Articles of Interest - Dec 17
/***TECHNOLOGY
‘Deepfake’ technology can now create completely real-looking human faces BigThink
Taylor Swift used facial recognition to track her stalkers at a concert Quartz
Morgan Stanley's Numbers on Flying Cars: $2.9 Trillion, 20 Years Bloomberg
The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism Harpers
The Growing Gulf Between Silicon Valley and Washington The Atlantic
Google says it won’t sell face recognition for now—but it will be hard to slow its use MIT Technology Review
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Microsoft launches its Clarity web analytics tool for A/B testing sites The Next Web
Magazines and the iPad Bloomberg
The downfall of digital media (podcast) Columbia Journalism Review
How Companies Like Bored Panda, REI, and Vox Are Growing Their Organic Reach on Social Media Buffer
New media hit stumbling block, scaring away some investors Washington Post
***JOURNALISM
Time's 2018 'Person of the Year' is killed and imprisoned journalists NBC News
The Best of Nonprofit News 2018 Institute for Nonprofit News Institute for Nonprofit News
Beyond 800 words: What user testing taught me about writing news for young people BBC News Lab
'They don't care': Facebook factchecking in disarray as journalists push to cut ties The Guardian
New Report Finds That More Than 250 Journalists Were Jailed For Their Work in 2018 NPR
ProPublica Picks 14 Newsrooms and Investigative Projects for Year 2 of Its Local Reporting Network Propublica
Best News Bloopers of 2018 News Be Funny
Journalists perpetuate myth about suicide during winter holidays Journalists Resources
Access to police records is an issue all across the country Muck Rock
What happens when the third-party tools journalists rely on are shut down? Poynter
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Local Newspaper Closures Come With Hefty Price Tag For Residents NPR
How to understand different reader types and drive each type to subscribe American Press Institute
Jessica Starr, Fox 2 meteorologist, commits suicide at age 35 New York Post
Popular Young Reporter For NewsChannel 9 Terminated By Sinclair As She Battles Cancer The Chattanoogan
***FAKE NEWS
Troll Factory Contributes To Russia's Worldwide Interference NPR
How Whatsapp fuels fake news and violence in india Wired
How do you make fact-checking viral? Make it look like misinformation Poynter
How Russian trolls used meme warfare to divide America Wired
***BIG DATA & AI
Kevin Kelly talks about the brain, the mind, what it takes to make AI Gigaom
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook exposed 6.8 million users' photos to cap off a terrible 2018 Wired
We asked 19 fact-checkers what they think of their partnership with Facebook Poynter
Social media is ruining our minds—it also might save them Wired
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Homeland Security will let computers predict who might be a terrorist on your plane — just don’t ask how it works The Intercept
Mapping Service Accidentally Locates Secret Military Bases Popular Mechanics
***INTERNET
Google's top searches in 2018 Engadget
How Google’s Autotype Contradicts Orwell’s Advice The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Most Googled 'Should I?' Question Of Each State In 2018, Mapped Digg
YouTube ‘Rewind’ was supposed to celebrate 2018: It’s now the most disliked video in the site’s history Washington Post
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Seeking the Best is a Trap Becoming (my blog)
The quest for the best: a psychologist explains why it makes us miserable Vox
***WRITING & READING
How Emily Dickinson Writes A Poem Nerdwriter1
How the CIA Helped Shape the Creative Writing Scene in America Open Culture
***LANGUAGE
Jane Austen’s Subtly Subversive Linguistics Daily Jstor
'Justice' Is Merriam-Webster's 2018 Word Of The Year NPR
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Santas of color, once met with controversy, now in high demand MPR
***FREE SPEECH
Report: 9 in 10 American colleges restrict free speech The Fire
LA College settles Lawsuit after Student Barred from handing out copies of the U.S. Constitution on Campus City News Service
***LEGAL ISSUES
Tribute Bands - Are They Legal? Music Think Tan
Paramount Defeats 'Wolf of Wall Street' Libel Suit From Stratton Oakmont Alum Hollywood Reporter
Katie Couric Wins Appeal Against Gun Rights Group Arguing Documentary Was Defamatory Hollywood Reporter
Appeals court rules that secret OxyContin documents must be released Stat News
Donald Trump, Wedding Crasher, Ends Up Being Bad Copyright News for Esquire.com Hollywood Reporter
***CRIME
Shooting Victims Face Lifelong Disabilities, Financial Burdens, Newspaper Finds NPR
Report: Half of US adults have immediate family member who has been in jail or prison CNN
***RELIGION
Max Lucado Reveals Past Sexual Abuse at Evangelical #MeToo Summit Christianity Today
The Return of Paganism New York Times
Evangelical Author Rethinks his Book “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” NPR
Christianity Today's 2019 Book Awards Christianity Today
Judge sides with religious groups in ObamaCare birth control mandate fight The Hill
At Trump's hotel, spiritual warriors pray for the president in his 'darkest hour' Religion News Service
***MEGACHURCHES
Minister accused of stealing $800,000 from Houston's First Baptist Church ABC-13
Houston pastor on $200K Lamborghini gift Houston Chronicle
***THE BIBLE
Meme Confuses Lincoln’s Bible With A Quran Fact Check
Slave Bible From The 1800s Omitted Key Passages That Could Incite Rebellion NPR
***GOOD NEWS
California woman and her dog reunite after Camp Fire evacuation CNN
Teens Surprised Their Professor After She Told Them The Holidays Are Difficult For Her BuzzFeed News
DNA Test Helps Mother Reunite With Daughter She Thought Died Nearly 70 Years Ago New York Times
***ART & DESIGN
We made our own artificial intelligence art (and so can you) Wired
The world's best cities for street art Afar
The 75 best book covers of 2018 according to book cover designers LitHub
