On Jeopardy last night, players got to the end of the game without ever touching the category "Talkin' Football".

Watch what happens when they finally do.

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 Kill Chain: Inside the Unit that Tracks Targets for US Drone Wars. (TheGuardian)
• Iowa Boys Charged in Connection with Deaths of Half a Million Honeybees. (NPR)
• What Is It Like To Be A Bee? (AtlasObscura)
• Apple Watch is a Bridge to the Future. (AboveAvalon)
• The Mysterious Interior World of Exercise. (NYT)
• These Big Fat Diet Lies May Be Sabotaging Your Ability to Lose Weight. (Cheatsheet)
• The Follower Factory. (New York Times)
• How a New Technology is Changing the Lives of People Who Cannot Speak. (TheGuardian)
• Can Planet Earth Feed 10 Billion People? (The Atlantic)
• I Can't Stop Looking at this Wonderfully Bad Google Photos Panorama Stitch. (TheVerge)
• The Future Happens in the #NOW. (LeadershipNow)
• In Saudi Corruption Crackdown, Big Targets are Going Free. (WSJ)
• How to Regain the Lost Art of Reflection. (HBR)
• These are the World's Most Popular Websites. (Infographic)
• IBM Speech Recognition is on the Verge of Super-Human Accuracy.(BusinessInsider)
• Why Mental Health is a Poor Measure of a President. (NPR)
• This is What Worries Americans the Most, According to a New Poll.(Cheatsheet)
• How to Be Happier, Safer, Healthier and Smarter in 2018. (NYT)
• Lessons on Success and Deliberate Practice from Mozart, Picasso, and Kobe Bryant. (JamesClear)
• Biohacking Decoded: How to Get Started with Biohacking (Even If You Don't Know Where to Begin). (BGF)

Market-Related Links

• How a Misfit Group of Computer Geeks and English Majors Transformed Wall Street. (NYMag)
• That Disappointing Internet of Things Trade is about to (Finally) Heat Up. (Investorplace)
• Bitcoin is None of the Things It Was Supposed to Be. (TheOutline)
• This is What Could Pop the Bitcoin Bubble. (Bloomberg)
• Vernacular Economics: How Building Codes & Taxes Shape Regional Architecture. (99%Invisible)
• Amazon Go and the Future. (Stratechery)
• In a Digital World, Hybrid Cloud is the Choice for Innovation and Collaboration. (Forbes)
• Don't Limit the Revolution. (Economist)
• Insanely Virtual. (Economist)
• Mall Owners Push out Department Stores. (Wall Street Journal)
• London Metal Exchange Faces Broker Revolt over Fee Rise. (FT)
• Placing Ireland's Economic Recovery in Context. (FT Alphaville)
• Turkey Flies the Coup. (Governments and Markets)
• Banker Sitting in U.S. Prison Has a Most Incredible Tale to Tell.(Bloomberg)
• The Fake Factory that Pumped out Real Money. (Bloomberg)
• Automated Algorithmic Trading: Machine Learning and Agent-based Modelling I. (QuantNews)
• Why I Like This Market. (Medium)
• Bill Ackman Says this Eccentric Short Seller is 'Certifiably Crazy'.(Bloomberg)
• How Have High Reserves and New Policy Tools Reshaped the Fed Funds Market? (LibertyStreet)
• America Will Not Be at the Heart of a New World Order.(TheGuardian)

Let me know what you think.

Thanks.

– Howard