articles of interest - Sept 19
/***RELATIONSHIPS
How Much Do Parents Matter? The Atlantic
Scientists have identified why binge-watching together brings couples closer Quartz
LoveBot tells your wife you love her so you don’t have to TechCrunch
The Internet is systematically changing who we date Washington Post
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook steps up fight against fake news The Hill
How Luck And Intuition Helped To Build Instagram NPR
A co-founder of Twitter is betting he can revolutionise digital publishing once again with Medium Economist
***GRAMMAR
Oxford English Dictionary welcomes moobs and yolo The Guardian
Why you shouldn't be a grammar snob (video) BongBong
***WRITING & READING
How Cliché Can You Get? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why I Hate the New 'MLA Handbook' Chronicle of Higher Ed
The History and Usage of Common Symbols Medium
Should citations be normalized across disciplines? Plos
***LANGUAGE
Distant languages sound more similar than you might expect Economist
***LITERATURE
Algorithms Could Save Book Publishing—But Ruin Novels Wired
Patricians of parchment: Why manuscripts matter Economist
***RESEARCH
Why scientists must share their research code Nature
Could freeing Troves of data gathered during clinical trials lead to new cures? Proto
Be very careful when you think, "this is a good study" Statistically Funny
Links between citations and open access Elsev
***GENDER ISSUES
Discrimination by Design: The many ways design decisions treat people unequally Pacific Standard
How LinkedIn’s search engine may reflect a gender bias Seattle Times
Gender Bias and the Peer Review Process Wiley Exchanges
***FREE SPEECH
Colin Kaepernick and a Landmark Supreme Court Case New Yorker
***LEGAL ISSUES
Europe proposes copyright reform to help scientists mine research papers Nature
Judge Rejects Justice Department Ruling on Music Licensing New York Times
***RELIGION
The Faith Economy: Religion in US 'worth more than Google and Apple combined' The Guardian
How a Christian business tycoon used his depression to help tens of thousands Washington Post
Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Religion In 2016 Election NPR
Mormons are less Republican this year, and Trump is not the only reason why Religious News Service
Mother Teresa — a myth, a celebrity or a hero? Union-Tribune
***MUSIC AND ART
Can Music Save Your Life? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***JOURNALISM
4 Examples of AI’s Rise in Journalism (And What it Means for Journalists) Media Shift
When did charts become popular? How the revolution in data visualization came about Priceonomics
Fact-checkers around the world agree on shared code of principles Poynter
These students didn’t know Bin Laden was dead. How did we get so clueless about news? Washington Post
***SCIENCE
'Motherless babies!’ How to create a tabloid science headline in five easy steps Science Magazine
Genius is not enough: The sad story of Peter Hagelstein, living monument to the sunk-cost fallacy (opinion) Andrew Gelman
A 6-Step Infographic For Ending Pseudoscience Big Think
***HEALTH
How the sugar industry has distorted health science for more than 50 years Vox
There is now a sixth taste – and it explains why we love carbs New Scientist
The drug industry: Prescriptions for the pharma business Economist
Why I won't get Tested for the Breast Cancer Genes Questia
Feed a virus, starve a bacterium: An old wives’ tale gets some support from medical science Economist
To End the Opioid Epidemic, We Need Way More Than OD Treatments Wired
New study finds that medical marijuana may be helping to curb the opioid epidemic Washington Post
Parents May Be Giving Their Children Too Much Medication, Study Finds NPR
***PSYCHOLOGY
Four basic personality types identified: Pessimistic; optimistic; envious and trusting Science Daily
***NEUROSCIENCE
As More States Consider Legalizing, Questions About Pot And The Brain NPR
When Blind People Do Algebra, The Brain's Visual Areas Light Up NPR
***PHILOSOPHY
An Animated Aldous Huxley Identifies the Dystopian Threats to Our Freedom (1958) Open Culture
***ETHICS
***HIGHER ED
The Next Hot Ticket in Ed Tech? Micro-Credentials Stamford Advocate
Dallas evangelical seminary requires sex abuse awareness training The Gazette
Biola Announces Campus Safe Space Biola University
***STUDENT MEDIA
Journalism faculty ask College president to apologize, drop suit against student newspaper Associated Press
***STUDENT LIFE
Share on Twitter Share via Email Donald Trump might be causing a major shift in how young Americans feel about immigrants Washington Post
***DIVERSITY ON CAMPUS
Student Diversity at More Than 4,600 Institutions Chronicle of Higher Ed
As Standards Change, Disability Officers Race to Keep Up Chronicle of Higher Ed
Elite Colleges and the Language of Class (sub. requ’ed) Chronicle of Higher Ed