Articles of Interest - Jan 7
/***TECHNOLOGY
An introduction to Quantum Computing IBM
Ranking the Top 100 Technological Advances Gizmodo
***BIG DATA & AI
Artificial intelligence turns brain activity into speech Science Mag
A brief explanation of automated machine learning, why it’s needed and where it’s going KD Nuggets
This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task Tech Crunch
The Most Amazing Artificial Intelligence Milestones So Far Forbes
Never mind killer robots—here are six real AI dangers to watch out for in 2019 MIT Tech Review
***SOCIAL MEDIA
What Facebook knows about you Axios
Detecting depression: Phone apps could monitor teen angst Associated Press
The Bird Box Effect: How Memes Drive Users to Netflix The Ringer
Link between social media and depression stronger in teen girls than boys, study says CNN
How to Delete Your Online Accounts but Keep Your Data Life Hacker
How Facebook is Fueling The French Populist Rage Monday Note
***JOURNALISM
7 tips on health care reporting from POLITICO’s Joanne Kenen Journalists Resource
A journalist exposes the systemic failures that led to his wife’s death Columbia Journalism Review
How Google-backed MediaWise is teaching teens media literacy Digiday
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press receives $1 million grant from the Hollywood Foreign Press Assoc Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Dallas Morning News lays off 20 newsroom employees Poynter
A fresh look at the rise of nonprofit journalism — and the issues that remain Poynter
***FAKE NEWS
How to recognize fake AI-generated images Medium
Inside Trump’s fake news recidivism Axios
2019: A year when fake news gets intimate and everyone disagrees on everything Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
L.A. is suing IBM for illegally gathering and selling user data through its Weather Channel app Los Angeles Times
DNA Testing? You Might Want to Wait for More Legal Protection Bloomberg
***PRODUCING MEDIA
9 Types of Visual Storytelling on Mobile Global Investigative Journalism Network
***INTERNET
How Much of the Internet Is Fake? New York Magazine
Half the world will be online in 2019: But getting people connected is not an unalloyed blessing Economist
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The people inside the machine Becoming (my blog)
The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success The Week
Are you a Digital Hoarder? BBC
***WRITING & READING
The Rise of the Exclamation point Quartz
Ways schools and colleges could do a better job of teaching writing Inside Higher Ed
11,000 Digitized Books From 1923 Are Now Available Online at the Internet Archive Open Culture
Does It Pay to Be a Writer? A new study found that most authors’ incomes are below the poverty line New York Times
***LANGUAGE
The Most Searched Words Of 2018 Dictionary.com
Top words teens use to describe 2018: exhausting, chaotic, meh Survey Monkey
Children Are Using Emoji for Digital-Age Language Learning Wired
How a Word Enters the Dictionary: A Quick Primer Open Culture
***LITERATURE
Getting Students to Study Literature Inside Higher Ed
How Hollywood Gets the Publishing Industry Wrong New York Times
An Illustrated and Interactive Dante's Inferno: Explore a New Digital Companion to the Great 14th-Century Epic Poem Open Culture
***GENDER
Women are being honored for their excellent journalism Tampa Bay
7 Ways to Improve Coverage of Women’s Sports Harvard’s Nieman Reports
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Landmark settlement requires harasser to denounce white supremacy and apologize to the first black female student body president at American University Inside Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
Content Just Entered The Public Domain Kotaku
Ed Sheeran Going To Trial Over 'Thinking Out Loud' Plagiarism Allegations Forbes
F-Bombs Coming to Supreme Court for Review of Government Ban on Scandalous Trademarks Hollywood Reporter
2018 Advertising Lawsuits Technology & Marketing Law Blog
2018 Trademark Lawsuits Technology & Marketing Law Blog
2018 Copyright Lawsuits Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***CRIME
5 facts about crime in the U.S. Pew Research Center
***RELIGION
Thomas Keating died on October 25th: The pioneer of modern contemplative prayer was 95 Economist
Evangelicals Seek Detente With Mideast Muslim Leaders As Critics Doubt Motives NPR
The 7 People Christians Trust More Than Their Pastors Christianity Today
Teen self-injects verses from the Bible and the Koran that have been transposed into DNA BongBong
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Jerry Falwell Jr. can’t imagine Trump ‘doing anything that’s not good for the country’ Washington Post
The New Congress: Fewer Christians But Still Religious NPR
***GOOD NEWS
Granddaughter Records A Song Her Grandpa Wrote Decades Earlier (video)
Minnesota doctor makes a blanket for every baby he delivers Star Tribune
A Pop-Up Japanese Cafe With Robot Servers Remotely Controlled by People With Disabilities (video)
This choir features singers with dementia Washington Post
11-year-old boy pulls a drowning man from the bottom of a pool and saves his life CNN
The tattoo artist who erases racist and gang-related ink for free PS Mag
***ART & DESIGN
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2018 FlowingData
