The weekend is right here! Pour your self a mug of espresso, seize a seat outdoors, and prepare for our longer-form weekend reads:
• We may be nearer to altering course on local weather change than we realized: Greenhouse gasoline emissions may need already peaked. Now they should fall — quick. (Vox)
• Tesla Is Not the Subsequent Ford. It’s the Subsequent Con Ed. Elon Musk’s EV empire is crumbling. Of late, Tesla’s vehicles have come to look a bit hazardous. Their self-driving options have been linked to lots of of accidents and greater than a dozen deaths. Then, earlier this month, the corporate recalled its total fleet of Cybertrucks. (The Atlantic) see additionally Tesla’s in its flop period: The corporate’s gross sales are falling, its inventory is dropping, and even its most ardent supporters are pressured about the place it’s all heading. (The Verge)
• It Launched Ozempic to the World. Now It Should Remake Itself. Novo Nordisk’s factories work nonstop turning out Ozempic and Wegovy, its blockbuster weight-loss medicine, however the Danish firm has far larger ambitions. (New York Instances)
• Constancy Reminds ETF Business It Doesn’t Have To Care: Vanguard: Plow any cash made again into making the funds larger (cheaper) and higher; Schwab: Become profitable for shareholders the way in which most public firms do: generate backside line income (the enterprise), and enhance multiples (the model and development story); Constancy: Safe the Bag for Abby Johnson and different personal shareholders. (Echo Seaside)
• Jerry Seinfeld Says Films Are Over. Right here’s Why He Made One Anyway: The billionaire comic could possibly be doing something together with his time and expertise, so why did he direct a film about Pop-Tarts? In a candid dialog, Seinfeld explains all that—in addition to his position in making that instantly-legendary Curb finale, and his sense that folks misunderstood his personal present’s infamous ending. (GQ)
• Ant geopolitics: Over the previous 4 centuries quadrillions of ants have created a wierd and turbulent world society that shadows our personal. (Aeon)
• 27 Takes On What It Means To Be a Severe Particular person: What can we imply after we name any person “critical” or “unserious”? Let me say, proper off the bat, that I don’t assume there’s a definitive reply to this. Seriousness is one thing we recognise in folks, or really feel we recognise, with out having the ability to absolutely articulate (The Ruffian) see additionally Do you could have an interior monologue? Right here’s what it reveals about you. Whereas consultants disagree on how frequent self-talk actually is, they wholeheartedly agree that it’s a useful device for self-discovery. (Nat Geo)
• What Form of a Superpower Is India Turning into? The 2024 Indian basic election is already underway, and the favored and controversial Narendra Modi seems to be the favourite. How is India altering beneath Modi? (The Ringer)
• How the New York Instances grew to become the White Home’s least favourite paper: The Petty Feud Between the NYT and the White Home Biden’s folks assume they’re “entitled.” The Instances says “they’re not being lifelike.” (Politico)
• Physicists Lastly Know How the Robust Pressure Will get Its Power: New discoveries demystify the weird pressure that binds atomic nuclei collectively. (Scientific American)