Food for Thought:

• ESPN – Why former 49er Chris Borland is the most dangerous man in football.  After only 1 year in the pro’s, this NFL player throws the flag on concussion risk and retires.
• Slate – Party Like It’s 1989.  Why are so many of 2015’s biggest pop stars channeling the sound of the 1980s?
• The Atlantic – How The Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive.  Thicker ink, fewer smudges, and more strained hands: an Object Lesson
• WSJ – Nevada’s Voucher Breakout.  Unions and the ACLU fight universal statewide school choice.
• MP – When Prisons Need to Be More Like Nursing Homes.  Finding new ways to treat the growing pool of older, ailing inmates.
• WA – If You’re Lying About Being a Navy SEAL, This Man Will Catch You.  Don Shipley will show you what it’s like to go through SEAL training, all while using YouTube to hunt down the phonies.
• ZH – Exposed: The New American Way Of Life.  Some hyperbole here, but interesting to see the games you can play with our current entitlement system.
• The Atlantic – A green, neatly trimmed symbol of the American dream has outlived its purpose
• WSJ – How Stephen Colbert Stacks Up Against His Late-Night Rivals.  From Carson to Colbert, Fallon and Kimmel: Ranking the late-night talk-show hosts.

Business/Economics/Investing:

• RD – The Dangerous Long Bias and the End of the Supercycle – Credit MB
• WSJ – Conglomerate Honeywell Finds Love Amid the Breakups.  Investors reward Honeywell, even as others are pressured to tighten their focus.
• WSJ – Is comScore’s Revenue Growth as Good as It Seems?.  The majority of comScore’s second-quarter revenue growth came from “nonmonetary” transactions with no cash attached.
• Economist – Manage like a spymaster.  Counter-intelligence techniques may help firms protect themselves against cyber-attacks.
• BB – Where’s That Cheap Oil Windfall?  Lower petroleum prices have yet to provide the expected boost
• Fortune – When unicorn companies want more than cash.  Buzzy start-ups are now asking late-stage investors, “What else can you do for me?” Google Capital has one answer.
• WSJ – The Only Bank This Hip-Hop Mogul Will Use.  Low-profile Signature Bank has become one of the nation’s fastest-growing lenders, attracting a fan base ranging from hip-hop mogul Irv “Gotti” Lorenzo to former Congressman Barney Frank.

Life/Culture/Art/Science:

• NYTimes – Revivals Victorian, Gothic and Civic.  Newburgh, N.Y., Seeks Renewal Without Gentrification
• BB –  Want to Make a Diamond in Just 10 Weeks? Use a Microwave.  Microwaved stones—no dirty mines or bloody conflicts—might be a girl’s next-best friend.
• TG – Nick Littlehales: the man who showed Cristiano Ronaldo how to sleep.  Sleep coaches exist, although the only surprising thing about that is that it took so long for such a job to be taken seriously in the world of sport
• BB – The Brutal Costs of Raising the World’s 631st-Best Tennis Player.  It cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, a few jobs, and a marriage to turn a kid from Long Island into a professional tennis player.
• WaPo – How TripAdvisor altered your vacation-planning universe