articles of interest - wk of July 24
/***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Artificial intelligence is guesswork: A Bloomberg quicktake on AI Bloomberg
Apple launches a machine learning blog focused on research papers and the company’s findings TechCrunch
Quantum computing is coming for your data - and it may take decades for the hack to come to fruition Wired
Google releases facets: a visualization tool for big data Infoq
***TECHNOLOGY
Wanna Help Self-Driving Cars? Turn on Your Phone's Camera Wired
How Cyber Criminals Are Targeting You Through Text Messages NBC News
Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years The Guardian
We’re moving toward a cashless society, and lots of people are going to be left behind ReCode
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Amazon launches shopping social network Spark for iOS Reuters
Twitter says it’s punishing 10 times more users for being abusive than it was a year ago Recode
***PRODUCING MEDIA
***INTERNET
Ranking Websites by Demographics Quantcast
With its new feed, Google is preparing for the end of search Mashable
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
The Sinclair Revolution Will Be Televised. It’ll Just Have Low Production Values Bloomberg
Google's been running a secret test to detect bogus ads — and its findings should make the industry nervous Business Insider
Only Two-Fifths Of Ad Execs Say Their Agencies Don't Take Kickbacks Media Post
Media Companies Lose Out As Advertisers Promote Their Stories on Facebook BuzzFeed News
***JOURNALISM
Making a Correction 100 years later: A Hot Dog is not a Sandwich Courier-Journal
Google’s New Feeds Show You the Internet You Want to See Wired
Q&A: ProPublica’s Lena Groeger on data visualization and writing about design Columbia Journalism Review
Facebook Updates the ‘Journalism Project’ to Fight Fake News Fortune
The War on the Freedom of Information Act The Atlantic
Comic Book Journalists Discuss the Pitfalls of the Job And How To Break Into The Industry Bleeding Cool
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
NBC has 30 employees working on a daily news show exclusively for Snapchat Recode
Confessions of a New York Times Copy Editor: I hardly had time to go to the bathroom New York Times
Journalism is a public service. Why don’t we fund it like one? Columbia Journalism Review
Snopes, in Heated Legal Battle, Asks for Funds to Survive New York Times
***ART & DESIGN
The 5 Best Apps for Sketching on an iPad Pro Wired
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Getting Clarity on What’s Important Becoming (my blog)
***BUSINESS
Wisconsin company says it will put Microchips in employees BBC
Leadership: Reshaping Business Culture for a digital age McKinsey & Company
The company isn’t a family Signal v Noise
How Mobile Devices Perpetuate Weak Business Models Scholarly Kitchen
***GRAMMAR
***WRITING & READING
The death of reading is threatening the soul (opinion: Phillip Yancey) Washington Post
Of fake PR, serial commas, and four-letter words (opinion) Saipan Tribune
***LANGUAGE
Why do humans speak so many languages? Quartz
Correct Latin word installed on UT memorial to Tower sniper’s victims Austin Statesman
Hemingway’s Cuban English Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Accent Whisperers of Hollywood New York Times
Why it’s so hard to teach English-as-a-second-language students how to use a, an, and the, Chronicle of Higher Ed
What Do You Call This Hat?The strange case of the knit cap and its many, many regional names Atlas Obscura
Generic-you has important implications for how people derive meaning from experience Science Mag
***LITERATURE
Amazon launched 22 years ago this week — here's what shopping on Amazon was like back in 1995 Business Insider
On Teaching, but Not Loving, Jane Austen The Atlantic
***GENDER
Months After ‘Transracialism’ Flap, Controversy Still Rages at Feminist Philosophy Journal Chronicle of Higher Ed
No one is well-served by sexism in Japan Economist
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Sikh Scholar Harassed Over Photo of Another Man in Turban Inside Higher Ed
The Largest U.S. Latino Advocacy Group Changes Its Name, Sparking Debate NPR
***LEGAL ISSUES
After Supreme Court Decision, People Race To Trademark Racially Offensive Words NPR
