{"id":558174,"date":"2021-09-30T13:47:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T13:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/09\/30\/jon-stewart-makes-a-comeback-stranger-things-could-become-a-franchise-and-go-inside-the-lies-of-the-cico-approach-to-weight-loss\/"},"modified":"2021-09-30T13:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T13:47:22","slug":"jon-stewart-makes-a-comeback-stranger-things-could-become-a-franchise-and-go-inside-the-lies-of-the-cico-approach-to-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/09\/30\/jon-stewart-makes-a-comeback-stranger-things-could-become-a-franchise-and-go-inside-the-lies-of-the-cico-approach-to-weight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart makes a comeback, Stranger Things could become a franchise \u2014 and go inside the lies of the \u201cCICO\u201d approach to weight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> Can Jon Stewart\u2019s new show become the first successful streaming talk show?<\/strong> The release late tonight of satirist Jon Stewart\u2019s 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<\/a>. 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 \u2018wokeness\u2019 that he will have to contend with. He\u2019ll also have to adapt to the new format and audience as he abandons cable TV for the more exclusive streaming platform. Apple TV isn\u2019t 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\u2019s Stewart whose political satire inspired shows all over the world. We\u2019ll just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n

Also on the small screen: It seems Netflix might be cooking up at least one spinoff from <\/strong>Stranger Things <\/strong>as mulls whether the series has franchise potential. The company\u2019s 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<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

<\/a> Calories in, calories out is [redacted]. Complete and utter [redacted]<\/strong>, and there are few who make that point better than Gary Taubes, the ace science writer turned researcher whose seminal Is Sugar Toxic?<\/a> 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\u2019s a theme into which Taubes dove deeper in his well-reviewed<\/a> 2017 book The case against sugar<\/a>. Now, Taubes is taking on \u201cCICO,\u201d the much-touted and never lastingly successful approach to weight loss that suggests weight gain is due to an \u201cenergy imbalance\u201d between the calories you ingest and those you burn off. It\u2019s given rise to the \u201cmove more, eat less\u201d school \u2014 and we all know how well that works. Whether you\u2019re trying to shed a few kg or just nerd out on public health and biology, you\u2019ll want to read his latest for the health site Stat: How a \u2018fatally, tragically flawed\u2019 paradigm has derailed the science of obesity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cancer is no laughing matter, but damn: \u201cAre you someone who enjoys the unsolicited <\/strong>opinions of strangers and acquaintances? If so, I can\u2019t recommend cancer highly enough.<\/strong> You won\u2019t 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\u2019t shut its trap,\u201d writes Caitlin Flanagan in I\u2019ll tell you the secret of cancer<\/a><\/strong> for the Atlantic. It\u2019s her compelling, funny, angrifying distillation of what she\u2019s learned in the nearly 20 years since she was diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n

We have a confession to make: We\u2019re business and finance geeks who obviously love <\/strong>media \u2014 but we\u2019ve not yet watched Succession. <\/strong>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 \u201cSuccession\u201d<\/a><\/strong> all the more interesting. Meet Jesse Armstrong, the TV writer who keeps the Roy family \u201ctrapped in its gilded cage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will private equity firms spread remote work, virus-like, out of tech to make \u201cremote first\u201d <\/strong>the default for other industries? <\/strong>That\u2019s 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<\/em>) in the tech world before \u201cspreading outward\u201d to other industries. Herd sees private equity doing the same thing now, saying PE outfits \u201cwill begin hiring away remote-first experts from big technology companies<\/strong>. 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.\u201d Read the full argument (and more) in the New Yorker\u2019s Is going to the office a broken way of working?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

University endowments are \u201cminting bns in a golden era of venture capital,\u201d<\/strong> writes the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, notching \u201ctheir biggest investment gains in decades, thanks to portfolios boosted by huge venture-capital returns and soaring stock markets.\u201d The question, though, is how long it can last<\/strong> as bears are calling the top of the market \u2014 and thanks to uncertainty about how much of the gains many of the endowments report are still unrealized.<\/p>\n

Egyptian cotton plays a starring role<\/strong> in the Guardian\u2019s Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the<\/a>detectives untangling the global supply chain<\/a>. Science nerds, IPR types and trade nuts alike will enjoy this one, which looks at the quest to prove authenticity \u201cat the atomic level.\u201d<\/p>\n

A flurry of weekend career advice from a certain salmon-coloured paper <\/strong>that we think many of you would enjoy:<\/p>\n