Articles of Interest - April 15
/***BIG DATA & AI
How algorithms know what you’ll type next- deconstructing text predictors Pudding
Amazon’s empire rests on its low-key approach to AI Economist
Google launches end-to-end platform in an effort to democratize AI and Machine Learning TechCrunch
Does the Bayesian approach to statistics require a “subjective belief”? Statistical Modeling
Can a computer write a script? Machine learning goes Hollywood LA Times
A dozen things I wish I’d known before starting as a Data Scientist Medium
A snapshot of how programmers work Tech Republic
***JOURNALISM
In the age of ‘enemy of the people’ rhetoric, do young people still want to be journalists? Philly
The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News The New Yorker
'Crying girl' picture near US border wins World Press Photo of the Year CNN
There are a lot of great journalism movies. Here are our top 25 Poynter
Journalist David Carr As A Father In 'All That You Leave Behind' NPR
Many rural Americans say local news media mostly don’t cover their area Pew Research Center
It’s just in mice! This scientist is calling out hype in science reporting Stat News
2019 Pulitzer Prizes Turn The Spotlight On Some Dangers Journalists Face NPR
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
More than 30 media companies have unionized in the past 2 years Axois
When local newspapers shrink, fewer people bother to run for mayor Harvard’s Nieman Lab
The next big news fight is between Chinese aggregation apps Axois
Meet Frame, a weekly news magazine that lives in your calendar and text messages Poynter
Apple News+ gets off to a rocky start for some publishers Digiday
Newspaper Racks For 'Tampa Bay Times' Come With Video Streaming, Advertising Publishers Daily
***FAKE NEWS
WorldNetDaily: "Inside the spectacular fall of the granddaddy of right-wing conspiracy sites Washington Post
Meet The People Fact-Checking The Election That Makes 2016 Look Like A Walk In The Park BuzzFeed News
Why conspiracy theories are getting more absurd Vox
Who needs deepfakes when bogus crowd photos get thousands of shares on Facebook? Poynter
Asian governments are trying to curb fake news Economist
Conspiracy theories, misinformation swirl online as Notre Dame burn Daily Dot
***TECHNOLOGY
How much can we afford to forget, if we train machines to remember? Aeon
Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa Bloomberg
Forget The Black Hole Picture — Check Out The Sweet Technology That Made It Possible FiveThirtyEight
How photo booths escaped the brink of extinction by becoming FOMO generators The Verge
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Social media usage in U.S. remains unchanged despite a year of turmoil Pew Research Center
Pinterest's Midwestern charm Quartz
An Influencer Shares How She Turned Instagram Into A Viable Living Digg
Facebook Tests Combining News Feed, Stories Digital News Days
Facebook will stop asking you to wish your dead friends a happy birthday Fast Company
The standalone Messenger app may be merging back into the flagship Facebook app BGR
***MOBILE
How to Run Diagnostics Tests on Your Smartphone LifeHacker
Is Your Smartphone Making You Fat? WebMD
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Hackers publish personal data on thousands of US federal agents TechCrunch
Microsoft webmail breach exposed email addresses and subject lines Engadget
Incognito mode won’t keep your browsing private. Do this instead Fast Company
One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority New York Times
Hackers could read non-corporate Outlook.com, Hotmail for six months ArsTechnica
