Review: Victor Davis Hanson’s The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won is “fascinating” and yield “spectacular results.” (New Yorker)
Quote of the Day
The "music industry, like the written word and the visual medium, is facing the same problem of plenty, fractionalized attention, domination of the gatekeepers and most importantly the commodification of content."
(Om Malik)
Energy
Environment
- South Florida is coming to terms with rising sea levels. (bloomberg.com)
- Home buyers recognize and price in the risk of rising sea levels. (papers.ssrn.com)
- Some of the cities most at-risk of rising sea levels. (businessinsider.com)
- Why men are more reluctant environmentalists. (scientificamerican.com)
- How cutting back on beef consumption would make for a more sustainable environment. (arstechnica.com)
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Technology
- How YouTube became the world's best film school. (wired.com)
- Why big tech is diving headlong into health. (nytimes.com)
Health
- A lot of antidepressant use is off-label. (qz.com)
- Why surgery for back pain should be a last resort. (vox.com)
- Calcium and Vitamin D don't do anything for bone health. (axios.com)
Psychology
- Brett Steenbarger, "Feed your strengths and you'll starve your weaknesses. Pursue what you love and you'll naturally overcome what you hate." (traderfeed.blogspot.com)
- Estrangement is more common than you think. (nytimes.com)
- So-called 'SuperAgers' seem to have strong relationships with good friends. (scientificamerican.com)
- Don't underestimate the power of default options. (bloomberg.com)
Happiness
- Five science-based ways of increasing happiness. (heleo.com)
- Everyone is trying to balance the challenges to our happiness. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
Food
- How other people's food allergies are changing what you eat. (washingtonpost.com)
- Meal kits have a packaging problem. (wired.com)
- A sous-vide is not a slow cooker. (arstechnica.com)
Fitness
- Gyms are ditching machines for free weights. (wsj.com)
- Why prolonged sitting is just awful for your body. (npr.org)
Entertainment
- On the lucrative economics of Las Vegas musical act residencies. (variety.com)
- MoviePass is gathering subscribers even if the movie theaters are not pumped about it. (nytimes.com)
College
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: basis uncertainty. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: smarter spending. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
