Articles of Interest - Week of Oct. 1
/***TECHNOLOGY
How algorithms are controlling your life And why you should probably pay closer attention Vox
The secret data collected by dockless bikes is helping cities map your movement MIT Technology Review
Will L.A.’s Anti-Terrorist Subway Scanners Be Adopted Everywhere? Scientific American
Internet, social media use and device ownership in U.S. have plateaued after years of growth Pew Research Center
Google teams up with T-Mobile on more-accurate 911 location data Cnet
Are Delivery Drones Commercially Viable? Iceland Is About to Find Out IEEE Spectrum
Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever Krebson Security
***TECHNOLOGY & POLITICS
US mid-terms: Hackers expose BBC
Justice Department Sues California To Block State's Net Neutrality Law NPR
***JOURNALISM
Partisans Remain Sharply Divided in Their Attitudes About the News Media Journalism.org
Neo-Nazi activist behind racist robocalls linked to threats of Idaho newspaper The Guardian
As marijuana goes mainstream, reporters wrestle with terminology Columbia Journalism Review
How cable news networks covered the Kavanaugh-Ford hearing Washington Post
New target for POLITICO: California Politico
How social media and engagement roles came to newsrooms Sarah Marshall
How to get reluctant sources to talk on the record Andrew Seaman
WashPost adds editor’s note on child molester article, says man had ‘sex with’ child instead of rape iMediaEthics
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
What will happen when newspapers kill print and go online-only? Most of that print audience will just…disappear Harvard Nieman Lab
Apple News is giving the media everything it wants—except money Slate
Oklahoman sells to GateHouse Media, lays off several newsroom staffers Poynter
Most Western Europeans get news from TV as print reading lags Pew Research Center
***FAKE NEWS
Billionaire LA Times owner: 'Fake news' and how it spreads a cancer CNBC
A master class in how to verify a video using digital tools Columbia Journalism Review
Why Humans Are Bad At Spotting Lies FiveThirtyEight
Why A New Fake News Law In Singapore Could Be A Big Test For Facebook, Google, And Twitter BuzzFeed News
***BIG DATA & AI
Cheat Sheets for AI, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Deep Learning & Big Data Becoming Human
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Why Snap will get acquired before 2020, probably by Amazon Recode
Facebook discloses “security issue” affecting 50 million accounts Axios
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
That sign telling you how fast you’re driving may be spying on you Quartz
Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information Gizmodo
Keep Your Data Secure With Mozilla's Newest Tools Life Hacker
A Small Google Chrome Change Stirs a Big Privacy Controversy Wired
No Cash Needed At This Cafe. Students Pay The Tab With Their Personal Data NPR
***INTERNET
Surprising SEO A/B Test Results - Whiteboard Friday Moz
Internet Inventer Tim Berners-Lee wants to remake the web to help you protect your data MIT Technology Review
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The False Loops of Social Media Becoming (my blog)
***WRITING & READING
Boys Don’t Read Enough The Atlantic
How to identify anonymous prose Forget lodestars and concentrate on the fingerprints Economist
6 Tips to Shape Up Your Writing Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
A Cliché With Staying Power Chronicle of Higher Ed
Yowza! 300 new words added to Scrabble dictionary The Guardian
From Criminal Slang to Modern Acceptability: ‘Kibosh’ Chronicle of Higher Ed
‘Himpathy’ Is a Societal Illness. But at Least We Have a Word for It Chronicle of Higher Ed
What’s the Fastest-Growing Language in the U.S.? You’ll Never Guess Chronicle of Higher Ed
How the English Failed to Stamp Out the Scots Language Against all odds, 28 percent of Scottish people still use it Atlas Obscura
***LITERATURE
A Man Reads ‘Little Women’ (Continued) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Reimaging Homer: In “The Silence of the Girls”, a captured woman becomes the main character Economist
Flannery O'Connor Renders Her Verdict on Ayn Rand's Fiction: It's As "Low As You Can Get" Open Culture
***GENDER
Most Powerful Women Fortune
There’s one big reason women are freezing their eggs, and it’s not career Quartz
Few women executives at top US companies despite modest gains this decade Pew Research Center
California is 1st state to require women on corporate boards Associated Press
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
UC Davis to open groundbreaking Filipino studies center NBC News
Study reveals bias against women's basketball teams from historically black colleges Inside Higher Ed
Escondido students spell racial slur in photo during senior picnic NBC San Diego
***DIVERSITY
Diversity Fatigue Is Real And it afflicts the very people who are most committed to diversity work Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
The War over Music Copyrights TechCrunch
JR Smith says NBA will fine him for new tattoo of Supreme brand logo ESPN
New trial ordered in 'Stairway to Heaven' copyright lawsuit Associated Press
***RELIGION
The Talmud Is Finally Now Available Online Open Culture
Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Was Preserved and Found in the Coffin of a Saint Open Culture
‘New Age’ beliefs common among both religious and nonreligious Americans Pew research Center
Hillsong: ‘What a Beautiful Name’ for a New Denomination Spanning ‘Oceans’ Christianity Today
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
***GOOD NEWS
Turn Your Office into 'The Office' with This Incredible Prop Auction Vice
