Book excerpt: Crazy stuff from Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance. (Bloomberg)
Engineering
- What Google ($GOOG) has learned from 1.7 million miles on the road with a self-driving car. (medium.com)
- Tesla ($TSLA) is less disruptive than you think. (hbr.org)
- If more people go solar what will happen to the grid? (marketwatch.com)
- Anesthesiologists are risk of being pushed out by robots. (washingtonpost.com)
- It's past time to re-build the US air traffic control system. (wsj.com)
Health
- How a 2-minute walk can offset sitting. (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
- Why anxiety is heritable. (qz.com)
- Is your food too clean for our own good? (nytimes.com)
Food
- Bird flu is crushing the poultry industry. (nytimes.com)
- How Seattle restaurants are dealing with higher minimum wages. (npr.org)
- Why the Egg McMuffin rules the fast-food world. (slate.com)
- In terms of beverages ,coffee has the most backing, health-wise. (nytimes.com)
- The Mediterranean diet is good for your brain. (wsj.com)
- How bone broth became a thing. (grubstreet.com)
Bourbon
- Bourbon makers are facing a barrel shortage. (wsj.com)
- How bourbon became America's native spirit: an excerpt from "Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America's Whiskey" by Reid Mitenbuler.* (slate.com)
- Inside the big Pappy Van Winkle theft (and scandal). (washingtonpost.com)
- Marc Andreessen's favorite bourbon. (qz.com)
Drink
- Pedialyte is being marketed to adults as a hangover cure. (wsj.com)
- Why the big beer makers are having a hard time competing with craft brewers. (charlessizemore.tumblr.com)
Late night
- How David Letterman changed late-night comedy forever. (slate.com)
- How David Letterman evolved from bomb thrower to broadcaster. (wsj.com)
- A big David Letterman profile. (rollingstone.com)
- Whatever happened to Conan O'Brien? (slate.com)
Media
- What kind of future does radio have? (vox.com)
- NPR wants to become the "Pandora ($P) of news." (slate.com)
- One-hit wonders are an endangered species. (priceonomics.com)
- Dump your CDs and embrace the cloud. (salon.com)
Sports
- The unlikely rise of Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr. (wsj.com)
- Meet Pat Venditte an ambidextrous MLB pitcher. (espn.go.com)
- A poker bot held its own against human competition. (marginalrevolution.com)
- The US is rapidly becoming a chess powerhouse. (businessinsider.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: life hacks galore. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you may have missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
Education
- Kids who pass AP tests graduate in higher numbers. (fivethirtyeight.com)
- Want a job? Go to coding boot camp. (bloomberg.com)
