Articles of Interest - March 4
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Why the Life-Insurance Industry Wants to Creep on Your Instagram New Yorker
Apps Give Private Data To Facebook Without User's Knowledge or Permission NPR
Facebook Slammed For Listing Users Phone Numbers Media Post
Two years after going public, Snap’s problems are still all about growth Recode
***TECHNOLOGY
China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced MIT Technology Review
Silicon Valley Raises Questions On Ethics Of New Technology And Social Media NPR
On Remote pacific island children now get life-saving vaccines from drones Fast Company
***JOURNALISM
The New York Times is taking its opinion video coverage in a new, YouTube direction Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Poll: How does the public think journalism happens? Columbia Journalism Review
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
What you need to know before starting your Journalism crowdfunding campaign European Journalism Centre
PAC-Connected Activists Set Up ‘Local News’ Outlets Snopes
***FAKE NEWS
How to spot fake photos online Fast Company
The anti-vaxxers' impact The Week
The Fake Sex Doctor Who Conned the Media Into Publicizing His Bizarre Research Gizmodo
Widower, stepdaughter who blamed panhandler for woman's stabbing death in Baltimore arrested in her killing Baltimore Sun
***FAKE NEWS: MOMO
The Momo Challenge Is Not Real The Atlantic
How local TV news stations are playing a major (and enthusiastic) role in spreading the Momo hoax Harvard’s Nieman Lab
How to Not Fall for Viral Scares Like Momo Wired
Schools, police and media told to stop promoting Momo hoax The Guardian
***MOBILE
Your smartphone screen is probably disgusting: Here's how to clean it USA Today
Want a Folding Phone? Hold out for Glass Wired
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Why Are Bots Unable to Check "I Am Not a Robot" Checkboxes? Quora
‘You can track everything’: the parents who digitise their babies’ lives The Guardian
Major Airlines Confirmed There Are Cameras On Some Seatback Entertainment Screens Bustle
A second life for the 'do not track' setting—with teeth Wired
How to set up a VPN for increased security and privacy The Verge
Social networks put your privacy at risk, even when you don’t have an account Quartz
***PRODUCING MEDIA
What’s new in WordPress 5.0? Creative Bloq
This app makes it easy to create shareable video content, and it's on sale Mashable
***INTERNET
The surprisingly complex journey a text message takes every time we hit 'send.' Vice
The Life of a Comment Moderator for a Right-Wing Website New York Times
***BIG DATA & AI
The qualities that make for a successful data science team KD Nuggets
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Mental Fog Begins to Lift Becoming (my blog)
Crossing Divides: The friends who are good for your brain BBC News
A Harvard Psychologist Shows How to Change Those Limiting Beliefs You Still Have About Yourself Inc
***GRAMMAR
The three most useless English language “rules” you can ignore Quartz
When Did the Verb “To Be” Enter the English Language? Daily Jstor
***WRITING & READING
The Surprising Origin Of Using Symbols Like #$%@! To Represent Curse Words In Print (video) Digg
Vatican spokesman Fr. Thomas Rosica resigns from college board after plagiarism apology; Jesuits withdraw award Catholic News Agency
Self-plagiarism: When is re-purposing text ethically justifiable? London School of Economics & Political Science
Plagiarize-Proof Your Writing Assignments Faculty Focus
***LITERATURE
Sorry, but Jane Eyre Isn’t the Romance You Want It to Be Daily Jstor
***GENDER
Cycling race in Belgium is delayed because a woman almost caught the male riders – who started first Chicago Tribune
How neuroscience is exploding the myth of male and female brains New Scientist
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
France: An old hatred grows stronger The Week
Bill Jenkins, Who Tried to Halt Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Dies at 73 New York Times
***FREE SPEECH
Trump says he'll issue order protecting campus free speech Associated Press
The Tyranny Of Copyright: How A Once-Humble Legal Issue Has Tormented A Generation Of Speech Tech Dirt
***LEGAL ISSUES
In Retrospect, Expert’s ‘How To Make Child Pornography’ Exhibit Might Have Been A Bad Idea Above the Law
Supreme Court To Decide Fate Of World War I Memorial Cross On Public Land NPR
How a flare-up at Harvard Law could undermine legal rights for everybody else The Week
Disability Rights Group Sues San Diego Over Scooters On Sidewalks NPR
***LEGAL ISSUES: COPYRIGHT
Fortnite dance lawsuits are bad for copyright and bad for culture The Verg
Community Theaters Kill 'Mockingbird' Productions After Lawsuit Threat NPR
***CRIME
California Keeps a Secret List of Criminal Cops But Says You Can't Have It KQED
Supreme Court: Nebraska county owes $28M for wrongful convictions Associated Press
Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years New York Times
***RELIGION
Christian radio personality 'Uncle Charlie' dies Christian Post
Southern Baptist group clears 6 churches of violating sex abuse standards Christian Post
Nazirite firefighter who promised God not to cut hair settles with Utica on religious lawsuit Utica Observer Dispatch
