Articles of Interest - Nov 12
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Study shows that social media limits made people feel less lonely Engadget
Advertisers see value in people with as few as 1,000 followers: the nanoinfluencers New York Times
***MOBILE
Why robocalls have taken over your phone The Verge
The quiet revolution that's making your phone smarter than you at photography Tech Radar
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
How Secure Were The Midterm Elections? NPR
The Best Security and Privacy Tech to keep your Friends Safe Tech Crunch
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Welcome to the age of the hour-long YouTube video Wired
This website lets you make your own emojis BongBong
***INTERNET
Pew Research Center Says Half Of Adults Use YouTube To Learn New Things NPR
***JOURNALISM
The New York Times is digitizing more than 5 million photos dating back to the 1800s Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Apple News’s Radical Approach: Humans Over Machines New York Times
Conflict Photographer Lynsey Addario on Art, Love, and War Big Think
A journalist’s dilemma: wanting to do more to help than tell the story The Ground Truth Project
In cities across America, this morning’s newspaper told you there was an election yesterday — but nothing about it Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Following investigation, Houston Chronicle retracts eight stories Houston Chronicle
Why are some women “news avoiders”? New research suggests one reason has to do with emotional labor Harvard’s Nieman Lab
The Many Voices of Journalism Columbia Journalism Review
The commercial use of FOIA in the service of corporate interests New York Times
So Many College Students Get News on Snapchat Mashable
***FAKE NEWS
These news anchors are professional and efficient: They’re also not human Washington Post
Free Speech and Journals’ Responsibility in Vaccine Debates PLOS
The Acosta Video Debate Is the Future of Fake News Medium
Don’t want to fall for fake news? don’t be lazy Wired
Find Out If You Got Duped By The Internet With This Week's Fake News Quiz BuzzFeed News
WhatsApp awards $1 million for misinformation research Poynter
***STUDENT MEDIA
Dear Journalism Students, You Are NOT The Enemy Dynamics of Writing
Pepperdine Journalism Student Reacts To Thousand Oaks Shooting NPR
***STUDENT LIFE
Gen-Z employees don’t do email Fast Company
Somebody at Hasbro Apparently Thought Monopoly for Millennials was a great idea Mashable
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Tyranny of Clock Time Becoming (my blog)
Do We Grow Less Tolerant of Language Change as We Age? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING & READING
How To Become A Great Writer: George Orwell Medium
Writing advice from author Katie Kitamura PBS
30 Words Of Wisdom From Writers, To Inspire You Through The Rest Of NaNoWriMo Bustle
***LANGUAGE
Arabic has a low profile: Part of the reason is that it is not really a single language at all Economist
Why Do Quarterbacks Say 'Hut Hut Hike?' Digg
Blasphemy and the Strange World of Linguistic Crimes Chronicle of Higher Ed
Where Do We Begin? Language Learning and Grammar Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
The Real Names of 42 Fictional Characters Mental Floss
Read up with our favorite end-of-year books Wired
The Women of Brooklyn’s Well-Read Black Girl Book Club The Cut
***GENDER
Midterms Were Billed 'The Year Of Women' And Indeed They Were NPR
The 2018 Gender Gap Was Huge FiveThirtyEight
How the women in charge of programming at CNN are changing the news we see Fast Company
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
‘We are armed now’: In Kentucky, shootings leave a black church and the white community around it shaken Washington Post
School district investigates boys' apparent Nazi salute taken during prom NBC-15
Local racist angry at protestors in Orange, Texas BoingBoing
Key takeaways about Latino voters in the 2018 midterm elections Pew Research Center
***LEGAL ISSUES
Is Banning Reporters From The White House Legal? Jim Acosta's Press Pass Suspension Sparked Outrage Bustle
The idea of intellectual property is nonsensical and pernicious Aeon
***TECHNOLOGY
Is The Pentagon Modifying Viruses To Save Crops — Or To Wage Biological Warfare? NPR
