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...

• Hotdogs and motorways: The ripples created by Denmark’s Ozempic and Wegovy boom (BBC)

• Microsoft’s New Majorana 1 Processor Could Transform Quantum Computing: The processor uses qubits that can be measured without error and are resistant to outside interference, which the company says marks a “transformative leap toward practical quantum computing.” (Wired)

• How Ants May Save You from Future Traffic Jams (Scientific American)

• The only land disputed between the US and Canada (BBC)

• A Conversation with Jim Chanos: It’s the golden age of fraud, and other observations (Paul Krugman)

• Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong. Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest. (Politico)

• How the West lost the war it thought it had won (Coda)

• 'It stirred the people to breathless wonder and scalding abuse': The tumultuous history of the Sydney Opera House (BBC)

• Trump’s psychopathology and the suicide of a superpower (The Cosmopolitan Globalist)

• 6 Cognitive Distortions That Fuel Anxiety in ADHD Brains (ADDitude)

• Five years on: The countries that never locked down for Covid-19 (BBC)

• Rich People Are Firing a Cash Cannon at the US Economy - But at What Cost? (Businessweek)

• The Price of Russian Victory: Why Letting Putin Win Would Cost America More Than Supporting Ukraine. (Foreign Affairs)

• The world's strongest ocean current should be getting faster – instead, it is at risk of failing (BBC)

• Winners of the 2025 World Nature Photography Awards (The Atlantic)

• US Imports from China, by Category (Source: Apollo)
  

What are you reading or listening to?