Students raise money to send a janitor on the first vacation he's had in almost a decade CNN
4-year-old girl named Florence inspired to help victims of Hurricane Florence CBS News
Montana centenarian credits Cheetos for long life Great Falls Tribune
***ANIMALS
UK airport sniffer dogs good at finding sausages, but not drugs Reuters
***ART & DESIGN
The surprisingly dark history of the color pink Fast Company
How To Learn Calligraphy (for beginners) MojoTech
Sculpture or human organ? these photos make it hard to tell Wired
***MUSIC
Musicians celebrating new bill that helps them get paid Axios
How Grammy-winning producer Oak Felder turns his laptop into a studio The Verge
***FILM & TV
Netflix Is Planning a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure ‘Black Mirror’ Bloomberg
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Network TV's leadership crisis Axios
***STUDENT LIFE
So What Are You Going to Do With That Degree? Physics Majors Get That Question, Too Chronicle of Higher Ed
Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet Bloomberg
Need Help Paying For College? There's An App For That NPR
The Most Powerful New Voting Bloc in America Doesn’t Vote Medium
A Majority of Teens Have Experienced Some Form of Cyberbullying Pew Research Center
Marijuana use is now as common among baby boomers as it is among teens, federal data shows Washington Post
Law Student Dresses As Spider-Man To Accept His Degree LADbible
Catholic U. students protest dean who disparaged Kavanaugh accuser Washington Post
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
The Lie Generator: Inside the Black Mirror World of Polygraph job Screenings Wired
List of internships across the country in video production, social media and investigative reporting Student Press Law Center
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Kavanaugh case unfolds as DeVos readies sexual assault rule Associated Press
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Is Rent Control An Answer To California's Housing Crisis? NPR
Suicide rate spikes among young US veterans The Guardian
Detailed New National Maps Show How Neighborhoods Shape Children for Life New York Times
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
How Much You Must Earn to Afford a House in the 50 Largest U.S. Cities How Much
The high costs of staff turnover Workers are losing their chains Economist
The American Dream Is Harder To Find In Some Neighborhoods NPR
After Budget Cuts, the IRS’ Work Against Tax Cheats Is Facing “Collapse” Propublica
A Shocking Number of Killers Murder Their Co-workers The Atlantic
***VIDEO GAMES
There are too many video games. What now? Polygon
Fortnite Is So Big It Can Bully Sony And Nintendo IGN
***ENVIRONMENT
***HEALTH
Antibiotics for appendicitis? Surgery often not Ars Technica
Infectious bacteria hibernate to evade antibiotics Univ. of Copenhagan
80,000 people died of flu last winter in U.S., the highest death toll in four decades Chicago Tribune
Flu on a flight! How to avoid getting sick on a plane NBC News
Middle-age drinkers more concerned about reputation than health risks, study says CNN
Scientists Who Sparked Revolution In Cancer Treatment Share Nobel Prize In Medicine NPR
***HEALTH OUTSIDE THE U.S.
Chinese Soup Ingredients May Hold Key to Fighting Dementia Bloomberg
How the anti-vaxxers are winning in Italy The Independent
***TRAVEL
You can now fly with weed out of Los Angeles International Airport Business Insider
***FOOD
The Eternal Life of the Instant Noodle BBC
You Should Be Eating Pie for Breakfast Eater
A Breakthrough for U.S. Troops: Combat-Ready Pizza New York Times
Frites, chips, fries, whatever Europeans want to call them — they’re shrinking Washington Post
***PARENTING
Limiting children's screen time linked to better cognition BBC
Crafty kids are finding ingenious ways to thwart Apple's 'Screen Time' feature The Next Web
How motherhood changes the brain Boston Globe
New app is helping parents track their children Washington Post
***PSYCHOLOGY
A bone-marrow transplant treated a patient’s leukemia -- and his Schizophrenic delusions, too: Some doctors think they know why New York Times
Your weird dreams actually make a lot of sense (according to neuroscience and psychology) NBC News
***PHILOSOPHY
Unpublished and Untenured, a Philosopher Inspired a Cult Following New York Times
***PRODUCTIVITY
Google Maps now helps you plan group events Engadget
Research: Women and Men Are Equally Bad at Multitasking Harvard Business Review
***RESEARCH
The “problem” of predatory publishing remains a relatively small one and should not be allowed to defame open The London School of Economic & Political Science
Austrian agency shows how to tackle scientific misconduct Nature
The Failed Replication of a Retracted Study The 100% CI
***HIGHER ED
3 Ways That Colleges Suppress a Diversity of Viewpoints Chronicle of Higher Ed
A University Comes Undone How scandal and corruption brought down a college sports powerhouse Chronicle of Higher Ed
What It Means When a U.S. College Has a Religious Affiliation WTOP
Liberty University sends 300 students to D.C. to support Kavanaugh Lynchburg News & Advance
APU reinstates ban on LGBTQ relationships on campus San Gabriel Valley Tribune
APU enters 2018-19 school year in $17 million cash flow shortfall ZuNews
***TEACHING
Teacher fired after refusing to abide by ‘No zero' policy when students didn't hand in work WFTV
How to Be a Generous Professor in Precarious Times Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Why Did These Scholars Suddenly Find Their Twitter Accounts Suspended? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Baylor professor resigns after Title IX complaints Waco Tribune
How to Treat Visiting Assistant Professors With Dignity Chronicle of Higher Ed