Quote of the Day
"How to give a five-minute presentation: Give a four-minute presentation and take your time."
(Seth Godin)
Autos
- Morning and evening commutes are the most dangerous time to drive. (bigthink.com)
- Should you hire someone to buy your next car? (nytimes.com)
- How big a problem is 'stoned driving'? (bigthink.com)
Environment
- Climate change is real. Now we are trying reassess the risks of various weather effects. (npr.org)
- Food waste is a huge environmental disaster. (washingtonpost.com)
- Miami's housing market is already being affected by rising sea levels. (wsj.com)
- It's hard to justify the existence of the plastic straw. (wsj.com)
- The hockey stick has proven out. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
Energy
- The UK went 55 hours without burning any coal for power. (bloomberg.com)
- Iceland's cheap electricity has attracted a whole host of energy-consuming tech sites. (wsj.com)
Transport
- Paul Allen has built the world's largest plane. (washingtonpost.com)
- Autonomous boats are more feasible than autonomous cars. (motherboard.vice.com)
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Technology
- If you think Facebook ($FB) is your biggest data user/abuser then you should take a look at this. (visualcapitalist.com)
- How to navigate the tangle of messaging apps in the workplace. (wsj.com)
- How Apple ($AAPL) can fix the HomePod. (slate.com)
- How a robot recycles used Apple ($AAPL) iPhones. (cnet.com)
Science
- How would we know if there was a civilization Earth before us? (theatlantic.com)
- Early humans frequently hunted large mammals to extinction. (npr.org)
- The genetics of hair color are more complex than previously thought. (ft.com)
Opioids
- The decline of manufacturing is associated with the rise of opioid addiction. (papers.ssrn.com)
- Want to help reduce the opioid epidemic? Legalize marijuana. (bloomberg.com)
Health
- Patients have a hard time dealing with the uncertainty of medicine. (nytimes.com)
- Why don't more people get a flu shot? (hbr.org)
- Good new: it looks like an Ebola vaccine works. (statnews.com)
- More evidence that sedentary behavior is bad for your brain. (nytimes.com)
Psychology
- Nine psychology lessons learned from the Trump Era. (vox.com)
- How to hack your hedonic adaptation. (mrmoneymustache.com)
- How skydiving cured this guy's depression. (nytimes.com)
Sleep
- 5 proven methods to get a better night's sleep. (bakadesuyo.com)
- For thousands of years humans used to sleep in two segments. What changed? (bigthink.com)
Food
- Nine ways you are cooking pasta wrong. (bloomberg.com)
- What it's like to eat freeze-dried prepper food for a week. (munchies.vice.com)
- Why expediters are crucial to the smooth running of a kitchen. (nytimes.com)
Entertainment
- Why the NBA is taking mindshare from the NFL. (nationalreview.com)
- MLB's blackout rules are the worst. (nationalreview.com)
- Even the umpires want to go home during extra innings. (fivethirtyeight.com)
MBA
- What business schools do with those big, high-profile donations from alumni. (ft.com)
- Data science is soaring in popularity at business schools. (ft.com)
College
- How much of a college education is just credential seeking? (wsj.com)
- Some good tips on how to think creatively about paying for college. (ferventfinance.com)
- How private colleges use variable scholarship awards to optimize enrollments. (wsj.com)
Kids
- Why American students haven't gotten better at reading over the past twenty years. (theatlantic.com)
- Teenagers and college-age Americans are drinking less than than they did ten years ago. (washingtonpost.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: limits on innovation. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: fodder for TV. (abnormalreturns.com)
- You make the call: are endowment fund returns a function of risk capacity or superior active management? (abnormalreturns.com)
- Why digging sustainable economic moats is so difficult. (abnormalreturns.com)
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