TouchStone Reads - October 10th, 2025

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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...

  • Exposé from Bellingcat, on how activewear commercials become neo-Nazi fight nights. (Bellingcat)

  • Energy drinks - even just one drink a month - can raise your risk of suicide.   “A meta-analysis of more than 1.5 million participants has suggested that coffee and energy drinks have opposing effects on suicide risk. (Medscape)

  • Louis CK is long-ghosted, but his skit about WiFi on airplanes still rings freshly true (YouTube)

  • The true cost of poverty in Canada, via Dr. Andrew Boozary (Instagram)

  • Best before dates. How long it takes for food to go bad, and for bites to kill you

  • Forbes 400: The definitive ranking of America’s Richest People 2025. (Forbes)

  • Demand for Data Centers, Energy Creates a Gold Rush for Infrastructure Investors (Chief Investment Officer)

  • Philadelphia sheds title of poorest big city in America (Axios)

  • Women, Men and Jobs: Men are in trouble. Are women responsible?  Why are fewer men working? What can policy do to address the worsening problem of non-working men? (Paul Krugman)

  • Five o’clock dinner crowd: why are young Americans eating so early? Gen Z and millennials’ dinner reservations are reportedly inching earlier as they take advantage of happy hour deals. (The Guardian)

  • US Military Cleans Up Discarded Kale at Portland Farmer’s Market (Subscribe if you like laughs & satire) (The Borowitz Report)

  • Meet the Arc spacecraft: It aims to deliver cargo anywhere in the world in an hour (Ars Technica)

  • Unrivalled: Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91 (NPR)

What are you reading or listening to?