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
"Fear, as a social response, works really poorly to help us address threats that are (1) ongoing and (2) psychological."
(David Snowball)
EVs
- EVs are both computer and car. (avc.com)
- EV owners are not going to go back to a traditional ICE. (axios.com)
Autos
- We're still not anywhere close to self-driving cars. (bloomberg.com)
- Car production is ramping up just as financing rates are ramping higher. (wsj.com)
- V2X technology is expected to appear in vehicles as soon as the 2025 model year. (nytimes.com)
Energy
- Long duration batteries could store power for days. (wsj.com)
- Melting permafrost increases the risk to gas and oil projects. (grist.org)
- Where money is being spent to plug abandoned oil wells. (wsj.com)
- The U.S. needs more trained electricians. (washingtonpost.com)
- We need more transmission lines. (esquire.com)
Water
- Snow droughts are especially bad in the American West. (grist.org)
- Megadrought conditions may effectively be permanent in the Southwest. (newscientist.com)
- The Mediterranean is rapidly warming. (wired.com)
- Wells are increasingly running dry in California. (apnews.com)
- Imperial County, California currently draws more water from the Colorado River than all of Arizona and Nevada combined. (npr.org)
- The Great Salt Lake is set for hyper-salinity. (sciencedaily.com)
- Restricting water flow to wasteful homes is pretty simple and effective. (theguardian.com)
- How a community designed to withstand hurricanes survived Ian. (npr.org)
Environment
- Big Tech destroys millions of storage devices that could be safely wiped instead. (ft.com)
- Why $100/ton is the 'holy grail' of carbon removal pricing. (protocol.com)
- Recycling will not solve the problem of plastics. (grist.org)
- How the whitest paint ever made could help reduce cooling costs. (smithsonianmag.com)
- Leaf blowers are slowly going electric. (bloomberg.com)
- How human composting works. (theverge.com)
Behavior
- Brief interventions hold promise to alleviate behavioral issues. (wsj.com)
- Five insights from "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity" by Justin Gregg. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- Why we do stuff we know we will regret. (msn.com)
Health
- Humans can be healthy with a wide variety of diets. (arstechnica.com)
- We need a new model of Alzheimer's disease. (sciencealert.com)
- Does wastewater testing have a privacy problem? (fortune.com)
- Can new vaccines finally eradicate malaria? (nytimes.com)
- Can Crispr be used to 'cut out' HIV from a person's cells? (wired.com)
Covid
- Booster shots work against severe disease. (sciencedaily.com)
- Long Covid isn't likely just one thing. (theatlantic.com)
- How long Covid may be related to another virus. (fortune.com)
- Why isn't Paxlovid being prescribed more often? (nytimes.com)
- Covid may have killed off a strain of influenza. (arstechnica.com)
- Fewer boys are born after stressful events, like a pandemic. (newscientist.com)
Fitness
Food
- Where does the alternative meat industry go from here? (washingtonpost.com)
- How agrovoltaics blend energy and agriculture. (bloomberg.com)
- The downside of late night eating is real. (cnbc.com)
- Energy drinks keep flying off the shelf. (wsj.com)
Sports
- Why the NFL will never 'solve' the issue of head trauma. (nymag.com)
- Why are MLS teams worth so much? (huddleup.substack.com)
- Sports leagues are going to face more Robert Sarver-type situations. They need to plan now. (sportico.com)
College
- On college campuses women outnumber men, which makes for a weird dating scene. (slate.com)
- The strong economy is crimping applications to top MBA programs. (wsj.com)
- Small colleges are teaming up to share courses to attract students. (nytimes.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: the power of psychology. (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)
