Medium’s Weekend Reads

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Crime • 12 min read • by Bruce Sterling
Dread Pirate Nemo: The Silk Road is not about drugs

Urbanism • 2 min read • by Josh Neufeld
Superstorm Sandy: A Red Hook Family: One year after Hurricane Sandy, remembering what was lost in the flood

Technology • 5 min read • by Lauren Bacon
Why Pinterest Is Seriously Valuable (and What It’s Teaching Men In Power): Could Pinterest’s latest funding round convince tech sector leaders to target customers that aren’t just like them?

Health • 5 min read • by Meghan Rowland
Unlocking the Venus Fly Trap: The horror and humor of coping with vulvodynia

Work • 4 min read • by Jenny Kutner
The Cover Letter I Would Send If Honesty and Self-Deprecation Were Conducive to Employment: To Whom It May Concern: You should give me a job, even though you shouldn’t

Memoir • 7 min read • by Emily Hopkins
I’ll Smoke When I’m Dead: How to quit smoking in 1,456 easy steps

Relationships • 11 min read • by Alyce Currier
The Sociology of OkCupid: How my social theorist crushes might have talked about online dating

Food • 6 min read • by Kate Christensen
Chicken: The chicken as we now know it exists solely to meet human needs

Philosophy • 8 min read • by Nolan Gertz
In Nihilism We Trust: If humans are trusting beings, what does it mean that we have become so distrusting?

Music • 5 min read • by James Caig
Sunday Mourning: How I felt when I heard about Lou Reed

NEW FROM MATTER
by Mike Power
Uncontrolled Substances: Forty years into the war on drugs, getting your own narcotics made to order is not only easier than ever; it can be totally legal, too. How do we know? Because we did it. Read MATTER—for just 99 cents—to find out how, and check out a free preview on Medium.