Articles of interest - July 29
/***TECHNOLOGY
This website uses AI to turn your selfies into haunted classical portraits The Verge
Brain-computer interface Neuralink is state of the art, but still has a long way to go MIT Tech Review
A distinguished centenarian scientist prophesies the future: Cyborgs will save humanity Economist
A new tool uses AI to spot text written by AI MIT Technology Review
***BIG DATA & AI
Attacking satellites is increasingly attractive—and dangerous (a missile hitting a satellite creates a huge amount of space shrapnel) Economist
“I’m a data scientist who is skeptical about data” Quartz
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Teen Love for Snapchat Is Keeping Snap Afloat Wired
Women are getting jaw shots to look like their Instagram filters New York Post
***MOBILE
Mobile Spend Takes More Than Half Of Search Budgets Media Post
AP Explains: What T-Mobile takeover of Sprint means for you Associated Press
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
‘Death of A Salesman’ Playing Out at TV Networks Broadcasting & Cable
***JOURNALISM
A journalist's guide to open-source tools Media news Journalism.co
Tools and tips for digging into Facebook from two investigative journalists The GroundTruth Project
Whose stories get told? Why media diversity matters The Hill
How to cover 11,250 elections at once: Here’s how The Washington Post’s new computational journalism lab will tackle 2020 Nieman Journalism Lab
What multimedia journalists say makes a good news director RTDNA
The Washington Post is hiring not one but two reporters to cover the videogame industry JournoTerrorist
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
5 key takeaways about the state of the news media in 2018 Pew Research Center
The next media mega-merger Axios
I was owed about $5,000 from late-paying publications. I tried to hold them all accountable Wudan Yan Blog
Digital news platform Patch pivots away from advertising to payments Axios
Shady Online Marketers Are Selling Links In Articles On The New York Times, BBC, CNN, And Other News Sites BuzzFeed News
***FAKE NEWS
Why ‘worthless’ humanities degrees may set you up for life BBC
5 Things to Know About Military Romance Scams on Facebook New York Times
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Go claim your $125 from Equifax’s data breach settlement Slate
Researchers spotlight the lie of ‘anonymous’ data Tech Crunch
Chicago police have for years compiled profiles on every citizen who spoke at public meetings of the city’s police disciplinary panel Chicago Tribune
Apple contractors 'regularly hear confidential details' on Siri recordings The Guardian
Why Facebook’s new ‘privacy cop’ is doomed to fail (opinion) The Conversation
Louisiana declares state of emergency in response to ransomware attack ArsTechnica
Libraries push back against Linkedin learning over data privacy eLearning
***INTERNET
About three-in-ten U.S. adults say they are ‘almost constantly’ online Pew Research Center
The Census Could Undercount People Who Don’t Have Internet Access Slate
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Good Samaritan Experiment Becoming
The science of regrettable decisions Vox
What's the difference between a lame excuse and good one? A philosopher thinks she has the answer NBC News
Junky TV is actually making people dumber — and more likely to support populist politicians Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***WRITING & READING
Don’t steal, don’t lift: Thoughts on the consequences of plagiarism Robert M Chapple
How to Use a Thesaurus to Actually Improve Your Writing (video) Big Think
The Jane Austen Fiction Manuscript Archive Is Online: Explore Handwritten Drafts of Persuasion, The Watsons & More Open Culture
True crime book for every US state New York Times
***LANGUAGE
Can Artificial Intelligence Decipher Lost Languages? Researchers Attempt to Decode 3500-Year-Old Ancient Languages Open Culture
Is the internet killing language? LOL, no Vox
Animal Sounds Around the World Scholarly Kitchen
***LITERATURE
Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie among 13 authors longlisted for Booker Prize, the UK's most prestigious literary award Publisher’s Weekly
Takeaways from the revealing new Toni Morrison documentary CBC
Born 200 years ago, Herman Melville was globalisation’s first great bard Economist
Behind the Myths of Scott and Zelda's Epic Romance Literary Hub
Rudyard Kipling and the American imagination Economist
10 Surprising Facts About Pride and Prejudice Mental Floss
***POETRY
Port Kembla couple explain poetry is on the rise thanks to Instagram and slam nights Illawrra Mercury
At age 101, this woman released her first collection of poems Washington Post
The heartbreaking poetry a 17-year-old wrote before he was shot to death Washington Post
