Articles of Interest - Sept 10
/***GOOD NEWS
Following heart attack, Father-daughter duo spends summer visiting every MLB ballpark ABC-7
Young doctor reunited with nurse who helped save his life 28 years ago Mercury News
Adopted man reunites birth parents, officiates their wedding New York Times
Boy's Kindness To Another At Seahawks Game Patch
Falklands veteran Steve Sparkes is first blind person to row Pacific Exmouth Journal
Woman saves man after heart attack on first date (and relationship is still going strong!) NBC Today Show
***JOURNALISM
How Trump Is Making Journalism School Great Again The Daily Beast
BBC admits ‘we get climate change coverage wrong too often’ The Guardian
Mexico Is the Deadliest Country for Journalists, but That’s Not Stopping These Students Vice
'A large grain of salt': Why journalists should avoid reporting on most food studies (opinion) Canadian Broadcast Corp.
LGBTQ journalism group apologizes after host refers to attendees at event as 'things and its' The hill
BuzzFeed, Bourdieu, and Samantha Bee: Here’s a collection of new research on where journalism is headed Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
The Outline has laid off all of its staff writers Fast Company
***FAKE NEWS
How to shake the fakes out of politics BBC
To Resist Manipulation, Ask One Question Tech News World
***TECHNOLOGY
Facial recognition tech is ready for its post-phone future Wired
***BIG DATA & AI
Training machines to facilitate curiosity-driven learning Economist
An infographic on the data science shortage Inside Big Data
Artificial intelligence can estimate an area’s obesity levels by analyzing its buildings Quarttz
Machines know when someone’s about to attempt suicide: How should we use that information? Quartz
From rust belt to robot belt: Turning AI into jobs in the US heartland MIT Technology Review
A chart showing growth in traffic to programming languages as a data science tool and a quiz to show how well do you know R Towards Data Science
10 Reasons Why You Can’t Live Without A Particle Accelerator Nautilus
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Millennials Deleting Facebook App From Phones Media Post
Trump, without evidence, accuses social media firms of election meddling: report Reuters
Sweden’s official Twitter account will no longer be run by random Swedes The Verge
Instagram is working on a standalone shopping app Quartz
Snap launches new styles of Spectacles that look more like traditional sunglasses The Verge
Many Facebook users don’t understand how the site’s news feed works Pew Research Center
How social-media platforms dispense justice Economist
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
A hack of British Airways’ system left hundreds of thousands of passengers’ financial information exposed, and a big fine could follow MIT Tech Review
A year later, Equifax lost your data but faced little fallout TechCrunch
Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook Pew Research Center
Dozens of popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to monetization firms TechCrunch
***INTERNET
Google wants to kill the url Wired
How search engines respond when you look up "suicide" Fast Company
***SEARCH ENGINE BIAS
Trump Says Google Is Rigged, Despite Its Denials. What Do We Know About How It Works? New York Times
Are Google searches biased in favour of left-leaning news outlets? Economist
***PERSONAL GROWTH
I survived the Warsaw ghetto: Do not ever imagine that your world cannot collapse, as ours did.. Becoming (my blog)
The Best Thing My Psychic Mom Taught Me Is No One Wants To Hear The Truth BuzzFeed News
I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on The Guardian
Is happiness a consequence or cause of career success? The London School of Economics & Political Science
***GRAMMAR
A striking lapse in the preface to Merriam-Webster Chronicle of Higher Ed
23 Jokes All Grammar Nerds Will Absolute Love BuzzFeed
***LANGUAGE
25 of the new words Merriam-Webster is adding to the dictionary in 2018 Mental Floss
How Americans Speak: the latest issue of American Speech, a journal in its 93rd year Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why your Latin teacher was wrong Economist
***LITERATURE
These Are the 20 Books Travelers Are Always Leaving Behind at Their Hotels Travel & Leisure
