List: Five books that will have you re-think marriage including The All-or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work by Eli J. Finkel. (Business Insider)
Quote of the Day
"The larger problem is that the NFL, like many empires before it, got too large, too cocky, and too ambitious, and it overreached."
(Will Leitch)
Chart of the Day
Parents now spend twice as much time with their children than they did 50 years ago.
EVs
- The math is complicated but EVs running on coal-generated electricity are still greener than traditional ICE autos. (bloomberg.com)
- For city dwellers not having a garage makes having an EV difficult, i.e. no charger. (sfchronicle.com)
Environment
- The loss of sea ice is making Alaska's coastline vulnerable to storms. (scientificamerican.com)
- Grizzlies are moving outside of Yellowstone and Glacier National Park. (washingtonpost.com)
- Less burpy cows would help reduce methane emissions. (bloomberg.com)
- How LED lights make light pollution more likely. (wsj.com)
Chicago
- Elon Musk wants to build a high-speed Loop from O'Hare to Downtown. (fortune.com)
- Chicago is still a fiscal mess, but the CTA has been able to continue to upgrade the system. (wsj.com)
- True Chicagoans know about the Pedway. (bbc.com)
Science
- We don't need to save every endangered species. Extinction is a part of evoution. (washingtonpost.com)
- There is far more life below the surface of Earth than commonly thought. (aeon.co)
Technology
- Six laws of technology everyone needs to know. (wsj.com)
- Firefox Chrome is now as good or better than Google ($GOOGL) Chrome. (wired.com)
Psychology
- How the climate of where you grow up affects your personality. (washingtonpost.com)
- People are less dismissive of ideas they hear, than read. (axios.com)
- How to worry better. (thecut.com)
Health
- Apple ($AAPL) is launching a new study to identify irregular heart rhythms using the Watch. (theverge.com)
- Where we are in the influenza season. (statnews.com)
- Magic mushrooms are next for a legalization campaign in California. (theguardian.com)
- Immunotherapy is wildly effective against cancer, but only for small minority. (wired.com)
- Fecal transplants are coming to a pill. (theverge.com)
- Awkward: when the supplement you are try to market fails in a clinical trial. (cnbc.com)
Food
- Seven things you are paying too much for in a restaurant. (bloomberg.com)
- A new generation of Americans are getting into farming. (washingtonpost.com)
Fitness
- Malls never wanted gyms as tenants. Now they are a hot property. (wsj.com)
- Why you should be running 5Ks not marathons. (fivethirtyeight.com)
- Strength training is good for you. (outsideonline.com)
- Why you should carry heavy stuff not just lift it. (artofmanliness.com)
Nintendo Switch
- The Nintendo Switch is pretty much perfect. (qz.com)
- Order a Switch at Amazon.com before they run out of stock again. (amazon.com)
Sports
- Is it really possible to thrive as a two-way player in MLB? (sports.yahoo.com)
- FIFA is having a hard time attracting sponsors. (nytimes.com)
Best of lists
- The best films of 2017. (marginalrevolution.com)
- The 50 best albums of 2017. (pastemagazine.com)
- The 25 best TV shows of 2017. (pastemagazine.com)
- An Amazon Prime subscription gets you access to music, TV shows and movies in addition to free 2-day shipping. (amazon.com)
Books
- The best books of 2017. (kottke.org)
- The best audiobooks of 2017. (pastemagazine.com)
- The best fiction books of 2017. (marginalrevolution.com)
- For $9.99 a month Kindle Unlimited gives you access to millions of books, magazines and Audible.com audiobooks. (amazon.com)
College
- Rising foreign enrollments are bailing out public universities. (qz.com)
- Inequality in higher education is difficult to address. (behavioralscientist.org)
- The University of Wisconsin is pushing hard to save its full-time MBA program. (wsj.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: blue crab blues. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: crisp challenges. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The top ten books Abnormal Returns readers purchased at Amazon in November 2017. (abnormalreturns.com)
