Articles of Interest - August 29
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Inside Facebook’s Totally Insane Unintentionally Gigantic Hyperpartisan Political Media Machine New York Times Magazine
FB predicts your political pref The Wrap
Social Network Nextdoor Moves To Block Racial Profiling Online NPR
Pinterest Buys Instapaper, the Popular ‘Read Later’ App Wired
Facebook is trying to get rid of bias in Trending news by getting rid of humans Quartz
Sent From My iPhone: how a humblebrag became a key piece of net etiquette The Guardian
Facebook suspends Domain Insights, changing rules of the road for new publishers Digiday
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Emotional Blackmail Becoming (my blog)
5 Ways to Steal Like An Artist Medium
***RACE
Big data and hidden cameras are emerging as dangerous weapons in the gentrification wars Quartz
***LEGAL ISSUES
The Difference between Copyright Infringement and Plagiarism—and Why It Matters Library Journal
Quackwatch.org Survives Defamation Case As Judge Rejects Claims of Two Anti-Aging Doctors Pathos
Chipotle's social media policy violated federal labor Law360
***TECHNOLOGY
What it feels like to be the last generation to remember life before the internet Quartz
Voice Recognition Software Finally Beats Humans At Typing, Study Finds NPR
***BIG DATA
The CIA working to monitor you from Space Vocativ
How Big Data has Changed Decision Making Harvard Business Review
50 Useful Machine Learning and Prediction APIs
A look at Three Big Data Trends This year Fine Extra
***FILM
The best 100 films of the 21st century, according to 177 film critics around the world Quartz
***GRAMMAR
The argument for writing "a historian” Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING& READING
Copy Edit This! New York Times
***LITERATURE
12 Sexting Ideas From Classic Literature That Book Nerds Will Blush Over Bustle
***RESEARCH
An alarming number of scientific papers contain Excel errors Washington Post
Excel Created Major Typos in 20 Percent of Scientific Papers on Genes Slate
New leader of NIH’s research watchdog faces staff revolt Science Mag
How to Review a Paper The Genome’s Take
NASA's new online archive is a treasure trove of free research articles The Verge
***RELIGION
What do Americans look for in a church, and how do they find one? It depends in part on their age Pew Research
Why Church Hymns Are Best Sung in Bars The Atlantic
Why America’s ‘nones’ left religion behind Pew Research
A Preacher's Kid Finds His Own Sanctuary In Music NPR
The feel-good gospel of the pastor made famous by Kimye and Bieber Esquire
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
How Netflix does A/B testing Medium
Five Reasons Not to Trust Your Analytics Data Mind the Product
***JOURNALISM
FBI investigating Russian hack of New York Times reporters, others CNN
Why I Force My Students to Learn AP Style Prof KRG
How Does the Language of Headlines Work? Jstor
How Journalists Can Protect Themselves (And Keep Their Apple Devices) In Wake of iOS Vulnerability Media Shift
How to use open source information to investigate stories online International Journalists’ Network
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
It’s hard to giveaway small newspapers New York Times
Survey Finds Newsrooms Are Monitoring Metrics, Not Acting on Them Media Shift
***STUDENT MEDIA
University Will Sue Its Own Student Newspaper For Reporting On Sexual Assault Case BuzzFeed News
The University of Kentucky prof facing sexual harassment allegations also faced accusations of research misconduct Kentucky Kernel
***STUDENT LIFE
Graduate Students Can Unionize at Private Colleges, U.S. Labor Panel Rules Wall Street Journal
‘Stacking the Deck’ Against Due Process at UCSD The FIRE
Blame millennials for the vanishing bar of soap CBS News
This may be the last presidential election dominated by Boomers and prior generations Pew Research
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Judge: Academic Freedom Doesn't Bar Campus Carry Inside Higher Ed
***SCIENCE
Must Science be Testable: Why Science needs philosophy Aeon
***HEALTH
The right to die: What is unbearable? Economist
Doctors Who Sexually Abuse Patients NPR
Zika: The Millennials’ S.T.D.? New York Times
Friendships Might Not Help You Live Longer, But Family Does New York Mag
Who Let The Dogs In? More Companies Welcome Pets At Work NPR
Superbug resistant to two last-resort antibiotics found in US for first time Stat News
The Life-Changing Magic of Choosing the Right Hospital New York Times
***PSYCHOLOGY
Instagram Probably Can’t Predict Depression. GPS, Though… Wired
***NEUROSCIENCE
Narrowing the gap between biological brains and electronic ones The Economist
***ETHICS
Self-driving cars don't care about your moral dilemmas The Guardian
Many Americans are wary of using gene editing for human enhancement Pew Research
***HIGHER ED
The New Cheating Economy Chronicle of Higher Ed
The university's note to new students sets off national debate on safe spaces, trigger warnings and more Inside Higher Ed
A Brief Guide to the Battle Over Trigger Warnings Chronicle of Higher Ed
Does Religious Liberty Include the Right to Harass and Harm Newsweek
The California Christian Colleges/LGBT Bill NPR
Oklahoma Wesleyan Joins Lawsuit Challenging 2011 ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter The FIRE
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Study finds Students Benefit from Waiting to Declare a Major Inside Higher Ed
What Doctors Can Learn from the Arts Jstor
How Performing in Theater Can Help Build Empathy in Students KQED
***TEACHING
It’s Time to Ditch Our Deadlines: Why you should stop penalizing your students for submitting work late Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why Cold-Calling on Students Works Chronicle of Higher Ed