Literary Theorists Admit They Still Have No Idea What Animal Farm About The Onion
***GENDER
Are Women Better Investors? Data suggests women may be better natural investors Stash Learn
The Women Code Breakers Who Unmasked Soviet Spies Smithsonian Magazine
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Jury Settles Nazi-Punching Question: Fines Man $1 For Punching Charlottesville Rally Organizer NPR
A Black Restaurant Owner Says He Tried Assisting a White Patron in Distress: Police Arrested Him New York Times
Ohio Middle School apologizes for a classroom exercise that asked students to pick minorities to toss off a spaceship New York Times
After racist coach scandal, Brandeis demotes two administrators, severs ties with another Inside Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
Trump suggests protesting should be illegal The Washington Post
Misguided Appeal in Grindr Case Is Latest Threat to Online Free Speech EFF
***LEGAL ISSUES
California Bans Prosecution Fees In Most Cases Following Newspaper's Investigation NPR
Trump Sues U.S. Government For “Pain And Suffering” Due To Becoming President (satire) Extra News Feed
Lawsuits over journalist Twitter accounts may become more common Columbia Journalism Review
East Coast Scientists Win Patent Case Over Medical Research Technology NPR
Icy Refusal to Copyright Frigidaire’s Logo The 1709 Blog
***RELIGION
Valentines with Bible verses at heart of free speech lawsuit student filed against college JS Online
The Mormon Church Is Trying To Stop A Medical Marijuana Bill In Utah, Testing Its Influence In Its Home State BuzzFeed News
Nebraska Catholic diocese rocked by old abuse allegations Associated Press
U.S. adults are more religious than Western Europeans Pew Research
Someone broke into a Fresno church and burned a Christian flag. Is it a hate crime? Fresno Bee
What Is Rosh Hashanah: Meaning, Greeting, Food Metro
***ART & DESIGN
Photorealistic Paintings Put You at the Center of Cities Around the World My Modern Met
Instagram's Boundary-Pushing Documentary Photographers Vice
***SPORTS
High school football team in Texas finally snaps 77-game losing streak Star-Telegram
Mississippi homecoming queen boots game-winning extra point Boston.com
The Men Who Have Taken Wiffle Ball to a Crazy, Competitive Place New Yorker
He spent his whole life working toward one goal: The big leagues.. then, it rained Chicago Tribune
***MUSIC
Stephen Colbert Break Down Chance the Rapper’s ‘Favorite Song’ Rolling Stone
***FILM
The Best Movie From Every Country, Mapped Digg
To Make Great Films, You Must Read, Read, Read and Write, Write, Write, Say Akira Kurosawa and Werner Herzog Open Culture
***STUDENT LIFE
Today's College Students Aren't Who You Think They Are NPR
Study: 1 in 5 College Students Has Weighed Suicide Inside Higher Ed
Ohio school resource officer on leave after using Taser to wake up a student in class KGTV-TV
About 47 percent of Millennials have at least one Tattoo, compared with 13 percent of Baby Boomers Wisconsin Gazette
6 facts about U.S. students Pew Research Center
Students Are Sharing The Differences Between Teachers In High School And College And They Are Hilariously True BuzzFeed News
The Cities Where Millennials Have The Most Debt, Mapped Digg
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Should We Still Cite the Scholarship of Serial Harassers and Sexists? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Research is adding up the cost of campus rape and sexual assaults Quartz
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
The US Government's Discretionary Spending Since 1963, Visualized Digg
Fundraising with cryptocurrencies is booming, but is that a good thing? Economist
Are you in the American middle class? Find out with our income calculator Pew Research Center
Cryptocurrencies look like a solution in search of a problem. Blockchains could be more interesting Economist
***ENVIRONMENT
BBC admits ‘we get climate change coverage wrong too often’ The Guardian
California Just Became the First State to Ban Beauty Products Tested on Animals Glamour
The sinking islands of the Southern US BBC
***HEALTH
Probiotics labelled 'quite useless' BBC
This hyper-real robot will cry and bleed on med students Wired
Researchers develop method to convert cells in open wounds into skin cells Salk Insitute
