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
"To win a Nobel prize a hundred years ago, you might only need a legal pad and a few pencils. Today, it takes millions of dollars, scores of people and many years of effort."
(Seth Godin)
EVs
- The EV business has hit a speed bump. (theverge.com)
- Tesla ($TSLA) has an Elon Musk problem. (lefsetz.com)
- EVs have an affordability problem. (businessinsider.com)
- Solid state batteries will change the EV equation. (axios.com)
Transport
- Just how quickly can the shipping industry green itself? (nytimes.com)
- Railroad companies have been lax in maintaining bridges. (wsj.com)
- How to make a radically more efficient semi-truck. (arstechnica.com)
- eVTOLs are getting closer to commercial operation. (nytimes.com)
- How Airbus is looking to reduce the carbon impact of its shipping. (newatlas.com)
- Why Kias and Hyundais are so easily stolen. (vice.com)
Offshore wind
- Offshore wind has a cable problem. (semafor.com)
- Costs are rising for offshore wind power projects. (ft.com)
Solar
- China is building a lot of solar, but also a lot of new coal plants. (nytimes.com)
- How to stop wasting cheap (solar) energy. (theatlantic.com)
- Retirement communities are going solar. (nextavenue.org)
- How to grow crops under solar panels. (wired.com)
Cement
- How the cement industry is locking up carbon dioxide. (wsj.com)
- Cement has a big carbon footprint. (grist.org)
Environment
- Why you are hearing more about a 'climate emergency.' (washingtonpost.com)
- It's hard to come up with an upside to rapidly melting Antarctic glaciers. (wired.com)
- Lawn care equipment spews a lot of carbon. (grist.org)
- What makes for a healthier city? (wired.com)
- Why sand dunes are worth protecting. (daily.jstor.org)
- Volcanologists are concerned about Campi Flegrei near Naples. (wsj.com)
- What's involved with sequestering carbon undersea? (hakaimagazine.com)
Fauna
- Add spiders to the list of species that are disappearing. (knowablemagazine.org)
- The dinosaurs died due the role of fine particulates in the atmosphere. (arstechnica.com)
- On the risk to humans from shrinking bat habitats. (reuters.com)
Travel
- Premium economy is the hot new airplane ticket. (wsj.com)
- Why corporations are swapping private jets for fractional shares. (bloomberg.com)
Clean air
- HEPA filters help reduce sick days in schools. (newscientist.com)
- Face masks work. Why are they controversial? (newscientist.com)
Health
- The infant death rate in the U.S. rose in 2022. (statnews.com)
- How GLP-1 drugs could affect medical technology companies. (biopharmadive.com)
- How high temperatures affect heart health. (scientificamerican.com)
- The sicker you were, the greater the risk of long Covid. (sciencedaily.com)
- Contrary to popular belief, the risk of dementia is lower today than it was 30 years ago. (ft.com)
- Nasal congestion is more complicated than you think. (theatlantic.com)
- Who oversees the use of AI in medicine? (nytimes.com)
Fitness
- Everybody needs to do resistance training. (simplavida.com)
- Has the continuous-glucose monitor boom peaked? (theinformation.com)
- If you miss a workout, don't try to make up for it. (gq.com)
- How to spend more time in nature. (insidehook.com)
Food
- It's hard to exaggerate the impact of cattle on the environment. (grist.org)
- Why moving away from corn and soybeans is hard for farmers. (modernfarmer.com)
- Not all fiber is created equal. (npr.org)
College
- Students are way ahead of faculty on the use of AI. (insidehighered.com)
- How to figure out how much a college costs. (thecollegefinanciallady.com)
- How faculty mobility has changed over time. (slate.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: an abundance mindset. (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)
