[W]e’re rushing to meet so many deadlines that we hardly register that what we need most are lifelines.

• I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave
  This sounds like early 19th century, not early 21st.
• The Joy of Quiet
  A joy indeed.
• Clean IT – Leak Shows Plans For Large-Scale, Undemocratic Surveillance Of All Communications
  This reads like a marketing effort for darknets.
• Meet the Man Who Built a 30-Story Building in 15 Days
  He’s Chinese, in case you wonder.
• How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work?
  Another childhood mistery solved.
• Lettland: Der Musterschüler fällt durch
  Latvia is losing its population due to migration (in German).
• The drugs don’t work: a modern medical scandal
  Most articles about pharmaceutical companies leave one slightly worried (or worse). This one is no exception.