***TECHNOLOGY
Why Swedes are inserting microchips into their bodies The Economist
Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during Calif. Wildfire: Fire dep't had to pay twice as much to lift throttling during wildfire response Ars Technica
With embryo base editing, china gets another crispr first Wired
***BIG DATA & AI
The ever-increasing role of simulation and models in theoretical physics Quanta Magazine
Many companies don't know where their critical data is kept the challenge of dark data when moving from BI to data analytics ITproportal
The wired guide to quantum computing Wired
The race is on to dominate quantum computing..but the technology may face a winter before it enters its summer The Economist
***SOCIAL MEDIA
How Teens and Parents Navigate Screen Time and Device Distractions Pew Research Center
Posting Instagram Sponsored Content Is the New Summer Job As long as you’re a teen with a following The Atlantic
This Is Your Kids’ Brains on Internet Algorithms: A Chilling Case Study Shows What’s Wrong with the Internet Today Open Culture
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Americans are less worried about online security Axios
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Good news for newsletter writers: Americans check email more than ever, even at dinner Poynter
***INTERNET
SEO Is Back New York Magazine
***JOURNALISM
Pruitt bars AP, CNN from EPA summit on contaminants, guards push reporter out of building NBC News
5 facts about the state of the news media Pew Research Center
What is drone journalism? Florida Today
Infographic: Does objectivity still matter to journalists? PR Week
Pittsburgh becomes largest US city without a daily print newspaper The Hill
Where Does Journalism End and Activism Begin? Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***WOMEN IN JOURNALISM
How one journalist built a free resource that has coached hundreds of women in journalism Poynter
The Lazy Trope of the Unethical Female Journalist The Atlantic
***FAKE NEWS
The propaganda war gets sophisticated Axios
Inside Wikipedia's volunteer-run battle against fake news Wired
This is what filter bubbles actually look like: Maps of Twitter activity show how political polarization manifests online MIT Technology Review
Can you spot fake news before hitting “share”? Kids are learning and so can you Fast Company
Newsguard wants to fight fake news with humans, not algorithms Wired
Two of the lawyers representing the parents of Sandy Hook victims published a blistering open-letter to US Sen. Ted Cruz My Statesman
The fake news about journalism Financial Times
Why Russian trolls stoked US vaccine debates CNN
An online conspiracy is fueling attacks on private businesses NBC News
***FAKE NEWS ON FACEBOOK
Find out who's manipulating you through Facebook political ads with ProPublica's free tool BoingBoing
Facebook deletes alternative health pages as the war on fake news escalates Fast Company
***FAKE NEWS IN HISTORY
Fake news: an exhibition on the importance of accurate journalism The Guardian
Long Before Facebook, The KGB Spread Fake News About AIDS NPR
***GRAMMAR
It's Time to End the 'Data Is' vs 'Data Are' Debate Motherboard
How ‘Taser’ Became a Verb Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Perennial Difficulty of Defining What ‘Descriptive’ Means in Grammar Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING & READING
Poetry Is Everywhere Far from “going extinct,” as it was once predicted, poems are viral, vital—and invincible The Atlantic
9 Writers To Follow On Twitter If You Want To Think More Deeply About The Books You're Reading Bustle
***LANGUAGE
Why Learning Chinese Makes So Much Sense Chronicle of Higher Ed
The quest to make German more gender-neutral The Economist
How Japan uses English (video)
Hunting for fossils in the quirks of language Metaphors and clichés are often a record of bygone cultures The Economist
The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages New Yorker
***LITERATURE
9 Works Of Literature That Are Basically Fanfiction — From 'Lord Of The Flies' To 'Inferno' Bustle
***GENDER
Even if a woman who grows up in a more rural area moves to a less-sexist area, researchers say it is still difficult to shake the effects from the sexism where they were raised CBS News
More women running for Congress is a good thing, say most Americans Pew Research Center
The most sexist places in America Washington Post
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Confederate statue taken down by student protesters at University of North Carolina Christian Science Monitor
Reporter says she was ‘suspended’ for sharing Guardian story on white privilege Kansas City Star
University accepted $458K from 'scientific' racism fund Chicago Sun-Times
