Articles of Interest – June 4
/***INTERNET
Mary Meeker’s 2018 internet trends report: the most highly anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley Recode
GDPR For Publishers: What You Need to Know Media Vine
A scientific list of the most popular memes on the internet Quartz
***TECHNOLOGY
Your next potato chip could come from a 3-D printer MIT Tech Review
Watch What Happens Inside the Body When You Talk Curiosity
Microsoft confirms it's buying GitHub for $7.5 billion Engadget
The battle for responsible technology Poynter
***BIG DATA & AI
Who Is Going To Make Money In AI? Here’s an educated guess Towards Data Science
How data science and the role of data scientist evolved over the years Analytics India
Why Thousands of Researchers Are Boycotting Nature’s Upcoming AI Journal Gizmodo
To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect Quantum Magazine
Satellite imagery is revolutionizing the world. But should we always trust what we see? The Conversation
Notes from Coursera Deep Learning courses by Andrew Ng Slide Share: TessFerrandez
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Survey: Which Social Media Platforms among Teens Pew Research Center
I wrote a negative Yelp review — and it made my life a nightmare New York Post
Trust is the new currency of the digital age (opinion) Business Times
How Instagram’s algorithm works Tech Crunch
Facebook Tried to Rein In Fake Ads: It Fell Short in a California Race New York Times
Avoiding Career Death by Twitter TechNewsWorld
The entire country of Papua New Guinea will have access to Facebook turned off for a month Post Courier
Facebook's decision to kill its "Trending" feature proves that algorithms are not always the answer Quartz
Facebook is shutting down trending topics feature CNN
One Woman's Facebook Success Story: A Support Group For 1.7 Million NPR
Facebook defends sharing user data with phone makers CNN
***MOBILE
America is losing the war against robocalls Economist
A New Threat to Your Finances: Cell-Phone Account Fraud Comsumer Reports
***PRIVACY
Does China’s digital police state have echoes in the West? Economist
How Americans have viewed government surveillance and privacy since Snowden leaks Pew Research Center
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Drones Are Revolutionizing the Way Film and TV Is Made TIME
Canon isn't selling film cameras any more Quartz
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Print gets a lot more advertising than eyeballs.. and mobile is just the opposite Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***JOURNALISM
These are the most important announcements Apple made for news publishers today Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Roseanne’s comments get 16 times the coverage of the estimated Hurricane Maria’s toll of 4,600 deaths Columbia Journalism Review
The Wall Street Journal reporter who doggedly kept asking a simple question - does this technology even work? New York Magazine
It’s exhausting being a reporter in the Trump era: A new documentary captures the toll at the New York Times Washington Post
How Alexandra Bell Is Disrupting Racism in Journalism The New Yorker
So you wanna be a journalist? Columbia Journalism Review
There is no fake news in Showtime's winning 'Fourth Estate' Baltimore Sun
AP Stylebook update: Multiple emoji are emoji Poynter
NPR is getting rid of some of its news blogs (with more blog “changes” to come) Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***JOURNALISM MISTAKES
Many journalists fail to question new Cancer Society colorectal cancer screening guidelines Health News Review
New York Times Cites Old Mistaken Study Andrew Gelman Blog
***JOURNALISM OUTSIDE THE U.S.
A Reporter Was Beaten to Death in Mexico, Becoming the Sixth Journalist Killed There This Year TIME
Russian journalist and Kremlin critic shot and killed in Ukraine The Hill
The killing of a journalist exposed something rotten in Slovakia Economist
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Tronc buys Virginian-Pilot from Landmark for $34 million Sun Herald
Tronc’s selling, and buying, and just generally shapeshifting Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***FAKE NEWS
'Messing with the Enemy' takes on dark side of social media MSNBC
Only You Can Fight Fake News WIRED
The Legal War on Alex Jones The New Republic
Facebook is Giving Scientists its Data to Fight Misinformation WIRED
The Londoner: Is anti-fake news unit a fake itself? Evening Standard
***STUDENT MEDIA
After papers were removed, a Seattle student newsroom pushed back Columbia Journalism Review
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Life Beyond the Glowing Screen Becoming (my blog)
Japan’s biggest bestseller is a philosophy book on “The Courage to be Disliked” Quartz
***GRAMMAR
The weasel voice in journalism: Don’t blame grammar for the shortcomings of headline-writers Economist
National Spelling Bee 2018: The most commonly misspelled words at the national spelling bee Quartz
***WRITING & READING
Resources and ideas from a collaborative session on interactive fiction at this year’s Computers & Writing conferences Chronicle of Higher Ed
To make beat writing more compelling, let’s rescue the offbeat story Poynter
Interactive fiction in the classroom Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
A Week on Language Twitter: new words and usages on social media Chronicle of Higher Ed
Filler words: One of the toughest part of a foreign language to master Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
The best children's books of the year for 2018 Bank Street
Writing Tips And Pointed Opinions From The Late Tom Wolfe Forbes
Original map of Winnie-the-Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood Flowing Data
***GENDER
11 women executives on the greatest risk they ever took Fast Company
How Reese Witherspoon female-driven storytelling company is channeling women’s voices into top-tier entertainment Fast Company
Women are more likely to wait longer for a health diagnosis and to be told it’s ‘all in their heads’ BBC
One More To Go: Illinois Ratifies Equal Rights Amendment NPR
How Disney is turning women from across the company into coders Fast Company
The Hidden Women of Architecture and Design The New Yorker
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
68% of white evangelicals think America shouldn’t house refugees Vox
At least 8 white nationalists running for federal office MSNBC
