<![CDATA[Editor’s Picks — Medium]]> https://medium.com/editors-picks https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/fit/c/150/150/0*tsAwlHt6yDys_fk8.jpeg Editor’s Picks — Medium https://medium.com/editors-picks RSS for Node Mon, 20 Oct 2014 03:39:54 GMT <![CDATA[You Can Already Code—You Just Don’t Know It Yet]]>

When someone tells you they code, it’s as if they’re calling you from inside the world’s most exclusive club.

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Within minutes of sitting down at the counter of the Butterbell Grill, Colin noticed something strange about the family seated in the far…

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]]> https://medium.com/@gueldner/the-ghost-of-nfc-future-aaf4c81b6d5a https://medium.com/p/aaf4c81b6d5a Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:16:44 GMT <![CDATA[Eleven Years Lost in Translation ]]>

Johanna Hortolani on the eleven Years Guantánamo detainee Emad Abdalla Hassan has lost in translation

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How libraries decide which books to keep—and which don’t stand the test of time

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#BringBackOurGirls

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Money, power and the politics of reanimation.

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On fatherly confusion and worry

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]]> https://medium.com/@chen_village/i-was-a-son-of-satan-1803d0286850 https://medium.com/p/1803d0286850 Sun, 11 May 2014 19:17:26 GMT <![CDATA[San Francisco’s (In)Visible Class War]]>

What you can learn by talking to homeless folks

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Finding the Stories in the Middle

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And by “terrorists,” I’m referring to real estate agents in San Francisco.

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]]> https://medium.com/@Inconsolable/how-to-negotiate-with-terrorists-4e5a22806780 https://medium.com/p/4e5a22806780 Mon, 12 May 2014 15:04:02 GMT <![CDATA[My Life in Second Position]]>

On being the ballerina’s clumsy sister

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When Politics Drive Product Decisions, We All Lose

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]]> https://medium.com/@parislemon/instagram-just-geotagged-us-to-hell-dad4c3736409 https://medium.com/p/dad4c3736409 Mon, 12 May 2014 15:49:18 GMT <![CDATA[Telling a Story of Stillbirth]]>

Accepting the Limits of Narrative

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]]> https://medium.com/@JanelAtlas/telling-a-story-of-stillbirth-2f7a2f1dc473 https://medium.com/p/2f7a2f1dc473 Fri, 09 May 2014 22:08:58 GMT <![CDATA[Chile’s thirst for water]]>

A Chilean city famous for mining in the Atacama Desert is running out of water. Fast.

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]]> https://medium.com/@latamsci/chiles-thirst-for-water-6ee3f2dfee94 https://medium.com/p/6ee3f2dfee94 Mon, 12 May 2014 04:06:55 GMT <![CDATA[Atkins vs. Ornish: The Fight Over Fat]]>

Avoiding saturated fats has come with two unintended consequences: The first has been the embrace of vegetable oils.

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]]> https://medium.com/@simonschuster/atkins-vs-ornish-the-fight-over-fat-74668717ca9d https://medium.com/p/74668717ca9d Fri, 09 May 2014 20:47:52 GMT <![CDATA[Listening to Russia’s State Media, It’s Hard to Tell Fact From Fiction]]>

The Kremlin’s government-media complex spins the Ukraine crisis

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]]> https://medium.com/@warisboring/listening-to-russias-state-media-its-hard-to-tell-fact-from-fiction-15564b04d852 https://medium.com/p/15564b04d852 Sun, 11 May 2014 18:45:18 GMT <![CDATA[Two Weeks Ago, I Almost Died in the Deadliest Plane Crash Ever]]>

How Two Jetliners Nearly Collided Over the Pacific, Why No One Knows About It, and What It Means for Safety Oversight Aboard Airplanes

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These algorithms are representing something ugly.

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]]> https://medium.com/@jomc/google-beauty-f73d7bf4e51b https://medium.com/p/f73d7bf4e51b Mon, 12 May 2014 14:08:59 GMT <![CDATA[Bad Decision Bingo: Cocktails]]>

Five In A Row Makes A Loser

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]]> https://medium.com/@danteshepherd/bad-decision-bingo-cocktails-25617f09d515 https://medium.com/p/25617f09d515 Mon, 12 May 2014 13:07:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Roast in the Fridge]]>

What I learned from my mother and hers

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]]> https://medium.com/@mulegirl/the-roast-in-the-fridge-91cb6a257e4e https://medium.com/p/91cb6a257e4e Sun, 11 May 2014 18:20:14 GMT <![CDATA[False equivalency in the NYT]]>

How Jeremy Peters’s voter ID reporting is even more wrong than you think

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]]> https://medium.com/@felixsalmon/false-equivalency-in-the-nyt-beebe903ca6a https://medium.com/p/beebe903ca6a Sat, 10 May 2014 21:46:15 GMT <![CDATA[Why Apple Bought Beats]]>

It’s Becoming a Fashion Company

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]]> https://medium.com/@davetroy/why-apple-wants-beats-ef40bb2cd162 https://medium.com/p/ef40bb2cd162 Sun, 11 May 2014 13:54:28 GMT <![CDATA[on being a mother]]>

My defining moment as a mother came in 1994, when my son was 18 months old.

