Articles of Interest - May 21
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
The decline of Snapchat and the secret joy of internet ghost towns The Verge
Just 4% of Americans say they read most or all of Trump's tweets CNN
Some news outlets want exemption from Facebook's new ad rules CNN
Facebook Stories reveals 150M daily viewers and here come ads Tech Crunch
Social media mojo-ranking service Klout to shutter Ars Technica
Predatory behavior runs rampant in Facebook’s addiction support groups The Verge
With Facebook Live views falling, BuzzFeed looks to Twitch Digiday
***MOBILE
How to Record Calls on Your Smartphone Wired
This tool transforms print pages into social and mobile-ready stories Poynter
***PRIVACY
Parental spy app exposes the information of teens it’s supposed to protect Daily Dot
You Can Send Invisible Messages With Subtle Font Tweaks Wired
***TECHNOLOGY
Flexible, Stick-On Tags Attach Laser Beams to Eyeballs IEEE Spectrum
Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t New York Times
***BIG DATA & AI
An attempt to update the definition of a data science Venture Beat
Military intelligence experts want help with metadata tampering in geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) to enhance cyber security Military Aerospace
The best platforms recognize the value of their own data & leverage machine learning to improve the customer experience Harvard Business Review
NGA is investing more resources in machine learning technologies as it grapples with a deluge of data National Defense Magazine
***JOURNALISM
How a major medical meeting uses embargoes to shape the news, and what the consequences may be Health News Review
Can Robots Do Journalism? (opinion) Media Post
***JOURNALISM OUTSIDE THE U.S.
Prominent Mexican Journalist Joins A Long List Of Those Killed NPR
In Western Europe, Public Attitudes Toward News Media More Divided by Populist Views Than Left-Right Ideology Journalism.org
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Salt Lake Tribune lays off a third of its newsroom Salt Lake Tribune
The 'hire a crowd' business operates openly and makes journalism even more difficult Poynter
***FAKE NEWS
Inside Facebook’s race to separate news from junk PBS
Fake Facebook accounts and online lies multiply in hours after Santa Fe school shooting Washington Post
Searching for Alternative Facts Data & Society
In Houston, journalists are sorting rumors from fact live on TV Poynter
***PERSONAL GROWTH
A Life Tip for Graduates Becoming (my blog)
***GRAMMAR
Who Cares Whether It’s One Space or Two? Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Do We Prevent Typos and Other Errors From Appearing in Our Stories? Propublica
***WRITING & READING
Why a Daily Habit of Reading Books Should be Your Priority, According to Science Inc.com
Are ebooks dying or thriving? The answer is yes Quarz
***LANGUAGE
A Linguist Explains Why 'Laurel' Sounds Like 'Yanny' It’s the audio version of The Dress. The Atlantic
Who Legislates Language Change? Newspaper Stylebooks Chronicle of Higher Ed
Enlisting computers to analyze historical texts, Historians are spotting patterns in language that were once invisible Christian Science Monitor
‘Newfangled’: a Word Much Older Than You Think Chronicle of Higher Ed
Millions of U.S. citizens don’t speak English to one another. That’s not a problem. Washington Post
***LITERATURE
Dutch researchers uncover dirty jokes in Anne Frank’s diary Associated Press
Tom Wolfe, Dead at 88, Had an Expansive Lexicon The Atlantic
Ernest Hemingway’s death significantly improved his relationship with the FBI Muck Rock
***GENDER
Book Review: the trajectories of women scientists during World War One The London School of Economics and Political Science
Men Are Sarcastic, Women Are Hot: Gender and Language in Rate My Professors Chronicle of Higher ED
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Texas State U. Police Chief Resigns Amid Racial Tensions on Campus Chronicle of Higher Ed
Affirmative Action Benefits Everyone — Including Asian Americans Huffington Post
‘Why Are Black People So Loud?’ One University Says It’s OK to Ask Chronicle of Higher Ed
How We Made AI As Racist and Sexist As Humans The Walrus
***FREE SPEECH
Careful what you say in this university, its speech policies are those of Soviet Russia USA Today
Remembering a major victory for free speech, 40 years later The Hill
***LEGAL ISSUES
Congress' latest move to extend copyright protection is misguided Wired
Hasbro just trademarked the smell of Play-Doh The Verge
***RELIGION
Protestants decline, more have no religion in a sharply shifting religious landscape ABC News
10 Evangelical Pastors and Their Wives Among Those Who Perished in Cuban Plane Crash PJ Media
Fake Mormon news story goes viral, claiming the LDS Church has apologized for racism (opinion) Religious News Service
L.G.B.T. Students in Oregon Were Bullied and Forced to Read Bible, Report Says New York Times
Poll: Sharing Faith Is Increasingly Optional to Christians Barna
9 Common Misperceptions About Religious Observances Mental Floss
Seminary leader’s comments on women roil Texas Southern Baptists Austin America Statesman
***GOOD NEWS
Australia's 'Man With The Golden Arm' Retires After Saving 2.4 Million Babies NPR
***ART & DESIGN
Ambient Lit: The ambitious project to redesign fiction for phones Fast Company
Rabbit Town: the selfie-themed museum accused of plagiarizing its art Fast Company
***MUSIC
The Surprising Impact That Music Can Have On Little Kids — And Their Parents NPR
Computers crack the code of pop-song success LA Times
The future of music doesn’t always turn out the way people planned Red Bull Music Academy
***FILM
China Is A Fast-Growing Presence In The World Of Cinema NPR
How the Sounds You Hear in Movies Are Really Made: Discover the Magic of “Foley Artists” Open Culture
This video sums up why Ron Howard gets director credit for Solo: A Star Wars Story The Verge
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Americans are tuning out of TV Axios
***STUDENT MEDIA
Missouri can fix the Supreme Court’s mistake about freedom of the student press KansasCity.com
