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
"We’ve been consuming booze for several thousand years and have studied the compound’s specific chemical effects on the liver and bloodstream. Social media, by contrast, has been around for less than two decades, and we’re still trying to understand exactly what it’s doing, to whom, and by what mechanism."
(Derek Thompson)
Autos
- Rivian is driving an economic boom in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. (nytimes.com)
- The Lucid Motors Air Dream Edition Range can go 520 miles on a charge per the EPA. (protocol.com)
- Infotainment systems are becoming a dangerous distraction to drivers. (slate.com)
- American society is designed around driving. (vox.com)
Energy
- Global windfarm installations are set to surge in 2021. (theguardian.com)
- VCs are investing bigly in long-duration batteries. (wsj.com)
- What's the real price for carbon emissions? (vox.com)
Environment
- Modelers are having a hard time keeping up with modern wildfires. (wsj.com)
- Younger generations are more concerned about climate change. (pewresearch.org)
- Summer nights are increasingly 'abnormally hot.' (nytimes.com)
- You've heard of white roofs? Now there's white streets. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- Don’t confuse grasslands with grass. (vox.com)
- How nudges can be used to prompt sustainability. (ft.com)
Ranching
- The megadrought is forcing ranchers to cull their herds. (slate.com)
- Can farmers coexist with wolves? (modernfarmer.com)
Salmon
- California's wild chinook population is in steep decline. (washingtonpost.com)
- The world needs a salmon that can survive at higher temperatures. (hakaimagazine.com)
Technology
- Brian X. Chen, "If personal information is no longer the currency that people give for online content and services, something else must take its place." (nytimes.com)
- Complex passwords are better but you need an easy way to store them. (wsj.com)
- Nobody encrypts their e-mails because it is a hassle. (newscientist.com)
- Codex, built by OpenAI, can write code by itself. (nytimes.com)
Health care
- Post-pandemic, doctors are overwhelmed with patient messages. (theverge.com)
- Why nurses are leaving health care. (theconversation.com)
Health
- Stagnating life expectancy is a bad sign for American society. (theatlantic.com)
- Why 80% of autoimmune disease patients are women. (scientificamerican.com)
- Are fresh foods and vegetables 'medicine'? (politico.com)
- How noise affects our brains. (wsj.com)
- It's time to get a flu shot. (nytimes.com)
Restaurants
- In no way is it getting easier to run an independent restaurant. (eater.com)
- Restaurant owners are split on keeping dining rooms open. (wsj.com)
Food
- Midwest farmers are having a hard timing hiring workers, so they look overseas. (modernfarmer.com)
- Kroger ($KR) is working more closely with Instacart to speed up deliveries. (wsj.com)
- Why the price gap between real and fake meat will close. (axios.com)
Drink
- Europe's wine growers faced a host of challenges this year. (fortune.com)
- Why it's still a challenge to get a craft beer in a MLB stadium. (theathletic.com)
Sports
- The Forest Green Rovers are 'the greenest soccer club in the world.' (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- College sports programs are doubling down revenues opportunities. (wsj.com)
- Diversity makes for better football teams. (klementoninvesting.substack.com)
Entertainment
- The Delta variant has taken a toll on the number of Americans willing to attend a live show. (morningconsult.com)
- People still love Netflix ($NFLX) original shows. (thestreamable.com)
College
- The gender gap in colleges and universities starts before anyone actually hits campus. (theatlantic.com)
- Many professors feel betrayed by their administrations during pandemic. (slate.com)
School
- Schools are being forced to adapt on the fly to the Delta variant. (wsj.com)
- Schools across the country are struggling to hire workers, especially bus drivers. (nytimes.com)
- Smartwatches are the new no-go in classrooms. (wsj.com)
MBA
- The 2021-22 Businessweek Best Business School rankings have Stanford at the top. (bloomberg.com)
- The most diverse B-schools. (bloomberg.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Coronavirus links: sick societies. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: living longer. (abnormalreturns.com)
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