Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the unknown dangers or strip-mining the ocean floor.
Behavior
- Why an ex-smoker misses her smoke breaks, and it doesn't have to do with nicotine. (humanparts.medium.com)
- An excerpt from “The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It” by John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister. (wsj.com)
- Conspiracy theories left unchallenged eventually become normalized. (washingtonpost.com)
Longreads
- We just had the best decade in human history. Seriously. (spectator.co.uk)
- Canadians, with the government's help, are abandoning sparsely-populated islands off of Newfoundland. (washingtonpost.com)
- Historically young people could shed their prior identities as they got older. Unfortunately now, the Internet won't let you forget. (technologyreview.com)
- When did humans come to North America? We really don't know for sure. (smithsonianmag.com)
- What you learn at avalanche school. (nytimes.com)
- Errol Morris talks with Jack Goldsmith author of "In Hoffa’s Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth" about who really killed Jimmy Hoffa. (airmail.news)
- A wide-ranging interview with director Martin Scorsese. (nytimes.com)
