Books
- A Q&A with Dr. Theodore H. Schwartz, author of “Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery.” (npr.org)
- A review of “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” by Jonathan Haidt. (econlib.org)
Oil
- ExxonMobil’s ($XOM) big Guyana oil discovery almost wasn’t. (bloomberg.com)
- Jonathan Blake, “Before LA became Tinseltown, it was an oil town.” (noemamag.com)
Business
- Layoffs have significant costs beyond that of severance. (bloomberg.com)
- Why the Crowdstrike ($CRWD) bug hit banks so hard. (bitsaboutmoney.com)
- Locking up products thwarts theft, but it also thwarts purchases. (bloomberg.com)
Video
- YouTube is the future of television. (newconsumer.com)
- As the number of video fakes increase so does the need to debunk them. (newyorker.com)
AI
- Why LLMs are a dead end. (freethink.com)
- Weather forecasting seems like an ideal application for AI. (wsj.com)
Health
- How Bowling Green, Kentucky became the weight loss drug capital of America. (bloomberg.com)
- More money isn’t going to solve the fertility crisis. (msn.com)
Science
- Why solar geoengineering is controversial. (nytimes.com)
- It’s a miracle that Voyager and Voyager lasted as long as they did. (ft.com)
Russia
- Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put precious art work at risk. (theguardian.com)
- How the prisoner swap with Russia came together. (wsj.com)
Longreads
- How dependent is India on China? (on.ft.com)
- What it was like at the 2024 Bitcoin Conference. (theverge.com)
- This company is trying to commercialize lab-grown eel meat. (thegeneralist.substack.com)
- Is the big Snow Belt to Sun Belt migration coming to an end? (frbsf.org)
- A lot of Olympic athletes struggle to get by financially. (thehustle.co)
- Every collector has to ask the question: who wants this stuff? (5280.com)
- There is a difference between fame and influence. (downtownjoshbrown.com)
