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...

• If you think grocery prices take a big bite out of your paycheck in the US, check out the rest of the world (The Conversation)

• The big idea: should we be thinking about luck differently? We tend to focus on good or bad fortune, successes and failures. But what about the fact you’re here at all? (The Guardian)

• This Homemade Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can’t (Wired)

• How to win a Nobel prize: What subjects have past winners studied? What age were they when they won? Where do they live? Nature crunched the data on every science prizewinner to find out. (Nature)

• McDonald’s Macarons: How U.S. fast food took over the world — and then went local. (The Dial)

• Who died and left the US $7 billion? (Sherwood)

• Truth Social Users Are Losing Ridiculous Sums of Money to Scams (Gizmodo)

• Florida Republican Demands Hurricane Aid She Tried to Block (TNR)

• We should call the Republican justices “Republicans” and not “conservatives.” (Vox)

• The Most Sought-After Travel Guide Is a Google Doc (Thrillist)

• Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest (Age of Invention)

• Russia’s First Secret Influence Campaign: Convincing the U.S. to Buy Alaska (Politico)

• Data Centers’ Share of Total Power Consumption (Source: Apollo)
  

• See the Ocean Heat Fueling Hurricane Milton, in One Chart (Source: New York Times)
  

What are you reading or listening to?