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
"Customers won’t be safe until everyone in the restaurant is safe."
(Anna Ciezadlo)
Chart of the Day
ER visits dropped sharply in March and April and are still running below trend.
Energy
- Over the past three decades, among major industrialized countries, the UK has done the most to reduce its carbon emissions. (nytimes.com)
- Floating platforms would allow for wind power to pushed even farther offshore. (nytimes.com)
Environment
- CO2 levels are rising despite pandemic-related slowdowns in economic activity.. (ft.com)
- The world's trees are getting shorter and younger. (gizmodo.com.au)
- Companies have a hard time including deforestation in their sustainability goals. (fastcompany.com)
- Australia's Murray-Darling Basin is drying up. (bloomberg.com)
- Why trying to be a conscious consumer can be so frustrating. (behavioralscientist.org)
Travel
- Countries recognize the need to isolate incoming travelers but don't agree on how to do it. (ft.com)
- The case for leisure air travel rebounding faster than expected. (bloomberg.com)
- Airline travelers need to think more like options traders these days when it comes to buying a ticket. (ft.com)
Science
- Some thoughts on how to read a scientific paper. (nytimes.com)
- Where you need to go to find the most pristine air in the world. (phys.org)
- Maybe the society on Easter Island didn't collapse all at once as previously thought. (arstechnica.com)
- Visualizing the power and frequency of earthquakes. (visualcapitalist.com)
- The science behind why laundry dried outside smells so good. (nytimes.com)
- The science of Seinfeld, including 'shrinkage.' (theconversation.com)
Medicine
- Annual physicals were already in decline before the onset of the pandemic. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
- We now have more data on the long term health of severely premature babies. (nature.com)
- What is the difference between Phase 1, 2, and 3 clinical trials? (theconversation.com)
- Synthetic red blood cells may be better than the real thing. (newatlas.com)
- The biggest bang for the global health dollar is vaccines. (ft.com)
Stress
- The human body is built for temporary, acute stress not like what we see in pandemic. (wired.com)
- You don't need to spend money to combat stress. (thesimpledollar.com)
Behavior
- Three things resilient people do every day including 'generating plans to reach goals.' (bakadesuyo.com)
- In praise of 'pre-crastination.' (timharford.com)
- Why you should add the term 'sometimes' to your self talk. (theemotionmachine.com)
- Loneliness can be an opportunity to explore stuff you wouldn't otherwise. (fs.blog)
- How “expressive writing” can be used to work through some troubling emotions. (wsj.com)
- There is no 'opposite of trauma.' (awealthofcommonsense.com)
Sleep
- How sleep deprivation kills and what it can teach us about more common sleep issues. (quantamagazine.org)
- How the pandemic has messed with our sleep patterns. (wsj.com)
Food
- Americans ordering carryout are getting enough for leftovers. (wsj.com)
- Demand for home milk delivery has surged. (modernfarmer.com)
- Florida man is now feasting on iguanas. (wsj.com)
- A brief history of comfort food. (daily.jstor.org)
Drink
- Europeans drink more in bars and pubs than Americans which is a problem for the big brewers. (bloomberg.com)
- The pub experience in the UK is going to change. (wired.co.uk)
MLB
- MLB should use the pandemic as an opportunity to reshape the game for a new generation. (nytimes.com)
- How robotic umpires would change baseball. (theconversation.com)
Sports
- Japan is still working through all the changes needed to put on the 2021 Olympics. (wsj.com)
- Most pools are still closed. So how is an elite-level swimmer supposed to train? (si.com)
- The state of the sports streaming landscape. (axios.com)
- Pickleball is the perfect social distancing sport. (nytimes.com)
Children
- How do you decide when children can play together again? (nytimes.com)
- Some children are at-risk this summer without access to school food programs. (washingtonpost.com)
- Schools around the world is facing a huge potential dropout problem. (wsj.com)
- What day cares are doing to prepare for reopening. (nytimes.com)
College
- A message for recent graduates: choose optimism over pessimism. (blairbellecurve.com)
- Reconfiguring colleges for social distancing is no small task. (nytimes.com)
- Every university president is scrambling for revenue. (wsj.com)
- How the 'Matthew Effect' could change the market for college lectures. (nytimes.com)
- Will the pandemic change the college admissions process for good? (wsj.com)
- The value of a gap year depends on what you do with it. (nytimes.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Coronavirus links: reopening and relapsing. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Longform links: out of control. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: escaping the record companies. (abnormalreturns.com)
- June ESG links: a single global standard. (abnormalreturns.com)
