PREAMBLE
Here are a few graphs that caught my eye this week.
HEALTHCARE & SPORTS
- Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease
- Deep learning outperformed 136 of 157 dermatologists in a head-to-head dermoscopic melanoma image classification task
- Study shows that weight management blogs provide crap information
- Millennials are less healthy than prior generations
- Smartphone are helping increase wait times in emergency rooms
- Box jellyfish venom cytotoxicity antidote via CRISPR
- Laser Ablation for Prostate Cancer: Largest Data Set
- Platelet-Rich Plasma for Patellar Tendinopathy fails another trial
- Training for first-time marathon ‘reverses’ aging of blood vessels
- Basketball and soccer players genuinely think the other guy was the last one to touch the ball
- Modern analytics are the cause of baseball’s hit by pitch problem
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- Measuring the size of a crowd using Instagram
- Slow Down of the Gulf Stream during 1993–2016
- ‘Cyber event’ disrupted U.S. grid networks
- Raspberry Pi based autonomous car
- Stop Asking Kids What They Want to Be When They Grow Up
- Epistasis between cultural traits drives paradigm shifts in cultural evolution
- Ring doorbells wants to start producing “crime news”
- Large apparent growth increases in boreal forests inferred from tree-rings are an artifact of sampling biases
FINANCE & ECONOMICS
- Post offices, Old West duels, and state capacity
- M.I.T. History of Economic Thought: Paul Samuelson course readings
- CEOs of public companies lower their company share prices in the period leading up to stock grants: Unintended Consequences: Information Releases and CEO Stock Option Grants
- Companies with more than 10 years of tenure with their auditors do not have a lower audit quality than other firms: Audit firm tenure and audit quality: A cross‐European study
- When a large investor is distracted by better-performing holdings, their worse performing holdings have higher crash risk: Institutional investor inattention and stock price crash risk
- The Ruthless, Secretive, and Sometimes Seedy World of Hedge Fund Private Investigators
- What Have We Learned from the Renaissance in Fiscal Research?
- The United States of Tacos: a map of the 14 biggest Mexican chain eateries in America
BOOKS
• The Best Books on Modern German History
MOVING PICTURES
The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob
THINGS I LIKED
