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From our womens' hair, to pick-up trucks, to our barbecue … everything's bigger in Texas.

Lighter Links:

• The Equifax Aftermath We Need More Hacking. (LawFareBlog)
• What Happens When We Give up Control of Our Cars? (Car&Driver)
• DeepMind Creates New Research Unit to Explore Ethics of AI.(SDTimes)
• Puzzles in Modern Biology. (F1000)
• Amazon Just Bought a Startup that Models People's Bodies in 3D. (Mashable)
• Australia Goes Hawk with New Diplomatic Cyber Strategy. (ZDNet)
• Meet Pepper X, Soon to Be the World's Hottest Pepper.(OddityCentral)
• Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular. (The Atlantic)
• Billionaire Mike Bloomberg Offers to 'Match Every Donation' to Fight Gun Violence. (CNBC)
• Toward an Integrated Technology Operating Model. (McKinsey)
• Nobel Prize-Winning Body Clock Studies Support Mandatory Naptime.(Inverse)
• We're Nearly Ready to Use CRISPR to Target Far More Diseases.(NewScientist)
• Which Professions Have the Most Psychopaths? (Spring)
• NASA is Teaming up with Russia to Put a New Space Station near the Moon. Here's Why. (Popular Science)
• The Deadly Germ Warfare Island Abandoned by the Soviets. (BBC)
• 13 Successful People on the Books that Changed Their Lives. (Time)
• Mindfulness is More Than a Buzzword: a Look at the Neuroscience behind the Movement. (Forbes)
• We Expect Too Much from Our Romantic Partners. (The Atlantic)
• What Salesforce Einstein Teaches Us about Enterprise AI.(VentureBeat)
• Manuel Lima's the Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge.(Printmag)

Market-Related Links

• 7 Artificial Intelligence Stats that Will Blow You Away. (Fool)
• Warren Buffett Explains the Bull Market. (Axios)
• Goldman Sachs is Flirting with Bitcoin Trading. (Insider)
• This Startup Wants to Be Vanguard for Cryptocurrencies. (Bloomberg)
• Tim Harford Recommends the Best Introductions to Economics.(FiveBooks)
• Apple's Head Designer Jony Ive Explains How the IPhone X Took 5 Years of Failure to Create. (BI)
• Behavioral Economics. (Exploring-Economics)
• Why Nation-states are Good. (Aeon)
• The Last Invention of Man. (Nautilus)
• The Future of Google is AI … But Can They Fix the Algorithm? (TheVerge)
• How Big Data and Artificial Intelligence are Changing Online Lending.(CoinTelegraph)
• Deutsche Bank is Pulling a Silicon Valley Move and Unleashing Its Code onto Wall Street. (Insider)
• Why Oil and Gas Companies Must Act on Analytics. (McKinsey)
• Google: the Future is No Longer Mobile, It's Artificial Intelligence. (Tech)
• "The End of the QE Trade": Why Bank of America Expects an Imminent Market Correction. (ZeroHedge)
• Apple's Working to Become the next Chipmaking Superpower.(Idropnews)
• Fed Admits the Failure of Prosperity for the Bottom 90%. (ZeroHedge)
• Stuck in Traffic: We Need a Smarter Approach to Congestion Than Building More Roads. (The Conversation)
• Are Consumer Staples Signaling a Volatility Omen? (SeeItMarket)
• How Fintechs are Targeting Small- and Medium-sized Businesses and Pushing Incumbents to Fight Back. (BusinessInsider)

Let me know what you think.

Thanks.

– Howard

Sometimes all it takes is someone reminding you it's time to take action.

Here is a peek at what I've been reading lately.

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:

Chemical Controllers: How Hormones Influence Your Body and Mind.(NewScientist)

Are Electrons Conscious? (OUP)

Goldfish Go Months Without Oxygen by Making Alcohol Inside Cells.(NewScientist)

The Music Industry Uses Your Social Data to Predict It's Next Big Artists.(TheNextWeb)

AI and CGI Will Transform Information Warfare, Boost Hoaxes, and Escalate Revenge Porn. (BusinessInsider)

Bill Gates Becomes Instagram's Newest Member. (TheNextWeb)

Defending Indiana Jones, Archaeologist. (Tor)

Someone Flipped Trump's Hair with Kim Jong Un's, and It's Absolutely Unnerving. (HP)

5 Incredible Bali Photo Spots You Didn't Know Existed. (Huffington Post)

The Lifting Technique that Flattens Your Belly. (Menshealth)

Why HPE is Sending a Supercomputer to the ISS on SpaceX's next Rocket.(TechCrunch)

Detect Plagiarism with the Help of this Friendly AI Bot. (LifeHacker)

Infected DNA Successfully Hacks Computer in Terrifying Experiment.(DailyDot)

How to Reshape Your Brain and Learn Anything, Based on the Most Popular Coursera Class Ever. (Inc)

US ISPs Could Soon Monitor Your Secret' Porn Viewing Habits.(TheNextWeb)

