***SOCIAL MEDIA
Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy (video)
Twitter Urges All 330 Million Users To Change Passwords After Bug Exposes Them Digg
Snap to Tweak Snapchat’s Redesign After Users Complain New York Times
Instagram quietly launches payments for commerce Tech Crunch
***FACEBOOK
Facebook employee fired over bragging about access to user information Reuters
Facebook’s failed crackdown on fake accounts Washington Post
Despite Facebook News Feed algorithm changes, fake news still thrives Mashable
Facebook might be working on a secret internet satellite CNBC
***SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS
The rise of social media influencers CBS News
CGI Instagram ‘Influencers’ Like Lil Miquela Are About to Flood Your Feeds Wired
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
FCC Approves 100% Mexican Ownership of Radio Stations in California and Arizona Broadcast Law Blog
Declining share of Americans would find it very hard to give up TV Pew Research Center
***JOURNALISM
Facebook Has Begun To Rank News Organizations By Trust, Zuckerberg Says BuzzFeed
Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Understand Journalism The Atlantic
NowThis to launch breaking news channel on Snapchat Axios
How journalists can better cover neglected communities American Press Institute
Taking Visual Journalism Into the Sky With Drones New York Times
The Dangers Of Journalism In Afghanistan NPR
How to Use Twitter to Connect Online Students to News Media Shift
A Newspaper Is Sold, and Cambodians Fear the End of Press Freedom New York Times
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Alden Global Capital is making so much money wrecking local journalism it might not want to stop anytime soon Harvard’s Nieman Lab
4 ways managers can build a more inclusive newsroom for diverse new hires American Press Institute
How The Economist uses its 12-person data journalism team to drive subscriptions Digiday
The case for reimagining news as a finite product Poynter
***FAKE NEWS
Transparency is the Mother of Fake News New York Times
Streaming Services Have a Conspiracy Theory Problem Slate
People who are delusional, dogmatic, or religious fundamentalists are more likely to believe fake news Harvard’s Nieman Lab
People think she's a Parkland 'crisis actor' - conspiracy theorists and the dangers of actual fake news Washington Post
This study is all about what makes people bullshitters Poynter
***PRIVACY
Spy agency NSA triples collection of U.S. phone records: official report Reuters
Microsoft's Nadella says privacy is a human right that needs protecting Cnet
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Pirate Radio Stations Explode on YouTube New York Times
***INTERNET
Free, open-source website-archiving tool Chronicle of Higher Ed
From The Internet Of Things To The Internet Of Thoughts Forbes
***BIG DATA & AI
Microsoft pitches running AI projects atop chips designed to be reprogrammed and shift with changing software Wired
Intelligence agencies try to take advantage of machine learning and AI c4isrnet
CERN’s attempt to use of machine learning to crunch particle physics data Tech Crunch
One of the next big things in geospatial intelligence is tiny black boxes aboard satellites Space News
The military exchanges have removed Chinese cellphones Military Times
Intelligence community, companies give out satellite imagery to motivate app developers Space News
R language resources to improve your data skills Computer WorldPentagon AI effort Project Maven mines drone live-video feeds using machine learning techniques Space News
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Our sleep habits both reveal and shape our loves Becoming (my blog)
Girls' Night In Readers' Toughest Questions on Self-Care in the Workplace, Answered Girls Night In Club
The Upside of Envy New York Times
***SAN DIEGO
Pedestrian Hit by Car on Rosecrans Street in Midway District Times of San Diego
***GRAMMAR
Mueller's former assistant says grammatical errors prove leaked questions came from Trump The Hill
One space or two between sentences? Washington Post
***WRITING & READING
62 of the World’s Best Independent Bookstores Atlas Obscura
The Right To Browse: A Library Puts Books Into Storage And Readers Cry Foul NPR
The digital age killed cursive. But it can’t kill the signature. Here’s why. Washington Post
Use a Placeholder in Your Writing to Keep From Getting Stuck Life Hacker
The ban on split infinitives is an idea whose time never came Economist
***LANGUAGE
Some of the word-formation processes involved in the coining of names for new media firestorms Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why Are Young People Trying to Talk Fancy? Chronicle of Higher Ed
What Are Your Exceptional Euphemisms This Spring? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
How children’s literature became everybody’s literature Boston Globe
Novelist Ian McEwan's Kid Got a C+ on an Essay About Ian McEwan's Novel Jezebel
J.R.R. Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney and Refused to Let Disney Studios Adapt His Work Open Culture
The Fairytale Language of the Brothers Grimm Daily JSTOR
***GENDER
When Misogynists Become Terrorists (opinion) New York Times
