Book notes: Tenure-track academic positions are increasingly rare. Reading Karen Kelsey’s The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job might help. (Slate)
Autos
- Self-driving cars would make LA awesomer. (bloombergview.com)
- Young people hate to haggle over car prices. (washingtonpost.com)
Energy
- Solar City ($SCTY) has pioneered a model that will bring mass adoption of solar. (slate.com)
- Why America is so in love with air conditioning. (washingtonpost.com)
Technology
- Virtual reality is about a lot more than just games. (wsj.com)
- Are DVRs still relevant? (techradar.com)
Health
- The 'kick and kill' method of eliminating HIV. (bbc.com)
- Can young blood reverse the aging process? (theguardian.com)
- Could eating spicy foods regularly help you live longer? (washingtonpost.com)
- Brits need to take Vitamin D to make up for a deficit of sunlight. (qz.com)
The brain
- How intelligence shifts with age. (wsj.com)
- How trees calm us down. (newyorker.com)
- Why boredom is important. (aeon.co)
- There is not center for emotions in the brain. (nytimes.com)
- Why your brain seems largely dormant. (nautil.us)
Food
- The olive oil industry is in a bad way. (economist.com)
- K-cup sales are falling for the first time ever. (buzzfeed.com)
- Spaghetti in a paper cone in the new late night nosh. (theguardian.com)
- What it's like to judge a cheese competition. (vanityfair.com)
- Inside the world of bespoke hot dogs. (vogue.com)
- Soylent is good but weird. (bloombergview.com)
Restaurants
Entertainment
- The live music business is running on nostalgia and fumes. (medium.com)
- How 'The Net' predicted the future of the Internet. (kernelmag.dailydot.com)
- Why streaming services are so secretive. (bloombergview.com)
Fitness
- A beginner's guide to yoga. (adequateman.deadspin.com)
- How to choose running shoes: comfort. (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
Sports
- A profile of Shohei Ohtani who is a modern day threat as pitcher and hitter. (wsj.com)
- MLS is becoming a more respectable soccer league. (copa90.com)
- It's time to abolish Olympic host cities. (qz.com)
- Meet the newest member of the Premier League, tiny AFC Bournemouth. (bloomberg.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Following through on a valid strategy is easier said that done. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you may have missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: founders and investors. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What books Abnormal Returns readers purchased in July 2015. (abnormalreturns.com)
Society
- At some point the "custom everything" economy will become exhausting. (csen.tumblr.com)
- A true unicorn: a Millennial that drives a minivan. (washingtonpost.com)
- In praise of a social media fast. (wired.com)
