articles of interest - Feb 20
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
WhatsApp is rolling out its own version of Snapchat (and Instagram) Stories Recode
Cheat Sheet: All Facebook Chatbot Interactions Chatbots Mag
Pinterest introduces ‘real world’ Search Engine The Verge
What's Up With Hive, a Nascent Successor to Yik Yak Chronicle of Higher Ed
Facebook Wants Great Power, But What About Responsibility? NPR
The Queen Wants to Pay You to Tweet on Her Behalf Mental Floss
It’s a weird time to be in charge of Sweden’s Twitter account The Verge
WhatsApp Changes Everything With Its New 'Status' Feature Forbes
Social Media Impersonation Exploding, With Brands In The Crosshairs Media Post
***TECHNOLOGY
Gene Editing Bloomberg
Patent Office Upholds Controversial Gene-Editing Ruling : Shots NPR
What is the best way to address a voice assistant? 1843 Magazine
***ART & DESIGN
Art Market vs. Predator 1843 Magazine
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Apple Vowed to Revolutionize Television. An Inside Look at Why It Hasn’t Bloomberg
***JOURNALISM
The Macedonian Teens Who Mastered Fake News Wired
Get to know the Enemies of the People Dallas Morning News
Journalists react to being called ‘the enemy of the American people’ Poynter
Journalists, Battered and Groggy, Find a Renewed Sense of Mission New York Times
What Do the Next 5 Years Hold for Higher Ed Technological Innovation Ed Surge
In Trump’s anti-press rhetoric, a dark echo from the past: A movie called "An Enemy of the People" Poynter
***FAKE NEWS
University of Michigan to offer class helping students fight fake news Detroit News
The corpse factory and the birth of fake news BBC
Documentary championed by Trump featured bogus interviews, Swedish police say Daily Dot
Trump campaign sends survey on media bias that is, well, pretty biased Boston Globe
Google expands fact-checked news to Brazil, Mexico & Argentina Tech Crunch
The new civics course in US schools: How to spot fake news Associated Press
How Wikipedia Is Cultivating an Army of Fact Checkers to Battle Fake News Pacific Standard
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
How Facebook and Google could disrupt the subscription model for news Monday Note
Snap paid out $58 million to media companies last year Recode
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
How Yahoo’s internal Hadoop Cluster does double-duty on Deep Learning Next Platform
7 emerging technologies critical to the future of IT including dark analytics, mixed reality and blockchain Information Week
Data may not lie, but they can be interpreted in ways that have the same effect Bloomberg
A few tricks to clean data quickly Data Science Central
MIT: a technique that lets machines learn to recognize concepts in images/text much more efficiently Technology Review
How data lakes work & can help eliminate cost/time involved in working w/large amounts of data Dzone
A general Machine Learning technique to make predictions applicable to large amounts of unstructured data Data Science Central
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Savage Love and Marriage Becoming (my site)
Widowed man dedicates life to fostering terminally ill children ABC News
***WRITING& READING
Expresso App: Type or paste in text to see different metrics of your writing
***LANGUAGE
An earpiece that Translates Languages Simultaneously Financial Times
My New Crush on the Dictionary Chronicle of Higher Ed
Linguist's 'big data' research supports waves of migration into the Americas Science Daily
***LITERATURE
The Novel of the Century by David Bellos review – the story of Les Misérables The Guardian
Can Poetry Keep You Young? Science Is Still Out, But The Heart Says Yes NPR
***GENDER
The World’s most famous human-rights lawyer is working with a former Sex Slave to put Islamic State in the dock 1843 Magazine
***RACIAL ISSUES
The Purely Accidental Lessons Of The First Black 'Bachelorette' NPR
Millennials in many countries are more open than their elders on questions of national identity Pew Research
***FREE SPEECH
The Campus Free Speech Battle You're Not Seeing Jezebel
Young people and free speech The Economist
***LEGAL ISSUES
Court Sides With Drug Legalization Group in Speech Dispute Inside Higher Ed
Facebook Wins Battle Over Text Alerts Media Post
***RELIGION
When people claim to be Christian and commit violence in the name of Christianity, most Americans say that person wasn’t really Christian but when people claim to be Muslim and commit violence in the name of Islam most Americans say that person is really Muslim Public Religion Research Institute
Creationist Ken Ham’s Giant ‘Noah’s Ark’ To Feature Dinosaurs vs. Giants Diorama Huffington Post
Congressional subcommittee hearing on “The State of Religious Liberty in America”
Southern Baptist leader apologizes for legal brief supporting the building of a New Jersey mosque Baptist News
Trump Adviser’s Megachurch Withholds Major Donation from SBC Christianity Today
Norma McCorvey, Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide, dies at 69 Washington Post
Episcopal Church Sues Trump Administration Over Travel Ban NPR
***RESEARCH
For Want of a Copy Editor the Sense Was Lost Chronicle of Higher Ed
How to Write a Scientific Peer Review: A Guide for the New Reviewer Canadian Science Publishing
The Place of the P-value in interpreting scientific results Stat News
***HEALTH
The Next Pseudoscience Health Craze Is All About Genetics Gizmodo
Could your Fitbit data be used to deny you health insurance? The Conversation
Health insurer calls analysed for signs of disease in your voice New Scientist
Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit New York Times
***PSYCHOLOGY
***PHILOSOPHY
How Machiavelli Really Thought We Should Use Power: Two Animated Videos Provide an Introduction Open Culture
***PRODUCTIVITY
Top 10 Productivity Tips From Former Presidents Life Hacker
***HIGHER ED
The Shaky Science of Microaggression Chronicle of Higher Ed
Maybe College Isn't the Great Equalizer Inside Higher Ed
University drops logo opposed by many students because it featured university without a capital U. Inside Higher Ed
Bob Jones University regains nonprofit status 17 years after it dropped discriminatory policy Greenville Online
***UNIVERSITIES AND IMMIGRATION
Minnesota philosophy professor writes that immigrants have low IQs and refugees are part of "religious-political cult" Inside Higher Ed
Stanford says no to ‘sanctuary campus’ label Mercury News
***ONLINE CLASSES
Pixar & Khan Academy Offer a Free Online Course on Storytelling Open Culture
***STUDENT MEDIA
WNKU sold to religious broadcaster for $1.9 million WLWT
Committee hears testimony on student press freedom protection bill Indiana Daily Student
***STUDENT LIFE
College student suspended after filming teacher saying Trump's election was 'an act of terrorism' Orange County Register
Undocumented Students’ Fears Escalate After a DACA Recipient’s Arrest Chronicle of Higher Ed
Here Are The 10 Most Painful Spots To Get A Tattoo Daily Inofgraphic
***ACADEMIC LIFE
You Will Be Assessed and Found Mediocre: How to cope with the endless urge to evaluate every aspect of faculty work Chronicle of Higher Ed