Book review: There is a lot going on behind that seashell you found. A recommendation for Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells by Helen Scales. (The Daily Beast)
Engineering
- Fears about 'killer robots' are missing the forest from the trees. (wsj.com)
- Is wind the future of cargo ships? (qz.com)
- Why is the opposition to GMOs so strong despite the evidence? (scientificamerican.com)
Autos
- Why you should be a little scared of car hacking. (slate.com)
- Why are US traffic fatalities on the rise? (jalopnik.com)
- Driverless cars are coming: how cities should adapt. (newgeography.com)
- Start-stop technology is slowly becoming mainstream auto technology. (slate.com)
Science
- 27 feeds to follow in science. (wired.com)
- Just how good are the Army Corp of Engineer's flood estimates? (politico.com)
Health
- How should life-saving drugs be priced? (ft.com)
- Work longer, increase the risk of stroke. (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
Fitness
The brain
Food
- Fast food restaurants are having a hard time sourcing consistent, fresh ingredients. (wsj.com)
- Fish farming is now bigger than natural fishing. (bloomberg.com)
- Soylent is a dangerous cult. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- Why Shake Shack ($SHAK) won't be the next Chipotle ($CMG). (finance.yahoo.com)
- Why Americans eat so many of their meals alone. (washingtonpost.com)
Drink
- Craft brewers now want to become craft distillers. (fortune.com)
- Big brewers are going to continue to buy up craft brewers. (ft.com)
- Craft brewers need more than hops to grow capacity, they nee capital. (finance.yahoo.com)
Sports
- Great young talent has set golf up for a promising future. (deadspin.com)
- Jordan Speith had a really, really good year. (fivethirtyeight.com)
- When a small club makes it into one of Europe's top soccer leagues. (wsj.com)
- Why don't more athletes take a sabbatical? (wsj.com)
- Crowdfunding is behind the surge in new board games. (fivethirtyeight.com)
- The best uniforms by city. (espn.go.com)
Entertainment
- It's hard to believe but "The 40-Year Old Virgin" is 10 years old. (theatlantic.com)
- There is too much good scripted television on these days. (hitfix.com)
- Viewers are abandoning cable shows, not just network shows. (wsj.com)
- The "comedy of despair" and the appeal of Netflix's ($NFLX) Bojack Horseman. (newyorker.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you may have missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: asymmetric returns. (abnormalreturns.com)
