articles of interest - week of Oct 30
/***TECHNOLOGY
U.S. Will Curb ‘Sneak-and-Peek’ Searches Microsoft Sued Over Bloomberg
Amid GMO Strife, Food Industry Vies For Public Trust In CRISPR Technology NPR
Gene editing takes another step forward Economist
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Most employed data scientists gained their skills through self-learning or a MOOC.. not a traditional CS degree Tech Republic
A survey of CIOs on Machine learning plans and obstacles Enterprisers Projects
Supervised learning without training wheels Economist
Inside the automated brain: what AI sees when they’re watching us Quartz
“Best-Ever Algorithm” for Huge Streams of Data Quantam Magazine
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Day in the Life of a Snapchat editor Digiday
How Russian Propaganda Spreads On Social Media NPR
The Worst Tweeter In Politics Isn’t Trump Harvard's Nieman Lab
With Huge Fines, German Law Pushes Social Networks To Delete Abusive NPR
CNN’s three month-old daily Snapchat show The Update avoids the “bells and whistles and flashes” Harvard's Nieman Lab
***SOCIAL MEDIA: TWITTER
Twitter Says It Will Ban Ads From Russian News Agencies After Interference In 2016 Election NPR
Some Guidelines for Using Twitter Chronicle of Higher Ed
How to Spot a Twitter Bot Life Hacker
***SOCIAL MEDIA: FACEBOOK
Does Facebook Use Your Phone's Microphone To Eavesdrop On Your Conversations? Digg
America doesn't trust Facebook The Verge
Facebook's Blind Spot: Connecting The World, For Better Or Worse NPR
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
The FCC just ended a decades-old rule designed to keep TV and radio under local control The Washington Post
Myspace Looked Like It Was Back. Actually, It Was A Pawn In An Ad Fraud Scheme BuzzFeed
***JOURNALISM
The Most Revealing Moment in the New Joan Didion Documentary New Yorker
Journalism’s New Patrons: California nonprofit targets individual donors Columbia Journalism Review
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
LA Weekly is being sold to Semanal Media, a mysterious new company LA Times
How Jeff Bezos Reacts to 'Negative' Amazon Articles in Washington Post Fortune
How leading American newspapers got people to pay for news Economist
News personalization could help publishers attract and retain audiences—in the process making political polarization even worse Nieman Reports
***FAKE NEWS
The media's definition of fake news vs. Donald Trump's Politifact
The Fact-Checking Army Waging War on Fake News PBS Media Shift
How Snapchat Has Kept Itself Free of Fake News Bloomberg
Facebook Stumbles With Early Effort to Stamp Out Fake News Bloomberg
Italy Takes Aim At Fake News With New Curriculum For High School Students NPR
***WRITING & READING
The BuzzFeed Style Chronicle of Higher Ed
Journaling with a Helping Hand Study Break
An Artificial Intelligence Bot Writes Stories of the Macabre Atlas Obscura
***LANGUAGE
A history of slang charts the change in taboos Economist
Sir Thomas Browne’s Vulgar Errors Jstor
The Survival of British English Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
The Sad Story of A.A. Milne and the Real-Life Christopher Robin Jstor
New Documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold Now Streaming on Netflix Open Culture
The Man Whose Snowy Day Helped Diversify Children’s Books Jstor
Literature: What is it Good For? Study Break
***GENDER
A pernicious and underappreciated source of gender bias may be affecting faculty hiring Sage Journals
Even when women speak less, they are perceived as talking more Applied Psycholinguistics
Measuring the implicit biases we may not even be aware we have The Conversation
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination NPR
Black Clemson student government vice president alleges racism is behind impeachment trial Inside Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
University of California to open free speech center in Washington DC San Francisco Gate
Sessions’ Justice Dept. Is Wading Into Another Campus Free-Speech Case Chronicle of Higher Ed
After a Year of Tumult, Evergreen State Revises a Policy on the Use of Campus Space Chronicle of Higher Ed
Senate hearing explores free speech on college campuses Inside Higher Ed
Congress unlikely to push federal mandate on campus free speech Education Dive
***LEGAL ISSUES
U.S. Solicitor General Will Argue Against Gay Couple in Supreme Court Case involving Refusal on religious grounds to Bake a Wedding Cake for a Same-sex Couple National Law Journal
Google Responds to Lawsuit Accusing YouTube of Censoring Conservatives Hollywood Reporter
Judge tosses libel lawsuit against AP by Russian oligarch tied to Manafort Politico
***RELIGION
5 facts about Protestants around the world Pew Research Center
After I Adopted Two Black Babies, I Realized My Church Was Full Of Racists Splinter
Buzzfeed takes the time to dig into Megachurch and gets this complex story right Get Religion
The real reason Muhammad Ali converted to Islam Washington Post
Indiana court rules sex offenders can go to church with children: What questions does this raise? Get Religion
George Washington’s church to remove plaque honoring him Daily Mail
