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
"Restaurants themselves are a difficult, maybe impossible, problem to solve. They’re never going to be perfect. But to focus only on their failings elides their core identity."
(Daniel Patterson)
Autos
- Plug-in hybrids are losing ground to full-on EVs. (bloomberg.com)
- Vietnam's VinFast is entering the increasingly competitive global EV market. (time.com)
- How Formula E is driving battery innovation. (protocol.com)
- How a Ford ($F) F-150 Lightning powered a rock show. (autoweek.com)
Transport
- Autonomous ships are a no-brainer. (vox.com)
- The air travel mess has a number of explanations. (slate.com)
Energy
Water
- Lake Mead's water levels have sunk to the lowest since 1937. (axios.com)
- More California municipalities are banning the watering of lawns. (wsj.com)
- Wildfire evacuation plans are going to need to an upgrade. (theatlantic.com)
- Italy's rice crop has dried up. (washingtonpost.com)
Travel
- LaGuardia is undergoing a stunning transformation. (nytimes.com)
- Why you should choose a car trip over flying. (artofmanliness.com)
Space
- The JWST is already transforming astronomy. (quantamagazine.org)
- SpaceX is dominating the launch business. (arstechnica.com)
- Russia is planning leave the ISS after 2024. (scientificamerican.com)
Technology
- Three big technology trends including 'We are no longer in an American-first world.' (om.co)
- How Ukraine's technology sector is dealing with the war. (nytimes.com)
- Your personal information is online. What to do about it. (wsj.com)
- Young people only use Google Search when they have to. (slate.com)
- TikTok is making people famous, but not rich. (theinformation.com)
- Incognito mode is a misnomer. (nytimes.com)
Behavior
- The race is on to develop effective synthetic psychedelic drugs. (wired.com)
- Five proven ways to eat less, including 'control your environment.' (bakadesuyo.com)
Covid
- The Biden administration is trying to jump start the effort to develop a pan-coronavirus vaccine. (statnews.com)
- What are the hurdles to better Covid vaccines? (statnews.com)
- A lot of people who think they haven't had Covid probably have. (wsj.com)
- Ivermectin advocates are now pushing it as a treatment for long Covid. (statnews.com)
Health
- Staffing shortages as hospitals aren't going anywhere as BA.5 rages. (politico.com)
- Vitamin D doesn't do anything to prevent bone fractures. (statnews.com)
- Private equity is rolling up the hospice industry. (khn.org)
- You are likely not using enough sunscreen. (washingtonpost.com)
The Bear
- Italian beef is true food icon of Chicago. (marketwatch.com)
- A Q&A with 'The Bear' showrunner Joanna Calo. (hollywoodreporter.com)
- An interview with creator of 'The Bear' Christopher Storer. (esquire.com)
- A look at Carmy's cookbook collection. (sf.eater.com)
- Why 'The Bear' is so uniquely Chicago. (newyorker.com)
Food
- Utensils are becoming edible (and compostable). (axios.com)
- Imitation meat has pushed veggie burgers off of menus. (eater.com)
- How rising heat is affecting restaurants in the Pacific Northwest. (nytimes.com)
- Add mycelium to the alt-meat list. (axios.com)
- Pizza math, illustrated. (flowingdata.com)
Sports
- The sports rights landscape is only getting more complicated (and expensive). (hollywoodreporter.com)
- FanDuel is launching a 24-hour television channel. (frontofficesports.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: podcast plagarism. (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)
