Articles of Interest - June 11
/***FAKE NEWS
The French Parliament is debating a bill that would attempt to restrain the spread of fake news New York Times
How to use digital tools to archive and verify videos Current
Peer review could have helped short-circuit the Theranos fake news scandal Stat News
4 reasons 'fake news' tricks us and what we can do Futurity
Russian Disinformation Campaign Operates openly in DC The Daily Beast
***JOURNALISM
Almost seven-in-ten Americans have news fatigue Pew Research Center
Why is your newsroom so hard to contact? Poynter
Across Western Europe, public news media are widely used and trusted sources of news Pew Research Center
Do journalists make good entrepreneurs? Columbia Journalism Review
Daniel Radcliffe Will Fight for Ethical Journalism in New Broadway Play The Observer
Why wordsmiths matter more than ever in 21st century digital journalism Medium
***JOURNALISM & REPORTING
Governments resist citizens on public records Herald Tribune
Best practices for covering suicide responsibly Poynter
How a major medical meeting uses embargoes to shape the news, and what the consequences may be Health News Review
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
Craigslist founder gives $20 million to journalism school CNN
The role of a reporter is shifting, as are the economics of education. With this new calculus, does journalism school still have a place in our profession? Columbia Journalism Review
***SOCIAL MEDIA
A Facebook bug changed the privacy settings for 14 million users Recode
Snapchat’s decline and the secret joy of internet ghost towns The Verge
***INTERNET
Here are some of the ways you might be doing email newsletters inefficiently (and how to do them better) Harvard Nieman Lab
Encyclopedia Britannica wants to fix false Google results Wired
How The Alt-Right Manipulates The Internet’s Biggest Commenting Platform BuzzFeed
How much is each internet feature worth to you? NPR
Report: Facebook is Primary Referrer For Lifestyle Content, Google Search Dominates Rest Media Post
Flash gets in one more security fail before retirement Wired
***TECHNOLOGY
Is technology bringing history to life or distorting it? Washington Post
The race to send robots to mine the ocean floor Wired
***BIG DATA & AI
Study: AI better than dermatologists at detecting skin cancer CBS News
Why Data Scientists Should Consider Adding ‘IoT Expert’ to Their List of Skills Datanamia
Machine learning can run on tiny, low-power chips, and that this combination will solve a massive number of problems Pete Warden Blog
A team of MIT scientists announced recently that they'd created "the world's first psychopath AI" MIT
Three techniques to improve machine learning model performance with imbalanced datasets Medium
***PERSONAL GROWTH
4 options when dealing with false guilt Becoming (my blog)
5 Ways To Handle Negative Conversations At Work GirlBoss
***GRAMMAR
America's most misspelled words (so far in 2018) CNET
Infinitives Can Be Split: Grammar Conservatives Face the Shock Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING & READING
Understanding story structure by dissecting Ali Wong’s standup special (a visualization) Pudding
6 Ways to Beat Writer’s Block Chronicle of Higher Ed
How to Copyedit The Atlantic The Atlantic
'Nationalistic' Think Tank Plagiarised Chinese, US, Australian Writings The Wire
***LANGUAGE
Email, the French Way Chronicle of Higher Ed
A Sneaky Theory of Where Language Came From The Atlantic
***LITERATURE
The 100 stories that shaped the world BBC
How Tolkien created Middle-earth The Guardian
The Year of 'Frankenstein' Inside Higher Ed
***GENDER
Charting the rise of three women in journalism Poynter
The Different Words We Use to Describe Male and Female Leaders Harvard Business Review
Book Review: Science and Suffrage in the First World War The London School of Economics & Political Science
The Ninety-Nines Was Amelia Earhart’s Club for Female Aviators Atlas Obscura
***GENDER & RESEARCH
Signing my peer review – unintended consequences and gender Washington University
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
The most successful ethnic group in the US may surprise you Ozy
Police Are Being Used To Exclude Black People From Public Places NPR
***FREE SPEECH
Louisiana governor signs campus free speech bill into law The FIRE
How Chinese students exercise free speech abroad Economist
***LEGAL ISSUES
Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your trademark restrictions Boston Globe
Restaurant owner says copyright infringement lawsuit a ‘big scam’ Boston Herald
***RELIGION
Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson has pulled out of giving key sermon at upcoming convention Washington Post
Sex Offenders Groom Churches Too: How predatory behavior goes undetected in congregations Christianity Today
Bavaria Requires Crosses on All Public Buildings. Church Leaders Disagree Christianity Today
What Religion Gives Us (That Science Can’t) (opinion) New York Times
Religion is uniquely human, but computer simulations may help us understand religious behavior The Conversation
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
The legislative assault by Christian nationalists to reshape America The Guardian
***RELIGION IN THE WORKPLACE
CrossFit Just Fired Its Spokesperson Who Said LGBT Pride Is A “Sin” BuzzFeed
Brownsburg teacher says transgender name policy goes against his religious beliefs Indy Star
***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE U.S.
Crocodile kills Ethiopian pastor during lake baptism BBC
5 facts about religion in India Pew Research Center
The surprising history of “God Bless America” Washington Post
***GOOD NEWS
Man Finds $1 Million Winning Lottery Ticket—and Tracks Down the Lucky Owner: 'It Felt Good' People
This NFL Player Saw an American Airlines Passenger In Trouble. His Stunning Reaction Went Viral Inc.
