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Saturday links: Internet push/pull

December 27, 2014

Saturday links: Internet push/pull

December 27, 2014

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Technology

  • Push vs. Pull: the nature of Internet use has changed. (cdixon.org)
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  • Do you need an all-in-one credit card thingie? (arstechnica.com)
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  • Why the Sony hack will change companies (and individuals) handle e-mail. (wsj.com)
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  • Better technology is saving lives on American highways. (wsj.com)
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  • How solar power and electric cars can make the suburbs awesome again. (washingtonpost.com)
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  • Do smartphone breathalyzers work? (fortune.com)
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Science

  • The biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2014. (io9.com)
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  • One third of new US electricity came from solar this year. (gigaom.com)
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  • Humans won't be going to Mars any time soon...or ever. (nplusonemag.com)
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  • Carnivores are thriving in Europe. (smithsonianmag.com)
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  • How narrative helps us teach science. (theatlantic.com)
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Health

  • Why you don't necessarily want your immune system boosted when you are sick. (slate.com)
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  • What the health insurance industry can do to fix health care. (hbr.org)
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  • Baby Boomers are getting injured on their motorcycles at an increasing rate. (wsj.com)
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Psychology

  • Checking in on Barry Schwartz's "The Paradox of Choice" ten years in.* (psmag.com)
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  • A better way to think about risk. (hbr.org)
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  • Six simple ways to be happier. (qz.com)
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  • A review of "Feeling Smart: Why Our Emotions Are More Rational Than We Think" by Eyal Winter.* (ft.com)
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Food

  • How roasting overtook boiling as a way of cooking vegetables. (slate.com)
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  • Four ideas on how to revive McDonald's ($MCD). (wsj.com)
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  • The numbers behind the surge in Chinese takeout orders on Christmas Day. (slate.com)
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  • Lobsters eat a lot of bait. (modernfarmer.com)
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Sports

  • Is Wes Welker going to be okay? (espn.go.com)
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  • How MLB will change with an influx of Cuban baseball players. (psmag.com)
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  • What facial expressions say about a player. (nytimes.com)
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  • What the golf establishment is doing to attract new players. (businessinsider.com)
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  • Bull riding is getting more dangerous and its participants are getting younger. (newyorker.com)
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Entertainment

  • The next generation of Star Trek should be on the small screen. (theatlantic.com)
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  • A profile of Michelle MacLaren the best director on TV. (vulture.com)
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  • How film beats digital. (vulture.com)
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  • An oral history of "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation."* (rollingstone.com)
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  • Google ($GOOG) keeps pushing into new areas like: song lyrics. (blogs.wsj.com)
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Books

  • How reading transforms us. (nytimes.com)
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  • A list of some biographies worth checking out. (feld.com)
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  • Some additional "essential" books published in 2014. (marginalrevolution.com)
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Earlier on Abnormal Returns

  • What you may have missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
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  • Podcast links: regulating drones. (abnormalreturns.com)
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Mixed media

  • How shared painful experiences bind us closer together. (newyorker.com)
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  • All the angst about Millennials is more about technology that anything else. (slate.com)
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  • Why your New Year's resolutions are likely to backfire. (businessinsider.com)
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*Links to The Paradox of Choice, Feeling Smart: Why Our Emotions Are More Rational Than We Think and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.

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