***BIG DATA & AI
The “spooky” quantum world and how the promise of quantum computers may unravel some of the secrets of the universe (video) ColdFusion
A result never before achieved: the random number generator at the NIST in Boulder relies on counterintuitive quantum behavior Daily Jstor
Nine investigations that used satellite imagery Global Investigative Journalism Network
Seven of the best available Python libraries Tapscape
A primer on PySpark for data science Toward Data Science
AI learns to write headlines (but not this one) Axios
Google unveiled an AI system that demonstrated a remarkable talent for seeing through lung cancer’s disguises Stat News
***FACIAL RECOGNITION
Facial Recognition Has Already Reached Its Breaking Point Wired
This Neural Net Can Make A Moving, Talking Face Out Of A Single Still Image (video) Egor Zakharov
***TECHNOLOGY
Young people and their phones are shaking up banking Economist
Amazon Is Working on a Device That Can Read Human Emotions Bloomberg
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter Is Showing More Ads, And People Are Seeing Lots Of Weird Crap As A Result BuzzFeed News
The Kids Use TikTok Now Because Data-Mined Videos Are So Much Fun Bloomberg
The Chinese company that bought Grindr wasn't supposed to let Chinese engineers access Americans' data -- but it did BongBong
CrossFit Deletes Its Facebook Account, Denounces “Utopian Socialists” Front Office Sports
***INSTAGRAM
10 cliché Instagram posts you'll definitely see this summer Mashable
Instagram’s IGTV adds support for horizontal videos — but still no ads Digiday
Instagram Ruined Travel. A New Generation Of Influencers Is Trying To Fix It Refinery29
***SNAPCHAT
Snapchat looks to mirror TikTok and Instagram Stories with new in-app music Axios
How to Use Snapchat’s Gender Swap Filter Everyone’s Talking About iPhone Hacks
***YOUTUBE
Your Kid Wants to Be a YouTuber? There’s a Camp for That Wall Street Journal
The tricky task of policing YouTube Economist
***FAKE NEWS
Moms are going undercover to fight fake autism cures in private Facebook groups NBC News
Fake News Spreads ‘Farther, Faster, Deeper’ Than Truth, Study Finds Washington Post
Facebook: Fake account removal doubles in 6 months to 3B Associated Press
Deepfakes are getting better—but they’re still easy to spot ArsTechnica
***JOURNALISM
In thoughtful interview, Stephen Colbert and Howard Stern talk about what makes a thoughtful interview AV Club
Why local foundations are putting their money behind a rural journalism collaborative Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
NYT editor predicts most local newspapers will 'die in the next five years' The Hill
Why I disappeared from WJTV in Jackson, Mississippi Medium
GateHouse Media lays off journalists across the country Poynter
The Boston Globe is the first local newspaper to have more digital subscribers than print Harvard’s Nieman Lab
How The Guardian is looking to boost reader donations in the US Digiday
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Explore your Passion without Pressure Becoming (my blog)
***WRITING & READING
Here’s Why Authors All Tweet An Ugly Screenshot From The Same Websites BuzzFeed News
Print writers turn to television for the big bucks Axios
Debut novel by poet Ocean Vuong picked by booksellers as June Indie #1 Bookweb
Can reading really improve your mental health? BBC
Imitation in literature: inspiration or plagiarism? Oxford University Press Blog
Improve Your Content Strategy with These 4 Proofreading Tools Business2community
***PLAGIARISM
How A Software Engineer's Attempt To Make A Crossword Puzzle Exposed A Whole Plagiarism Scandal Digg
Studiosity creates new tool targeting accidental plagiarism The Pie News
***LITERATURE
Fav phrases from literature immortalized as book quote tattoos My Modern Met
Anne Frank: the real story of the girl behind the diary The Guardian
Korean folktales as protest literature Korean Times
Poop, realism and Ghibli: Enter the world of children's literature Japan Times
***POETRY
I Grew Up In A Fundamentalist Evangelical Community. How I "Rewired" My Brain With Poetry Bustle
‘I courted poetry early in life’ The Nation
U.S. teen poets find no rhyme or reason to climate peril Reuters
“The Spiral Labyrinth,” a Poetry-Sound Collaboration (audio) Orion Magazine
World War I Poetry (podcast) Inside Higher Ed
The Making of Poetry by Adam Nicolson review – when Coleridge met the Wordsworths The Guardian
