TouchStone Reads - February 13th, 2026

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...

• Who is America’s Largest Landowner? (Land Report)
• How to be Human (Substack After Babel)
• AI ‘slop’ is transforming social media – and a backlash is brewing (BBC)
• The Economic Costs of Brexit on the UK (Econofact)
• How cancer shaped Katherine LaNasa’s Emmy-winning turn on The Pitt (CBC)
• It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines (Futurism)
• RIP Canada's First Lady of Comedy Catherine O’Hara. Lured away from SCTV to Saturday Night Live - she stayed 2 days and came back to SCTV.  Among her many great roles time to re-enjoy Best in Show.
• What happens when we admit we don’t know? Kelly Corrigan on why humility fuels curiosity (Big Think)
• The Startup Graveyard: 1100+ Failed Startup Case Studies: Where 1,402 startups and $202.6B+ in venture capital was burned to ashes. Loot the wreckage. (Loot Drop)
• Interstellar Space Travel Will Never, Ever Happen - It’s Basically Impossible (Jason Pargin)
• The Fall of the Nerds: The age of humans who could think like computers is drawing to a close. (Noahpinion)
• Daydreamers and Sleepwalkers: Crossing the Borderlands of the Unconscious (MIT Press Reader)
• The Coming Crypto Apocalypse (Nouriel Roubini)
• The $117 Trillion World Economy (Source: Visual Capitalist)
  
  

What are you reading or listening to?