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
"Human societies are free to choose the path of the Transformative model. But that would require economic pain, and how to share that pain is the unsolvable problem in current politics."
(Gregor Macdonald)
Autos
- An increasing percentage of crashed cars are totaled. (axios.com)
- Waymo is now available on Uber ($UBER) in Austin. (theverge.com)
- We're charging EVs all wrong. (spectrum.ieee.org)
Tesla
- Analysts are cutting delivery estimates for Tesla ($TSLA) in 2025. (sherwood.news)
- Tesla ($TSLA) sales are falling in Europe. (nytimes.com)
- How Teslas are doing on the used car market. (sherwood.news)
Energy
- The Additive Model better explains the current energy trajectory. (coldeye.earth)
- There's nothing easy about living in Greenland, let alone mining rare earth minerals. (wsj.com)
- Some positive developments in wind power. (thecooldown.com)
- Five insights from Marco Visscher's new book "The Power of Nuclear: The Rise, Fall and Return of Our Mightiest Energy Source." (nextbigideaclub.com)
Environment
- Butterfly populations are declining across the U.S. (science.org)
- How firsthand experience with a natural disaster affects belief in climate change. (klementoninvesting.substack.com)
- Visualizing rising global temperatures over time. (cnn.com)
Travel
- Rising costs are affecting middle class American famlies. (wsj.com)
- There are more ways than ever to earn rewards points, good luck using them for a free flight. (nytimes.com)
- Why some people are duping their wedding rings when they travel. (axios.com)
- Cruise ships off Key West whip up sediment. (npr.org)
Science
- Tool-making is a lot older than previously thought. (nature.com)
- Human necks are unique in the animal world. (theconversation.com)
Space
- Firefly's Blue Ghost landed on the Moon. (engadget.com)
- Six things you probably don't know about Uranus. (smithsonianmag.com)
Technology
- Meta ($META) plans to build the world's longest undersea cable that will be longer than the Earth is round. (newatlas.com)
- Mozilla is the only major browser not owned by Big Tech. (fastcompany.com)
- On the prospects for a new Digg. (spyglass.org)
- How to turn off your read receipts. (vox.com)
Behavior
- Those viral dual image tests don't tell us anything. (arstechnica.com)
- How savoring positive experiences can help wellness. (theatlantic.com)
- Five insights from "Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World" by Anne-Laure Le Cunff. (nextbigideaclub.com)
Vaccines
- If you were born between 1957 and 1968 you probably need a measles booster. (deborahcopaken.substack.com)
- Effective treatments are not enough to eliminate a disease. (theconversation.com)
- Why anti-vax parents change their minds. (theguardian.com)
Medicine
- A growing number of states have made it easier for doctors who trained in other countries to get medical licenses. (npr.org)
- We need more long-term medical trials. (sensible-med.com)
Health
- This year's flu season has been a rough one. (scientificamerican.com)
- Competition in the GLP-1 space is inevitable. (biopharmadive.com)
- Allergy season is getting longer. (axios.com)
- How to treat concussions. (sciencedaily.com)
Food
- Mixue Ice Cream and Tea has become the world’s biggest food-and-beverage chain by number of locations. (foodandwine.com)
- It's hard to sell premium eggs in an age of egg scarcity. (fastcompany.com)
- How avocados conquered the American market. (wsj.com)
- Tariffs will upend the food supply chain. (nytimes.com)
- Bad news for butter. (newatlas.com)
Drink
- Canadian retailers are pulling American wine and liquors off the shelf. (sherwood.news)
- Why Chartreuse is unique. (buildingthingsthatlast.substack.com)
James Bond
- One approach to revive the Bond franchise. (wsj.com)
- How to not ruin the James Bond franchise. (whyisthisinteresting.substack.com)
Sports
- Why do states all around the country continue to subsidize horse racing? (nytimes.com)
- MLB wants to re-make its media rights model. (wsj.com)
School
- Colleges are scrambling to keep up with new administration demands. (nytimes.com)
- Trade classes are seeing an uptick in interest from high school students. (wsj.com)
- How to apply for outside scholarships. (thecollegefinanciallady.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: being less stupid. (abnormalreturns.com)
- There's no such thing as excess savings when you are on your own. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The 2025 UBS Global Investment Returns Yearbook is out! (abnormalreturns.com)
- You can now follow us on Bluesky. (bsky.app)
- Are you signed up for daily e-mail newsletter? Well, you should be. (abnormalreturns.com)