Can you write a photo into a haiku into a song? Chicago Tribune
***POETRY OUTSIDE THE U.S.
In Israel, There Are Poetry Slams For The Deaf Forward
Political poetry has dramatic impact at Dawn Raids art exhibition Asia Pacific Report
Hundreds of Chinese poets compete using trade war as the backdrop Global Times
***POETS
The Bittersweet Poetry of “Lima :: Limón” New Yorker
The Life of Forgotten Poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon Jstor
Review: Authors spotlight 41 of state's notable poets The Advocate
Poet Gregory Orr Has Been Teaching ‘How to Save Your Life’ for Four Decades University of Virginia
Journalist-poet Villanueva writes and delights Manila Standard
Poetic Influencer: Marilynn Montaño OC Weekly
How Walt Whitman’s Decade In Washington Changed His Life — And His Poetry WAMU
***GENDER
Warmer Offices Are Better for Women The Atlantic
My Rapist Apologized New York Times
Struggling with style Modern dress codes are easier for men than for women Economist
How China forged self-made female billionaires Economist
New Web Project Immortalizes the Overlooked Women Who Helped Create Rock and Roll in the 1950s Open Culture
Women’s Issues within political party platforms Pudding
News outlets post way more pictures of men than women to Facebook Harvard’s Nieman Lab
These hidden women helped invent chaos theory Wired
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Connectivity drives the Asian American consumer journey Nielson
Race plays an ever-more important role in voting Economist
How an internet mob falsely painted a Chipotle employee as racist CNN
Key facts about Asian Americans, a diverse and growing population Pew Research
Hate makes a comeback in the Pacific Northwest Associated Press
***LEGAL ISSUES
CBS Sued Over 'Andy Griffith Show' Theme Song Hollywood Reporter
Youtubers and record labels are fighting over copyright and record labels keep winning The Verge
***CRIME
Philly judge stuns wrongly convicted juvenile lifer by setting him free after 21 years in prison Philly
Muggings are so common, Mexicans buy fake cellphones to hand over in muggings Associated Press
How The For-Profit Prison Industry Keeps 460,000 Innocent People in Jail Every Day GQ
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Google stored some passwords in plain text for fourteen years The Verge
How creepy is your smart speaker? Economist
U.S. May Blacklist Chinese Surveillance Firm, 'New York Times' Reports NPR
An 11-year-old changed election results on a replica Florida state website in under 10 minutes PBS NewsHour
All the ways google tracks you—and how to stop it Wired
***PRODUCING MEDIA
How to Speed Up or Slow Down Any HTML5 Video LifeHacker
***RELIGION
White Evangelicals Are the Most Islamophobic Americans, Poll Shows Newsweek
Study: Belief in the ‘Prosperity Gospel’ Does Not Turn People into Successful Entrepreneurs Baylor
Police are investigating a Megachurch founder accused of hiring a hitman Relevant Magazine
Owners of a Noah's Ark replica file a lawsuit over rain damage CNN
The Day Christian Fundamentalism Was Born The New York Times
The history of China’s Muslims and what’s behind their persecution The Conversation
Lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans are less religious than straight adults by traditional measures Pew Research Center
***SOUTHERN BAPTISTS
Southern Baptists Down to Lowest Membership Numbers in 30 Years Christianity Today
Only Half of Kids Raised Southern Baptist Stay Southern Baptist Christianity Today
***RELIGION & YOUTH
Millennial evangelicals more likely to attend church weekly than older generations, poll finds Christian Post
Study: 10% of young Christians say they’ve left a church because they felt it didn’t take sex abuse seriously enough Christian Headlines
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Steve Bannon’s Academy for the Judaeo-Christian West Economist
The Debate Grows Over What Religious Freedom Means NPR
***GOOD NEWS
Man graduates with nursing degree from same university where he started as a janitor ABC News
Rainbow Village: an entire community in Taiwan is hand-painted by a single man This is Colossal
Teenager pushes double-amputee home in wheelchair during storm warning WBAY
Minnesota woman donates kidney to man who helped rescue her daughter KARE-11
Homeless high school student becomes valedictorian, gets 50 college scholarships: ‘never let your current situation...be a mountain that you can’t climb’ Newsweek
Classmates work together to help friend see color for the 1st time WLWT
***ART & DESIGN
Banksy crashes Venice Biennale with street stall CNN
Typography 2020: A special listicle for America Practical Typography
Thirty years ago a show in Paris set out to redraw the art world Economist
The Art of Doodling The Paris Review
Meteorological Data Visualized as Mixed Media Sculptures by Nathalie Miebach This is Colossal
***MUSIC
How Computers Ruined Rock Music Rick Beato
The Lives of John Coltrane & Billie Holiday Are Now Told in Two Graphic Novels Open Culture
Sing My Name If your name is Baby, then seemingly every song is about you. But what if your name isn’t Baby? Pudding
***FILM
Rotten Tomatoes will start verifying ticket purchases for audience reviews Tech Crunch
***FREELANCING/CONTESTS
Are You Ready to Go Freelance? Harvard Business Review
Freelance writing submissions Paperback Literary Journal
‘How to' and listicle type pieces AdWeek
Freelance writing ideas SELF magazine
The Future Is Black Female essay competition to win $1,000 Future Black Female
