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Quote of the Day
"What’s the deal with our tendency to give ourselves the benefit of the doubt while not doing the same for others?"
(Nir Eyal)
Autos
- The price of used Teslas ($TSLA) are falling. (media.thinknum.com)
- A look Ford's ($F) former portfolio of now prominent luxury brands. (bloomberg.com)
- VW is killing the Beetle. (wsj.com)
Energy
- Why electric cars will be part of any grid storage solution. (ft.com)
- Solar energy is making inroads in red states. (marketwatch.com)
- Why power and energy companies love unmanned drones. (bloomberg.com)
- The world's largest offshore wind farm is now operational in the Irish Sea. (npr.org)
Environment
- Identifying which residents should evacuate a hurricane is a complicated business. (scientificamerican.com)
- The Rio Grande river is dying. (nytimes.com)
Medicine
- Doctors are just like us. They have a hard time unlearning stuff. (nytimes.com)
- The answer to the shortage of doctors may not be more doctors. (statnews.com)
- How one clinic cut the price of IVF in half. (wsj.com)
Health
- Is Alzheimer's disease in some way, shape or form, caused by infection? (npr.org)
- Hospitals are fighting superbugs by cleaning equipment not usually considered. (wsj.com)
- Paired kidney donation is on the rise in the US. (qz.com)
- Is the new Apple ($AAPL) Watch going to over-diagnose cardiac conditions? (newscientist.com)
Psychology
- The experiences vs. purchases debate is more complicated than originally thought. (bigthink.com)
- The world is full of buttons that don't work. (cnn.com)
- Don't make big decisions when you are tired. (valueinvestingworld.com)
- The negative calorie illusion: why eating a salad with a burger doesn't make it healthy. (wsj.com)
- The best way to combat fake news is critical thinking skills. (scientificamerican.com)
- Why noise bothers us so much. (nautil.us)
Conversation
- How to ask better questions on a first date. (artofmanliness.com)
- A Swedish guide to facilitating discussion at a dinner party. (qz.com)
Fitness
- Want to live longer? Play tennis. (nytimes.com)
- Peloton, and others, are coming for the home treadmill. (bloomberg.com)
- Strength training...now! (nytimes.com)
Food
- Fast food restaurants are having a hard time keeping up with fast changing consumer tastes. (bloomberg.com)
- Why food safety scares on the rise: better detection. (npr.org)
Drink
- Celebrities are attaching themselves to boutique distilleries. (fortune.com)
- How Pedialyte became a go-to hangover cure. (vox.com)
Media
- How Disney's ($DIS) new streaming app will work. (hollywoodreporter.com)
- How the Academy could modernize the Oscars. (bloomberg.com)
- Netflix ($NFLX) show quality has dropped off. (qz.com)
College
- Are college campuses going to get overrun by dockless electric scooters? (slate.com)
- A college cost often overlooked: rent. (media.thinknum.com)
- Want a job? Major in the actuarial sciences. (bloomberg.com)
School
- Why does the school day end two hours before the work day? (theatlantic.com)
- Why we should teach decision making in high school. (medium.com)
- Teens are protesting assignments that include in-class presentations. (theatlantic.com)
Kids
- Stop yelling at your kids. It makes you look out of control and weak. (nytimes.com)
- Five strategies to raise emotionally intelligent kids. (bakadesuyo.com)
- Children shouldn't play tackle football before high school. (wsj.com)
- Why children are more prone to vomiting. (npr.org)
Eariler on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: the fabric of daily existence. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: the big game. (abnormalreturns.com)
- You do you: passive investing edition. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The word advice is right there in the title! (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- Read Bethany McLean's "The Truth About Fracking and How It’s Changing the World" for an excellent history lesson not a forecast. (readingthemarkets.blogspot.com)
- Fred Wilson is enjoying Steven Johnson's "Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most." (avc.com)
- In praise of public libraries. (kottke.org)
