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Quote of the Day
"Treat Facebook as the private walled garden that it is. If you want something to be publicly accessible, post it to a real blog on any platform that embraces the real web, the open one."
(John Gruber)
Autos
- Just how cheap could on-demand, electric, autonomous vehicles get? (fastcompany.com)
- How autonomous vehicle technology can be used in public transportation. (nytimes.com)
- Autonomous vehicles will change big swaths of the US economy. (qz.com)
- Marc Andreessen thinks autonomous vehicles will net-net increase jobs. (recode.net)
Energy
- The only things standing in the way of further wind power gains is politics. (nytimes.com)
- This is what the demise of oil looks like. (bloomberg.com)
- This Swiss plant sucks CO2 out of the air. (fastcompany.com)
Climate
- Great, now climate change is now wrecking our sleep. (newscientist.com)
- Mushrooms are a canary in the coal mine for climate change. (theatlantic.com)
- The US flood insurance program is a mess. (e360.yale.edu)
- No that it needed it, but Hawaii is heating up. (theatlantic.com)
Air travel
- How Icelandic Air helped to democratize air travel. (fastcompany.com)
- Are rising profit margins to blame for the current state of air travel? (nytimes.com)
- A charter plane shortage is brewing because airlines are finding their regular routes so profitable. (bloomberg.com)
Technology
- How Amazon ($AMZN) changed the market for warehouse robotics. (bloomberg.com)
- How computing has changed 20 years post-Big Blue. (scientificamerican.com)
- Crypto token networks explained. (medium.com)
- In praise of a blockchain bubble. (bloomberg.com)
Science
- Jupiter is weirder than previously thought. (news.nationalgeographic.com)
- San Diego would have been a great place to live out the Ice Age. (qz.com)
- Genetics has a role in IQ. (nymag.com)
Health
Psychology
- Is there a link between living in a city and psychosis? (statnews.com)
- Seven tips on how to be miserable. (kottke.org)
- Why it's hard to keep a secret. (scientificamerican.com)
- Why we fidget. (qz.com)
Food
- Coffee is now growing in...California. (nytimes.com)
- We will soon be eating more farmed fish than wild caught. (ft.com)
- Maryland looks to curb the overuse of antibiotics in animals. (scientificamerican.com)
- Eight great tips for maximizing your barbecue restaurant experience. (bloomberg.com)
- People are just the worst: all the stuff that gets stolen from restaurants. (bloomberg.com)
College
- How to turn a MBA internship into a job. (ft.com)
- MBA programs are getting more specialized. (wsj.com)
- Why don't more people major in Computer Science? (danwang.co)
- 5 lessons from a first year grad student. (statnews.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: human vulnerability. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: making your bed. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What books Abnormal Returns readers purchased in May 2017. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The 2017 Abnormal Returns campaign for charity:water is live! Buy a t-shirt, donate, get involved! (abnormalreturns.com)
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