Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at how social media is ruining our memories.
Business
- When a private equity deal goes bad, it goes really bad. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- American railroad companies are trying operate more like airlines. (wsj.com)
YouTube
- YouTube was slow to pick up on warnings about toxic, viral videos. (bloomberg.com)
- The Golden Age of Youtube has long since passed. (theverge.com)
Climate change
- Miami is increasingly underwater but that doesn't seem to faze local real estate agents. (popula.com)
- How climate change is affecting migration to the US. (newyorker.com)
Sports
- Between data and intuition lies baseball. (newyorker.com)
- Why Rick Reilly wrote "Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump." (theringer.com)
Longform
- The day the dinosaurs died. We now have a better idea what happened on that fateful day. (newyorker.com)
- How (and why) Fan Bingbing, China's biggest movie star disappeared. (vanityfair.com)
- An excerpt from Clive Thompson's "Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World." (wired.com)
- How the rise of vegetable-based meat alternatives are becoming a political issue. (politico.com)
- 20 ideas that changed my life. (safalniveshak.com)
