What I read in 2013

Here is a list of the favorite articles I read this year.

• Our Silver-Coated Future, Robin Marantz Henig
  • How nano-technology is slowly becoming ubiquitous in our lives; but regulations are lacking. It's a few years old, but still very informative.
• Do No Harm, Anil Ananthaswamy
  • A fascinating article about people who want to amputate one of their perfectly healthy limb.
• The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food, Michael Moss
  • A long article on how the food industry is making junk food addictive.
• How Junk Food Can End Obesity, David H. Freedman
  • Could the food junk giants be the solution to obesity?
• Paradise With an Asterisk, S. C. Gwynne
  • The story of the people who were displaced after the nuclear testing on Bikini atoll.
• Google Glass: What You're Not Supposed to Do, A.J. Jacobs
  • An hilarious take on what the near future might be like.
• 23 and You, Virginia Hughes
  • The consequences of having access to your genetic information: ancestry and diseases.
• The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science, Chris Mooney
• The battle to destroy Wikipedia's biggest sockpuppet army, Simon Owens
  • How some people are trying to manipulate at a large-scale the content of Wikipedia.
• The Honey Launderers: Uncovering the Largest Food Fraud in U.S. History, Susan Berfield
  • Where does your honey come from?
• Bad Blood, Will Storr
  • The story behind the assassination of a Russian dissident.