An Unexpected Overnight In Chicago - Weekly Links - May 20th, 2017

I'm in Chicago, speaking at the Quant Trading Conference. My topic was "Next-Generation Data" - what tools, technologies, and applications will be more critical for enabling alpha discovery

My flight to Memphis was canceled due to high winds. So, I got to have deep dish pizza with a good friend. You don't get a body like this on a low carb - low sugar diet. Here is a peek at what I've been reading lately. These are the links I saved this week. Hope you find some interesting and enjoyable tidbits. Let me know if you read something I'd like ... Or if there are other sources I should add to my weekly reading. Thanks.   Lighter Links: The Internet’s Most Cringe-Inducing Subculture: Pimple-Popping Videos. (WSJ) New Software Program Translates Thousands of Rare Languages. (TechReview) Where Have All the Insects Gone? (ScienceMag) The Body and Us. (NYBooks) Is this a Constitutional Crisis? (Politico) Himalayan Monks Have Super Human Abilities that Stun Scientists.(Universe) 'Great Wall of Culture': China to Launch Its Own Version of Wikipedia. (Telegraph) Why Everything We Know about Salt May Be Wrong. (NYT) The World's Fastest Camera Can Capture 5 Trillion Frames Per Second. (Mashable) Lockheed Martin Bets on Blockchain for Cybersecurity. (CNet) Scientists Have Created a Lightweight Wearable that Dissolves in Vinegar. (TheVerge) What's the Best Way to Start Writing a Book? (James Altucher) The Future of Recruiting is an Internal Talent Consulting Group, as Technology Handles Daily Recruiting Tasks. (EreMedia) Death by Fire. (LongReads) Bertrand Russell, “On History.” (Drew) The Meaning of Life in a World without Work. (TheGuardian) The Thieves Who Steal Sunken Warships, Right down to the Bolts. (Outsideonline) Life Below the Surface of the Earth (And on Mars) — a Five Books Interview. (Five books) The Mozart in the Machine. (Bloomberg) Look Back with Danger : Why Nostalgia is Not What It Used to Be. (TLS) Market-Related Links How Standard Portfolio Theory Changes When Assets are Technologies Following Experience Curves. (QuantNews) A Fuzzy Approach for Expert Evaluation of Investment Portfolios. (SSRN) Amazon Makes Major Push into Furniture. (Wall Street Journal) U.S. Laptop Ban Could Hit 350 Flights a Day from Europe. (Apple) More is More. (NYBooks) Digital America: a Tale of the Haves and Have. (McKinsey) Cambridge Analytica Explained: Data and Elections. (Medium) The Rules about the Rules. (NationalReview) Emmanuel Macron, the Novel. (Project-syndicate) If Not Britain, Where? the Case for a French Industrial Revolution. (Medium) Which Industry is Ready to Be Disrupted? (Quora) Here's Why Russia is Opening the Door to Cryptocurrencies. (BusinessInsider) Where Oil Rigs Go to Die. (TheGuardian) Inequality and the Fracturing of American Democracy. (NationalReview) Uber Vs AirBnB: Do You Have to Be an Asshole to Found a Brilliant Start-up? (NewStatesman) There’s Never Just One Stock Market. (CrossingWallStreet) Investment Strategy: What Matters in the Search for More Return Sources.(AdvisorPerspectives) "Winner-Take-All" Dynamics and Hedge Fund Investing. (Rzepczynski) The Real Message of Virtu and KCG Merger. (Points & Figures) The Weed is Coming and the Bitcoin is Not Leaving. (HowardLindzon)