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
"A good blog post is short, pithy, dense with information, and topped off with clear, clever writing."
(Om Malik)
Autos
- Why has the EV market stalled? (hbr.org)
- Toyota ($TM) is the beneficiary of rising demand for hybrid vehicles. (wsj.com)
- Self-driving cars are now being tested on the highways. (wsj.com)
- Auto racing is a testing ground for autonomous vehicle technology. (freethink.com)
- A possible solution to prevent oncoming headlights from blinding you. (thedailybeast.com)
Environment
- Scientists don't understand why the ocean has gotten so hot, so fast. (newyorker.com)
- The heat index is rising faster than temperatures. (sciencedaily.com)
- Weather forecasts have gotten a lot better over time. (ourworldindata.org)
- Rain used to be rare in the Arctic. Not anymore. (grist.org)
- Pollution makes it harder for pollinators to find flowers. (hcn.org)
- The world has a growing e-waste problem. (wired.com)
Air travel
- TSA checkpoints are increasingly a crap shoot. (wsj.com)
- We are inching back toward supersonic air travel. (washingtonpost.com)
- How parachutes for small airplanes have saved lives in the past few weeks. (fallows.substack.com)
Behavior
- How to talk back to that voice in your head. (bakadesuyo.com)
- The silent treatment is a relationship killer. (theatlantic.com)
- Behavior precedes emotion. (traderfeed.blogspot.com)
Health
- Do you know the correct treatment for a concussion? (slate.com)
- Why your doctor's office sends you so many text messages. (cnn.com)
- Ozempic users abused cannabis at lower levels. (newscientist.com)
- Doctor now have a test for Parkinson's disease. (wsj.com)
- How pre-natal care has changed in Louisiana after its abortion ban. (marginalrevolution.com)
Nutrition
- Matthew Herper, "With nutrition, we need to be really careful about all we don’t know." (statnews.com)
- We should be eating what salmon are eating. (sciencedaily.com)
Food
- Why chef residencies are great. (insidehook.com)
- Starbucks ($SBUX) is now the second biggest restaurant chain behind McDonald's ($MCD). (qz.com)
- Delicious designer fruits and veggies are showing up on store shelves. (wsj.com)
- Coffee prices are on the rise. (asia.nikkei.com)
Sports
- JPMorgan Chase ($JPM) is forming its own investment banking team focused on sports. (frontofficesports.com)
- Does ESPN's streaming strategy make sense? (spyglass.org)
College
- The number of undergraduate computer science majors has tripled over the past 20 years. (msn.com)
- Why is out-of-state tuition so much higher? (marginalrevolution.com)
- Is culinary school worth it? (theconversation.com)
Education
- Yondr has become the de facto standard for schools that want to solve the ubiquitous cellphone problem. (axios.com)
- Student newspapers are hanging onto print. (cjr.org)
- Transitional kindergarten seems to boost test scores. (papers.ssrn.com)
Children
- On the dangers when children specialize in a particular sport. (theconversation.com)
- Teen babysitters are on their way out. (msn.com)
- There are degrees of single parenthood. (slate.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: celebrity pods. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What is wrong with this picture? How your charitable intentions can get co-opted after you are gone. (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)