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Abnormal Returns
2 weeks ago
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Books
- Timothy Snyder, “The Revolutionary War was a close-run thing—and would almost certainly have been lost without the aid of revolutionaries from abroad.” (theatlantic.com)
- An excerpt from “Under the Gun: An ER Doctor’s Cure for America’s Gun Epidemic,” by Cedric Dark, MD, MPH, with Seema Yasmin. (wired.com)
- A Q&A with Mark Easter author of “The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos.” (grist.org)
Pharma
- A Q&A with Marc Cuban and his goals for Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs. (wired.com)
- Hopes are high that KarXT, from Bristol Myers Squibb ($BMY), will will be a truly novel treatment for schizophrenia. (on.ft.com)
Health
- Pregnancy can go wrong in a lot of different ways. Abortion laws don’t recognize this. (theatlantic.com)
- Some new hope for people with knee cartilage issues. (wapo.st)
Productivity
- Instantaneous e-mail was a productivity disaster. (behavioralscientist.org)
- The case against ‘relentless optimization.’ (newyorker.com)
Streaming
- How Netflix ($NFLX) won the streaming wars. (on.ft.com)
- The end of peak streaming is translating into Hollywood layoffs. (sherwood.news)
Sports
- Another example of the NFL dragging its feet on CTE compensation. (inquirer.com)
- NIL is the Wild, Wild West. (bloomberg.com)
Longreads
- It’s hard to see how housing affordability improves any time soon. (barrons.com)
- The great generational wealth transfer isn’t limited to the U.S., see Canada. (macleans.ca)
- How Nike ($NKE) lost its way under CEO John Donahoe. (bloomberg.com)
- How bad cops are able move onto other departments. (sfchronicle.com)
- There’s no Trump presidency without the efforts of ‘The Apprentice’ producers. (nytimes.com)
- Why you will likely never see a revealing new documentary about the life of Prince. (nytimes.com)
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