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
"All you need to do to get a passing grade is simply to be there, with as much grace and patience as you can muster."
(Megan McArdle)
Transport
- Chinese companies lead in EV technology. (theconversation.com)
- NYC congestion pricing now only has one opponent of note. (thezvi.substack.com)
- How technology could determine if you are 'too old to drive.' (axios.com)
- How an old car gets recycled. (npr.org)
Energy
- Of course China has more people working in clean energy research. (marginalrevolution.com)
- Not every proposed data center will get built. (wsj.com)
- The wind industry in the U.S. may be cooked. (grist.org)
- The cement industry is being thwarted from building cleaner methods. (yahoo.com)
- The administration is forcing this gas plant to stay open. (grist.org)
- A recent DOE report about climate change is riddled with errors. (npr.org)
Animals
- Why do eels exist? (kottke.org)
- New Zealand has a cat problem. (biographic.com)
- How migratory bison help the ecosystem. (mentalfloss.com)
Travel
- Airlines are loyalty point programs that happen to fly planes. (nytimes.com)
- If you're not missing flights you are getting to the airport too early. (papers.ssrn.com)
- Airlines will no longer have to compensate travelers for delayed and cancelled flights. (nbcnewyork.com)
Anxiety
Aging
- Does using digital technology help stave off cognitive decline? (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- Middle age is no longer the period of lowest life satisfaction. (sciencedaily.com)
- How to cope with a parent's death. (wapo.st)
Behavior
- A beta blocker, propranolol, has become popular amongst the influencer crowd. (wsj.com)
- A study shows the vast majority of autistic people over 50 are undiagnosed. (newatlas.com)
- Spouses tend to share psychiatric disorders. (nature.com)
- 'Being yourself' isn't always easy. (yearofmentalhealth.com)
- Why ghosting is inevitable. (newyorker.com)
AI
- How AI can help in stroke diagnostics. (thetimes.com)
- Five insights from "Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us―and How AI Could Save Lives" by Charlotte Blease. (nextbigideaclub.com)
GLP-1 agonists
- Future weight loss drugs will target multiple hormones. (sciencedaily.com)
- Microdosing GLP-1 drugs is now a thing, but there is little evidence for it. (washingtonpost.com)
Health
- A look at the many ways health policy is getting reversed. (econbrowser.com)
- Rural hospitals are teaming up to survive. (npr.org)
- Good evidence that RSV vaccines reduce hospitalizations. (sciencedaily.com)
- How radioligand therapy works. (ft.com)
- Artificial blood would allow for its use earlier in a crisis. (slate.com)
- Dr. Eric Topol talks with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, author of “It Doesn't Have to Hurt: How Cutting Edge Science and Good Habits Can Stop the Hurt.” (podcasts.apple.com)
- Want more sleep? Move to a cooler state. (sherwood.news)
Fitness
- How to build more movement into your daily routine. (twopct.com)
- Evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman on why humans don't like to exercise. (youtube.com)
Drink
- A key government study about alcohol and its health effects will not be released publicly. (statnews.com)
- Chalk up another win for the Kelce brothers. Garage Beer gets a big investment. (wsj.com)
- Everybody comes to quitting alcohol in their own way. (moneywithkatie.com)
- Britain continues to lose pubs. (sherwood.news)
Food
- China is a key buyer of soybeans. Then tariffs came. (nytimes.com)
- Why many chefs prefer induction stoves. (bloomberg.com)
- Why you shouldn't plant zucchini in your garden. (slate.com)
Sports
- Pickleball really is taking over America. (flowingdata.com)
- How the Philadelphia Eagles structure contracts. (wsj.com)
- Why is it so hard to create a great sports sculpture? (theatlantic.com)
Entertainment
- How much are you paying for your streaming services? (spyglass.org)
- Why is Universal Music ($UMG) going to war with Rick Beato? (honest-broker.com)
- Why are gaming console prices so high? (arstechnica.com)
Children
- What to do when you don't like your child's friends? (theatlantic.com)
- Parents have been worried about spoiling their children for centuries. (on.ft.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: real estate cycles. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don't miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter. (abnormalreturns.com)
