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
"Though I crave silence, I run from it as well. It can make one feel vulnerable and uncomfortable. Like most of us, I have been habituated to noise every moment."
(Tish Harrison Warren)
Autos
- Driving is the most dangerous thing most Americans do every day. What can be done to reduce traffic fatalities? (vox.com)
- A sustainable car needs to be designed from the ground up. (nytimes.com)
- Is the Arcimoto FUV the future of mobility? (axios.com)
- What is a 'diminished value claim'? (humbledollar.com)
Energy
- Why New Orleans lost power for so long post-Hurricane Ida. (nytimes.com)
- China’s president Xi Jinping has pledged to end the financing of new coal power plants overseas. (ft.com)
Fire
- 'Fire weather,' i.e. hot, dry and windy, is on the rise in the West. (arstechnica.com)
- Americans keep moving into fire-prone areas. (bloomberg.com)
- Goats are particularly effective at eliminating wildfire risks. (nytimes.com)
Climate
- Climate risk is coming for banks. (ritholtz.com)
- In the Northern hemisphere Summer is getting longer. (washingtonpost.com)
- It's going to get more expensive to insure coastal real estate. (nytimes.com)
Environment
- We can pull carbon from the atmosphere, the question is one of scaling. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- The biggest toilet paper brands are made from pulp from virgin forests. (axios.com)
- Why the Mississippi River Delta is sinking. (theconversation.com)
- How a new microdrip irrigation system could change farming. (bloomberg.com)
- Covid has not been great for trash generation. (nytimes.com)
Animals
- Why does Colossal want to re-introduce woolly mammoths into the Arctic? (businessofbusiness.com)
- Commercial fishing is a global Ponzi scheme. (scientificamerican.com)
Space
- Solar flares are an ongoing risk for humanity. (knowablemagazine.org)
- The soon-to-be launched James Webb Space Telescope will be 100 times as powerful as the Hubble. (vox.com)
Archaeology
- Why scientists believe that a large airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, a Middle Bronze Age city. (nature.com)
- The date that humans populated the Americas keeps getting pushed back. (wsj.com)
- Researchers may have found the oldest case of archaic human art. (scientificamerican.com)
Air travel
- The FAA is struggling to keep up with all the new stuff in the sky. (axios.com)
- The U.S. is set to lift the travel ban for vaccinated flyers from the EU and UK. (yahoo.com)
- Where the major U.S. airlines stand on vaccine mandates for employees. (washingtonpost.com)
- What's next for airport screening? (axios.com)
Travel
- National parks are looking for ways to keep crowds in check. (wsj.com)
- Barcelona is kicking Airbnb ($ABNB), and other short term rentals, out. (nytimes.com)
Technology
- The case for having a laptop separate from work. (theverge.com)
- New security features in Apple ($AAPL) iOS 15. (wired.com)
Behavior
- What constitutes a psychologically rich life? (psychologytoday.com)
- Why we all feel so tired all the time. (time.com)
Health care
- How the pandemic is causing nurses to reassess their career choice. (indystar.com)
- Nursing home staff shortages are at crisis levels. (axios.com)
Health
- On the prospects for a vaccine for poison ivy. (scientificamerican.com)
- Baby poop is loaded with microplastics. (wired.com)
- Why have the Dutch people stopped growing taller? (washingtonpost.com)
Fitness
- Peloton ($PTON) is pushing to get its machines in public spaces like hotels and gyms. (frontofficesports.com)
- Why your workout burns fewer calories than you think. (nytimes.com)
Dogs
- Therapy dogs are available at some airports for travelers and workers. (washingtonpost.com)
- Therapy dogs are also a thing on college campuses. (theconversation.com)
- A startup, Loyal, wants to improve the healthspan and lifespan in dogs. (techcrunch.com)
- What's the purpose of a dog's dewclaw? (mentalfloss.com)
Weed
- Amazon ($AMZN) is a force for marijuana legalization. (protocol.com)
- The legal marijuana business is on a hiring spree. (washingtonpost.com)
- College students are using marijuana more and drinking less. (washingtonpost.com)
Food
- Some restaurateurs are using the pandemic as an opportunity to restructure how they do business, including wages. (nytimes.com)
- Scaling up cultured meat production is going to difficult and expensive. (thecounter.org)
MBA
- Applications to elite MBA programs have leveled off. (wsj.com)
- The MBA gender pay gap is slowly closing. (ft.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Coronavirus links: flu season. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: the future of finance. (abnormalreturns.com)
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