Articles of Interest - July 16
/***TECHNOLOGY
Forget about VR in the living room; this summer it’s on waterslides and in arcades MIT Tech Review
itty bitty, a new service that lets you share entire web pages encoded in the link itself Chronicle of Higher Ed
Quantum computing could put a stop to traffic jams Quartz
Mercedes Will Launch Self-Driving Taxis in California Next Year Wired
Walmart patents tech that would allow it to eavesdrop on cashiers The Guardian
AI could soon clone your voice Cnet
Microsoft calls on Congress to regulate facial recognition Engadget
The way people walk can be used for ID and health checks Economist
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
ESPN to Air Overwatch League Finals as Esports Go Prime Time Bloomberg
Report on Local TV and AM/FM radio Revenue Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Shorter TV Spots Rising On Linear TV Media Post
Why Sinclair's bid to buy the tribune company might die Wired
Independent Media Organization Southerly Launches The Whole Story
People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves Medium
***JOURNALISM
54 newsrooms, 9 countries, and 9 core ideas: Here’s what two researchers found in a yearlong quest for journalism innovation Harvard’s Nieman Lab
A Reporter Who Had Her Records Seized Wasn’t On A List Of Subpoenaed Journalists The Justice Department Sent To A Senator BuzzFeed News
My Jobs Before Journalism Twitter
Why the Craig behind Craigslist gave big bucks to a journalism program Recode
How We Reported Our Mississippi Bond Story: A Guide to Our Methodology The Marshall Project
Latin America’s new media are growing up Economist
More questions than answers from DOJ letter about journalist surveillance Columbia Journalism Review
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
CNN Reorganizes Business Coverage Under New Site Media Post
***FAKE NEWS
Susceptibility to fake news is driven more by lazy thinking than partisan bias PsyPost
How a ‘Cancer Cure’ Video Blasted Bad Science—and Went Viral Wired
‘Fake News’ Goes Global as Trump, in Britain, Rips the Press New York Times
24 Brazilian media organisations band together to fight fake news International News Media Association
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook Opens Its Private Servers to Scientists Studying Fake News Wired
Social media: Twitter’s surprising revival (sub. requ'd) The Week
Media — both on the left and right — are pressing Facebook to define what journalism is Recode
***PRIVACY
Who Will Police Police Drones? Gizmodo
FTC Urged To Stop Facebook From Sharing Data With Researchers Media Post
***PRODUCING MEDIA
From Data to Viz, a site that helps you find the right chart for your data Data-to-Viz
What’s in a Newsletter? At The New York Times, There’s a Secret Sauce New York Times
***BIG DATA & AI
How does a flight attendant know your birthday? Big data playing bigger role as airlines personalize service Chicago Tribune
Python author steps back from leadership of project IT wire
Communicating with Alexa devices using sign language Abhishek Singh
The seven of the most fundamental Quantum-computing complexity classes Quanta Magazine
***PERSONAL GROWTH
4 things before passing judgment Becoming (my blog)
How to keep going after a mass shooter kills your husband Washington Post
A More Or Less Definitive Guide To Showing Up For Friends BuzzFeed News
The Power of Positive People Are your friendships giving you a boost or bringing you down? New York Times
***WRITING & READING
Long-Time Employees Buy Capitol Hill Books From Its Beloved, Curmudgeonly Owner DCist
***LANGUAGE
The Linguist Who Helps Undercover Cops Catch Child Predators The Atlantic
Is ‘You Guys’ Replacing ‘Y’All’ in the South? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Everybody, Parlons Français! Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
Mary Gaitskill convinced me to care about literature again after my best friend’s death Slate
Archaeologists Think They’ve Discovered the Oldest Greek Copy of Homer’s Odyssey: 13 Verses on a Clay Tablet Open Culture
***GENDER
All Things Ill-Considered: NPR’s Sexist Blunder Chronicle of Higher Ed
Women Making Science Videos on YouTube Face Hostile Comments New York Times
An alternative to pink & blue: Colors for gender data Data Wrapper
A baseball player stood on a bucket — and sparked an online debate about masculinity Washington Post
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
The chief wanted perfect stats, so cops were told to pin crimes on black people, probe found Miami Herald
Justice Department Reopens Investigation Into 1955 Lynching Of Emmett Till NPR
Asian-Americans Facing Staggering Levels Of Income Inequality In The U.S. NPR
***FREE SPEECH
Judge Orders Los Angeles Times to Delete Part of Published Article Image New York Times
Kavanaugh decision that allowed litigation to be used to deter free speech Hollywood Reporter
Lawrence Journal-World wrong on flag art censorship at University of Kansas (opinion) The FIRE
YouTube Rolling Out Copyright Match Plagiarism Today
***LEGAL ISSUES
Where Brett Kavanaugh sits on the ideological spectrum (infographic) Axios
‘Copyright’s True Purpose Is Dead, It Never Existed’ Torrent Freak
***RELIGION
The Bible is literature for the resistance Washington Post
Mark Harris is forgetting a lot of what the Bible says about women (opinion) Charlotte Observer
Two months after a sexual abuse investigation, Southern Baptist missionary found new church Star-Telegram
Southern Baptist officials knew of sexual abuse allegations 11 years before leader’s arrest Star-telegram
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Christian advocates push back against Paula White’s claim that Jesus was different because he never broke the law Huffington Post
Brett Kavanaugh Is a Troubling Supreme Court Pick for Black Christians Christianity Today
***GOOD NEWS
25 Everyday Heroes BuzzFeed
Croatia–England: The Greatest World Cup Fairy Tale The Atlantic
Abandoned as baby in a cardboard box, man meets biological father after 31 years ABC News
Deliveries of kindness in San Diego CBS News
Teacher buys school bus, becomes driver so his elementary school students don’t drop out The New Minute
Warren Buffett Donates $3.4 Billion to Charities in Latest Gift Bloomberg
***ART & DESIGN
A new report from the FIRE names colleges across the country that censor artists The FIRE
7 Basic Design Principles We Forget About Uxplanet
Why Med Schools Are Requiring Students to Take Art Classes, and How It Makes Med Students Better Doctors Open Culture
University of Kansas Removes Controversial Flag Art Inside Higher Ed
An alternative to pink & blue: Colors for gender data DataWrapper
How one typeface took over movie posters (video) Vox
***MUSIC
The Gospel According to Kendrick Lamar: Having an intact family “makes a huge difference” Vanity Fair
Review: John Coltrane’s ‘Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album’ Variety
Can gospel music survive the rise of hip-hop? The Undefeated
***FILM
I’m Sorry, But the Posters for Mary Queen of Scots Have the Wrong Taglines Vulture
Stanley Kubrick’s Annotated Copy of Stephen King’s The Shining Open Culture
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
Your CV Should Inform. Your Cover Letter Should Persuade Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Personal Business of Being Laid Off Hazlitt
What It’s Like to Search for Jobs Outside Academe Chronicle of Higher Ed
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Two men indicted on accusations of stealing textbooks from campuses Journal Sentinel
Experts: University of Kentucky's sexual assault policy may be illegal Courier-Journal
Sexually assaulted on his campus by student from another university—the accused was found responsible (twice) but no punishment Inside Higher Ed
This NYPD Officer Reported Sexual Harassment: Then She Was Forced Into Rehab BuzzFeed News
Ivy League professor accused of harassment says U.S. laws are 'biased against privileged white men' Daily Mail Online
Baylor settles Title IX suit filed by former student who accused football players of gang rape Waco Trib
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
What we buy can be used to predict our politics, race or education — sometimes with more than 90 percent accuracy Washington Post
Visualizing Countries with the Highest Household Wealth How Much
America's wage crisis no longer looks temporary Axios
Detaining immigrant kids is now a billion-dollar industry ABC News
***ENVIRONMENT
Cheap, portable sensors are democratizing air-quality data Wired
How Laundry Is Reducing America’s Carbon Footprint The Daily Beast
