Articles of Interest - April 29
/***TECHNOLOGY
The Machine That Reads Your Mind (Kinda) and Talks (Sorta) Wired
Tiny robots powered by magnetic fields could help drug-delivery nanoparticles reach their Targets MIT
In 1983, This Bell Labs Computer Was the First Machine to Become a Chess Master IEEE Spectrum
Amazon is testing a Spanish Language Alexa Experience Tech Crunch
***BIG DATA & AI
Startups are racing to commercialize DeepFakes’s powerful, internet-breaking AI Fast Company
3 startups commercializing Deepfakes media manipulation tech Fast Company
How to prepare for a career in machine learning and artificial intelligence Tech Republic
Artificial Intelligence VS Machine Learning VS Data Science Code Mentor
How to hide from everyday surveillance cameras in the AI surveillance state MIT Tech Review
Walmart takes a deep dive into artificial intelligence in its physical store Associated Press
***SOCIAL MEDIA
CIA is officially on Instagram ABC News
TikTok's quirky videos can nab you your 15 seconds of fame Cnet
Kidfluencers’ are earning millions on social media, but who owns that money? The Guardian
How Americans use Twitter: Key takeaways from our new study Pew Research Center
LA’s plan to reboot its bus system—using cell phone data Wired
Facebook never delivered its "Clear History" feature BoingBoing
How Fox News dominates Facebook in the Trump era Vice
The rise and fall of Facebook’s memory economy Wired
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Sinclair plots national expansion Axios
Vice Media Restructures, Folds 'Noisy,' 'Broadly,' 'Tonic' Into Flagship Site MediaPost
***JOURNALISM
27 incredibly useful things you didn’t know Google Sheets could do Fast Company
Study: Journalists need help covering misinformation Poynter
Counteracting Health Misinformation: A Role for Medical Journals? JAMA Network
Reporters Committee, NBC 7 San Diego sue U.S. immigration agencies for violating FOIA Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press
A 101 on machine learning in the newsroom Columbia Journalism Review
Andrew Yang, the most meme-able 2020 candidate, also wants to save journalism Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
A doorbell company owned by Amazon wants to start producing “crime news” Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Smart Speaker Use Is Growing. Will News Grow With It? Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***FAKE NEWS
Students Fall for Misinformation Online: Is Teaching Them to Read Like Fact Checkers the Solution? Chronicle of Higher Education
6 Conspiracy Theories Promoted By OANN, Trump’s New Favorite ‘News’ Outlet Hill Reporter
After Trump calls media "fakers," WHCA president slams "unpresidential" rhetoric Axios
Fake Video: World Leaders Sing Imagine YouTube
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Millions using 123456 as password, security study finds BBC
How Big Tech’s cozy relationship with Ireland threatens data privacy around the world Politico
Google knows everywhere you go — here's how to stop it from tracking you and delete the logs CNBC
***PRODUCING MEDIA
A new startup helps podcasts get promoted on other podcasts The Verge
Overcast Podcast Player Gains Audio and Video Clip-Sharing Feature Mac Rumors
***INTERNET
How healthy is the internet? Mozilla
Google Inbox’s co-creator wants to fix Gmail with a new Chrome extension The Verge
This map showing the fastest and slowest internet speeds in the US could predict the path of a Silicon Valley startup exodus Business Insider
The 4 Questions to Ask before You Unplug Jstor
***PERSONAL GROWTH
When Are You Really an Adult? Becoming (my blog)
How to Actually, Truly Focus on What You’re Doing New York Times
***GRAMMAR
Merriam-Webster adds 640 new words to its English dictionary Merriam-Webster
***WRITING & READING
Routine Over Talent: The Interesting Habits Of 11 Famous Writers Minutes Magazine
The story of handwriting in 12 objects BBC
The Numbers on Romance novels Quartz
***LANGUAGE
Foreign languages ought to be an asset for politicians—not a liability Economist
Over 400 languages spoken today may have originated in northern China New Scientist
***LITERATURE
Hear J.R.R. Tolkien Read from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in Vintage Recordings from the Early 1950s Open Culture
