Articles of Interest - March 25
/***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
How “Baby Shark” was manufactured in a Korean toddler entertainment factory Vice
Nexstar to Sell 19 TV Stations for $1.32 Billion Hollywood Reporter
***JOURNALISM
Google News Initiative launches new fact checking tools, supporting more subscription models 9to5Google
18 journalists on how—or whether—they use tape recorders Columbia Journalism Review***FAKE NEWS
Conspiracy Theories Can’t Be Stopped FiveThirtyEight
WhatsApp wants to label viral forwards to rein in fake news – but it’ll have to do more The Next Web
How OpenAI's Fake News Warnings Triggered Actual Fake News PC Mag
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Instagram Is Full of Conspiracy Theories and Extremism The Atlantic
China’s new social media craze: Paying random people to shower you with over-the-top compliments CNBC
Facebook is hiring 22 people for its secretive blockchain division The Next Web
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users’ Passwords Exposed Online Mother Board
Watchdog: FEMA wrongly released personal data of victims Associated Press
Help may be on the way for those suffering from “password hell” Wall Street Journal (sub. req.’d)
Facebook left millions of passwords readable by employees Associated Press ***TECHNOLOGY
Better Living Through Crispr: Growing Human Organs in Pigs Wired
Everything Apple announced at its ‘show time’ event TechCrunch
***BIG DATA & AI
Big data got us here, but small data will get us the rest of the way Axios
Stanford University launches the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Stanford
How Walmart uses graphics processing units for better demand forecasting Datanami
***PERSONAL GROWTH
No one was paying attention Becoming (my blog)
24 Common Cognitive Biases: A Visual List of the Psychological Systems Errors That Keep Us From Thinking Rationally Open Culture
***GRAMMAR
Author of grammar guide traces language love to cookie sign (video) MSNBC
***WRITING & READING
The rise of robot authors: is the writing on the wall for human novelists? The Guardian
Why Do Wite-Out and Liquid Paper Still Exist? The Atlantic
***LANGUAGE
16-Year-Old Swedish Environmental Activist, Has Been Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize Mental Floss
The man bringing dead languages back to life BBC
***LITERATURE
How 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' Became a Classic The Atlantic
Meet 10 Emerging Writers Who Just Won the 2019 Whiting Award The Cut
***GENDER
U.S. Mathematician Becomes First Woman To Win Abel Prize, 'Math's Nobel' NPR
Sports-Bra Outrage And a Fight Over Everyday Sexism Chronicle of Higher Ed
Journal Issues Revised Version of Controversial Paper That Questioned Why Some Teens Identify as Transgender Chronicle of Higher Ed
A Transgender Student Said He's Being Barred From Running For Prom King Buzzfeed News
The narrowing, but persistent, gender gap in pay Pew Research Center
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Supreme Court Justices Seem Incredulous At Repeated Racial Bias In Jury Selection NPR
A study of nearly 100 million traffic stops: black drivers are 20% more likely to get pulled over CNN
50 Years Ago Students Shut Down This College To Demand Ethnic Studies Courses NPR
A third of the convictions overturned because of DNA involved witnesses who identified the wrong person who was of another race New York Times
Laila Lalami: ‘White supremacists target Muslims but the threat isn't taken as seriously as other forms of terror’ The Guardian
***FREE SPEECH
UC Berkeley in spotlight as Trump expected to issue campus free-speech order San Francisco Chronicle
Trump’s Free-Speech Order Could Have Been Harsher: Higher-Ed Leaders Still Don’t Approve Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
An academic who helped a company gather data on millions of Facebook users is suing for defamation New York Times
A coalition of 41 media organizations is urging a court to uphold a decision dismissing a professor’s defamation lawsuit Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Jeanine Pirro Beats Defamation Lawsuit From Black Lives Matter Activist Hollywood Reporter
***CRIME
Here are the stories about police misconduct uncovered so far by a new media partnership LA Times
Pregnant Behind Bars: What We Do And Don't Know About Pregnancy And Incarceration NPR
***STATISTICS
The Guardian view on statistics in sciences: gaming the (un)known (opinion) The Guardian
***RELIGION
Templeton Prize winner believes science, spirituality are complementary The Boston Pilot
Evidence of improper voting raises questions about Methodist gay clergy vote Religion News
Did John MacArthur visit the Motel where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated just hours after it happened? Throckmorton Blog
