Reads: Impossible Foods, Secret Spectacles & More

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

1. Secret Spectacles: The story of a migrant spy - BBC
2. Impossible Foods' rising empire of almost-meat - Engadget
3. The Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn't Die - GQ
4. Becoming Family - Longreads
5. Lifelike Simulations: Too Human - Real Life
6. Before And After: Listening to Michael Jackson - NPR
7. The Claustrophobia of Facebook’s New Private "Living Room" - The New Yorker
8. The Curious History of Crap—From Space Junk to Actual Poop - Wired
9. The Man who Is Ageing Too Fast - Mosaic
10. 'Knitting Is Coding' and Yarn Is Programmable in This Physics Lab - The New York Times
11. Proving Einstein Right: Curving the Universe - Aeon
12. Vanilla Fever: How did hunger for the humble vanilla pod lead to greed, crime and riches? - 1843
13. An Even More Inconvenient Truth - ProPublica