That was a week for the record books. Settle into your favorite easy chair, fill a mug of hot joe, and enjoy our longer form weekend reads:
• Google Search Will Be Your Next Brain (Medium)
• How stories change hearts and brains (Aeon) see also What are some of the most mind-blowing facts that sound like “BS”, but are actually true? (Quora)
• Drones are getting better faster than anyone expected (The Verge)
• We Know How You Feel: Computers are learning to read emotion, and the business world can’t wait. (New Yorker)
• The Cannabis Queen of Beverly Hills (NYT Magazine)
• 2014 Breaks Heat Record, Challenging Global Warming Skeptics (NYT) see also Scientists react to warmest year: 2014 underscores ‘undeniable fact’ of human-caused climate change (WaPo)
• Inside the World’s Most Advanced Coffee Laboratory (Vice)
• The NY Police vs. the Mayor (NYRoB) see also The NY Police Union’s Civil War (Daily Beast)
• The Picasso Variations: Why the painter’s late work veers from the sloppy to the sublime. (The Nation)
• The Dark Science of Pop Music (The Atlantic) see also In Music, Uniformity Sells (The Atlantic)