• Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance poses an unprecedented danger to human rights The Amnesty Report.
• After Uber arrives, heavy drinking increases Surprise, surprise.
• The global population pyramid: how global demography has changed and what we can expect for the 21st century
• On the sentience of animals “You know the story: you cast your vote against animal sentience and you feel it’s reasonable to do so, but then you have to go home and undress in front of the cat.” Lovely essay by Daisy Hildyard in the London Review of Books.

THANKS to Mark, the reader who spotted the typo in the second link. Now fixed.