1. The year of the NBA unicorn (NBA, Axios)

2. Automating humans with AI (AI, Axios)

3. Mammon. Far from representing rationality and logic, capitalism is modernity’s most beguiling and dangerous form of enchantment by Eugene McCarraher (society, aeon)

4. The city trying to make urban living good for your health (cities, BBC)

5. The World Can Make More Water From the Sea, but at What Cost? (technology, NYT)