America’s public school teachers are far less racially and ethnically diverse than their students Pew Research
***LEGAL ISSUES
Copyright and Embedding Images: The Waters get Murky The Comm Law Blog
The Kardashians' Instagram Fan Accounts Are Embroiled in a Copyright Mess The Fashion Law Blog
Podcast Legal Issues – Getting Releases From Interview Subjects Broadcast Law Blog
Can the Museum of Ice Cream Claim Rights in the Color Pink? The Fashion Law Blog
***RELIGION
A man threatened his co-worker over Christian music, cops say Miami Herald
World's most committed Christians live in Africa, Latin America, U.S. Pew Research Center
Marriott bringing Bible, Book of Mormon to its Starwood hotels Chicago Sun-Times
Reinventing religion — with romance novels Washington Post
Holy atheism, Batman! Why superheroes might not believe in God Washington Post
***RELIGION AND SEXUAL ABUSE
Saddleback Church Mentor Convicted of Molesting Two Boys NBC Los Angeles
Former pastor claims sex abuse against televangelist Houston Chronicle
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Trump hosts evangelical leaders at the White House Associated Press
***GOOD NEWS
Principal installs one when students are bullied for dirty clothes CNN
This Man Planted a Tree Every Day for 35 Years and Created a Forest Larger Than Central Park Travel and Leisure
Middle School students leave positive notes around school WBIR
***ART & DESIGN
New York Times redesigns its homepage Columbia Journalism Review
A guide to combining fonts Better Webtype
***MUSIC
Eagles’ ‘Greatest Hits’ Overtakes Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ as Best-Selling Album Rolling Stone
***FILM
Rumors Of The Death Of The Rom-Com Are Greatly Exaggerated NPR
What two films reveal about China A low-budget movie about a sensitive social theme outshines a state-approved spectacular The Economist
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
CoinDesk's quietly profitable media business Axios
What You Might Not Know About E-sports, a $620 Million Industry New York Times
The massive popularity of esports, in charts Washington Post
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
Apple, IBM, and Google don’t care anymore if you went to college Quartz
9 Email Mistakes That Could Cost You the Job Offer Grammarly
Social Media Marketing Intern Maple Media Technology
Online editor Daily Pilot, Fountain Valley
Web editor San Diego Magazine
Social Media Intern Inspire Create LLC, Chula Vista
Assistant News Producer/Penner Fellow Intern KPBS, San Diego
Public Relations Intern Baby Bird Communications, San Diego
Marketing Intern San Diego Seals, San Diego
Marketing Agency Internship Campaign Creators, San Diego
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Stony Brook University professor sued by former student Newsday
Lawsuit: Baylor "infiltrated" sexual-assault survivor groups in an effort to shape PR strategy around the university's rape scandal PR Week
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Aerial pictures show how the world’s richest and poorest live side by side Metro
11 Facebook page optimizations for small publishers Medium
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
The Most Profitable Industry In Each State, Mapped Digg
***ECONOMICS
Against the tyranny of the majority John Stuart Mill's warning still resonates today The Economist
Rescuing Adam Smith From Myth and Misrepresentation RealClearBooks
***ENVIRONMENT
Toxic Slime Is Ruining Florida’s Gulf Coast Bloomberg
Talkin' Birds: The Damage Of Plastics NPR
***HEALTH
How Heroin Came for Middle-Class Moms Marie Claire
You Go Blind Thousands of Times a Day Thanks to Saccadic Masking Curiosity
No amount of alcohol is good for your overall health, global study says CNN
Book review: a cinematic account of the greatest drug crisis in U.S. history The Week
What Happens When You're Insured But Still Owe $109,000 For Your Heart Attack Digg
***FAMILY
Happy Children Do Chores New York Times
Which Is Better for kids, Rewards or Punishments? Neither New York Times
The American Academy of Pediatrics is telling doctors to start prescribing play Quartz
Raising Kids In An 'Age Of Fear' Results In Impossible Choices For Parents NPR
***SCIENCE
How to show that the earth orbits the sun Wired
A monitor’s ultrasonic sounds can reveal what’s on the screen Wired
***PSYCHOLOGY
Not Everyone Wants a Hug Some people experience severe aversion to being touched Psychology Today
Sigmund Freud: The Untold Story New Yorker
In Psychology And Other Social Sciences, Many Studies Fail The Reproducibility Test NPR
***NEUROSCIENCE
In lofty quest to map human memories, a scientist journeys deep into the mind of a worm Stat News
Mysterious new type of cell could help reveal what makes human brain special Independent
