articles of interest - Nov 28
/***TECHNOLOGY
A 10-Digit Key Code to Your Private Life: Your Cellphone Number New York Times
***BIG DATA
Google’s AI translation tool seems to have invented its own secret internal language Tech Crunch
Better Questions to Ask Your Data Scientists Harvard Business Review
Artificial Intelligence can now judge books by their covers, determine genre at a glance Nature World News
10 Big Data Trends for 2017 Dzone
Big Data in search of unique data sets fuels market for small satellites Space News
Deep learning, model checking, AI, the no-homunculus principle, and the unitary nature of consciousness Andrew Gelman
***ART & DESIGN
The Most Influential Images of All Time TIME
***SOCIAL MEDIA
How Facebook Is Transforming Disaster Response Wired
Facebook’s Stumbles Expose Flaws in Its Plan to Rule Advertising Wired
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Joy of Third Place Becoming (my blog)
***TEACHING
New website seeks to register professors accused of liberal bias and “anti-American values” Inside Higher Ed
Most Students Don’t Know When News Is Fake, Stanford Study Finds Wall Street Journal
Millions Have Dyslexia, Few Understand It NPR
***WRITING& READING
9 Online Tools to Help Writers Find a Literary Agent Media Shift
Don’t Look Now, But 2016 Is Resurrecting Poetry Wired
Who doesn’t read books in America? Pew Research
Book Publishers Scramble to make sense of Trump’s Rise to Victory New York Times
J.M. Coetzee on the Pleasures of Writing: Total Engagement, Hard Thought & Productiveness Open Culture
***LANGUAGE
'Atlas Obscura' Explores Roots Of The So-Called Mid-Atlantic Accent NPR
***LITERATURE
Are There Really Only 6 Plots In All Of Literature? Bustle
Richard Rorty’s 1998 Book Suggested Election 2016 Was Coming New York Times
Great 19 Century Poems Read in French: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine & More Open Culture
Why literature matters in debate about race and immigrants The Conversation
An Animated Introduction to George Orwell Open Culture
***GENDER ISSUES
How Early Feminist Writer Margaret Fuller’s Memoirs Were Rewritten Jstor
***RACE
White Power Leader's New Target: Colleges Inside Higher Ed
Two Jewish professors on different campuses are harassed with anti-Semitic threats at a time when swastikas have appeared at a number of institutions Inside Higher Ed
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
News organizations file suit against College for access to sexual assault records WRAL TV
Women who reported gang rape by Baylor football players reach settlement with school ESPN
Sexual Violence Might Reshape the Female Brain OZY
***BUSINESS
Google HR boss explains the only 2 ways to keep your best people from quitting Business Inside
***RELIGION
Most say their churches remained above the electoral fray this year Pew Research
***MUSIC
China’s newest export hit is classical music Economist
Don't Give up on the Guitar Bloomberg
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Will 2017 Be Better For Radio? Radio Ink
***JOURNALISM
A guide to public records and the Trump Presidential Transition MuckRock
What TV journalists did wrong — and the New York Times did right — in meeting with Trump Washington Post
Two NPR designers left their comfort zones to create an experimental podcast for kids Nieman Labs
Maneuvering a new reality for US journalism Columbia Journalism Review
My ProPublica Move: From Blogging and Teaching Back to Deep Digging on Climate Dot Earth
The tech/editorial culture clash Columbia Journalism Review
***FAKE NEWS
The CNN porn scare is how fake news spreads The Verge
Fake News and the Internet Shell Game New York Times
For the ‘new yellow journalists,’ opportunity comes in clicks and bucks Washington Post
Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say Washington Post
An Exercise to Sift for Sources Amid a Blitz of Fake News New York Times
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Why The Wall Street Journal is cutting print sections and refocusing on its core coverage Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***STUDENT LIFE
The Myth of the Sports Scholarship (sub. req’ed.) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HEALTH
Big Data Coming In Faster Than Biomedical Researchers Can Process It NPR
***PSYCHOLOGY
Why Very Smart People Are Happiest Alone Big Think
***PHILOSOPHY
Socrates: The Father Of Western Philosophy (video) Seeker
A philosophy competition is asking the public to submit their most controversial, puzzling questions Quartz
How a Philosophy Professor Found Love in a Hidden Library New York Times
***HIGHER ED
Education, Not Income, Predicted Who Would Vote For Trump FiveThirtyEight
A ‘Netflix for Education’? Why LinkedIn’s New Product Should Give Us Pause (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Seeking students, public colleges reduce out-of-state prices Associated Press
These 15 Ridiculous Rules For Women Used To Be Enforced On College Campuses Vira Nova
Feast or Famine' for Humanities Ph.D.s: Some doctorate earners emerge with high levels of debt, while a growing number have none Inside Higher Ed
The Title IX Lives of Christian Colleges Christianity Today