Articles of Interest August 1
/***TECHNOLOGY
Wearables in the Workplace: Promise and Pitfalls National Law Review
***ART AND DESIGN
How to Design a Google Font Format
Great Products Don’t Happen By Accident: Using playbooks for designing and building products Medium
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Vine’s top stars are fleeing, despite the app’s best attempts to keep them Washington Post
***BIG DATA / STATS
Clearing up confusion about data science by imagining it in terms of the simplifying framework of an avocado Data Science Central
40 Techniques Used by Data Scientists including clustering, pattern recognition, Bayesian stats and more Data Science Central
***GENDER ISSUES
Hillary Clinton’s husband wore a fetching pantsuit to honor her nomination for US president Quartz
***RACE
Investigative journalism org finds racial bias in secret crime algorithm that was supposedly filled false positives Chronicle of Social Change
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Title IX Victory for Man Suing Over Sex Assault Finding Inside Higher Ed
College Is Accused of Inaction After Anonymous Report of Gang Rape Chronicle of Higher Ed
Court: Adjunct may not use Title VII to sue a college for bias Inside Higher Ed
***PERSONAL GROWTH
30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself (1-Stop spending time with the wrong people) Becoming (my blog)
***WRITING& READING
A writing handbook that doesn't just repeat the standard just-say-no dictat about the passive voice Chronicle of Higher Ed
5 ways for PR pros to sharpen their writing PR Daily
***LITERATURE
Dentist Protagonists In Literature NPR
What College Freshmen Are Reading NPR
***RESEARCH
***LEGAL ISSUES
Judge Tosses Out Defamation Lawsuit Filed Against ProPublica, CIR Propublica
***FREE SPEECH
Fighting for Free Speech on America's Campuses New York Times
***RELIGION
Another reason contemporary Christian music sounds ‘cliched and over-produced’ Washington Post
Died: Tim LaHaye, Author Who 'Left Behind' a Long Legacy Christianity Today
On Wikipedia, Pokémon Go Is a Bigger Deal Than the Bible Gizmodo
10 Donald Trump Quotes That Should Horrify His Evangelical Supporters Huffington Post
***JOURNALISM
Delayed, Denied, Dismissed: Failures on the FOIA Front Propublica
When Newspaper Paywalls Come Tumbling Down: Six Motivations Forbes
Despite acquisitions, earnings at Gannett fall as print advertising remains weak Talking New Media
***PSYCHOLOGY
Is Hypnosis All in Your Head? Brain Scans Suggest Otherwise New York Times
Constant Multitasking Is Damaging Millennial Brains, Research Shows Inc
***PHILOSOPHY
The basics of the thorny relationship between science and philosophy ArsTechnia
Philosopher of the month: René Descartes Oxford University Press
***HIGHER ED
A University Makes a Rare Call to Ditch Its Title IX Exemption Chronicle of Higher Ed
Thirteen lessons I wish someone had taught me before I became an academic administrator Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
More Professors Know About Free Textbook Options, but Adoption Remains Low Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Syllabus as a Contract: How do you deal with clever students who find loopholes you didn’t intend? Chronicle of Higher Ed
A Platform to Monitor Learning Inside Higher Ed