A list of good reads

• BBC News looks at why Chinese billionaires keep disappearing. 
• Fast Company did a detailed and somewhat Vogue-like profile of OpenAI CTO Mira Murati.
• Nikkei Asia (free log in) has an excellent feature on how women are rewriting the rules in Bollywood.
• Washington Post (splainer gift link) has a useful piece on sugar substitutes sneaking into your food—and how they affect your health.
• Vice has an entertaining take on how we save people’s contact numbers on our phone—and what it reveals about us.
• Do clowns terrify you? The Conversation explains why.
• Until we read this Cut piece, we had no idea that so many people were using digital assistants to handle all their email.
• GQ looks at the disturbing trend of men getting their jaws broken in the name of ‘manliness’.
• The Guardian has a thought-provoking piece on the sacred mantra of fitness culture—no pain, no gain—and why it’s actually not true.
• TIME looks at whether the hottest sleep aid—magnesium tablets—actually work.