A list of good reads

• Olga Khazan in The Atlantic analyses the vast data that shows married people are happier.
• The Guardian offers a poignant excerpt from poet Maggie Smith’s memoir ‘You Could Make This Place Beautiful’—which captures how her unexpected fame broke her marriage.
• Newsweek has a detailed and helpful guide that cuts through all the hype to tell us what we actually know about how to eat healthy.
• Washington Post (splainer gift link) has a fascinating piece on how Huawei’s new phone ought to be an alarm bell for the United States—and perhaps India. China can now make its own chips.
• Lithub offers an intriguing piece on the creation of the humble calculator.
• Amanda Gefter in the New Yorker looks at the latest research that explodes what we know about why humans dream.
• Wired has a disturbing read on the global explosion of myopia—and why the world may be inching toward blindness.
• The News Minute has a must-read on why it is so difficult to make a documentary film in India. 
• Quanta magazine has a thought-provoking essay on how our brain distinguishes between what is real and what is not.
• The Print reports on why the Uniform Civil Code is roiling the Parsi community.