The long weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Cold brewed coffee, recline on a hammock with your iPad or kindle, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads:
• Reefer Momness (GQ)
• Interview with Matthew Gentzkow (Minneapolis Federal Reserve)
• The Power of Stories (Latticework) see also Behavioral Economists Create Model of Our Desire To Make Sense of It All (Carnegie Mellon)
• Inside Silicon Valley’s Culture of Spin (Fast Company)
• 5 big takeaways from the most thorough review of GMOs yet (Vox)
• How an industry helps Chinese students cheat their way into and through U.S. colleges (Reuters) see also As SAT was hit by security breaches, College Board went ahead with tests that had leaked (Reuters)
• How Animals Think: A new look at what humans can learn from nonhuman minds (The Atlantic)
• How Big Pharma Uses Charity Programs to Cover for Drug Price Hikes (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Why doesn’t physics help us to understand the flow of time? (Aeon)
• Welcome to the Absolute Best of New York (Grub Street)
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with
Libertarian Gary Johnson is Pulling 10% vs. Trump & Clinton
Source: FiveThirtyEight
