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
"Confidence doesn’t help win the lottery."
(Seth Godin)
Autos
- Auto insurance premiums are set to rise in 2023. (axios.com)
- DHL is buying 2,000 electric Ford E-Transits as delivery vans. (arstechnica.com)
- Fully electric semis face a lot of hurdles. (axios.com)
Transport
- More transit systems are making bus rides free. (axios.com)
- Europe is set to allow phone calls on planes. (washingtonpost.com)
- eVTOLs are nearing wide-scale production. (axios.com)
Energy
- We need to invest more to support the electric grid. (washingtonpost.com)
- Should we build wind turbines out of wood? (newscientist.com)
- How bladeless, rooftop wind turbines work. (thecooldown.com)
- Landfill gas is a hot commodity. (wsj.com)
Environment
- Why air quality is getting worse in the U.S. (nature.com)
- Americans keep moving to areas most impacted by climate change. (sciencedaily.com)
- New housing developments are having to prove there is sufficient water. (wsj.com)
- Climate change is going to make allergies worse. (sciencedaily.com)
- On the prospects for textile recycling. (nytimes.com)
Space
- Seven things the JWST spotted the Hubble missed. (businessinsider.com)
- The U.S. government is growing more dependent on SpaceX. (theinformation.com)
Animals
- Beavers are working their way into the warming Arctic. (arstechnica.com)
- Do bird feeders do more harm than good? (slate.com)
Behavior
- Hearing aids help slow cognitive decline. (newatlas.com)
- Could psychedelic therapy become a workplace benefit? (statnews.com)
- Three tips for getting over a breakup including 'Go have fun.' (msn.com)
- On the relationship between the microbiome and depression. (newatlas.com)
Covid
- Hundreds of thousands of Americans died due to low Covid vaccination rates. (bloomberg.com)
- Updated boosters are now available for the youngest children. (statnews.com)
- Nurses' attitudes toward vaccination varied by partisanship. (theconversation.com)
- A lot of Covid aid went to hospitals that didn't need it. (foxnews.com)
- Covid data accumulation is ebbing away. (theatlantic.com)
- Covax is finding few takers for vaccines. (nytimes.com)
- Severe Covid ages the brain. (nature.com)
Narcan
- Narcan could soon be available OTC. (wsj.com)
- There is a big hurdle in the way of a new overdose-reversal medication. (wired.com)
Health
- Influenza is ahead of schedule and worse than expected. (vox.com)
- Pharma companies are trying to keep a leash on access to type 2 diabetes drugs. (statnews.com)
- How much is a 'cure' for a lifetime, genetic disease, like hemophilia, worth? (wired.com)
- A new drug could effectively eliminate sleeping sickness. (npr.org)
- How do men and women age differently? (sciencedaily.com)
- Why there is still no effective male contraceptive. (npr.org)
Fitness
- It's never too late to get fit, you just need to find your jam. (clivethompson.medium.com)
- Walkers choose healthy obstacles over flat terrain. (sciencedaily.com)
- Staying fit in Winter is more difficult. (primecuts.substack.com)
- How the 1% competes in Ironman XC. (nytimes.com)
- How exercise can affect epigenetics. (sciencedaily.com)
Food
- How Japan is working to reduce food waste. (washingtonpost.com)
- A Q&A with Chloe Sorvino author of "Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat." (modernfarmer.com)
- 'Thaw and eat' is a new food category. (axios.com)
- Urban restaurants are following at-home workers to the suburbs. (wsj.com)
- The best new restaurants of 2022. (eater.com)
- Truffles are a big scam. (tasteatlas.com)
Sports
- How cheap passes are ruining the ski experience for many. (nytimes.com)
- MLB used three different baseballs last year. (insider.com)
- Pickleball has a noise problem. (wsj.com)
- Urban fly fishing is a thing. (hatchmag.com)
TV Shows
- The best TV shows of 2022 including 'The Bear.' (vulture.com)
- The best TV shows of 2022 including 'Andor.' (theringer.com)
- The best TV shows of 2022 including 'Mo.' (variety.com)
- The best TV shows of 2022 including 'Bad Sisters.' (economist.com)
- The best TV shows of 2022 including 'The White Lotus.' (insidehook.com)
Movies
- The best movies of 2022 including 'Aftersun.' (theringer.com)
- The best movies of 2022 including 'Nope.' (nytimes.com)
- The best movies of 2022 including 'Navalny.' (variety.com)
- The best movies of 2022 including 'After Yang.' (theatlantic.com)
- The best movies of 2022 including 'Armageddon Time.' (newyorker.com)
Media
- 'Churn and return' increasingly describes consumer streaming behavior. (variety.com)
- Cord cutters are turning to digital antennae. (thestreamable.com)
- Viewers are now used to watching prestige films at home. (nytimes.com)
- Streaming services make customers do the hard work. (om.co)
College
- Why you can't just trust college's financial aid letters. (wsj.com)
- You won't be able to keep AI out of the hands of students. (stratechery.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: lifetime learning. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (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)
Mixed media
- Five insights from Will Guidara's "Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect." (nextbigideaclub.com)
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Behavioral Scientist's notable books of 2022 including "Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life"
by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. (behavioralscientist.org) - Five insights from "The Future is Analog: How to Create a More Human World" by David Sax. (nextbigideaclub.com)
