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. Have a great weekend!
Quote of the Day
"Today, as people throughout history always have, we face—individually and collectively—problems and injustices that are complex and urgent. Which requires that we bring our best, calmest, most focused selves to them."
(Ryan Holiday)
EVs
- There's no good path forward for U.S. automakers. (theatlantic.com)
- Ford ($F) is building a new, universal EV platform. (theverge.com)
- $5 billion for EV charging stations is back in motion. (techcrunch.com)
- Tesla ($TSLA) is dropping EV prices. (sherwood.news)
Transport
- American roads are filled will all sorts of new vehicle types. (wsj.com)
- Powering a cruise ship while docked is no small thing. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- The U.S. has a (strategic) drone problem. (sherwood.news)
- How STOLs work. (newatlas.com)
Energy
- China's $167 billion plan for the Yarlung Tsangpo River is, not surprisingly, controversial. (wsj.com)
- A giant solar + battery storage project is now fully online in Mojave, California. (electrek.co)
- Offshore wind leasing is officially dead under Trump. (canarymedia.com)
- How solar powers Spain's grid. (ft.com)
Environment
- The U.S. and the rest of the world are now on different sides of the climate crisis. (theatlantic.com)
- Closing a nearby coal plant reduces ER admissions for respiratory issues. (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- Temperatures in urban areas can vary a lot, block by block. (theconversation.com)
- The cities most at-risk of a rise in sea level. (klementoninvesting.substack.com)
- Where U.S. CO2 emissions come from. (theconversation.com)
- EPA data is going offline at a rapid rate. (npr.org)
- What it would take to rebuild NOAA. (slowboring.com)
Animals
- Jim Robbins, "Biologists used to think evolution only played out over thousands of generations, but rapid human-induced evolution is now well-accepted.' (e360.yale.edu)
- A plan to fight the screwworm is coming together. (axios.com)
- How drones are being used to tag whales for tracking. (nytimes.com)
- Romania has a worsening bear problem. (nytimes.com)
- Why we need to eat more Asian carp. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- MAHA loves every part of the cow. (theatlantic.com)
Space
- Uranus is warmer than previously thought. (newatlas.com)
- The case for a permanent moon base. (theatlantic.com)
Science
- Paper mills, full of fake scientific papers, are booming. (wsj.com)
- Earth's outer core may be leakier than previously thought. (quantamagazine.org)
- How rogue waves form. (theconversation.com)
Travel
- Seth Godin, "Moving is physical, travel is an emotional journey." (seths.blog)
- A data driven look at air travel which is 'safer, cheaper, and less reliable.' (maximum-progress.com)
- Canadians continue to avoid visits to the U.S. (forbes.com)
- Travelers love visiting waterfalls. (insidehook.com)
Behavior
- The growing number of career changers who want to become therapists. (wsj.com)
- Five insights from "Primal Intelligence: You Are Smarter Than You Know" by Angus Fletcher. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- On the risks of marijuana-induced psychosis. (smithsonianmag.com)
- Being social alone won't turn you into a super-ager. (nytimes.com)
- Why smart people doubt their own abilities. (nesslabs.com)
- How to be cool, including 'Be curious.' (twopct.com)
- How kindness can be contagious. (mariakonnikova.substack.com)
Health
- A medication developed in the 1950s to treat Parkinson’s disease may combat tuberculosis. (news.ubc.ca)
- There's no good argument for throttling mRNA vaccine research. (slowboring.com)
- It's not just cutbacks to mRNA vaccines that researchers are fearful over. (axios.com)
- Research shows hospital-owned physician practices raises price. (indianacapitalchronicle.com)
- How listening to your body could save your life. (wsj.com)
- You can soon get FluMist at home. (cbsnews.com)
Drink
- More Americans are giving up alcohol, especially Republicans. (semafor.com)
- How much American distillers are losing to the Canadian boycott. (wsj.com)
- Why alcohol is both amazing and terrible. (flowingdata.com)
Food
- Luxury dining doesn't really tell us much about society. (theatlantic.com)
- Why pickled-flavored foods are everywhere these days. (wsj.com)
- Frying potatoes in a different oil won't make them a health food. (nytimes.com)
- Eight food-related memoirs worth a look including "I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir" by Keith McNally. (wsj.com)
- The share of state land used for farming. (visualcapitalist.com)
Sports
- Why its so hard to build a NBA dynasty these days. (espn.com)
- Endurance athletes love Rice Krispie treats. (brobible.com)
- The physical toll from playing football is real. (espn.com)
Entertainment
- Horror keeps growing at the box office. (sherwood.news)
- Is Netflix ($NFLX) getting boxed out of live sports? (awfulannouncing.com)
Children
- Now more than ever, parents should rethink posting pictures of their children online. (theconversation.com)
- Don't kid yourself that private schools are free of conflicts of interest and graft. (propublica.org)
College
- International students increasingly don't even consider American universities. (nytimes.com)
- States could help universities if they so choose. (theatlantic.com)
- The LinkedIn list of the top 50 college for long term career success. (linkedin.com)
- How to check which schools give out more scholarships. (wealthmanagement.com)
- How to estimate total college costs. (thecollegefinanciallady.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: beating the house. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Everything is disruptable, and even if it isn't, you should act as if it is. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don't miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter. (abnormalreturns.com)
