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
"Life doesn't give us infinite chances to get things right."
(Joy Lere)
Chart of the Day
Americans are more satisfied with their lives than the direction of the country.
Autos
- Used car inventories are on the rise at CarMax ($KMX). (businessofbusiness.com)
- U.S. auto manufacturers are still struggling with parts shortages. (reuters.com)
AVs
- On the prospects for autonomous trucks to take over long haul routes. (axios.com)
- Deere ($DE) is pushing ahead with autonomous tractors. (apnews.com)
- Autonomous forklifts would be a boon to warehouse operators. (axios.com)
Air travel
- Why business travel will never return to pre-pandemic levels. (nytimes.com)
- What airlines are doing to solve the pilot shortage. (humbledollar.com)
- Good luck trying to find hangar space for your private plane these days. (nytimes.com)
Energy
- U.S. LNG exports are at a record high. (msn.com)
- Rising natural gas prices make alternative methods more attractive. (bbc.com)
Environment
- The difference between carbon capture and carbon removal. (morningbrew.com)
- As glaciers recede mountains are being exposed. (nytimes.com)
- Bamboo toilet paper is catching on. (bloomberg.com)
Animals
- Bobcats have a taste for python eggs. (nytimes.com)
- Why Bristol Bay is a 'salmon powerhouse.' (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- Why you shouldn't dump goldfish in a lake. (scientificamerican.com)
Behavior
- Digital health startups are following the startup playbook for ADHD. (wsj.com)
- Psychedelics are entering the mainstream. (vox.com)
Health
- Cancer patients are at heightened risk of depression and suicide. (nytimes.com)
- Walmart ($WMT) is pulling back from cigarette sales in some stores. (wsj.com)
- Doctors are often stigmatized when getting treatiment their own mental illness. (nytimes.com)
- Why women are more likely to be misdiagnosed than men. (nytimes.com)
Weed
- A lot of people turned to weed during pandemic to help cope. (theguardian.com)
- Why many companies have stopped testing workers for THC. (wsj.com)
Avocados
- Avocado prices are at a 24 year high. (finance.yahoo.com)
- The case for swapping avocado for other fats in your diet. (sciencedaily.com)
- Avocado meal could be used in dog food. (sciencedaily.com)
Food
- Community colleges are a great, low cost, place to get a culinary education. (nytimes.com)
- Why small egg producers are getting squeezed out of business. (bloomberg.com)
- Meati uses mycelium to create meat alternatives. (fastcompany.com)
- Pollinators are important to crops you wouldn't think. (modernfarmer.com)
- Would you eat a burger from a vending machine? (axios.com)
- In praise of pickles. (artofmanliness.com)
Drink
- There doesn't seem to be any cardiac benefits to drinking, even moderately. (nytimes.com)
- Reframe is an app to help you track, and cut down, on your drinking. (fortune.com)
- Modelo is crushing it. (vinepair.com)
Sports
- F1 is booming in the U.S. with a Las Vegas race on deck. (huddleup.substack.com)
- Interest in disc golf surged during pandemic and is experiencing some growing pains. (wsj.com)
- Buffalo is building a $1.4 billion stadium adjacent to its current home using $850 million in public funds. (nytimes.com)
Netflix
- Why Netflix ($NFLX) has such a quick trigger finger when it comes to canceling shows. (ft.com)
- Netflix ($NFLX) is asking employees to be more careful when it comes to spending. (theinformation.com)
- Netflix ($NFLX) is now an outlier when it comes to pricing. (businessofbusiness.com)
Children
- Ubiquitous security cameras are killing off the teen house party. (theinformation.com)
- Social media has its biggest impact on two stages of teenage-hood. (nytimes.com)
College
- MIT is reinstating the SAT/ACT for future admissions decisions. (mitadmissions.org)
- Kathryn Paige Harden, "Richer students don’t just get better SAT scores. They also tend to outperform on everything else that an admissions committee would use to select students." (theatlantic.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Coronavirus links: willingness to take risk (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: made up money. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Thursday links: a profitable year. (abnormalreturns.com)
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