Articles of Interest - Nov 19
/***TECHNOLOGY
Scientists Create Fabric Alternative to Batteries for Wearable Devices University of Massachusetts
20 Americans Die Each Day Waiting for Organs. Can Pigs Save Them? New York Times
The Fax Is Not Yet Obsolete: Law and medicine still rely on the device, Maybe they shouldn’t The Atlantic
Thin, Flexible new Solar Cells Could Soon Line Your Shirt Wired
A scientist’s work linking minds and machines helps a paralyzed woman escape her body The New Yorker
What is a Bot? Wired
***BIG DATA & AI
The Data Scientist Tracking America’s White Supremacists MotherBoard
The definition of artificial intelligence is constantly evolving, and the term often gets mangled MIT technology Review
How Facebook uses machine learning to fight ISIS and Al-Qaeda propaganda MIT Technology Review
The rare form of machine learning that can spot hackers who have already broken in MIT Technology Review
What’s the best way to learn the programming language R? (Preferably, for free) Quartz
Public Attitudes Toward Computer Algorithms Pew Research Center
***SOCIAL MEDIA
YouTube uses algorithms that are tailored to advance already popular content and drive viral videos The Atlantic
How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Bringing Her Instagram Followers into Congress New York Times
Instagram Influencers Selling Custom Photo Presets The Atlantic
Inside the Pricey War to Influence your Instagram Feed Wired
Instagram Cracks down on apps that give fake follows and likes Mashable
Following the discovery of targeted disinformation campaigns Facebook tried to discredit protesters New York Times
6 Takesaways from the Times Investigation New York Times
Facebook Messenger rolling out new ‘Unsend’ feature, here’s how to use it 9 to 5 Mac
Report: Even Facebook Employees Are Bummed About Facebook Gizmodo
***MOBILE
The Ubiquity of Smartphones, as Captured by Photographers The Atlantic
People are Freaking out over the iPhone Curser Trick Mashable
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
How Hackers Are Stealing High-Profile Instagram Accounts The Atlantic
Your Drone Can Give Cops a Surprising Amount of your Data Wired
How to Tell if Your Account Has Been Hacked Motherboard
Surveillance Kills Freedom by Killing Experimentation Wired
***PRODUCING MEDIA
How Podcasts became a seductive and sometimes slippery mode of storytelling The New Yorker
Pandora wants to map the “podcast genome” so it can recommend your next favorite show Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***INTERNET
Google goes down after major BGP mishap routes traffic through China ArsTechnica
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
How much have younger viewers bailed on traditional TV? New stats are alarming USA Today
Justice Department Demands Major TV Broadcasters Stop Sharing Advertising Data Hollywood Reporter
***JOURNALISM
Consumers love smart speakers: They don’t love news on smart speakers (At least not yet) Harvard’s Nieman Lab
'Under The Wire' Tells The Story Of War Correspondent Marie Colvin's Last Moments NPR
Newsrooms transform to cover the 21st century Axios
New York Times Publisher Touts Future of Digital Journalism Caixin
NPR host Terry Gross: 8 tips on How to Talk to People New York Times
***LOCAL JOURNALISM
Better Local Journalism, by Local Reporters, Is the Goal of a New Database New York Times
Facebook is Launching it’s first Journalism program to fund local journalism in the UK Mashable
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Media salaries lean higher for writing than video, photo (trend #8) Axios
***JOURNALISM & DIVERSITY
The Racial Makeup of NPR’s newsroom NPR
Racial and ethnic minorities make up less than 17 percent of newsroom staff Columbia Journalism Review
Missing the Story : Diversity in Media Columbia Journalism Review
***FAKE NEWS
How Will We Outsmart A.I. Liars? For better and worse, humans are only improving their ability to deceive themselves with technology New York Times
Are Birds Actually Government-Issued Drones? So Says a New Conspiracy Theory Making Waves Audubon
How The Wall Street Journal is preparing its journalists to detect deepfakes Harvard’s Nieman Lab
California's Wildfires Have Spawned a Truly Weird New Conspiracy Theory Gizmodo
If You Hate the Media, You’re More Likely to be Fooled by a Fake Headline Harvard’s Nieman Lab
How the public, news sources, and journalists think about news in three communities News Co. Lab
***FAKE NEWS & WHAT’S APP
Burned to death because of a rumour on WhatsApp BBC
Notifications every 2 minutes: This in-depth look at how people really use WhatsApp shows why fighting fake news there is so hard Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Importance of Leisure Becoming (my blog)
