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This may be familiar territory for some; but still a detailed article on the Fermi Paradox is always interesting.

Clearly, there is just too much of the stuff. This is a meta-collection of articles that are themselves collections of good articles. Starting with this collection of the Best Business Journalism of 2013 compiled by The New Yorker . The most popular Quartz stories of 2013. Top Long Reads of 2013 . The 41 best stories of 2013 compiled by BusinessWeek . Some of the best Sportswriting of the year for those interested.

Fascinating tales about childhood epilepsy and what people do (and doctors recommend) when drugs and therapies don't work. One solution is keto diet which consists of food that is full of fat and no carbs. One would think this would damage the kids but strangely enough, the food stops the epileptic attacks. And the latest is using medical marijuana processed in a particular manner to treat treatment-resistant epilepsy. And it's working.

Commander Hadfield has tweeted many photographs during his time in space. Here are a few of his tweets. Looking north from our orbit to the forbidding rock and ice of Greenland. pic.twitter.com/v4zoygpQgI — Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) May 7, 2013 Glacial water burping into the Atlantic in deep Southern Argentina. pic.twitter.com/cRBehZEx — Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) February 10, 2013 Tonight's Finale: Nature inspires awe - cloud, ice and rock in southern South America. pic.twitter.com/sqCYVSbZTw — Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) February 24, 2013 Tonight's Finale: Patagonia to the Pacific, the glaciers showing the height of the southern Andes. pic.twitter.com/2eWQCzKKV6 — Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) April 13, 2013 Strange how the slow flow of glacial ice becomes more visible from here, so far away. pic.twitter.com/SCRkzgBABT — Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) May 8, 2013 From over the southern tip of S. America, I looked so...

The story of Kayla, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig, James Foley and Theo Fadnos in The New Yorker .

Commemorating the lunar landing from 46 years ago, here are some wonderful photographs published on The Atlantic website. Some goods ones are there that I hadn't come across before. Really. Go check them. Let me paste just one here. Those tiny workers are perched some 110 meters or 360 feet above the ground. And more photos of Apollo 11 are here .