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Technology
- Would you fly a commercial airliner with only one pilot? (wsj.com)
- Graphene may very well change the world as we know it. (newyorker.com)
- NASA has plans to live on Venus. (uk.businessinsider.com)
Work and health
- Companies really want their employees to lose weight. (wsj.com)
- Just how private is your company's wellness data? (bloomberg.com)
- Americans, to their detriment, are trading sleep for work. (washingtonpost.com)
Health
- Why cold medicines are so confusing? (theatlantic.com)
- How a patch could help alleviate food allergies. (economist.com)
- Why babies' brains need love during their first year to develop and thrive. (ngm.nationalgeographic.com)
- How exercise changes our DNA. (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
- Why being hungry turns us into monsters. (vox.com)
The brain
- How to care for introverts. (kottke.org)
- What data do we have on the link between concussions and suicide? (fivethirtyeight.com)
- Why timeouts don't work. (qz.com)
- On the relationship between intelligence and worrying. (nymag.com)
- Why are we so willing to delude ourselves? (rpseawright.wordpress.com)
Environment
- Five things that make us happier AND save energy. (washingtonpost.com)
- Can indoor factory farms save us? (modernfarmer.com)
- Can Toyota make hydrogen-powered cars a commercial reality? (businessweek.com)
Food
- The best diet hack: eat at home more. (businessinsider.com)
- Alpha males like spicy food. (telegraph.co.uk)
Drink
- The cult of bulletproof coffee is growing. (nytimes.com)
- The beers America no longer drinks. (247wallst.com)
- The milk glut is here. (qz.com)
- Why Trader Joe's can sell its wine so cheap? (businessinsider.com)
Sports
- How the opening of Cuba could affect MLB. (bloombergview.com)
- Why paintball is on the decline. (businessweek.com)
- On the rise of daily fantasy sports. (qz.com)
Hockey
- The NHL aspires to have zero greenhouse gas emissions. (scientificamerican.com)
- Why mumps is ripping through the NHL. (bloombergview.com)
Sports media
- What happens to sports on TV if people continue to cut the cord? (si.com)
- For better or worse Adrian Wojnarowski is a NBA scoop machine. (newrepublic.com)
- According to Twitter apparently ESPN hates every school. (rpseawright.wordpress.com)
Entertainment
- 2014 demonstrated Hollywood's growing dependence on sequels. (grantland.com)
- The top ten comedies of 2014. (pastemagazine.com)
- A profile of The Head and the Heart on tour. (thedailybeast.com)
- Is BandPage the future of the economics of music? (pando.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you may have missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Some podcasts links including a list of the top 25 podcast episodes ever. (abnormalreturns.com)