How could The Los Angeles Times dodge faith in a story about Kershaw family, mission work? (opinion) Get Religion
Satanic church shames district over corporal punishment New York Post
How the prosperity gospel is sparking a major change in the world's most Catholic country Washington Post
***MARTIN LUTHER
How Martin Luther Changed the World The New Yorker
The Nazis Exploited Martin Luther’s Legacy. This Berlin Exhibit Highlights How Religious News Service
Could the Reformation Have Happened Without Luther? (podcast) The Pietist Schoolman
500 Years Later, Some Issues That Martin Luther Raised Remain NPR
Martin Luther’s ‘dream’ church? It wasn’t in Europe Religion News Service
What to Do about Martin Luther? Context
How Did Martin Luther Become So Popular? Sojourners
3 Ways to Remember the Reformation The Pietist Schoolman
***ART & DESIGN
You draw the chart on how life has changed in the last 60 years BBC
The Washington Post’s augmented reality app to carve a pumpkin Washington Post
Source’s guide for making charts Open News
***MUSIC
How Advertisers Get Away With Using Fake Versions of Your Favorite Songs Pitchfork
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student newspaper takes a close look at school's sexual-misconduct procedure: Finds the university's president is the final arbiter in all cases The Daily Texan
***STUDENT LIFE
Isolation, loneliness for college students persists in a partisan era on college campuses Inside Higher Ed
Georgetown students have filed a discrimination complaint against a campus group promoting heterosexual marriage Washington Post
Clemson Student Vice President who Refused to Stand during the National Anthem is Impeached- will Face Trial New York Times
Millennials it Turns out are Loyal and just as boring as previous workers Economist
Millennials are doing better than the baby-boomers did at their age Economist
Fascism Reached My College Campus, and Now I Can't Look Away The Daily Dot
Opioids on College Campuses New York Times
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
A Look At Workplace Policies Meant To Prevent Sexual Harassment NPR
Suicide, investigation and a lawsuit follow booze-fueled UC Davis School retreat Sacramento Bee
***SOCIOLOGY
List of featured speakers for sociology conference, most of them men, sparks debate and backlash Inside Higher Ed
***HEALTH
Troubling Legacy Of Tuskegee Study, Henrietta Lacks Still An Obstacle In Medical Research NPR
A Paper Claiming Wi-Fi Is Linked To Autism Has Been Accused Of Pseudoscience BuzzFeed
Scientists And Surgeons Team Up To Create Virtual Human Brain Cells NPR
***SCIENCE
A statistical fix for the replication crisis in science The Conversation
Criticizing a scientist’s work isn’t bullying Slate
***NEUROSCIENCE
Algorithm can identify suicidal people using brain scans The Verge
Why it’s time to lay the stereotype of the ‘teen brain’ to rest The Conversation
***RESEARCH
The Cookie Crumbles: A Retracted Study Points to a Larger Truth New York Times
Physicists cozy up to double-blind peer review Physics Today
What it would be like without peer review The Times Literary Supplement
The Publishing Trap! A Table game of scholarly communication The London School of Economics and Political Science
Predatory conferences ‘now outnumber official scholarly events’ Times Higher Ed
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Play has a positive impact on creativity Becoming (my blog)
We're Not As Good At Remembering Faces As We Think We Are NPR
Self-awareness as a leader in higher education does not mean being proud of your faults Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
A Broadening Battle Over Archives to Share Papers Inside Higher Ed
Four stubborn money myths about private college education News OK
Supposed campus guidelines on costumes not always what they seem Inside Higher Ed
Why we shouldn’t rely on data and algorithms to fix the humanities Chronicle of Higher Ed
Senate Hearings Explore Free Speech on College Campuses Inside Higher Ed
John Grisham: A Candid Conversation on the Villain in his new Thriller: For-Profit Colleges Chronicle of Higher Ed
Christina College founded by Tim LaHaye can't explain $20 million in expenses CBS-8
Patriotic Education Course at Christian liberal arts college Inside Higher Ed
Liberty U. President Says Trump Could Be ‘Greatest President Since Abraham Lincoln’ Chronicle of Higher Ed
Gay and in Love at an Evangelical College New York Times
***TEACHING
Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Encourages Conversations About Teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed
What’s the Ideal Mix of Online and Face-to-Face Classes? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
The University of Arkansas system is considering changing its tenure policy to allow professors to be fired for "disruptive conduct" Chronicle of Higher Ed
A faculty strike in Ontario highlights the potential of digital picketing Chronicle of Higher Ed
What to Say After a Student Dies Chronicle of Higher Ed
Professors Are Complicit in Football Players’ Brain Damage (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Pernicious Silencing of the Adjunct Faculty Chronicle of Higher Ed
3 Dartmouth Psych Profs accused of serious misconduct are on leave Washington Post