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Quote of the Day
"If you only ever get 100 percent on your tests, they aren’t hard enough. If you never get above 50 percent, you’re probably in the wrong major. "
(Cody Kommers)
Autos
- The big auto companies are restructuring even though sales are still robust. (ft.com)
- Autonomous vehicle companies are dialing back on the hype. (wsj.com)
- Ford ($F) and VW are going to make vehicles for each other. (washingtonpost.com)
- Family wealth plays a big role in whether teens learn to drive. (thezebra.com)
- The headlight of the future is a laser. (bloomberg.com)
Energy
- Trump or no Trump, US coal plants keep closing. (reuters.com)
- Clean energy investments dropped in 2018. (ft.com)
- Can you solve global warming without additional nuclear energy? (wsj.com)
- Solar farms should also include planting native species to support pollinators. (scientificamerican.com)
- Brian Eckhouse, "Here's another sign the solar industry is maturing: it takes fewer people to get a megawatt of panels up and running." (bloomberg.com)
Recycling
- The era of easy recycling may be coming to an end. (fivethirtyeight.com)
- How to make sure your recycling gets recycled. (fivethirtyeight.com)
Plastics
- "Preproduction plastic pellets are the second-largest source of micro-plastic pollution in water, after micro-fragments from vehicle tires." (bloomberg.com)
- Southeast Asia no longer wants your plastic trash. (qz.com)
- In search of plastic alternatives. (fastcompany.com)
Environment
- The global clothing industry is dirtier than you think. (bloomberg.com)
- Desalination works. The question is what to do with all that toxic brine. (wired.com)
- The insurance industry is adapting to climate change, now the mortgage industry needs to catch up. (cnbc.com)
- The oceans need oysters. (businessinsider.com)
Air travel
- Apple ($AAPL) buys a lot of tickets from San Francisco to China on United ($UAL). (businessinsider.com)
- Airline specific rewards cards may not be the best best for travelers. (nytimes.com)
- The best (and worst) US airlines of 2018. (wsj.com)
Transport
- The Rhine river is at-risk of becoming impassable due to insufficient rain. (bloomberg.com)
- The space launch business is getting more competitive. (latimes.com)
Destinations
- Albania is your next, new Mediterranean destination. (washingtonpost.com)
- Africa is increasingly becoming a tourist destination. (qz.com)
Health
- There is a black market for unused glucose monitor strips. (nytimes.com)
- What can we learn about human obesity from overweight dogs? (bbc.com)
- Rural EMS systems are at-risk of collapse. (newyorker.com)
Tidying
Psychology
- Five findings on finding your passion in life. (bigthink.com)
- On the benefits of 'controlled respiration.' (scientificamerican.com)
- Being time constrained is associated with less life satisfaction. Then again, so it having a lot of free time. (papers.ssrn.com)
- Why are human brain so noisy? (nautil.us)
Fitness
- What's the story with HIIT? (vox.com)
- How to come to learn to love exercise. (npr.org)
- Yet another reason to keep moving: better memory. (nytimes.com)
- Some tips on how to get the most out of your gym membership money. (veemakescents.com)
- The best way to stay fit changes as you age. (qz.com)
Food
- Eat your fiber, people. (theguardian.com)
- More options, make feeding picky eaters, all the more difficult. (wsj.com)
- Having an allergy to corn would suck. (theatlantic.com)
Drink
- BDT Capital Partnersis buying a minority stake in WhistlePig, a distiller of high-end whiskeys, the latest sign of the spirit’s grip on American’s tastes and wallets. (wsj.com)
- Gin has made a big comeback in Britain. (nytimes.com)
- Quinoa whiskey? Sure, why not. (npr.org)
Cannabis
- Five years in, how has legal weed changed Colorado? (finance.yahoo.com)
- As the cannabis industry grows, so grows the chance of a 'weed recall.' (modernfarmer.com)
- On the relationship between marijuana use and psychosis. (nytimes.com)
- Move over Bourbon Trail, cannabis treks are now a thing. (ft.com)
Media
- Hit songs are getting shorter. You can thank streaming for that. (qz.com)
- Metacritic vs. Rotten Tomatoes: which should you use? (qz.com)
Sports
- Baseball's luxury tax has become a tacit salary cap. (axios.com)
- The NFL has an obesity problem. (nytimes.com)
- Is baseball broken? (theringer.com)
College
- Rural public colleges are behind the eight ball. (nytimes.com)
- Are income share agreements the province of business or philanthropy? (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- Some evidence against Greek life. (marginalrevolution.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: ubiquitous computing. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: podcast discovery. (abnormalreturns.com)
- RIP, Jack Bogle. (abnormalreturns.com)
- A Q&A with Daniel Crosby author of "The Behavioral Investor." (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- What happens when twins submit their DNA to different ancestry firms. (cbc.ca)
- "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power" by Shoshana Zuboff shows us just how much of our freedoms we have already lost. (nytimes.com)
- How to go "Marie Kondo" on your smartphone. (wsj.com)
