Book excerpt: How to think about the microbiome. Insights from Ed Yong’s I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life. (New Yorker)
Quote of the Day
"By choosing to concentrate on a task you love, you’ll enjoy the considerable proportion of your life that you spend at work, which is much more than billions of others can say."
(Robert H. Frank)
Autos
- PIckup trucks don't suck anymore. (theverge.com)
- Pickup trucks have come to China. (bloomberg.com)
- The researchers who highlighted the VW diesel emission scandal have got nothing to show for it. (nytimes.com)
- Autonomous cars are a threat to the automobile insurance industry. (wsj.com)
Environment
- When utilities change the game for residential solar. (nytimes.com)
- Check out what a 'submerged floating bridge' would look like. (wired.com)
- Lake Erie is set to get some windmills with "giant suction cups" as a base. (psmag.com)
Technology
- Why we humans often hate new technologies. (washingtonpost.com)
- The world isn't getting worse, our information is getting better. (geekwire.com)
- Pokemon Go is just the beginning. (wsj.com)
- Will solar-powered flight go commercial? (next.ft.com)
Science
- Don't you love it when scientists find something they've never seen before? (cnet.com)
- The world is growing taller especially Dutch men and Latvian women. (next.ft.com)
- Copper is the new silver. (wsj.com)
Health
- Doctors die differently than the rest of us. (cancerworld.net)
- You probably don't need annual dental x-rays. (nytimes.com)
- Metastatic prostate cancer is on the rise. (next.ft.com)
- How nanoparticles could make allergy shots better (and safer). (scientificamerican.com)
- Do you get enough Vitamin D with sunscreen on? (qz.com)
The brain
- It seem that physiological problems are a bigger part of mental illness than originally thought. (theatlantic.com)
- Why confirmation bias is so pervasive. (timharford.com)
- Some evidence that happiness and creativity may be negatively correlated. (washingtonpost.com)
Sleep
Food
- McDonald's ($MCD) has problems that all-day breakfast can't solve. (washingtonpost.com)
- A new technique will increase the life of milk by 3x. (qz.com)
Drink
- Americans are now drinking wine out of cans. (finance.yahoo.com)
- The US is now the world's leading producer of hops. (ft.com)
- Couples that drink together stay together. (qz.com)
Amazon Echo
Fitness
- Is pain-free running possible? (bigthink.com)
- Pool-based workouts are the hot new thing. (latimes.com)
- Two essential exercises to stay fit. (techinsider.io)
Entertainment
- At some point digital music needs a human voice: how playlists get made. (theguardian.com)
- An interview with comedian and filmmaker Mike Birbiglia. (theatlantic.com)
Kids
- The science of getting your kids to eat more vegetables. (qz.com)
- Why kids in Singapore score so well on math tests. (next.ft.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: thinking twice. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Longform links: not so negative yields. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Academic finance as a check on pretensions. (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- Tips on how to get into the top MBA programs. (businessinsider.com)
- More four year graduates are upending the current college model. (wsj.com)
- An excerpt from "There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow" by Jeffrey J. Selingo. (thedailybeast.com)
