Articles of Interest - August 19

***JOURNALISM

Journalists face job losses, low pay, attacks by Trump — and I want in  USA Today 

The news gets worse for local journalism Washington Post

Local newsrooms can now get extra legal help with their reporting   Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

Matt Drudge Has Barely Changed Anything About The Drudge Report In The Last 20 Years  BuzzFeed News 

***FAKES

A Texas con artist made millions promising prisoners' families the thing they wanted most: To bring their children home  The Marshall Project 

How And Why People Come Up With Conspiracy Theories  NPR

These deepfakes of Bill Hader are absolutely terrifying  CNET

Maybe you know that article is satire, but a lot of people can’t tell the difference  Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Websites that peddle disinformation make millions of dollars in ads, new study finds  CNN

***TECHNOLOGY 

Amazon says its facial recognition can now identify fear CNBC

Teen's tweets from her smart fridge go viral after mother confiscates phone  The Guardian 

Octopus-Inspired Wearable Sensor  Nature World News 

***BIG DATA & AI 

A summer camp for the next generation of NSA Agents  New Yorker  

Re-Imagining big data in a post-Hadoop world  Datami

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Why These Social Networks Failed So Badly  Gizmodo

 ***PERSONAL GROWTH 

D.E.S.C. when someone keeps repeating inappropriate behavior  Becoming (my blog)

Stephen Colbert's Perspective On Grief Brings Anderson Cooper To Tears During Powerful Interview  Digg

***WRITING & READING

Avoid Plagiarism With Google's New Assignments Tool  Life Hacker 

The Em Dash Divides New York Times

***LITERATURE

Video games are literature’s new frontier  Venture Beat 

A New Literary Timeline of African-American History  New York Times

Review of dystopian novel “The Memory Police”  Washington Post 

These Classic Books Are Surprisingly Fresh—and They're Free  Life Hacker

An overview of the amenities-heavy new libraries that are becoming tourist attractions across the world  New York Times  

Five novels win China's top literature award   Xinhuanet

***POETRY

Someone painted bullet holes on face of Emily Dickinson in art display  Mass Live  

Emily Dickinson’s ‘scraps of paper’ inspire art installation at poet’s Amherst conservatory Boston Globe

The Unsung Influence Of Poetry On Iron Maiden  Kerrang 

Elizabeth Thomas uses her writing to make sense of the world  Courant 

On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet  Lit Hub 

How a Scottish Borders boy became a leading Australian bush poet  BBC 

***GENDER    

Nearly 200,000 trans people have been exposed to conversion therapy, study says  NBC News

The Hazards of Writing While Female  The Atlantic  

Christian Women’s Shelter Doesn’t Need to Admit Trans Woman, Court Rules  Daily Signal 

StoryCorps: Transgender Woman Recalls Coming Out To Her Family In The 1960s  NPR

MSU suggests employees avoid saying 'I apologize,' 'no problem,' 'sir,' 'ma'am'  Campus Reform

Two-thirds of published poets are male, so does poetry have a gender issue?  Irish Times 

***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES

The 1619 Project  New York Times 

***CRIME & COURTS

Inside The Prison Where Inmates Set Each Other On Fire and Gangs Have More Power Than Guards 

***BORDER ISSUES 

Trump’s 'Invasion' Was actually a Corporate Recruitment Drive  The Atlantic 

Ruling limits border agents’ ability to search cellphones  LA Times

Documents Allege Serious Medical Neglect Inside Otay Mesa Detention Center  Voice of San Diego

***PRIVACY & SECURITY 

FBI seeks to monitor Facebook, oversee mass social media data collection  zdet

Security Researcher’s ‘NULL’ Vanity Plates Cause Glitch That Lands Him $12,000 in Parking Tickets  Gizmodo  

Microsoft warns Windows 10 users to update immediately CNN

Facial recognition tech misidentified 26 California lawmakers as criminals  Engadget 

***INTERNET

Computer Science Professors Says We Can Probably Make Email Better For Everyone  NPR 

***RELIGION

Hillsong Songwriter Marty Sampson Says He’s Losing His Christian Faith  Relevant Magazine  

