Reads: Apple's Trillion Dollar Value, 200 Greatest Songs & More

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

1. Here's Why It's So Impossible to Get Reliable Diet Advice From the News - Slate
2. Sex and Hotels - Slate
3. Look Up From Your Screen - Aeon
4. How cosmic is the cosmos? - Aeon
5. Pens for Pennies - Tedium
6. How Companies Make Millions Charging Prisoners to Send an Email - Wired
7. My Son, Osama - The Guardian
8. North Korea: On the Other Side - The California Sunday Magazine
9. Hammacher Schlemmer: The World's Most Peculiar Company - Chicago Magazine
10. Beaches: Groomed to Death - Hakai Magazine
11. Plastic Bag: American Beauties - Topic
12. Diana Marcum: Escape to the Azores Islands - Medium
13. Smartphones Aren't as Exciting as They Used to Be - Android Police
14. Amazon and Walmart's Rivalry and the Future of Buying - The Verge
15. Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change - The New York Times
16. Facebook Grapples With a Maturing Adversary in Election Meddling - The New York Times
17. Apple's Value Hit $1 Trillion - The New York Times
18. Apple's Trillion-Dollar World - Bloomberg
19. Apple $1 trillion - Reuters
20. Apple's Biggest Fails on the Way to $1 Trillion - Yahoo! Finance
21. The 200 Greatest Songs by 21st Century Women+ - NPR
22. How to Make Friends, According to Science - The Atlantic
23. Instagram is Changing the Way Men Dress...for the Worse? - The Wall Street Journal