agenda (opinion) Keith Evans
***TEACHING
Rethinking online education (The first generation of online learning came with a lot of hype but didn’t fully deliver on its promise. What does the future hold?) Medium
Why Do Colleges Still Use Grades? Chronicle of Higher
Instructional Design: Demand grows for a new breed of academic Chronicle of Higher
Report: Game-Based Learning Helps Students Develop Writing Skills Campus Technology