NEW YORK, Nov 29 —Settle into your favorite chair for our longer-form weekend reads:

  • The downside of the Boom: North Dakota took on the oversight of a multibillion-dollar oil industry with a regulatory system built on trust, warnings and second chances. (NY Times)
  • A Rare Peek Into The Massive Scale of Amazon Web Services (Enterprise Tech)
  • How a Single Mom Created a Plastic Food-Storage Empire (Mental Floss)
  • How to Get Away with Uber (Matter) see also How Uber Is Changing Night Life in Los Angeles (NYT)
  • How Marine Salvage Master Nick Sloane Refloated Costa Concordia (Vanity Fair)
  • At CIA Starbucks, Even the Baristas Are Covert (Washington Post)
  • The Secret Life of Passwords (NYT Mag)
  • ‘God Is Not a Magician:’ Pope Says Christians Should Believe in Evolution and Big Bang (Raw Story)
  • Dave Chappelle Is Back (This Time We’re 100% Sure It’s Maybe Totally for Real) (GQ)
  • An Oral History of the Epic Space Film ‘The Right Stuff’ (Wired)

  • — Bloomberg