Articles of Interest - Feb 11
/***TECHNOLOGY
Scientists connect a human brain and 'rat cyborg' brain together CNET
The Fortnite Marshmello event represents something different by many orders of magnitude Wired
The future of lawn care? This Dallas company's robots mow the yard for you WFAA
***SOCIAL MEDIA
15 Instagram Feeds That Help Make the World More Wondrous Atlas Obscura
How Many Hashtags Should I Use On Instagram In 2019? This Is What The Experts Recommend Bustle
An early Facebook investor throws up his hands: We’ve been ‘Zucked’ Washington Post
Twitter discloses daily active user count for first time Axios
Snapchat, no longer bleeding users, tests Android app redesign Mashable
***MOBILE
How does photography (& taking selfies) affect you? We tried to find out (video) Wired
All 230 New Emojis for 2019 (video) Emojipedia
***JOURNALISM
Mass. legislator proposes government commission to examine journalism industry Boston Globe
The Rise of the Robot Reporter New York Times
Craigslist founder donates $15 million for journalism ethics San Francisco Gate
Former 'NYT' Executive Editor Jill Abramson Responds To Plagiarism Allegations NPR
Did A Robot Write This? How AI Is Impacting Journalism Forbes
Lessons for Journalists from conflict mediation training The Whole Story
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Which platforms are driving more traffic to news websites? Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Amid Layoffs, McClatchy News CEO Got a $900,000 Bonus in 2017 Miami New Times
The alternative to your dying local paper is written by one person, a robot, and you Recode
This TV News Anchor Says Her Boss Called Her Natural Hair Too "Unprofessional" For Broadcast Buzzfeed News
***FAKE NEWS
Facebook adds new fact-checking partner Axios
Peering under the hood of fake-news detectors MIT Technology Review
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Extension will detect your unsafe passwords Wired
Big Telecom Sold Highly Sensitive Customer GPS Data Typically Used for 911 Calls Motherboard
Many Popular iPhone Apps Secretly Record your Screen Tech Crunch
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Is it time for every publisher to “pivot to podcasts”? What’s News in Publishing
LinkedIn Debuts LinkedIn Live, a new video broadcast Service Tech Crunch
***INTERNET
Each State’s Most-Googled Relationship Question Century Link Quote
What happens when you try to live without the big five (Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple) Subtraction
Russia Is Considering An Experiment To Disconnect From The Internet NPR
***BIG DATA & AI
MIT Tech: machine learning is now witnessing a downfall Analytics Insights
Startups help companies track their competition with spy satellites Seattle Times
Top 10 Machine Learning Programming Languages Analytics Insights
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Do you understand a thing or only its definition? Becoming (my blog)
How To Sound Smart CollegeHumor
3 simple habits that can protect your brain from cognitive decline Fast Company
***WRITING & READING
The Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: A Free Online Atlas That Helps Preserve Writing Systems That May Soon Disappear Open Culture
A Patron Returned a Book to a Maryland Library Nearly 75 Years After It Was Due Mental Floss
***LANGUAGE
A College Lost Its Languages One by One. Can 3 Professors Save Spanish? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Entertainment Studios Will Launch Spanish-Language Weather Channel In 2020 Deadline
***LITERATURE
T.S.Eliot's Cat The Daily Star
J.D. Salinger’s Family To Publish Trove Of Secret Works The Guardian
McDonald’s Happy Meals Now Come With Roald Dahl Books Instead of Toys in New Zealand Mental Floss
Welcome to the Bold and Blocky Instagram Era of Book Covers Vulture
The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury Literary Hub
***GENDER
Over a Third of Generation Z Knows a Non-Binary Person The Daily Beast
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
When school dress codes depend on the color of your skin Washington Post
A class of Black 6th grade students recreated famous book covers for Black History Month Hello Giggles
Black Farmers Once Comprised 14% Of America's Farmers. Today, It's Less Than 2%. What Happened? Digg
The Conversation the Press Isn’t Having: Even when people of color do very American things, they still aren’t seen as being members of American culture (opinion) The Atlantic
***BLACKFACE
Photos of blackface, KKK robes and nooses lurk alongside portraits in old college yearbooks Washington Post
VCU and predecessors yearbooks show racist imagery as late as 1989, students held “Slave Sale” fundraiser Commonwealth Times (VCU student newspaper)
More Anger Over Blackface Yearbook Photos Inside Higher Ed
About a third of Americans say blackface in a Halloween costume is acceptable at least sometimes Pew Research Center
The complicated, always racist history of blackface Vox
***FREE SPEECH
Boy, 10, takes knee during pledge of allegiance at NC city council meeting WMCA-TV
Michigan RAs told not to remove racist or other offensive language from dormitory doors: Officials say they can't suppress free expression Inside Higher Ed
When Colleges Confine Free Speech to a ‘Zone,’ It Isn’t Free ACLU
***LEGAL ISSUES
Wave of concussion lawsuits to test NCAA's liability Associated Press
Too Many Graduates at some Law Schools Fail to pass the Bar USA Today
What’s New With Emoji Law? Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***CRIME
Why Thieves Target Gun Stores The New Yorker
***REALLY?!
For $20, Wildlife Images will put your ex's name on a salmon and feed it to a bear KTVL
Man Wanted By Police for Selling Fake Super Bowl Tickets to His Own Family (He made nearly $1 million) Fatherly
***RELIGION
How highly religious Americans view evolution depends on how they’re asked about it Pew Research Center