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Rockefeller University Admits Decades Of Sexual Abuse Complaints Against Children’s Doctor Reginald Archibald BuzzFeed News
Mississippi lawmaker was drunk when he ‘punched’ his wife in the face over sex Sun Herald
***SOCIAL ISSUES
The Mexican-American population is shrinking Economist
Key facts about Asian origin groups in the U.S. Pew Research Center
U.S. unauthorized immigrants are more proficient in English, more educated than a decade ago Pew Research Center
Visualizing Poverty Across America Daily Infographic
***POLITICS
What Is 'Milkshaking,' Britain's Latest Political Trend? The Atlantic
So Far, $1.57 Billion for Wall Yields 1.7 Miles of Fence Bloomberg
Trump administration bans CDC from saying 'diversity,' transgender,' 'fetus,' and more Washington Post
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Why Companies Are so Bad at Hiring Medium
The human brain can’t contend with the vastness of online shopping The Atlantic
How middle-age, middle-class moms are killing JCPenney and Kohl's Washington Post
***ENVIRONMENT
Why Banning Plastic Grocery Bags Could Be A Bad Move NPR
Washington becomes first state to legalize using dead bodies for compositing CNN
***HEALTH
Episiotomies are painful, risky and not routinely recommended USA Today
No, Night Owls Aren’t Doomed to Die Early New York Times
***HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
The techie obsession with sleep technology Economist
CRISPR Used To Modify Viruses And Create New Weapon Against Superbugs NPR
Body shop 3D printers will make better implants Economist
***DRUGS
The Many Health Benefits Of Meth Pacific Standard
Fighting Fentanyl Washington Post
***TRAVEL
How travelers can avoid common scams Washington Post
Not all travel ‘hacks’ are good. Here are the ones to avoid Seattle Times
Top Travel Destinations for US History Buffs Travel Pulse
***SPORTS & GAMES
Velocity is strangling baseball — and its grip keeps tightening The Washington Post
Peru’s government wants its citizens to take up baseball Economist
***FOOD
The Best Time of the Day to Drink Coffee Isn’t as Soon as You Wake Up Mental Floss
A food craving is not our body’s way of signaling that it needs a certain nutrient BBC
***CHILDREN
How to make social media safe for children Economist
Top Baby Names for each State Social Security Tweet String
There’s Evidence on How to Raise Children, but Are Parents Listening? New York Times
***ANIMALS
Soldier reunited with puppy he saved from Syria News Herald
Dog Person? It May Be in Your Genes The New York Times
***PSYCHOLOGY
Former FBI Body Language Expert Explains The Body Language Cues That Actually Mean Something Wired
What Researchers learning about success from tracking preschoolers from the 1960s until today NPR
How Carl Jung Inspired the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous Open Culture
Problems with the American Association of Christian Counselors The Throckmorton Blog
***NEUROSCIENCE
Scientists Find a Volume Knob for Emotional Memories Wired
Telepathy Is Real With The Help Of A Computer (video) NPR
***HISTORY
Two decades of research let you take a fly-over of ancient Rome Smart History
Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama National Geographic
Who really owns the past? Aeon
***RESEARCH
The Rise of Junk Science Publications The Walrus
This Is Easily the Best Correction in Science Publishing This Month Gizimodo
Want to access the raw data behind an academic paper? Good luck Pudding
MIT professor accused of claiming others’ scientific discoveries as his own Stat News
Taiwan considers double-blind peer review for grants Nature
Please avoid these reviewers' pet peeves! NIH
Can Twitter, Facebook, and Other Social Media Drive Downloads, Citations? Scholarly Kitchen
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Institutions generally don't have provisions against professors dating students they just taught Inside Higher Ed
It’s Taken 5 Decades to Get the Ph.D. Her Abusive Professor Denied Her New York Times
Rejecting the requirement to publish dissertations online Inside Higher Ed
Emory University Fires 2 Neuroscientists Accused of Hiding Chinese Ties TIME
Texas Professors Could Be Criminally Charged if They Don't Report Sexual Harassment or Assault (sub. req’d) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Pro-Trump hats worn by students blurred from high school yearbook WPMT FOX43
When are student newspaper budget cuts unconstitutional? (podcasts) Student Press Law Center
***STUDENT LIFE
Wealthy students disproportionately receive extra time on standardized tests Axios
Study Finds More Low-Income Students Attending College Inside Higher Ed
Oregon college student taking pictures dies after falling off side of mountain NBC News
No sex please, we’re millennials Economist
When a college student is home for the summer New York Times
***HIGHER ED
“Free college:” Why offering access to something broken does not make it better Christensen Institute
Administrators were shocked when the college was sued for discrimination Inside Higher Ed
Rick Singer faked students’ CVs in college admission bribery scandal. He seems to have faked his own Associated Press
Professor says AU Cairo wronged him in canceling his chair after he resisted donor's demands Inside Higher Ed
Is It Time to Abolish the SAT? (opinion) Medium
Baldwin Wallace University ends the school’s formal affiliation with the United Methodist Church Baldwin Wallace University
Prosecutors subpoenaed records of 9 Chapman University students in admissions scandal LA Times