***INTERNET
Google testing 'Before' and 'After' commands that filter dates direct from the Search box TechSpot
What Women Know About the Internet: The digital world is not designed to keep women safe.. New regulations should be New York Times
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Would you be Willing? Becoming (my blog)
How to become a more curious person Quartz
Should We Have Empathy For Those We Hate? NPR
How to prime your mind to make creative leaps and new discoveries BigThink
***GRAMMAR
Real Language Analysis Should replace disembodied grammar instruction in schools Economist
Linguists found the world’s “weirdest” languages—and English is one of them Quartz
***WRITING & READING
How Writing Changed My Life & Career Darius Foroux Blog
Old-school writing tools will boost your creativity, concentration—and speed Quartz
***LITERATURE
‘Extraordinary' 500-year-old library catalogue reveals books lost to time The Guardian
Every Kurt Vonnegut Novel Ranked in Order of Relevance Consequences of Sound
Libraries are letting patrons pay off their fines by donating canned goods Daily Item
PBS' 6-Episode 'Les Misérables' Miniseries Focuses On The Story Instead Of Music NPR
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World (book review) The Week
Wattpad, an online reading room, wants to print books Economist
***GENDER
5 Fast Facts You Need to Know about the woman whose algorithm led to the first image of a black hole Heavy
Why Men Get Worse Forehead Lines and Wrinkles Than Women Fatherly
Everything you need to know about the transgender military ban Axios
Virginia Hall, the greatest spy you’ve never heard of Economist
New Augmented Reality App Celebrates Stories of Women Typically Omitted from U.S. History Textbooks Open Culture
London bookstore—devoted mostly to overlooked works by female writers—celebrates 20 years New York Times
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
New Report Takes A Deeper Look At How Latinos Experience Discrimination In The US NPR
The Civil Rights Activist Murdered by the Ku Klux Klan Whose Story Was Nearly Lost to History A mighty Girl
The sons of slaveholders quickly recovered their fathers’ wealth Economist
Israel’s Election, Through the Eyes of a Young Palestinian The New York Times
Thomas Mann Explains the Nazis' Ulterior Motive for Spreading Anti-Semitism in Rare 1940 Audio Open Culture
Native American Women Are Facing a Crisis New York Times
As black activists protested police killings, homeland security worried they might join ISIS The Intercept
Sharp Rise in the Share of Americans Saying Jews Face Discrimination Pew Research Center
Texas high schooler sends racist promposal on Snapchat KVUE-TV
***FREE SPEECH
Anti-Transgender Speaker Sprayed During Talk Inside Higher Ed
FUCT: An Unconstitutional Restriction of Speech or an Allowable Ban on "Scandal"? The Fashion Law Blog
***LAW & CRIME
Kim Kardashian hopes to become lawyer in 2022 after four-year apprenticeship BBC
Without Using Profanity, Supreme Court Justices Discuss Case Centered On Bad Language NPR
Nebraska faces a prison-crowding emergency Economist
***RELIGION
The fire at Notre Dame, a Catholic icon, was made even more heartbreaking by the timing Washington Post
What Pope Benedict's Letter On The Sex Abuse Scandal Means For Catholics NPR
Southern Baptist seminary removes stained glass windows showing church leaders, Alabama pastor Al.com
Little-Remembered Religious Preachers Get Their Due In 'American Messiahs' NPR
Noah's Wife Gets A Name In 'Naamah' (author interview) NPR
'Why I joined a cult - and how I left' BBC
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Steve Bannon and U.S. ultra-conservatives take aim at Pope Francis NBC News
