Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.

Hey, did you read:

• That automation "makes us better off collectively by making some of us worse off"? —Steve Bogira

• This defense of Ryan Braun? ("Steroids, amphetamines and other drugs flow into sports like a raging river of Gatorade . . . because athletes, coaches and fans all want jacked-up performances.") —Steve Bogira

• That you too can have a sexting/online porn name like Anthony Weiner's Carlos Danger? (Mine is Pedro Kill.) —Mick Dumke

• This reprimand to the apartment leasing agents of Chicago who clog up Craigslist with ads for the same crappy apartments? —Aimee Levitt

• About Newton Murray, a 99-year-old man from Saint Petersburg who has worked since 1926 and rarely taken a day off? —Tal Rosenberg

• Speaking of pseudonyms, J.K. Rowling on her "inner bloke" alter ego, crime writer Robert Galbraith? —Kate Schmidt

• About the slow growth rate of Divvy bike sharing memberships? —Kevin Warwick

• A.O. Scott's insightful look at the saga of Walter White? (Just three more Sundays left!) —Drew Hunt

• About the "enormous bright red light flashes above a thundercloud, spreading energetic branches that extend five times taller than Mount Everest and look like jellyfish tendrils and angel's wings"? —Mara Shalhoup