18 must-read stories for the weekend

1. What will job security look like in the future? The safe-bet careers of the past are slipping away, with vast implications for tomorrow’s workforce.

2. 10 lessons from a start-up entrepreneur. Make a difference, not just money. And if you’re ordering in too many pizzas, you have too many founders.

3. Our biggest mistakes about the threats from artificial intelligence. Robots are not going to suddenly “wake up” and destroy humanity.

4. 5 steps to a more informed debate on migration. We need less xenophobia and scare-mongering, more understanding of the economics.

5. How editing our DNA can cure disease. Video interview with a scientist whose ground-breaking work removes harmful mutations from genetic material.

6. 70 years ago, the UN Charter emerged from a war-torn world. And in 2015, we urgently need to create a sustainable future, says Ban Ki-moon.

7. A global deal is not the only way to fight climate change. Huge opportunities to cut emissions exist at a local level.

8. What can we do to improve female representation in politics? Cites research from this year’s Global Gender Gap report. (Guardian)

9. Global energy landscape. The key findings of the Forum’s Energy Architecture Performance Index report. (Business Recorder)

10. Darkness Invisible. The hidden global costs of mental illness. (Foreign Affairs)

11. The year in inequality: racial disparity can no longer be ignored, reports Al Jazeera America. (Al Jazeera America)

12. 5 stats that explained the world this week. The first stat references the Global Gender Gap report. (Politico Magazine)

13. The conventional wisdom on oil is almost always wrong.

14. Has Norway found the answer to the rich world’s falling birth rate?

15. A new culprit in rising inequality? Marriage.

16. Is string theory starting to unravel? Scientists are starting to give up on one of the most seductive ideas in fundamental physics.

17. And the big bang was not the beginning. New theories suggest we may live in the past of a parallel universe.

18. Songs of the Dark Ages. Researchers have discovered the world’s oldest polyphonic music, from the 900s.

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Author: Adrian Monck is Managing Director and head of Public Engagement at the World Economic Forum.

Image: Birds fly past the new ECB headquarters in Frankfurt. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach