articles of interest - August 7
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook is starting to put more posts from local politicians into people’s News Feed Recode
Twitter is testing a $99 per month subscription that could get you more followers Business Insider
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Adobe Premiere Clip 101: Editing your videos on your Smartphone Gadget Hacks
RED Hydrogen One $1,200 smartphone revealed in MKBHD video Business Insider
How to Get the Perfect Eclipse Shot Using Your Smartphone Wired
10 Things We Learned Producing a Podcast at a University Chronicle of Higher Ed
***INTERNET
Use the Wayback Machine to Save Your Favorite Sites Forever LifeHacker
***TECHNOLOGY
How to make soldiers’ brains better at noticing threats Economist
How Two Brothers Turned Seven Lines of Code Into a $9.2 Billion Startup Bloomberg
Inside Andy Rubin's Quest to Create an OS for Everything Wired
Google Earth Is Trying To Help Stop Slavery In India Vocativ
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Pew’s Digital News Fact Sheet tracks the growth of mobile ads and Facebook’s growing share Talking New Media
***JOURNALISM
China's Few Investigative Journalists Face Increasing Challenges NPR
How BuzzFeed News revealed hidden spy planes in US airspace with a machine-learning algorithm Columbia Journalism Review
These are the most — and the least — trusted news sources in the U.S. MarketWatch
Local TV station records lawsuit underscores North Carolina’s text message troubles Columbia Journalism Review
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Snopes is owed money, but question remains over how much Union Tribune
Snopes won the first round in the battle for its site. Round two begins today Poynter
How the blockchain could save journalism’s business model Technical.ly
***FAKE NEWS
Why Americans Get Conned Again and Again: Their admiration for ingenuity and gumption leaves room for opportunists The Atlantic
FBI tracked 'fake news' believed to be from Russia on Election Day CNN
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The decision that most affects your happiness Becoming (my blog)
Kids need structure more than warmth from their parents Quartz
How Information Overload Robs Us of Our Creativity: What the Scientific Research Shows Open Culture
When Public Speaking, Look at Individuals Instead of the Entire Group Life Hacker
Scientists made people turn off their notifications for a day, and saw an effect years later Quartz
***GRAMMAR
Policing people’s grammar online is never really about grammar Quartz
My new pet peeve is the past perfect (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING & READING
On Writing: Anne Lamott Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
***LITERATURE
Free: You Can Now Read Classic Books by MIT Press on Archive.org Open Culture
‘Dictionary of American Regional English’ Speaks! Chronicle of Higher Ed
The New PEN America Digital Archive: 1,500 Hours of Audio & Video Featuring 2,200 Eminent Writers Open Culture
***GENDER
Male and female journalists still aren’t paid the same. When and how can we demand change? Poynter
Medicine Is Getting More Precise … For White People FiveThirtyEight
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
The Asian Bachelorette (comedy video) Wong Fu Productions
Justice Department To Probe Universities Over Affirmative Action Policies NPR
Sikhs in America: Hate Crime Victims and Bias ProPublica
***FREE SPEECH
Campus free speech bill becomes law in North Carolina The FIRE
***LEGAL ISSUES
Couple Who Declined to Pay Their Wedding Photographer $125 Are Ordered to Pay $1 Million People
ACLU Defends John Oliver Against Coal Baron With Hilarious Brief Huffington Post
A legal battle that's got something for historians, grammar nerds, activists, and copyright nuts: The fight over an iconic civil rights anthem Hollywood Reporter
The Star Wars Video That Baffled YouTube's Copyright Cops Wired
National Enquirer Argues False Stories About Celebrity Sex Changes Can't Be Defamatory Hollywood Reporter
U.S. Supreme Court ruling leads to offensive trademark requests Reuters
Judge Rules KickassTorrents Founder Properly Charged With Criminal Copyright Conspiracy Hollywood Reporter
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
The limitations of Big Data are based within “messy data” Fortune
AI and music-will machines soon be composing symphonies & hit singles-will we become slaves to the algorithm? The Guardian
To get computers to think like humans, we need an AI paradigm that reflects top-down knowledge New York Times
UK big data firm claiming role in Trump & Brexit successes now playing part in African elections BBC
Can data predict fashion trends? Technology may be disrupting a peculiar business Economist
