articles of interest - July 31
/***TECHNOLOGY
Adobe is finally killing its hated Flash Player Mashable
First Human Embryos Edited in U.S. MIT Tech Review
Hackers break into voting machines in minutes at hacking competition The Hill
Don’t be the co-worker who sends late-night emails. Use this free tool Poynter
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Big names in statistics want to shake up much-maligned P value Nature
Google launches free course on Deep Learning: the science of teaching computers how to teach themselves Open Culture
How predictive analytics is being used at LinkedIn Predictive Analytics World
China plans to Use AI to "gain global economic dominance by 2030" MIT Technology Review
Bring neural networks to smartphones Campus Technology
The 10 coolest big data products of 2017 (So Far) CNN
How computational psychiatry is using Machine Learning, data mining, and AI to revolutionize mental illness MIT Technology Review
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Privacy Isn't Dead. It's More Popular Than Ever Wired
The Right Social Media Metrics Are Different For Every Business Ad Exchange
Study of social media retracted when authors can’t provide data Retraction Watch
***PRODUCING MEDIA
The Beginner's Guide to Podcasts Wired
MS Paint is here to stay Windows Blog
How To Preserve Your Polaroid Photos NPR
***INTERNET
What Google's New Autoplay Experiment Means for the Future of Search Wired
Concerned about browsing privacy? Here's how to install Firefox Focus Tech Republic
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Twitter reports $116-million loss and flat user growth; its stock drops 13% LA Times
Jobs’ ex Buys The Atlantic Forbes
SESAC scores big win in radio royalty rate dispute The Tennessean
***JOURNALISM
Fact-Checking Website Snopes Is Fighting To Stay Alive NPR
InVID Wants to Help Journalists Debunk Fake Videos PBS Media Shift
How to responsibly mix fiction and journalism Online News Assoc.
Trump Tests the F-Bomb Policy at The New York Times The Atlantic
What I learned about journalism at the New York Post Columbia Journalism Review
That R. Kelly ‘cult’ story almost never ran. Thank Hulk Hogan for that Washington Post
7 words (and more) you shouldn’t use in medical news Health News Review
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
News organizations are using Nextdoor to connect with readers block-by-block Poynter
Fox News And 'New York Times' Clash Over Paper's ISIS Reporting NPR
White House aide’s tirade tests editors and producers Associated Press
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Our Minds Have Been Hijacked by Our Phones. Tristan Harris Wants to Rescue Them Wired
If-then planning is a really powerful way to help you achieve any goal Becoming (my blog)
One surprising way money can buy happiness, according to scientists The Washington Post
If you’re 30% through your life, you’re likely 90% through your best relationships Quartz
Smart People Are More Likely to Stereotype The Atlantic
What To Tell Kids Instead of "You're So Smart" Life Hacker
***WRITING & READING
Why I Don’t Ask Students to Write the Thesis Statement First Chronicle of Higher Ed
Getting Kids Interested In Poetry NPR
Aiding the Writing-Stalled Professor Chronicle of Higher Ed
Author discusses her new book of writing advice for academics Inside Higher Ed
Notorious=famous is not an uncommon mistake and the New York Times made it Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
Jane Austen, 200 years on How an unremarkable Englishwoman became a literary juggernaut Economist
A map of America through 737 favorite books set in each of the 50 states StoryMaps
Author Jeannette Walls on "The Glass Castle" CBS News
The Heretical Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction The New Yorker
***GENDER
Following uproar, surgery journal retracts paper with male-only pronouns Retraction Watch
Trump: I consulted the military about the transgender ban. Military: no, you didn’t Vox
Bloomberg Quicktake: Transgender Legal Rights Bloomberg
Transformers: Lost Light #8 Features Trans Women Transformers Bleeding Cool
***DIVERSITY
7 facts about Americans with disabilities Pew Research
***RELIGION
Muslims In The U.S. Face Increased Discrimination, PEW Report Says NPR
