Articles of Interest - Week of Jan 14
/***2018
Our Favorite Facts of 2018 New York Times
Top 18 Data Visualizations of 2018 How Much
2018's top 7 libraries and packages for data science and AI Heartbeat
The 2018 Storyhunter Staff Pick Awards Story Hunter
The biggest science stories of 2018: From the edge of the solar system to crises on Earth Washington Post
List of visualization best-of-year lists, 2018 FlowingData
The best and worst of 2018, in 85 lists Inside Hook
***2019
50 Things Turning 50 in 2019 Mental Floss
Tech trends 2019: 'The end of truth as we know it?' BBC
***BIG DATA & AI
60 minutes looks at how one man is advancing artificial intelligence CBS News
Understanding Generative Adversarial Networks and what makes them interesting Toward Data Science
Scenarios have been discovered in which it is impossible to prove whether or not a machine-learning algorithm could solve a particular problem Nature Magazine
***SOCIAL MEDIA
***SOCIAL MEDIA & POLITICS
Newly elected congressmember AOC offers older colleagues a master class in social media Wired
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has more Twitter power than media, establishment Axios
***JOURNALISM
Facebook says it will invest $300 Million in Local News TechCrunch
Reporter Attacked While Broadcasting Live CBS Sacramento
The newspaper that #MeToo missed At Las Vegas Review-Journal, allegations of misconduct were met with little change Columbia Journalism Review
***FAKE NEWS
Democrats Targeted Roy Moore With Fake Campaign US News
'Fake News' Results In Real Jail Time For Ohio Woman Tech Dirt
Who was most likely to share fake news in 2016? Seniors Washington Post
Oft-quoted paper on spread of fake news turns out to be…fake news Retraction Watch
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
America’s Electric Grid Has a Vulnerable Back Door—and Russia Walked Through It (sub. req’ed) Wall Street Journal
Hacks Are Getting So Common That Companies Are Turning To 'Cyber Insurance' NPR
Previously secret CIA report documents spear attack against surveillance plane ArsTechnica
***INTERNET
The 20 Most Popular Websites, Charted From 1998 To 2018 Digg
Google Reveals How It Approaches SEO Media Post
Numerous Government Sites' HTTPS Certificates Expire Amid Shutdown DailyDot
The Rise and Demise of RSS Motherboard
***WRITING & READING
Indie bookstores flourish in an Amazon world Axios
How To Start Reading Poetry If You Have No Idea Where To Begin Bustle
Is Skim Reading the New Normal? Psychology Today
***LANGUAGE
YouGov survey: British sarcasm 'lost on Americans' BBC
Learn Spanish Through Pop Music Using This App Life Hacker
***LITERATURE
Physiological essay on Gulliver’s Travels: a correction after three centuries Springer
Long-lost Jane Austen family photo album discovered on eBay Fox News
***GENDER
Men in the US have More daily leisure Time than Women The Atlantic
An analysis of dental plaque illuminates the forgotten history of female scribes The Atlantic
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
What A Case Of Mistaken Identity Tells Us About Race In America NPR
The father of DNA says he still believes in a link between race, intelligence. His lab just stripped him of his titles Washington Post
***LEGAL ISSUES
Families of Sandy Hook shooting victims win legal victory against InfoWars, Alex Jones ABC News
Cops Can't Force People to Unlock Their Phones With Biometrics, Court Rules Gizomdo
***CRIME
How true-crime podcasts find clues the police miss BBC
Groveland Four pardoned by Florida clemency board Miami Herald
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Adulting Burnout Becoming (my blog)
'Affective Presence': How You Make Other People Feel The Atlantic
Physics explains why time passes faster as you age Quartz
***RELIGION
Conservative Evangelicals Attempt to Disentangle Their Faith from Trumpism New Yorker
One year after the American Bible Society issued an ultimatum, almost 20 percent of its staff has quit Philadelphia Inquirer
Did the U.S. Supreme Court Rule That Oaths Not Taken on the Bible Are ‘Illegal’? Snopes
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Evangelical group wants gays removed from anti-lynching bill NBC News
Megachurch pastor with ties to George W. Bush indicted on $3.5 million fraud ABC News
***GOOD NEWS
11-year-old saves man almost twice his size from drowning KARE TV
The 90-Year-Old Doper Is Not A Doper At All: The Carl Grove Case FloBikes
Lost teddy bear gets luxury five-star hotel break in Hawaii CNN
***GOOD NEWS WITH ANIMALS
Through her lemonade stand, Texas girl raises thousands for animal rescues The Week
Stranger drives 2,300 miles to reunite boy recovering from surgery with his dog CBS News
Stray Dog Adopted By Gas Station Rushes To The Rescue During Armed Robbery The Dodo
