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
"Nearly every job in today’s economy requires you to write almost daily, whether it’s emails, reports, or instructions for your team members."
(Darius Foroux)
EVs
- The Ford Mustang Mach-E is attracting new drivers to the brand. (msn.com)
- GM ($GM) is cutting Apple CarPlay and Android Auto out of future EVs. (theverge.com)
- The strange path that Shorepower, an EV charger provider, took to going public. (axios.com)
Energy
- Japan is not taking advantage of its geothermal resources. (nytimes.com)
- The upside of modular nuclear: it takes up less space than wind or solar. (washingtonpost.com)
- Can you just grind up old lithium batteries to recycle them? (scientificamerican.com)
- Solar meadows rock. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
Climate change
- Hunters and fishermen are on the front lines of climate change. (scientificamerican.com)
- How warming is creating 'zombie forests' where new saplings can't grow. (thecooldown.com)
- Rising sea levels are going to cut off some areas from essential services. (arstechnica.com)
Environment
- Europe's biggest polluters are cleaning up selling 'free' carbon credits. (wsj.com)
- It's hard to restore native habitats without sufficient native seeds. (theconversation.com)
- Where groundwater is rising around the U.S. (grist.org)
- Jordan Harbinger talks with Matt Simon author of "A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies." (jordanharbinger.com)
- People have strong feelings about what temperature water to wash clothes. (wsj.com)
Animals
- Horses were present in the Great Plains by the 1600s which is earlier than previously thought. (apnews.com)
- How wild animals help sequester carbon. (grist.org)
- Health-wise, can dogs go vegan? (newatlas.com)
Behavior
- The brain plays a big role in how we experience pain. (bakadesuyo.com)
- How exercise can help treat depression as well as antidepressants. (wsj.com)
- What happens if you quit anti-depressants cold turkey. (slate.com)
- How a focus on 'irrationality' can backfire on us. (behavioralscientist.org)
- How joy is different from other emotions. (theconversation.com)
Drugs
- The FDA has approved an OTC version of Narcan. (politico.com)
- Should everyone have Narcan on hand? (washingtonpost.com)
- Drug overdoses for senior citizens in the U.S. have gone up 4x over the past two decades. (newscientist.com)
- Older adults process cannabis differently. (wsj.com)
Health
- American life expectancy is lagging behind other developed countries. (npr.org)
- Why are cancer rates rising among younger generations? (newscientist.com)
- An early blood test for cancer is the holy grail of health care. (wired.com)
- Why so many lupus drug targets have failed. (statnews.com)
- Are wrinkles in and of themselves a cause of aging? (newscientist.com)
- How loss of smell could reveal health problems. (scientificamerican.com)
- Preventing dementia should start early. (slate.com)
Weight loss
- Weight loss drugs are forever, i.e. if you stop taking them you regain the weight. (cnbc.com)
- Losing weight is good for you even if you regain it. (newscientist.com)
Drink
- A big benefit of NA beers is lower calories. (washingtonpost.com)
- German brewers are on the cutting edge of NA beers. (vinepair.com)
College
- Frank Bruni, "Higher education is a marketplace. And many of its consumers care more about how they can outwardly trade on their college degree than about how it will inwardly transform them." (nytimes.com)
- College ratings matter less than student engagement. (tonyisola.com)
- Please top sharing viral college acceptance videos. (msn.com)
Children
- A physical activity gap is opening up between poor and affluent children. (nytimes.com)
- Why don't more states require recess? (fivethirtyeight.com)
Sports betting
- As sports betting expands, so do the number of people selling picks. (washingtonpost.com)
- A new marketing code will prohibit college betting partnerships. (espn.com)
Sports
- How Fanatics amassed a rock star cap table of sports entities. (huddleup.substack.com)
- MLB umpires' jobs are only getting more challenging. (nytimes.com)
- Live sports is the one bright spot in linear TV. (hollywoodreporter.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: choking under pressure. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Do you wonder why everything looks the same these days? (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)
