EVs

• The Nissan Leaf is a nice car but it doesn't go as far as the Chevy Bolt on a charge. (wsj.com)
• Porsche's Mission E is potent competition against Tesla ($TSLA) Model S. (nytimes.com)
• What Model 3 drivers love (and hate) about their cars. (bloomberg.com)

Autos

• What insurers are doing to insure autonomous vehicles. (wsj.com)
• Why self-driving cars can't rely on GPS. (bloomberg.com)
• Your next car may not have audio speakers. (nytimes.com)
• America's drivers are getting older. (bloomberg.com)
• Safety inspections don't increase vehicle safety. (marginalrevolution.com)

Plastics

• The great Pacific plastic garbage patch is much bigger than previous estimates. (qz.com)
• Shoe companies are rethinking materials with recycled plastics. (businessinsider.com)

Environment

• The longer we wait the more likely geoengineering will be the only solution to climate change. (revealnews.org)
• Carbon capture and use works but not enough is happening at scale to affect climate change. (newscientist.com)
• New clean fuel regulations are going to increase the cost of shipping. (wsj.com)
• The US water market is hopelessly fragmented. (bloomberg.com)

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Air travel

• Airlines have gotten more sophisticated in dealing with weather-related shutdowns. (wsj.com)
• The major airlines want you to have less information about your flights. (bloomberg.com)
• There is nothing good about bringing your pet on the plane, just leave them at home. (wsj.com)
• How to stay healthier on a flight. (npr.org)

Technology

• 12 things you need to understand about technology including "Most tech isn’t from startups or by startups." (linkedin.com)
• The next wave of battery technology will have ripple effects throughout the economy. (wsj.com)
• A small percentage of people seem to make social media seem all the worse. (techcrunch.com)
• Why Wikipedia works. (nymag.com)

Gadgets

• A skeptical audophile reviews Apple ($AAPL) AirPods. (theverge.com)
• Does the world really need smart toothbrushes? (l2inc.com)

Alzheimer's

• How earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer's could help control costs. (bloomberg.com)
• AI can spot Alzheimer's disease before patients or family. (technologyreview.com)

Health

• Direct primary care practices are growing and doctors love them. (businessinsider.com)
• A potent pain reducer is simply holding hands. (sciencedaily.com)
• This flu season was the worst in eight years. (axios.com)
• Over 50? Get the new shingles vaccine. (npr.org)

Anxiety

• Anxiety can't be trained away: one writer's experiencing with a significant anxiety disorder. (outsideonline.com)
• You can view ADHD "an asset in today’s turbulent and fast-changing world." (nytimes.com)

Psychology

• The research on happiness is pretty clear. (behavioralscientist.org)
• You can only replace a habit with another habit. (nytimes.com)
• Yes, stress can be contagious. (bigthink.com)

Sleep

• Our 'sleep epidemic' is an entirely man-made problem. (esquire.com)
• Two strategies on how to fall asleep fast (artofmanliness.com)
• Sleeping in the same bed with your dog is not that big a deal. (nytimes.com)

Food

• Why vanilla prices are soaring. (theglobeandmail.com)
• Which states have the most fast-food restaurants per capita. (priceonomics.com)

Diet

• Stop counting calories, just stop eating crap. (bloomberg.com)
• Four ways to cut down on your sugar intake. (nytimes.com)
• Mark Bittman answers question about how to eat healthier. (grubstreet.com)
• Why relationships lead to weight gain. (bigthink.com)

Drink

• 8 low calorie beers that actually taste good. (esquire.com)
• Across the board the US is adding jobs in brewing, winemaking and distilling all at the cost of productivity. (bloomberg.com)
• Non-alcoholic drinks are the hot, new must-have at bars. (ft.com)

Soccer

• Germany's soccer teams are hamstrung by their ownership rules. (bloomberg.com)
• Alatan Ibrahimovics is coming to MLS. (slate.com)

Kids

• You can't work your way through college anymore. (wsj.com)
• "Successful kids believe they control their own fate." (getrichslowly.org)

Maps

• A literal world map: what each country's name actually means. (kottke.org)
• The largest company in every state by revenue. (visualcapitalist.com)
• A map of the proposed 'State of Jefferson' in northern California. (latimes.com)

Earlier on Abnormal Returns

• Longform links: spirit of curation. (abnormalreturns.com)
• What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Podcast links: lonely American men. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Our attention is all we have. (abnormalreturns.com)

Mixed media

• On the deathbed fallacy: live your life for today not some future self. (medium.com)
• How to make your relationship work: turn to your partner. (bakadesuyo.com)
• Why you shouldn't live the quid pro quo lifestyle. (sethgodin.typepad.com)

Investing

• Two centuries of momentum: an overview. (blog.thinknewfound.com)
• A deep dive into Blackrock's Systematic Active Equities group that is the cornerstone of their quant strategy. (ft.com)
• An interesting profile of Whitney Tilson and the end of his hedge fund career. (institutionalinvestorsalpha.com)

Kids

• Within reason, you probably can't do all that much to mess your kids up. (slate.com)
• Genes are not the only way that traits are passed from one generation to the next. (nautil.us)

Men

• The drop in "middle skill work" explains much of the drop in men dropping out of the work force. (ritholtz.com)
• The upside of falling testosterone levels in men: more empathy. (theguardian.com)

Food

• Overshadowed by barbeque, Tex-Mex is a wholly underappreciated cuisine in America. (eater.com)
• Why German restaurants are in relative decline in the US. (washingtonpost.com)

Longform

• Business lessons learned from Jack Ma and the rise of Alibaba ($BABA). (25iq.com)
• Why are Germans so associated with saving money and austerity? (ft.com)
• What is "accelerated bridge construction" and how it can go wrong. (slate.com)
• A story about how 'doing the right thing' doesn't always feel all that good. (rivershedge.blogspot.com)
• A visual take on just how much the world has changed over the past two centuries. (ourworldindata.org)