Justin Bieber runs over photographer at church and then lays hands on him, police say Kansas City Star
Demand for exorcists is soaring in France: The Catholic church has left a big gap in the market Economist
Most White Evangelicals Don’t Believe Muslims Belong in America Christianity Today
Hobby Lobby thinks the Bible can save America. Now its museum has to convince its critics PBS
Lesbian mom asks Christian judge to recuse himself from her divorce case citing his stance against homosexuality New York Daily News
Why some people are so sure they're right, even when they are not Science Daily
Outlaw pastor Rob Bell shakes up the Bible Belt CNN
Outback Steakhouse is a chain of Satan BongBong
Is mega-pastor getting a $110 Million contract from Lakewood Church? KHOU
President Trump Nominates Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback as Religious Freedom Ambassador Associated Press
***ART & DESIGN
What is the real role of a design portfolio website? UXdesign
This algorithmic generative art explores the visual beauty of math BongBong
***MUSIC
The sound illusion that makes Dunkirk so intense (video) YouTube
BMI, ASCAP to Combine Music Databases Broadcasting and Cable
The Rise and Decline of the “Sellout” Slate
The Best Band Nobody Can Sign The Fader
***FILM
How Did Akira Kurosawa Make Such Powerful & Enduring Films? A Wealth of Video Essays Break Down His Cinematic Genius Open Culture
***BUSINESS
30 firms earn half the total profit made by all US public companies Quartz
***HEALTH
Prescription video games may be the future of medicine The Verge
The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills New York Times
Doctors Make The Case Against Taking A Full Course Of Antibiotics NPR
How Scared Should I Be of Macaroni and Cheese? The Atlantic
How well do you know your body? Take our quiz Stat
Beware Scam “Clinical Trials” That Ask You to Pay Money for Unproven Therapies Life Hacker
***SCIENCE
***PSYCHOLOGY
England’s Mental Health Experiment: No-Cost Talk Therapy New York Times
Students say they don't know where to turn for mental health services Education Dive
Stanford researchers have discovered a simple shift in thinking can make you live longer Quartz
***PHILOSOPHY
Philosopher Who Praised Risk Died Trying to Save Children From Drowning New York Times
James Franco Hosts Philosophy Time, a New Videos Series Created to Help Philosophy Reach a Wider Audience Open Culture
***ETHICS
If you could 'design' your own child, would you? Washington Post
***RESEARCH
Science needs an IMDb for authors to promote the idea of “data authorship" New England Journal of Medicine
Why published research is untrustworthy Springer
How training can help fix the research reproducibility crisis: Giving researchers better skills analyzing large datasets Inside Higher Ed
Group of scientists concerned about reproducibility say a p-value cutoff of 0.05 isn’t strict enough Science Mag
The One-Percent Club For Top-Cited Papers Scholarly Kitchen
***HIGHER ED
There are 2.4 million fewer college students than there were five years ago Hechinger Report
Wake Forest Freshmen Get an ‘Irreverent’ Take on Orientation Chronicle of Higher Ed
Trump Struggles to Find a Leader for White House Initiative on Black Colleges Chronicle of Higher Ed
Who Is Betsy DeVos?And how did she get to be head of our schools? NY Mag
Recent Higher Ed Scandals lay Bare the Murky Moral Waters Leaders must Navigate Inside Higher Ed
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
With more students streaming classes online, Southern Evangelical Seminary plans to sell campus and find smaller facility Charlotte Observer
The American Association of Christian Counselors Conference Features Court Evangelicals (opinion) Patheos
***TEACHING
New book about promoting success of at-risk students Inside Higher Ed
Your Syllabus Doesn’t Have to Look Like a Contract Chronicle of Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
Who should police free speech on college campuses? Congress wants to know USA Today
***STUDENT LIFE
Student-loan forgiveness has halted under Trump Associated Press
At Harvard, extraordinary court battle between Ph.D. student and prominent researcher grinds on Science Mag
***ACADEMIC LIFE
UNC civil rights center may be barred from litigation, raising questions about the role of law schools and academic freedom Inside Higher Ed