Reads: Artificial Heart, Xinjiang & More

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

1. Why Animals Don't Get Lost - The New Yorker
2. Inside Xinjiang's Prison State - The New Yorker
3. Why Does the Pandemic Seem to Be Hitting Some Countries Harder Than Others? - The New Yorker
4. How to Build an Artificial Heart - The New Yorker
5. How to Practice - The New Yorker
6. A Bestselling Author Became Obsessed With Freeing a Man From Prison. It Nearly Ruined Her Life. - The Marshall Project
7. What Can COVID-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell? - The New York Times
8. Your Face Is Not Your Own - The New York Times
9. How Facebook Got Addicted to Spreading Misinformation - MIT Technology Review
10. Inside Israel's Lucrative — and Secretive — Cybersurveillance Industry - Rest of World
11. I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget - WIRED
12. He Should Have Been a Boy - Information
13. Brain Wifi - Aeon
14. The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth's Ancient Rock Record - The Atlantic
15. Sex, Lies, and Videogames - The Atlantic
16. In Praise of Idleness - Harper's
17. The Gilded Age - The Atavist
18. A "No Math" (but Seven-Part) Guide to Modern Quantum Mechanics - Ars Technica