On Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didn’t get to earlier in the week. You can check out last week’s edition here. Have a great weekend!
Quote of the Day
"At the end of the day, media is venture and venture is media."
(Natasha Mascarenhas)
Autos
- Why Tesla ($TSLA) will not run away with the EV space. Enter Ford ($F). (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Car makers are shifting more of their sales efforts online. (nytimes.com)
- EVs have lower maintenance and upkeep costs. (axios.com)
Energy
- The green revolution is facing some supply bottlenecks. (economist.com)
- The U.S. has made progress in renewable energy without much in the way of an overall policy. (theatlantic.com)
- How Compact Molten Salt Reactors work. (newatlas.com)
Drought
- Lower water levels are putting at-risk hydroelectric power in the West. (wsj.com)
- Western cities are having to come to terms with permanent drought. (yahoo.com)
- What's the difference between a drought and a megadrought? (nytimes.com)
Travel
- Airlines can't really prevent sick passengers from flying. (wsj.com)
- The problem of unruly air passengers isn't going away any time soon. (www-washingtonpost-com.cdn.ampproject.org)
- Cruise companies keep bumping into positive Covid tests. (wsj.com)
- Public parks are overrun with visitors. (hcn.org)
Science
- Goats were likely domesticated some 10,000 years ago. (newscientist.com)
- Why the Golden Gate bridge hums under certain conditions. (theguardian.com)
Technology
- Fake new sites survive based on their ability to run mainstream ads. (morningbrew.com)
- DuckDuckGo wants to be more than a search engine. (wired.com)
- Most people can't tell the difference between standard and 'lossless' audio. (mgs.blog)
Behavior
- How to set better boundaries in your life. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- Attention scarcity: the case of baseball umpires. (nber.org)
- Doctors are people too. (bigthink.com)
Weed
- Why is growing pot so energy intensive? (slate.com)
- California's marijuana business is struggling. (fortune.com)
Food
- Grocery stores don't mind a little inflation. (cnn.com)
- Why restaurants are having a hard time hiring workers. (grubstreet.com)
- The hunt for a healthy sugar substitute is ongoing. (bigthink.com)
- Why farmed salmon should be raised on land. (bloomberg.com)
- A look at what Americans have been eating over the past decades. (flowingdata.com)
- The Girl Scouts are sitting on millions of boxes of unsold cookies. (marketwatch.com)
Coffee
- On the health benefits of drinking coffee. (nytimes.com)
- Are 'frozen capsules of concentrated coffee' the future of coffee? (notboring.co)
- Climate change will continue to shape coffee growing. (seattle.eater.com)
Dogs
- The U.S. has banned dog imports from 113 countries. (npr.org)
- How dogs sniff out human seizures. (newscientist.com)
Drink
- Molson Coors ($TAP) is rapidly diversifying away from beer. (fooddive.com)
- Underground Cellar wants to gamify wine investing. (marketwatch.com)
- The case for non-alcoholic beer. (impersonalfinances.com)
Entertainment
- Nielsen is measuring streaming use and Netflix ($NFLX) is okay with it. (axios.com)
- Peleton ($PTON) is increasingly a content company. (hollywoodreporter.com)
Sports
- These Nike ($NKE) spikes are so good, other companies are releasing their athletes to wear them for the Olympic trials. (wsj.com)
- Premier League teams spend a lot to create the 'perfect pitch.' (theguardian.com)
- Would fixing ball doctoring actually help MLB? (nytimes.com)
- The physics of sticky stuff in baseball. (theconversation.com)
- Sports fans love bobblehead giveaways. (sportico.com)
MBA
- How pandemic has changed MBA programs including smaller class sizes. (bloomberg.com)
- MBA programs are seeing some follow-through admissions-wise, post-pandemic. (bloomberg.com)
- You can't talk MBAs without talking about Zoom ($ZM). (bloomberg.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Coronavirus links: near universal vaccination. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: talking memes. (abnormalreturns.com)
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