During the week, we consume words in snackable, tweetable bites. But on the weekends, we have the time to take a dive into the murkier, lengthier depths of the Internet and expand our attention spans beyond 140 characters. We can brew a cup of coffee and lie back with our iPads, laptops, smartphones and Kindles.

Since you're bound to miss a few things during the daily grind, we present to you, in our weekly installation of Mashable Must Reads, a curated list of can't-miss stories from around the web to read and reflect on. (You can find last week's must reads here).

Wedding, Career, Chemo: When Cancer Derails the Millennial Dream | Mashable

Nobody is ever ready for a cancer diagnosis. But for 70,000 young adults between 15 and 39 — 6% of the entire cancer population — it's particularly rough. Iris Mansour follows the story of Jenna Benn, 29, who watched her friends reach typical 20-something milestones while she was undergoing treatments in a hospital bed.

Image: Jenna Benn

Fighting Dirty: Behind Boxing's Brain Damage Crisis | The Verge

If you've ever watched a boxing match, you'll see blood spilt and knockout punches thrown. Leigh Cowart proves that the invisible injuries are far more serious, though; consequences of the brain injures affecting former boxers and NFL players is devastating. "{Boxing] really needs some help, and it’s a great sport," says three-time world champion "Terrible" Terry Norris, "but it needs some help protecting the guys that made it."

Despite 'Outrage' Over Twitter Ban, Turks Hold Off on Street Protests | Mashable

Within the span of two weeks, Turkey blocked access to two major vehicles of online free speech: Twitter and YouTube. As Turkish citizens found ways to circumvent the bans, the government only took measures to block those, too. But why aren't Turks fighting back against this repression by taking to the streets en masse, like they did last summer during the Occupy Gezi movement? After all, Turkey has a history of public demonstrations.

Image: Emrah Gurel

The Inside Story of MIT and Aaron Swartz | The Boston Globe

It's been over a year since the suicide of Internet "hacktivist" Aaron Swartz, and a primary lesson of his death still stands: Colleges are no longer safe for intellectual activity. This investigation into how MIT handled Swartz casts both sides in a new light. "Some within MIT believe 'there has been a change in the institutional climate over recent years, where decisions have become driven more by a concern for minimizing risk than by strong affirmation of MIT values.'"

The Drugging of the American Boy | Esquire

By the time they reach high school, nearly 20% of all American boys will be diagnosed with ADHD. Millions of them will be prescribed a powerful stimulant for "normalization," and many will suffer serious side effects from those drugs. The shocking truth is that many of those diagnoses are wrong, and that most of those boys are being drugged for no good reason — simply for being rowdy, overstimulated boys. Ryan D'Agostino argues that society needs to recognize this is as a crisis — now.

Why the U.S. Lacks a National Landslide Warning System | Mashable

Despite a long history of deadly landslide events — with the latest one, a mudslide in Oso, Wash., claiming at least 18 lives — there's no national landslide warning system in the United States, and the country is spending just $3 million a year on research. Among other challenges, telltale signs often can't be recognized until it's too late, experts tell Mashable. But for those touched by landslide tragedies, not to mention those living in the affected areas, that explanation isn't good enough.

Image: Elaine Thompson/Associated Press

The Interpreters We Left Behind | Men's Journal

As our troops pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. is abandoning translators, leaving them among countrymen who view them as traitors. Asylum in the U.S. could be their only hope, but we won't let them in. In this heart-wrenching account, Paul Solotaroff pulls up the curtain on how America is "repaying" the local war interpreter who helped: "I had a senior State guy tell me to my face it was really bad for national security to let a bunch of Muslims in."

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