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)
- The secret life of the aluminum can. An excerpt from "Rust: The Longest War" by Jonathan Waldman.* (wired.com)
- Self-driving cars are going to reduce net car demand. (wired.com)
- The pros and cons of red-light cameras. (nytimes.com)
- 2014 was a huge year for solar power. (motherjones.com)
Technology
- Disney's ($DIS) bet on the "magical wristband" is paying off. (wired.com)
- Domain theft is now a thing. (wsj.com)
- Is Slack a threat to e-mail? (nytimes.com)
Science
- What do we really know about colony collapse disorder? (vox.com)
- What is NASA going to do with this big a** rocket? (bloomberg.com)
Health
- The Mayo Clinic is pushing into telemedicine. (ft.com)
- Re-thinking our approach to food allergies. (slate.com)
- Implantable medical devices are going to be hacked, the only question is when. (slate.com)
The brain
- Can technology boost the use of music as medicine? (fastcompany.com)
- Will we all soon be sticking electrodes on our heads to improve mood? (technologyreview.com)
Fitness
- Reebok is banking on the fitness scene. (bloomberg.com)
- Why America fell out of love with golf. (washingtonpost.com)
Sports
- Russell Crowe's rugby team is now world champion. (bloomberg.com)
- Could Google ($GOOG) livestream sports for free? (qz.com)
- Why defense get short-shrift in the media. (cjr.org)
Food
- McDonald's ($MCD) is in the midst of some serious soul-searching. (nytimes.com)
- A Q&A with Danny Meyer, founder of Shake Shack ($SHAK). (buzzfeed.com)
- Whatever happened to people taking proper lunch breaks? (esquire.com)
Drink
- On the coming bourbon shortage. (nautil.us)
- How much Americans drink per week, by age. (washingtonpost.com)
Entertainment
- HBO's streaming-only service is going to transform cable. (latimes.com)
- Why Netflix ($NFLX) shouldn't release all the episodes of an original series all at once. (medium.com)
- That change is already underway. (wsj.com)
- Why trying to build a big Ghostbusters franchise is a bad idea. (qz.com)
- The glass ceiling is alive and well on the big screen. (fivethirtyeight.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you may have missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Rounding up recent book notes, reviews and releases previously on AR. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: the science of bubbles. (abnormalreturns.com)
