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