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
"Quibi’s competitors are therefore not Netflix and HBO so much as YouTube and Facebook..."
(Dan Brooks)
Chart of the Day
A shortage of housing remains a major issue for the United States.
Autos
- Waymo is trying maintain optionality as it builds out its AV technology. (ft.com)
- Tesla ($TSLA) is not the only EV maker: a look at startups hoping to break into the business. (nytimes.com)
- EVs are still out of the reach of most Americans. (thesimpledollar.com)
- Ford ($F) is adding an all-electric Transit commercial van to its lineup. (newatlas.com)
- Tesla ($TSLA) wants to let you 'summon' your car to you (forbes.com)
Driving
- What happens when you fall out of love with driving? (wired.com)
- Can an app get people to stop texting while driving? (nytimes.com)
- Apps now allow parents to track teenagers driving habits. (wsj.com)
Environment
- American flood plains are filled with now (overvalued) houses. (bloomberg.com)
- Remanufacturing trumps recycling. (nytimes.com)
- Tropical forests aren't really taking up much more carbon. (bloomberg.com)
- Washington state is set to prevent bottled water companies from tapping springs. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- How 'Clean the World' recycles hotel soaps. (kottke.org)
Travel
- Airlines are trying to figure out ways to get you to want to sit in a middle seat. (wsj.com)
- Are airline loyalty programs contributing to climate change? (nytimes.com)
- Tourism to Antarctica is booming. Is that a good thing? (nytimes.com)
- How many hotel brands is enough? (nytimes.com)
Technology
- The ClearView AI story is only getting worse. (nytimes.com)
- Honeywell has been quietly building a quantum computer. (techcrunch.com)
Behavior
- A Q&A with Vivek H. Murthy author of the new book, “Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World.” (wsj.com)
- Why does it take a viral outbreak to get people to wash their hands? (behavioralscientist.org)
- Anti-bullying laws seem to help reduce teen suicides. (papers.ssrn.com)
Covid-19
- How universities are dealing with Covid-19. (npr.org)
- How to distinguish a cold, flu and Covid-19. (elemental.medium.com)
- A detailed guide to the coronavirus drugs and vaccines in development. (statnews.com)
- Covid-19 is rough on people already prone to anxiety. (elemental.medium.com)
- How to talk to your kids about Covid-19. (cnn.com)
Medicine
- A new method could make vaccines shelf-stable and more easily administered. (theconversation.com)
- CRISPR has been used inside the body for the first time. (statnews.com)
- How to read a medical study. (parenting.nytimes.com)
- Why medical care can suffer at the end of the day/shift. (npr.org)
- Goodrx can lower your prescription costs, but it comes at the cost of data leaking out. (consumerreports.org)
Cannabis
- Seniors are increasingly smoking weed. (barrons.com)
- Among teenagers, cigarettes and marijuana are not substitutes. (papers.ssrn.com)
- Cops keep seizing hemp from farmers thinking its marijuana. (wsj.com)
Dogs
- David E. Cooper, "A dog’s way of being in the world is, by contrast, marked by a spontaneity, a directness of response, that we long ago forfeited." (the-tls.co.uk)
- Dogs can sense thermal radiation with their noses. (sciencemag.org)
Drink
- Americans are seeking out alcoholic drinks that taste like stuff they drank as a kid. (esquire.com)
- Why is wine so intimidating? In part because there are too many wines. (vox.com)
- Australia's wine industry is largely out of luck this year because grapes taste like smoke. (ft.com)
- Climate change has killed off 'ice wine' in Germany. (nytimes.com)
- One person's journey to 'mindful drinking.' (vox.com)
Food
- Cauliflower sales just keep rising. (wsj.com)
- Food doesn't get crispy on its own. The people who put the crunch in your mouth. (bonappetit.com)
- Wendy's new breakfast sandwiches taste pretty good. (washingtonpost.com)
- Meat prices are likely to fall due to Covid-19. (wsj.com)
- Why your honey may not actually be 100% honey. (vice.com)
- Americans still love Girl Scout cookies. (thelily.com)
Sports
- DAZN wants to go global in its competition with ESPN. (wsj.com)
- What MLB is planning to do to cut down on cheating. (si.com)
- Why MLB won't standardize the construction of baseballs. (wsj.com)
- What MLB will look like in 2030. (theringer.com)
- You never know what you are going to get at the halftime of a NBA game. (hazlitt.net)
MBA
- Online MBAs look a lot better in the age of coronavirus. (ft.com)
- Amazon ($AMZN) still hires a lot of new MBAs but they are doing it differently. (wsj.com)
- The dean of a business school needs a unique set of skills to succeed. (ft.com)
- What is a MBA program going to look like in ten years? Nobody really knows. (wsj.com)
Children
- A child's height at age 2 does a pretty good job of predicting their adult height. (theatlantic.com)
- Does redshirting your child for kindergarten help or hurt in the long run? (fatherly.com)
- Working parents need a 'posse' to make it through to the other side. (hbr.org)
- Why teenagers see a downtick in exercise. (nytimes.com)
College
- How Mitch Daniels has held the line on tuition costs at Purdue. (theatlantic.com)
- 3 out of 5 college graduates wished they had majored in something different. (msn.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: revealed truths. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: advice giving. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Nobody wants to pay for content, but you ultimately pay for content one way or another. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Redirect your fear into a more productive option like refinancing your mortgage. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Monthly ESG links: compounding the confusion. (abnormalreturns.com)