How To Tell Whether Your Seafood Is Cooked Properly Or Not YouTube
In story about 'latest generation' of weight loss drugs, NBC overlooks doctors' pharma ties HealthNewsReview.org
***EXERCISE
Why the 10,000 daily steps goal is built on bad science The Guardian
Over 1.4 billion people worldwide don't get enough exercise USA Today
***HEALTH SCARES
2,300 Americans hospitalized by pizza in 2017 Daily Mail
Risk of heart attacks is double for daily e-cigarette users Science Daily
New warning to pregnant women, nursing mothers: Stay off the marijuana The Inquirer
Food Safety Scares Are Up In 2018: Here's Why You Shouldn't Freak Out NPR
***TRAVEL
Top Museums in the World Trip Advisor
The cities that make living easy BBC
***IMMIGRATION
Trump admin rejected report showing refugees did not pose major security threat NBC News
ACLU Launches Search In Guatemala For Parents Who Were Deported Without Children NPR
***SCIENCE
Confessions of a Science Critic Two Psychologists, Four Beers
***PSYCHOLOGY
When Postpartum Depression Doesn't Go Away The Atlantic
Moral Reminders Have No Effect on Cheating Behavior, Replication Effort Concludes Psychological Science
Sigmund Freud Speaks: Hear the Only Known Recording of His Voice, 1938 Open Culture
***PHILOSOPHY
Does altruism exist? Science and philosophy weigh in BigThink
***PRODUCTIVITY
Why work is exhausting even when it involves no physical labor Vox
Evernote slashes price of Premium subscription as many executives depart The Verge
***ETHICS
When Is It OK to Tell a Well-Meaning Lie? Harvard Business Review
Who’s to blame when a machine botches your surgery? Quartz
***RESEARCH
A documentary on the tug of war over paywalls in scholarly publishing Nature
Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole Quillette
All 10 senior editors of a journal resign after alleged pressure to publish mediocre papers Science Mag
Peer review is no substitute for fact-checking: The likely mistaken history of the vibrator The Atlantic
Shutterstock Former University of Utah researcher wins damages in whistleblower case KSL
A transparent process to publish referees’ reports could benefit science, but not all researchers want their assessments made available (opinion) Nature
***RESEARCH & PLAGIARISM
Getting Inside the Mind of a Plagiarist Literary Hub
Idea Plagiarism and Ethics in Competitive Research The Wire
Plagiarism is innovation's cul-de-sac (opinion) Bangkok Pist
***HIGHER ED
Do Chief Diversity Officers Help Diversify a University’s Faculty? This Study Found No Evidence Chronicle of Higher Ed
The top 10 most highly-educated states in America Tech Republic
Corruption, the Lack of Academic Integrity and Other Ethical Issues in Higher Education Springer
Campuses prepare for the invasion of the electric scooter Slate
Perlego raises $4.8M for its ‘Spotify for textbooks’ Tech Crunch
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Liberty University dismissed from civil case linked to 2009 international kidnapping News Advance
In wake of Colin Kaepernick ads, Liberty reexamining business relationship with Nike College Football Talk
Christian liberal-arts college, College of the Ozarks to Drop Nike from Uniforms After Colin Kaepernick Campaign Bleacher Report
Christian College Says Accrediting Agency's Proposed Guideline Change May Harm Religious Schools Christian Post
Baptist College dismisses man for being gay Citizens Voice
***TEACHING
How the accusations against Avital Ronell are playing out on the syllabus and in the classroom Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
How I survive: American teachers and their second jobs – a photo essay The Guardian
A professor schemed to get a raise and win his department’s respect. Instead, he wrecked his career Chronicle of Higher Ed
Purdue University Global will no longer require its faculty members to sign a nondisclosure agreement Chronicle of Higher Ed
A University of Kansas professor has canceled his office hours, saying he doesn't feel safe because state law permits the concealed carry of firearms on campus The University Daily Kansan
The Way We Hire Now Chronicle of Higher Ed
Santa Barbara City College ex-philosophy instructor agree to $120,000 settlement The Channels
Faculty members push back on one university's expansion plans Education Dive