Book review: Why Cal Newport thinks you should schedule your life more deeply. Insights from Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. (Reading the Markets)
Quote of the Day
"Calories are cheap. Nutrition is expensive."
(Tom Colicchio)
Environment
- Midwest farmers will not remain untouched by climate change. (scientificamerican.com)
- Opt-in vs. opt-out: how to get consumers to go green. (scientificamerican.com)
Health
- How being a trader helped me lose 50 pounds. (athrasher.com)
- More than anything else doctors know the limits of medicine. (qz.com)
- Why constipation is so common on vacation. (theatlantic.com)
The brain
- Ways to calm your brain during conflict. (hbr.org)
- For your mental health you should exercise after work. (next.ft.com)
- To what degree is anxiety genetic? (scientificamerican.com)
Drink
- How to make the perfect Martini. (wsj.com)
- Champagne really does get you drunk faster. (qz.com)
- 'Flat beer' is now a thing. (bloomberg.com)
- The science of hangovers. (smithsonianmag.com)
Entertainment
- Why we are now living in the golden age of television. (digitopoly.org)
- Lego is making headway with girls. (wsj.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What books Abnormal Returns readers purchased in December 2015. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: awards season (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you may have missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- A new Essential LIstening is up with discussions about luck & skill, the mortgage crisis and better cooking through science. (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
