Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds? by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose is “a true tour de force.” (Scientific American)
Quote of the Day
"No one wants to see a diet Twinkie.."
(Bill Toller)
Energy
- Elon Musk wants to turn your house into a power plant. (arstechnica.com)
- The Feds is trying to get more electric car charging stations built. (npr.org)
Transportation
- It is hard to overestimate how big an effect driverless cars will have on society. (medium.com)
- Why do we still not have commercial supersonic air travel? (vox.com)
Technology
- Search engines have a big effect on what (election) information you see. (ft.com)
- Websites break. The question is what are you going to do about it. (sethgodin.typepad.com)
Health
- There is little evidence that cryotherapy helps aid aches and pains. (scientificamerican.com)
- Better sleep means less junk food cravings. (shape.com)
- An underplayed story: abortion by medication is on the rise. (marginalrevolution.com)
- On the prospects for patch to treat peanut allergies. (theverge.com)
Psychology
- Why multi-tasking is so pernicious. (bigthink.com)
- Web surfing is the new secondhand smoke. (nytimes.com)
Sonos
- How Sonos benefits from the rise of streaming music services. (fastcompany.com)
- You can check out all the Sonos home sound system at Amazon: (amazon.com)
Food
- Americans are eating more fish. (npr.org)
- Chipotle's ($CMG) burger chain, Tasty Made, feels like a re-tread. (businessinsider.com)
- Can David Chang remake the restaurant industry using VC? (nytimes.com)
- Ranch dressing is just the worst. (washingtonpost.com)
Sports
- Ratings-wise, MLB would like the Chicago Cubs to be in the World Series every year. (bloomberg.com)
- Why are NFL ratings down? (awfulannouncing.com)
- Vail Resorts ($MTN) is the 1000-pound gorilla in the North American ski industry. (freeskier.com)
- Does MLB need more socialism? (pragcap.com)
Gender
Cities
- More signs Americans are leaving expensive metro areas for the hinterlands. (wsj.com)
- What's so great about downtown? (bloomberg.com)
Entertainment
- Why movies like the forthcoming "Arrival" are so rare these days. (theringer.com)
- The number of scripted shows is in a strong bull market. (businessinsider.com)
- Hulu wants to be the new cable. (theatlantic.com)
- Tyler Cowen, "It is a mistake to smugly assume that television has surpassed movies. The best movies (mostly foreign) are better than the best TV, even today." (marginalrevolution.com)
Offers
- Try Audible.com and get two free audiobooks including Wayne Gretzky's memoir "99 Stories of the Game." (amazon.com)
- You can sign up for a free trial to Showtime, STARZ or Seeso at Amazon. (amazon.com)
Kids
- Is sex ed in schools obsolete? (fusion.net)
- High 'happy schools' can help kids succeed? (npr.org)
- Why first-born children have more success. (scientificamerican.com)
College
- Why liberal arts majors make great product managers. (medium.com)
- How one university used big data to increase graduation rates. (theatlantic.com)
- Universities are hoping a crackdown on alcohol will help reduce sexual assault. (nytimes.com)
- How much certain states are cutting back on support of their public universities. (nytimes.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: language and cognition. (abnormalreturns.com)
