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 Welcome to Reading List, Gizmodo   Saturday afternoon collection of the best articles from around the web. This week, we ;ve got smart takes from The Atlantic, Ars Technica, The New York Times, BuzzFeed, and more.     Saira Khan rides along with Island Trauma Services, a biohazard cleanup crew in NYC that cleans up murders, unattended deaths, hoarder houses, and other manner of disgustingness throughout the city. [The Atlantic] Nick Bilton tells the aching story of deleting his relationship from social media after he and his wife divorced. Despite this being something nearly every social media  stanley website user will experience, there   really no easy way to do it. [The New York Times] Heidi Kemps tells a wide-ranging yet personal tale about stanley cup  the search for the  8220 ecret levels of the old Sonic the Hedgehog 2 game鈥攁nd how she returned a stolen, long-lost, pirated copy of the game to its creator, Yuki Naka. [The Atlantic] Casey Johnston tells the tale of myIDkey, one of the most promising electronic devices funded on Kickstarter. It tripled its funding goal鈥攂ut then as time dragged on, the project unraveled, traveling a slowly declining path to failure. [Ars Technica] Ben Austen takes a long, piercing look at what he calls post-post-apocolyptic Detroit, examining the ways the city   champions and inhabitants are working to revive Motor City. [The New York Times Magazine] Leon Neyfakh   oral his stanley vaso tory of the internet is great, focusing on th