***TRAVEL
Airline Passenger Groups Outraged Over FAA Ruling On Seat NPR
***HEALTH
1st Color X-Rays of Human Body Are Bloody Amazing Live Science
America’s Shrinking Exercise USA Today
Worried About Dementia? You Might Want to Check Your Blood Pressure NPR
Pushback against immunization laws leaves some California schools vulnerable to outbreaks LA Times
Summer Heat Waves Can Slow Our Thinking : Shots - Health News NPR
Hidden From View: The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care New York Times
***SCIENCE
With Faster, Cheaper, More Precise Technique, Authors Say It’s ‘Off to the Races’ Toward New Cell Therapies UCSF news release
NASA Discovered Evidence of Life on Mars 40 Years Ago, Then Set It On Fire Live Science
‘Gene drive’ passes first test in mammals, speeding up inheritance in mice Science Mag
***PSYCHOLOGY
1 In 4 Teenage Girls Self-Harm, According To A New Survey Of US High School Students Buzzfeed News
A player misses a shot and his hands immediately go to the top of his head. Why? Psychology has the answer New York Times
NPR story overstates the benefits of ‘Safety Planning Intervention’ Health News Review
***NEUROSCIENCE
Memories Can Be Altered in Mice. Are Humans Next? National Geographic
***PRODUCTIVITY
The best tools to unclog your overflowing email Poynter
Want to increase efficiency at work? 15 minutes of daily exercise will help Economic Times
***HISTORY
New Web Site Showcases 700,000 Artifacts Dug Up from the Canals of Amsterdam, Some Dating Back to 4300 BC Open Culture
People Still Believe These 10 Myths About the Spanish Flu Live Science
The Healing Buzz of “Drunk History” (opinion) The New Yorker
***RESEARCH
Kim Kardashian pairs up with an MIT post-doc to publish a scientific paper Retraction Watch
$33,000 Academic Journal Articles That Almost No One Reads Forbes
Science journals end open-access trial with Gates Foundation Nature
An example of researchers revisiting their own work and openly changing their minds Discover Magazine
Peer Review and Implicit Bias: Is Double-blind Peer Review Better? (opinion) IEAM Blog
A Major Industry-Funded Alcohol Study Was Compromised: How Many Others Are Out There Undark
Capitalism: Ruining science? In academia, the “imperative manifests itself in visible ways: publish or perish, funding or famine” Jacobin Magazine
Contrary to common belief, randomised controlled trials inevitably produce biased results London School of Economics & Political Science
***RESEARCH MISCONDUCT
We need more investigations into research misconduct: The UK needs a new Watchdog group (opinion) The Guardian
Retraction Watch Co-founder talks about Research Misconduct iScience Mag
***HIGHER ED
Private Colleges in Peril: crucial challenges that small colleges face in fighting for their financial survival Education Next
How 'The Efficiency Paradox' Gets EdTech Right: Why education is expensive, and why technology will not be the solution (opinion) Inside Higher Ed
What Illinois higher education could be Chicago Tribune
ICE contracts bring in millions for U.S. colleges The Outline
Students outraged after 2 Bay Area colleges announce they're closing KRON-4
Canvas Surpasses Blackboard Learn in US Market Share E-Literate
One Public-College President Made $4 Million Last Year: Now His University Wants It Back Chronicle of Higher Ed
#MeToo at an Evangelical Institution: Many are frustrated that the university ignored complaints for 14 years Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Do Voice Assistant Devices Have a Place in the Classroom? EdSurge
How One College Used Student Comments to Identify Its Best Professors Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
A Skeptic, a Student Newspaper, and a #MeToo Dilemma Undark
The print edition of a Missouri university's magazine has been canceled. Editors say it's retaliation and censorship Student Press Law Center
As local newsrooms shrink, college journalists fill in the gap Poynter
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Assistant professor parts ways with UA after drug, sex assault accusation Tuscon.com
In Defense of Not Publishing Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Money, not grades, more likely to get in the way of a college education CNBC
Why aren’t millennials buying houses? Curbed
New York court chastises University at Buffalo in ruling for student in due process case The FIRE