Book list: 7 books on drinking including Reid Mitenbuler’s Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America’s Whiskey. (The Daily Beast)
Quote of the Day
"The greatest challenge for any person with strongly held political views is to accept or at least be open to knowledge that contradicts our most deeply held views. Most of the time we fail."
(Donald Beachler)
Autos
- Toyota Prius sales have suffered with lower gasoline prices. (wsj.com)
- Minivans are cool again. (bloomberg.com)
Energy
- Self-sailing boats are already a real business. (nytimes.com)
- Large-scale power storage will have to move beyond batteries. (bloomberg.com)
Travel
- 5 ways technology is changing the hotel business. (washingtonpost.com)
- Amtrak's new trains are too good for its tracks. (slate.com)
Offers
- Amazon Prime Student is currently 50% off. A great resource for college kids. (amazon.com)
- Try Audible.com and get two free audiobooks including "Shoe Dog" by Phil Knight. (amazon.com)
- The Amazon Tap portable, Alexa-powered speaker is now just $99.99. (amazon.com)
- Michael Lewis' new book, "The Undoing Project" is available for pre-order now. (amazon.com)
The brain
- Why walking helps us think. (newyorker.com)
- A look at the conjunction fallacy. (farnamstreetblog.com)
- How Vitamin B12 can help protect the brain. (nytimes.com)
Loneliness
- As society ages loneliness is a downright epidemic. (nytimes.com)
- How loneliness helped humans survive. (washingtonpost.com)
Science
- Why shouldn't we kill all the mosquitoes? (wsj.com)
- Why you should get behind the full shopping cart at the grocery store. (nytimes.com)
Technology
- Why you should charge your phone when it hits 50%. (nymag.com)
- The iPhone 7 and why the camera companies are doomed. (newyorker.com)
- Amazon and the cheap tablet strategy. (nytimes.com)
Food
- What it's like to be the most powerful food critic in New York City. (newyorker.com)
- There are no truffles in truffle oil. (priceonomics.com)
Sports
- The NFL has weathered the storm, for now. (nymag.com)
- The NFL has an age problem. (theringer.com)
- Does US soccer finally have a home-grown superstar? (slate.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: the podcast population. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Forty years of indexing: from folly to fear. (abnormalreturns.com)
Kids
- We should let children take more risks. (wsj.com)
- Summer programs are a big help for underprivileged kids. (washingtonpost.com)
College
- Military veterans are not typical college freshmen. (washingtonpost.com)
- Why some parents won't let their kids study liberal arts. (washingtonpost.com)
