Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. Wherever possible, free links behind the paywall are used. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the failure of commercial supersonic airplanes.
Quote of the Day
"On an individual basis, people can give any number of valid-sounding reasons for not frequenting a house of worship. But a behavioral shift that is fully understandable on the individual level has coincided with, and even partly exacerbated, a great rewiring of our social relations."
(Derek Thompson)
Books
- A Q&A with Elizabeth Kolbert author of "H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z." (grist.org)
- An excerpt from Kathleen DuVal’s upcoming book, "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America." (theatlantic.com)
Health
- Research into treatments for long Covid are ongoing. (nature.com)
- How ECPR works and how it could become standard procedure. (nytimes.com)
- Adderall is everywhere. (pioneerworks.org)
Housing
- How street art became a neighborhood amenity. (nytimes.com)
- Why it costs so much to build a new house. (construction-physics.com)
Sports
- MLB solved its pace problem. Now it is looking at its pitcher (injury) problem. (theringer.com)
- How Fanatics came to dominate the trading card business. (bloomberg.com)
Longreads
- Yet another way that people are gaming the Spotify ($SPOT) algorithm. (nytimes.com)
- How Vice Media went from darling to 'clown show.' (theverge.com)
- Can the carbon credit market be leveraged to help reforest the West? (nytimes.com)
- There is a persistent minority of dog owners that flout the rules. Just ask the Bag Man. (thepulp.org)
- What it's like to almost drown. (longreads.com)