Engineering
- Commercial pilots fly their planes on average for only a few minutes. (nytimes.com)
- Why driverless cars might give many of us motion sickness. (washingtonpost.com)
- Solar power is getting the asset-backed security treatment. (slate.com)
California
- California has enough water, just not enough to support its agriculture. (medium.com)
- How the drought is going to change how Californians live. (bloomberg.com)
- Stop demonizing almonds. (gizmodo.com)
Health
- Why do we have allergies? (digg.com)
- Why we should get rid of the annual physical. (npr.org)
- America does too many mammograms. (nbcnews.com)
- Antibiotics don’t do much to hasten the end of a sinus infection. (wsj.com)
- Physical therapy is just as effective as back surgery. (reuters.com)
The brain
- Seven ways to fight against your unconscious biases. (fastcompany.com)
- It’s the weekend. Why are you working? (hbr.org)
Food
- Organic food companies are moving downstream to satisfy demand. (wsj.com)
- Soda makers are still searching for the ultimate low calorie sweetener. (ft.com)
- Why you should be eating more broccoli stalks. (theawl.com)
- Just what is a natural diet? (scientificamerican.com)
Drink
- The birth, death and resurrection of US beer, charted. (qz.com)
- US craft beer exports surged in 2014. (ft.com)
Sports
- Baseball is having a hard time attracting kids to the sport. (washingtonpost.com)
- Why MLB fans should lament the demise of Google ($GOOG) Glass. (slate.com)
- The perks and perils of being a minority owner of a pro sports franchise. (observer.com)
- Rugby is now waking up to its own concussion problem. (ft.com)
Entertainment
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