This week’s TAMIM Reading List takes you across the cosmos and back, exploring the evolution of intelligence in animals and the existential mystery of why our universe exists. We delve into Hollywood data to uncover how often lead characters bite the dust, while examining how America’s tipping culture spiralled out of control. On the tech frontier, AI is now printing rocket engines faster, cheaper, and smarter. Meanwhile, we also navigate the sticky political terrain in the U.S. and weigh Billy Slater’s bittersweet coaching dilemma for Origin. From science to sport, politics to pop culture, this list connects the dots across curiosity, progress, and challenge.

📚 Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals

📚 How often do lead characters die in movies? 

📚 Tipping Point: How America’s Gratuity System Got Out of Hand

📚 AI is printing the rocket engine that could beat SpaceX at its own game

📚 Scientists in a race to discover why our Universe exists

📚 3 sticky issues standing in the way of Trump’s big bill

📚 Billy Slater’s lack of options for Maroons players for State of Origin is a blessing and a curse