At SMU, a big fight erupts over its little newspaper as Daily Campus alumni fear censorship Dallas News
***STUDENT LIFE
TCU overturns suspensions for some students accused of using Quizlet app to cheat Dallas News
Millennials’ confidence in business, loyalty to employers deteriorate Deloitte
Class Action Suit Claims Stanford Kicking Out Mentally Disabled Students Courthouse News
KU student who hacked computers and changed his grades is convicted of 4 felonies Lawrence Journal-World
Before you pause that student loan... The Week
More than a million Millennials are becoming moms each year Pew Research
***STUDENT LIFE – AFTER COLLEGE
Interactive data on where college graduates are moving after college (paywall) Wall Street Journal
Report: College majors and student success Georgetown
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
Making Career Moves by Saying No Inside Higher Ed
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Larry Nassar: Michigan State University to pay $500m to abuse victims BBC
Judge dismisses former CU Boulder student's Title IX claim over sex assault investigation Daily Camera
She was sexually assaulted by her youth pastor who later became a megachurch pastor New York Times
UW-Stevens Point assistant dean accused of sexual harassment, rehired at UW-Eau Claire Stevens Point Journal
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Textbook Authors Sue Cengage Over Subscription Model Inside Higher Ed
Appeals Court Sides with Cornell in Tenure Dispute Inside Higher Ed
University teachers are exploited, too CNN
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Suicide Is Rising Among American Farmers As They Struggle To Keep Afloat NPR
How Baby Boomers Broke America TIME
The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy The Atlantic
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
How to manage your money when you’re struggling Poynter
It's not just you: Everything really is getting more expensive CNN
US States Renamed for Countries with Similar GDPs AEI
The Most Popular Infomercial Product in Your State ATT Savings
Unemployment in America, Mapped Over Time Flowing Data
***ENVIRONMENT
We Made Plastic. We Depend On It. Now We're Drowning In It National Geographic
Release of Chemical Pollution study would cause a ‘public relations nightmare’ Politico
America’s landfills may be completely full in just 13 years The Outline
***HEALTH
FDA approves new drug for prevention of migraines CNBC
Why Sitting Is The New Smoking: An Animated Explanation Open Culture
***HEALTH & DIET
How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US Vox
Eggs Are Safe For Diabetics And Heart Health, Study Finds Medical Daily
Almost 40% of peer-reviewed dietary research turns out to be wrong. Here’s why New Food Economy
***FAMILY
Warren Buffett once tested his kids with a slot machine, and he won CNBC
Dear Therapist: My Adult Daughter Thinks I Was an Awful Parent The Atlantic
The U.S. spends less on children than almost any other developed nation Washington Post
American Women Are Having Babies Later The Atlantic
***SCIENCE
Quantum Physics May Be Even Spookier Than You Think Scientific American
Every Cell in Your Body Has the Same DNA. Except It Doesn’t. New York Times
***PSYCHOLOGY
Psychologists have identified a very good reason why unsolicited advice is so annoying Quartz
The supposed loneliness epidemic Claude Fisher Blog
How Social Isolation Transforms the Brain CalTech
***PHILOSOPHY
Sam Harris and the Myth of Perfectly Rational Thought Wired
What’s so Good about Original Sin? (opinion) New York Times
***HISTORY
How America Gets WWII History Wrong (And Why That Matters) Cracked
The WIRED Guide to Robots Wired
***ETHICS
California assisted death law overturned in court Sacramento Bee
MIT Now Has a Humanist Chaplain to Help Students With the Ethics of Tech The Atlantic
***RESEARCH
How Shoddy Statistics Found A Home In Sports Research Five Thirty Eight
Deception, distrust and disrespect Karolinska Institutet
Give every paper a read for reproducibility Nature
Peer review could have helped short-circuit the Theranos fake news scandal Stat News
'Nationalistic' Think Tank Plagiarised Chinese, US, Australian Writings The Wire
How Scientific Publishers Can End Bullying And Harassment In The Sciences Forbes
Scientists are subverting formal publishing. well, some of them Wired
Avoid ethics issues in science publishing with these 5 questions American Society for Microbiology
***HIGHER ED
College May Not Be Worth It Anymore (opinion) New York Times
Yes, College Is ‘Worth It,’ One Researcher Says. It’s Just Worth More if You’re Rich. Chronicle of Higher Ed
Former Utah Valley University employee says school discriminates against women, minorities and non-Mormon employees The Salt Lake Tribune
The disparities in equality at public colleges from state to state Ed Trust
PETA sues Texas A&M over Facebook comments the university removed Dallas Morning News
What states have the most people with a Bachelor’s Degree? Overflow Data
Trilogy Education Services runs coding boot camps for a growing number of universities Inside Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED & FINANCE
Ohio College Proposes Cutting Academic Programs and Faculty Layoffs Cleveland.com
Marylhurst University to close at end of 2018 Lake Oswego Review
Investigations Into For-Profit College Abuses Dismantled Under Betsy DeVos Forbes
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Oklahoma Christian universities win reprieve from contraception mandate Tulsa World
Alumni Allege Rampant Sexual Harassment by Former Christian University President Inside Higher Ed
Catholic U. Plan, Which Could Result in Layoffs of Tenured Profs, Moves Ahead Chronicle of Higher Ed
Ben Carson Tells Liberty University Graduates They Have 'Tremendous Spheres of Influence' TIME
***TEACHING
Give Students More Options When They Have to Take Your Course Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Future of Learning and How It Could Change Your Classroom Chronicle of Higher Ed
One-third of students take at least one class online Washington Post