Pence says Buttigieg bringing 'attacks on my Christian faith' CNN
Trump: Am I being audited because I'm a Christian? USA Today
***GOOD NEWS
Woman still riding motorcycles at 93 years old, rolls through Triad FOX 8
20-year-old raising 5 siblings gifted new car from strangers WTOL-TV
New Jersey teen shares the stage with her service dog CBS News
***REALLY?!
A Burglar Hiding In An Oregon Bathroom Turned Out To Be...A Trapped Roomba BuzzFeed News
Woman does karate, son gets nude, dog steals cornbread mix from Walmart, police say KY3
A cassowary bird killed a man in Florida Quartz
Drunk Florida man arrested at Olive Garden, eating spaghetti Miami Herald
Man shoots himself and his daughter while trying to change her diaper at a Chuck E. Cheese WBRC-TV
***ART
What’s Left of Notre Dame’s Art? The Cut
How Leonardo da Vinci made a “satellite” map in 1502 Vox
Art frenzy takes over Havana as biennial kicks off Reuters
***GRAPHIC DESIGN
The History of Italics In Type Kottke
Chobani, Glossier, and more are branching out into ’70s-style serif fonts Vox
Behind the process of Helvetica’s 21-century facelift The Verge
***MUSIC
The Surprisingly Technical Process of Songwriting Medium
***FILM
'Long Day's Journey Into Night' Is a Mind-Boggling Feat The Atlantic
Review: Netflix's 'Tijuana' Finally Offers Good TV About Journalists Daily Dot
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Johnson Publishing Co., the ex-publisher of Ebony and Jet, files for bankruptcy Chicago Sun-Times
A Wave of Consolidation among media companies Economist
Will It Soon Be Legal to Say Curse Words on Broadcast Television? Hollywood Reporter
***FREELANCE WRITING
Freelancers to cover public media Current.org
Political news pitches Medium
Freelance pitches Reader’s Digest
Pitches on travel, food or personal essays Curiosity Magazine
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Up against the invincible: A professor was convicted of sexual misconduct: Why is he still on campus? Columbia Spectator
Students accused of sexual assault are suing colleges — and winning most of the time USA Today
***SOCIAL ISSUES
The IRS Audits the Working Poor at a Higher Rate than Wealthier People WNYC Studios
6 demographic trends shaping the U.S. and the world in 2019 Pew Research Center
***THE BORDER
What’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border in 6 charts Pew Research Center
Photographing All 2,000 Miles of the US–Mexico Border Wired
The Borderlands — Not The U.S., Not Mexico, A Transitional Land NPR
11-year-old ordered deported without her family MSN
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
What Qualifies as Middle-Income in Each State FlowingData
H&M is Being Sued for Allegedly Collecting and Sharing Employees' Fingerprints The Fashion Law Blog
***ENVIRONMENT
Are Plastic Bag Bans Garbage? NPR
How Fake Meat Could Save the Planet One Zero
***HEALTH
One Day There May Be a Drug to Turbocharge the Brain. Who Should Get It? New York Times
Are You Overdosing on Caffeine? Signs that your coffee habit is doing more harm than good Outside Online
Napping is good for you, experts say—if you do it the right way Quartz
Invisible Middlemen Are Slowing Down American Health Care The Atlantic
The Science Behind the Mental Clarity Diet Medium
High Stress Can Lead To Heart Attacks, Sibling Study Finds. Here's How To Relax NPR
A Dying Nurse Is Claiming She Switched Thousands of Babies at Birth Fatherly
***HEALTH: VACCINES
How Misinformation Is Driving the Measles Outbreak Among Ultra-Orthodox Jews New York Times
How Philadelphia Mandated Vaccinations In 1991 NPR
New York's Vaccine Order Shows How Health Laws Are Failing Us Wired
Measles Cases Spike Driven By Outbreaks In N.Y. And 4 Other Regions NPR
***TRAVEL
Why airlines make flights longer on purpose BBC
Beijing is building a colossal new airport Economist
Delta reduces how much passengers can recline their seats Quartz
***FOOD
Swiss government declares that coffee is not essential for survival BBC
***GAMES & SPORTS
Professional Sports Bettor Sets 'Jeopardy' Single-Day Record Bleacher Report
Britain's Tara Moore saves match point at 0-6, 0-5 down – and goes on to win The Guardian
The Athletic's next arena is in podcasting Axiox
Our deep dive into how esports broadcasting differs from traditional sports VentureBeat
***FAMILY
Kids Whose Parents Read to Them Understand Up to 1.4 Million More Words Mental Floss