Fighting Colony Collapse Disorder: How Beekeepers Make More Bees. (C-Economist)

Romance Novels, Generated by Artificial Intelligence. (Medium)

Scientists Create World's First Mutant Ants with Gene Editing Technology. (Fox)

To Lose Weight, You Need to Understand the Psychology of Why You Crave the Wrong Things. (Quartz)

How AI Will Change the Way We Make Decisions. (HBR)

Market-Related Links

As VIX Explodes, a Painful Warning: the Vega of VIX ETFs Has Never Been Higher. (ZeroHedge)

Fund Managers Deny AI Threatens Jobs. (FT)

Rovio, the Maker of Angry Birds, is Reportedly Planning an IPO.(TechCrunch)

Why Bitcoin's Record-Setting Run Could Bode Well for the Stock Market.(Cryptocoinsnews)

Here's Why We Stopped Using $1,000 Bills. (BusinessInsider)

Snap Stock Hits Lowest Level since IPO after Paltry Earnings. (AP News)

Should You Invest Actively or Passively in Bonds? (MoneySense)

Elon Musk is Right. Driverless Cars Will Arrive by 2021. (TheNextWeb)

Road Map to Infrastructure Investment: Paving the Way to Government-Inspired Profits. (LinkedIn)

Fidelity, the $2.3 Trillion Investment Giant, is Testing out a New Cryptocurrency Service. (BusinessInsider)

"Mystery" Central Bank Buyer Revealed: SNB Now Owns a Record $84 Billion in US Stocks. (ZeroHedge)

Here's What Goldman is Telling Big Money Clients about Bitcoin.(Bloomberg)

The Amazon Effect: Retail Bankruptcies Surge 110% in First Half of the Year. (ZeroHedge)

Cheats! OPEC Pumps More despite Plan to Curb Supply. (CNN)

Israel, the Land of Milk and Honey _ and Now Whiskey? (AP News)

Applebee's is Closing up to 135 Locations across the US after Ditching Its 'Middle America Roots' to Win over Millennials. (BusinessInsider)

"We Need More Suckers at the Table" – Quant Funds Stumble as Dumb-Money Disappears. (ZeroHedge)

For Electric Cars to Take Off, They'll Need Place to Charge. (AP News)

Pentagon Study Declares American Empire is Collapsing'. (Medium)

How Two Brothers Turned Seven Lines of Code into a $9.2 Billion Startup.(Bloomberg)

Let me know what you think.

Thanks.

– Howard

Scaramucci was fired after a whopping 10 days as Communications Director … In order to get the position he sold his company, waited multiple months, ended up getting divorced from his wife, missed the birth of his second kid and was reported as dead by Harvard Law's alumni directory.

Not a great week for Scaramucci.

It's horrible but I think I subscribe to the Mel Brooks rule of comedy: If it happens to me, tragedy. If it happens to you, comedy.

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:

• They Trashed Their Wedding Photographer over a $125 Fee, So a Jury Told Them to Pay Her $1 Million. (Washington Post)
• How to Not Be Evil with Dr. Phil Zimbardo. (TimFerriss)
• That Time Facebook's AIs Made up Their Own Secret Language Humans Didn't Understand. (MO)
• The Matrix is Reportedly Getting a Reboot. (TheVerge)
• DARPA is Funding Projects that Will Try to Open up AI's Black Boxes.(TechReview)
• The World's First 1000-Core Processor Was Just Created. (Futurism)
• A.I.: the next U.S.-China Arms Race? (Scout)
• How to Put AI to Work. (DataScienceCentral)
• Escape to Another World. (TheEconomist1843)
• Leaked Travel Advice for Spooks from the CIA. (TheEconomist)
• On Creating a Sense of Purpose. (New York Times)
• New Findings Show How Our Brains 'Align' When We Communicate.(ScienceAlert)
• Creepy IPhone App Can Help Users Find Facebook Profiles of Strangers on the Street. (BGR)
• Physicists Have Created an Impossible State of Matter that Could Power Quantum Computers. (Quartz)
• Unlock Honest Feedback with this One Word. (Signal v Noise)
• Samuel L. Jackson Recreates Samuel L. Jackon's Entire Film Career in 11 Minutes. (Mashable)
• Google Translate Rolls out Neural Machine Translations in Russian, Hindi, Vietnamese. (SmallBizTrends)
• Five Studies that Help Explain Why Social Drinking is So Rewarding.(Digest)
• Alfred Hitchcock Reveals the Secret Sauce for Creating Suspense.(OpenCulture)
• NASA Has a Job Opening for Someone to Defend Earth from Aliens and It Pays a Six-figure Salary. (BI)