***MUSIC
A breakdown of Beyoncé’s revenue shows how little musicians make out of streaming Quartz
How SoundCloud's broken business model drove artists away The Verge
Hip-hop is bigger than rock music for the first time, thanks to nobody buying albums Quartz
Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning Y Combinator
A Single Life: An Oscar-Nominated Short About How Vinyl Records Can Take Us Magically Through Time Open Culture
***SOCIOLOGY
The Field Study Handbook Wired
***HEALTH
Just Thinking That You're Slacking On Exercise Could Boost Risk Of Death NPR
Surgery Is One Hell Of A Placebo FiveThirtyEight
Most people addicted to opioids receive no treatment Economist
Protecting interns and other physicians from depression and suicide (opinion) Stat News
***SCIENCE
Ten Simple Rules for Scientific Fraud & Misconduct HAL
I’m a Scientist and the Trump Administration Reassigned Me for Speaking up About Climate Change Washington Post
The Rich get Richer: Relatively few NIH grantees get lion’s share of agency’s funding Science Mag
Some scientists hate NIH’s new definition of a clinical trial Science Mag
***PSYCHOLOGY
The Emerging Science of Computational PsychiatryMachine learning, data mining, and artificial intelligence are revolutionizing the study and understanding of mental illness MIT Technology Review
Psychology’s Replication Crisis and the Grant Culture: Righting the Ship Sage Publication
A psychologist explains the hard limits of human compassion Vox
New report on mental health on college campuses: Colleges: colleges, are struggling to provide adequate mental-health services for students National Council on Disability
***RESEARCH
Upholding Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics Wiley
So-called Scientific journals accept a Star Wars-themed spoof paper Discover Magazine
***RELIGION
Mother makes plea to parents over treatment of her special needs son at church Huffington Post
The age of white Christian America is ending. Here's how it got there Vox
ASU sanctions church for misconduct Tucson.com
Revisiting Ayn Rand’s anti-religious philosophy Religion News Service
Is Surfing More Sport or Religion? The Atlantic
Christian theme park claims it is ‘taking back’ the rainbow from the LGBTQ Sacramento Bee
***HIGHER ED
Wright State University makes million-dollar boosts to athletics spending while cutting every category of academic funding Inside Higher Ed
Troubled Colleges Rebrand Under Faux-Latin Names BuzzFeed
Minority serving institutions Completion Rates Higher Than Federal Data Indicate American Council on Education
Small Christian College Faces More Turmoil in Response to Firing of Much-Loved Longtime Prof Inside Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student slams Tex-Mex food in college newspaper, Texans shut her down Click2Houston
***FREE SPEECH
Stop Telling Students Free Speech Is Traumatizing Them NY Mag
It started when a student corrected his ex’s grammar and tweeted about it. Now he is suspended, and lawyers say First Amendment issues are at stake Inside Higher Ed
Suspensions for College Students Who Thwarted Free Speech The Atlantic
Claremont college suspends students for demonstration against pro-police speaker LA Times
It's Disadvantaged Groups That Suffer Most When Free Speech Is Curtailed on Campus The Atlantic
How powerful people use criminal-defamation laws to silence their critics Economist
***STUDENT LIFE
Millennials have a Netflix account. Gen Z is playing video games Recode
Univ. of Central Florida reverses position on student suspended over viral tweet about ex-girlfriend USA Today
College Savings Advice (opinion) New York Times
Few student-athletes with mental illness seek help USA Today
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Betsy DeVos Is Right: Sexual Assault Policy Is Broken (opinion) The New York Times
Catholic University found him responsible for a sexual assault. Now he’s suing the school Washington Pose
Media Circus Surrounding “Mattress Girl” Case Changes Conversation on Sexual Assault Inside Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
BYU adjunct: I was fired for Facebook post asserting that homosexuality and transgenderism are not sins Washington Post