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.
Autos
- Tesla ($TSLA) has a huge advantage over auto incumbents when it comes to self-driving hardware and software. (asia.nikkei.com)
- What happens to the gasoline station in the age of the electric car? (ft.com)
Energy
- Solar is making big inroads in India. (wsj.com)
- Solar projects increasingly include battery packs to smooth consumption. (ft.com)
- How Michigan-based utility CMS Energy is making the transition to grid-scale renewables. (wsj.com)
Water
- The Great Lakes is dealing with volatile water levels. (ft.com)
- The Colorado River’s average annual flow has declined by nearly 20 percent compared to the last century... (washingtonpost.com)
- Backyards are disappearing around the Great Lakes. (wsj.com)
- How spent barley can feed bacteria used in the water filtration process. (npr.org)
Environment
- Jeff Bezos has pledged $10 billion to fight climate change. (nytimes.com)
- Lawmakers in Washington state are moving to ban the tapping of natural water by bottled-water companies. (wsj.com)
- BPA-free may not necessarily be safe. (sciencedaily.com)
- What happens to your online mattress purchase if you return it? (fivethirtyeight.com)
Air travel
- Can a supersonic jet ever be environmentally sustainable? (worth.com)
- Our airspace is only going to get more crowded over time. (nytimes.com)
Transport
- Ridesharing services like Uber ($UBER) and Lyft ($LYFT) were supposed to reduce congestion, not increase it. (wsj.com)
- Why in urban areas, electric bikes trump electric cars. (theweek.com)
- Want safer streets? Get cars off the road and slow them down. (fastcompany.com)
- America's rural roads are in bad shape. (nytimes.com)
Technology
- It's pretty easy for a malicious actor to sabotage a site in the eyes of Google Adsense. (krebsonsecurity.com)
- Google and Apple are supposedly taking location data privacy more seriously. (fastcompany.com)
- Craiglist is everything the web isn't today. (fastcompany.com)
Behavior
- On the relationship between happiness and curiosity. (elemental.medium.com)
- Is it burnout or depression? (elemental.medium.com)
Medicine
- Seven of the 10 most profitable hospitals in America are nonprofit hospitals. (nytimes.com)
- Doctors are prone to mental shortcuts just like the rest of us. (nytimes.com)
- Hospital gowns are awful. What's the alternative. (nytimes.com)
Advances
- The competition for robotic-assisted surgery is growing. (marketwatch.com)
- A company proposes to use compounds derived from hemolymph, which is lobster circulatory fluid, to improve human health and possibly the health of other mammals. (statnews.com)
- A noninvasive magnetic brain stimulation device worn less than an hour a day can increase activity near stroke-injured areas of the brain. (webmd.com)
- Using AI to build more effective antiobiotics. (news.mit.edu)
Health
- How to wash your hands properly. (kottke.org)
- More companies are going to discriminate against smokers. (ft.com)
Food
- Why are so many high profile restaurants failing? (grubstreet.com)
- Dairy Farmers of America, the country’s largest milk cooperative, has agreed to buy Dean Foods assets. (modernfarmer.com)
Music
- Why music labels are pushing to go public now. (axios.com)
- An interview with Huey Lewis about his hearing issues and why a great pop song is timeless. (thecreativeindependent.com)
Sports
- How the Houston Astros stole the World Series and got away with it. (theatlantic.com)
- What happens when e-sports meets chess? (nbcnews.com)
- E-sports has a drug problem, specifically Adderall. (washingtonpost.com)
- A talk with Nick Elam about the 'Elam Ending.' (slate.com)
Kids
- Parents (and kids) are driving themselves crazy thinking success in life is a straight line up and to the right. (theatlantic.com)
- Why arts education is so important. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- Here is what teenagers want from their parents instead of getting steamrolled. (nytimes.com)
Relationships
- US marriage (and divorce) rates are falling. (ritholtz.com)
- The story of couples who live apart to stay together. (curbed.com)
- Should you obsess over the pattern of who you date? (gq.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: useful writing. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: launching a fund. (abnormalreturns.com)
- When it comes so investing there is a big between random and wrong. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Our lives are filled with stuff, most of which is disposable. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Italy is a study in contrast: tourists want in, the youth want out. (abnormalreturns.com)