Design Ethics and the Limits of the Ethical Designer Viget
How Does Photography Affect You? We Tried to Find Out Wired
***MUSIC
Sacred choral music touches on deep religious, moral and political questions Economist
Mongolian Heavy Metal Band Gets Millions Of YouTube Views NPR
Star Spangled Banner sounds Russian when played in a minor key (video)
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
How to Document Your Personal Possessions in Case of Emergency LifeHacker
What a Student Loan 'Bubble' Bursting Might Look Like Vice
***ENVIRONMENT
Humanity Has Managed to Change Places We’ve Barely Even Visited Atlas Obscura
5 New Year's resolutions that can help the environment in 2019 Mashable
***HEALTH
The growth of yoga and meditation in the US since 2012 is remarkable Vox
The Dangerous Allure of Breech Birth at Home – and a Problematic New Paper PLOS
Is It A Nasty Cold Or The Flu? NPR
2019 Health Trends Axios
Artificial intelligence can detect Alzheimer’s in brain scans six years before a diagnosis Fast Company
***TRAVEL
Why It Makes Sense That Airlines Overbook (video) Cheddar
State Department warns Americans traveling in China to use 'increased caution' Politico
***FOOD
Cops grieve 'Krispy Kreme Doughnuts' lost in NYE truck fire: 'No words' Fox News
The Big Food Trends In 2019 Forbes
***PARENTING
The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting New York Times
The art and science of parenting The Economist
Cultivating empathy in my children, from a neuroscience perspective Washington Post
***ANIMALS
Gradually, nervously, courts are granting rights to animals Economist
How one boy has helped save over a thousand shelter dogs NBC News
Shelter volunteer's family secretly adopts her favorite dog Stillwater News Press
***SCIENCE
Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' In Search Of More Productive Crops NPR
Space and time could be a quantum error-correcting code Wired
The Year in Physics: The field of fundamental physics is experiencing both a period of confusion and an openness to new ideas Quantam Magazine
***PSYCHOLOGY
Can Alexa and Facebook predict the end of your relationship? Vox
Your Ideal Therapist Might Not Be Human Outside Online
Psychologists reluctant to own up to research mistakes Times Higher Ed
Freud versus Jung: a bitter feud over the meaning of sex Big Think
***NEUROSCIENCE
What the subjects covered in high and medium impact factor journals in neuroscience tell us Biorxiv
Exploring How Neuroscience Can Affect a Marketing Strategy AdWeek
***PHILOSOPHY
The Problem of Free Will (video) Wireless Philosophy
Philosopher Bertrand Russell’s Indispensable Advice on ‘How (Not) to Grow Old’ My Modern Met
Wittgenstein and religion Aeon
***PRODUCTIVITY
Best Productivity Apps for Mac Software How
12 expert tips to make 2019 your most productive year yet Fast Company
***RESEARCH
The quest to topple science-stymying academic paywalls Wired
A worrisome source of Research Bias: Researchers seeking to fund and publish their work, and advance their academic careers New York Times
Scams using fake reviews to facilitate publications The Asian Journal of Andrology
Amateurism still flourishing in scientific journals BMJ
The Costs of Reproducibility Science Direct
The methodological flaws that have roiled psychology were also lurking in sports science FiveThirtyEight
What to do when you read a paper and it’s full of errors and the author won’t share the data or be open about the analysis? Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Questionable authorship practices are endemic to biomedical research Springer
The Double-bind Theory of Scholarly Publishing Scholarly Kitchen
***RESEARCH RETRACTIONS
No retraction for a Fifth of 200 publications with misconduct Sage
Citation of Retracted Articles in Engineering: A Study of the Web of Science Database Taylor & Francis Online
***HIGHER ED
Overhauling Rules for Higher Ed Inside Higher Ed
Bennett College Needs To Raise $5 Million Or It May Lose Accreditation NPR
Why does it feel good to see someone fail? The Conversation
Does It Matter Where You Go To College? The Answer: It Depends NPR
Some Calif. community colleges skip free college because of required participation in federal loan program Inside Higher Ed
That Video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Dancing Actually Has a Lot to Do With Higher Ed Chronicle of Higher Ed
Christian College President Gets Impromptu Selfie with Newlyweds Justin and Hailey Bieber CBN
***HUMANITIES
Machine learning can offer new tools, fresh insights for the humanities ArsTechnica
What the Numbers Can Tell Us About Humanities Ph.D. Careers Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
How One College Made Its Gen-Ed Program Feel More Relevant Chronicle of Higher Ed
It's time to teach kids how to read charts Quartz
***STUDENT LIFE
Students at Notre Dame have launched a campaign that has inspired others around the country to ask their institutions to block explicit content Inside Higher Ed
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation BuzzFeed News
Teen vaping: Is it really a gateway to cigarette smoking? Journalist’s Resources
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Marquette Law School professor suspended over student relationship JS Online
How 'Rule Makers, Rule Breakers' Might Explain the Academic / IT Divide Inside Higher Ed