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
"Some forty years later, the album [Tim] feels like a five-alarm blaze, prophesying an era of corporate-driven consensus and the outsourcing of America’s manufacturing sector."
(Elizabeth Nelson)
Transport
- Maintaining rail lines is challenging in a more uncertain climate. (nytimes.com)
- Brightline is showing the way on high speed rail in the U.S. (apnews.com)
- The costs of car ownership are up some 13% in the past year. (nytimes.com)
- Electric-powered boats are making progress. (barrons.com)
Energy
- Why the area around Chernobyl is ideal for wind power. (interestingengineering.com)
- Why green energy has higher costs than appears on first blush. (economist.com)
Environment
- How wildfire smoke has affected air quality across the U.S. (grist.org)
- How remote work is better for the environment, i.e. no commuting. (washingtonpost.com)
- Poison ivy is a winner in the age of climate change. (npr.org)
- Climate change is not uniform. (wired.com)
- Hawaii needs more firebreaks. (grist.org)
Florida
- Rising heat is hurting more than just Florida's coral reefs. (grist.org)
- How much higher above sea level can Miami build new high rises? (vox.com)
- Florida has an invasive species problem. (vox.com)
Data
- Your health care data increasingly lives online. (theatlantic.com)
- Retailers collect A LOT of data about you. (msn.com)
Air travel
- The airline industry is filled with legacy IT systems. (ft.com)
- Delta Air ($DAL) is booting frequent fliers from its SkyClubs. (washingtonpost.com)
- Australians are increasingly fed up with Qantas. (nytimes.com)
- Airlines are really just mileage programs with a side business flying people around. (theatlantic.com)
Science
- Why scientific research programs in Antarctica is at-risk. (science.org)
- Hominids worked with wood a really long time ago. (nature.com)
Space
- Why we will never live in space. (scientificamerican.com)
- SpaceX is downplaying its successful launch record. (arstechnica.com)
Behavior
- The basics of trying to reduce depression, absent drugs. (npr.org)
- Five insights from "Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic—And What We Can Do About It" by Jennifer Breheny Wallace. (nextbigideaclub.com)
Vaccines
- Why the RSV vaccine rollout may be slow going. (biopharmadive.com)
- Anti-vaxxers are relentless on social media. (vox.com)
- How 'inverse vaccines' could help treat autoimmune diseases. (newatlas.com)
Health
- Migraine treatments have gotten better, but many people sufferer unnecessarily. (msn.com)
- How to think about the ripple effects of a successful pharmaceutical intervention. (randomactsofmedicine.substack.com)
- Does reinfection increase the chances of getting long Covid? (statnews.com)
- A first hand account of losing 70 pounds. (slowboring.com)
- If you can donate blood, please do. (scientificamerican.com)
Drugs
- Fentanyl is unfortunately pretty much everywhere. (bbc.com)
- Punishing drug users doesn't really help. (theconversation.com)
- Cannabis users are still prohibited from some jobs. (statnews.com)
Food
- What the processed food industry learned from the cigarette business. (washingtonpost.com)
- The science of salt is surprisingly complicated. (knowablemagazine.org)
- Cultivated meat can be kosher and halal. (axios.com)
Media
- What we will miss with the end of 'peak TV.' (nytimes.com)
- Why your cable package is likely to shrink, channel-wise, over time. (hollywoodreporter.com)
- Amazon Prime Video is joining the club and adding ads. (thestreamable.com)
Sports
- Can anyone break the FanDuel-DraftKings duopoly? (frontofficesports.com)
- Why are MLB pitching injuries seemingly on the rise? (wsj.com)
- How Europe's ski resorts are adapting to a lack of snow. (wired.co.uk)
- The professional runners who eschew GPS-enabled watches. (nytimes.com)
- How hypersonic air travel could transform pro sports. (blog.johnwallstreet.com)
College
- There's no right answer for how much to save for college. (npr.org)
- FASFA basics: accounting for parental assets. (thecollegefinanciallady.com)
- Where founders went to college. (pitchbook.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: the crypto crash. (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)