Quantum world causality: A new model extends the definition of causality to quantum-mechanical systems Physics.org
How data science can help us fight human trafficking The Conversation
***RELIGION
WWE Has Successfully Trademarked The Term ‘3:16’ UpRoxx
Jesus Responds To The WWE Trademarking Bible Verse '3:16' on Colbert Show (video) YouTube
Israeli Authorities Arrest Antiquities Dealers In Connection With Hobby Lobby Scandal Parallels NPR
I'm a black pastor. Here's why I'm staying in the Southern Baptist Washington Post
Does the Bible say there's oil in Israel? Thousands are paying a Dallas company to find out Dallas News
Assemblies of God national office named in Oregon child sex abuse lawsuit News-Leader
Why Are There No New Major Religions? The Atlantic
Only Christians can own cottages at this idyllic Michigan resort MLive
***RELIGION & FINANCES
The No. 1 Reason Churches End Up in Court Is No Longer Child Abuse Christianity Today
Christians more than twice as likely to blame a person’s poverty on lack of effort Washington Post
Robbing God, Literally: 1 in 10 Protestant Churches Experience Embezzlement Christianity Today
The Pay Gap Is Worse for Pastor-Moms Christianity Today
***RELIGION & POLITICS
Trump can’t Save Christian America (opinion) New York Times
***ART & DESIGN
Accidental Wes Anderson: Every Place in the World with a Wes Anderson Aesthetic Gets Documented by Reddit Open Culture
***MUSIC
How Leonard Cohen & David Bowie Faced Death Through Their Art: A Look at Their Final Albums Open Culture
AI and music: will we be slaves to the algorithm? The Guardian
What Music Do Americans Love the Most? 50 Detailed Fan Maps New York Times
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
How to Handle Inappropriate Job Interview Questions Life Hacker
***HEALTH
Unexpected protection A chance finding may lead to a treatment for multiple sclerosis Economist
How To Watch The 2017 Solar Eclipse NPR
Why the ‘gold standard’ of medical research is no longer enough Stat News
Baylor should put the brakes on claims based on a tiny study of breast cancer and extrapolated benefits Health News Review
***SCIENCE
Darpa Wants to Build a BS Detector for Science Wired
In Breakthrough, Scientists Edit a Dangerous Mutation From Genes in Human Embryos New York Times
The rise of unproven stem cell therapies turned this obscure scientist into an industry watchdog Science Mag
The Eclipse of 1878 Almost Killed the Father of the National Weather Service Atlas Obscura
***RESEARCH
How to fix the academic peer review system (opinion) GroundUp
A routine check for Image Manipulation in Research Springer
Can PhD Students Write Review Papers? Discover Magazine
***HIGHER ED
University presidents often seem to struggle to issue apologies in controversial cases, but some say they tend to have reason to be cautious Inside Higher Ed
Trinity Loses Donations, Students After Professor’s Facebook Posts Hartford Courant
What’s Next on Title IX: Little Appetite for Rollback of Obama Guidelines Inside Higher Ed
Wichita State University’s name is misspelled on its water tower Kansas
How The For-Profit College Art Institutes Found A Savior With Christian Roots BuzzFeed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Snapchat is working with college newspapers to produce local Discover Stories The Verge
95-Year-Old Woman Finally Got Her College Diploma And Is Now Moving Back In With Her Parents Chick Hole
Oklahoma College Newspaper to Begin Charging for Content Cleveland Leader
University of Central Missouri's student newspaper on hold for the year after budget shortfall Student Press Law Center
***STUDENT LIFE
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (written by a SD State professor) The Atlantic
Nightclub and dorm footage clears USC student of rape Daily Mail
Millennials Are Uncertain, Not Entitled Huffington Post
Millennials Are Blamed for a Lot of Things but They’re Reviving the Vinyl Record Industry Fortune
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Federal Sex-Assault Investigations Are Being Resolved More Often. These 11 Cases Show How Chronicle of Higher Ed
Sex trafficking operation: More than 1,000 arrests across US CNN
College journalist nabs $2k award for reporting on campus sexual harassment USA Today
***ACADEMIC LIFE
A Caltech Professor Who Harassed Two Female Students Has Resigned BuzzFeed
Rutgers prof removed from classroom after controversy over 'threatening' tweets New Jersey.com
New book tries to help readers cope with that faculty colleague who never liked a new idea or offered to help Inside Higher Ed
Arrest warrant issued for Northwestern professor in Near North Side stabbing death Chicago Tribune
The University Of Washington Just Fired A Tenured Professor For The First Time BuzzFeed
Fresno State Removes Adjunct after Anti-Trump Tweets Inside Higher Ed