***MUSIC
Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' becomes most-streamed song of the 20th century Entertainment Weekly
Our Favorite Songs of 2018 The New Yorker
The 51 Best Albums of 2018 Spin
'Blurred Lines' suit against Robin Thicke, Pharrell ends in $5 million judgment CNN
Vladimir Putin Makes Moves To Control Rap Music In Russia Huffington Post
Beyoncé, Kendrick, Cardi, and more: The Year in Good Music News 2018 Pitchfork
How Music Can Awaken Patients with Alzheimer’s and Dementia Open Culture
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Ex-Baylor frat president indicted on 4 counts of sex assault won't go to prison CNN
What Went Wrong in a University Harassment Investigation — and How Officials Are Trying to Fix It Chronicle of Higher Ed
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
How the IRS Was Gutted ProPublica
More Americans are making no weekly purchases with cash Pew Research
How Many Hours Americans Need to Work to Pay Their Mortgage How Much
***ENVIRONMENT
New studies suggest coral reefs are more resilient than previously thought Royal Society Publishing
Five years of record warmth intensify Arctic's transformation Nature
The state of climate change coverage: An analysis Columbia Journalism Review
***HEALTH
Questions About Treatments For Pregnant Women Arise From Study NPR
Sleeping too much can be just as damaging to your health as having too little MarketWatch
Exercise Wins: Fit Seniors Can Have Hearts That Look 30 Years Younger NPR
Rare brain-eating amoebas killed Seattle woman who rinsed her sinuses with tap water Seattle Times
Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder Reuters
***HEALTH & DIET
Scant Evidence Behind the Advice About Salt New York Times
What Is Behind the Spread of a Mysterious Allergy to Meat? The Guardian
***VACCINES
Newly elected Tennessee Rep. Mark Green says he'll question vaccines NBC News
Was a Scientist Jailed After Discovering a Deadly Virus Delivered Through Vaccines? Snopes
How personalized medicine is transforming your health care National Geographic
***TRAVEL
These Are The Hottest Travel Destinations for 2019, According to Airbnb Thrillist
A U.S. Transit Atlas That Ranks the Best (and Worst) Cities for Bus and Rail CityLab
***FOOD
What's lurking in your stadium food? ESPN
***FAMILY
Researchers found one way that long-term marriages get happier Quartz
Rediscovering My Daughter Through Instagram New York Times
Why shaming your children on social media may make things worse The Conversation
Most parents – and many non-parents – don’t expect to have kids in the future Pew Research
***ANIMALS
Rare white reindeer calf spotted on camera in Norway BBC
A City in Spain Plans to Exile 5,000 Pigeons New York Times
***SCIENCE
Scientists identify vast underground ecosystem containing billions of micro-organisms The Guardian
Blood Splatter: How a Dubious Forensic Science Spread Like a Virus Propublica
***PSYCHOLOGY
What it’s like to live with a chronic urge to die Huffington Post
The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology Aeon
***HISTORY
Histomap: Visualizing the 4,000 Year History of Global Power Visual Capitalist
Showering Has a Dark, Violent History The Atlantic
America returns treasured church bells it stole during the Philippine-American war New York Times
***ETHICS
Amid ethics outcry, should journals publish the ‘CRISPR babies’ paper? Stat News
You can donate your wedding dress to a person in need New York Times
***RESEARCH
EPA science adviser allowed industry group to edit journal article Science Magazine
China introduces ‘social’ punishments for scientific misconduct Nature
Independent bodies – not universities – should investigate suspicions of scientific misconduct (opinion) Horizons
It is getting harder to publish in prestigious journals if you haven’t already Science Magazine
How art and craft can boost reproducibility Nature
***HIGHER ED
Fallout from on-campus tragedies and athletic program controversies prompts donors to circle the wagons -- or flee Inside Higher Ed
Facing Enrollment Declines, Colleges Seek Out New, Creative Ways To Make Money NPR
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Azusa Pacific University board members resign amid LGBTQ policy turmoil San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Southern Baptist Convention’s flagship seminary details its racist, slave-owning past in stark report Washington Post
Catholic U. fires professor for relationship with subordinate Washington Post
Bridging the gulf between conservative Christian colleges and the arts Christian Century
***LIBERAL ARTS
How Can Colleges Help Liberal-Arts Majors Enter the Job Market? Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Liberal Arts May Not Survive the 21st Century The Atlantic
***TEACHING
Teaching the Students We Have, Not the Students We Wish We Had Chronicle of Higher Ed
How 2 Professors Use a ‘Grade Insurance’ Project to Motivate Students Chronicle of Higher Ed
How to Help a Student in a Mental-Health Crisis Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Ganging Up on a Student Journalist? Inside Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
What Straight-A Students Get Wrong (opinion) New York Times
Does It Matter Where You Go to College? The Atlantic
Trump administration held back report revealing bank charged high fees to students Politico
Researchers find an easy way to improve high school students' grades: Let them sleep in Science Mag
Sleepless No More In Seattle — Later School Start Time Pays Off For Teens NPR
***STUDENTS & DRUGS
Binge drinking among US high schoolers hit a record low in 2018 Quartz
Teen Vaping Soared In 2018 NPR
***ACADEMIC LIFE
University of Illinois professor fired for falsifying data in grant applications Chicago Tribune
Scientists are leaving academic work at unprecedented rate Inside Higher Ed
University of Illinois professor fired for falsifying data in grant applications Chicago Tribune
Professor sent mercenaries to save her student from ISIS The local
Man charged with beating instructors at community college KARE 11