Articles of Interest - August 19
/***JOURNALISM
Journalists face job losses, low pay, attacks by Trump — and I want in USA Today
The news gets worse for local journalism Washington Post
Local newsrooms can now get extra legal help with their reporting Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Matt Drudge Has Barely Changed Anything About The Drudge Report In The Last 20 Years BuzzFeed News
***FAKES
A Texas con artist made millions promising prisoners' families the thing they wanted most: To bring their children home The Marshall Project
How And Why People Come Up With Conspiracy Theories NPR
These deepfakes of Bill Hader are absolutely terrifying CNET
Maybe you know that article is satire, but a lot of people can’t tell the difference Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Websites that peddle disinformation make millions of dollars in ads, new study finds CNN
***TECHNOLOGY
Amazon says its facial recognition can now identify fear CNBC
Teen's tweets from her smart fridge go viral after mother confiscates phone The Guardian
Octopus-Inspired Wearable Sensor Nature World News
***BIG DATA & AI
A summer camp for the next generation of NSA Agents New Yorker
Re-Imagining big data in a post-Hadoop world Datami
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Why These Social Networks Failed So Badly Gizmodo
***PERSONAL GROWTH
D.E.S.C. when someone keeps repeating inappropriate behavior Becoming (my blog)
Stephen Colbert's Perspective On Grief Brings Anderson Cooper To Tears During Powerful Interview Digg
***WRITING & READING
Avoid Plagiarism With Google's New Assignments Tool Life Hacker
The Em Dash Divides New York Times
***LITERATURE
Video games are literature’s new frontier Venture Beat
A New Literary Timeline of African-American History New York Times
Review of dystopian novel “The Memory Police” Washington Post
These Classic Books Are Surprisingly Fresh—and They're Free Life Hacker
An overview of the amenities-heavy new libraries that are becoming tourist attractions across the world New York Times
Five novels win China's top literature award Xinhuanet
***POETRY
Someone painted bullet holes on face of Emily Dickinson in art display Mass Live
Emily Dickinson’s ‘scraps of paper’ inspire art installation at poet’s Amherst conservatory Boston Globe
The Unsung Influence Of Poetry On Iron Maiden Kerrang
Elizabeth Thomas uses her writing to make sense of the world Courant
On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet Lit Hub
How a Scottish Borders boy became a leading Australian bush poet BBC
***GENDER
Nearly 200,000 trans people have been exposed to conversion therapy, study says NBC News
The Hazards of Writing While Female The Atlantic
Christian Women’s Shelter Doesn’t Need to Admit Trans Woman, Court Rules Daily Signal
StoryCorps: Transgender Woman Recalls Coming Out To Her Family In The 1960s NPR
MSU suggests employees avoid saying 'I apologize,' 'no problem,' 'sir,' 'ma'am' Campus Reform
Two-thirds of published poets are male, so does poetry have a gender issue? Irish Times
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
The 1619 Project New York Times
***CRIME & COURTS
Inside The Prison Where Inmates Set Each Other On Fire and Gangs Have More Power Than Guards
***BORDER ISSUES
Trump’s 'Invasion' Was actually a Corporate Recruitment Drive The Atlantic
Ruling limits border agents’ ability to search cellphones LA Times
Documents Allege Serious Medical Neglect Inside Otay Mesa Detention Center Voice of San Diego
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
FBI seeks to monitor Facebook, oversee mass social media data collection zdet
Security Researcher’s ‘NULL’ Vanity Plates Cause Glitch That Lands Him $12,000 in Parking Tickets Gizmodo
Microsoft warns Windows 10 users to update immediately CNN
Facial recognition tech misidentified 26 California lawmakers as criminals Engadget
***INTERNET
Computer Science Professors Says We Can Probably Make Email Better For Everyone NPR
***RELIGION
Hillsong Songwriter Marty Sampson Says He’s Losing His Christian Faith Relevant Magazine
The reputation of the gospel is at risk (opinion) Washington Post
U.S. Missionary With No Medical Training Sued After Malnourished Ugandan Children Died At Her Center NPR
Oregon pastor and stripper team up to raise money for migrant kids after sweeping ICE raid The Hill
A new priest’s more traditional approach has split one of Portland’s oldest Catholic churches Oregon Live
Southwestern Distances Itself from Paige Patterson in Sex Abuse Lawsuit Christianity Today
Bid to allow some married priests engages celibacy debate Washington Post
Methodist Church closer to official split over LGBTQ issues Washington Times
Billy Graham's Grandson Back in the Pulpit following Cheating Scandal Christian Headlines
What HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones gets right about evangelicals Vox
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Reviews of Netflix Documentary The Family
***GOOD NEWS
3-year-old uses lemonade sales to buy baby supplies for mothers in need ABC-11
FBI agent reunited with abducted baby he helped rescue decades ago NBC News
Indiana boy convinces mayor to put up 'turtle crossing' signs near ponds ABC News
Warm-hearted Uber driver surprises fast food worker with a new dress after hearing her struggles Digg
He Gave a Bike to a Refugee Girl. 24 Years Later, She Got to Thank Him New York Times
