Weekend Reading
As you head into the weekend and find a little extra time, we’ve gathered a few longer reads that are thoughtful, engaging, and sometimes just for fun. Settle in with a coffee and enjoy.
- Teen Invents Award-Winning Adaptive Crosswalk System (Nice News)
- You’re obsessing over the wrong Peter Thiel conference (How to Survive the Broligarchy)
- Prediction Markets Are Minting a New Type of Insider Trader (Businessweek)
- American AI is locked down and proprietary. It’s losing. China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. (Ben Werdmuller)
- From ducks to spaceships: ‘weird buildings’ explores unconventional architecture worldwide (designboom)
- ‘Whataboutism’ makes the internet exhausting. Why people think this way: “It’s normal for us to have egocentric processing, to filter the world through our own experiences”. (CNN)
- It’s no longer illegal to destroy the one thing endangered species need most to survive (Vox)
- As Odd as a Clockwork Orange: The Unreliable Narrator and Primary Sources: The Memory Hole revisits Kubrick’s masterpiece through the lens of 2026 — and finds it uncomfortably prophetic about state violence, media manipulation, and the aestheticization of cruelty. (The Memory Hole)
- Why Am I Left-Handed? (Quanta Magazine)
- The 16 Most Painful Health Conditions in the World (U.S. News)
- Nuclear energy could be in for a big decade: The global fleet of nuclear power plants is poised to expand quickly as climate. (Canary Media)
- Shooting Starlink: The “no limits” partnership between Russia and China is taking aim at Elon Musk: Secret documents from a series of clandestine Russian-Chinese military forums reveal a joint plan to defeat Elon Musk’s Starlink and a weapons development partnership far deeper than either country will admit. (The Insider)
- Video of the day: Will Ferrell | Good Hang with Amy Poehler (YouTube)