Book list: What we are reading this summer including Before the Fall by Noah Hawley. (The Atlantic)
Quote of the Day
"Experts are notoriously bad at seeing technological change coming."
(Matt Ridley)
Autos
- Would you short Uber stock if you could? (qz.com)
- Is Uber reducing drunk driving? (washingtonpost.com)
- What aviation experts have to say about the introduction of self-driving cars. (wsj.com)
Technology
- Seattle is rapidly becoming the Silicon Valley of space startups. (nytimes.com)
- How one startup is looking to beat the USDA at its own game. (theverge.com)
Offers
- Mesh wi-fi is the new start of the art for home wireless internet. Check out eero now: (amazon.com)
- MODERN TRADER Magazine—the essential journal for professional traders and active investors. Special Subscription Offer! (moderntrader.com)
- Adding Showtime, Starz or SEESO, to your Amazon Prime account is simple. Sign up here: (amazon.com)
Environment
- Rising sea levels are putting trillions of dollar of US real estate at-risk. (bloomberg.com)
- Your AC is making global warming worse. (washingtonpost.com)
- Israel has proven cheap desalinization is possible. (scientificamerican.com)
- Renewable energy is great if you can it to the right place economically. (slate.com)
- Why Lego is trying to get rid of oil-based plastics. (fastcoexist.com)
Health
- Holy crap. An Alzheimer's drug that actually works. (newscientist.com)
- Immunotherapy is giving cancer patients hope who previously had none. (nytimes.com)
- ICUs are getting rid of restrictions on visitors. (wsj.com)
- Spinal fusion surgery doesn't work but it is still being done. (nytimes.com)
The brain
- Experience seems to diminish the endowment effect. (news.uchicago.edu)
- Not all IQ tests are created equal. (wsj.com)
Multi-room speakers
- Sonos is still the best multi-room speaker system out there. (engadget.com)
- Buy Sonos speakers at Amazon. (amazon.com)
Food
- The 25 best recipes in the world according to a quant. (mebfaber.com)
- Fish fraud is more common than you think. (wsj.com)
- Bottled water is set to outsell soda in 2016. (bloomberg.com)
- Blaze Pizza is going nationwide. (latimes.com)
- Air chilled chicken rocks. (bloomberg.com)
Drink
- 10 beers perfect for a summer day. (bloomberg.com)
- 10 behind the scenes jobs in craft beer. (indystar.com)
- The case for (fine) wine as an investment. (blog.alphaarchitect.com)
Fitness
- Want to memorize something? Exercise after a study session. (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
- Why the heat makes you lazy. (qz.com)
Soccer
- Expansion MLS franchises just got way more expensive. (bloomberg.com)
- You could have purchased AC Milan for $821 million. (money.cnn.com)
Sports
- How fast could Usain Bolt run the mile? (newyorker.com)
- An energy supplement drink that boosts ketones is both legal and effective. (newscientist.com)
- Why the IOC should put the Olympics in distressed cities like Detroit. (wsj.com)
- Daily fantasy sports is back, chastened and quieter. (nytimes.com)
Video
- The Hollywood studio system is dead. (hollywoodreporter.com)
- Why you should go see the new Wall Street movie 'Equity.' (businessinsider.com)
- In praise of the eight episode TV season, a la Stranger Things. (slate.com)
Music
- An ode to the Apple ($AAPL) iPod Classic. (theringer.com)
- Still no 'song of the summer'... (washingtonpost.com)
- The future of jazz is on the fringes where musicians are mashing up a variety of styles of music. (economist.com)
- On the rise of the mid-level pop star. (washingtonpost.com)
Education
- The high psychological costs of getting a PhD. (qz.com)
- Does helicopter parenting encourage binge drinking? (theatlantic.com)
- In praise of profanity. (qz.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: sudden acceleration. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Come check us out at two of the Autumn's best financial conferences. (abnormalreturns.com)
- I recently did an interview with AdvisoryHQ.com. (advisoryhq.com)
- What books Abnormal Returns readers purchased in July 2016. (abnormalreturns.com)
Dude stuff
- Dudes love cargo shorts. Women don't. (wsj.com)
- There's never been a better time to be a shaver. (wsj.com)
