Articles of Interest
/***PSYCHOLOGY
The uniquely American appeal of Donald Trump’s favorite insult: You're not an extrovert Washington Post
Does Your College Student Have a Problem with Addiction? (Steps parents can take to identify & treat drug and alcohol problems) Psychology Today
What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team (New research reveals surprising truths about why some work groups thrive and others falter) New York Times
***NEUROSCIENCE
Beam Me Up, Scotty? Turns Out Your Brain Is Ready For Teleportation NPR
A Year Ago, The Dress Murdered the Idea of Objective Color Wired
***PHILOSOPHY
Dear Immanuel — Kant Gives Love Advice to a Heartbroken Young Woman (1791) Open Culture
***ETHICS
How Secular Are Secular Ethics? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Evolution of moral outrage: I’ll punish your bad behavior to make me look good The Conversation
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Dealing with a Moody Man Becoming (my blog)
Three Steps for Creating a New Habit Chronicle of Higher Ed
***THE INTERNET
SEO: How Do You Solve A Google Problem Like Rick Santorum's? NPR
***HUMANITIES /STEM
The Case Against Mandating Math for Students (algebra is overrated) Chronicle of Higher Ed (subscription required for this story)
***LANGUAGE
Linguists Not Exactly Wow About Facebook’s New Reactions Wired
Linguistics could help future driverless cars cooperate better The Stack
***LITERATURE
You’ve never seen your favorite books like this before Washington Post
Where's The Color In Kids' Lit? Ask The Girl With 1,000 Books (And Counting) NPR
***RACE & GENDER ISSUES
Blackflix: How Netflix's algorithm exposes technology's acial bias Marie Clarie
Zuckerberg Furious With Employees For Erasing 'Black Lives Matter' Slogans NBC News
English-speaking Asian Americans stand out for their technology use Pew Research
Is speaking Spanish necessary to be Hispanic? Most Hispanics say no Pew Research
Sense and Sensibility and Jane Austen's Accidental Feminists The Atlantic
***FREE SPEECH
Apple May Use a First Amendment Defense in That FBI Case. And It Just Might Work WIRED
Donald Trump says he wants to change Libel Law Washington Post
***TECHNOLOGY
Service Launched to Help Universities Comply With ADA Web Site Regulations Campus Technology
'Body Hacking' Movement Rises Ahead Of Moral Answers NPR
A new wave of mobile technology is on its way, and will bring drastic change Economist
Now You Can Type in Google Docs by Speaking Wired
***IMAGES & DESIGN
Vertical video is becoming more popular, but there’s no consensus on the best way to make it Harvard's Nieman Lab
Handy Chart Helps You Understand the Elements of Typography Wired
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Your Social Media Accounts Are A Criminal's Best Friend (One California burglar tracked women using their Instagram locations) Vocativ
Snapchat employee data leaked following phishing scam The Stack
How to Keep Instagram From Taking Over Your Phone Wired
So Social: How to create and use Twitter lists Providence Journal
***BIG DATA
Obama Set to Expand Sharing of Data between NSA to other American intelligence agencies New York Times
Child Advocate: Risk scores created by predictive modeling software can endanger children Forbes
Obama set to expand data sharing between NSA and other American intel agencies NY Times
Of the many reasons that Big Data initiatives fail, here are seven First Post
***RELIGION
How a Leading Christian College Turned Against Its Gay Leader Time
Does Religion Matter In The Presidential Election? (Faith-driven voters are quite likely getting down on their knees to pray for their candidates) Vocativ
U.S. religious groups and their political leanings Pew Research
Who Are the Gay Evangelicals? New York Times
Did Nike stop Steph Curry from putting scripture on his basketball shoes? Snopes
***BUSINESS
Reports of the death of performance reviews are exaggerated (opinion) Economist
***MEDIA
Jeb’s Downfall Proves Political TV Ads Don’t Work Anymore Wired
***JOURNALISM
“Rolling Papers:” The crazy experiment called weed journalism University of Colorado Student Newspaper
Nearly Eight-in-Ten Reddit Users Get News on the Site Pew Research
5 of the best: podcasts about data journalism Online Journalism
How millennials read news; lessons from the Engaging News Project Gatehouse
Wired Warns Four stories were plagiarized Retraction Watch
***JOURNALISM / SPOTLIGHT
November Post by a Member of the Spotlight team Medium
Oscars 2016: Read about the Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalism That Got Spotlight the Best Film Award First Post
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Can Technology Save Journalism? Forbes
The Fading Newspaper Bloomberg
***STUDENT LIFE
Joe Biden Asked Oscar Viewers to Fight Rape Culture on College Campuses Mic
Study: Millennials could help sway the election in these 10 states USA Today
15% of American Adults Have Used Online Dating Sites or Mobile Dating Apps Pew Research
Millennials Make Up Almost Half of Latino Eligible Voters in 2016 Pew Research
The cost of skipping class, by the numbers USA Today
Fixing A Broken Freshman Year: What An Overhaul Might Look Like NPR
The baffling reason many millennials don’t eat cereal Washington Post
Millennials less confident about nation’s future, but so were their parents, grandparents when young Pew Research
A new study says half of US students could be internet addicts Quartz
***ACADEMIC LIFE
What is the best way to assess faculty activity? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
President Quits at Mount St. Mary's Inside Higher Ed
Colleges say the Department of Education's guidance on campus sexual assault is vague and inconsistent Inside Higher Ed
University of Missouri fundraising takes $6 million hit in December as donors hold back funds Columbia Tribune