***ART & DESIGN
Panoramic Photographs by Peter Li Bring an Otherworldly Perspective to the Architectural Symmetry of Churches This is Colossal
Graphic designer recreates vintage maps, adding stunning 3-D elevation Scott Reinhard
How science and tech left an imprint on 3 iconic paintings Wired
***MUSIC
Nina Simone's 'Lovely, Precious Dream' For Black Children NPR
Independent Music Publicists Grapple With a Shrinking Media Landscape Billboard
Old, meet new: Sony introduces a wireless turntable for vinyl records Ars Technica
***FILM
Scientists Have Determined the Most Influential Film of All Time Curiosity
***SOCIAL ISSUES
How Cities Make Money by Fining the Poor New York Times
The Weight I Carry What it’s like to be too big in America The Atlantic
Pet opioid prescriptions have soared, Penn study finds. But who’s really using the meds? Philadelphia Inquirer
Report: Americans Are Now More Likely To Die Of An Opioid Overdose Than On The Road NPR
***SOCIAL ISSUES: THE WALL
The Wall – Interactive map exploring U.S.-Mexico border USA Today
How Americans see illegal immigration, the border wall and political compromise Pew Research Center
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Over 300 small-business loans a day aren’t happening because of the shutdown Washington Post
***ENVIRONMENT
The Era Of Easy Recycling May Be Coming To An End FiveThirtyEight
5 key environmental impacts of the government shutdown National Geographic
***HEALTH
Hopkins Researchers ID New Biomarker for Colorectal Cancers Hopkins Medicine
Health Rankings by State America’s Health Rankings
Excessive body fat around the middle linked to smaller brain, study says CNN
Biggest jump in drug overdoses was among middle-aged women NBC News
Most Health and Wellness Advice From Instagram Influencers Is Wrong The Atlantic
Artificial Sweeteners, Not Good, Not Bad New York Times
***TRAVEL
52 Places to Go in 2019 New York Times
University of California tells students not to use WeChat, WhatsApp in China CNN
***FOOD
Nutella Quartz
One in 10 Adults Have a Food Allergy: Many More Say They Have One New York Times
Vietnamese restaurant 'Pho Keene Great' under fire for name KWCH
FDA says most food inspections halted amid shutdown The Hill
***FAMILY
Dad makes app that forces teens to reply to text news.com.au
***PSYCHOLOGY
The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces Quantam Magazine
Denver passes conversion therapy ban The Denver Channel
The Science of Dreaming Long Reads
Our obsession with taking photos is changing how we remember the past The Conversation
***PHILOSOPHY
Bertrand Russell's 10 Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy Open Culture
***PRODUCTIVITY & EMAIL
Why I Didn’t Answer Your Email Because my inbox will always be waiting for me, but my children will not New York Times
Don’t Reply to Your Emails The case for inbox infinity The Atlantic
Dread Opening Your Inbox? There's A New Approach To Embracing All Those Emails NPR
***RESEARCH
U.S. Officials Warn Health Researchers: China May Be Trying to Steal Your Data New York Times
China censors British academic publisher Ekklesia
Taiwanese biochemist cleared of corruption Nature
***HIGHER ED
Small-college presidents work to adapt to a changing market Inside Higher Ed
Why U.S. universities are shutting down China-funded Confucius Institutes Washington Post
The Resilience of Religion in American Higher Education’ Inside Higher Ed
Religious Colleges Praise Proposed Protections for Their Mission Bloomberg
Lawsuit goes to trial over whether retired president is owed by a Baptist school Inside Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES & STEM
Don’t Teach Your Kid to Code: Teach Them to Communicate Medium
Why We Need the Humanities in the Sciences Patheos
***TEACHING
Professors Worry About the Cost of Textbooks, but Free Alternatives Pose Their Own Problems Chronicle of Higher Education
Learning Styles: Educators v Scientists Inside Higher Ed
Empathetic Syllabi Review Exercise Faculty Focus
***STUDENT LIFE
Millions of College Students Are Going Hungry The Atlantic
Renting College Textbooks Can Be An Even Bigger Ripoff Than Buying Them Huffington Post
Managing Teenage Acne New York Times
A Northwestern Student Took Her Own Life. Is a Sorority to Blame? The Atlantic
Why some colleges don't rely on SAT or ACT scores Springfield
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Chicago State to pay $650K in faculty blog lawsuit Associated Press
Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor Chronicle of Higher Ed
Printing Delays Present ‘New Normal’ for Academic Inside Higher Ed
UW-Oshkosh professor sues to prevent records about plagiarism investigation from being released to newspaper Wisconsin State Journal
64 lecturers at Ugandan University miss research grants over plagiarism Daily Monitor