Book Endorsement: Dreaming of Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World by Rob Sheffield is Tyler Cowen’s “favorite book so far this year…” (Marginal Revolution)
Quote of the Day
"The California Roll Rule: People don’t want something truly new, they want the familiar done differently."
(Nir Eyal)
Autos
- Ford ($F) is trying to become more Apple-like. (qz.com)
- Drugged driving is becoming a bigger problem. (cnn.com)
Water
- Rising sea levels are upending the Miami real estate market. (scientificamerican.com)
- Bangalore, India is running out of potable water. (wired.com)
- More problems for the Louisiana coastline...bugs. (washingtonpost.com)
Environment
- Our National Parks are bathed in human-generated noise. (scientificamerican.com)
- Just great...there is some deadly sh*t locked up in soon to be unfrozen glaciers. (bbc.com)
- The downside of using ever more chemical fertilizers. (e360.yale.edu)
Offers
- Sign up for a free trial to Audible.com and get two free audiobooks like "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life" by Mark Manson. (amazon.com)
- Spring semester is coming to an end but Amazon Prime Student is still an awesome deal. (amazon.com)
Travel
- Will live music make airport security lines suck less? (nytimes.com)
- NYC's ferries are cool but they don't do much to move people around. (slate.com)
Technology
- The Starbucks ($SBUX) app is uniquely hackable. (buzzfeed.com)
- Hallelujah! Amazon ($AMZN) Video is coming to the Apple TV. (recode.net)
- Why you should stop using public wi-fi. (hbr.org)
- There is now an apple-picking robot. (technologyreview.com)
- Fender amps go high tech. (qz.com)
Health
- What does the research say about spinal manipulation for low back pain? (nytimes.com)
- Virtual reality can help reduce chronic pain. (qz.com)
- A new spit test for concussions. (npr.org)
- There is evidence that ketamine could help treat depression. (businessinsider.com)
Membership
Ingredients
- Your organic milk may not be all that organic. (washingtonpost.com)
- Slow-growth chickens taste better. (nytimes.com)
- Avocado prices are soaring. (ft.com)
- Coffee has gotten way too fancy. (longreads.com)
Eating
- Why you can never get a 7pm restaurant reservation online. (bloomberg.com)
- Eight tips to finding a great barbecue place. (bloomberg.com)
- Sous-vide is the new microwave. (ft.com)
- Why taste buds dull as we age. (npr.org)
Drink
- Craft brewers often face a consumer backlash when they sell out to mega-brewers like AB Inbev ($BUD). (businessinsider.com)
- Where craft beer is most popular in the US. (datafiniti.co)
- Beer made from recycled bread is now a thing. (nytimes.com)
- Billionaires have their own wine consultants. (bloomberg.com)
Baseball
- Hitters are fighting back against the shift. (wsj.com)
- The idea of a ninth-inning only closer is being loosend up. (theringer.com)
Sports
- Track and field wants to re-write its record book to eliminate cheats. (wsj.com)
- NFL players, past and present, are turning to marijuana for pain. (washingtonpost.com)
- The NBA will (soon) have to come to terms with lower cable TV revenues. (bloomberg.com)
- Nike ($NKE) is betting big on a sub-2 hour marathon. (wsj.com)
- How the odds for the Kentucky Derby have evolved over time. (bloomberg.com)
MBAs
- Making the case for Harvard Business School. (chenmarkcapital.com)
- Stanford Finance MBAs are the highest paid. (ft.com)
College
- Colleges are rushing to put classes online. (wsj.com)
- Does it pay to get a double major? It depends... (qz.com)
Kids
- Some conversation starters for the dinner table. (qz.com)
- The data on pre-K is pretty clear. (npr.org)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: a mix of speed and power. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- ICYMI our "Keep ETFs Weird" post. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Meet the 69th largest money manager in the world...Apple ($AAPL)! (abnormalreturns.com)
- What books Abnormal Returns readers most purchased in April 2017. (abnormalreturns.com)
