Book excerpt: An extended look at Jessica Lahey’s The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed. (Slate)
Environment
- A brilliant new model for solar panel adoption. (slate.com)
- California's snow pack is at a 500-year low. (scientificamerican.com)
Transport
- The battle for self-driving car talent is on like Donkey Kong. (washingtonpost.com)
- Tesla ($TSLA) should be afraid of the German automakers. (bloombergview.com)
Cities
- Infrastructure and planning help cities succeed...up to a point. (ft.com)
- London is the fifth most expensive city to live in. (ft.com)
Technology
- Your digital assistant is getting smarter all the time. (wired.com)
- A cheat sheet for the individual cloud storage wars. (sixcolors.com)
- Why micropayments will not be the future of publishing. (continuations.com)
- Why you shouldn't feel bad about using an ad blocker. (fortune.com)
- Why you should. (fortune.com)
Offers
- The new Amazon Fire TV seems like a worthy competitor to the Apple TV. (theverge.com)
- The new Amazon Fire TV ships in October. (amzn.to)
Health
- How modern furniture materials endanger firefighters. (theatlantic.com)
- Daily aspirin use is getting additional support from a panel to reduce the risk of heart attacks and cancer. (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
- Yikes! Ankle sprains can have lifelong consequences. (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
Personality
- It neuroticism necessary for creativity? (qz.com)
- How to be a better listener. (scientificamerican.com)
Food
- "Poke is the natural progression from sushi.." (bloomberg.com)
- Why don't more restaurants abolish tipping? (slate.com)
- Honey isn't as healthy as you think. (washingtonpost.com)
Drink
- Beer has been losing out to wine and spirits for awhile now. (bloombergview.com)
- Are cask beers worth all the fuss? (wsj.com)
- Now China is jumping on the craft beer bandwagon. (ft.com)
- Is your favorite bourbon crafted or sourced? (pastemagazine.com)
Sports
- A shocking number of deceased NFL players showed signs of CTE. (pbs.org)
- A complete history of the NFL. (projects.fivethirtyeight.com)
- On the professionalization of high school football. (nytimes.com)
- The case for rugby in the US. (money.cnn.com)
- Researchers are using AI instead of brute force to create a world class chess player. (technologyreview.com)
Entertainment
- What is a 'sadcom'? (slate.com)
- It's a good time to be in the record pressing business. (nytimes.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you may have missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: salmon sushi. (abnormalreturns.com)
