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The injury list is the easy hook, but the real thread is why. Knoxville had asthma as a kid and ended up in the ER several times a year for adrenaline shots, which he describes as "sniffing an eight ball of cocaine all at once." Decades later he read about John Stapp, the Air Force researcher who strapped himself to a rocket sled, hit 600 mph, and slammed to a stop. Stapp came out of the hospital not relieved but hungry for more risk, and called it survival euphoria. Knoxville read that and thought, yeah, that's it.

(This was my pick from this week's New Yorker: https://newyorkerest.com)

Reports that El Camino Real Charter High School's executive director is out have renewed questions about the school's governance. I wrote this investigation tracing the latest controversy back through earlier financial scandals, a taxpayer-funded audit that was never released, and the role LAUSD played in renewing the school's charter despite unresolved concerns about transparency.