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!
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Quote of the Day
“Everyone’s just trying to make it in the world.”
(Brett and Kate McKay)
EVs
- Americans are learning there are EVs not made by Tesla ($TSLA). (nytimes.com)
- Is demand for EVs a lot less than automakers think? (wsj.com)
- Why pursuing ever increasing EV range may be the wrong strategy. (wsj.com)
- Is Toyota ($TM) making a mistake not going all-in on EVs? (insidehook.com)
- How California plans to build out more charging stations. (engadget.com)
- Recycled lithium ion car batteries are a way off. (nytimes.com)
Transport
- The financial incentives are there for schools to adopt electric school buses. (axios.com)
- The USPS is making the shift to EVs much faster than expected. (semafor.com)
- Why it increasingly makes sense for commercial vehicles to go electric. (wired.com)
Energy
- Japan is reversing course on phasing out nuclear power. (npr.org)
- If everybody wants more nuclear power why is it so hard to build? (bloomberg.com)
- Los Angeles is going to phase out oil wells. (thecooldown.com)
Environment
- New England is rapidly losing its typical Winter weather. (msn.com)
- When fishing boats 'go dark' they are often illegally fishing. (theconversation.com)
- Some of Alaska's rivers are becoming highly acidic. (theatlantic.com)
Travel
- Why CLEAR is so frustrating for travelers. (slate.com)
- Private jet travel isn't all that private, after all. (news.yahoo.com)
Animals
- Is the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct or not? (washingtonpost.com)
- How mussels can help revive coastal ecosystems. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- How lifeguards are using drones to spot sharks. (hakaimagazine.com)
Science
- 26 top science books of 2022 including "The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World by Oliver Milman." (nextbigideaclub.com)
- How Twitter changed science. (nature.com)
Behavior
- Rob Henderson, "Being happy, of course, entails being right some of the time. But being right all of the time is a recipe for sorrow." (robkhenderson.substack.com)
- Why blaming '13 Reasons Why' for a rise in teen suicide was a mistake. (arstechnica.com)
- Early bouts with depression can have life-long effects. (marginalrevolution.com)
- What it's like to undergo ECT. (slate.com)
Health
- Why don't doctors follow guidelines for themselves? (news.mit.edu)
- How shingles increases the risk of stroke. (theconversation.com)
- Five insights from "The Age-Proof Brain: New Strategies to Improve Memory, Protect Immunity, and Fight Off Dementia" by Marc Milstein. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- We need to lower the barriers to access to opioid addiction treatments like methadone. (npr.org)
Covid
- Monoclonal antibody treatments are no longer effective in treating Covid. (vox.com)
- Covid boosters reduce the need for medical care. (statnews.com)
- Booster shots make for longer lived antibodies. (sciencedaily.com)
- How early vaccination of nursing homes would have helped save lives. (marginalrevolution.com)
- Why it makes sense to stop screening asymptomatic hospital patients. (statnews.com)
- Some clues on the mystery of the loss of smell with Covid. (wsj.com)
- What steps would have actually helped blunt the Covid pandemic. (marginalrevolution.com)
Fitness
- Improved health is not a straight line. (primecuts.substack.com)
- More evidence in favor of just walking. (sciencedaily.com)
- How to set health goals for 2023. (primecuts.substack.com)
Dogs
- The battle for white truffles in Italy is getting ugly, and deadly for dogs. (wsj.com)
- How dogs can tell/smell time. (npr.org)
Food
- "Cooking changes your relationship to food." (fs.blog)
- Since when did caviar become a 'snack'? (eater.com)
- Bird flu is driving egg prices higher. (vox.com)
Sports
- How Grant Wahl changed the place of soccer in America. (newyorker.com)
- The future of college bowl games is increasingly tenuous. (frontofficesports.com)
- A first-hand account of how easy it is to get start betting on sports. (nytimes.com)
- Cycling is getting the pro sports league treatment. (frontofficesports.com)
Best of TV
- The 10 best TV shows of 2022 including 'Pachinko.' (hollywoodreporter.com)
- The 15 best TV shows of 2022 including 'The Bear.' (msn.com)
- The best comedy specials of 2022 including 'Taylor Tomlinson: Look At You.' (variety.com)
- Underrated TV shows from 2022 including 'Starstruck.' (pastemagazine.com)
Best of Movies
- The 10 best action movies of 2022 including 'Prey.' (pastemagazine.com)
- The best horror movies of 2022 including 'The Menu.' (hollywoodreporter.com)
- The best sci-fi movies of 2022 including 'After Yang.' (pastemagazine.com)
- Tyler Cowen's favorite movies of 2022 including 'Tár.' (marginalrevolution.com)
College
- At colleges, the humanities are rapidly getting downsized. (insidehighered.com)
- There is a disconnect between community colleges and employers. (fastcompany.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: the future of social media. (abnormalreturns.com)
- How market shocks affect our perceptions of risk. (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)