‘Nones’ now as big as evangelicals, Catholics in the US Religious News Service
***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE U.S.
4 facts about religion in New Zealand Pew Research Center
China Tells Christianity To Be More Chinese Christianity Today
***ISLAM
The baffling argument that ‘Islam is not a religion’ Washington Post
Evangelicals and Muslims see similarities in faiths and favor closer ties, survey says Religious News Service
***RELIGION & FINANCES
LifeWay to Close All 170 Christian Stores Christianity Today
Christian financial planner praised by Robert Jeffress facing Ponzi scheme charges Religious News Service
***THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
395 Catholic priests, church staff accused of sex misconduct in new Chicago Sun Times
Pope Francis wants psychological testing to prevent problem priests. But can it really do that? Washington Post
West Virginia sues Catholic diocese, alleging it knowingly employed pedophiles The Hill
***RELIGION AND LGBT
Christian group drops lawsuit over Austin's LGBT protections Chronicle of Higher Ed
Google resists pressure to pull LGBT "conversion therapy" app Axios
Michigan will no longer fund adoption agencies that deny LGBT parents Washington Post
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Secrecy surrounding briefing for ‘faith-based media’ raises eyebrows MSNBC
***GOOD NEWS
Man with Down Syndrome honored for working at same McDonald's for 27 years 11 Alive
104-year-old woman arrested BBC
Blind runner, guide dog trio makes history in NYC Half Marathon CNN
Twelve-year-old Former intensive care patient returns to play guitar for newborns Health Maters
Former wounded warrior is spending his retirement volunteering at Walter Reed The Week
Man gifts car to stranger during trade-in at El Cajon dealership 10 News
Woman Who Was Smallest Baby Born in Texas Now Works at Same Hospital People
Dad's Adopted Daughter Turns Out to Be Perfect Kidney Donor Match Inside Edition
***ART & DESIGN
The very mathematical history of a perfect color combination Wired
Sean Adams's The Designer's Dictionary of Type explains famous fonts Fast Company
9 Photo Stories That Will Challenge Your View Of The World BuzzFeed News
Web Design Trends of 2019 [Infographic] SocialMediaToday
***MUSIC
The Oral History of the Les Paul Guitar
Why music affects your productivity Quartz
What Will Happen When Machines Write Songs Just as Well as Your Favorite Musician? Mother Jones
The Case for Why Captain Beefheart's Awful Sounding Album, Trout Mask Replica, Is a True Masterpiece Open Culture
***FILM
How ‘God’s Not Dead’ Perpetuated the Modern Evangelical Victim Narrative (opinion) Relevant Magazine
***STUDENT MEDIA
USC's Student Newspaper Published A Brutal Editorial About The Cheating Scandal LAist
***STUDENT LIFE
Poll: 74% of parents admit to making appointments for their adult children KTVU
New data shows more than half of young people in America don't have a romantic partner Washington Post
***VIDEO GAMES
How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games Nautil
Google Unveils Plan for Video Games Streaming Service Hollywood Reporter
***FREELANCE WRITING
Writers for love & sex short fiction platform of Slide Stories
Freelance reporters with an interest in state/local policy based in West Coast or Midwest Stateline.org
Freelance pitches on Asian American / Pacific Islander issues Hyphen Magazine
Emergent science and technology story pitches Futurism
Freelance pitches The North Star
Four paid fellowships Mother Jones
Freelance writer (night+weekend Gizmodo (remote)
***SOCIAL ISSUES
US government uses several black-site shelters to detain immigrant children Reveal
California Wildfire Survivors Say They’re Living In Dire Conditions And There’s Little Help Buzzfeed News
Canada’s becoming a tech hub thanks to Donald Trump immigration policies Reddit
Border Patrol Detained a 9-Year-Old U.S. Citizen for Over a Day on Her Way to School NBC-7
Wellbeing Inequality May Tell Us More About Life Than Income Gallup
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
The lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are aiming at Realtors and their 6% fee MarketWatch
