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
"Restoring academia as a place of fearless pursuit of historical truth, with all its ambiguity, will require courage."
(Roger Lowenstein)
EVs
- What is going to become of Tesla's ($TSLA) charging network? (washingtonpost.com)
- Do EVs need artificial noises? (axios.com)
Autos
- Automatic braking will soon be a standard, required feature on cars. (theverge.com)
- Do you really want a GM ($GM) car without Apple CarPlay? (bloomberg.com)
- What goes into a VIN? (theconversation.com)
Energy
- Why Plant Vogle could be the last large scale nuclear power plants built in the U.S. (wsj.com)
- Why did Germany ditch nuclear? (arstechnica.com)
- Stop building solar on prime cropland. (fastcompany.com)
- How to extract heat from wastewater. (bloomberg.com)
- More landfills are extracting methane for later use. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- Why we need permitting reform. (slowboring.com)
- The Permian Basin is sinking. (wsj.com)
Environment
- Where sea levels are rising fastest in the U.S. (wapo.st)
- What is seaweed mining? (hakaimagazine.com)
Animals
- An orangutan used a medicinal shrub to help heal an injury. (science.org)
- Are mutts actually healthier than purebreds? (newatlas.com)
- Forests are getting quieter. Why that's not a good thing. (thecooldown.com)
Archaeology
- What the heck is this thing dug up in England? (bbc.com)
- The face of a 75,000 year old Neanderthal women 'revealed.' (cam.ac.uk)
Technology
- Stop launching half-baked hardware products. (spyglass.org)
- It's not just the Russians that are doing GPS spoofing. (wired.com)
- You get what you pay for. (spyglass.org)
H5N1
- The U.S. may be missing human cases of H5N1. (npr.org)
- How worried should we be about H5N1? (washingtonpost.com)
- What we know about H5N1 in cows. (statnews.com)
Health
- A blood test for 50 kinds of cancer. What could go wrong? (theatlantic.com)
- Why is the IVF industry so lightly regulated? (msn.com)
- Living around college graduates is good for your health. (papers.ssrn.com)
- Air pollution isn't great for your health. (sciencedaily.com)
Fitness
- Why exercise is good for you at the cellular level. (nature.com)
- How to use fitness technology to your advantage. (newsletter.rationalwalk.com)
- For your health, take the stairs. (sciencedaily.com)
Food
- Want fresh food? It has to be refrigerated. (sherwood.news)
- How Campbell Soup's ($CPB) Goldfish brand stays relevant. (fooddive.com)
- In praise of grocery store fried chicken. (insidehook.com)
- Are your macadamia nuts actually grown in Hawaii? (fastcompany.com)
- The bagel renaissance is here. (newyorker.com)
Sports
- Nascar teams want a bigger cut of the action. (nytimes.com)
- Caitlin Clark played a lot of different sports as a kid. (davidepstein.substack.com)
- Where NHL players were born. (flowingdata.com)
Media
- Is what happened to 'Coyote vs. Acme' the future of Hollywood? (thedailybeast.com)
- We are in the golden age of mid TV. (kottke.org)
College
- How standardized testing can help identify candidates from disadvantaged backgrounds. (econofact.org)
- Why college admissions seems broken. (nytimes.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: under the sea. (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)