***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE U.S.
South Africa funeral firm to sue pastor for 'resurrection stunt' BBC News
Egyptian Christians Left With Nowhere To Pray But The Street NPR
***MEGACHURCHES
How a Radio Shock Jock Helped Bring Down a Megachurch Pastor Slate
Megachurch pastor Bill Hybels resigns from Willow Creek after women allege misconduct The Washington Post
***MISSIONARIES
Gospel for Asia Settles Lawsuit with $37 Million Refund to Donors Christianity Today
FBI Raid of Christian Missionary’s Home Found Thousands of Bones Indy Star
***RELIGION & LGBTQ
Methodists reject a proposal to allow openly gay clergy and same-sex marriage CNN
Lesbian Bishop Responds To LGBTQ Ban In United Methodist Church NPR
3 big US churches in turmoil over sex abuse, LGBT policy PBS
Growing Closer After Changing Faiths NPR
Rift over gay rights comes as United Methodists in U.S. have become more accepting of homosexuality Pew Research Center
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Arkansas church insists sign saying ‘heaven has strict immigration laws’ was not political Fox News
***GOOD NEWS
The Book Catapult stayed open by the grace of its competitors The Washington Post
'That tank saved my life:' 95-year-old World War II veteran gets surprise of a lifetime KETV
Montreal man walks the city streets, donating coins he finds to charity Canadian Broadcasting Company
Man restores, donates dozens of power wheelchairs - from a wheelchair KARE
Oklahoma teacher, book collector makes hobby of reuniting families with meaningful bookmarks KFOR
Teacher cuts waist-length hair to support 5-year-old girl bullied for short haircut WLOX
Meet the street nun helping people make a living from New York's cans The Guardian
National Geographic 2019 Adventurer of the Year National Geographic
***REALLY?!
Top Florida Man Stories of All Time Miami Herald
Woman goes to Olive Garden in Utah and announces she stabbed her mother St. Louis Tribune
***ART & DESIGN
You Are Killing Me with Your Tiny Fonts GQ
A Brief History of LGBT+ Design Try Design Lab
Apple picks the winners of its shot on an iPhone photo contest Apple
The Fascinating Legal Conundrum Facing Banksy Fast Company
The Secrets of the World's Greatest Art Thief GQ
The Favourite is an Oscar-nominated design masterpiece Fast Company
Frida Kahlo’s Forgotten Politics Jstor
When Gorgeous Architectural Landmarks Are Also Monuments to Fascism Atlas Obscura
***MUSIC
A Guide to Harry Nilsson, Who You've Loved Forever Without Knowing It Noisey
Dido Returns With Family-Focused Album 'Still On My Mind' NPR
Scam Season Comes for the Orchestra Vulture
***FILM
U.S. Music Industry Posts Third Straight Year of Double-Digit Growth Variety
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Digital ads expected to crush everything else this year Axios
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
When the Bully Is the Boss New York Times
Walmart Is Eliminating People Greeters. Workers With Disabilities Feel Targeted NPR
Five big winners tell what happens when you hit the jackpot, from free milk for life to a mountain of KFC The Guardian
Highly paid architects, TV producers, actors, and accountants live in a work culture that favor the already affluent The Atlantic
Is Business School a Waste of Time? Inc.
