Industry Reads & Recs

Money can’t buy taste, and other lessons we learned this week:

A great-grandmother has been retired since 2009. Her love for the local Culver’s got her back into the job market during her golden years.

Organic robots can now reproduce. Obviously, humanity’s days are numbered.

We were late getting on board with The Wheel of Time, a high-fantasy series that debuted in November (we’re still recovering from the debacle that was Game of Thrones’ final season), but new episodes of the epic are still dropping each Friday. There are fewer dragons, but also fewer rapists—we’ll take that trade-off.

Succession: When horrible people eat horrible food.

Why bakers shouldn’t feel weird about doctoring up a cake mix—and why diners shouldn’t turn their noses up at the result.

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