The Way I Begin Poems: Edaki Timothy Medium
Was the poet John Keats a graverobber? BBC
***GENDER
Another Major Error Found in a Peer-Reviewed Paper Used to Support the IAAF Regulations of Female Athletes Roger Pielke Jr Blog
Why half the scientists in some eastern European countries are women Economist
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
The Problem With Diversity Questions Inside Higher Ed
They look white but say they're black: a tiny town in Ohio wrestles with race The Guardian
New Study Says White Police Officers Are Not More Likely To Shoot Minority Suspects NPR
Critics of Peer Review Ask How ‘Race Science’ Still Manages to Slip Through Undark
***LEGAL ISSUES
Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there Economist
California Bar 'Inadvertently' Reveals Essay Topics Days Before Exam Law.com
***LEGAL ISSUES & THE MEDIA
Reporters Committee, AP continue fight against FBI’s FOIA non-compliance RCFP
Judge dismisses Sandmann lawsuit against the Washington Post CNN
Appeals court rules Baltimore police mandatory non-disclosure agreements unconstitutional RCFP
***BORDER ISSUES
Migrant children camps: Thousands of unaccompanied migrant children could be detained indefinitely CBS News
No shower for 23 days: U.S. citizen says conditions were so bad that he almost self-deported Dallas News
***RELIGION
In U2's 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For,' A Restless Search For Meaning NPR
6 facts about what Americans know about religion Pew Research Center
What happens when a leader in the purity movement gets a divorce? Big Think
Tennessee man says his sexual orientation stands between church & father's funeral plans WTVC
Europe experienced a surge in government restrictions on religious activity over the last decade Pew Research Center
What Americans Know About Religion — And What They Don’t FiveThirtyEight
Joshua Harris' separation from wife and faith is 'hard to hear', says megachurch he used to pastor Christianity Today
Video links Beth Moore, Russell Moore, James Merritt to ‘Trojan horse of social justice’ Religious News Service
***MEGACHURCHES
The Village Church sued for more than $1 million over alleged abuse at church camp Religious News Service
Crystal Cathedral, the original evangelical megachurch, has a conversion to Catholicism LA Times
Willow Creek plans reconciliation service to move on; Hybels not involved Religious News Service
Chinese megachurch pastor imprisoned for faith in Jesus hit with more charges 7 months after arrest Christian Post
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Small church makes big news with ‘America, love it or leave it’ sign Baptist News
Netflix Docu concerns secret Christian organization in Washington People
***GOOD NEWS
Sisters read bedtime stories on Facebook Live so kids can fall asleep to a story each night ABC
Human chain forms to save swimmers caught in rip current during Tropical Storm Barry Washington Post
Google Glass helps kids with autism read facial expressions Stanford
‘It wasn’t in his job description’: Metro police officer escorts a mom and her tantruming autistic child home Washington Post
Recovering Veterans Help Injured Sea Lions Return to the Ocean NBC-LA
A 6-year-old was swept out to sea, and a group of brothers dove in after her Washington Post
Hair stylist carries her red salon chair to the homeless KARE-11
73-year-old, his dogs rescued after 4 days in remote Oregon by long-distance mountain biker ABC
A boy with one hand met a soccer player with the same limb difference, and the photo went viral Washington Post
Beachgoers form human chain to rescue swimmer from rip currents at Panama City Beach Associated Press
***REALLY?!
Utah boy advertises 'Ice Cold Beer' at root beer stand Associated Press
Australian women freed after complimenting kidnapper's flowers NDTV
***ART & DESIGN
Melancholy Creatures Explore Imagined Worlds in Wistful Murals by Hayley Welsh The is Colossal
The winners of the 2019 iPhone Photo contest Diyphotography
***MUSIC
Pop Songs Are Sung So Quickly These Days—Why? GQ
How big stars maximize their take from tours Economist
Kanye West’s choir covers two Nirvana songs (video)
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Suit Seeks to Protect Students Accused of Sexual Assault Inside Higher Ed
Professors discuss federal laws and institutional policy around consent, and what colleges get wrong Inside Higher Ed
The evidence is clear and convincing: universities’ approaches to Title IX are broken The FIRE
Do Title IX Protections Discriminate Against Fraternity Members? Inside Higher Ed
***SOCIAL ISSUES
How Peppa Pig became an LGBTQ icon Vox
Television producers need to stop encouraging teen drinking – here’s how they can The Conversation
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Why is the U.S. facing a federal firefighter shortage? PS Mag