The 7 Craziest Ways CRISPR Is Being Used Right Now Medium
Radars, Cameras, and Lidar: How Self-Driving Cars See the Road Wired
We Tried Facebook’s New Portal Device (So You Don’t Have To) New York Times
***BIG DATA & AI
Machine learning algorithms don’t yet understand things the way humans do — with sometimes disastrous consequences New York Times
Distinguishing between different types of data scientists..which to hire and what they need to succeed Harvard Business Review
The first proof that quantum computers can outstrip conventional technology Axios
***RELIGION
A Christian Radio Network is edging ever closer to becoming the Trump radio network: Sebastian Gorka Associated Press
Lead Singer for Christian Band Provided Freddy Mercury’s vocals in Bohemian Rhapsody Movie Relevant Magazine
Pepperdine Student, Cal Lutheran Grad Among California Shooting Victims Christianity Today
Randy Alcorn on Evangelical Sex Scandals: Bad Pastors Just Reappear at New Churches, Repeat Sins Christian Post
Baptist attitudes about alcohol may be shifting, observers say The Alabama Baptist
Unification Church Proclaims Christian Era is Over; Next Week Christian Entertainers Open for God’s Daughter Throckmorton Blog
Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren recovering after emergency surgery OC Register
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Faith leaders denounce Trump proclamation denying asylum outside border crossings Religious News Service
Texas Megachurch pastor calls Democrats 'some kind of religion that is basically godless' KHOU
***GOOD NEWS
Fisherman in New Zealand rescues toddler floating at sea Associated Press
9 year old designs Virginia county's "I Voted" sticker CBS News
Heartwarming Photos of Acts of Kindness MSNBC
First-of-its-kind surgery allows child with polio-like illness AFM to walk again CBS News
Boy Has Dished Out More Than 65,000 Doughnuts To Cops To Say Thank You MSNBC
***ART & DESIGN
Why are tech companies making custom typefaces? ARUN
Recycled Packing Materials Sculpted Into Elaborate Renaissance Costumes by Suzanne Jongmans This is Colossal
The top submissions to Nat Geo's 2018 photography contest National Geographic
Why Do Filmmakers Love van Gogh? New Yorker
David Hockney's Portrait of an Artist and the priciest works by living artists ever sold at auction CBC
The Size of Things: Now with Context: An artist models the universe at 1/190 millionth scale Scholarly Kitchen
A New Online Database, Will Feature Works by 600+ Overlooked Female Artists from the 15th-19th Centuries Open Culture
Mary Baldwin shut down an art exhibit after two days when some students said images were racist Inside Higher Ed
***MUSIC
Inside the booming business of background music The Guardian
BMI tells Trump campaign Rihanna's work has been removed from their license agreement LA Times
The Album is in Trouble, and the Music Business Probably Can’t Save it Rolling Stone
Andrea Bocelli Becomes First Classical Artist to Hit No. 1 on Billboard Artist 100 Chart Billboard
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Vice Media to cut workforce by up to 15%, consolidate websites Market Watch
***FILM
The 50 Greatest Movie Dance Scenes of All Time Vulture
***JOURNALISM MOVIES
Review of A Private War: A Journalist Puts Her Life on the Line Chicago Sun-Times
What Makes a Great Movie About Journalism? New Republic
***JOBS
10 Impressive Questions to Ask in a Job Interview The Cut
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
A Professor Accused of Sexual Harassment Faces Novel Penalty: Prospective Students May Read All About It Chronicle of Higher Ed
Dear Dads: Your Daughters Told Me About Their Assaults. This Is Why They Never Told You (opinion) Washington Post
He Spent Four Days In Jail For Sex Crimes Against A Minor: Prosecutors Want Him In Prison BuzzFeed News
Uber has defined 21 categories of sexual misconduct, from leering to rape Quartz
How Schools Can Reduce Sexual Violence NPR
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Mass incarceration is a political choice. It can be undone Economist
Firearms And Dementia: How Do You Convince A Loved One To Give Up Their Guns? NPR
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Visualizing the World's Tech Giants 2018 by Market Cap How Much
