Review: Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night by Jason Zinoman has written a “book seems not one word too long and is probably the finest profile ever written of a TV comic.” (The Daily Beast)
Autos
Environment
- Six reasons to be hopeful about climate change. (medium.com)
- Solar energy jobs outnumber coal jobs. (nytimes.com)
- Why aren't more farms 'recycling' their manure? (npr.org)
- Five myths about the oceans. (washingtonpost.com)
Plastic
- Your plastic recyclable water bottle probably isn't getting recycled. (buzzfeed.com)
- There are caterpillars that seem to like to eat plastic bags. (washingtonpost.com)
Travel
- The distinction between the haves and have nots on commercial airliners is getting even more stark. (wsj.com)
- Post-United fiasco getting bumped could be a more lucrative endeavor. (theatlantic.com)
- How airlines train their employees to work with irate customers in the big metal tube 30,000 feet in the air. (nytimes.com)
- Why bargain travel sites may no longer be a bargain. (backchannel.com)
Health
- Autism and the challenge of medication. (scientificamerican.com)
- More support for the hygiene hypothesis. (nytimes.com)
- Aspirin may help prevent the spread of cancer cells. (scientificamerican.com)
- Hope for premature babies in the form of an artificial womb. (newscientist.com)
- Why don't more women use long-term birth control methods? (washingtonpost.com)
Mesh wi-fi
- Brian X. Chen, "The next time you upgrade your Wi-Fi equipment, take a bold step: Throw out your stand-alone router and instead consider investing in a so-called mesh system." (nytimes.com)
- Check out all the mesh wi-fi systems available on Amazon including the eero: (amazon.com)
Technology
- Instagram is out Snapchatting SnapChat. (nytimes.com)
- Apple ($AAPL) may be launching its own Venmo competitor. (recode.net)
- "For apartment renters, high-speed internet and Wi-Fi are more important amenities than having in-room laundry facilities, according to a new survey." (variety.com)
- Somebody needs to tell the engineers to reign things in. (strategy-business.com)
Billions
- It's hard to watch "Billions" without getting hungry. (esquire.com)
- Watch "Billions" with a free-trial to Showtime on Amazon Channels. (amazon.com)
Weed
Food
- Salt is the most important ingredient in cooking. (nytimes.com)
- The hot new food trend is garbage...or at least stuff we called garbage prior. (washingtonpost.com)
- Go ahead, eat another breakfast. (wsj.com)
- It's tough being a dairy farmer right now. (bloomberg.com)
Drink
QSR
- Why Subway is in decline in the US. (bloomberg.com)
- Chick-fil-A is the Stanford of QSR franchises. (businessinsider.com)
Entertainment
- Women should sing all country songs. (thehairpin.com)
- How Michael McDonald became cool again. (esquire.com)
- How close is the movie "The Circle" to reality? (wsj.com)
Sports
- Has MLB advertising finally gone too far? (dealbreaker.com)
- A profile of the best teenage pole vaulter in the world. (nytimes.com)
- How wearables could suss out injuries before they happen. (marketwatch.com)
- The first native Lithuanian born MLB player debuts. (cbssports.com)
- What happens when soccer bans heading? (theringer.com)
- Why newly imported sports rarely gain a foothold. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
Site stuff
- An annual membership to Abnormal Returns helps support the site and gives you access to cool stuff. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The daily Abnormal Returns e-mail newsletter has a new look and includes our full linkfests. (abnormalreturns.com)
Humanities
- Tech needs to stop hating on the humanities. (wired.com)
- Liberal arts schools are fighting to give their students "relevant" job skills. (wsj.com)
College
- Your "college tour" is a waste if not misleading. (nytimes.com)
- Advice on how to get into Harvard Business School. (businessinsider.com)
- Cal Berkeley's Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (MET) Program sounds awesome. (businessinsider.com)
- Purdue University is "buying" Kaplan University to create a public, online university. (buzzfeed.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: accrued interest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: remembering a warmer world. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Compare and contrast: being President vs. running an index ETF. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The imposter phenomenon, illustrated. (abnormalreturns.com)
