Espresso.

Make it a double.

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“It’s the first thing I read every morning.” — David Barboza, founder of WireScreen and former Shanghai Bureau Chief for The New York Times.

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1. Good morning. Have some coffee:

Many of us enjoy a cup of coffee (or four) to perk up during the day, and new research offers evidence that the popular beverage may bring numerous benefits along with it – including potentially the chance of living a longer, healthier life, researchers suggest.

A team from the University of Coimbra in Portugal looked at 85 previous studies involving participants across Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Asia, analyzing coffee's relationship to mortality rates and health indicators.

Taken as a whole, their analysis suggests that drinking around three cups of coffee a day is linked with an additional 1.84 years of lifespan in the average person, with regular consumption also being associated with increased healthspan (time spent living free from serious disease). (Sources: sciencealert.com, publichealth.wustl.edu, italics mine)

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2. The Los Angeles Times:

California researchers say the world may be just one genetic tweak away from human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus — a worrisome mutation that could open the door to widespread human infections and possibly even a pandemic, according to some experts.