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
"If you’re too busy for people, you’re too busy."
(Stephen Nelson)
Electric vehicles
- The EV industry is slowly consolidating around a common charger standard. (qz.com)
- General Motors ($GM) is working with electric vehicle charging network EVgo to build more than 2,700 new fast chargers in the US over the next five years. (theverge.com)
- Tesla ($TSLA) is suing Rivian for theft of trade secrets. (arstechnica.com)
Energy
- Poland is still very dependent on coal. (ft.com)
- Melting permafrost leaves Russia's move to exploit oil in the Arctic on 'shaky ground.' (washingtonpost.com)
Environment
- The amount of plastic waste flowing into the oceans has not really been reduced. (wsj.com)
- New estimates on how sensitive the climate is to CO2. (theatlantic.com)
- Increases in coastal flooding is going to put more people and real estate at-risk around the globe. (ft.com)
Travel
- The FAA still doesn't have a single national policy on mask wearing on planes despite evidence of the transmission of the virus onboard. (bnnbloomberg.ca)
- There is no way to make flying risk-free in pandemic. (ft.com)
- Airbus has no plans to get back to normal, production-wise, until 2022. (wsj.com)
Archaeology
- Humans have been in the Americas far longer than previously thought. (nature.com)
- Smallpox may have been circulating centuries than commonly thought. (nytimes.com)
Space
- Japan has emerged as a key partner for NASA. (technologyreview.com)
- Why we need real scientists to weigh in on the UAP issue. (scientificamerican.com)
The brain
- The brain never processes the same information in the same way. (sciencedaily.com)
- A new theory on why we dream. (discovermagazine.com)
- How learning a second language helps your brain. (bigthink.com)
Behavior
- Low lithium levels in water are associated with higher levels of suicide. (newatlas.com)
- Why we reach for nostalgia in times of stress. (nytimes.com)
- Why young Americans are lonely. (scientificamerican.com)
Fitness
- How blood sugar levels affect your workout. (nytimes.com)
- The best time of day to workout is the one you can do consistently. (artofmanliness.com)
- What should you eat before a workout? (gq.com)
- What does a champion ultramarathoner eat? (gq.com)
- Why a Peloton ($PTON) changed his mind. (vox.com)
Medicine
- Gene therapy has been proven to cure a type of MS. (npr.org)
- Researchers are getting closer to a blood test for Alzheimer's. (newatlas.com)
- The pandemic is preventing people from getting their standard vaccines. (axios.com)
Health
- Why your hair is turning gray in pandemic. (elemental.medium.com)
- Social isolation isn't great for our immune system. (nextavenue.org)
- Another reason to get your flu shot. (sciencedaily.com)
Food
- What artisan flour says about the US economy. (nytimes.com)
- Why Wal-Mart ($WMT) and Kroger ($KR) are pushing private label milk. (wsj.com)
- In pandemic, vertical farms look increasingly viable. (wsj.com)
- Fiber IS a superfood. (gq.com)
Fine dining
- Why it's so difficult for fine dining to pivot in pandemic. (chicago.eater.com)
- This restaurant owner won't reopen its dining room until there is a vaccine. (seattle.eater.com)
Barbeque
Drink
Entertainment
- ViacomCBS ($VIAC) is re-booting CBS All-Access in 2021 with new shows. (cnbc.com)
- Netflix ($NFLX) has acquired a passel of classic 1990s Black sitcoms. (fastcompany.com)
- Running a movie studio in pandemic is expensive and fraught with challenges. (wsj.com)
- The theatrical window has been shrunk to 17 days. (variety.com)
Sports
- Are sliding-sport athletes at increased risk of CTE? (nytimes.com)
- The NBA has spared no expense to build its bubble. (theringer.com)
- A look at the technology used to create CGI crowds at sporting events. (protocol.com)
- What does baseball look like post-pandemic? (bloomberg.com)
Relationships
- The pandemic is only going to push marriage farther out of reach for many couples. (theatlantic.com)
- Recessions, especially deep ones, are not great for marriage rates. (ozy.com)
- Why divorce rates will likely spike after the pandemic is over. (businessinsider.com)
- The pandemic is making all of our interactions with strangers fraught with anxiety. (vox.com)
MBA
- Why you should expect to see more MBA programs close up shop. (wsj.com)
- Business schools are having their own racial reckoning. (ft.com)
College
- The rapidly evolving pandemic makes it difficult to plan a college reopening. (wsj.com)
- Some elite universities are caving to student demands for tuition cuts in the face of teaching restrictions. (ft.com)
- Why don't more colleges plan to teach classes outside? (chronicle.com)
- College towns are stuck between a rock and hard place this Fall. (bloomberg.com)
- Why universities no longer attract the open-minded: there are other options. (paulgraham.com)
Children
- Why parents are so anxious about online learning progress. (nytimes.com)
- Online learning should be a wholly different experience. (slate.com)
- Nearly 1 in 3 kids around the world have higher than desire levels of lead. (npr.org)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Coronavirus links: an excuse to fight. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: managing ad loads. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Finding better ways to care for your clients and yourself: why you should sign up for our new weekly adviser-focused e-mail. (abnormalreturns.com)