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
"The best thing that 99% of us can do is to stay home. Yet, that can feel like doing nothing, because we see other people out there actively doing something."
(Jud Brewer)
Energy
- Falling energy prices are going to accelerate the decline of North Sea oil. (nytimes.com)
- Coal demand is falling along with electricity use. (wsj.com)
- Austria shuts down last coal-fired power plant. (abcnews.go.com)
Environment
- Seven things we have learned since the last Earth Day including "Trees are superheroes, and the world is starting to recognize it." (vox.com)
- The coroanvirus has pushed the story of the devastating Australian fires to the background. (wired.co.uk)
- Projects involving climate resilience are taking a backseat in the crisis. (nytimes.com)
- The world has lost nearly 27% of its land-dwelling insects in the past 30 years. (apnews.com)
- Why focusing on plastic straws is all about misdirection. (slate.com)
Airlines
- Airlines got bailed out, while the PPP ran dry. (epsilontheory.com)
- Which airlines are most likely to survive the current crisis. (airfarewatchdog.com)
- This is the very least we should require of the airlines. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
Science
- Rhett Allain, "Medicine is science; it's not common sense." (wired.com)
- Covid-19 is accelerating scientific change by accelerating the sharing of research. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
Technology
- How does contact tracing work? (techcrunch.com)
- Comparing the terms of service of various popular online services and apps. (visualcapitalist.com)
Behavior
- Why losing your job can feel so devastating. (hbr.org)
- Meditation apps have seen a surge in use amidst the pandemic. (washingtonpost.com)
- How something like dish washing can serve as a meditative experience. (fatherly.com)
- The stress of the coronavirus may push some marriages to the breaking point. (bloomberg.com)
- How to communicate your self-care needs to a partner. (hbr.org)
Medicine
- Where all the other hospital patients? (washingtonpost.com)
- Non-coronavirus treatments are getting pushed to the side, to the detriment of patients. (nytimes.com)
- A lot of medical practices will not make it through the coronavirus pandemic. (fastcompany.com)
- How dentists are dealing with emergencies in the age of social distancing. (wsj.com)
- Why otolaryngologists are uniquely at-risk of contracting Covid-19. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
- The US medical system is not build for rapidly rolling out clinical trials. (statnews.com)
Pandemics
- Covid-19 is not the last pandemic we will face. (fastcompany.com)
- Shared memory affects how society reacts to a pandemic. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
- Bill Gates on how to deal with the first modern pandemic. (gatesnotes.com)
Covid-19 outcomes
- Covid-19 seems to be a disease of the immune system. (theatlantic.com)
- Why African-Americans have been more at risk of severe coronavirus complications. (wsj.com)
- Why is Covid-19 killing more men? (gq.com)
- Covid-19 does not just affect the lungs: how it unleashes damage through the body. (sciencemag.org)
Covid-19
- Covid-19 patients have signs of pneumonia far before they crash. (nytimes.com)
- Why we should be wary of the Covid-19 antibody tests that are coming to market. (reuters.com)
- We really don't know much about Covid-19 immunity. (wsj.com)
- Is there a way to accelerate Covid-19 vaccine testing? (newatlas.com)
- Don't underestimate the challenges in developing a Covid-19 vaccine. (nautil.us)
Coffee
- Michael Pollan on what it's like to get off of caffeine for three months. (wsj.com)
- What's the healthiest way to make coffee? (sciencedaily.com)
Fitness
Food
- How the restaurant reservation services have pivoted to help restaurants survive. (eater.com)
- It took a pandemic to get Americans to cook more at home. (nytimes.com)
- There has been a surge in demand for produce from vertical farms. (axios.com)
- How to be more strategic when ordering out. (eater.com)
- Always order extra rice with your takeout. (eater.com)
Drink
- Fevertree had to remind its customers that its tonic water is for cocktails not a cure for the coronavirus. (msn.com)
- Covid-19 is going to crush craft brewers who rely on on-premises sales. (citizen-times.com)
Entertainment
- The coronavirus is going to upend the theatrical model. (variety.com)
- Streaming services are dangling free content out there in order to lure new subscribers. (variety.com)
- How Hollywood is planning to film in the age of social distancing. (variety.com)
Sports
- Will refereeing change if there are no fans in the stands? (wsj.com)
- The 'villain' of The Last Dance documentary series is not around to defend himself. (slate.com)
- To reduce head injuries football should allow offensive lineman to stand up. (sciencedaily.com)
- Why would you return to a sport that nearly killed you? (outsideonline.com)
- Sports is important, but is it essential? (slate.com)
Children
- What lessons will our children take away from all this? (hunterwalk.com)
- What can school counselors do in the age of social distancing? (npr.org)
- Children with special needs are feeling the brunt of school closures the most. (theatlantic.com)
- 9 ways school will look different when they reopen. (npr.org)
Future of college
- The coronavirus is the perfect storm for colleges and universities. (axios.com)
- Universities need to view this experience as a big experiment in online learning. (nytimes.com)
- What happens to universities if you cut off the supply of overseas students? (ft.com)
College
- Colleges are planning for students in the Fall - or not. (wsj.com)
- Cal State Fullerton is planning to go virtual in the Fall. (npr.org)
- Prospective college students now need to consider the financial health of their institution. (forbes.com)
- Soon-to-be law school graduates in a state of limbo. (wsj.com)
- Which graduate degrees confer the most earning power? (papers.ssrn.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: deaths of despair. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: going deep. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Engaging content takes consistent work, just ask the Steak-umms Twitter guy. (abnormalreturns.com)
- March 11th is going go down as a crucial day in the story of the coronavirus. (abnormalreturns.com)
