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
"Perhaps you procrastinate on a particular task over and over, such as cutting your grass or writing Christmas cards, and none of this advice seems likely to help. In such a case, procrastination might not actually be your problem—you might simply hate this task because it makes you unhappy."
(Arthur C. Brooks)
Autos
- Cars and trucks are still in tight supply. (wsj.com)
- The Rivian ($RIVN) R1T Is the 2022 MotorTrend Truck of the Year. (motortrend.com)
- Training new commercial truck drivers is an ongoing challenge. (washingtonpost.com)
- Cities are looking for greener alternatives to road salt. (bloomberg.com)
- Americans love to speed, to deadly effect. (slate.com)
Energy
- 12% of American homes currently use a heat pump. The goal is much more. (wsj.com)
- India is building out its own solar panel manufacturing capabilities. (wsj.com)
- Companies are testing deep-well brines to generate lithium in a greener fashion. (bloomberg.com)
- How Bolivia could become a lithium powerhouse. (nytimes.com)
Environment
- California is facing another year of drought. (modernfarmer.com)
- Coastal erosion and flooding is exposing old landfills. (hakaimagazine.com)
- Pittsburgh is swapping its street lights for LEDs to reduce light pollution. (bloomberg.com)
- Risk Rating 2.0 is based in science, but politics is a different matter altogether. (theatlantic.com)
- More municipalities are banning single-stroke engine leaf blowers. (axios.com)
- What makes for a 'climate refuge'? (wired.com)
Science
- The giant Thwaites Glacier is increasingly at-risk of shattering. (cnbc.com)
- The race is one to find new helium supplies. (wired.com)
- A millipede has been found that has 1,036 legs. (theatlantic.com)
Technology
- Four things to clean up your tech life in 2021 including: skipping big online events like Prime Day. (nytimes.com)
- The password problem has only gotten worse during pandemic. (protocol.com)
Mental health
- To date, only a handful of states have passed or introduced legislation for building a 988 system. (statnews.com)
- How Logic's song “1-800-273-8255” may have saved lives. (wsj.com)
Health
- Vaccines are the greatest health innovation in the history of humanity. (kottke.org)
- Why more children don't receive the HPV vaccine. (nytimes.com)
- You're doing it wrong: the nose spray edition. (newscientist.com)
- Vaping was supposed to be a way forward to quitting cigarettes. (vanityfair.com)
- An eye drop could help replace reading glasses for many. (newatlas.com)
Food
- Antibiotic use in animals is on the decline, but not fast enough. (modernfarmer.com)
- Some companies that are working on the problem of agricultural waste. (news.crunchbase.com)
- Why Italians don't go for American fast food. (fortune.com)
- Growing wasabi in Iceland? Sure, why not. (fortune.com)
- Just how tall can indoor farms get? (bloomberg.com)
Best of movies
- The 21 best movies of 2021 including 'Summer of Soul.' (vox.com)
- The best movies of 2021 including 'Belfast.' (wsj.com)
- The 10 best movies of 2021 including 'The Green Knight.' (slate.com)
- The best movies of 2021 including 'Drive My Car.' (esquire.com)
- The best sci-fi movies of 2021 including 'Little Fish.' (wired.com)
Best of TV
- The 20 best TV shows of 2021 including 'For All Mankind.' (rollingstone.com)
- The best TV shows of 2021 including 'Schmigadoon.' (wsj.com)
- The top TV shows of 2021 including 'The Other Two.' (vulture.com)
- The 10 best TV shows of 2021 including 'The Underground Railroad.' (hollywoodreporter.com)
Best of Music
- The 30 best albums of 2021 including '30' by Adele. (esquire.com)
- The 10 best albums of 2021 including 'Solar Power" by Lorde. (theatlantic.com)
- The best albums of 2021 including 'I Don't Live Here Anymore' by The War on Drugs. (wsj.com)
Sports
- The WTA is not backing down to China over the Peng Shuai situation. (si.com)
- Professional sports are centralized. web3 is all about decentralization. (sportico.com)
- European football is becoming more predictable. (royalsocietypublishing.org)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Coronavirus links: two major strains. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: sleep fitness. (abnormalreturns.com)
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