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Autos
- Why a million mile battery would be a big deal for Tesla ($TSLA) and other EV makers. (wired.com)
- Toyota ($TM) and Subaru are getting even closer. (reuters.com)
Energy
- Potential renewable energy is not distributed equally across the globe. (klementoninvesting.substack.com)
- Solar energy is a great diversifier for farmers. (wsj.com)
- The historical reasons why oil replaced coal in many applications. (bbc.com)
- What is the true cost of carbon emissions? More than you think... (ftalphaville.ft.com)
Environment
- We simply don't know what will happen if climate change goes too far. (barrons.com)
- The Minderoo Foundation wants to make plastics a closed loop. (marketwatch.com)
- Why hotel chains are getting rid of travel-sized toiletries. (vox.com)
Transport
- Lessons learned from biking everywhere for three weeks. (businessinsider.com)
- Virgin Trains USA wants to build a train from LA to Las Vegas. (bloomberg.com)
- The best cities for going car-free in America. (citylab.com)
Travel
- How to get more out of your travel experiences. (fs.blog)
- Beyond Pricing helps Airbnb landlords better price their offerings. (news.crunchbase.com)
- Some developers are building with short-term rentals explicitly in mind. (wsj.com)
- Why we are more like to get 'ripped off' on holiday. (timharford.com)
Science
- A powerful disaster-inducing geomagnetic storm is an inevitability in the near future. (scientificamerican.com)
- North America's bird population is in secular decline. (washingtonpost.com)
- Can AI help predict earthquakes? (quantamagazine.org)
Technology
- Five cheap-ish things you can do to protect your privacy. (nytimes.com)
- How to make it harder for mobile ads to track you. (wired.com)
- How to make the most of the new privacy tools in iOS 13. (nytimes.com)
- Mental health apps have a lot of sensitive data about you. (statnews.com)
Health
- "Although pancreatic cancer is a relatively uncommon malignancy, accounting for only 3 percent of life-threatening cancers over all, it is one of medicine’s most challenging." (nytimes.com)
- Can an app help treat back pain? (businessinsider.com)
- Aimmune's new peanut allergy therapy is controversial even among allergists. (npr.org)
Fitness
- If you think of fitness activities as drudgery you will never make them a habit. (eightfatswine.com)
- A new way to approach fitness: "greasing the groove." (theatlantic.com)
- Don't discount the value of simply walking more. (npr.org)
- The most hydrating drinks, ranked. (cnn.com)
Food
- How being a banker trains you to run a restaurant, seriously. (bloomberg.com)
- How some of those crazy viral fast food mashups happen, like the Cheetos Chicken Sandwich at KFC. (fastcompany.com)
- A big chunk of livestock feed can be replaced by insect protein. (modernfarmer.com)
- More evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us. (scientificamerican.com)
- How orange juice went from health food to toxin. (finance.yahoo.com)
- 25 fun facts from the Gastropod including "Olive oil is fruit juice." (kottke.org)
- How to boil the perfect egg. (nytimes.com)
Drink
- Michael Jordan and the story behind the launch of the Cincoro brand of high-end tequila. (forbes.com)
- Hard seltzer sales are helping Boston Beer ($SAM) make up for weak beer sales. (bloomberg.com)
- The story behind the success of Fevertree Drinks, maker of high-end mixers. (marketwatch.com)
- The parent company of White Claw is ramping up production. (businessinsider.com)
- Craft brewers (secretly) love light beer. (wsj.com)
- Why the future of wine is dry. (nytimes.com)
Dogs
- The creator of the labradoodle regrets his invention. (washingtonpost.com)
- Does your dog need swim lessons? (nytimes.com)
Sports
- How Houston became the center of the sports analytics revolution. (wsj.com)
- Athletes have embraced CBD oil for pain relief. (wired.com)
- American ballplayers are flooding the Mexican League. (gen.medium.com)
Media
- Streaming services are setting up mini-Hollywoods around the world. (axios.com)
- Does HBO Now have a future in a world of HBO Max? (theverge.com)
- On the 25th anniversary of REM's 'Monster.' (theringer.com)
Kids
- Five keys to raising emotionally intelligent children. (bakadesuyo.com)
- The earlier we teach kids mindfulness the better. (elemental.medium.com)
- High school e-sports teams are now a thing. (axios.com)
College
- Student readiness for college has declined of late. (bigthink.com)
- What options do college kids have for getting health insurance? (latimes.com)
- When teenagers get later school start times, it usually falls on elementary school kids to wake up earlier. (wsj.com)
- Should new grads take any job or wait for the right one? (hbr.org)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: declining religiosity. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: memory mistakes. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Filling the vacuum where status anxiety lives. (abnormalreturns.com)