Man invites police to help mow lawns in all 50 states Associated Press
***REALLY?!
Lil Nas X’s hit song is leaving one Massachusetts town without its ‘Old Town Road’ street signs Mass Live
Architect goes blind, says he's actually gotten better at his job CBS News
Burglar Carefully Wipes Down His Fingerprints — While Staring Directly Into Security Camera (with video) Digg
Man says emotional support alligator helps his depression New York Post
Man Implicates Himself After Using Stolen Credit Card And Signing As ‘Thief’ CBS Pittsburgh
Man Accused of Stalking Sent Woman 10,000 Texts NBC Washington
Missing dentures found stuck in throat 8 days after surgery Associated Press
Too Much Karaoke Sent a Man to the Hospital with a Collapsed Lung Live Science
Clinton: Woman reports her car stolen, while running from police in that car WQAD.com
$12.3M payout for infant burned in Madigan operating-room fire delayed as feds consider appeal The Seattle Times
***ART & DESIGN
Cultural Regions Of America, Visualized Digg
10 best Chrome extensions for designers UX Design
***MUSIC
Are men singing higher in pop music? Pudding
The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians The Guardian
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Verizon to sell Tumblr to WordPress owner Reuters
U.S. Pay-TV Subscriber Losses More Than Triple To 1.5M In Q2 – Report – Deadline Deadline
UK's 'The Spectator' To Launch U.S. Monthly Print Magazine Media Post
Friends is hitting theaters for show's 25th anniversary Entertainment Weekly
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Learn & Practice On How To Fire Employees In Virtual Reality VR & Fun
***ENVIRONMENT
India’s holiest river is drying up National Geographic
Extreme climate change has reached the United States: Here are America’s fastest-warming places Washington Post
***HEALTH
Smog And Other Air Pollution Is Linked To Lung Damage NPR
Healthy tips on preparing for surgery Washington Post
Why Some Doctors Purposefully Misdiagnose Patients The Atlantic
Dozens of Young People Hospitalized for Breathing and Lung Problems After Vaping New York Times
Pakistan’s doctors are getting fired in Arab countries. Blame its unreliable medical degrees The Print
***MEDICAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY
Tissue model reveals role of blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s MIT
Scientists discover new pain-sensing organ The Guardian
Engineers Have Found A Way To Use Sweat For Some Medical Tests NPR
***TRAVEL
FAA Bans Recalled MacBook Pros From Flights Bloomberg
***SPORTS & GAMES
Chess champ’s formidable opponent: Red tape Washington Post
Welcome to the World of Competitive Wiffle Ball The Ringer
When the internet Chases you from your Home New York Times
***FOOD
This Is The Most Popular Ice Cream Shop In Every State Delish
The 33 Best BBQ Joints in America Thrillist
Pumpkin Spice Spam Is Real And Coming Out This Fall Delish
***FAMILY
The Weird History of Baby Cage, The Oddest Parenting Trend of the ’20s Fatherly
***ANIMALS
Amazing octopus found in a rock pool in Cornwall Cornwall Live
These Scientists Gave Ecstasy To Octopuses And Discovered Something Unexpected Gentside
It will soon be a crime in Alabama to misrepresent a pet as a service animal AL.com
***SCIENCE
A dozen science sites around the US Washington Post
Chemists make first-ever ring of pure carbon Nature
Scientists know gravity exists: They just don’t know how it works Washington Post
***PSYCHOLOGY
A psychiatry publication goes from open access to subscription Healio
***PHILOSOPHY
John Rawls and the Remaking of Political Philosophy Harvard Magazine
Philosopher Portraits: Famous Philosophers Painted in the Style of Influential Artists Open Culture
***RESEARCH
When so many email addresses on journal articles don’t work, we have a problem Nature Index
US Faculty Survey 2018 Reveals Uncertainty about Fraudulent Research Practices Ithaka S+R
When I read an article, I often have the sinking feeling that the authors didn’t actually read some of the papers they are citing Journal of Cell Science
Due to the publication of the article by the supervisor without the knowledge of a college student, this article is retracted International Journal of Infection
Four erroneous beliefs thwarting more trustworthy research eLife Science
UC faculty members quit Cell Press editorial boards over impasse with publisher Science Mag
Here is how fake scientific journals are bypassing detection filters Down to Earth
The Value of Redundancy in Research, or, In Research, Redundancy Has Value Scholarly Kitchen
***HIGHER ED
Moody's Maintains Negative Outlook for Higher Ed Inside Higher Ed
College Campuses: Are They Too P.C.? (opinion) New York Times
What This Title IX Case About Hazing Means for Women on Campus MS Magazine
Court Victory for Foreign Students Enrolled in Fake College Inside Higher Ed
Camp at Oklahoma Christian University brings together missionary families Oklahoman
Methodist University Hires a Muslim Chaplain PJ Media
Are faith-based ideas about sex spurring a consent conversation at Christian colleges? Deseret News
***TEACHING
Banning laptops or other note-taking devices from the classroom is an extreme stance that isn’t right for every student Inside Higher Ed
'Substantial doubt' that Cincinnati Christian University keeps accreditation Cincinnati
How Calling on Random Students Could Hurt Women Chronicle
Could eye-tracking software help catch students cheating on exams? T&F online
How Do We Teach With Primary Sources When So Many Voices Are Missing? Ed Week
***STUDENT MEDIA
Court report supports Lantern case for Ohio State records The Latern
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Fired University of Illinois professor, has lost his court bid to be reinstated News-Gazette
The firing of a university tennis coach accused of sexual harassment may have been motivated by public arm-twisting Inside Higher Ed
Professor exonerated for quoting iconic black writer at The New School The FIRE
***STUDENT LIFE
India Sets Weight Limits On Students' Backpacks NPR
Graduate Students Are Increasingly Shouldering The Country's Student Debt NPR
Alabama girl wore tux for senior portrait. Her school yearbook left her picture out NBC News