Articles of Interest - Feb 8
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****SCIENCE
Simulating Scientific Sabotage, For Fun (a card game making light of the “wacky aspects of scientific research”) - The Scientist
Can the Placebo Effect Have Real Clinical Value? - Science Friday
****PSYCHOLOGY
Beware the rule-following co-worker, Harvard study warns - Washington Post
Why so many straight women like to befriend gay men - Mashable
Social science: Online social networks do not change the fundamentals of friendship - The Economist
What people around the world mean when they say they’re happy - Washington Post
4 creepy psychological tricks companies use to get you to buy things - Business Insider
****NEUROSCIENCE
Trauma prompts the brain to focus on survival, not 'peripheral details' - CBC
Brain volume changes after cognitive behavioral therapy - Science Daily
Brain scans to catch depression before it starts - FoxNews
Review of the book "Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body by Jo Marchant (opinion) - Washington Post
Listening to Music While Reading Complex Sentences Affects Musical Experience - Neuroscience News
***SOCIAL MEDIA
The definitive list of what everyone likes on Facebook (The most (and least) popular interests on Facebook, as revealed by its new Preferred Audience tool) - The Verge
Twitter's timeline will soon show tweets out of order - the Verge
Twitter Beefs Are Now Front Page News in The Boston Globe – Wired
***WRITIN’ AND READIN’
How to Prune Jargon From Your Popular Writing - Chronicle of Higher Ed
***GRAMMAR
Why 2015’s word of the year is rather singular - The Economist
Oh, Commas - Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Fall and Rise of the Singular They - Slate's Lexicon Valley
***LANGUAGE
Sarah Palin's English (her speeches on the campaign trail aren’t simple; they are actually incredibly complicated) - New York Times
***LITERATURE
Is Amazon Planning Hundreds Of Bookstores? Analysts Doubt It - NPR
Brash, worldly and wickedly funny, Eka Kurniawan may be South-East Asia’s most ambitious writer in a generation - The Economist
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Is One Braaaaaaainy Mashup - Wired
Is English literature since 1918 really such a man’s world? (A new book celebrating the best writing of the past century follows a well-worn script when it comes to equality) – The Guardian
The 10 Best First Dates In Literature - Bustle
What Would Shakespeare Make of Trump? - Chronicle of Higher Ed
The adoption of Greek literature by the Romans was more unlikely than it appears in hindsight – The Economist
Shakespeare’s Badass Quarto (On the trail of a centuries-old Hamlet mystery-subscription required) - Chronicle of Higher Ed
#1000BlackGirls and the Importance of Diversity in Children’s Literature - JSTOR
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM/MEDIA
Patch Rebounds after Split from AOL - Wall Street Journal
Podcasts are gaining audience, but have yet to attract the biggest advertisers - The Economist
Why the NYT Is Looking to Cut Costs, Even Though It Turned a Profit - New York Times
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Unfocusing increases Creativity - Becoming (my blog)
Your reaction to this confusing headline reveals more about you than you know (The science behind why some people embrace uncertainty, and others don't) - Washington Post
Stanford psychologist explains why spacing out and goofing off is so good for you - Washington Post
Things to Say Instead of Sorry – Business Insider
***THE INTERNET
Google will start warning web users about deceptive download buttons - The Verge
***RESEARCH
Bogus Iran-Based Journal Allows Up to 40% Plagiarism - Scholarly Open Access
Research quality declines with scientists’ age, study finds - Times Higher Ed
How can social media be used to increase article citation? - Sage Connection
***POLITICS
American Political Jargon - Bloomberg
Do Political TV Ads Still Work? - NPR
***POLITICS & RELIGION
Jesus reads Donald Trump and Ted Cruz: Jimmy Kimmel – Salon
Marco Rubio, an Evangelical Catholic? The dynamics of religious hybrids – KPCC podcasts
***RACE & GENDER ISSUES
How to stop the sexual harassment of women in science: reboot the system - The Conversation
Baylor faces accusations of ignoring sex assault victims - ESPN
No, There Was No Debate About Removing An MLK Quote At The University Of Oregon (student newspaper story misunderstood) - Huffington Post
***LEGAL ISSUES
Judge Gives Monkey Second Chance to Sue for Copyright Infringement - MotherBoard
***TECHNOLOGY
Why the iPad Is Going Extinct - New Republic
At Berkeley, a New Digital Privacy Protest (university installs data-tracking program with little notice or consultation)– New York Times
***BUSINESS
The fashion for making employees collaborate has gone too far - The Economist
***BIG DATA
Hadoop At 10: Milestones And Momentum - Information Week
Hadoop vs Spark. Which is superior? Better yet.. what if we used them both together? -Datamation
Projection: global Hadoop market to hit more than $84 billion in revenue in 5 years - Inside Big Data
Who loves where Big Data analytics are going? Dictatorships and rogue nations - Forbes
***RELIGION
Charismatic Christianity thrives among people on the move - The Economist
Pentecostalism in South Korea - The Economist
Oscar-Favorite 'Spotlight' Screens at the Vatican for Pope's Sex Abuse Commission - Yahoo News
While the government talks up family values, marriage break-ups are soaring - The Economist
Some Still Misleading America About Thomas Jefferson - History News Network
German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his fight against the Nazis - Jerusalem Post
****PHILOSOPHY
Philosopher of the month: Plato - OUP Blog
***HIGHER ED
Practically all young people now go to school, but they need to learn a lot more there - The Economist
Low Income, High Graduation Rate (Two new studies suggest many colleges may be too quick to write off low-income students and community college transfers) - Inside Higher Ed
Wheaton of Illinois and professor it tried to fire over her statements about God reach deal under which she will leave - Inside Higher Ed
Questions Linger After Tenured Wheaton College ProfessorAgrees to Leave - TIME
***TEACHING
Unwarranted praise of student writing is counterproductive, but too much negativity is far more damaging - Chronicle of Higher Ed
****STUDENT LIFE
Ignore the moral panic about lazy, self-obsessed millennials. The world will be fairer when they run it - The Economist
Commitment for Millennials: Is It Okay, Cupid?
***HUMANITIES /STEM
What Is The Value Of An EducationIn The Humanities? - NPR
***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS
Alabama student paper devotes issue to sexual assault - Crimson
A Closer Look at 7 Common Requirements in Resolved Federal Sex-Assault Inquiries (subscription) (As Title IX complaints have multiplied, the government has issued more expansive mandates for the colleges it has investigated)
How (not) to manage a PR crisis on campus (school slow to respond to campus crime) - CBC