Boy Scouts are dropping the word 'Boy' from flagship program; Girl Scouts shrug USA Today
Wall Street’s Big Gender Lawsuit Is 13 Years in the Making Bloomberg
Most GOP Voters Don’t Ever Want to See a Female President Care2
How does gender influence the academic publishing process? Biomed Central
He Makes a Joke in an Elevator and some are Demanding an Apology Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
America is more diverse than ever — but still segregated Washington Post
What The Uproar Over Kanye West Might Reveal About Black Voters NPR
Centre College students held a sit-in to demand that it deal with issues of racism and discrimination on campus The Advocate-Messager
Ranks of Notorious Hate Group Include Active-Duty Military ProPublica
US labor force participation rate, by race The Atlas
***FREE SPEECH
My Effing First Amendment This American Life
How a tiny protest at the U. of Nebraska turned into a proxy war for the future of campus politics Chronicle of Higher Ed
Syracuse University threatens to expel students for satirical fraternity ‘roast’; fires professor who defended free speech The FIRE
***LEGAL ISSUES
First Amendment Doesn’t Protect Encouraging Readers to Make Anti-Semetic Attacks Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Law school staffer arrested after faking being at work for over a year while hanging out at Hooters in Las Vegas Above the Law
***TECHNOLOGY
Google teams with NBC to build VR content for its TV shows Tech Crunch
The Future of Branding? Synthetic Voices that Sound Just Like Our Own Fast Company
China’s Tech Industry Wants Youth, Not Experience Bloomberg
Want to work for Ikea? Your next job interview could be conducted by a Russian robot Washington Post
What Is Blockchain? Three Videos Explain the New Technology That Promises to Change Our World Open Culture
***RELIGION
North Korea's Secret Christians The Atlantic
Conservative Colorado ministry cancels California conventions over state bill that would ban gay conversion therapy Denver Post
Same-sex marriage garners support among most American religious groups, study shows Religious News Service
How American Christians can break free from ‘slaveholder religion’ Religious News Service
Blacks more likely than others in U.S. to read the Bible regularly, see it as God’s word Pew Research Center
For Jehovah's Witnesses, an insular culture and archaic rules have created a "recipe for child abuse." Philadelphia Inquierer
***SOUTHERN BAPTISTS
The Scandal Tearing Apart America's Largest Protestant Denomination The Atlantic
Paige Patterson and Doing the Right Thing for the SBC, Again (opinion) Christianity Today
Southern Baptist leader’s advice to abused women sends leaders scrambling to respond Washington Post
Southern Baptist women want seminary president Paige Patterson fired for remarks News Observer
Baptist group ejects church for pastor's gay rights support WVNS-TV
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Trump marks National Day of Prayer amid hush money scandal Associated Press
***GOOD NEWS
Volunteers rebuild ‘Field of Dreams’ after it was vandalized (video) NBC News
Billionaire NBA owner Glen Taylor visited a rural Iowa class. A shy kid raised his hand — and it changed his life De Moines Register
8 Feel-Good Stories Of Strangers Helping Someone They Didn’t Know Huffington Post
Newly adopted dog saves family from house fire Fox-7
96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2 Million New York Times
4-year-old superhero using his power to feed the homeless CBS News
***ART & DESIGN
Record Label Logos Reagan Ray
***MUSIC
Stream a Vinyl Album By Snapping a Pic of Its Cover Art With This App LifeHacker
Meet The Tech Company Disrupting The Music Industry (And It's Not Spotify) Forbes
***FILM
How Rotten Tomatoes Changed the Film Industry Daily Jstor
'Monkey Selfie' Film in the Works at Conde Nast Hollywood Reporter
***STUDENT MEDIA
Del Mar College administration reviewing newspaper article illustrated with sexual cartoons Kris TV
Did college newspaper break the law with graphic images in sex column? Sacramento Bee
College newspaper essential, valuable addition to LSU LSU now
Stanford Daily retracts article based on off-the-record event iMediaEthics
***STUDENT LIFE
Gamers are the new stars. Esports arenas are the new movie theaters New York Times
Millennials are struggling. Is it the fault of the baby boomers? The Guardian
More than a million Millennials are becoming moms each year Pew Research Center
Student sues neo-Nazi website publisher after 'troll storm' of harassment The Guardian
Millennials stand out for their technology use, but older generations also embrace digital life Pew Research Center
Four face charges in student government protest at Texas State Austin American Statesman
University of Florida Apologizes After Black Graduates Were Manhandled at Commencement TIME
***STUDENTS & FINANCES
Millennials Are Way Poorer Than Boomers Ever Were Vice
Babysitting Rates: How much should you pay your babysitter? UrbanSitter
Harvard University will collectively bargain with its newly formed graduate-student union The Crimson
We must stop universities exploiting the unpaid labour of PhD students The Guardian
***INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
US colleges are enrolling fewer international students; visa data shows a 40% drop since 2015 Quartz
