Articles of Interest - August 26, 2019
/***JOURNALISM
BuzzFeed’s new MoodFeed recommends content based on how you’re feeling Tech Crunch
Hispanic Journalists Group Cuts Ties To Fox News NPR
The nation’s largest Hispanic journalism group says it no longer wants Fox News sponsoring its convention: Here’s why that’s a bad idea (opinion) Michael Koretzky blog
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
The rise of advertising activism Axios
Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV New York Times
Google: Publishers Lose Half Of Ad Revenue From Cookie Blocking Media Post
***FAKE NEWS
Pick a topic, and this website will generate realistic fake news about it Fast Company
They Crowdfunded for Their Dead ‘Baby Boy.’ Cops Say It Was This Doll The Daily Beast
Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder Scientific American
Woman lied about cancer in attempt to get charity to fund £15k wedding BBC
Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder Scientific American
***BIG DATA & AI
Are we telling stories or just making a point/elucidating an argument and calling it narrative? Medium
What’s the difference between analytics and statistics? The Chief Decision Scientist of Google has an answer Toward Data Science
The validity of detecting data fabrication using statistical tools Psyarxiv
***INTERNET
Google is cracking down on its employees’ political speech at work Vox
How Do I Automatically Expand Gmail Conversations? Life Hacker
Why so many of your favorite YouTube videos are secretly infomercials Washington Post
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook's new "clear history" tool doesn't actually delete anything New York Times
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Ransomware Attack Affects Computers In 22 Towns In Texas NPR
Just how much our digital lives are tracked: Basically there is no privacy on the internet New York Times
How to Prevent Spammers From Infiltrating Your Google Calendar Life Hacker
***PRODUCING MEDIA
How Conan O’Brien and Other Top Hosts Are Tapping Into the Podcast Revolution Variety
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Pluck the Day Becoming (my blog)
***WRITING & READING
In defense of reading the same book over and over again Vox
Gwyneth Paltrow hired personal book curator for her home Page Six
***LITERATURE
Duplicity, Grace and Violence: New Spanish-Language Fiction New York Times
Is Fan Fiction a Helpful Literacy Tool? Jstor
The religious dimensions of Toni Morrison's literature Sojourners
How can academics keep up with the literature? (sub. req.’ed) Times Higher Ed
***POETRY
New & Noteworthy Poetry From James Tate, Jana Prikryl and More New York Times
Poetry book wins top award for theological writing Premier
***GENDER
STEM scholarships for women could face more Title IX challenges Ed Dive
Women May Be More Adept Than Men At Discerning Pain NPR
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Justice Dept. sent anti-Semitic post to immigration judges Associated Press
The algorithms that detect hate speech online are biased against black people Vox
On Hyphens and Racial Indicators Jstor
Reflecting a demographic shift, 109 U.S. counties have become majority nonwhite since 2000 Pew Research Center
***FREE SPEECH
The global gag on free speech is tightening Economist
Don’t Use These Free-Speech Arguments Ever Again The Atlantic
***LEGAL ISSUES
Why Child Social Media Stars Need a Coogan Law to Protect Them From Parents Hollywood Reporter
California Bar Investigator Begins Probe in Exam Leak Big Law Business
***CRIME & COURTS
Police Photoshopped His Mug Shot for Lineup: He's Not the Only One New York Times
Every crime map needs context. This USC data journalism project aims to scale it Nieman Lab
***RELIGION
The Rise of the Bible-Teaching, Plato-Loving, Homeschool Elitists Christianity Today
Could Trump Drive Young White Evangelicals Away From The GOP? FiveThirtyEight
Christians targeted in Burkina Faso amid violence by Islamist militants Washington Post
Tourism To Israel Is On The Rise, With More U.S. Evangelical Christians Visiting NPR
Trump is the evangelicals’ enforcer (opinion) Washington Post
North Carolina police officer fired for following the 'Billy Graham Rule,' lawsuit says NBC News
The Righteous Gemstones Shines Its Satire on a Televangelist Empire Christianity Today
Megachurch pushes conversion therapy on Instagram, Facebook with #OnceGay Daily Dot
Unearthed tapes, letters show Southern Baptist leaders’ support for pastor who faced sex scandal Houston Chronicle
How anti-Semitic beliefs have taken hold among some evangelical Christian Washington Post
Kentucky supreme court hearing case of Christian printer who refused to make gay pride t-shirts Newsweek
An Existential Reading List for Middle-Aged Men (four Nazarene men and their annual retreat) The Atlantic
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Why Some Christians ‘Love the Meanest Parts’ of Trump The Atlantic
Theologians condemn Christian Nationalism in open letter Washington Examiner
America Needed Spies During World War II: Many Missionaries Were Ready and Willing Christianity Today
***GOOD NEWS
Boy Scouts restore neglected historic black cemetery in Virginia The Week
Customer services representative 800 miles away helps save life of man having a stroke mlive
Strangers take West Virginia man on 8-hour road trip so he can be there for his son's birth The Week
Mom and daughter discover new bug species when daughter over-waters flower garden ABC News
NJ Couple Buys Out Payless Store, Then Donates All the Shoes to a Women’s Shelter NBC-10