Google, Facebook Scammed For More Than $100 Million In Fake Invoices Media Post
Boeing is doing crisis management all wrong – here’s what a company needs to do to restore the public’s trust The Conversation
***ENVIRONMENT
16-Year-Old Swedish Environmental Activist, Has Been Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize Mental Floss
Shocking autopsy photos show toll of plastic waste on dead whale The Guardian
Adidas Sold 1 Million Eco-Friendly Shoes Made from Ocean Plastic, Plans 11 Million More The Epoch Times
Finland is offering free trips to people in need of happiness lessons Tree Hugger
West Virginia industry group successfully argues the state doesn’t need new clean-water standards because the obese population can tolerate higher levels of cancer-causing chemicals Sustainability Times
The insect apocalypse is not here but there are reasons for concern Economist
***HEALTH
Daily Aspirin to Prevent Heart Attacks No Longer Recommended NBC4 Washington
My Friend’s Cancer Taught Me About a Hole in Our Health System New York Times
***HEALTH: VACCINES
Her son died. And then anti-vaxers attacked her CNN
Why the Washington measles outbreak is mostly affecting one specific group Box
Measles Rages in Brooklyn as Some Yeshivas Defy Vaccine Rule The Daily Beast
One Doctor Is Responsible for a Third of All Medical Vaccine Exemptions in San Diego Voice of San Diego
Kentucky Gov. says he intentionally exposed kids to chicken pox instead of giving them vaccine ABC News
5 facts about vaccines in the U.S. Pew Research Center
Why anti-vaxxer mobs go after pro-vaccine doctors online — and what to do about it Mashable
***FOOD
Celery was once as sexy as kale Quartz
***PARENTING
Forget helicopter parents, snowplow parents are killing kids' life skills USA Today
How parents feel about – and manage – their teens’ online behavior and screen time Pew Research Center
***ANIMALS
The 10 Most Popular Puppy Names of 2019 Mental Floss
Man jumps shirtless into frozen Irvington, New York, lake to rescue stranded dogs abc7ny.com
***SCIENCE
Philosophy of Biology: Philosophical bias is the one bias that science cannot avoid eLife
Public confidence in scientists has remained stable for decades Pew Research Center
***PSYCHOLOGY
Here’s A Breakdown Of The 6 Core Emotions We Feel Daily Infographic
How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception and Meaning Quantam
***NEUROSCIENCE
People don't become 'adults' until their 30s, says neuroscientist BBC
Neuroscience proves Nietzsche right: some people are wired to be more spontaneous than others The Conversation
***PHILOSOPHY
Oxford's Free Course Critical Reasoning For Beginners Teaches You to Think Like a Philosopher Open Culture
Philosophers and neuroscientists join forces to see whether science can solve the mystery of free will Science Mag
***ETHICS
Microsoft will be adding AI ethics to its standard checklist for product release Geekwire
***RESEARCH
Peer reviewed studies soon to be replaced by CAPS LOCK The Science Post
University of Illinois at Chicago Missed Warning Signs of Research Going Awry, Letters Show ProPublica
Error vs. Fraud in Research Medium
We need to relearn how to play nice in peer review University Affairs
Five Article-Writing Mistakes and How to Fix Them The Professor is in
Are Papers with Open Data More Credible? International Conference on Information Springer
Duke University to Pay $112.5 Million to Settle Claims of Research Misconduct New York Times
***HIGHER ED
The Deeper Education Issue Under the College Bribery Scandal Wired
The Growing Crisis of Guns on Campus The New Republic
***HUMANITIES
The Humanities and the Future Scientific American Blog Network
What majoring in the humanities can teach us The Independent Florida Alligator
***TEACHING
Hitler was a ‘good leader,’ guest speaker tells N.J. students. School says it won’t happen again NJ.com
Many Professors Want to Change Their Teaching but Don’t. One University Found Out Why Chronicle of Higher Ed
Trigger Warnings May Not Do Much, Early Studies Suggest New York Times
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Professor in Prostitution Sting Says He Was Doing 'Research' KAAL-TV
Did Utah professor confess to viewing child porn to class? Desert News