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 Common Is Accidental Invention? (Construction Physics)

• Sam Harris: Log Off (TFP)

• Is reading always better for your brain than listening to audiobooks? Reading books and listening to audiobooks tap into different elements of cognition, each with their own benefits. (New Scientist)

• The End of Thinking: The rise of AI’s “thinking” machines is not the problem. The decline of thinking people is. (Derek Thompson)

• Here’s the world shown as 100 people over the last two centuries (Our World in Data)

• American Hindenburg: In the early days of flight, airships were hailed as the future of war. Then disaster struck the USS Akron. (Atavist)

• The strongest evidence for a Universe before the Big Bang: The hot Big Bang is often touted as the beginning of the Universe. But there’s one piece of evidence we can’t ignore that shows otherwise. (Big Think)

• Beef prices are the new egg prices. They’re soaring (CNN)

• What Is the Average 401(k) Balance? It Varies by Age & Income: 401(k) account balances and contribution rates vary greatly by age, and income with people in their 60s racking up the largest balance on average. (Investopedia)

• The Making of a Market Maker: How Thomas Peterffy built the machines that killed the trading floor and made Interactive Brokers into a $100 billion business. (Colossus)

• YIMBY Has Gone Mainstream. Can It Stay That Way? The country’s most successful housing reform movement gathered in New Haven—and revealed its biggest vulnerability. (Slate)

• Stick To The Beat: How the drum machine, despite being a machine, proved just to have just enough heart to dominate the pop charts. (Tedium)

• The US will need to roll over $10T of debt through the end of 2026. Lower rates would help alleviate some of the pressure on the budget. (Carlyle)
  

What are you reading or listening to?