Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the Catch-22 of air conditioning.
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Quote of the Day
"When hobbies become side hustles, labour is meant to feel like love. Yet, in the end, everything becomes about the bottom line – about turning a profit."
(Eloise Hendy)
Books
- An excerpt from "Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well" by Amy Edmondson. (behavioralscientist.org)
- An excerpt from "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution" by Cat Bohannon. (theatlantic.com)
- An excerpt from "The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota and an American Inheritance" by Rebecca Clarren. (politico.com)
Academic fraud
- Behavioral science has a credibility problem. (nytimes.com)
- Meet the researchers looking to debunk bad behavioral science papers. (wsj.com)
- A big profile of behavioral science stars Gina Colada and Dan Ariely who have been accused of fraud. (newyorker.com)
Ukraine
- The war in Ukraine shows how cheap drones have changed the nature of war. (wsj.com)
- Ukraine's drone war is largely DIY. (washingtonpost.com)
Entertainment
- Why is the opioid crisis, and Purdue Pharma specifically, fodder for popular entertainment. (thebaffler.com)
- An oral history of the moviie 'School of Rock.' (rollingstone.com)
Longreads
- Anduril is not your typical defense contractor. (notboring.co)
- Your Google data can tell the police a lot about you. (independent.co.uk)
- The NFL is increasingly enmeshed with sports gambling. (washingtonpost.com)
- How a $30,000 online home construction scam went down. (businessinsider.com)
- Why surgeons are at higher risk of suicide. (theguardian.com)
- How to give away a small fortune when the donor is indifferent. (indianapolismonthly.com)
- How modern life killed the hobby. (independent.co.uk)
