Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at whether technology can replace forest fire spotters.
Business
- What can the restaurant business learn from the digitization of the travel industry? (medium.thanx.com)
- A taxonomy of moats: how startups and uncertainty go hand-in-hand. (reactionwheel.net)
Food
- How big a threat does fake meat pose to the livestock industry? (newyorker.com)
- A shocking amount of caught fish gets wasted. (hakaimagazine.com)
Sports
- A profile of Patrick Battuello who is working to kill off horse racing in America. (deadspin.com)
- How some NBA players got hooked up with the alternative meat crowd. (si.com)
- An oral history of how Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers' mascot, took over the world. (espn.com)
Entertainment
- A big profile of Netflix ($NFLX) as it tries to court creative talent in the new streaming age. (fortune.com)
- There is a growing rift in the world of standup comedy. (hollywoodreporter.com)
Longreads
- Language is the scaffold of the mind. Once you have it, you can't live without it. (nautil.us)
- Human skulls are shrinking over time causing all sorts of issues. (onezero.medium.com)
- Thirty years ago, American religiosity went into sharp decline. What happened? (theatlantic.com)
- Public symbols are not forever. (nautil.us)