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]]> https://medium.com/@inthefade/on-being-a-mother-e7a1982f03d8 https://medium.com/p/e7a1982f03d8 Sun, 11 May 2014 12:09:02 GMT <![CDATA[Today I’m Going to Predict Your Future]]>

Five important things that will happen to you before your 20-year college reunion

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]]> https://medium.com/@webbmedia/today-im-going-to-predict-your-future-95d3677bb5b8 https://medium.com/p/95d3677bb5b8 Sat, 10 May 2014 17:00:41 GMT <![CDATA[Mother’s Day: A Manifesto]]>

A few days earlier, my husband looked at the calendar, and then up at me with slight alarm: “It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday, what do you…

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]]> https://medium.com/@MarieMyungOkLee/mothers-day-a-manifesto-18a229a43837 https://medium.com/p/18a229a43837 Sun, 11 May 2014 14:14:34 GMT <![CDATA[Ever Wanted to Be Spider-Man? The Pentagon Is Working on That]]>

Spidey-sense, ropes of spider silk, walking on walls

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]]> https://medium.com/@warisboring/ever-wanted-to-be-spider-man-the-pentagon-is-working-on-that-2369624062ea https://medium.com/p/2369624062ea Sat, 10 May 2014 20:57:20 GMT <![CDATA[Weekend Diversion: The Top 5 Spectacles from Eurovision 2014!]]>

From bizarre to enthralling, it’s the greatest cultural entertainment we miss out on in America.

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]]> https://medium.com/@startswithabang/weekend-diversion-the-top-5-spectacles-from-eurovision-2014-7e2052c1679a https://medium.com/p/7e2052c1679a Sun, 11 May 2014 01:34:42 GMT <![CDATA[I sold my house to fund my company]]>

 And I don’t regret it.

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]]> https://medium.com/@jodyporowski/i-sold-my-house-to-fund-my-company-255f65612d76 https://medium.com/p/255f65612d76 Sun, 11 May 2014 04:05:33 GMT <![CDATA[Mommy brain]]>

or Why baby smiles are like crack

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]]> https://medium.com/@pregscientist/mommy-brain-2513851216dd https://medium.com/p/2513851216dd Sat, 10 May 2014 14:35:55 GMT <![CDATA[Breaking up with Facebook]]>

As marketers battle for attention in News Feed, one does the unthinkable and severs ties from the social network. Who’s next?

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]]> https://medium.com/@jbruin/breaking-up-with-facebook-b5e981dc6bfe https://medium.com/p/b5e981dc6bfe Fri, 09 May 2014 15:16:46 GMT <![CDATA[How a Night With Arianna Huffington Changed My Life ]]>

Also, she smells really good. 

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]]> https://medium.com/@rachelsklar/how-a-night-with-arianna-huffington-changed-my-life-d9c3b7ecdc5b https://medium.com/p/d9c3b7ecdc5b Fri, 09 May 2014 22:41:19 GMT <![CDATA[Good Mothers Die]]>

Landing Safely 

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]]> https://medium.com/@micheleweldon/good-mothers-die-f4cf42c4b364 https://medium.com/p/f4cf42c4b364 Fri, 09 May 2014 03:50:23 GMT <![CDATA[The Next Episode]]>

10 Reasons Apple Will Buy (I mean bought) Beats

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]]> https://medium.com/@davepell/the-next-episode-7eac1127a7c4 https://medium.com/p/7eac1127a7c4 Fri, 09 May 2014 21:48:31 GMT <![CDATA[Medium’s Weekend Reads]]>

May 9, 2014

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]]> https://medium.com/@mediumeditorial/mediums-weekend-reads-918f49f69027 https://medium.com/p/918f49f69027 Fri, 09 May 2014 16:49:18 GMT <![CDATA[These Reefs Are Beautiful—But Most of the Coral Is Dead]]>

One tiny Caribbean island is scrambling to save its coral in the face of global warming.