White nationalists interrupt Antiracist Book Festival at Politics and Prose WTOP
Harper Lee, true crime writer CBS News
***GENDER
‘I Want What My Male Colleague Has, and That Will Cost a Few Million Dollars’ New York Times
Wife-tracking apps are one sign of Saudi Arabia’s vile regime The Guardian
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
The racial bias built into photography New York Times
Is there a trade-off between racial diversity and academic excellence in gifted classrooms? Hechinger Report
***LEGAL ISSUES
Chalking tires to enforce parking rules is unconstitutional, court finds NBC News
Quest for food stamp data lands newspaper at Supreme Court Associated Press
Roy Moore Is Still Fighting In Court With Sacha Baron Cohen As He Eyes Another Senate Run BuzzFeed News
***LEGAL ISSUES: COPYRIGHT
A US photographer could lose some or all of a $450,000 jury award Bloomberg Law
Court reverses misguided fair use ruling Photo District News
Photographer Sues for Failure to Provide Creative Commons-Required Attribution Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***CRIME
We found 85,000 cops who’ve been investigated for misconduct: Now you can read their records USA Today
Navy SEALs Were Warned Against Reporting Their Chief for War Crimes New York Times
***RELIGION
United Methodist Court Keeps Core of New LGBT Legislation Christianity Today
God, Guns, and Country: The Evangelical Fight Over Firearms New Yorker
Half of Americans Say Evangelicals Are Discriminated Against Christianity Today
BYU speaker comes out during commencement speech The Salt Lake Tribune
‘Hail Satan?’ examines the rise of the satanic temple World Religion News
India Proposes Controversial Bill Making Religion a Criteria for Refugee Citizenship NPR
***CHURCHES
Churchgoing: The US is on a path towards secularism Economist
Places Of Worship Are Increasingly Becoming Targets Of Extremist Violence NPR
Megachurch terminated from national accreditation group because of former senior pastor's 'discretionary account' Chicago Tribune
Evangelical churches can become 'seedbeds for rape culture,' seminary professor says Christian Post
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
2020 Election Revives Debate: Should Religious Faith Guide One's Voting? NPR
Franklin Graham rails against Buttigieg for calling himself 'gay Christian' The Hill
Franklin Graham Tells Buttigieg to ‘Repent’ Being Gay Washington Post
2020 Democrats Invited To Iowa Evangelical Forum 'To Dig Deeper' NPR
How Trump has changed white evangelicals’ views about morality Washington Post
2020 Democratic Candidates Are Reaching Out To Religious Voters NPR
***POLITICS
Meet the Woman Behind the Buttigieg Media Frenzy Politico
Jared Diamond explores how countries respond to crises Economist
How The New Movements, Not The Old Media, Are Driving Politics BuzzFeed News
In many countries, dissatisfaction with democracy is tied to views about economic conditions, personal rights Pew Research Center
***GOOD NEWS
Photo of 3 Alabama men who kept widow company at restaurant goes viral Fox News
Cop Saves An Elderly, Hearing-Impaired Man From An Oncoming Train Digg
Police officer drives Illinois man to job interview after pulling him over KSDK-TV
Teen learned CPR at high school: Two weeks later, he used it to save his dad The Wichita Eagle
***ART & DESIGN
London Extinction Rebellion mural is a Banksy, says expert The Guardian
Frida Kahlo: The unapologetic artist CBS News
***MUSIC
The Luck Reunion is the anti-Coachella Fast Company
Why Do Sad People Like to Listen to Sad Music? Psychologists Answer the Question in Two Studies Open Culture
***FILM
55 details you may have missed in 'Avengers: Endgame' This is Insider
'Gosh!' An oral history of 'Napoleon Dynamite' Desert News
***STUDENT MEDIA
‘Free speech isn’t free, is it?’: A story on a teen porn worker could cost a high school journalism teacher her job Washington Post
Student journalists are breaking big stories Axios
The Student Journalists of Stoneman Douglas High Earned a Rare Honor at This Year’s Pulitzers Mother Jones
***STUDENT LIFE
Charges dropped for University of Arizona students who protested Border Patrol AZ Central
The story of a man running a cult out of his daughter’s dorm room The Cut
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
