Can Jon Stewart’s new show become the first successful streaming talk show? The release late tonight of satirist Jon Stewart’s new bi-weekly show, The Problem With Jon Stewart, on Apple TV+ is the latest attempt by streaming platforms to bring the talk show format to the streaming world, writes the Wall Street Journal. Stewart, who rose to fame hosting The Daily Show, has been off of the screen for six years and comes back to a different climate of ‘wokeness’ that he will have to contend with. He’ll also have to adapt to the new format and audience as he abandons cable TV for the more exclusive streaming platform. Apple TV isn’t the first streaming site to attempt to bring talk shows onto its roster of successes, but the talking heads format kept failing as audiences opt for more binge-worthy, on-demand content. Nonetheless, if anyone can break the pattern it’s Stewart whose political satire inspired shows all over the world. We’ll just have to wait and see.

Also on the small screen: It seems Netflix might be cooking up at least one spinoff from Stranger Things as mulls whether the series has franchise potential. The company’s co-CEO dropped the hint in a wide-ranging interview at the Code Conference while sitting in a red chair talking with the always awesome Kara Swisher, Deadline reports.

Calories in, calories out is [redacted]. Complete and utter [redacted], and there are few who make that point better than Gary Taubes, the ace science writer turned researcher whose seminal Is Sugar Toxic? in the New York Times Magazine back in 2011 helped lay the groundwork for a revolution in how scientists, physicians and journalists think about why we gain weight. It’s a theme into which Taubes dove deeper in his well-reviewed 2017 book The case against sugar. Now, Taubes is taking on “CICO,” the much-touted and never lastingly successful approach to weight loss that suggests weight gain is due to an “energy imbalance” between the calories you ingest and those you burn off. It’s given rise to the “move more, eat less” school — and we all know how well that works. Whether you’re trying to shed a few kg or just nerd out on public health and biology, you’ll want to read his latest for the health site Stat: How a ‘fatally, tragically flawed’ paradigm has derailed the science of obesity.

Cancer is no laughing matter, but damn: “Are you someone who enjoys the unsolicited opinions of strangers and acquaintances? If so, I can’t recommend cancer highly enough. You won’t even have the first pathology report in your hands before the advice comes pouring in. Laugh and the world laughs with you; get cancer and the world can’t shut its trap,” writes Caitlin Flanagan in I’ll tell you the secret of cancer for the Atlantic. It’s her compelling, funny, angrifying distillation of what she’s learned in the nearly 20 years since she was diagnosed with cancer.

We have a confession to make: We’re business and finance geeks who obviously love media — but we’ve not yet watched Succession. We were recently reminded of this when one of the nicest (and smartest) people we know reminded us to put the drama in our up-next queue. That made this piece in the New Yorker on The real CEO of “Succession” all the more interesting. Meet Jesse Armstrong, the TV writer who keeps the Roy family “trapped in its gilded cage.”

Will private equity firms spread remote work, virus-like, out of tech to make “remote first” the default for other industries? That’s the contention of tech entrepreneur Chris Herd, who used remote work to create a successful business. Almost a generation ago, open offices were pioneered (in their latest incarnation) in the tech world before “spreading outward” to other industries. Herd sees private equity doing the same thing now, saying PE outfits “will begin hiring away remote-first experts from big technology companies. They will then buy up companies in other sectors, deploy this expertise to help them successfully abandon long-term office leases, and hire better talent, allowing them to reap the immediate financial rewards that these moves generate.” Read the full argument (and more) in the New Yorker’s Is going to the office a broken way of working?

University endowments are “minting bns in a golden era of venture capital,” writes the Wall Street Journal, notching “their biggest investment gains in decades, thanks to portfolios boosted by huge venture-capital returns and soaring stock markets.” The question, though, is how long it can last as bears are calling the top of the market — and thanks to uncertainty about how much of the gains many of the endowments report are still unrealized.

Egyptian cotton plays a starring role in the Guardian’s Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the detectives untangling the global supply chain. Science nerds, IPR types and trade nuts alike will enjoy this one, which looks at the quest to prove authenticity “at the atomic level.”

A flurry of weekend career advice from a certain salmon-coloured paper that we think many of you would enjoy:

• Ted Lasso’s leadership lessons (please don’t talk to us about season 2 — we’re waiting for our next block of days off to binge on it)
• CSR careers finally come of age — and are breaking sector boundaries
• Why do businesses keep trying to find a ‘magic’ playbook? wherein a tech investor argues that “companies should be data-centric from day one and write their own script as they look to scale up.”