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]]> https://medium.com/@climatedesk/these-reefs-are-beautiful-but-most-of-the-coral-is-dead-9933d70da5df https://medium.com/p/9933d70da5df Fri, 09 May 2014 19:35:47 GMT <![CDATA[Apples and Oranges]]>

What Facebook’s AppLinks and Unbundling Can Tell Us About the Mobile Web Ecosystem

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]]> https://medium.com/@DavidPCheng/apples-and-oranges-8c621b2be404 https://medium.com/p/8c621b2be404 Wed, 07 May 2014 23:07:09 GMT <![CDATA[Waiting for the Internet’s ‘Mad as Hell’ Moment]]>

Now that TV is the place for serious people with long attention spans, we’re really in trouble

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]]> https://medium.com/@the_drewreed/waiting-for-the-internets-mad-as-hell-moment-ec5fb6739ed7 https://medium.com/p/ec5fb6739ed7 Fri, 09 May 2014 02:30:53 GMT <![CDATA[A Bitcoin for Digital Art]]>

Currency is boring. Let’s make GIFs!

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]]> https://medium.com/@anildash/a-bitcoin-for-digital-art-8c7db719e495 https://medium.com/p/8c7db719e495 Fri, 09 May 2014 18:39:38 GMT <![CDATA[Honey App: Beats Music and the Great UI Swindle]]>

Apple just paid $3 billion for a Winamp skin.

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]]> https://medium.com/@shallowrewards/honey-app-beats-music-and-the-great-ui-swindle-59c631acbb48 https://medium.com/p/59c631acbb48 Fri, 09 May 2014 15:40:56 GMT <![CDATA[Why Are We So Obsessed With the Myers-Briggs?]]>

How personality tests become personal mythology

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]]> https://medium.com/@Archipelago_M/why-are-we-so-obsessed-with-the-myers-briggs-b01574b48708 https://medium.com/p/b01574b48708 Fri, 09 May 2014 16:12:06 GMT <![CDATA[Into the Vacuum]]>

A Tale of Two Kidnappings

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]]> https://medium.com/@bythenumbers/into-the-vacuum-e870ebd40f0d https://medium.com/p/e870ebd40f0d Fri, 09 May 2014 15:09:28 GMT <![CDATA[The Birth of the $60 Billion Videogame Industry]]>

Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros., and Sega’s war on Nintendo

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]]> https://medium.com/@blakejharrisNYC/the-birth-of-the-60-billion-videogame-industry-67a360dc4498 https://medium.com/p/67a360dc4498 Fri, 09 May 2014 14:38:00 GMT <![CDATA[All My Best Friends Are Virtual]]>

Why Facebook is the perfect community for autistics

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]]> https://medium.com/@gleebite/all-my-best-friends-are-virtual-aed22182b8a8 https://medium.com/p/aed22182b8a8 Thu, 08 May 2014 12:29:30 GMT <![CDATA[The Batali Inquisition: Danny Meyer]]>

We finally found the consummate restaurateur’s one potential flaw…

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]]> https://medium.com/@mariobatali/the-batali-inquisition-danny-meyer-8b514713b3bd https://medium.com/p/8b514713b3bd Thu, 08 May 2014 22:22:30 GMT <![CDATA[Mr. Tech Comes to Town]]>

disrupters gonna disrupt

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]]> https://medium.com/@_cynar/mr-tech-comes-to-town-c33f057decd9 https://medium.com/p/c33f057decd9 Thu, 08 May 2014 11:20:33 GMT <![CDATA[Love Letter]]>

by Mira Gonzalez

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]]> https://medium.com/@Human_Parts/love-letter-3ecf3b0f79a5 https://medium.com/p/3ecf3b0f79a5 Thu, 08 May 2014 10:58:19 GMT <![CDATA[A Drone Could Be the Ultimate Dogfighter]]>

Air Force officer proposes robot fighter with minimal human control

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]]> https://medium.com/@warisboring/a-drone-could-be-the-ultimate-dogfighter-397851a4892c https://medium.com/p/397851a4892c Thu, 08 May 2014 19:06:46 GMT <![CDATA[This Is Not the Nigeria I Know]]>

By Adaora Udoji

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]]> https://medium.com/@thelist/this-is-not-the-nigeria-i-know-c801339153ba https://medium.com/p/c801339153ba Thu, 08 May 2014 15:46:05 GMT <![CDATA[Mexican Drug Cartels Pose a Greater Danger to the U.S. than al-Qaeda]]>

Several months ago, I was a guest at a dinner sponsored by a major security organization and found myself in the company of a dozen police…

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In the Islamic Republic of Iran, hidden beyond public view, a secret party is being organised.

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