Book review: Simon Schama loves the new James Bond book by Anthony Horowitz, Trigger Mortis: A James Bond Novel. (FT)
Engineering
- Re-imagining what an emergency shelter could look like. (wired.com)
- Farming is increasingly becoming data-driven. (wsj.com)
- Meet the English family that is generating enough energy from its property for a whole village. (qz.com)
Autos
- If there is an Apple ($AAPL) Car don't expect to see it for awhile. (wsj.com)
- What happens to rental cars after the companies are done with them? (slate.com)
Health
- Diet advice that ignores the issue of hunger misses the boat. (nytimes.com)
- Why Americans don't walk any more. (aeon.co)
- Why farm kids have less asthma and allergies. (theverge.com)
- How the FDA could change the way it approve drugs. (fivethirtyeight.com)
- On the benefits of cutting refined sugar from your diet. (fastcompany.com)
Fitness
- Does exercise change the brain? (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
- The miracle that is ice in treating musco-skeletal injuries. (gearpatrol.com)
The brain
- Can we really understand some one else? (nautil.us)
- We often make up reasons for our prior actions. (bbc.com)
- Why bother with meditation? (farnamstreetblog.com)
Food
- Why Starbucks ($SBUX) loves Pumpkin Spice Latte buyers. (time.com)
- Chipotle ($CMG) may be high in calories but is not "empty calories." (slate.com)
- Organic vegetables are largely a waste of money. (qz.com)
- On the rise of grocery store sushi. (fortune.com)
- Kellogg's ($K) is pushing into the organic food aisle. (wsj.com)
- Why do we give wine numeric scores? (wsj.com)
Fantasy football
- A day in the life of a fantasy football expert. (kernelmag.dailydot.com)
- The dark secret of fantasy football: addiction. (kernelmag.dailydot.com)
Baseball
- The sad decline of the decent-hitting pitcher. (grantland.com)
- Why minor league baseball teams have such awesome mascots. (slate.com)
- Live sports is no longer a sure thing for the networks. (bloomberg.com)
Entertainment
- Are Netflix ($NFLX) execs giving creative types too much control? (huffingtonpost.com)
- Teenagers could care less about your big screen TV. (theverge.com)
- Why Apple ($AAPL) shouldn't make its own TV shows. (vulture.com)
- If you already pay for Hulu paying $4 a month to skip ads makes sense. (techinsider.io)
- This company still makes audio cassettes and still makes money. (bloomberg.com)
- What are the most disappointing albums? (priceonomics.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you may have missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What books Abnormal Returns readers purchased in August 2015. (abnormalreturns.com)
Relationships
- Mismatched technology can make for a rocky relationship. (ft.com)
- What percentage of Americans are married? (fivethirtyeight.com)
