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Coffee or tea? Experts share some good news.
Science says "both" for once, lawyers fight to put something back online for once, and experts say you really should worry... for once.
Greg Sullivan
November 05, 2025 • Est. Reading Time: 10 minutes
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“Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.”
― Guy Fawkes
In this issue...
When caffeine and calm collide, your brain wins.
Science loves to take things away: sugar, screens, bacon at brunch*. But sometimes… sometimes, the stars align and science gives a gift.
The well-meaning lab-coat crowd has already come for your one glass of wine a night, so you might expect them to start throwing shade at your morning cup of coffee or tea. Caffeine delivered in delightful ceramic with its aromas and endorphins brings too much joy to be good for you, right? Wrong. This time, they’ve found a way to keep both, and make them better together.
As Mark Wales reports, researchers discovered that combining caffeine (from coffee) with L-theanine (from tea) led to sharper focus, quicker reaction times, and better brainwave activity in sleep-deprived adults. The duo essentially combines espresso energy with monk-like clarity.
* - I’ve been told that to get my triglycerides down, I have to (checks notes), give up everything that makes life worth living.
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And what did we learn?
Yesterday we explored how the line between love and friendship has never been blurrier. We asked you how your best friend would describe your love life, and just shy of 40% of you are living a quiet indie film. Love that for you!
A rom-com: cute moments, funny misunderstandings. (10.8%)
A sci-fi thriller: confusing but kind of thrilling. (27.0%)
A quiet indie film: slow burn, great soundtrack. (37.8%)
A nature doc: fascinating rituals, long naps between seasons. (13.5%)
A psychedelic ballad, a copyright battle, and one glorious YouTube comeback.
We’re subverting expectations all over this issue. First, the scientists say you can drink coffee and tea. Now, a team of copyright lawyers (yes, really) has collaborated to bring something back to YouTube for once.
The “something” is Prince’s jaw-dropping, once-in-a-lifetime cover of Radiohead’s “Creep,” which he turned into a sultry, slow-burn stunner at Coachella 2008. It was legendary. And then, as our in-house music expert Ryan Reed reports, it vanished.
For years, it was a digital ghost story. Fans posted it. Prince’s team zapped it. Even Radiohead was baffled. Then, out of nowhere, it reappeared, along with a strange message and one final twist you won’t see coming.
Get your stress sorted out in less time than it takes to get a pizza delivered.
We love to say “no worries,” but here’s something that might blow your mind, most of us have lots of worries. And the harder we try not to worry, the worse it gets.
So, therapists have flipped the script. Instead of telling you not to worry, they’re telling you to worry all you want… for a bit. In this story by Erik Barnes, experts break down the “worry window” technique: setting aside 10 to 30 minutes a day to let your anxious thoughts run wild... until the alarm goes off.
“By scheduling a specific time to worry, we can teach our brains: ‘I decide when I engage with these thoughts, not anxiety,’”
Once your time’s up, you switch gears. Run. Splash your face. Pop a sour candy. The key is to signal your body that the worry hour is closed for business.
If I told you about a cross-country flight that left late, was plagued by turbulence, and arrived even later, you’d be forgiven for thinking I was describing one of today’s budget airlines. But then I’d go on to mention the plane had one seat, an open cockpit, and had a repair train following it. You might start to get the idea what I’m describing was the first-ever flight across the United States, from Brooklyn to Pasadena. It reached its destination on this day, November 5th, 1911, after 49 days in the air, and on the ground, and back in the air, then back on the ground…
Calbraith Perry Rodgers’s spindly Wright Model EX, plastered with ads for a new grape soda called Vin Fiz, limped and leapt its way west, bouncing from farm fields to fairgrounds while a three-car “hangar train” chased along the tracks with spare wings, engines, and sheer audacity.
He missed William Randolph Hearst’s $50,000 deadline by nineteen days, racked up roughly 15 crashes (give or take, depending on how you separate ‘crash’ from ‘rough landing’), and still thumped down at Pasadena’s Tournament Park to a roar from thousands.
A few weeks later, he nudged on to Long Beach to dip the wheels in the Pacific, completing the literal coast-to-coast. It wasn’t pretty, but it rewired America’s sense of possibility: flight could be late, loud, and wildly imperfect, but it was suddenly real.
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Until tomorrow, may your cup runneth over, whatever you choose to put in it.