For Anxious Kids, Parents May Need To Learn To Let Them Face Their Fears NPR
***ANIMALS
Study shows dogs can accurately sniff out cancer in blood Science Daily
Border Collie Comes Out Of Nowhere, Saves Chihuahua From Being Run Over By Car Digg
***SCIENCE
New Twitter account outs shoddy reporting in science stories Quartz
The engineering of living organisms could soon start changing everything Economist
Emotional mirror neurons found in the rat Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
***MATH
Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply Wired
The Mathematics of (Hacking) Passwords Scientific American
***PSYCHOLOGY
Is evolution the key to understanding mental illness? Economist
The Most Important Question in Psychology Research Psychology Today
***NEUROSCIENCE
The violent attack that turned a man into a maths genius BBC
Kashfia Rahman: How risk-taking changes a teenager's brain TED Talk
Doctors Use Electrical Implant to Aid Brain-Damaged Woman New York Times
***HISTORY
Reconstruction, one of the most misunderstood chapters in American history CBS News
See the Oldest Printed Advertisement in English: An Ad for a Book from 1476 Open Culture
Telegram announcing Abraham Lincoln’s death is up for sale Associated Press
Third-graders found error in their workbook about Columbus: Here’s what they did about it Washington Post
***RESEARCH
Fears that academia’s unhealthy obsession with publication metrics is worsening ResearchResearch
Elsevier’s Presence on Campuses Spans More Than Journals: That Has Some Scholars Worried The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Dissertation Publication Requirement: It’s Time for Reexamination Scholarly Kitchen
Isaac Asimov once submitted a hoax paper Futility Closet
***RESEARCH ETHICS
The study of a cancer test seemed like a triumph: But some data were missing Stat News
Plagiarism in Predatory Publications: A Comparative Study of Three Nursing Journals Sigma
When Public Discourse Mirrors Academic Debate: Research Integrity in the Media Science and Engineering Ethics
The replication “crisis” is good for science The Conversation
Train students to navigate ethical swamps Nature
Caught stealing a manuscript? blames a dead colleague Retraction Watch
***HIGHER ED
What the College-Admissions Scandal Reveals The Atlantic
Western Kentucky reinstated the dean its now ex-provost forced out last week Inside Higher Ed
Colleges are upending majors Axios
Faced with high costs, crowding and confusion, college students struggle to earn a degree in four years Union Tribune
U. of Tulsa Has a Billion-Dollar Endowment for Just 4,000 Students: Why Is It Cutting Programs? Tulsa World
"Predatory" company uses Canadian universities to sell shoddy conferences Ottawa Citizen
The Rise of the Mega-University The Chronicle of Higher Education
Students Are Protesting Mike Pence's Commencement Speech At This Christian University Newsweek
Students at Mormon-owned BYU urge honor code compassion Associated Press
***STUDENT MEDIA
Administrators censor High School newspaper, demanding the name of a confidential source and moving to prior restraint Dynamics of Writing
Police are investigating trashed student newspapers Student Press Law Center
***STUDENT LIFE
The most consequential, and least informed, decision that college students make New York Times
The Texas State student senate voted to bar a conservative group Texas Tribune
Nearly half of indebted millennials say college wasn't worth it, and the reason why is obvious Business Insider
My Daughter Died By Suicide After Being Abused at College Vice
A cartographic clash between the LSE and its Chinese students Economist
Fewer than 25% of college graduates can answer 4 simple money questions correctly Market Watch
***TEACHING
Broadcast training boss warns of 'gradual erosion' of social skills as journalism students grow up messaging online Press Gazette
In praise of teachers (opinion) The Week
Five Lessons Online Faculty Can Learn from the IRS Faculty Focus
***ACADEMIC LIFE
3 Things a Faculty-Pay Survey Shows About Academic Jobs The Chronicle of Higher Education
Kentucky Prof is under investigation for misconduct Retraction Watch
The Rise of the Pedantic Professor When academic self-regard becomes an intellectual style The Chronicle of Higher Education
‘This Was a Hell Not Unlike Anything Dante Conjured.’ Readers Share Their Stories of Fraught Academic Careers Chronicle of Higher Ed