Reads: Engineering Luck, Moving Masterpieces & More

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

1. The Underground Railroad of North Korea - GQ
2. Losing Land: Louisiana's Disappearing Coast - The New Yorker
3. A Kayaking Trip Gone Wrong: The Senseless Logic of the Wild - The New York Times
4. Death of the Calorie - 1843
5. BDSM: Of Safe Words and the Sacred - Longreads
6. The Mortician and the Murderer - Topic
7. Smart Talking: Are Our Devices Threatening Our Privacy? - The Guardian
8. The Toxic Truth About Modern Food - The Guardian
9. How to Move a Masterpiece: The Secret Business of Shipping Priceless Artworks - The Guardian
10. The Fertility Doctor's Secret - The Atlantic
11. What Happens If You Find Cameras in Your Airbnb - The Atlantic
12. Shelf Life: Your AirPods Will Die Soon - The Atlantic
13. Why Phone Numbers Stink As Identity Proof - Krebs on Security
14. How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games - Nautilus
15. A Clever New Strategy for Treating Cancer, Thanks to Darwin - Wired
16. DNS: The Internet's Phone Book Is Broken - OneZero
17. The New Genre of Unboxing Videos on YouTube - Vox
18. What Will Happen When Machines Write Songs Just as Well as Your Favorite Musician? - Mother Jones