***REALLY?!
Couple face up to six years in jail for taking sand from Italian beach CNN
Man lugging life-size doll found in dumpster raises alarm KSHB
88-Year-Old Man Tried to Shoot Nephew at Work Due to Damaged Cuckoo Clock Fox-61
McDonald’s worker burned by ‘smoldering’ dollar bill given at drive-thru, cops say NewJersey.com
This German city will give you $1.1M if you can prove it doesn't exist Associated Press
A NASA astronaut is accused of hacking her estranged spouse's bank account from space NBC News
'I was grossed out': Doctors find brown recluse spider in woman's ear KSHB
***ART & DESIGN
Persuasive Cartography: An Interview with Map Collector PJ Mode Jstor
***MUSIC
How Artist Imposters and Fake Songs Sneak Onto Streaming Services Pitch Fork
How Dave Brubeck’s Time Out Changed Jazz Music Open Culture
Mister Rogers Demonstrates How to Cut a Record Open Culture
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Silicon Valley’s Crisis of Conscience New Yorker
How many steps it takes to get an abortion in each state Axios
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Yes, You Actually Should Be Using Emojis at Work WSJ
Is My Millennial Co-Worker a Narcissist, or Am I a Jealous Jerk? New York Times
The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials The Atlantic
***ENVIRONMENT
Perfect Storm Hits U.S. Recycling Industry NPR
Windmills and Batteries to Attract Billions in the Green Energy Revolution Bloomberg
What’s recyclable, what becomes trash — and why NPR
***HEALTH
Measles is on the rise: outbreak grows to over 1,200 cases in 30 states Newsweek
Why a Promising, Potent Cancer Therapy Isn't Used in the US Wired
Detecting Fake Pills With Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Spectrum
What Happens To Your Body & Brain If You Don't Get Sleep? Neuroscientist Matthew Walker Explains Open Culture
How Many Steps Should You Take a Day? New York Times
The Complicated Issue of Transableism Jstor
***MEDICAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY
Optic nerve stimulation to aid the blind EPFL
Scientists Attempt Controversial Experiment To Edit DNA In Human Sperm Using CRISPR NPR
Smart sensors listen to healing wounds BBC
***TRAVEL
Seven Wonders of the World: The best 1-star reviews Washington Post
***SPORTS & GAMES
Can Chess Survive Artificial Intelligence? The New Atlantis
Extreme Ironing: The Insane Sport You Probably Never Knew About Sad & Useless
***FOOD
Restaurants Are A Risky Business So They Often Resort To Tricks — Like Reusing Leftover Bread Digg
A deadly fungus could wipe out the world’s favorite banana—again Quartz
Social media users are horrified after it emerges not everyone cleans the bottom of their dishes Daily Mail Online
***FAMILY & SOCIETY
A half-century after ‘Mister Rogers’ debut, 5 facts about neighbors in U.S. Pew Research
***ANIMALS
Bird Twitter Is My Oasis in Internet Hell Gizmodo
The number of animal welfare citations is dwindling Washington Post
***SCIENCE
Space is dead: A challenge to the standard model of quantum Big Think
***PSYCHOLOGY
How Memories Form and Fade Cal Tech
Is psychological science headed for a split? Psychology Today
The age of comfort TV: why people are secretly watching Friends and The Office on a loop The Guardian
A parking garage had 6 suicides in 4 years: Signs on the walls are trying to prevent more Washington Post
***NEUROSCIENCE
Circuit found for brain's statistical inference about motion: Brain's equation for prediction looks like a Bayesian inference Science Daily
The most-detailed, highest-resolution list of the components of the human brain ever compiled Allen Institute
***POLITICS
Electoral College members can defy voters, court rules Associated Press
***RESEARCH
Detection of data fabrication using statistical tools Psyarxiv
Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database Nature
The summer slump happens in scientific publishing, too Massive Sci
Addressing research misconduct and improving scientific integrity in China Science Direct
Dozens of Canadian researchers have faced discipline for integrity breaches The Globe & Mail
***HIGHER ED
Pew survey finds majority of Republicans continue to hold negative views of higher ed Inside Higher Ed
Handshake, popular career-services platform, now open to all students Inside Higher Ed
What the Numbers Can Tell Us About Humanities Ph.D. Careers Chronicle of Higher Ed
Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays Vice
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
How the Supreme Court’s sex discrimination cases could affect BYU and hundreds of faith-based colleges Deseret News
Christian college mired in litigation Ocone Enterprise
Olivet Nazarene University Leader to Retire After 30 Years US News
Historic Christian colleges are facing financial crises that are forcing big changes: Some haven’t survived World Magazine
***TEACHING
The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You About College Teaching Inside Higher Ed
How teachers are preventing high-tech cheating in the classroom USA Today
What the Freshmen Know Inside Higher Ed
An Argument for Accepting Late Work Faculty Focus
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Kansas professor charged with secretly working on Chinese government program Washington Examiner
Mississippi prof, who went to Georgetown Prep with Brett Kavanaugh, sues HuffPost Clarion Ledger
Arizona Professor Showed QAnon Video in Class, Students Say Phoenix New Times
***STUDENT LIFE
Bureaucrats Put the Squeeze on College Newspapers The Atlantic
Robots bearing snacks are about to overrun college campuses Cnet
I Manipulated Lonely Teachers to Steal Tests in High School Vice
Want To Make Friends In College? Make Them Food In Your Dorm Room Digg
Most U.S. teens who use cellphones do it to pass time, connect with others, learn new things Pew Research Center
When College Dormitories Become Health Hazards New York Times
17 College Campuses That Tested Their Students's Sanity BuzzFeed
Dorm to Table: College Start-Ups Take Aim at Food Industry New York Times