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Quote of the Day
"Nobody is looking at the environmental footprint of being consumers with all of this convenience."
(Beth Davis-Sramek, professor of logistics, Auburn University)
Chart of the Day
Streaming revenue is helping industry revenues but it is still way down from its CD-era peak.
EVs
- Evidence showing hybrids are better at reducing CO2 emissions than EVs. (emissionsanalytics.com)
- Tesla ($TSLA) is developing its own battery cells separate and apart from Panasonic. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- BMW aims to double hybrid and electric vehicles over the next couple years. (theguardian.com)
- Charging EVs on the go is still a logistical challenge. (nytimes.com)
- Electric vehicles are going solar. (venturebeat.com)
Autos
- How Honda became a hybrid of Japan and America. (cnn.com)
- How keyless cars are killing people. (nytimes.com)
Energy
- Christopher Martin, "Clean energy resources supplied more of America’s electricity than coal for the first time ever in April." (bnnbloomberg.ca)
- Solar energy capacity is set to double in the US over the next five years. (axios.com)
- The challenge today isn't building renewable energy, it's getting it on the grid. (wsj.com)
- Britain now gets more electricity from clean sources than fossil fuels. (bbc.com)
Construction and the environment
- Why more research is going into building timber-based mid-rise buildings. (cnn.com)
- Cement production is a huge emitter of CO2. (msn.com)
- The carbon footprint of modern buildings it baked into their construction not their operation. (finance.yahoo.com)
Environment
- Air conditioning is the next big threat we need to deal with. (bloomberg.com)
- Technology alone will not save us from climate change. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- Airplanes have an effect on global warming separate and apart from CO2. (newscientist.com)
- India's water issues are in part man-made. (finance.yahoo.com)
Travel
- The best frequent flier programs of 2019. (wsj.com)
- How to get the best rate on a hotel room. (nytimes.com)
- Consumers are ditching airline credit cards for bank-issued travel-focused cards. (wsj.com)
- Why your senses are all off in an airplane. (washingtonpost.com)
Technology
- Why you may want to re-think using the Google ($GOOGL) Chrome browser. (washingtonpost.com)
- How data brokers build a profile of you without your consent. (washingtonpost.com)
- We are constantly leaking personal data without our knowledge. (bloomberg.com)
- We are are going to be able identify people, at a distance, using just their heartbeat. (technologyreview.com)
- The 15 biggest data breaches over the past 15 years, visualized. (visualcapitalist.com)
- How to clear space for iOS device backups when iTunes tells you there’s not enough. (sixcolors.com)
The brain
- How AI can identify individuals at higher risk of suicide. (nytimes.com)
- On the power of being open about depression and anxiety. (feld.com)
- Three recent memoirs on dealing with mental illness including "Little Panic: Dispatches From an Anxious Life" by Amanda Stern. (npr.org)
- A Q&A with Svend Brinkmann author of "The Joy of Missing Out." (vox.com)
Health
- Good news: overdose deaths set to fall in 2019. (wsj.com)
- IVF success rates seem to have plateaued. (newscientist.com)
- AI is just scratching the surface in medicine. (avc.com)
- Vaccines work: the case of HPV. (statnews.com)
- Apple ($AAPL) is selling a slick, integrated glucose monitor in its stores. (cnbc.com)
- Why you should take a shower after a swim in the ocean. (newscientist.com)
Fitness
- It's unlikely that new gut bacteria would make you a better runner. (npr.org)
- Enough with the celery juice, people. (nytimes.com)
Restaurants
- High delivery fees are crushing restaurant margins. (wsj.com)
- McDonald's ($MCD) is planning to introduce a spicy chicken sandwich (businessinsider.com)
- Fancy restaurants are adding fancy babysitting to the menu. (wsj.com)
- The 50 best restaurants in the world. (businessinsider.com)
Food
- Will you drink water out of a can? (nytimes.com)
- Why hog dogs are healthier than commonly thought. (fatherly.com)
- Coastal California is awash in salmon. (wsj.com)
- The ultimate test on how to boil eggs. (slate.com)
- How to grill a perfect burger. (artofmanliness.com)
Drink
- The Supreme Court just made it easier for national liquor chains to expand across state lines. (npr.org)
- Just in time for the 4th of July: some outstanding American Rosés. (bnnbloomberg.ca)
- Haus wants to get Americans to drink more apertifs. (fastcompany.com)
- The #SoberLife is gaining traction. (washingtonpost.com)
Cannabis
- Cannabis may be a natural product, but that doesn't mean its cultivation is not harmful to the environment. (daily.jstor.org)
- At scale the cost of growing cannabis is going to become a key factor for success. (wsj.com)
Kids
- Margot Sanger-Katz and Aaron E. Carroll, "Across a wide range of classically risky teenage behaviors, today’s teenagers are getting tamer and more responsible, making better decisions and eschewing the dangerous choices that, for many adults today, defined youth." (nytimes.com)
- It's normal to feel some ambivalence about your kids. (wsj.com)
- Can technology be used to combat ADHD? (ft.com)
Sports
- "How Baseball’s New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players" by Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik demonstrates just how much baseball has changed. (theatlantic.com)
- Pro sports teams are downsizing their stadiums. (axios.com)
- New Jersey sports books bested Nevada in May. (actionnetwork.com)
- Can lacrosse make a go of it as a professional sport? (theringer.com)
- The LPGA has a lack of exposure problem. (nytimes.com)
- Can the US win the first gold medal in 3x3 basketball? (theringer.com)
- Why have so many horses died at Santa Anita? (nytimes.com)
- How cornhole became professionalized. (expmag.com)
- This guy is the best celebrity fan in America. (theathletic.com)
Best of lists
- The best films of 2019 (so far). (nytimes.com)
- The 25 best TV shows of 2019 (so far). (pastemagazine.com)
Media
- How Netflix ($NFLX) has changed entertainment. (theatlantic.com)
- What does a series finale mean in the world of endless reboots? (theverge.com)
- How Netflix ($NFLX) turned "The Office" into a cultural phenomenon. (washingtonpost.com)
- Hollywood movie studios have stopped making comedies. (nationalreview.com)
Music
- Classical music has a metadata problem. (nytimes.com)
- The copyright issues around rock songs are surprisingly complicated. (bloomberg.com)
- How music streamers can crack down on click fraud. (rollingstone.com)
College
- What college kids want these days in their residences. (nytimes.com)
- Free college need not make for great colleges. (marginalrevolution.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: art market math. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: overcoming a scarcity mindset. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Here's my recent talk with Robert Seawright about the importance (and challenges) of choosing investment benchmarks. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Why your luxury car is unlikely to materially boost your happiness. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Picking up plastic straws in front of an oncoming steam roller. (abnormalreturns.com)
