Book notes: Why weird stuff happens: insights from David J. Hand’s The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day. (Reading the Markets)
Quote of the Day
"If you don't know who the must-reads in your field are, find out before your customers and competitors do."
(Seth Godin)
Engineering
- This robot anesthetist requires no outside intervention. (washingtonpost.com)
- Why airline wi-fi sucks. (buzzfeed.com)
- A wind turbine that has no blades. (qz.com)
Driving
- People are horrible drivers. (wired.com)
- Why autonomous cars could increase commutes. (slate.com)
- Uber hired away a big chunk of Carnegie Mellon's team of autonomous driving researchers. (theverge.com)
- Truck drivers are retiring and few people are stepping up to take their jobs. (wsj.com)
- What happens when self-driving trucks put truck drivers out of jobs? (medium.com)
The brain
- Three things you need to change your brain patterns after age 25. (fastcompany.com)
- Alaska has a new cash crop: rhodiola. (slate.com)
- To what degree is infidelity genetic? (nytimes.com)
Health
- How exercise affects our body's rhythms. (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
- People do a bad job of picking health plans. (papers.ssrn.com)
Breakfast
- Egg prices are going way higher. (washingtonpost.com)
- Cheap bacon is back. (bloomberg.com)
- The science behind why New York bagels are the best. (motherjones.com)
Food
- This whole farm-to-table thing has gone too far. (vanityfair.com)
- Target ($TGT) is de-emphasizing packaged food products. (wsj.com)
- How to grow meat in the lab. (washingtonpost.com)
- The case for drinking whole milk. (qz.com)
- How to grill a whole fish. (foodspin.deadspin.com)
- You're grilling your steak wrong. (bloomberg.com)
Sports
- The best NBA player since Michael Jordan is.... (medium.com)
- A complete history of the NBA. (fivethirtyeight.com)
- Why NBA teams love to get their fans wearing matching t-shirts. (nytimes.com)
- Why children are abandoning baseball. (wsj.com)
Entertainment
- "Music, when done right, scales." (lefsetz.com)
- The best 300 albums of the past 30 years. (spin.com)
- TV content is skewing way too adult. (techpinions.com)
- A big profile on the coming Star Wars reboot. (vanityfair.com)
- The job of projectionist is going by the wayside. (ft.com)
- We emphasize endings way too much. (salon.com)
America
- The big city growth slowdown is clear. (blogs.wsj.com)
- Why parents need to stop expecting their kids to get married. (washingtonpost.com)
- Americans are increasingly getting cremated. (slate.com)
College
- The in-state tuition break is slowly disappearing. (nytimes.com)
- On the attraction of a "gap year." (businessinsider.com)
- It's a good time to be a graduating MBA. (qz.com)
- What it takes to get women to continue their CS studies. (nytimes.com)
- Professors shouldn't sleep with their students. (slate.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you may have missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: the Vanguard juggernaut. (abnormalreturns.com)