The reputation of the gospel is at risk (opinion)  Washington Post 

U.S. Missionary With No Medical Training Sued After Malnourished Ugandan Children Died At Her Center  NPR

Oregon pastor and stripper team up to raise money for migrant kids after sweeping ICE raid  The Hill

A new priest’s more traditional approach has split one of Portland’s oldest Catholic churches Oregon Live 

Southwestern Distances Itself from Paige Patterson in Sex Abuse Lawsuit  Christianity Today  

Bid to allow some married priests engages celibacy debate  Washington Post 

Methodist Church closer to official split over LGBTQ issues Washington Times 

Billy Graham's Grandson Back in the Pulpit following Cheating Scandal  Christian Headlines

What HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones gets right about evangelicals Vox

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Reviews of Netflix Documentary The Family 

***GOOD NEWS 

3-year-old uses lemonade sales to buy baby supplies for mothers in need  ABC-11

FBI agent reunited with abducted baby he helped rescue decades ago  NBC News 

Indiana boy convinces mayor to put up 'turtle crossing' signs near ponds  ABC News

Warm-hearted Uber driver surprises fast food worker with a new dress after hearing her struggles  Digg 

He Gave a Bike to a Refugee Girl. 24 Years Later, She Got to Thank Him  New York Times  

Man invites police to help mow lawns in all 50 states  Associated Press

***REALLY?! 

Lil Nas X’s hit song is leaving one Massachusetts town without its ‘Old Town Road’ street signs Mass Live 

Architect goes blind, says he's actually gotten better at his job  CBS News 

Burglar Carefully Wipes Down His Fingerprints — While Staring Directly Into Security Camera (with video) Digg 

Man says emotional support alligator helps his depression  New York Post

Man Implicates Himself After Using Stolen Credit Card And Signing As ‘Thief’  CBS Pittsburgh 

Man Accused of Stalking Sent Woman 10,000 Texts  NBC Washington 

Missing dentures found stuck in throat 8 days after surgery  Associated Press

Too Much Karaoke Sent a Man to the Hospital with a Collapsed Lung  Live Science

Clinton: Woman reports her car stolen, while running from police in that car  WQAD.com

$12.3M payout for infant burned in Madigan operating-room fire delayed as feds consider appeal  The Seattle Times 

***ART & DESIGN

Cultural Regions Of America, Visualized  Digg

10 best Chrome extensions for designers  UX Design

***MUSIC 

Are men singing higher in pop music?  Pudding 

The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians The Guardian

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA  

Verizon to sell Tumblr to WordPress owner  Reuters  

U.S. Pay-TV Subscriber Losses More Than Triple To 1.5M In Q2 – Report – Deadline  Deadline

UK's 'The Spectator' To Launch U.S. Monthly Print Magazine  Media Post

Friends is hitting theaters for show's 25th anniversary  Entertainment Weekly 

***BUSINESS & FINANCE 

Learn & Practice On How To Fire Employees In Virtual Reality   VR & Fun

***ENVIRONMENT 

India’s holiest river is drying up  National Geographic 

Extreme climate change has reached the United States: Here are America’s fastest-warming places Washington Post

 ***HEALTH 

Smog And Other Air Pollution Is Linked To Lung Damage  NPR

Healthy tips on preparing for surgery  Washington Post 

Why Some Doctors Purposefully Misdiagnose Patients  The Atlantic 

Dozens of Young People Hospitalized for Breathing and Lung Problems After Vaping  New York Times 

Pakistan’s doctors are getting fired in Arab countries. Blame its unreliable medical degrees  The Print 

Nearly 100 People Have Reported Lung Diseases That May Be Linked to Vaping, and the CDC Is Getting Involved  TIME 

***MEDICAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY

Tissue model reveals role of blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s  MIT

