Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at why rich people still worry about money.
Quote of the Day
“In the longevity world, time is a fungible concept. Aging is something to be battled and slain. A burgeoning apothecary of serums and humectants is marketed as “anti-aging,” whatever that is. Longevity coaches promote programs capable of “reversing aging.”
(Karen Heller)
Books
- Josh Brown and Michael Batnick talk with Rob Copeland author of "The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend." (youtube.com)
- An excerpt from "Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets" by Jeff Horwitz. (fastcompany.com)
- An excerpt from "Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy" by Brian Stelter. (politico.com)
- A Q&A with Zach Weinersmith, co-author of the new book "A City On Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?" (numlock.com)
- An excerpt from "Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World" by Joe Roman. (engadget.com)
- A Q&A with John Vaillant, a journalist and author of the book "Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World." (grist.org)
Behavior
- Does anyone really feel like a proper adult? (thecut.com)
- Just how good is the research on the benefits of meditation? (undark.org)
- How attachment theory went mainstream. (theswaddle.com)
- How we experience loneliness. (aeon.co)
Farming
- Nearly every aspect of the U.S. farm economy is in flux. (wapo.st)
- A big farming family uses more Colorado River water than the city of Las Vegas. (projects.propublica.org)
Public health
- The illegal drug landscape is the U.S. is only getting more complicated. (nytimes.com)
- Why long-term care is so prohibitively expensive in the U.S. (nytimes.com)
Profiles
- Peter Thiel is ultra-rich and ultra-disappointed in life. (theatlantic.com)
- A profile of Martin Scorcese at age 80. (gq.com)
Longreads
- Goldman Sachs ($GS) has lost whatever luster it still had. (businessinsider.com)
- There are still a lot of unanswered questions about FTX. (newsletter.mollywhite.net)
- Inside the intense and lucrative world of OnlyFans stardom. (wapo.st)
- It took time, but fixed wireless is now a thing. (om.co)
- Longevity has become an industry, but should it be our goal? (wapo.st)
- Another day, another potential case of high profile scientific fraud. (science.org)
- Salmon are disappearing along the Yukon River in Alaska. (grist.org)
- You used to have to get your gadgets through a catalog (or local Radio Shack). (cabel.com)