More than 12,000 Boy Scout members were victims of sexual abuse ABC News
The shocking rape trial that galvanised Spain’s feminists – and the far right The Guardian
Man who pleaded guilty to raping 14-year-old girl gets no jail time WKYT
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Half Of Americans Think The Smell Of Weed In Public Is A Real Problem BuzzFeed News
Americans' Stress, Worry and Anger Intensified in 2018 Gallup
By 2045, the U.S. as a whole is projected to become majority minority Axios
***IMMIGRATION
Judge gives US 6 months to identify children split at border Assoiciated Press
Asylum in America The Week
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Can Your Employer Fire You After You Quit? Life Hacker
FBI director addresses efforts by China to steal academic research and technology Inside Higher Ed
***ENVIRONMENT
The soothing, hypnotic colors of tulip season, seen from above Quartz
Climate change being fuelled by soil damage BBC
***HEALTH
35 Years Of American Death FiveThirtyEight
The Unseen Crisis of Drug Shortages Bloomberg
Measles outbreak over 700: Continues Unabated New York Times
A pill that tells doctors whether you’ve taken it Washington Post
How to give voice to the speechless: Listen to, and translate, their brainwaves Economist
Why Your Doctor’s White Coat Can Be a Threat to Your Health New York Times
Screening for lung cancer is a controversial idea But the evidence now suggests it can work Economist
***VACCINES
What anti-vaxxers are actually afraid of (it's not all about autism) BigThink
'Brady Bunch' Episode Fuels Campaigns Against Vaccines And Marcia's Miffed NPR
***TRAVEL
Sri Lanka was Lonely Planet's No. 1 travel destination for 2019. The attacks are ‘a big blow’ LA Times
***SPORTS & GAMES
‘Jeopardy!’ Quiz: The Questions James Holzhauer Got Wrong Vulture
How hard a golf hole is does not depend solely on how hard it is Economist
***FOOD
The Raisin Industry New York Times
How Technology is Changing the Food Industry Forbes
***FAMILY
Getting married in your 30s is the new normal Quartz
U.N. recommends no screen time for babies; only 1 hour for kids under 5 NBC News
Participation in the arts raises kids' self-esteem Pacific Standard
What’s the point of marriage? (opinion) the Week
***ANIMALS
Rescue dog helps owner pick up trash across Arizona NBC News
Loyal dog stays by body of his master for two day until it is found Daily Mail Online
How to Pay for Your Pet's Healthcare Life Hacker
***SCIENCE
The universe is expanding faster than previously thought Johns Hopkins
Dark Matter Gets a Reprieve in New Analysis Quantam Magazine
***PSYCHOLOGY
Rich guys are most likely to have no idea what they’re talking about Washington Post
Minnesota moves toward banning 'conversion therapy' but it's still legal in many states CNN
***NEUROSCIENCE
Many defendants turn to brain science NBC News
Brains of blind people adapt to sharpen sense of hearing, study shows University of Washington
***PHILOSOPHY
A Harvard Professor Explains What the Avengers Can Teach Us About Philosophy Wired
***RESEARCH
21 Dos and Don’ts for Journal Writers and Reviewers Chronicle of Higher Education
It's 2019: Academic Papers Should Be Free Undark
Rein in the four horsemen of irreproducibility Nature
Should we introduce a dislike button for academic articles? Journal of the Assocn for Information Science and Tech
USDA orders scientists to say published research is ‘preliminary’ The Washington Post
***HIGHER ED
Student slated to attend Western Michigan University beheaded in Saudi Arabia for ties to democracy Detroit Free Press
Michigan adopts new policy after controversy over students turned down for letters of recommendation Inside Higher Ed
Palomar College board considers live-stream meetings The Coast News
Using AI to Make Knowledge Workers More Effective Harvard Business Review
Stanford Moves to Stop Supporting Its University Press Inside Higher Ed
They Complained About Their Office: Then Kean U. Took Their Jobs Away Chronicle of Higher Education
***ONLINE SCHOOLS
An online school, wants to teach nursing Economist
National American University is latest for-profit chain to face financial turmoil Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
How One Professor Mines Student Comments to Improve Her Teaching Chronicle of Higher Education