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
"Epistemic humility is an intellectual virtue. It is grounded in the realization that our knowledge is always provisional and incomplete—and that it might require revision in light of new evidence."
(Erik Angner)
Autos
- Who is going to buy all those cars that were manufactured pre-crisis? (bloomberg.com)
- Uber ($UBER) and Lyft ($LYFT) have been crushed by the coronavirus. (nytimes.com)
- The coronavirus is accelerating changes in the car buying process. (axios.com)
- A lack of EV chargers is holding back adoption in metro areas. (nytimes.com)
Environment
- Why old-growth trees are crucial to fighting climate change. (wired.com)
- National government should protect ecosystems that serve as carbon sinks. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
- The US Southwest is in the midst of a climate change-induced megadrought. (washingtonpost.com)
Air travel
- It took six years for the airlines to recover from 9/11. It's anyone's guess what will happen this go around. (wsj.com)
- Why so many empty planes are still flying. (nymag.com)
- Are pilots and flight attendants putting themselves at-risk by still flying? (nytimes.com)
- What it's like to fly on empty planes and move through abandoned airports. (nytimes.com)
- Bill Gates thinks business travel will never bounce all the way back. (businessinsider.com)
Nature
- Reduced fishing will allow some at-risk populations to flourish. (bloomberg.com)
- With humans largely absent, Yosemite National Park is teeming with wildlife. (sfgate.com)
- Bald eagles are once again nesting in the Arizona desert. (abcnews.go.com)
- The Canada lynx is decline in the Northwest. (nytimes.com)
- Bats do carry a lot of viruses, but they are not unique in that regard. (scientificamerican.com)
Cities
- How the coroanvirus could remake cities including closing off streets to traffic. (wired.com)
- Pandemics have reshaped cities before. (fastcompany.com)
- People in cities around the world are shocked at how clean the air is. (theguardian.com)
Behavior
- We humans have a great ability to adapt to changing conditions. (tonyisola.com)
- People with depression have been triggered by the coronavirus shutdown. (wsj.com)
- Why being laid off is so painful. (daily.jstor.org)
- Lessons learned about isolation from a submariner. (nautil.us)
- Why reports of bad behavior may prompt us to do the same. (ft.com)
- People become more altruistic as they age. (theconversation.com)
Covid-19
- Cardiovascular issues are a big risk factor for coronavirus complications. (wsj.com)
- Rolling coronavirus patients onto their bellies can help with recovery. (cnn.com)
- Asthma, for now, does not seem to be a risk factor. (nytimes.com)
- How a novel coronavirus vaccine patch could work. (wsj.com)
- The occupations most at-risk of contracting Covid-19. (visualcapitalist.com)
- Contact-tracing apps have some issues. (newscientist.com)
Medicine
- What to do if you have a non-Covid medical issue. (wsj.com)
- Fertility treatments are getting put on hold. (npr.org)
- Doctors are trying to share coronavirus best practices online. (wsj.com)
- Covid-19 is normalizing telehealth. (fastcompany.com)
Fitness
- Why you should work out by yourself these days. (wired.com)
- Six feet distancing is not sufficient when exercising. (nytimes.com)
- Fitness trainers have been forced to take their business online. (nytimes.com)
Dogs
- Can dogs be trained to sniff out the coronavirus? (ritholtz.com)
- Urban dogs are more fearful than their rural cousins. (newatlas.com)
Food
- Crops are at-risk because of the inability to get bees on site. (ft.com)
- Why its hard to scale up dry yeast production. (slate.com)
- The Lost Apple Project identifies apple species once thought to be extinct. (apnews.com)
Drink
- Thousands of craft brewers will close for good during the current shutdown. (businessinsider.com)
- How America's drinking patterns have changed in the age of coronavirus. (vox.com)
Restaurants
- A restaurant meal could become a luxury good in the future. (bloomberg.com)
- How do you re-start the restaurant engine from zero? (eater.com)
- There's no playbook for what is happening to restaurants. (theringer.com)
- Restaurants are pivoting to groceries to help survive. (washingtonpost.com)
- Why restaurants have items that grocery stores don't. (npr.org)
- Nick Kokonas' Tock is helping restaurants adapt to a new reality. (fastcompany.com)
Baseball
- MLB teams are participating in a study to test for coronavirus antibodies. (npr.org)
- MLB is curtailing its draft, in part, to save money. (wsj.com)
- There is no minor league baseball without fans. (axios.com)
Sports
- A second wave of infections would crush major sports leagues. (wsj.com)
- The Masters is more than just a golf tournament for many people. (nytimes.com)
- Magnus Carlsen's new chess tournament could upend professional chess forever. (theringer.com)
- Why the NFL has effectively done away with marijuana testing. (nytimes.com)
- How the SF 49er's Super Bowl loss may have saved lives. (wsj.com)
Media
- The NBA is taking control of its digital future with the help of Microsoft ($MSFT). (stratechery.com)
- Has the rush for content ended the 'golden age of television'? (ft.com)
MBA
- Students in elite MBA programs paid for a residential experience, then coronavirus intervened. (ft.com)
- The coronavirus has upended the MBA application process. (ft.com)
College
- How to apply for college amidst a pandemic. (tonyisola.com)
- Colleges could see big attrition this Fall. (nytimes.com)
- Some students have been forced to hunker down on closed campuses. (wsj.com)
- Some colleges are waiving SAT and ACT requirements. (nytimes.com)
- Economic downturns uniquely affect those just entering the workforce. (theatlantic.com)
Children
- How different states are handling high school graduation requirements. (politico.com)
- Children's social skills are not declining. (journals.uchicago.edu)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: standing on the shoulder of giants. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: a new regime. (abnormalreturns.com)