To Give a Great Presentation, Distill Your Message to Just 15 Words INNOVATION 3 Business Models That Could Bring Million-Dollar Cures to Everyone Harvard Business Review
***ENVIRONMENT
The ozone layer appears to be successfully repairing itself BBC
Big Oil claims it's doing its part to combat climate change: A new study finds it's not even close Business Insider
***HEALTH
The key to a long life has little to do with ‘good genes’ Wired
Why Doctors Hate Their Computers The New Yorker
Autism Linked to Zinc Deficiency in Childhood Newsweek
The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome: Unexplained brain injuries afflicted dozens of American diplomats and spies The New Yorker
US cigarette smoking rate reaches new low CNN
Fewer than One in Three Americans Meet New Physical Fitness Guidelines Real Talk 910
Do gut bacteria make a second home in our brains? Science Mag
Something Happened to U.S. Drug Costs in the 1990s New York Times
***FOOD
These Men Ate Poison So You Could Have the FDA Gizmodo
Do you love or loathe coffee? Your genes may be to blame National Geographic
The Curse of the Honeycrisp Apple Bloomberg
Every State's Most Important Food Innovation Thrillist
***CHILDREN
Digital Media Is 'Like Cocaine' for Babies’ Developing Brains US News & World Report
Designer Babies Aren’t Futuristic. They’re Already Here MIT Tech Review
Many Turn to YouTube for Children's Content, News, How-To Lessons Pew Research Center
Parents worry more about bullying than anything else Economist \
The school bully has moved online and is following children home Economist
***SCIENCE
Frequent inbreeding may have caused skeletal abnormalities in early humans Science Mag
Stem Cells Remember Tissues’ Past Injuries Quanta Magazine
***PSYCHOLOGY
Super Empaths Are Real, Says Study Vice
Study: young men obsessed with building muscles have higher mental health risks Big Think
Researchers discover a link between nonverbal synchronization and relationship success Big Think
Veteran Suicide (podcast) Axios
***NEUROSCIENCE
Sadness Circuit Found In Human Brain NPR
How to train your brain to accept change, according to neuroscience NBC News
***HISTORY
Is Donald Trump the Andrew Jackson of Our Time? Chronicle of Higher Ed
We once trusted too much in inevitable progress: We got World War The Washington Post
***RESEARCH
The largest database of scientific retractions just went live and makes the process a whole lot easier HowStuffWorks
Scientists struggle with confusing journal guidelines Nature
Rash Of Retractions Highlight Flaws In Science, But Also Self-Correction WGBH
Why Fake Data When You Can Fake a Scientist? Medium
***HIGHER ED
How Americans voted on 6 key higher ed ballot measures Education Dive
The future of work won't be about degrees, it will be about skills CNBC
Feds Prod Universities to Address Website Accessibility Complaints Inside Higher Ed
What the results of the Midterm Elections Mean for Higher Ed Chronicle of Higher Ed
Florida’s College of the Arts will increase its faculty by over 10 percent Inside Higher Ed
Universities under investigation for poor website accessibility Education Dive
The Hottest New Place for University Satellite Campuses: Los Angeles Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Trump Administration Just Reissued Rules Allowing Employers “Religious Or Moral” Exemptions To Covering Birth Control Buzzfeed News
After California massacre, sister universities show support for Pepperdine Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES
We Need Cutting-Edge Humanities More Than Ever Pacific Standard
As Humanities Majors Decline, Colleges Try to Hype Up Their Programs The Atlantic
Employers Want Liberal Arts Grads Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
5 Teaching Tips From ‘How Humans Learn’ Chronicle of Higher Ed
The ‘Holy Grail’ of Class Discussion Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Can Schools Better Persuade Students To Show Up For Class? NPR
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Invisible police in senior academia Neurochambers
Connecticut community college professor put on paid administrative leave for giving Nazi salute Hartford Courant
An academic reported sexual harassment: Her university allegedly retaliated The Verge