Chris Pratt, Justin Bieber, and the rise of the “cool” Christian celebrity Vox
Cross washed ashore in FL may have floated from NC memorial Miami Herald
The Church With the $6 Billion Portfolio New York Times
Half of Millennial Christians Say It’s Wrong to Evangelize Christianity Today
***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE U.S.
The life and death of John Chau, the man who tried to convert his killers The Guardian
***RELIGION & LGBTQ
United Methodists face vote on LGBTQ issues. Will it rip the church apart? Chicago Tribune
Win for Christian Group at Iowa: Judge says university cannot deny recognition because of antigay rules Inside Higher Ed
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Trump emerges as an unexpected champion in the White House for evangelicals ABC News
When Christian Evangelicals Loved Socialism Jstor
***GOOD NEWS
My disabled son’s amazing gaming life in the World of Warcraft BBC
When a Newton family welcomed a baby who is deaf, 20 neighbors learned sign language Boston Globe
Father organises heavy metal festival for his music-loving son Mason, who has cerebral palsy My Good Planet
Two hundred strangers attended Holocaust survivor’s funeral Washington Post
This 92-year-old Wayne firefighter has been battling blazes since WWII NorthJersey.com
Snowball fight! Hundreds show up for epic battle at Tacoma park Q-13
***ART & DESIGN
How artists with disabilities are re-imagining art and tech Immerse
The Secret Lives of Color 99% Invisible
10 Insights on the State of Visual Storytelling in 2019 Aetka
***MUSIC
How Focus Music Hacks Your Brain Cheddar
How To Find The Right Musical Instrument For You Infographic
***FILM
11 Facts About Blazing Saddles on Its 45th Anniversary Metal Floss
Steven Soderbergh’s ‘High Flying Bird’ and the Rise of iPhone Films The Ringer
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms Houston Chronicle
New Tribes Missions Covered up sexual abuse, say missionary kids NBC News
Leavenworth judge blames children in Kansas sex abuse case The Kansas City Star
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Why You Should Work Less and Spend More Time on Hobbies Harvard Business Review
How much you'll need to retire at 55 in every state Digg
***FAMILY
Ultimate Guide To Teen Slang For Parents Daily Infographic
***ENVIRONMENT
The magnetic field near the Arctic is acting weird The Verge
Are We Watching the End of the Monarch Butterfly? New York Times
***HEALTH
Higher education won't prevent mental decline, study finds NBC News
Five-year survival rates for nearly all cancers are on the rise Our World in Data
How it feels to be obese The Atlantic
Hospital Mergers Improve Health? Evidence Shows the Opposite New York Times
***HEALTH & VACCINES
Why measles is back, in five charts Popular Science
Hundreds rally to preserve right not to vaccinate children amid measles outbreak WCTV
Measles outbreaks are everywhere: Here's what you need to know Popular Science
***HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
New disease surveillance tool helps detect any human virus Broad Institute
Self-charging pacemakers are powered by patients' heartbeats Engadget
First dexterous hand prosthesis implanted Chalmers
First-ever in-body gene editing of a live patient Associated Press
Defying Parents, A Teen Decides To Get Vaccinated NPR
***TRAVEL
Travel Tips from a Guy Who Travels Kinda Often Subtraction
5 best trips for solo travelers CNN
Southwest's Plan to Launch Flights to Hawaii Could Start a Fare War to the Aloha State Fortune
***FOOD
8 Foods You've Been Eating All Wrong Metal Floss
Incorrect things We Believed About Food 25 Years Ago (video)
Map Shows the Most Popular Girl Scout Cookie in Each State Fatherly
***ANIMALS
Colorado Runner Kills Mountain Lion In Self-Defense NPR
Scientists Are Totally Rethinking Animal Cognition The Atlantic
***SCIENCE
19 Common Things Science Hasn’t Figured Out Mental Floss
Harvard's top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us Boston.com
For Darwin Day, 6 facts about the evolution debate Pew Research Center
***PSYCHOLOGY
Why keeping secrets may be damaging your mental health Scientific American
The myth of Ted Bundy as a charming guy The Outline
How to Talk to a Friend Struggling With Their Mental Health Life Hacker
Laughter is a uniquely human – and collective – activity Aeon
***PHILOSOPHY
Aristotle’s Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life The Week
3 philosophers set up a booth on a street corner – here’s what people asked The Conversation
***HISTORY
The deadly race to the South Pole (video)
***RESEARCH
Call for retraction of 400 scientific papers amid fears organs came from Chinese prisoners The Guardian
Reflections on Citation Mania ACS Energy Letters ACS
NIH asks federal watchdog to investigate 12 allegations related to foreign influence of biomedical research Science Magazine
What is the single major threat to research integrity?” Experts weigh in Clinical Chemistry
***HIGHER ED
Large donation to a small community college changes the outlook on fund-raising by two-year institutions Inside Higher Ed
Most evangelical college students appreciate LGBT people even if trustees don’t (opinion) Religious News Service
***HUMANITIES
Can larger liberal arts colleges learn from the successes and missteps of small art schools? Inside Higher Ed
As STEM majors soar at UW, interest in humanities shrinks — a potentially costly loss Seattle Times
***TEACHING
Should You Allow Laptops in Class? Here’s What the Latest Study Adds to That Debate Chronicle of Higher Ed
Do Racial Epithets Have Any Place in the Classroom? A Professor’s Suspension Fuels That Debate Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Towson University police warn of a woman on the loose, looking for a date for her son Baltimore Sun
Teens don't use Facebook, but they can't escape it, either Wired
Colleges tracking online interaction NEWS-5
Here’s Why So Many Americans Feel Cheated By Their Student Loans BuzzFeed News
The Silly Stereotypes That Elite-College Students Have About Other Campuses The Atlantic
The Sexualized Messages Dress Codes are Sending to Students Pudding
Tuition or food? How college kids use food pantries to help food insecurity USA Today
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Tenure is again at risk in Iowa Inside Higher Ed
Why left and right both get the meaning of academic freedom wrong Washington Post