Longform links: our brain drain
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
1 week ago
2 MIN READ
Books
- A Q&A with Melody Glenn, MD author of “Mother of Methadone: A Doctor’s Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis.” (annehelen.substack.com)
- An excerpt from “SWAP: A Secret History of the New Cold War,” by Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson. (wsj.com)
- An excerpt from Tim Lomas’ book “Translating Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being.” (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
Business
- A deep dive into the history of Novo Nordisk ($NVO). (quartr.com)
- America needs its own homegrown Taiwan Semi ($TSM). (research.contrary.com)
- How Shopee came to dominate Southeast Asian e-commerce. (bloomberg.com)
- How (dog) doodles became a big business. (bloomberg.com)
Food
- Chili’s was once a punchline. Now it leads the category. (slate.com)
- How wild Alaskan salmon go from net to plate. (foodandwine.com)
Longreads
- 2025 is not the first time that Americans felt the world was changing so fast. (derekthompson.org)
- After a natural disaster, few means of communication remain. (nytimes.com)
- Canada legalized euthanasia. What came next. (theatlantic.com)
- How Rick Perry became a passionate advocate for ibogaine therapy. (nytimes.com)
- How AI could affect nuclear deterrence. (foreignaffairs.com)
- From a long career, lessons on how to deal with *ssholes. (bobpisani.substack.com)
- The death of late night television means the end of one our last communal experiences. (hollywoodreporter.com)
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