***PHILOSOPHY
Some University Philosophy Departments Seeing Big Donations KJZZ
Why We Try So Hard to Escape Our Humanity: Empathy is at the core of who we are. That can be painful New York Times
***HISTORY
The History of Cartography, “the Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever Undertaken,” Is Free Online Open Culture
***RESEARCH
Retraction Watch keeps its eye on the seamier side of academe University Affairs
How bad is the problem of plagiarism for most journals? The Wiley Network
The scandal isn’t what’s retracted, the scandal is what’s not retracted Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Peer-review is another place where unkind, unethical and even abusive behaviours can manifest Nature Plants
The competing narratives of scientific revolution Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Why a Federal Rule Change Has Some Scholars Worried They’ll Be Priced Out of Their Own Research Chronicle of Higher Ed
Make research-paper databases multilingual Nature
To keep authorship fair, journals in all fields should list authors based on their contribution rather than in alphabetical order Nature Index
Public engagement around scientific papers on Twitter Journal of Informetrics
***HIGHER ED
Universities withstood MOOCs but risk being outwitted by OPMs Most revenue from web degrees goes not to their providers but to middlemen The Economist
Why universities need ‘public interest technology’ courses Wired
For-profit colleges have allies now, but complaints persist Associated Press
***HUMANITIES
Students are abandoning humanities majors, turning to degrees they think yield far better job prospects: But they’re wrong The Atlantic
The few humanities majors who dominate in the business world San Francisco Chronicle
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Discrimination Claims Arise at Northwest Christian University Eugene Weekly
He made me transgender on purpose’: Breast-removal surgery could boot Mormon student from Brigham Young Washington Post
Quotes from Chapel service of The Master’s Seminary by founder John MacArthur (the school is on academic probation) The Warburg Watch
Bob Jones University Cuts 50 Jobs Including Faculty After $4M Shortfall Greenville News
MidAmerica Nazarene University Selected for Money Magazine’s 2018-19 Best Colleges List MidAmerica Nazarene
***TEACHING
Money and the murky boundary of teaching and sex Chronicle of Higher Ed
Those Who Can Do, Can’t Teach Advice for college students: The best experts sometimes make the worst educators New York Times
***STUDENT LIFE
Gen Z Is Set to Outnumber Millennials Within a Year Bloomberg
Safety Apps College Students Should Download Now Two Cents
Teens are worried they're spending too much time on their phones Axios
Surfing Is Now the Official Sport in California Bloomberg
Parking scam sold bogus parking spaces to college students WISC
KSU picks 1 of 5 cheerleaders who protested last year for new squad Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Why did Rutgers' players allegedly steal $11K? Everything you need to know about the credit card fraud scheme NJ.com
Young adults today are spending less on entertainment and food and far more on health care and education than Baby Boomers did at their age Axios
Student Loan Watchdog Quits, Says Trump Administration "has turned its back on young people and their financial futures" NPR
***STUDENT LIFE: NEW TO COLLEGE
How to Find Your College Friends on Most Major Gaming Services Life Hacker
Tips for Reaping the Benefits of College New York Times
How to Feed Yourself in a Crappy College Dorm Kitchen Skillet
The Best School Supplies For College Students Digital Trends
The life-changing benefits of living with a random roommate in college Quartz
Do Not Decorate Your Kid’s Freshman Dorm Slate
Moving into the dorms is a logistics challenge for college students Orange County Register
How to Adjust to College as a Transfer Student Life Hacker ***PERSONAL GROWTH
Don't Count on it Becoming (my blog)
What happens when you spend a year using science to improve your brain The Verge
The Spotlight Effect: Why No One Else Remembers What You Did Medium
A Nobel prize-winning physicist identified three simple steps to mastering any subject Quartz
***STUDENT MEDIA
Liberty University Cracks Down on Its Student Newspaper Patheos
Students, here are nine tips for balancing journalism with school (and the rest of your life) Poynter
***ACADEMIC LIFE
What Is Your Responsibility as a Bystander to a Academic Colleague Having Problems? Chronicle of Higher Ed
An early sign of a coming war over intellectual property: Who owns online classes Twitter
Dartmouth misconduct case highlights the mistreatment of junior scientists Stat News