***JOB SEARCH ADVICE
Delete these eight words from your resume immediately Yahoo News
Want to Save Everyone's Time in a Job Interview? The Top 6 Questions Smart Companies Are Asking Now Inc
LinkedIn Just Added a Flurry of Features for Members Looking for New Positions Ad Week
***FREELANCING
Ten tips for freelance writing Story Bench
How Freelance Labor Became the Unsung Casualty of Media Layoffs The Observer
Atlas Obscura is looking for freelance pitches for upcoming editions
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Thousands Of Immigrant Children Say They Have Been Sexually Abused While In US Custody BuzzFeed News
Sexual harassment rife in Australian science, suggests first workplace survey Nature
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Woman Delivers Stillborn Baby While in ICE Custody New York Times
Nearly Half of American jail inmates have a mental illness and two-thirds have a drug addition New Yorker
Colonialists are coming for blood—literally Wired
***ENVIRONMENT
Google and DeepMind are using AI to predict the energy output of wind farms The Verge
Meet The White House's New Chief Climate Change Skeptic NPR
***VACCINES
Arizona lawmaker calls mandatory measles vaccine 'communist' amid fight to control outbreaks NBC News
Growing up unvaccinated: My anti-vaxx mother made me a health risk for the whole community USA Today
Measles Outbreaks Prompt More States To Restrict Vaccine Exemptions NPR
***HEALTH RESEARCH
Semi-identical twins 'identified for only the second time' BBC News
Sleeping Late on Weekends Doesn’t Compensate for week-long exhaustion Research Highlights
FDA Expected To Approve Esketamine Nasal Spray For Depression NPR
Machine learning is far from ready for clinical practice of medicine Health Care IT news
***TRAVEL
Here are the Americans speaking at a hate group friendly with sanctioned Russian oligarchs Think Progress
***FOOD
Drinkable' potato chips: the products keeping your phone grease-free The Guardian
Why Are Pretzels Shaped Like That? And 17 Other Food Mysteries, Solved The Daily Meal
***CHILDREN
Being surrounded by green space in childhood may improve mental health of adults SciTech
Give your kid a name that travels well The Week
How To Communicate With Children On Difficult Subjects Such As Death NPR
Storytelling Instead Of Scolding: Inuit Say It Makes Their Children More Cool-Headed NPR
***RELATIONSHIPS
Kentucky man mistakenly gets wife turnips instead of tulips WKRN
Love, Marriage, and the ‘Wife Allowance’ Topic
***ANIMALS
Are Dog Parks Exclusionary? CityLab
Former NFL player travels cross-country with his dog USA Today
‘Pot dogs’ a growing concern for pet owners Cape Cod Times
***SCIENCE
The Unsolved Mystery of the Earth Blobs Earth & Space Science News
Lawmaker: Ky. official state mineral is a rock, state rock is a mineral WAVE
***NEUROSCIENCE
Doctors removed one-sixth of this child’s brain — and what was left did something incredible One Zero
How did reading and writing evolve? Neuroscience gives a clue Phys.org
***PHILOSOPHY
***PRODUCTIVITY
There’s an optimal way to structure your day—and it’s not the 8-hour workday Quartz
6 Tips to Maximize Productivity When You Have ADHD Entrepreneur
***HISTORY
What's the Real American Story? (video) Robert Reich
Almost everything you know about U.S. borders is wrong Chicago Tribune
Border Walls are Symbols of Failure Jstor
***RESEARCH
Scientific Integrity Principles and Best Practices: Recommendations from a Scientific Integrity Consortium SpringerLink
Correlations between submission and acceptance of papers in peer review journals SpringerLink
Preprints as Final Publication (opinion) BioSerendipity
Personality and fatal diseases: Revisiting a scientific scandal Sage
***HIGHER ED
Most Americans don’t realize state funding for Higher Ed fell by billions PBS
The costs of academic publishing are absurd: The University of California is fighting back Vox
A warning about reinventing universities around technology: How UT-Austin’s Bold Plan for Reinvention Went Belly Up Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Political Science Became Irrelevant: The field turned its back on the Beltway Chronicle of Higher Ed
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Mike Pence to give commencement speech at Liberty The Hill University
Facing Title IX investigation, Christian university lets pregnant students stay in dorms The College Fix
***HUMANITIES
***TEACHING
Almost 10,000 students went to this online school last year. 851 stayed the whole time Chalkbeat
My Top 6 Books on Pedagogy Inside Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
College wins lawsuit to cut bad professor's pay Washington Examiner
Ex-Virginia Tech biotech professor found guilty of grant fraud The Roanoke Times
Self-esteem, self-symbolizing, and academic recognition: behavioral evidence from curricula vitae SpringerLink
A professor is accused of stealing a student's invention to make millions CNN
New video shows exactly what was said during a heated discussion at the annual gathering of classicists in January. Does it change anything? Inside Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Am I obligated to take down an embarrassing story if the subject of it asks? Student Press Law Center
***STUDENT LIFE
Where Graduates Move After College Wall Street Journal
Millennials Face $1 Trillion Debt as Student Loans Pile Up Bloomberg
University removed a student's satire website on race relations -- and restored it only after faced with legal pressure Inside Higher Ed