Scientists discover new pain-sensing organ  The Guardian 

Engineers Have Found A Way To Use Sweat For Some Medical Tests  NPR 

***TRAVEL

FAA Bans Recalled MacBook Pros From Flights  Bloomberg

***SPORTS & GAMES

Chess champ’s formidable opponent: Red tape  Washington Post 

Welcome to the World of Competitive Wiffle Ball  The Ringer

When the internet Chases you from your Home  New York Times

***FOOD

This Is The Most Popular Ice Cream Shop In Every State  Delish 

The 33 Best BBQ Joints in America  Thrillist 

Pumpkin Spice Spam Is Real And Coming Out This Fall  Delish 

***FAMILY

The Weird History of Baby Cage, The Oddest Parenting Trend of the ’20s  Fatherly  

***ANIMALS  

Amazing octopus found in a rock pool in Cornwall  Cornwall Live  

These Scientists Gave Ecstasy To Octopuses And Discovered Something Unexpected  Gentside 

It will soon be a crime in Alabama to misrepresent a pet as a service animal   AL.com  

***SCIENCE 

A dozen science sites around the US  Washington Post  

Chemists make first-ever ring of pure carbon  Nature 

Scientists know gravity exists: They just don’t know how it works  Washington Post  

***PSYCHOLOGY 

A psychiatry publication goes from open access to subscription  Healio    

***PHILOSOPHY

John Rawls and the Remaking of Political Philosophy  Harvard Magazine 

Philosopher Portraits: Famous Philosophers Painted in the Style of Influential Artists  Open Culture 

***RESEARCH 

When so many email addresses on journal articles don’t work, we have a problem  Nature Index 

US Faculty Survey 2018 Reveals Uncertainty about Fraudulent Research Practices  Ithaka S+R

Survey of Chinese biomedical researchers: Vague understanding of general concepts related to research integrity  T&F Online  

When I read an article, I often have the sinking feeling that the authors didn’t actually read some of the papers they are citing  Journal of Cell Science 

Due to the publication of the article by the supervisor without the knowledge of a college student, this article is retracted  International Journal of Infection 

What difference do retractions make? An estimate of the epistemic impact of retractions on recent meta-analyses   Bioxiv

Four erroneous beliefs thwarting more trustworthy research   eLife Science

UC faculty members quit Cell Press editorial boards over impasse with publisher  Science Mag 

Here is how fake scientific journals are bypassing detection filters  Down to Earth

The Value of Redundancy in Research, or, In Research, Redundancy Has Value  Scholarly Kitchen

***HIGHER ED

Moody's Maintains Negative Outlook for Higher Ed  Inside Higher Ed 

College Campuses: Are They Too P.C.? (opinion)  New York Times

What This Title IX Case About Hazing Means for Women on Campus  MS Magazine  

Court Victory for Foreign Students Enrolled in Fake College  Inside Higher Ed

Cincinnati Christian University May Lose its Accreditation if Financial Problems and Other Issues Aren’t Resolved  City Beat 

Camp at Oklahoma Christian University brings together missionary families Oklahoman

Methodist University Hires a Muslim Chaplain  PJ Media  

Are faith-based ideas about sex spurring a consent conversation at Christian colleges?  Deseret News

***TEACHING 

Banning laptops or other note-taking devices from the classroom is an extreme stance that isn’t right for every student  Inside Higher Ed

'Substantial doubt' that Cincinnati Christian University keeps accreditation Cincinnati

How Calling on Random Students Could Hurt Women  Chronicle  

Could eye-tracking software help catch students cheating on exams?  T&F online

How Do We Teach With Primary Sources When So Many Voices Are Missing? Ed Week

***STUDENT MEDIA   

Court report supports Lantern case for Ohio State records  The Latern 

***ACADEMIC LIFE 

Fired University of Illinois professor, has lost his court bid to be reinstated  News-Gazette 

The firing of a university tennis coach accused of sexual harassment may have been motivated by public arm-twisting  Inside Higher Ed 

Professor exonerated for quoting iconic black writer at The New School The FIRE

***STUDENT LIFE

India Sets Weight Limits On Students' Backpacks  NPR

Graduate Students Are Increasingly Shouldering The Country's Student Debt NPR

Alabama girl wore tux for senior portrait. Her school yearbook left her picture out NBC News