This Week’s Essential Reads

Looking for something to read this weekend? Start with “The Flipboard Five” — five of the most read and shared articles and photo galleries on Flipboard this week.

Put a knife in Ray Villafane’s hand, give him a pumpkin, and look what happens — some of the coolest, most expressive gourds we’ve ever seen.

Powerlines, cables, roads and airlines cross-cross the Earth, creating intricate webs that turn out to be beautiful when visualized.

In “12 Ways to Mess Up Your Kids,” The Atlantic’s health and science writer Alice Walton details how easy it is to screw up your offspring.

Flipboard readers pored over this infographic examining how enterprises are adopting tablets and what the future looks like for the device in the workplace.

Bruce Upbin examines “The 147 Companies That Control Everything” for Forbes. The list was generated by systems theorists in Zurich who are creating the first map of the structure of global corporate control.