Book notes: The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book about Relationships by Neil Strauss is a big change from the author of The Game. (Quartz)
Quote of the Day
"Cuisines are less rooted in place than our obsession with “authentic” dishes would suggest. Food does not reflect an authentic past so much as who we have recently chosen—or been forced—to be."
(Alex Mayyasi)
Autos
- Three counterintuitive scenarios for driverless cars. (marginalrevolution.com)
- Can Detroit beat everyone else to self-driving cars? (bloomberg.com)
Climate
- No new nukes: why the US is missing an opportunity to reduce greenhouse emissions. (bloomberg.com)
- Why the cod population off Maine never recovered. (nytimes.com)
Offers
- Sign up for a free trial from Audible.com and get two free audiobooks like "The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book about Relationships." (amazon.com)
- Get Karma Go from @yourKarma. Take WiFi with you everywhere. Use this code for $10 off yours. (yourkarma.com)
Technology
- How long it takes for different people to respond to an e-mail. (wsj.com)
- The myth of basic science. (wsj.com)
- Google ($GOOGL) is using AI to deal with search requests it has not seen before. (bloomberg.com)
- Remember when everyone thought Wikipedia was a doomed experiment? (medium.com)
Health
- When given the choice we humans will take a shortcut to better health. (nytimes.com)
- The link between gut microbes and the brain. (scientificamerican.com)
- Surgical errors happen...a lot. (bloomberg.com)
- Why don't we talk more about men's biological clock? (washingtonpost.com)
- WHO estimates you probably have herpes. (slate.com)
The brain
- On the relationship between inflammation and depression. (npr.org)
- Using a spreadsheet to combat depression. (qz.com)
- NYC school children are meditating to mitigate stress. (nytimes.com)
- Everything you know about happiness is wrong. (qz.com)
Aging
- Men retire to spend time with their wives. Women retire to spend time with their grandkids. (time.com)
- How exercise slows the aging process. (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
Food
- Cheese is as addictive as heroin...or something like that. (esquire.com)
- Just how risky is processed meat consumption? (theguardian.com)
- Can fast food truly get healthy? (newyorker.com)
- Why going natural is tough for fast food companies. (chicagobusiness.com)
- Cold-pressed juice is a waste of money. (vox.com)
- There's a good chance your "wild salmon" is no such thing. (qz.com)
Coffee
- The case for bad coffee. (seriouseats.com)
- Peet's Coffee is buying Intelligensia. Coffee lovers are freaking out. (slate.com)
Entertainment
- Why streaming music services like Pandora ($P) need a new approach to actually make money. (startupljackson.com)
- Quality does not guarantee success: the case of the "Steve Jobs" movie. (variety.com)
- The 40 greatest cop shows of all time. (pastemagazine.com)
- What happens to your shared Netflix ($NFLX) queue when you break up? (slate.com)
- The rise and fall of college rock. (newrepublic.com)
- Why physical media still matters. (wsj.com)
- An argument for why Luke Skywalker goes to the dark side. (medium.com)
Sports
- Better concussion testing won't eliminate football's concussion problem. (fivethirtyeight.com)
- In defense of the 'hot hand' theory. (nytimes.com)
- Why bother being a Cubs fan? (wsj.com)
- Why are sports bras so terrible? (racked.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: spousal economics. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you may have missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
