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...

• The world has become more resilient to disasters, but investment is needed to save more lives (Our World in Data)

• What Will You Do With Your 30,000 Days? - Part 1 (David Wells)

• Jerry Seinfeld on the Rules of Comedy - and Life | Honestly with Bari Weiss (YouTube)

• Why the illegal sand trade is out of control right now: There’s a global sand shortage (The Hustle)

• Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe (ProPublica)

• More people care about climate change than you think (Our World in Data)

• “Everyone is absolutely terrified”: Inside a US ally’s secret war on its American critics. A foreign government is trying to silence US critics of its authoritarian turn - and it’s succeeding. (Vox)

• Coney Island Was Once Full of Dueling, Backstabbing Theme Parks (Atlas Obscura)

• RFK Jr. is inching toward eligibility for June’s CNN presidential debate. Both the Trump and Biden campaigns assumed this would be a head-to-head contest; RFK has a month to prove them wrong. (Axios)

• Bruce Springsteen was in London to collect a prestigious prize at the Ivor Novello Awards last week. (BBC)

What are you reading or listening to?