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
"Good ideas feel early."
(Seth Godin)
Autos
- Range anxiety is the number one issue for potential EV adopters. (nytimes.com)
- EVs are the future, the question is how long it takes to get there. (bloomberg.com)
- New York state has banned the sale of new ICEs starting 2035. (news.bloomberglaw.com)
- Do ATVs belong on the road? (apnews.com)
Solar
- First Solar ($FSLR) and other domestic manufacturers are going to have to increase production. (washingtonpost.com)
- Startup SunDrive Solar has built a solar technology that doesn't use silver. (bloomberg.com)
Environment
- There's only so much you can do to prepare for a hurricane, or other natural disaster. (washingtonpost.com)
- The Dutch are giving rivers more space and leeway. (nytimes.com)
- The world’s largest facility dedicated to removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is now online in Iceland. (eenews.net)
- Utah has an air quality problem. (nytimes.com)
Behavior
- Mental health treatment is getting pushed closer to customers, think CVS ($CVS). (wsj.com)
- Boredom is a signal. (bakadesuyo.com)
Travel
- America's airports are largely old and out of date. (nytimes.com)
- It's not just Covid that is messing with travel plans. Now climate and weather play a role. (thedailybeast.com)
- National parks are overwhelmed with visitors. Is there a solution? (hcn.org)
- Travel restrictions are still all over the place. (bloomberg.com)
Animals
- What can we learn from birds' early reaction to tsunamis? (hakaimagazine.com)
- Wolf populations are at-risk as hunting increases. (scientificamerican.com)
Health care
- What hospitals can learn about safety from airlines. (wsj.com)
- How close is the health care system to collapse? (slate.com)
Health
- A new 4-in-1 pill seems to do a better job at controlling high blood pressure. (newatlas.com)
- Why you should get your flu shot by the end of October. (npr.org)
- Why the pandemic 'baby boom' fizzled out. (scientificamerican.com)
- Smoker lung cancers are different than non-smokers. (statnews.com)
- Too many people are listening to too much loud music. (behavioralscientist.org)
Fitness
- Alex Hutchinson, "The main result was that moderately and highly fit people were far more likely to be moderate or heavy drinkers than less fit people." (outsideonline.com)
- How to exercise to offset sitting all day at work. (nytimes.com)
Dogs
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Food
- Plant-based foods are making inroads beyond the vegan/vegetarian crowd. (nytimes.com)
- Alternative seafood is coming from plant-based and cultured alternatives. (nytimes.com)
Drink
- The hard seltzer boom has hit a wall, just ask Boston Beer ($SAM). (axios.com)
- More evidence that we humans have consumed beer for millennia. (arstechnica.com)
- The latest in band merch is branded beer. (insidehook.com)
Sports
- PE-firm Arctos is buying a 17% stake in the Sacramento Kings. (frontofficesports.com)
- Netflix's ($NFLX) 'Drive to Survive' has been uniquely successful at creating new F1 fans. (theatlantic.com)
College
- American men are increasingly opting out of college. (wsj.com)
- How college rankings changed everything, and not for the better. (fallows.substack.com)
- What would a modern curriculum look like? (seths.blog)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Coronavirus links: what success looks like. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: ETF origins. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking? Then check out our weekly e-mail newsletter. (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)
