articles of interest - Jan 23

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Making the most of social media  MIT

Why Instagram is reinventing itself  Recode

***ART & DESIGN

What’s the best font size for the web?  Prototypr

 

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Making Friends  Becoming (my site)

***FREE SPEECH

University debates whether Academic Freedom covers work considered Fake Science  Inside Higher Ed

***LEGAL ISSUES

Student Sues College Over 'Social Justice' Activism Mandate  Forbes

***TECHNOLOGY

Fired IT employee offered to unlock College’s data — for $200,000  Indianapolis Star

***BIG DATA & STATISTICS

A video explaining Machine Learning in a simple way University of Oxford

How Big Data, Deep Learning, Data Science & #AI have changed in the last year KD Nuggets

Assessing the frameworks for implementing Deep Learning   Medium

Why physicists make great data scientists  Wired

***RELIGION

Almost all U.S. presidents, including Trump, have been Christians  Pew Research

Trump's Spiritual Adviser Talks About Relationship With President  NPR

***MUSIC

In An Ever-Changing Music Industry, Cash For Hits Remains A Constant  NPR

Inside Pandora's Quest to Take on Spotify, Apple Music & Amazon  Billboard

***SCIENCE

The Fine Art of Sniffing Out Crappy Science  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***PSYCHOLOGY           

Kitty Dukakis: Electroshock Therapy Has Given Me A New Lease On Life  NPR

***PHILOSOPHY

An Introduction to Hegel’s Philosophy of History: The Road to Progress Runs First Through Dark Times  Open Culture

 ***HIGHER ED

What does Obamacare repeal look like on a college campus?   Education Dive

Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60  New York Times

***ONLINE CLASSES

Study Finds Simple Interventions can help certain online Learners persist  Inside Higher Ed

Education Dept. Clarifies Rule Governing Online Courses  Chronicle of Higher Ed

***HUMANITIES /STEM

Report that first Trump budget will try to kill arts and humanities endowments alarms many academics. Science programs in Energy Department could also face cuts  Inside Higher Ed

The world couldn’t afford engineering degrees without philosophy majors  Quartz

***STUDENT LIFE

Whose dorm rooms are dirtier, men's or women's? Here's the answer  USA Today

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

At first, 55 schools faced sexual violence investigations. Now the list has quadrupled to 223 schools  Washington Post

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Northwestern U Faculty encouraged to put mental health services info on their syllabi  Inside Higher Ed