Market-Related Links

• Black Swans: Risk is Endogenous to the Financial System.(SeekingAlpha)
• OPEC's Game-Theory Dilemma. (Bloomberg)
• Memo to Fed: Asset Bubbles are the New Inflation. (David Stockman)
• Modern Economists: The Inept Firefighters' Club. (DemocracyJournal)
• Crimintern: How the Kremlin Uses Russia's Criminal Networks in Europe. (ECFR)
• Singapore Looks to Regulate ICOs by Cracking down on Digital Tokens. (FinanceMagnates)
• Blockchain-based Trade Matching Engine Gets the Nod from ING.(FinExtra)
• Indonesia to Deport 153 Chinese for $450 Million Scam. (Yahoo)
• The U.S. is the Sick Man of the Developed World. (Bloomberg)
• Is Hungary the EU's First Rogue State? Viktor Orban and the Long March from Freedom. (NewStatesman)
• Democratic Ideology Unchained. (EconLog)
• The Future of Corruption. (TLS)
• Dr Copper Risk Becoming Noise, Not a Signal. (AFR)
• AI Lawyer Can Help You with a Thousand Different Legal Issues.(Engadget)
• 11 Charts that Show Marijuana Has Truly Gone Mainstream.(Washington Post)
• How Algorithms and Authoritarianism Created a Corporate Nightmare at United. (GlobalGuerrillas)
• New Tools Needed to Track Technology's Impact on Jobs, Panel Says.(New York Times)
• Of Robots and Men. (Medium)
• Uber, Lifting Financial Veil, Says Sales Growth Outpaces Losses.(Bloomberg)
• SuperHubs: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World. (Summary)

Let me know what you think.

Thanks.

– Howard

A Man Walks Into A Bar … He gets a concussion.

An NFL player gets hit by a car 30+ times a game … You do the math.

A neuropathologist analyzed 111 dead NFL players' brains (donated to her). 110 had Chronic Traumatic Encephelopathy (CTE).

 

 

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:

• Why Every Leader Needs a Healthy Obsession with Technology.(SingularityHub)
• 10X Your Results, One Tiny Action at a Time (The Power of Incremental Progress). (Medium)
• In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium. (Quanta Magazine)
• Learning from the Feynman Technique. (Evernote)
• Swedish Train to Be Named Trainy McTrainface. (Neatorama)
• The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence. (New York Times)
• Are You a Carboholic? Why Cutting Carbs is So Tough. (New York Times)
• Your Brain Doesn't Contain Memories. It is Memories. (Wired)
• Growing up as an Untouchable. (LitHub)
• So this is What American Greatness Really Looks Like?(TheDailyBeast)
• Hotels Train Workers in the Personal Touch. (New York Times)
• Here's What Happens inside Amazon When One of Its AWS Hosting Services Goes Down. (BusinessInsider)
• When You Should (And Shouldn't) Share Your Location Using a Smartphone. (New York Times)
• Drinking More Coffee is Associated with a Longer Life, New Studies Show. (ScienceAlert)
• Pandora Uses Machine Learning to Make Sense of 80 Billion Thumb Votes. (VentureBeat)
• Pentagon Tiling Proof Solves Century-Old Math Problem. (Quanta Magazine)
• Find Your Birthday Hidden in Pi. (Time)
• With Alexa Integration and Mapping, IRobot Aims to Make Roomba the Center of the Smart Home. (TechCrunch)
• A Mathematician Gave Us the Easiest Explanation of Pi and Why It's So Important. (BusinessInsider)
• Hackers Don't Have to Be Human Anymore. this Bot Battle Proves It.(Wired)

Market-Related Links

• Commodity Investors Embrace Algorithmic Trading. (QuantNews)
• Wall Street's 'Fear Gauge' is on Track to Log Its 3rd Lowest Close in Its History. (FoxBusiness)
• The Fed Has a $4.5 Trillion Problem. Could It Become Yours? (Time)
• What Causes a Stock Market Crash – and are We Headed for Another?(Telegraph)
• The Next Bubble: India? (DailySpeculations)
• On Claude Shannon's Deliberate Depth. (CalNewport)
• Conor McGregor Was on Welfare in 2013. Next Month He'll Make $150 Million Fighting Floyd Mayweather. (CNW)
• Chart Spotlight: Value Line Geometric Index Breaks Out.(SeeItMarket)
• The Power of Self-Service Data Analytics in Financial Services.(TheFinancialBrand)
• Hedge Fund Uses Algae to Reap 21% Return. (Bloomberg)
• Trend-Following: Types of Moving Averages. (AlphaArchitect)
• Four Ways to Improve Back-end Performance for MultiDimensional Analysis. (DSC)
• Are You Ready to Consider that Capitalism is the Real Problem? (FastCompany)
• Inside the Decades-long Quest to Bring down Financial Information Giant Bloomberg. (BusinessInsider)
• Why China May Never Democratize. (Bloomberg)
• Quant Vs Traditional Investors, and How Alphas Become Betas, with Leigh Drogen [Invest like the Best, EP.41]. (Investorfieldguide)
• Hidden Trigger for Another (Flash) Crash. (ValueWalk)
• The 5 Biggest Stock Market Crashes in History Have 'Striking' Similarities. (BusinessInsider)
• Roku is Planning an IPO for this Year. (TechCrunch)
• Time Running out for Active Managers, Who Must Adapt or Die'.(MarketWatch)

Let me know what you think.

Thanks.