Articles of Interest - March 14
/***GENDER ISSUES
Women on Boards Bloomberg
Girls keep out: Female video gamers face vile abuse, threats Associated Press
Strong global support for gender equality, especially among Pew Research Center
Gender Bias in Academe: An Annotated Bibliography of Important Recent Studies London School of Economics & Political Science
No, The Federal Government Did Not Spend $412K to Study Gender and Glaciers Gawker
One Professor Has a Clue As to Why Women Choose Not to Stay in STEM New York Magazine
Making Categories, Breaking Categories Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RACE
Why Publishing Is So White Publishers Weekly
The “Model Minority” and the Hidden Discrimination of Asian Americans Jstor
White Privilege, Quantified (Recent experiments put numbers on everyday discrimination, shifting the dialogue away from victim-blaming and anecdotal observations) The Atlantic
***GRAMMAR
Trump's word of honer: in defense of Donald's sloppy spelling The Guardian
Order and Chaos in English Spelling Chronicle of Higher Ed
There, there, singular "their" objectors Baltimore Sun
***LANGUAGE
A scholarly dictionary of words about Donald Trump Chronicle of Higher Ed
Do You Even Language, Bro? Understanding Why Nouns Become Verbs Jstor
***LITERATURE
Free: Read All of George Orwell’s War Diaries Online (1938-1942) Open Culture
***LEGAL ISSUES
It Took a FOIA Lawsuit to Uncover How the Obama Administration Killed FOIA Reform Vice
***TECHNOLOGY
Want Safer Passwords? Don’t Change Them So Often Wired
***MOBILE
Small screens, full art, can’t lose: Despite their size, phones open up new opportunities for interactives Harvard's Nieman Lab
***ART AND DESIGN
Aerial Bold: A Clever Typeface Crafted From Satellite Shots of Buildings Wired
MIT Media Lab’s Journal of Design and Science Is a Radical New Kind of Publication Wired
Graphic Designers Spill Their Career Secrets in Infographics Wired
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook is eating the world Columbia Journalism Review
LinkedIn open sources its internal data mining software Zdnet
Yik Yak Introduces Screen Names To Curb Anonymous Trolling Huffington Post
Facebook Instant Articles opens to all publishers April 12: Freebooting for Articles? Plagiarism Today
***BIG DATA
China's real-life "Minority Report"? (a Big Data platform for “precrime” profiling to catch "terrorists" in advance) Ars Technica
How to tell a compelling story with data--6 simple rules and 6 simple tools Data Science Central
The big ideas out of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics conf involve large data sets and Machine Learning FiveThirtyEight
***JOURNALISM
Diving into Data Journalism: Strategies for getting started or going deeper American Press Institute
Female Sportscasters Feel Staying On Defensive Is Part Of The Job NPR
Group Bids $45.5 Million for Southern California Newspapers ABC News
***STUDENT LIFE
Pets, debts and e-cigarettes: how millennials spend their paychecks The Guardian
Competent, hardworking millennials are getting shafted by older employees who feel they deserve bigger salaries (opinion) Business Insider
Yelp was right to fire entitled millennial who whined about salary online (opinion) New York Post
Fired Yelp worker's rant doesn't make all millennials 'entitled' (opinion) Chicago Tribune
The Real Reasons College Students Drop Out Fortune
Globalization, Technology, Customization & Overparenting - Meet the Millennial Generation Gigaom
***RELIGION
New Set Of TV Shows Tackle Complexities Of Religion NPR
7 key findings about religion and politics in Israel Pew Research Center
The Church Collection Plate Goes Digital Bloomberg
***SCIENCE
Saving Science from the Scientists ("Could two-thirds of psychological research really be useless?" podcast) BBC
***PSYCHOLOGY
An influential psychological theory may have just been debunked Slate
***PHILOSOPHY
Schools are finally starting to teach kids philosophy Tech Insider
Philosophy’s True Home New York Times
A Sip of What Philosophy Needs (Existentialism, born over cocktails in 1932, still speaks to what we can learn from ordinary life-subscription) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Pretentious Academic Quote Generator
Philosophy Professor Displays Sign Opposing Concealed Weapons on Campus, Gets Arrested Savannah Now
***HIGHER ED
The Armed Campus in the Anxiety Age (Campus-carry laws add unnecessary worry to communities already overwhelmed by unease) The Atlantic
Median Salaries of Senior College Administrators, 2015-16 (administrative salaries are growing more quickly at private colleges than at public institutions) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Trump Rallies Raise Safety Concerns College Campuses Inside Higher Ed
Mount Saint Mary College president to step down The Poughkeepsie Journal
160 Private Colleges Fail Education Dept.’s Financial-Responsibility Test Chronicle of Higher Ed
The LGBT Politics of Christian Colleges (At many evangelical universities, you can be gay—as long as you don’t “act” it) The Atlantic
***HUMANITIES /STEM
The Shrinking Humanities Major (number of bachelor's degrees awarded fell 8.7 percent between 2012 and 2014, study finds) Inside Higher Ed
A Forgotten Field Could Save the Humanities Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
The Last 5 Minutes of Class Chronicle of Higher Ed
Blue Books Energized My Teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed
Students Will Rise When Colleges Challenge Them to Read Good Books (Common-reading programs for freshmen too often aim for the lowest common denominator) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RESEARCH
A Scholar’s Sting of Education Conferences Stirs a Hornet’s Nest (he sent fake research-paper summaries larded with unforgivable methodological errors to the organizers of 15 conferences he believed to have lax standards-subscription required) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Study: The Effects of Publication Retraction on Scholarly Impact Cornell University Library
Somebody explain to me again why we have journals (opinion) Steve Shea
The Case of the Missing Data MedPage Today
Statistics is like basketball, or knitting (opinion) Andrew Gelman