Vacation is a poor substitute for leisure Quartz
The 6 Email Newsletters That Will Help You Build Leadership Skills Forbes
How to Talk to People You Don’t Agree With, With Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt LifeHacker
10 paradoxes that will stretch your mind Big Think
***WRITING & READING
This bookstore just sold a book that had been on a shelf for nearly 28 years Mashable
How to make $6,000 a day writing Instagram quotes — sort of Vox
Paul Schrader Says Creating, Writing Is "A Form of Therapy" Hollywood Reporter
***LANGUAGE
Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year CNBC
The Hidden Life of Modal Verbs Jstor
Personification is Your Friend: the Language of Inanimate Objects Jstor
27 Beautiful Words Writers Rarely Use But Totally Should BuzzFeed
***LITERATURE
What Book Changed Your Mind? Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Hottest Trend in American Literature Isn’t From the U.S. The Atlantic
The Bizarro World of Literary Studies Chronicle of Higher Ed
***GENDER
First woman passes special forces assessment on path to becoming Green Beret CNN
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Hate crimes rose 17 percent last year, according to new FBI data MSNBC
Drunk man shouts 'Heil Hitler, Heil Trump,' does Nazi salute during Baltimore performance of 'Fiddler on the Roof” Baltimore Sun
Fallout continues for white male students at Wisconsin high school accused of giving Nazi salute USA Today
Dunkin' Donuts owner calls police on woman using free Wi-Fi Yahoo
Sam's employee asked to retake photo with 'Black Panther' shirt after member complains WJLA
Duke mural honoring synagogue shooting victims defaced with Swastika NBC News
***FREE SPEECH
Should the First Amendment apply to Facebook? It’s complicated Recode
Free Speech Or Hate Speech: When Does Online Hate Speech Become A Real Threat? NPR
***LEGAL ISSUES
Reminder: Cutting-and-Pasting Photos from the Internet Is Hazardous to Your Legal Health Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Conan O'Brien's Joke Copyright Defense Hits Snag Hollywood Reporter
***RELIGION
Why Tenth Avenue North Isn't Afraid to Tackle Taboo Subjects In Christian Music Billboard
State Baptist group boots Kentucky churches for supporting LGBTQ hires Courier-Journal
Christian composer Kurt Kaiser, writer of 'Pass It On,' dies at 83 Waco Tribune
80 Years Since The Catholic University Of America Vocalized Opposition To The Nazis NPR
Stephen Colbert reveals why he returned to Catholicism after losing his faith Fox News
***CONVERSiON THERAPY
Conversion therapy: A debunked practice aimed at "converting" homosexuals CBS
Keeping Focus on the Family Honest on Reparative Therapy The Throckmorton Blog
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Rubio cites Bible verse amid recount criticisms: ‘You cannot count what is not there’ The Hill
Trump ‘make the bible great again’ billboards World Religious News
***GOOD NEWS
Mother's hunch helped save a hiker's life on the Pacific Crest Trail CBS News
'Batkid' Miles Scott is cancer free 5 years after saving San Francisco NBC News
9-year-old starts family knitting club to make hats and scarves for those in need The Week
Blind runner finds love with woman who volunteered to train him for marathon MSNBC
Mercy nurses give Mega Millions winnings to 2 of their own going through heartbreak KMOV
93-Year-Old Woman Is Saved from California Wildfires by Her Friend, the Garbage Collector People
***ART & DESIGN
Watch: Stan Lee on "To Tell The Truth" game show in 1970 (14m) BongBong
7 Female Impressionists Every Art History Lover Should Know Artsy
***FILM
Watch the First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1910): It's Newly Restored by the Library of Congress Open Culture
***STUDENT LIFE
Northern Michigan U. Compensates 4 Who Were Threatened With Punishment for Speaking of Suicide Chronicle of Higher Ed
No 'Parks & Rec' jokes: Oregon's teen mayor is here to get stuff done Oregon Live
A professor at UT San Antonio was recorded calling the police on an African American student who had propped her feet up on the seat in front of her Inside Higher Ed
Generation Z Is The Most Racially And Ethnically Diverse Yet NPR
Half of the post-millennial generation is non-white Axios
The Bridesmaids Are Multiplying: The role is almost entirely symbolic—but it’s only getting more popular The Atlantic
How College Caused Me To Read Less (opinion) Study Breaks
***INTERNSHIPS
4 Internships LA Times
Summer DC Scholarship Program DC Internships
Spring Internships The Student Press Law Center ($490 a week)
Investigative journalism internship Center for Public Integrity, Washington, D.C.
