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Quote of the Day
"Only about half of all school districts in the United States require any sex ed at all."
(Andrea Barrica)
Autos
- Tesla ($TSLA) knows a lot about its car owners. (axios.com)
- Waymo is looking for outside investors. (theinformation.com)
- How soon, if ever, before an AV delivers your next pizza order? (wsj.com)
- How much do drivers need to know about autonomous vehicles? (slate.com)
Environment
- Now that we know the issues with plastics manufacturing and disposal, we now can't act. (project-syndicate.org)
- There is a big, untapped aquifier under the Mojave Desert. Should we leave it alone? (washingtonpost.com)
- The case against lawns. (curbed.com)
Energy
- Residential energy use in the US has flattened out due to changing lighting. (nytimes.com)
- New Mexico and Nevada are taking steps towards 100% renewable energy. (scientificamerican.com)
- Costa Rica wants to wean itself off fossil fuels by 2050. (nytimes.com)
- Quantum computers use less energy. (qz.com)
Science
- Just when you thought viruses couldn't get any sneakier. (theatlantic.com)
- Stonhenge was the site of Neolithic-era pan-British hog roasts. (nationalgeographic.com)
- Houseplants don't do anything to clean indoor air. (theatlantic.com)
- Sometimes waterfalls just form themselves. (nytimes.com)
Technology
- The hottest chat app for kids these days is...Google Docs? (theatlantic.com)
- Are you an Apple ($AAPL), Amazon ($AMZN) or Google ($GOOGL) family? (nytimes.com)
- What happens in an Internet minute. (visualcapitalist.com)
Health
- Why do US companies provide employees with health insurance anyway? (hbr.org)
- Haves and have nots: who breathes polluted air. (npr.org)
- How kidney exchanges work. (wsj.com)
Medicine
- PrEP, the once-a-day pill that protects users against HIV infection, is not widely available in the South. (washingtonpost.com)
- Vaccines do more than protect against a specific disease. (npr.org)
- One company makes all the tubes used to collect saliva samples. (bloomberg.com)
- Heart disease is on the rise in China. (qz.com)
Food delivery
- People love inexpensive food delivery. Grocers and restaurants do not. (wsj.com)
- How the food delivery companies try to hook you as a consumer. (wsj.com)
- Time is a big selling point for food delivery. (wsj.com)
Food
- Look inside your own house to calculate the costs of food waste. (washingtonpost.com)
- Genetically modified salmon took a step closer to your plate. (engadget.com)
- How Chipotle ($CMG) became another boring chain. (bloomberg.com)
- Beehive theft is big business. (modernfarmer.com)
- Americans are willing to fight over all-you-can-eat crab legs. (washingtonpost.com)
- Do you like the pepperoni on your pizza to lie flat or curl up? (wsj.com)
Drink
- How cool would it be to have a specialized MBA in wine? (ft.com)
- Some bottom-shelf rye whiskies, ranked. (pastemagazine.com)
Dogs
- Another reason why dogs are awesome: Karelian bear dogs can scare bears away. (nationalgeographic.com)
- How your dog knows you are sick. (theatlantic.com)
Sports
- Sports betting is slowly but surely becoming normalized. (latimes.com)
- The Action Network wants to be the CNBC for legal sports betting. (bloomberg.com)
- Baseball scouts have had to adapt to the new analytics age or lose out. (theringer.com)
- Why are there so many bats at Spurs games? (fivethirtyeight.com)
College
- Why don't more Americans finish their college degree? (npr.org)
- The value of college any more is social than educational. (collaborativefund.com)
- Why is college is so darn expensive? (perell.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: an obsolete model. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: podcast burnout. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Want to find some new financial bloggers? We're here to help. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Why we, as a society, need to be willing to pay for real news. (abnormalreturns.com)
- More evidence that our brains are ill-suited to investing. (abnormalreturns.com)
