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
"Very few people have the leverage to change the world. But all of us have the chance to change the people around us, and those actions change what gets built, funded and launched."
(Seth Godin)
Autos
- Car owners pay for tech features they don't really use. (axios.com)
- Auto makers are rushing to build battery factories. (axios.com)
- Ford’s ($F) new Maverick tiny truck is nearly sold out for the 2022 model year. (bnnbloomberg.ca)
Energy
- The case for nuclear power is pretty clear. (marginalrevolution.com)
- Venture capital is flowing into the pursuit of fusion energy. (nytimes.com)
- Want to sequester coal? Buy a coal mine. (marginalrevolution.com)
Water
- Cities all along the Mississippi River are pulling back with the help of Ducks Unlimited. (wsj.com)
- San Diego still has access to water, for now. (nytimes.com)
- Lakes in the Northern hemisphere are rapidly warming. (sciencedaily.com)
- The future of water consumption is recycling. (wired.com)
Environment
- More places around the U.S. will be deemed unlivable by many. (theatlantic.com)
- Why we need to change how we talk about climate change. (behavioralscientist.org)
- Americans have been moving to areas most affected by a changing climate. (scientificamerican.com)
- Cities are trying various methods to make composting easy to reduce emissions. (bloomberg.com)
- Fixing climate will involve retrofitting existing buildings. (bloomberg.com)
- Detergent in dissolvable sheets solve a couple of big problems. (fastcompany.com)
Science
- Birds don't care for wildfire smoke. (hcn.org)
- Why Chinook salmon are increasingly at-risk. (time.com)
Health
- Timothy Caulfield, "Recognizing the forces that drive misinformation is an important step in stopping its spread." (menshealth.com)
- Viral infections are thought to be a factor for later neurological degeneration. Add Covid-19 to the list. (newatlas.com)
Technology
- Instagram is worried about holding onto teenage users. (nytimes.com)
- Oftentimes the smallest municipalities are most at-risk of ransomware attacks. (slate.com)
- Ransomware gangs are getting ever more sophisticated. (wsj.com)
Behavior
- New research in how the brain processes chronic pain signals. (washingtonpost.com)
- The NIH is funding its first psychedelic-based trial in 50 years. (newatlas.com)
- Emergency lights and sirens don't really speed up ambulance runs. (nytimes.com)
- How to be more curious. (bakadesuyo.com)
Health
- Alex Tabarrok, "The growth of telemedicine is one of the few benefits of the pandemic." (marginalrevolution.com)
- Patients are okay with telehealth, but prefer an in-person visit. (npr.org)
- Applications to U.S. nursing schools are on the rise. (theguardian.com)
- Pharmacies are struggling to hire pharmacists and techs. (indystar.com)
- Medicine is about probabilities, not certaintites. (theatlantic.com)
Dogs
- The Japanese wolf is more closely related to the ancestor of dogs than any other wolves found so far. (newscientist.com)
- A year in, new dog owners are toting up the costs of their pandemic puppy. (msn.com)
Weed
- How the 2018 Farm Bill accidentally created a booming market for synthetic THC (fivethirtyeight.com)
- The cannabis industry is sneaky, big. (gothamgal.com)
Food
- Monopolistic beef processors are extracting more profits from the industry. (mattstoller.substack.com)
- Florida citrus production is accelerating its decline. (axios.com)
- Eating local is harder than it looks. (modernfarmer.com)
Drink
- Digital wine club startup Winc ($WBEV) is now public. (news.crunchbase.com)
- Can spirits be sustainable? (modernfarmer.com)
Sports
- Three NBA teams are now worth more than $5 billion. (forbes.com)
- The New Orleans Pelicans receive jobs incentives from the state of Louisiana. (lailluminator.com)
- MLB is going to start providing minor league players with housing. (espn.com)
- Betting giants are looking for ways to up their media game. (frontofficesports.com)
- Horse racing is getting left in the dust by the new sports gambling. (sportico.com)
- So far, so good, for NIL. (nytimes.com)
Entertainment
- The 100 best TV series of the 21st century. (bbc.com)
- The best 200 albums of the past 25 years, per Pitchfork readers. (pitchfork.com)
College
- Universities are upping their spending from their flush endowment funds. (ft.com)
- Amherst College is dropping legacy admissions. (wsj.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Coronavirus links: risk of transmission. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: going electric. (abnormalreturns.com)
- On the benefits of writing in public. (abnormalreturns.com)
- A Q&A with Robin Powell, co-author of "Invest Your Way to Financial Freedom." (abnormalreturns.com)
- Abnormal Returns recently celebrated its sixteenth blogiversary, not that it is a thing anymore... (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)