***JOBS
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Fewer office holiday parties this year, a sign of #MeToo liability fears CBS News
Former Title IX Official Outlines Changes To How Colleges Handle Sexual Assault Cases NPR
Sharp Divide Over Trump Administration's Title IX Overhaul Inside Higher Ed
Dartmouth women sue school over sexual assault, harassment New York Post
Ed Dept. Proposes Enhanced Protection For Students Accused Of Sexual Assault NPR
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Guns in America: our relationship with firearms in 5 charts Wired
Critics step up bid to stop US school using electric shocks on children The Guardian
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
This researcher studied 400,000 knitters and discovered what turns a hobby into a business Washington Post
How Stan Lee transformed the comics business Economist
***ENVIRONMENT
Why covering the environment is one of the most dangerous beats in journalism Harvard’s Nieman Lab
How to Stop Using So Much Disposable Plastic Life Hacker
***HEALTH
As social media ‘influencers,’ patients are getting a voice. And pharma is ready to pay up Stat News
Medical Advice You Can Trust The Week
Startup Offers To Sequence Your Genome Free Of Charge, Then Let You Profit From It NPR
Alcohol is killing more people, and younger. The biggest increases are among women USA Today
Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy linked to autism diagnosis Stat News
***VACCINATIONS
Junk science promoted by bots and trolls results in North Carolina chickenpox outbreak BoingBoing
School with major chickenpox outbreak has high vaccination exemption rate USA Today
3 ethical reasons for vaccinating your children The Conversation
***DIET & EXERCISE
Low-carb diet: does cutting carbs really help keep weight off? Vox
There's a Major Change in The Latest US Exercise Guidelines. Here's What You Need to Know Science Alert
***TRAVEL
50 Strange But True Facts About the U.S. CN Traveler
2019 Fodor’s Travel NO List San Jose Mercury News
How Samantha Brown Got Her Start: Women Who Travel Podcast CN Traveler
***FOOD
Public Perspectives on Food Risks Pew Research Center
6 airplane foods you should avoid, according to food safety experts CNBC
***PARENTING
Stop talking to your kids about politics (opinion) The Week
Online or offline? Parents are struggling with their children’s screen time use Evening Standard
***ANIMALS
30 dogs under 30 The Week
The 18 Best Dogs in Netflix’s Dogs, Ranked Vulture
***PSYCHOLOGY
The Replication Crisis: Can academic psychology be trusted? BBC
Super recognisers: the people who never forget a face The Guardian
The Best Way To Save People From Suicide Highline
Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk NPR
Freud versus Jung: a bitter feud over the meaning of sex Aeon
***NEUROSCIENCE
The Human Brain is a Time Traveler New York Times
A new study says alcohol changes how the brain creates memories BigThink
***HISTORY
Why the Enlightenment was not the age of reason (opinion) Aeon
How would you Draw History? New York Times
***ETHICS
Can judging be automated? Axios
How to use science fiction to teach tech ethics BoingBoing
***RESEARCH
Handing Science Over to the Machines The Spike
Correction to climate change study highlights flaws in peer-review process CBC
Widespread plagiarism detected in many medical journals based in Africa Nature
Scholar behind predatory journals exposé says study ‘backfired’ Times Higher Education
Here Comes ‘The Journal of Controversial Ideas’ -Cue the Outcry Chronicle of Higher Ed
The more authors, the more retractions Appam
Will Blockchain Revolutionize Scholarly Journal Publishing? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
How One University Went From Proposing to Cut 13 Mostly Liberal-Arts Programs to Eliminating Only 6 Chronicle of Higher Ed
Study finds female chairs improve departments' gender diversity and equity Inside Higher Ed
A Fifth of Private Colleges Report First-Year Discount Rate of 60 Percent, Moody’s Says Chronicle of Higher Ed
What You Need to Know About the Proposed Title IX Regulations Chronicle of Higher Ed
Hate Crimes on Campuses Are Rising, New FBI Data Show Chronicle of Higher Ed
Liberty University official accused of attempted murder, abduction WSLS
Azusa Pacific students file grievances over reinstatement of LGBTQ relationship ban San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond to close in 2019 Baptist News
Cal Lutheran to hold memorial service for alumnus killed in Thousand Oaks shooting 10New
David Jang’s Christian University Charged in $35 Million Fraud Scheme Christianity Today
***TEACHING
The Future Of Learning? Well, It's Personal NPR
A Little Music Before We Begin Chronicle of Higher Ed
How to Create a Welcoming Culture for Autistic Students Chronicle of Higher Ed
10 alternatives to PowerPoint PR Daily
***STUDENT MEDIA
Western Kentucky Student Newspaper shakes up camps with report: More than 500 mold reports on campus in past year College Heights Herald
Harvard's student newspaper just elected the first black woman president in its 145-year history CNN