A Fancy Cult, Amazon's World Domination, And More Weekend Reads

Inside The World's Chicest Cult

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WEEKEND LONG READS Inside The World's Chicest Cult harpersbazaar.com "Everyone has a threshold for New Age spirituality. At Spirit Weavers, a highly Instagrammable, sold-out women's retreat, I hit mine." HELP PLS Your Therapist Is Typing... digg.com Between guided mindfulness and text-based therapy, the world of mental health apps ranges from benevolently innocuous to a big, unregulated question mark. PRIME MOVER Jeff Bezos Is Hurtling Toward World Domination newsweek.com Today, the question is not whether Amazon can survive but whether we can survive without Amazon. PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AN OLD MAN The Mysterious Metamorphosis Of Chuck Close nytimes.com The legendary artist has radically upended his distinctive style of portraiture — and his entire life. Why? STUNTING THEIR WILD OATS Why Isn't There A Male Pill Yet? digg.com ​Despite decades of promising research, the many men who want their own contraceptive pill still have nothing. But why? IN THE NEWS Turkish Government Repels Military Coup Attempt, Hundreds Dead Nearly 3,000 Turkish Military Members Detained BOXES WE DIGG Themed Boxes For Guys Who Give A Damn bespokepost.com "You can't put a price on the fun you'll have opening these boxes" - Esquire FAN SERVICE A LABOR OF TREKKIE LOVE This Astounding Fan-Made, Stop Motion 'Star Trek' Film Took Eight Years To Make digg.com Forget "Star Trek: Beyond" — the next "Star Trek" you should watch is German Trekkie and filmmaker Jürgen Kaiser's 58-minute, almost entirely DIY "Star Trek Enterprise II: The Beginning Of The End." DRAGONS ON A PLANE WATCH: Samuel L Jackson Explaining 'Game Of Thrones' Is Even More Epic Than The Show digg.com This is probably the most effective advertisement for "Game of Thrones" we've ever seen. Whatever HBO paid Samuel L. Jackson to voice this recap definitely wasn't enough. MORE 'STAR WARS' PLEASE WATCH: The Behind-The-Scenes Reel Has Got Us Pumped For 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' digg.com Obviously you can't read too much into a carefully staged behind-the-scenes video, but, well, we're going to read into this: "Rogue One" looks awesome. ASKING THE SMALL QUESTIONS LOOK INTO THEIR EYES Nature's Hidden Order quantamagazine.org Scientists are exploring a mysterious pattern, found in birds' eyes, boxes of marbles and other surprising places, that is neither regular nor random. THE MAN IN THE HARD DRIVE A Quest To Crack The Mysteries Of Our DNA statnews.com A scientist recently pointed me out to his colleagues. "That is not Carl Zimmer," he declared. "Really," he said, pointing to a slim hard drive on the table, "this is Carl Zimmer." HARD TIMES SEARCHING FOR DOCTOR LANUSSE Finding The Man Who Saved My Parents During WWII theatlantic.com What happened to the French doctor my parents had taken in during the Russian siege of Budapest? 'IT WAS DEMEANING AND DEGRADING' Life As A Woman In The Trucking Industry maryreview.com Age 55 at the time, Cathy Sellars set out to find a new profession, one that would offer her an independent lifestyle. She wasn't intimidated by the idea of maneuvering a 40-ton truck, sitting virtually immobile for hours at a time in a hulking pilot seat. What she wasn't ready for was everything else that would come with it. BEFORE YOU GO HARDCORE When You Buy An Apple, It's Already A Year Old digg.com Apple picking season is between August and November. Those apples are rapidly processed and put into cold storage where they lie in wait, all year round. That's it, folks. Enjoy the sun this weekend. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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