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Hi Quartz members,
\nWelcome back to Sunday Reads. Last week, l ast week, we warmed you up with an easy question: What breakfast items do you enjoy best with Sunday Reads? Ken gave a shoutout to Kodiak pancakes with eggs, kefir, and blueberries. Tee made a pitch for gluten-free coconut cookies from Trader Joe\u2019s. Walt didn\u2019t list any items but thanked us for the good read. (Thank you, Walt!)
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\nThis week, our question is more personal (for us, at least): What\u2019s your favorite topic to read about on Quartz? Let us know.
\n5 things we especially liked on Quartz
\n🌊 Water views available. The physical risk of water is increasingly a financial one, especially in the age of climate change. John Engen reports on Wall Street\u2019s rising concern over floods, droughts, and pollution, and the wellspring of new frameworks and filters meant to help them measure their portfolios\u2019 exposure.
\n📘 \u200b\u200bThrowing the book at Sam Bankman-Fried. Nate DiCamillo interviews Brady Dale, author of SBF: How the FTX Bankruptcy Unwound Crypto\u2019s Very Bad Good Guy. Dale shares his thoughts on how the crypto exchange founder captured the attention of mainstream media and why FTX\u2019s implosion ultimately shouldn\u2019t have been a surprise.
\n💊 Why Italian exports to China are suddenly surging. The dramatic 62% year-on-year increase to a new monthly record can be entirely explained by one product: a generic drug that treats gallstones and liver issues. Annalisa Merelli examines the data\u2014and the small study from December that suggested ursodeoxycholic acid also might help protect against covid infections.
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\n👀 Can Gen Z learn to make eye contact? It\u2019s not just in-person conversation skills that the Zoomers are lacking. Gabriela Riccardi talks to communications expert Dustin York about the nonverbal cues that the newest generation of workers are missing. The tips she got from him, however, are useful regardless of your age or experience level.
\n🏏Hot mess. That drop in Disney+ subscribers last quarter? Much of it was attributable to India, where the Disney+ Hotstar service lost the rights to stream the Indian Premier League cricket championship. Mimansa Verma sorts through the sticky wicket in the House of Mouse\u2019s latest earnings report.
\nReads for your ears
\nLast week, the Quartz Obsession podcast asked key questions about two tech hot topics. Will the West ever succeed in its quest to make a superapp like WeChat? And will AI ever stop making things up?
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\nJoin host Scott Nover with guests from our newsroom, as they discuss the tech that promises to change our world.
\n📱 \u201cSuperapps: There can be only one\u201d featuring tech and breaking news reporter Ananya Bhattacharya
\n😵‍💫 \u201cAI hallucinations: Turn on, tune in, beep boop\u201d featuring emerging tech reporter Michelle Cheng
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\n5 great stories from elsewhere
\n🥤 Canned secrets. Coca-Cola famously guards its flagship recipe, but there\u2019s another secret formula the company keeps under wraps. Bloomberg tells the tale of Shannon You, a chemist laid off from Coca-Cola, who, in her final days at the company tried to pilfer critical information about the fabrication of Coke\u2019s can lining. You then flew back to Beijing, aiming to start her own venture\u2014until the law caught up with her.
\n🕊️ Wing watcher. Peter Kaestner wants to be the first person in the world to see 10,000 different species of birds. If you look at his record on eBird, a birding observation database, he tops the rankings with 9,796 successful sightings. But setting his eyes on the final couple hundred will be no easy task. Reporting for Outside, ornithologist Jessie Williamson travels to remote corners of Peru to join the former foreign service officer on his winged quest.
\n🤑 Home McHome. The McMansion: Many love to hate it, and many would love to have it. Kate Wagner, author of the blog McMansion Hell, is an expert on the grandiose, all-American symbol. Writing for The Baffler, Wagner gives an architectural and anthropological look at the supersized home, marking the 2008 financial crisis as a key point in its history. The question now is: Who\u2019s living in these sprawling abodes, and what needs to change?
\n🎵Pollution tunes. Big Oil and agriculture are usually singled out when talking about climate change, and for good reason. But not many would seriously examine the music business. In fact, mass musical consumption has never been more damaging to the planet. A story from Atmos looks at the evolution of music listening, starting with the invention of recordings, up to the present era of streaming, and the current push for greener practices within the industry.
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\n⏰Time twist. A popular trope in time travel movies involves the protagonist going back in time, changing something, and then jumping to the present, where lo! Everything is different! But that doesn\u2019t actually make causal sense, says philosophy professor Ben Burgis. On his Substack, Burgis revisits popular films that use time travel as a plot device, and also manage to hold together consistent models of causation (spoiler: the list is pretty short).
\nSurprising discoveries
\nEach weekday in our Daily Brief newsletter, we share five surprising discoveries, taken from all over. In case you missed them, we\u2019re showcasing our top five favorites from the week. Check out this week\u2019s picks (which include King Charles\u2019s thrifted duds, investors distracted by the sun, and koalas being saved from chlamydia).
\nWhat to watch for this week
\nThese are some of the events our newsroom will be paying attention to in the week ahead:
\nMonday: The EU is expected to clear Microsoft\u2019s $69 billion of Activision Blizzard. Protests are also likely in Israel on the 75th anniversary of Al-Nakba, which displaced most Palestinians in 1948
\nThe EU is expected to clear Microsoft\u2019s $69 billion of Activision Blizzard. Protests are also likely in Israel on the 75th anniversary of Al-Nakba, which displaced most Palestinians in 1948 Tuesday: We\u2019ll hear from arguably two of the most influential CEOs at the moment, Elon Musk Jamie Dimon
\nWe\u2019ll hear from arguably two of the most influential CEOs at the moment, Wednesday: It\u2019s a day of earnings alliteration with Tencent, TJX, Target, and Take Two all tallying their totals
\nIt\u2019s a day of earnings alliteration with Tencent, TJX, Target, and Take Two all tallying their totals Thursday: The largest bitcoin conference, Bitcoin 2023, starts in Miami, and we\u2019ve got a lot of lingering questions about MiamiCoin
\nThe largest bitcoin conference, Bitcoin 2023, starts in Miami, and we\u2019ve got a lot of Friday: Fast X premieres, the 10th movie in the Fast & Furious franchise, and yes, Vin Diesel is starring (maybe that\u2019s why the Miami Vice reboot never happened
\nFast X premieres, the 10th movie in the Fast & Furious franchise, and yes, Vin Diesel is starring (maybe that\u2019s why Saturday: World Bee Day is a-buzzin, so thank a bee for, you know, giving us an ecosystem
\nThanks for reading! Here\u2019s to the week ahead, and don\u2019t hesitate to reach out with comments, questions, feedback, good bad guys , or eye contact tips . Sunday Reads was brought to you by Susan Howson, Morgan Haefner, Heather Landy, and Julia Malleck.<\/p>\n

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