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!
Autos
- Seven big car trends including the end of traditional car buying. (ritholtz.com)
- Charging stations are not like gas stations. (eenews.net)
- These Tesla ($TSLA) drivers are happy to be self-driving guinea pigs. (washingtonpost.com)
Energy
- Grid-scale battery storage is surging in the U.S. (wsj.com)
- How the 'whitest paint in the world' could help reduce the costs of air conditioning. (indystar.com)
Environment
- As the planet warms solar geoengineering is going to move to the forefront. (spectrum.ieee.org)
- Burning biomass is not an effective climate solution. (huffpost.com)
- Five insights from John Doeer's new book "Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now." (nextbigideaclub.com)
- Himalayan glaciers are melting at a record rate. (wsj.com)
- Antarctica is melting from the bottom. (nytimes.com)
Science
- Humans were not the first species to meaningfully modify their environment. (wsj.com)
- A fossilised dinosaur embryo discovered in southern China shows the relationship to modern birds. (newscientist.com)
- In theory, trees could live indefinitely. (scientificamerican.com)
Air travel
- Omicron is ripping through the airline industry causing delays and cancellations. (wsj.com)
- Being a flight attendant has only gotten harder over the past two years. (axios.com)
Apple
- The Mac is once again Apple's ($AAPL) most exciting product. (macworld.com)
- Why AirPod batteries die so quickly. (youtube.com)
Language
- How being bilingual causes you to think differently. (wsj.com)
- How language around thinking/feeling has changed over time. (marginalrevolution.com)
- Swearing is on the rise in pandemic. (wsj.com)
- Why short phrases on texts, like 'yup,' can drive us crazy. (bbc.com)
Health
- The FDA has approved the first injectable treatment to prevent HIV. (biopharmadive.com)
- How AI can be used to better use mammogram data to identify breast cancer. (washingtonpost.com)
Fitness
- When your fitness app is a distraction to what you are trying to accomplish. (washingtonpost.com)
- An interesting paradox: fitter people drink more alcohol. (nytimes.com)
Food
- Why does cheese get such a bad (health) rap? (wired.com)
- How to read the labels on meat and dairy claiming humane treatment. (vox.com)
- How truck drivers cook on the road. (nytimes.com)
- Should octopus farms be banned? (bbc.com)
- In praise of umami. (atvbt.com)
Movies
- The 10 best animated movies of 2021 including 'Encanto.' (pastemagazine.com)
- The 25 best international movies of 2021 including 'Parallel Mothers.' (pastemagazine.com)
Documentaries
- The 20 best documentaries of 2021 including 'Becoming Cousteau.' (variety.com)
- The best documentaries of 2021 including 'Philly D.A.' (vox.com)
- The best documentary series of 2021 including 'The Lady and the Dale.' (variety.com)
TV
- The best TV shows of 2021 including 'The Chair.' (theatlantic.com)
- The top TV shows of 2021 including 'Only Murders in the Building.' (usatoday.com)
- The 21 best shows of 2021 including 'Maid.' (thedailybeast.com)
College
- Early admissions are not binding. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. (nytimes.com)
- What good is a NYU graduate degree if you are mired in debt? (wsj.com)
- The U.S. should make it easier for international students to attend college. (bloomberg.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Coronavirus links: distinctly different. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: gaining traction. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Check out my conversation with Peter Lazaroff on 'The Long Term Investor' podcast. (peterlazaroff.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)
Mixed media
- 52 snippets from 2021 including 'In 1996 just 0.2% of Starbucks stores were outside of North America. Today it is 48.2%.' (snippet.finance)
- Five key insights from Chris Jones' new book, "The Eye Test: A Case for Human Creativity in the Age of Analytics." (nextbigideaclub.com)
- On the absurdity of corporate assessment systems. (indeedably.com)