***FREE SPEECH
Why the struggle for academic freedom is the struggle for democracy Chronicle of Higher Ed
A student at the center of a dispute over free speech can return to his religious studies class Post Gazette
***LEGAL ISSUES
PUBG Corp. Sues Epic Games for Copyright Infringement Variety
He Said No, Fox News Used His Images Anyway PetaPixel
Advocacy groups knock ‘unjust’ copyright-extending CLASSICS Act TechCrunch
***ART & DESIGN
The Intuitive and the Unlearnable: Why some designs won’t ever stop sucking Medium
Want to make great art? Stop making art Fast Company
***MUSIC
Was Classic Rock a Sound, or a Tribe? The Atlantic
10 Surprising Skills You Gain From Music Lessons Daily Infographic
***STUDENT LIFE
Forty-five percent of teens are online ‘almost constantly’ — and they don’t know if it’s good for them Washington Post
Put a Ring on It? Millennial Couples Are in No Hurry New York Times
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
What Your Resume Should Look Like in 2018 TIME
These paid journalism internships are still accepting applications Student Press Law Center
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Equipping Women to Stop Campus Rape (opinion) New York Times
Older teens less likely to think sexting would get them in trouble Journalism Resources
#MeToo Complaints Swamp Human Resource Departments NPR
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
This Map Shows the Best-Paying Company In Every State TIME
The myth of outliving your retirement savings Reuters
***ENVIRONMENT
Climate Change: “Could You Do Any Better Than We Did?” Two volumes for future generations Boston Review
***HEALTH
Podcast: The new & (un)improved doctor-patient relationship Health News Review
Coffee benefits: Caffeine makes you more social, as well as active Quartz
Health alert said American diagnosed with brain injury like reported in Cuba Washington Post
LA Times provides careful take on early brain/diabetes research–except for the headline Health News Review
Elder Abuse (video/language) John Oliver
***HEALTH: DRUGS & PILLS
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: What journalists need to know Journalists Resources
Study finds most popular vitamin, mineral supplements provide no health benefit Fox 8
***HEALTH TECH
Ingestible “bacteria on a chip” could help diagnose disease MIT
Computers can diagnose stroke victims now The Week
***HEALTH & CHILDREN
A new study links early childhood obesity to lower IQ scores Quartz
Gene therapy is saving children’s lives—but screening to discover who needs it is lagging behind MIT Tech Review
***SCIENCE
Questioning Truth, Reality and the Role of Science Quantam Magazine
Henrietta Lacks Gets Immortalized in a Portrait: It’s Now on Display at the National Portrait Gallery Open Culture
There Are No Laws of Physics: There’s Only the Landscape Quantam Magazine
***PHILOSOPHY
The Russian Philosopher Who Sought Immortality in the Cosmos Atlas Obscura
Why read Aristotle today? Aeon
***HISTORY
The only World War II battle fought on North American soil WNCT
***RESEARCH
Can It Really Be True That Half of Academic Papers Are Never Read? Chronicle of Higher Ed
All publishers are predatory - some are bigger than others Scielo
Fewer than two out of every 10,000 scientific papers remain influential in their field decades after publication Nature Index
Authorship credit varies across scientific disciplines — and even within the same field Nature
Alphabetical name ordering in Research Harms Collaborations London School of Economics and Political Science
South Korean apps are outsourcing academic fraud to freelance ghostwriters Quartz
***RELIGION
Televangelist seeks donations for $54M private jet, claims God is behind the idea NOLA
Study: Infant Mortality Rates Higher in Christian Fundamentalist Communities US News & World Report
American Bible Society to require church attendance, sexuality codes Religious News Service
Atheists Are Sometimes More Religious Than Christians The Atlantic
Southern Baptist seminary drops bombshell: Why Paige Patterson was fired Washington Post
Joel Osteen and the making of Lakewood Church Houston Chronicle
Christ art removed from Lexington SC church for being Catholic The State
Judge: 'In God We Trust' on Money isn't Religion Endorsement Associated Press
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Dinesh D'Souza, America's greatest conservative troll, explained Vox
Trump Pardons Dinesh D’Souza and Weighs Leniency for Rod Blagojevich and Martha Stewart New York Times
Conservative Christian attorneys gain influence under Trump Associated Press
***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE U.S.
China is secretly imprisoning close to 1 million people to get them to renounce their religion Business Insider
Key findings about religion in Western Europe Pew Research Center
***GOOD NEWS
Couple discovers safe filled with cash, gold, diamonds worth $52G in their backyard New York Daily News
Two pilots spend savings on plane to rescue migrants in Mediterranean Sea NBC News
How The Internet Is Changing The Way Dogs Find Homes BuzzFeed
***HIGHER ED
The University Is Not an Aristocracy: So why do we value selectivity over social mobility? Chronicle of Higher Ed
When a College Takes on Student Poverty, it can only do so much The Atlantic
Higher-Ed Groups Warn Against Visa Restrictions for Chinese Students Chronicle of Higher Ed
Christian College president apologizes for equating sexual assaults with gay relationships Des Moines Register
Recent grad to Christian colleges: LGBT issues not going away M-live
Catholic University of America faculty vote raises stakes in battle with president Religion News Service
***LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
Liberty U is making a film about a man who says God told him Trump would become president Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Tense History behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address Religious Dispatches
What to expect from a new Liberty University film Washington Post
***TEACHING
What 6 Colleges Learned About Improving Their Online Courses Chronicle of Higher Ed
Ideas for Creating an Effective Syllabus for Online Learning Faculty Focus
***ACADEMIC LIFE
A Self-Care Strategy for Beleaguered Academics: Every teacher needs a magic briefcase Chronicle of Higher Ed
Don’t Blame Tenured Academics for the Adjunct Crisis Chronicle of Higher Ed