Reads: Drowning in Garbage, Pictures of Death & More

A wrap on some of the interesting reads from across the web...

1. The Cobalt Pipeline - The Washington Post
2. Drowning in Garbage - The Washington Post
3. Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds - The New Yorker
4. Doomsday Prep for the Super-rich - The New Yorker
5. Lake Chad: The World's Most Complex Humanitarian Disaster - The New Yorker
6. Weinstein's Complicity Machine - The New York Times
7. Why are America's farmers killing themselves in record numbers? - The Guardian
8. Rise of the machines: who is the 'internet of things' good for? - The Guardian
9. What Ancient Corn Farmers can Teach Us About Engineering Crops for Climate Change - Massive
10. Bitcoin could cost us our clean-energy future - Grist
11. Bitcoin's insane energy consumption, explained - Ars Technica
12. We Don't Need The iPhone X - Fast Company
13. Diary of a Concussion - The Verge
14. The Rise and Fall of the English Sentence - Nautilus
15. Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria - The Atlantic
16. Pictures of Death - The Atlantic
17. What Happens When an Algorithm Helps Write Science Fiction - Wired
18. India's Love For Labradors And German Shepherds Is Driving Its Indigenous Dog Breeds To Extinction - Scroll
19. The Site That May Be Jesus' Tomb - National Geographic
20. What Happens When the Government Uses Facebook as a Weapon? - Bloomberg Businessweek