The numbers.
The takes.
The signal.

TWII GLP-1 users are losing weight and moving less — Fitbit data shows step counts and exercise drop after starting the drugs. The number on the scale is going down, but so is the activity that protects muscle. That tradeoff is not in the headline.

TWII 99% of chemicals added to US food were never approved by the FDA. Companies certify their own ingredients as safe, the FDA blessed that loophole in the 1990s, and the agency admits it can't verify the claims. The food supply polices itself.

This Week in Interesting (or sad really) Fundraising companies keep 40-50% of what kids sell, so half the candy money never reaches the school. The prize catalog isn't a perk, it's the mechanism that makes the whole extraction model work. Scholastic is evil?

TWII American supermarkets almost never discount food near its sell-by date, and that's a choice, not an oversight. The system was designed for margin stability, and the cost of that design gets paid in wasted food and full-price groceries nobody buys.

TWII The infrastructure running global banks and airlines depends on open source code maintained by unpaid volunteers. Mythos is going to potentially be transformational on finding and solving exploits.

TWII The $75K happiness ceiling was wrong. A 2021 study found happiness keeps climbing with income past that point, no plateau, which means a decade of "money doesn't buy happiness after X" advice was built on a number that didn't hold up.