Saturdays are the day we catch up with all the non-finance related stuff we didn’t get to during the week. You can check out last week’s edition here.
Quote of the Day
"If you’re telling yourself a story that leads to you being irritated, you’re welcome to change your story."
(Seth Godin)
Autos
- US teenagers are still not eager to jump behind the wheel of a car. (finance.yahoo.com)
- Lidar is going mainstream. (theverge.com)
- Even still, there are too many Lidar companies to survive. (wired.com)
Energy
- Why Germany's decision to fade out nuclear energy was a mistake. (marginalrevolution.com)
- The push for renewables is not going happen without some mistakes. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- Some cities are looking to ban the use of natural gas in new homes. (nytimes.com)
Environment
- Modern economies are 'dematerializing' which is good for the environment. (ft.com)
- Why are America's black-footed ferrets disappearing? (scientificamerican.com)
- How herds of goats are being used to clear our fire-prone brush. (npr.org)
- Electronic waste is a growing problem: a UK perspective. (ft.com)
Transport
- Australia is a great place to store idled airplanes. (ft.com)
- Farmers are looking to buy older tractors that they can maintain themselves. (marginalrevolution.com)
- "Boom’s founders believe advances in materials and designs will allow them to build a 75-seat supersonic jet that flies at twice the speed of sound." (venturebeat.com)
- How Carnival Cruise ($CCL) put a rollercoaster on a ship. (wsj.com)
Behavior
- On the relationship between IQ and mental illness. (bigthink.com)
- Personality is not fixed. It depends on context and location as well. (bigthink.com)
- How five steps (RULER: Recognize, Understand, Label, Express and Regulate) can help you become more emotionally intelligent. (bakadesuyo.com)
- There is an upside to complaining, but you have to do it correctly. (nytimes.com)
- Does minimalism actually make us any happier? (theguardian.com)
Pharmaceuticals
- Be wary of drugs approved by the FDA right before year-end. (wsj.com)
- The pullback of pharmaceutical companies from antibiotics should scare everybody. (nytimes.com)
- Last year, Medicare paid for $725 million worth of expensive medications administered in outpatient clinics that ended up getting discarded. (axios.com)
- Migraine sufferers have some new drug options. (nytimes.com)
Medicine
- It's really difficult to lower the costs of treating 'super-utilizers.' (npr.org)
- How medical tests can snowball. (washingtonpost.com)
- US cancer survival rates are surging higher. (newatlas.com)
- Human bodies are cooling down. (newscientist.com)
Health
- When workplace wellness programs become punitive. (theatlantic.com)
- Health coaching can be a valuable addition to medical care. (nytimes.com)
- Feeling sick is an emotion that helps us get better faster. (bigthink.com)
- Higher taxes on e-cigarettes reduce the quit rate for traditional cigarette smoking. (papers.ssrn.com)
Fitness
- Five ways exercise helps us culled from "The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage" by Kelly McGonigal. (npr.org)
- Can exercise treat disease, not just prevent it? (elemental.medium.com)
Conscious eating
- More consumers want to know where their food, including eggs, comes from. (fastcompany.com)
- Drinking almond milk isn't doing anything good for the environment. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- By and large, meat eaters don't have a problem with vegans. (modernfarmer.com)
Food
- High-end restaurant meal-end occasions are getting creative. (wsj.com)
- This is the ideal temperature to serve soup. (mentalfloss.com)
- What goes into the production of a new Girl Scout cookie. (fortune.com)
- Why dating apps are filled with food talk. (insidehook.com)
Drink
- An increasing number of Americans are drinking themselves to death. (gizmodo.com)
- The Trump administration's tariff on European wines isn't good for anybody. (nytimes.com)
- The best non-alcoholic craft brews. (thrillist.com)
- LSU fans really love beer. (wsj.com)
Sports
- Stadiums are the new malls. (axios.com)
- What will we have lost if this is the end of the Patriots' dynasty? (theatlantic.com)
College
- How should universities handle donations from questionable sources? (bloomberg.com)
- On the pros (higher salary) and cons (debt) of going to graduate school. (hbr.org)
Children
- Suicide is now the second leading cause of death for US children. (nytimes.com)
- The downside of giving kids access to DoorDash, GrubHub, etc. (wsj.com)
- What's the deal with boys who wear shorts all-year round? (theatlantic.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: convenience and freedom. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: intuitive eating/ (abnormalreturns.com)
- Pessimism vs. realism: a thought experiment. (abnormalreturns.com)
- When it comes to your financial life, getting started is more important than optimizing. (abnormalreturns.com)
- No commissions, mean no excuses to get started investing. (abnormalreturns.com)
