We often set aside articles that are longer, deserve a re-read, are broader in scope…or just for fun - for weekend reading. Below are some from this week - pour yourself a hot cup of coffee & enjoy...

• Dave Barry’s 2021 Year in Review (*Humor*) (Washington Post)

• The entire $94 trillion world economy on your screen. (Visual Capitalist)

• This Was the Year When Finance Jumped the Doge. From GameStop to bored apes, weirdness abounded among meme-loving amateur investors. (Wired)

• Ninety-Nine Fascinating Finds Revealed in 2021. (Smithsonian Magazine)

• Why are Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach still regarded as the greatest composers? Where are we making progress? (Econlib)

• Why The President’s Party Almost Always Has A Bad Midterm (FiveThirtyEight)

• The pandemic’s true death toll (Economist)

• Dazzling Images of the Northern Lights (My Modern Met)

• 2021 in Photos: How the First Months Unfolded (The Atlantic)

• Go fast and make things. A 3-minute commercial for Go Pro (Big Geek Daddy)

• 21 really good things that happened in 2021 Behind the scary headlines, the human race is making a tremendous amount of progress. (Mashable)

What are you reading or listening to?