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
"I’d glimpsed the future, and quickly become an on-demand transport snob."
(Allen Pike)
Chart of the Day
Investing in one of the world’s most popular soccer teams, Manchester United ($MANU), has been a disappointment.
Autos
- Why self-driving cars will eventually become mundane. (allenpike.com)
- Waymo is going to buy US-made Hyundai EVs. (bloomberg.com)
- The biggest barrier to EV adoption is charging. (sherwood.news)
- Bi-directional charging is a big feature of EVs. (theatlantic.com)
- What is 'restomodding'? (gq.com)
Transport
- Toyota ($TM) is inesting $500 million in Joby Aviation ($JOBY). (ft.com)
- The drone business is growing in Africa. (semafor.com)
Disasters
- Rainfall flooding is now more dangerous that storm surges due to hurricanes. (theatlantic.com)
- Inland towns need to better prepare for hurricanes. (fastcompany.com)
- Over the past few years Americans have been moving from cities into disaster-prone areas. (nytimes.com)
- This Florida community was built to withstand hurricanes. (fastcompany.com)
- The ongoing climate risks that the Carolinas face. (theconversation.com)
- The case for an American 'Disaster Corps.' (theatlantic.com)
Environment
- Removing CO2 is good, removing methane is better. (science.org)
- This city needs to pull its drinking water from Lake Michigan. (arstechnica.com)
- Turning flared gas into electricity makes a lot of sense. (bnnbloomberg.ca)
- Octobers no longer feel like Fall. (vox.com)
Travel
Technology
- General AI models are simply not specialized enough to work in certain situations. (wsj.com)
- Is foldable the next big form factor for phones? (spyglass.org)
- Why new friend-based social apps are dead. (nytimes.com)
- How to use Apple's new Password Manager app. (wsj.com)
Health
- Doctors increasingly need to choose whether to practice in a state with restrictive abortion laws. (wsj.com)
- Why uptake of RSV vaccines has lagged. (nytimes.com)
- Getting the COVID vaccine during pregnancy protects newborns from hospitalization. (npr.org)
- For the moment, there is less fentanyl on the streets. (npr.org)
- Medical billing is a mess. (theatlantic.com)
Food
- AllRecipes.com has become a repository for more than a 113,000 crowdsourced recipes. (newyorker.com)
- How supply disruptions can wreak havoc on restaurant margins. (eater.com)
- How 'prairie strips' boost farm health. (nytimes.com)
Entertainment
- Pop culture has gotten increasingly dark and gloomy. (honest-broker.com)
- Redbox is 'hopelessly insolvent.' (sherwood.news)
Sports
- Attendance and viewership were up for MLB in 2024. (awfulannouncing.com)
- The future of sports coverage is local, the case of ALLCITY. (johnwallstreet.com)
- MLB games are shorter, but are they better? (wsj.com)
- RIP, NBC Sports Chicago. (nytimes.com)
College
- Kids in the Northeast are increasingly heading South for college. (wsj.com)
- College kids can't read books any more. (theatlantic.com)
- Vanderbilt University now has a beachhead in New York City. (wsj.com)
- A different measure of colleges. (humbledollar.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: AI episodes. (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)
