Autos

• The challenges facing autonomous vehicles are many. (wsj.com)
• Depreciation makes up 40% of your transportation costs. (washingtonpost.com)
• Should you be able to order food from your car's dashboard? (wsj.com)

Transport

• Fuller flights make flying with children all the more difficult. (wsj.com)
• Norway is at the forefront of converting ships to electric power. (hakaimagazine.com)
• Cars are going electric. Are planes next? (ft.com)

Energy

• The future of clean energy hinges on better, cheaper batteries. (wired.com)
• Hurricane Maria has accelerated the adoption of solar in Puerto Rico. (wsj.com)
• Our personal use of energy is not risk-free. (axios.com)

Environment

• More evidence that extreme weather events are being enhanced by climate change. (bloomberg.com)
• The big oil & gas companies are pledging to reduce methane emissions. (axios.com)
• Dangerous rainfall is increasing across the US. (fivethirtyeight.com)

Technology

• The top 10 emerging technologies of 2018. (scientificamerican.com)
• Why passwords should probably be passphrases. (wsj.com)
• How to clean your disgusting earbuds. (thewirecutter.com)
• Why you need a VPN. (wsj.com)

The brain

• There is a high cognitive cost of poverty. (behavioralscientist.org)
• What happens when you give ecstasy to an octopus. (theatlantic.com)

Health

• The case against a daily baby aspirin for healthy, older Americans. (npr.org)
• Why we need pricier antibiotics. (wired.com)

Wheat

• The wheat genome is "monstrously big." (theatlantic.com)
• The case for eating bread. (medium.com)

Food

• How ranch dressing took over America. (nytimes.com)
• The future of fish farming may be indoors. (scientificamerican.com)
• Company break rooms are the new battle ground over sugar. (wsj.com)
• Eat yogurt, not added sugar. (npr.org)

Drink

• The most popular beer in the world, China's Snow, is quite forgettable. (businessinsider.com)
• If you are sick of hop-heavy beers, Helles-style pilsners may be for you. (bloomberg.com)
• The UK loves its craft beer. (ftalphaville.ft.com)

Dogs

• Dogs didn't just evolve. Humans played a crucial role through domestication. (theatlantic.com)
• When dogs feel empty nest syndrome. (bostonglobe.com)
• Why we love dogs. (scientificamerican.com)

Sports

• It doesn't seem like it but Tommy John surgeries are on the decline. (fivethirtyeight.com)
• Why Juventus was willing to pay so much for Ronaldo. (ft.com)

Media

• Streaming service subscription prices are on the rise. (wsj.com)
• ESPN+ has already exceeded 1 million subscribers. (bloomberg.com)

MBA

• 2018 applications to top MBA programs are in decline. (ft.com)
• Harvard Business School is for generalists. (businessinsider.com)
• USC has a one-year executive MBA program to help transition veterans into the business world. (businessinsider.com)

Kids

• If everything is already online, what should kids learn about history? (slate.com)
• Why you should throw your kids' art away. (theatlantic.com)
• When your child wants to go vegan/vegetarian. (nytimes.com)
• Why you should watch the documentary "Science Fair." (arstechnica.com)

Earlier on Abnormal Returns

• Longform links: treating insomnia. (abnormalreturns.com)
• What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Podcast links: a bursting bubble. (abnormalreturns.com)

Mixed media

• Seventy percent of Americans admit to impostor syndrome. (l2inc.com)
• How to combat imposter syndrome: be more authentic. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
• On the power of knowing how, and when, to take risks in life. (moneymaven.io)

Finance

• The financial markets and poker markets are getting more efficient over time. (institutionalinvestor.com)
• Private equity are the new banks. (ft.com)
• Jim Chanos' "Kynikos is the lone short-selling hedge fund of any size — and the only one that that has been in business since 1985." (institutionalinvestor.com)
• Business lessons from Steve Martin's movie "The Jerk." (25iq.com)

Non-finance

• Children born today will have to reinvent themselves over and over again. (medium.com)
• Can randomized controlled trials be used to test the effectiveness of anti-poverty measures? (aeon.co)
• How RSS lost out to social networks. (twobithistory.org)
• The story of the launch that saved SpaceX. (arstechnica.com)
• How one UK clinic is successfully treating insomnia. (theguardian.com)
• Suicide hotlines work: one woman's story. (qz.com)
• A story that will remind you of the power of journalism. (golfdigest.com)
• An oral history of the movie "Rounders." (theringer.com)