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
"How can we live a good, healthy, and wholesome life amid so much junk and candy?"
(Brad Stulberg)
Autos
- The American auto fleet is at its oldest ever. (wsj.com)
- Heavy pickup trucks are doing a number on city streets. (bloomberg.com)
- Ford ($F) F-150 Lightning deliveries have begun. (theverge.com)
Transport
- Walmart ($WMT) is expanding drone delivery. (axios.com)
- Arctic shipping routes are opening up faster than expected. (hakaimagazine.com)
Energy
- The momentum is building for nuclear power. (washingtonpost.com)
- Why is it still so difficult to get new, innovative nuclear projects off the ground in the U.S.? (reason.com)
Environment
- Reducing plastic production requires pulling a lot of different levers, including recycling. (wired.co.uk)
- A hotter planet means more air conditioning, and so one and so forth. (vox.com)
- More evidence that air pollution is bad, this time for student performance. (marginalrevolution.com)
Bacteria
- There are no humans without microbes. (slate.com)
- Kitchen sponges are an ideal breeding ground for bacteria. (scientificamerican.com)
Animals
- New Zealand's biggest fish farmer is struggling with warming water and mass fish death. (theguardian.com)
- It's not your imagination, firefly populations are in decline. (mentalfloss.com)
- Why sharks matter. (nytimes.com)
Archaeology
- Karahan Tepe, in Turkey, may be the oldest known human settlement. (spectator.co.uk)
- More evidence that the Amazon will once home to advanced civilizations. (nature.com)
Travel
- Don't expect airport delays to get better any time soon. (wired.com)
- Why airline tickets are so expensive these days. (theweek.com)
- People are throwing up their hands when it comes to summer travel. (wsj.com)
Technology
- Countries are cracking down on the transmission of data across borders. (nytimes.com)
- Facial recognition technology is getting better and is easily available online. (nytimes.com)
- Why doesn't tech investment show up in overall productivity numbers? (nytimes.com)
Guns
- Suicides by firearm are on the rise in the U.S. (newscientist.com)
- Australia has only had one mass shooting since 1996. (fastcompany.com)
- The pattern in the aftermath of a school shooting are depressing familiar. (fallows.substack.com)
Paxlovid
- Paxlovid rebounds seem like a real thing. (statnews.com)
- We are still learning about how Paxlovid works. (theatlantic.com)
- At some point Covid will become resistant to Paxlovid. (statnews.com)
Covid
- Pfizer ($PFE) says a three-dose regimen induced a good immune response in 1-5 year olds. (arstechnica.com)
- The original vaccines are still doing a job of preventing severe outcomes. It may not last. (theatlantic.com)
- Vaccines are only slightly protective against long Covid. (washingtonpost.com)
- What are the benefits of vaccinating young kids? (scientificamerican.com)
- Michael Klein talks about the economics of (Covid) vaccines with Chad Brown. (econofact.org)
- Why studying reinfections is difficult. (theatlantic.com)
Public health
- The best public health interventions happen in the background. (nytimes.com)
- Communication really matters when it comes to public health. (frontiersin.org)
Behavior
- Arthur Brooks, "Mindfulness hurts, because life hurts." (msn.com)
- Five insights from "Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life" by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. (nextbigideaclub.com)
Fitness
- Why gyms are ideal locations for the spread of Covid. (nytimes.com)
- So many ills stem from not moving your body around. (artofmanliness.com)
- How the U.S. Army's physical fitness test is changing. (gq.com)
- How to do a push-up properly. (nytimes.com)
Sleep
- Teenagers are simply not getting enough sleeping. (washingtonpost.com)
- Why humans sleep less than other primates. (knowablemagazine.org)
- Higher temperatures are not great for sleep. (npr.org)
Sports
- No one is going to Oakland A's games this season. (huddleup.substack.com)
- Why it took 18 months to measure a record-breaking wave. (washingtonpost.com)
- Why some baseball players like to wear cologne on the field. (nytimes.com)
College
- Higher education enrollment fell again this past semester. (insidehighered.com)
- Student debt forgiveness is a solution in search of a problem. (pragcap.com)
- It's scary how 'online proctors' work. (nytimes.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: options influence. (abnormalreturns.com)
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