A University in Texas Promised Full Scholarships to Dozens of Nepalese Students. Months Later, It Revoked the Offer Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why Chinese Students Aren’t a Threat (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
10 Things You Should Always Do On Your Last Day of Work Fairy God Boss
Unpaid interns: slaves who pay tuition Journo Terrorists
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Woody Allen’s son helped bring down Harvey Weinstein The Sunday Times
Are you obligated to report sexual harassment at work? CNN
***SOCIAL ISSUES
How Criminals Steal $37 Billion a Year from America’s Elderly Bloomberg
Casting Aside Shame And Stigma, Adults Tackle Struggles With Literacy NPR
Americans are becoming more socially isolated, but they’re not feeling lonelier The Conversation
How Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials Got Their Names Mental Floss
***BUSINESS
Here's the Biggest Export From Each U.S. State Mental Floss
More Employers Avoid Legal Minefield By Not Asking About Pay History NPR
When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 116 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time CB Insights
***ENVIRONMENT
2018’s Greenest States WalletHub
***HEALTH
She didn’t get treated at the ER. But she got a $5,751 bill anyway Vox
Printing body parts in hospital shows 3D tech's growing reach Reuters
9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air World Health Organization
EEG signals accurately predict autism as early as 3 months of age Science Daily
A state-by-state report measuring the quality of health care in the US Commonwealth Fund
Western Diet, With Its High-Fat Content, Linked To Arthritis Medical Daily
Controversial TV celebrity Dr. Oz appointed to Trump’s fitness and nutrition council New York Daily News
America is a health-care outlier in the developed world Economist
Tick & Mosquito Infections Spreading Rapidly, CDC Finds New York Times
***SCIENCE
Amazing Earth Facts To Blow Your Mind (video)
***PSYCHOLOGY
Americans Are A Lonely Lot, And Young People Bear The Heaviest Burden NPR
The Fascinating Science Behind Why We See 'Faces' In Objects Mental Floss
Loneliness is silent, invisible and as deadly as a smoking habit 1843 magazine
***NEUROSCIENCE
Questlove Aims To Save Your Brain: 'Creativity Might Be In Jeopardy' NPR
***PHILOSOPHY
China is paying for Karl Marx’s birthday party in Germany Quartz
***ETHICS
Alfie's story has too many shades of grey for it to be about the calculated application of the law The Telegraph
The challenges of defining death: As technology changes, the meaning of death becomes more complicated Economist
***RESEARCH
India culls 4,305 dubious journals from approved list Nature India Nature Asia
White papers, working papers, research articles: What’s the difference? Journalists Resource
Research Deluge: Are Researchers Writing More yet Contributing Less? The Scholarly Kitchen
Why are academics not paid royalties on published research papers in IEEE, ACM etc.? (opinion) Stack Overflow
Vague and varied retractions point to weakness in the scientific community Nature Index
Why is the replication crisis centered on social psychology? Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
***HIGHER ED
Court says schools can be liable for suicides but clears MIT Associated Press
Much of our work in Academia has no social value, and we hate doing it Chronicle of Higher Ed
A Stunning Ouster in Tennessee Gets Ugly and Feels Like Political Payback Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why Are States Spending Less on Higher-Ed? Chronicle of Higher Ed
American Higher Education Hits a Dangerous Milestone The Atlantic
State Support for Colleges Declines As Student Diversity Grows New York Magazine
Explosive Lawsuit Against Christian University President Inside Higher Ed
How Grand Canyon University became the world's largest Christian (sub. req’ed) The Business Journals
Catholic University plans to cut full-time faculty by 9 percent Washington Post
Christian colleges at odds with evolving values of students Minnesota Public Radio
Students launch coalition to counter "rampant" student media censorship at Christian universities Student Press Law Center
Small Christian College has a 37 BILLION dollar Endowment Bloomberg
***HUMANITIES
The study of the humanities should be defended for its deeper benefits, not for the jobs associated with the field (opinion) CUNY Academic Commons
***TEACHING
Your Students Learn by Doing, Not by Listening Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why We Must Stop Relying on Student Ratings of Teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed
In Defense (Sort of) of Student Evaluations of Teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed
The 5 Tips for Student Success That a Longtime Instructor Swears By Chronicle of Higher Ed
20 judgments a teacher makes in 1 minute and 28 seconds Hechinger Report
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Three Billboards Outside University College London: A case of approved plagiarism Robert M Chapple
Chinese Arts Professor Awarded With ‘Oscar’ of Design Caught Plagiarizing The Epoch Times
