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
"The suck of right now is not forever."
(Joy Lere)
Transport
- EV sales are going to depend on the reformation of car dealerships. (theatlantic.com)
- Only five automakers—BMW, Ford, GM, Tesla, and Subaru—have added driver monitoring alongside the technology. (axios.com)
- The CPI is going to use JD Power data for used car prices. (bloomberg.com)
- Amazon ($AMZN) wants more electric vans than producers can manufacture. (nytimes.com)
- What it's like to idle in an EV in cold weather for 12 hours? (insidehook.com)
Energy
- Coal rebounded in 2021. (grid.news)
- The coal industry is pulling out all the stops to hang on. (washingtonpost.com)
- Why is California trying kill off much of the rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) industry? (thehill.com)
- How Norway became a leader in heat pump installations. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- Producers of nuclear power, ranked by country. (visualcapitalist.com)
Environment
- The price for post-consumer PET has shot up. (ft.com)
- How some early biofuel companies have pivoted to survive. (slate.com)
- Easy online returns are an environmental disaster. (bloomberg.com)
- Wireless earbuds are great, but good luck fixing them. (ig.ft.com)
Animals
- The Antarctic is increasingly at-risk from invasive species. (wired.com)
- Will Atlantic mackerel populations bounce back? (hakaimagazine.com)
- Once again it is open season on gray wolves in the American West. (nytimes.com)
- Common air pollutants can confuse pollinators like birds and bees. (wsj.com)
Air travel
- What, exactly, is the airlines’ concern about 5G? (fallows.substack.com)
- Airlines in Europe are flying empty planes to maintain landing slots. (washingtonpost.com)
- Covid has upended traditional travel seasonality. (nytimes.com)
Space
- We honestly don't know how fast the universe is expanding. (newscientist.com)
- Radian Aerospace is trying to build the 'holy grail of space flight' a single-stage-to-orbit space plane. (arstechnica.com)
- An explanation of how the JWST works. (kottke.org)
Science
- A look at some Silicon Valley-inspired efforts to fix science funding in the U.S. (theatlantic.com)
- Why India is not a hotbed for paleontology. (bbc.com)
- 3-D printing is coming for metal. (axios.com)
Behavior
- How to perform better under pressure: be flexible. (psyche.co)
- How a float tank experience can change your focus. (nautil.us)
Health
- Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem around the world. (statnews.com)
- Xenotransplantation has returned to the fore. (statnews.com)
- Fecal cell transplants are advancing. (science.org)
- Why don't more people take PrEP, an HIV prevention regimen? (statnews.com)
- When it comes to extreme heat, children are not just little adults. (nytimes.com)
- There's little, or no, evidence that taking collagen does anything. (statnews.com)
Passwords
- How to use a password manager. (wsj.com)
- 1Password just raised a big, new round of capital. (techcrunch.com)
Food
- Inflation is showing up in fast food prices. (nytimes.com)
- Can beef ever be 'low carbon'? (wired.com)
- How potato chips came to be a popular snack. (smithsonianmag.com)
Sports
- Why high profile sports reporters are such a hot commodity. (cnbc.com)
- The most amazing (statistical) achievements in U.S. sports history. (theatlantic.com)
Media
- Why Netflix ($NFLX) is raising prices, again. (theverge.com)
- The music industry has failed to discover and nurture new music. (tedgioia.substack.com)
- Don't kid yourself. Going to a Blockbuster Video store wasn't that great. (theirrelevantinvestor.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Coronavirus links: not game over. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: the streaming wars. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Learning from your money mistakes. (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)
