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Saturday links: soaring solar

March 14, 2015

Saturday links: soaring solar

March 14, 2015

Book review: A positive review for Charlotte N. Markey’s Smart People Don’t Diet: How the Latest Science Can Help You Lose Weight Permanently.  (Scientific American)

Technology

  • Inside the factory that creates graphene. (motherboard.vice.com)
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  • The secret life of the aluminum can. An excerpt from "Rust: The Longest War" by Jonathan Waldman.* (wired.com)
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  • Self-driving cars are going to reduce net car demand. (wired.com)
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  • The pros and cons of red-light cameras. (nytimes.com)
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  • 2014 was a huge year for solar power. (motherjones.com)
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Technology

  • Disney's ($DIS) bet on the "magical wristband" is paying off. (wired.com)
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  • Domain theft is now a thing. (wsj.com)
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  • Is Slack a threat to e-mail? (nytimes.com)
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Science

  • What do we really know about colony collapse disorder? (vox.com)
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  • What is NASA going to do with this big a** rocket? (bloomberg.com)
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Health

  • The Mayo Clinic is pushing into telemedicine. (ft.com)
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  • Re-thinking our approach to food allergies. (slate.com)
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  • Implantable medical devices are going to be hacked, the only question is when. (slate.com)
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The brain

  • Can technology boost the use of music as medicine? (fastcompany.com)
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  • Will we all soon be sticking electrodes on our heads to improve mood? (technologyreview.com)
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Fitness

  • Reebok is banking on the fitness scene. (bloomberg.com)
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  • Why America fell out of love with golf. (washingtonpost.com)
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Sports

  • Russell Crowe's rugby team is now world champion. (bloomberg.com)
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  • Could Google ($GOOG) livestream sports for free? (qz.com)
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  • Why defense get short-shrift in the media. (cjr.org)
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Food

  • McDonald's ($MCD) is in the midst of some serious soul-searching. (nytimes.com)
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  • A Q&A with Danny Meyer, founder of Shake Shack ($SHAK). (buzzfeed.com)
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  • Whatever happened to people taking proper lunch breaks? (esquire.com)
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Drink

  • On the coming bourbon shortage. (nautil.us)
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  • How much Americans drink per week, by age. (washingtonpost.com)
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Entertainment

  • HBO's streaming-only service is going to transform cable. (latimes.com)
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  • Why Netflix ($NFLX) shouldn't release all the episodes of an original series all at once. (medium.com)
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  • That change is already underway. (wsj.com)
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  • Why trying to build a big Ghostbusters franchise is a bad idea. (qz.com)
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  • The glass ceiling is alive and well on the big screen. (fivethirtyeight.com)
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Earlier on Abnormal Returns

  • What you may have missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
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  • Rounding up recent book notes, reviews and releases previously on AR. (abnormalreturns.com)
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  • Podcast links: the science of bubbles. (abnormalreturns.com)
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Mixed media

  • Don't praise your kids too much. (newscientist.com)
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  • A second adolescence...what are the "terrible twelves"? (nymag.com)
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  • Kids are now getting shuttled around by Uber. (washingtonpost.com)
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*Link to: Rust: The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman.

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