Book notes: Enjoy the Super Bowl without guilt says Gregg Easterbrook in The Game’s Not Over: In Defense of Football. (FT)
Chart of the Day
Long rare whiskey, short crude oil was a great trade in 2015.
Autos
- What is like to drive a Tesla ($TSLA) on autopilot. (washingtonpost.com)
- Should Nascar go electric? (theverge.com)
Environment
- GE ($GE) is phasing out CFL bulbs. (nytimes.com)
- The LED bulb revolution is here. (slate.com)
- Solar and wind made up 68% of new energy capacity in the US. (bloomberg.com)
- The future of solar is solar+storage. (vox.com)
- Industrial demand for electricity is falling. (bloomberg.com)
- Texas is becoming a wind power giant. (businessinsider.com)
Offers
- Sign up for a 30-day trial of Audible.com and get two free books including "The Term Sheet: A Startup Thriller Novel." (amazon.com)
- Amazon Prime is also allows for the streaming of millions of songs. Start a free-trial now! (amazon.com)
- The Amazon ($AMZN) Echo can now order an Uber for you. (amzn.to)
Technology
- What exactly is an algorithm? (slate.com)
- How Darpa built anti-Twitterbot bots. (technologyreview.com)
- How to be a futurist. (qz.com)
Travel
- OneGo is bring Netflix-style binge-flying to air travel. (bloomberg.com)
- American ($AAL) and United ($UAL) are now offering "free" snacks to all fliers. (qz.com)
Health
- Why we should wipe out mosquitoes. (slate.com)
- Hip replacement has become an outpatient procedure. (wsj.com)
- Smoking a LOT of marijuana can damage your short term memory. (washingtonpost.com)
- Can the 20-company strong Health Transformation Alliance do anything to lower health care costs for their employees? (wsj.com)
- How loneliness became a public health hazard. (washingtonpost.com)
Fitness
- This university requires students to wear Fitbits and meet exercise goals. (washingtonpost.com)
- Why men are more easily able to lose weight. (washingtonpost.com)
The brain
- Our brains are not built for multi-tasking. (medium.com)
- We all need a timeout every now and again. (psychologytoday.com)
Food
- The kitchen is the new 'man cave.' (wsj.com)
- Soylent keeps evolving and getting better. (wsj.com)
- How even Seltzer water is bad for you. (theatlantic.com)
- Your can of "mixed nuts" really doesn't have that many nuts. (businessinsider.com)
- Some foods a food safety expert will no longer eat. (washingtonpost.com)
- They should just call Super Bowl Sunday, Chicken Wing Sunday. (buzzfeed.com)
Coffee
- The coffee pod may have peaked. (washingtonpost.com)
- The science behind a good cup of coffee. (arstechnica.com)
Drink
- On the unexpected origins of Kentucky bourbon. (theatlantic.com)
- How bars with wine licenses get around the whole no-liquor thing. (nytimes.com)
Entertainment
- How the streaming giants pay for content. (mic.com)
- In defense of the CD. (rollingstone.com)
- Why is the cable box still so bad? (washingtonpost.com)
Sports
- The NFL has not fully funded its pension obligations. (wsj.com)
- Underhanded free throws are making a (small) comeback. (campusrush.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Recently I sat down for five good questions with Jake Taylor. (fivegoodquestions.co)
- What you may have missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: underestimating risk. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Diversification, re-balancing and the risk of home country bias. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The Big Short movie: transgressive art. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The irresistible magic of the list. (abnormalreturns.com)
The MBA
- Is Yale's business school getting TOO corporate? (wsj.com)
- On the tight relationship between elite consultants and the top-tier MBA schools. (ft.com)
