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
"If the people who matter to you are using email to get your attention, anyone else who wants your attention can saunter in there too."
(Tim Harford)
Autos
- Luxury car buyers today need to consider EVs due to how the used car market will play out in a few year's time. (washingtonpost.com)
- The ongoing new car shortage will permanently change how cars are sold. (axios.com)
- Bi-directional batteries change the nature of EVs. (whyisthisinteresting.substack.com)
- Amazon ($AMZN) was always going to have multiple electric van makers. (bloomberg.com)
- You can have great racing without a combustion engine. (newscientist.com)
Energy
- Europe is dangerously dependent on Russia for natural gas. (bloomberg.com)
- The Biden administration wants to speed up the approval of new high-voltage power lines. (wsj.com)
- How Energy Vault, uses gravity to generate (and store) electricity. (wired.com)
Environment
- 2021 ranked as the fifth-hottest year on record. (axios.com)
- The story of Monsanto IS the story of the environment. (slate.com)
- What does it take to make a building 'bird safe'? (bloomberg.com)
Travel
- The U.S. airline system is nowhere near normal. (wsj.com)
- Nine lessons for traveling these days including 'TSA PreCheck is essential.' (humbledollar.com)
- The cruise ship companies are pushing forward, Omicron be damned. (fortune.com)
Archaeology
- Piecing together what it would have been like to live in ancient Rome. (bigthink.com)
- 99 fascinating finds from 2021 including 'a 3,500-year-old Babylonian tablet that may contain the earliest known depiction of a ghost.' (smithsonianmag.com)
Animals
- The brown bears of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve have changed what they eat. (hakaimagazine.com)
- How grazing animals can be used to manage forests. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
Space
- The world set a record for orbital launches in 2021. (arstechnica.com)
- The JWST has successfully deployed its sun shield. (theverge.com)
Technology
- The end of the Blackberry phone is finally here. (npr.org)
- AI still has some flaws when it comes to forecasting the weather. (wired.com)
Drones
- The U.S. military is coming up with ways to counteract cheap, commercial drones. (wsj.com)
- This is a cool use for drone technology - delivering an AED. (theverge.com)
Behavior
- Why you should take your own advice. (msn.com)
- For your own sake, turn hate into indifference. (rationalwalk.com)
- People love compliments more than you think. (klementoninvesting.substack.com)
Hospitals
- Hospitals need more light. (wired.com)
- How to design a hospital without a hallway. (fastcompany.com)
Surgery
- For most joint surgeries there are good non-surgical options. (nytimes.com)
- A study shows women experienced better outcomes if the procedure had been performed by a female surgeon compared with a male surgeon. (theguardian.com)
Health
- The best predictors of a long and healthy life are 'mobility, strength and balance.' (newscientist.com)
- The two different theories of obesity require two different approaches. (newscientist.com)
- Pfizer and BioNTech are teaming up to develop a messenger RNA vaccine for shingles. (ft.com)
- It's clear more Americans need access to methadone. (statnews.com)
- How stress damages the heart. (nytimes.com)
Cold
- How cold can affect our health. (wired.com)
- How snow can be good for your well-being. (fastcompany.com)
Fitness
Food
- Going vegan is only one way to help animals. (nautil.us)
- Industrial hog farms have a big waste problem. (vox.com)
- Industrial fishing is accelerating the end of our last wild animal food source. (canadiangeographic.ca)
- Your organic milk likely comes from what looks like a factory farm. (nytimes.com)
- How to read a carton of eggs. (lifehacker.com)
Coffee
- Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway talk with coffee market observer Ryan Delany about why the price of the magic bean has doubled of late. (podcasts.apple.com)
- How does coffee affect the gastrointestinal system? (nytimes.com)
Drink
- Why that bottle of Pappy Van Winkle is likely a fake. (nytimes.com)
- Beer and liquor makers are at loggerheads when it comes to regulation. (wsj.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Coronavirus links: a question of timing. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: algorithmic ads. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The year investors changed their minds on gold. (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)
