Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. Wherever possible, free links for premium sites are used. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the case for a bull market in the humanities.
Quote of the Day
"There have been more gun suicides than gun homicides in the United States every year for the past 25 years."
(Michael Corkery)
Books
- A Q&A with Wes Marshall author of "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System." (bloomberg.com)
- Lessons learned from Zoë Schlanger's “The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth.” (newyorker.com)
- A Q&A with Mickey Bergman author of "In the Shadows: True Stories of High-Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans Captured Abroad." (whyisthisinteresting.substack.com)
- An excerpt from "Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds" by Ryan Holiday. (ryanholiday.net)
Global
- China is losing the chip war. (msn.com)
- More evidence that Russia kidnapped Ukrainian children and put them up for adoption. (nytimes.com)
Longreads
- The fundamental problem with carbon removal. (newyorker.com)
- The story of Starbucks ($SBUX). (quartr.com)
- Colorado led the country in legalizing marijuana. Now the market is in decline. (politico.com)
- Mycologists are still discovering new species. (nytimes.com)
- Are RCTs useful in studying economics? (someunpleasant.substack.com)
- The inside story of the Titan submersible disaster. (wired.com)
- AI-generated music is only going to get better. (persuasion.community)
