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Quote of the Day
"You can’t produce without compromises."
(Seth Godin)
Autos
- Auto service departments are upgrading their waiting rooms. (nytimes.com)
- Volkswagen AG is planning to spinoff its heavy truck division. (wsj.com)
- Tesla ($TSLA) is now facing challenges on a number of fronts: sales, quality, finances, etc. (nytimes.com)
- Making batteries for EVs is a dirty business. (bloomberg.com)
Energy
- How solar energy became so cheap. (econbrowser.com)
- Scottish Power plans to build a huge battery installation in conjunction with 214 windmills. (theguardian.com)
- Climate change isn't hopeless. We humans are pretty smart. (nytimes.com)
Environment
- "The invention and proliferation of man-made fertilizer over the last century broke the link between microbes and farming." (onezero.medium.com)
- We need to incentivize farmers to put carbon back in the ground. (washingtonpost.com)
- Canada is already facing a terrible wildfire season. (washingtonpost.com)
- The math behind banning plastic shopping bags is not a slam dunk. (kottke.org)
- Lego is struggling to find a more environmentally friendly plastic for its iconic bricks. (wsj.com)
Weather forecasting
- We are going to need more investment in supercomputing to model climate change. (nytimes.com)
- The US just got a big upgrade to its core weather forecasting model. (arstechnica.com)
Transport
- Surveillance balloons may be coming to the US. (finance.yahoo.com)
- Midwest flooding has taken river transport off-line causing all manner of disruption. (nytimes.com)
Travel
- Travel companies are boosting their 'experience' offerings. (wsj.com)
- Facial recognition technology is getting rolled out in airports. (washingtonpost.com)
Technology
- Google ($GOOGL) is the one member of Big Tech that is most vulnerable to anti-trust scrutiny. (stratechery.com)
- How much would you be willing to pay for an ad-free Facebook ($FB) or Google ($GOOGL)? (wsj.com)
- 87% of global web traffic was encrypted, up from 53% just three years ago. (fastcompany.com)
- Ask yourself why you want to use your phone less? (hbr.org)
- How does 'sign on with Apple' work? (techcrunch.com)
- How to mute all those notifications. (wsj.com)
The brain
- Happiness is how we judge experiences. (radreads.co)
- Why we think violent crime has increased, even though it has declined. (econompicdata.blogspot.com)
- What is behind the Flynn Effect? (bigthink.com)
- Why you should ditch GPS. (washingtonpost.com)
- Some summer reading picks including "Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think and Do" by Jennifer L. Eberhardt. (behavioralscientist.org)
Health
- How safe is sunscreen? (theincidentaleconomist.com)
- Get outside in nature each week. (newscientist.com)
Medicine
- The complication rates on surgery on the elderly are way too high. (nytimes.com)
- Yet another reason to get vaccinated, this time for chickenpox. (statnews.com)
Nicotine
- Nicotine and caffeine are like 'apples and oranges' despite what Big Vape wants you think. (theverge.com)
- How mindfulness training can help decouple "the link between craving and behavior." (statnews.com)
Cannabis
- How Canada lost its chance to be the world's cannabis leader. (bloomberg.com)
- We now have evidence that humans have been using cannabis for millenia. (washingtonpost.com)
Food
- The venture capital model is not particularly suited for food companies. (wsj.com)
- Tyson Foods ($TSN) is getting into the alternative meat business, first with 'chicken' nuggets.' (ft.com)
- The fish we are eating is increasingly farmed vs. caught. (washingtonpost.com)
- Per-capital sugar consumption peaked 20 years ago in the US. (newscientist.com)
Drink
- These are the most beer brands by state. (fatherly.com)
- The negroni is the perfect summer cocktail. (nytimes.com)
Sports
- The big media companies are quickly adapting to the roll out of sports betting nationwide. (wsj.com)
- There's a fantasy league for everything these days. (wsj.com)
Entertainment
- American movies, like superhero movies, are leaving sex by the wayside. (washingtonpost.com)
- The data show women are slowly getting more representation on major television shows. (ft.com)
- Should Broadway figure out a way to make money off streaming? (washingtonpost.com)
- Why artists are desperate to give away song downloads. (nytimes.com)
- The best television is mindful of viewers' time. (theatlantic.com)
Best of lists
- These are the best TV shows of 2019 (so far). (variety.com)
- A list of the best movies of 2019 (so far). (vulture.com)
- The 25 best albums of 2019 (so far). (pastemagazine.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: nudged to death. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: a three comma industry. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Put as many money decisions on autopilot that you can. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Talking about the future of financial advice with Cullen Roche. (abnormalreturns.com)
- On the perils of passive news consumption. (abnormalreturns.com)