More Best Ofs

The end-of-year best-of lists are starting to pour in at a feverish pace. But let’s pause for just a second and take a look at what could be the most interesting and important of these lists. From The Wrap: The Year in James Franco: Everything He Did in 2013 That You Didn’t.

+ The Atlantic: The best movies of 2013. And from Wired: Our favorite movies of 2013.

+ The top scientific discoveries of 2013.

+ You need some holiday reading material? Check out BloombergBusinessweek’s 2013 Jealousy List: The 41 best stories (and one book) we didn’t write.

+ MoJo: The five biggest meat stories of 2013.