Insights: How to drink wine like a pro. Thoughts from Marissa A. Ross’s book Wine. All the Time.: The Casual Guide to Confident Drinking. (Quartz)
Quote of the Day
“The first draft is for the writer. The second draft is for the editor. The last draft is for the reader.”
(Scott Moyers)
Energy
- The end of fossil fuels will not end geopolitical competition. (bloomberg.com)
- Alaska's permafrost is starting to thaw. (nytimes.com)
- The downside of wind development. (slate.com)
Used cars
Autonomous vehicles
- Apple ($AAPL) is scaling back their ambitions for self-driving cars. (nytimes.com)
- How Velodyne became the go-to provider of lidar systems for cars. (sfchronicle.com)
- An Achilles heel for autonomous vehicles: bicycles. (cleantechnica.com)
Travel
- How to make the most of hotel amenities. (nytimes.com)
- How budget airlines have transformed the global air transport industry. (wsj.com)
Hardware offers
- Amazon Fire tablets are on sale including the Fire 7 Tablet at $39.99. (amazon.com)
- Amazon Echo devices are still on sale including the Echo at just $99.99. (amazon.com)
- Kindle devices are all on sale including the best-selling Paperwhite at $99.99. (amazon.com)
Technology
- "If we want to create machines with human-like intelligence, Gopnik says computers will have to be programmed to think like children." (qz.com)
- Your face may soon be your password. (wsj.com)
Opioids
Health
- The microbiome is more complicated than previously thought. (theatlantic.com)
- The many challenges of trying to come up with a male contraceptive pill. (melmagazine.com)
- Serious food allergy cases are on the rise. (wsj.com)
- More research is needed on participation in high school football and CTE. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
- Medical drones are coming to Tanzania. (npr.org)
Diet
- Why breakfast should be your biggest meal of the day. (nytimes.com)
- Not all plant-based diets are equally healthy. (statnews.com)
Fitness
- When you exercise you feel more sociable. (wsj.com)
- Do elite athletes have different gut bacteria? (qz.com)
eero
- "Eero’s second-generation router lives up to its claims of delivering a simpler, faster, better home networking solution." (pastemagazine.com)
- Get an eero mesh wi-fi system at Amazon. (amazon.com)
Food
- Vanilla bean prices are surging. (ft.com)
- Americans love chicken wings. Full stop. (bloomberg.com)
- Poland Spring water does not come from a spring. (washingtonpost.com)
- What it takes to grow the perfect hothouse tomato, en masse. (fastcompany.com)
- These plastic-free milk and sugar pods are cool. (modernfarmer.com)
Drink
- Lagunitas Brewing made an IPA with cannabis. (fortune.com)
- Independent craft brewers are getting squeezed by brewers affiliated with the big brewers. (wsj.com)
- How to read a bourbon label. (artofmanliness.com)
College
- A complete guide to NOT going to college. (qz.com)
- The University of Missouri is still paying the price for its handling of the 2015 protests. (wsj.com)
- Canada's top universities are a lot bigger than the US' top schools. (marginalrevolution.com)
- Prodigy Finance is funding tuition for overseas students in exchange for a cut of future earnings. (businessinsider.com)
- Colleges are taking a step back from the whole luxury dorm thing. (theatlantic.com)
MBAs
- GMAT score inflation is a real thing. (wallstreetoasis.com)
- The University of Iowa is ending its full-time MBA program. (wsj.com)
E-sports
- The NFL is teaming up with EA for a new e-sports tournament the Madden NFL Club Championship. (wsj.com)
- Formula One is launching its own e-sports series. (reuters.com)
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Sports
- 426 global soccer teams, ranked. (fivethirtyeight.com)
- The world's 50 most valuable sports teams, ranked. (visualcapitalist.com)
Entertainment
- The 20 best standup comedy specials so far in 2017. (pastemagazine.com)
- MoviePass experienced a surge of subscriptions after cutting its price. (theverge.com)
- Truckers love public radio. (current.org)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: always go the funeral. (abnormalreturns.com)
- My "big interview" with Chuck Jaffe on the Money Life Show. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Fixed income risk is immutable, but how you hold your bonds could make a big difference. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Service journalism and 'being of service' or why you should read 'Barking Up the Wrong Tree' by Eric Barker. (abnormalreturns.com)
