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Autos
- Pickups priced in excess of $50,000 is no longer an anomaly. (wsj.com)
- Data shows driverless cars are getting better, but still need human intervention. (arstechnica.com)
- Tesla ($TSLA) owners are experiencing long waits for service. (wsj.com)
Energy
- Under Trump coal has lost its #1 position for electricity generation in the US. (econbrowser.com)
- States are taking the lead on greener energy. (scientificamerican.com)
- Why Germany's move away from coal will accelerate. (ft.com)
- How easier, and cheaper, geothermal could help reduce energy use. (techcrunch.com)
- Buying a house with leased solar panels is not exactly straightforward. (bloomberg.com)
Environment
- Alarm bells are going off about the decline in insect species. (theguardian.com)
- Will pulling CO2 from the air become a profitable business? (nytimes.com)
- What do you do when you can no longer throw stuff in the trash? (washingtonpost.com)
- An interactive model that shows you how the climate is expected to change where you live. (qz.com)
Air
- Rising demand means US airlines continue to pump out a lot of CO2. (wsj.com)
- Airbus will stop making the super-jumbo A380. (qz.com)
- Airplane black boxes will soon stream data continuously via satellite. (wsj.com)
Travel
- Tourist destinations are overrun. Is the solution higher fees? (washingtonpost.com)
- Three things you should identify in every city you visit. (nytimes.com)
Science
- Science crowdfunding sites generate very different outcomes than traditional grant-making. (nature.com)
- Small vs. large research teams generate different kinds of output. (marginalrevolution.com)
Technology
- On the uncertain ethics of ubiquitous A/B testing. (fastcompany.com)
- How worried should you be about your laptop webcam? (daringfireball.net)
- The world's best golf driver was made with AI. (fortune.com)
Vaccines
- The measles vaccine does more than protect against measles. (npr.org)
- Why don't we have a Strep A vaccine? (digg.com)
Medicine
- America is making progress on cardiovascular health. (washingtonpost.com)
- Worries over opioids are putting patients with real, chronic pain at risk. (nytimes.com)
- There's nothing good about chronic inflammation. (newatlas.com)
- The case for transmissible Alzheimer's keeps growing. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
- Health insurance IS big business. (axios.com)
- The future of medicine is data. (wsj.com)
Psychology
- Esketamine, developed by Johnson & Johnson, is a nasal spray designed to treat severe forms of depression and is expected to hit the market in 2019. (businessinsider.com)
- How exercise could help fend off depression. (nytimes.com)
- Some easy stuff to boost your mood. (thesimpledollar.com)
Food
- Prices at Whole Foods are ticking back up again. (qz.com)
- Tyson Foods ($TSN) is moving upstream into higher value-added products. (wsj.com)
Drink
- American whiskey makers are being hurt by the tariff wars. (nytimes.com)
- Non-alcoholic beer is a bright spot for brewers. (wsj.com)
- Maryland was once a rye powerhouse. The only problem is nobody now knows what it tasted like. (nytimes.com)
College
- International students continue to pull back from US universities. (wsj.com)
- The UK university model is moving more towards the American model. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- Art donors are increasingly giving their art to college museums. (wsj.com)
Kids
- Dosing medicine for small children is a tricky business. (npr.org)
- How to teach kids to spot fake news. (qz.com)
Baseball
- More MLB teams are willing to tank because there is little financial repercussion. (finance.yahoo.com)
- Are quants to blame for the slow free agent season in baseball? (cnbc.com)
- Minor league baseball team names keep getting weirder. (mashable.com)
Sports
- A profile of the increasingly 'ubiquitous Sports Reference family of websites.' (nytimes.com)
- A Q&A with Christie Aschwanden author of "Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery." (npr.org)
- How Finns came to dominate the NHL. (nytimes.com)
- Press, run and shoot three - how to disrupt high school basketball. (washingtonpost.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: subjective journalism. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: the story of meat. (abnormalreturns.com)
- How many unique personal finance stories are there really? (abnormalreturns.com)