4-year-old superhero using his power to feed the homeless CBS News
Man mistakenly runs full Fargo marathon instead of half Grand Forks Herald
Toddler makes 911 call after mom passes out KTRK
Youth football team meets with couple they helped rescue from overturned car Idaho Statesman
***ART & DESIGN
How Century old Design Decisions Impact Teaching Today NPR
The Art World Is Easy to Dislike—Here Are Some Reasons Not to New York Times
***MUSIC
The musical diversity of pop songs Pudding
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Next year, people will spend more time online than they will watching TV—That’s a first Recode
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
Need an entry-level job at a store? It can be harder now Associated Press
What editors at NPR, BuzzFeed News, Deadspin look for in an applicant The Atlantic
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
The problem of sexual harassment in higher education isn’t a new one Splinter News
Sexual Harassment In The Workplace Is More Common Than You Think Daily Infographic
Hiring a Diversity Officer Is Only the First Step: Here Are the Next 7 Chronicle of Higher Ed
#MeToo Complaints Swamp Human Resources Departments NPR
Why Do Colleges Keep Failing to Prevent Abuse? Inside Higher Ed
A valedictorian went off-script to talk about sexual assault: Then her school cut her mic USA Today
The results of a survey that asked men about everything from workplace harassment to consent Glamour
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Where killings go unsolved: See interactive map of major US cities Washington Post
What researchers found after analyzing data gathered from 20 million stops in North Carolina CityLab
ICE Came for a Tennessee Town’s Immigrants. The Town Fought Back New York Times
***ENVIRONMENT
***HEALTH
The Belt That Listens to Your Bowels New Yorker
The World’s Largest GMO Study Was Launched By Russians In 2014: Then It Disappeared BuzzFeed News
Almost 40% of peer-reviewed dietary research turns out to be wrong. Here’s why New Food Economy
How Science Helps the Warriors Sleep Their Way to Success Wired
***FAMILY
How much screen time is too much for kids? The Guardian
New findings on "marshmallow test" Inside Higher Ed
Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children The Atlantic
The Perils Of Pushing Kids Too Hard, And How Parents Can Learn To Back Off NPR
***SCIENCE
Sloppy Science Happens More Than You Think Leaps Mag
Scientists Are Subverting Formal Publishing. Well, Some of Them Wired
Physicists at Fermilab say they have strong evidence for the existence of a new type of particle Physics World
***PSYCHOLOGY
What The Controversy Over Facebook's Privacy Policy Reveals (psychologically) NPR
The Kids Who Are Cleared to Leave Psychiatric Hospitals—But Can’t The Atlantic
CDC: U.S. Suicide Rates Have Climbed Dramatically NPR
***NEUROSCIENCE
What Time Feels Like When You’re Improvising: The neurology of flow states Nautil
***CRITICAL THINKING
What editors at NPR, BuzzFeed News, Deadspin look for in an applicant Columbia Journalism Review
***RESEARCH
Impact of Social Sciences – Software updates: the “unknown unknown” of the replication crisis The London School of Economics & Political Science
Has Google Become a Journal Publisher? Scholarly Kitchen
Give every paper a read for reproducibility Nature
How Scientific Publishers Can End Bullying And Harassment In The Sciences Forbes
Avoid Ethics Issues in Science Publishing with These 5 Questions ASM
***HIGHER ED
UVa Library’s Plan to Cut Stacks by Half Sparks Faculty Concerns Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Cost of College (visualized) New York Times
Lobbying group for independent colleges says it's open to expanding federal data collection on student outcomes but.. Inside Higher Ed
DePaul University lays off dozens of staff Chicago Sun-Times
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/depaul-university-lays-off-dozens-of-staff/
Customer Service Is Misguided in the Classroom but Crucial in Advising Chronicle of Higher Ed
Sex and Gender on the Christian Campus (opinion) New York Times
Catholic U. Trustees Clear Path to Cut the Faculty by 9 Percent Chronicle of Higher Ed
$5 million to Chapman University from billionaire Charles Koch sparks an uproar Daily News
***TEACHING
The Numbers That Explain Why Teachers Are in Revolt New York Times
Asking students to work out a problem using nothing but what they already know Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Appeals Court Sides with Cornell in Tenure Dispute Inside Higher Ed
UNM professors suing university over unequal pay KRQE
Professors Decide Whether to Teach Summer Courses — for Cuts in Pay Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Where Are Millennials Moving – 2018 Edition Smart Asset
Why do so many students drop out of college? And what can be done about it? Washington Post
Millennials and retirement: How bad is it? Politico
Four big blunders young adults make with their health insurance CNBC