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Quote of the Day
"The simple truth is that the oil industry has never before faced the kind of threat that renewable electricity and EVs pose to its business model."
(Mark Lewis)
Autos
- Electric cars are finally showing up on used car lots in respectable numbers. (wired.com)
- Tesla's ($TSLA) reliability has faded over time. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- Europe will soon be awash in EV options. (ritholtz.com)
- Level one and two automation are already here. (nytimes.com)
Energy
- Wood pellets are no more carbon-friendly than coal. (wsj.com)
- US natural gas producers have a big methane problem. (wsj.com)
Trees
- Ethiopia planted 350 million trees in one day. (bloomberg.com)
- The Empress tree is the best hope for rapid carbon capture. (bloomberg.com)
Water
- Urban flooding is becoming much more common. (slate.com)
- Some coastal towns in Honduras are getting eaten up by the sea. (theguardian.com)
- Mapping out where 'water stress' is an issue in the US. (washingtonpost.com)
Heat
- July was the hottest month in recorded history. (scientificamerican.com)
- Why is Europe so hot this Summer? You can blame a changing jet-stream. (ft.com)
- Cities, i.e. heat sinks, are uniquely at risk to rising temperatures. (axios.com)
Environment
- Iceland is preparing for climate change. (nytimes.com)
- Climate change is in part an issue with land use. (axios.com)
- Startups could help combat climate change. (om.co)
- Google ($GOOGL) is aiming to make its consumer products carbon-neutral by 2022. (reuters.com)
- Light pollution is hard to escape in the lower 48 states. (washingtonpost.com)
Travel
- Pretty soon you are going to be able to track your hotel shuttle van with an app. (wsj.com)
- Why hotels don't provide toothpaste. (mentalfloss.com)
- Italy is routing cruise ships away from Venice's city center. (ft.com)
Science
- Next to dogs, pigs are humans closest companions. (newscientist.com)
- Imagine what a parrot the size of a four year-old child would have looked like. (washingtonpost.com)
Technology
- Why 'Moore's law' was a one-off. (ft.com)
- Hitting paywalls online is now a common occurrence. (getrichslowly.org)
- Six things to do to protect yourself from a data breach. (morningstar.com)
- A history of the 'Easter egg.' (nytimes.com)
The brain
- A healthy heart keeps the brain sharp. (elemental.medium.com)
- How to resist the lure of overconfidence. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
- Why clozapine is dramatically under-prescribed. (vice.com)
- Three secrets to beat performance anxiety. (scientificamerican.com)
Medicine
- Female doctors are more likely than their male peers to shift to part-time work. (marketwatch.com)
- Sickle-cell disease is still underdiagnosed. (theincidentaleconomist.com)
- Why the data on supercentenarians is likely flawed. (vox.com)
Food
- Sesame allergies are more common than you think. (nytimes.com)
- Is A2 milk really better for you? (scientificamerican.com)
- "Old steak" is now a thing. (wsj.com)
Drink
- AB InBev ($BUD) has restarted buying independent craft brewers. (pastemagazine.com)
- We are living in the golden age of bourbon. (wsj.com)
- Where in the US craft brew is most popular. (visualcapitalist.com)
Cannabis
- The FDA is cracking down on unsubstantiated CBD claims. (modernfarmer.com)
- Tilray has begun shipping CBD to researchers at New York University to study alcohol and post-traumatic stress disorders. (cnbc.com)
- Hemp is becoming a big New York crop. (wsj.com)
- The brother of the President's son-in-law is investing in a startup weed marketplace. (bloomberg.com)
- Growing marijuana outdoors can cost as little as one-fifth that of greenhouse production. (bnnbloomberg.ca)
Media
- Disney’s bundle of Disney+, ESPN+ and ad-supported Hulu will cost $12.99 per month. (cnbc.com)
- Netflix ($NFLX) signed David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creators of the television juggernaut “Game of Thrones.” (nytimes.com)
Music
- Want to top the charts? Bundle downloads with your concert tickets. (wsj.com)
- You can’t think of YouTube just as a business. You need to think of it as "a listening experience." (washingtonpost.com)
- The music industry is bracing for a new wave of copyright infringement lawsuits. (wsj.com)
- Songwriters are rightfully feeling on edge. (variety.com)
- Why you should expect to see more musician biopics and documentaries. (wsj.com)
- The music used in movie trailers tells us a lot about the plot, maybe too much. (newyorker.com)
Sports
- Why the home court advantage is fading in the NBA. (journals.plos.org)
- Kids are increasingly giving up on organized youth sports. (axios.com)
Relationships
- Why (a lot) of people pay for Tinder Gold. (nytimes.com)
- Breakup consultants are now a thing. (ozy.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: convenience maximalism. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: surfacing episodes. (abnormalreturns.com)
- I recently got a chance to talk with Dasarte Yarnway author of "Pay Me in Equity" about building our personal equity. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Investing with a conscience in a complicated world. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Aim to buy more time, not more stuff. (abnormalreturns.com)
- ESG links: the heavy lifting. (abnormalreturns.com)
