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...

• How Machines Learned to Discover Drugs: The A.I. revolution is coming to a pharmacy near you. (New Yorker)

• The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Pixar (SatPost by Trung Phan)

• How Long Til We’re All on Ozempic? Over 100 million Americans, and possibly many more, could benefit from GLP-1 drugs. When can they expect to get them? (Asterisk)

• Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong (Wired)

• The Flow State: The science of the elusive creative mindset that can improve your life: Scientists have long known the mental and creative benefits of the flow state, in which total absorption in an activity banishes anxiety. (The Guardian)

• Flow State primers: Gardening, mapping, balancing and the best wildlife photography of the year.

• Niall Ferguson: The Return of Anti-History. Podcasts are not reviving history, as is often claimed these days. They are mostly drowning it in a tidal wave of blather, at best sloppy, at worst mendacious. (The Free Press)

• Eleven Predictions: Here’s What AI Does Next: Are you ready? Is anybody ready? (Honest Broker)

• Crypto is the new Trump family business. Ethics watchdogs have concerns. The former president’s eldest sons are gearing up to launch a new cryptocurrency venture. (Politico)

• Renting versus Owning a Home as We get Older (FlowingData)

• FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist: Feds say it’s the first US criminal case involving artificially inflated music streaming. (Ars Technica)

• Useful skills. How to get your stolen phone back. How to spot climate tipping points. How to create a crossword puzzle.

• Where Time goes with Age (FlowingData)

What are you reading or listening to?