Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the growing power and scope of Facebook.
Quote of the Day
"Finding truth in history is about understanding that this truth is not absolute."
(Shane Parrish)
Technology
- The seven deadly sins of AI prediction. (technologyreview.com)
- Our smartphone are horribly distracting even when we are not using them. (wsj.com)
- Franklin Foer's Hierarchy of (Tech) Evil. (wired.com)
Medicine
- Why an oncologist may not want to talk about his job. (cancer.nautil.us)
- We are getting closer to curing the common cold. (theguardian.com)
Longform
- More American teenagers are experiencing severe anxiety. (nytimes.com)
- How the US university system became the beast that it is. (aeon.co)
- Why self-help authors love personality typologies. (mobile.nytimes.com)
- The traditional battlefield is no more. (aeon.co)
- A dozen lessons from business from Anthony Bourdain. (25iq.com)
- How Leonardo Da Vinci engineered the Mona Lisa. (theatlantic.com)
