Book recommendation: Everybody in digital media should ready Michael Wolff’s Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media In the Digital Age. (Lefsetz Letter)
Engineering
- Japan is filling unused golf courses with solar panels. (qz.com)
- Add wave power to Hawaii's growing interest in renewables. (thinkprogress.org)
- Re-fracking is the new fracking. (bloomberg.com)
- We use a lot more energy heating our homes than cooling them. (slate.com)
- Self-driving cars are going to do a lot more than drive you around. (bloomberg.com)
Health
- There is little evidence that fish oil supplements help prevent cardiovascular issues. (washingtonpost.com)
- Why you should try to get off your PPI. (qz.com)
- How childhood trauma affects health in adulthood. (aeon.co)
- If paying people to be healthy works, why don't we do it more? (nytimes.com)
- Can big data help you get a good night's sleep? (fortune.com)
- Just how heritable is anxiety? (thedailybeast.com)
- We age at wildly different rates. (theguardian.com)
The brain
- What happens to our brain while we sleep. (newyorker.com)
- Can a computer diagnose depression? (bigthink.com)
- Cell phone notifications are more distracting than you think. (hbr.org)
- How exercise helps the brain. (scientificamerican.com)
Food
- Don't let anyone tell you otherwise: American cheese is awesome. (slate.com)
- Five fish Americans should be eating more. (qz.com)
- The story behind the new Shake Shack ($SHAK) chicken sandwich. (businessinsider.com)
- How the maker of Twinkies came back from the dead. (washingtonpost.com)
Drink
- In praise of lunchtime drinking. (theguardian.com)
- The 30 best-selling liquors in the world. (vinepair.com)
Coffee
- Oliver Burkeman, "Iced coffee lacks focus: it is a beverage that’s attempting, fatally, to multitask." (theguardian.com)
- In praise of coffee-to-go. (psmag.com)
Entertainment
- Taylor Swift is fighting the wrong enemy. (ft.com)
- The 20 best TV shows of 2015, so far. (pastemagazine.com)
- Whatever happened to the male pop star? (ew.com)
- For the first time ESPN is having to deal with the reality of the new cable landscape. (wsj.com)
Sports
- Foot golf looks like fun. (sports.vice.com)
- What the Finns can teach Americans about baseball. (wsj.com)
- How does aging affect athletic performance? (theconversation.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you may have missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: volatility and skew. (abnormalreturns.com)