Many consumers neither read nor understand the contracts they sign Economist
Brutally Honest Advertising Slogans Sad & Useless
***BUSINESS OUTSIDE THE U.S.
Sweden is going cashless CBS News
Chinese and Taiwanese companies combine to outnumber US companies for first time Fortune
***ENVIRONMENT
America's dirtiest beaches are prone to unsafe bacteria, report shows USA Today
Putting ecocide on a par with genocide The Guardian
***HEALTH
Microfluidics device helps diagnose sepsis in minutes MIT News
Wonder where generic drug names come from? Two women in Chicago, that's where Los Angeles Times
Weird New Kinds Of Cocaine Could Start A “Hidden Epidemic” Of Health Threats BuzzFeed News
***HEALTH: LIFESTYLE
Healthy lifestyle may offset genetic risk of dementia Science Daily
How Atkins Became Keto Medium
Keto diet: weight loss and disease treatment Vox
***MEDICAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY
Liver transplants could be redundant with discovery of new liver cell Science Daily
Doctors In The U.S. Use CRISPR Technique To Treat A Genetic Disorder For The 1st Time NPR
***TRAVEL
Older drivers are more likely to be distracted by tech while driving, AAA report USA Today
***SPORTS & GAMES
Baseball card collecting world rocked by fraud scandal, FBI investigation Axios
Teenager becomes Fortnite's first-ever solo world champion CNN
***ANIMALS
Officials Investigate Award-Winning Lamb for Performance-Enhancing Drugs Geek.com
Looking to declaw your cat? Don’t look in New York anymore Associated Press
Police Department Lets People Pay Parking Tickets with Donations for Shelter Cats My Modern Met
How to Make Quicksand Like an Octopus Daily Jstor
Two dogs save the life of their 87-year-old owner when he got stuck in knee-high mud Daily Mail
11 Fierce Facts About Tigers Mental Floss
***PSYCHOLOGY
How well the brain ejects waste may affect disease susceptibility Axios
5 Toxic Subtypes of Narcissism Psychology Today
***PHILOSOPHY
***HISTORY
***POLITICS
Pro-Trump Republican aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar charged with felony theft The Guardian
Georgia election officials accused of destroying evidence Associated Press
***RESEARCH
How a data detective exposed suspicious medical trials Nature
Satirical contributions in toxicology Springer
What’s published in the journal isn’t what the researchers actually did Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
How One Researcher Is Looking to Improve Peer Review Wiley
New Guidelines for Statistical Reporting: a requirement to replace P values New England Journal of Medicine
Predatory journals are infiltrating citation databases Springer
***HIGHER ED
Growing Number of San Diego Community College Students Transferring to 4-Year Institutions Times of San Diego
Has College Gotten Too Easy? The Atlantic
The Most Expensive Public Colleges And Universities In The United States, Visualized Digg
Armed Ole Miss Students Posed With an Emmett Till Memorial Sign. They Went Unpunished by the University Chronicle of Higher Ed
Chegg's alternative data may be showing cracks in the textbook retailer's engagement Thinknum
University Fires 9 Police officers for offensive comments Washington Post
***HUMANITIES
Why ‘worthless’ humanities degrees may set you up for life BBC
Addressing Homelessness and Housing Insecurity in Higher Education Inside Higher Ed
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Liberty University's "culture of fear" where Jerry Falwell Jr. "silences students and professors who reject his pro-Trump politics..." Washington Post
Firing of Nazarene Professor Over Novel Threatens Academic, Artistic Freedom (press release)
Nonprofit defends LGBTQ students from their universities Religious News Service
***TEACHING
Want to Reach All of Your Students? Here’s How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
The Dead or Dying State of Student Journalism at Independent Schools Medium
The Dead or Dying State of High School Student Journalism at Independent Schools Medium
***STUDENT LIFE
Millennials use PowerPoint to help friends score dates New York Post
Famous Birthdays Is Wikipedia for Gen Z The Atlantic
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Wall Street Journal op-ed on faculty work and pay irks academics Inside Higher Ed
I'm a College Professor Who Faked Dissertation Data on the Side Vice