Saturday links: an infinite comparison engine
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
1 day ago
4 MIN READ
Autos
- The Ferrari ($RACE) Luce doesn’t look like a Ferrari. (spyglass.org)
- Waymo is rolling out 100 Ojai vehicles into its autonomous commercial fleet. (sherwood.news)
- Consumers are flocking to Costco ($COST) to buy gas. (cnbc.com)
Energy
- Renewable energy installations are re-accelerating. Hopefully 2025 was a blip. (arstechnica.com)
- Hawaii wants to close a oil-fired power plant. The EPA won’t let it. (grist.org)
- Coal mining is inherently dangerous. (buttondown.com)
Environment
- A water crisis out West is nearing. (nytimes.com)
- Why the world’s oceans are rising at an accelerating pace. (sciencedaily.com)
- What if Antarctica’s ice was melting faster than climate models have estimated? (thecooldown.com)
- How satellites are already changing the atmosphere. (futurism.com)
- Meteorologists were central to D-Day success. (npr.org)
Science
- What’s happening to American science. (science.org)
- Undersea volcanoes keep changing the sea floor. (quantamagazine.org)
Animals
- How the mere presence of humans affect animal behavior. (smithsonianmag.com)
- How beavers transformed this landscape for the better. (npr.org)
- Outdoor lights may be making mosquito season longer. (science.org)
- Travelers are clamoring for a sighting of an Iberian lynx. (wsj.com)
- How artists have portrayed dogs over time. (newyorker.com)
- Capybaras have made a fateful choice. (slate.com)
AI
- Nonfiction book publishers are up against it, AI-wise. (nymag.com)
- AI is changing how police do their work. (axios.com)
- How to use AI to sell your house. (nytimes.com)
Behavior
- Why we resist the ‘good enough life.’ (newyorker.com)
- Some practical tips on how to use your phone less. (nymag.com)
- Immunotherapy may offer a completely new way to treat people with difficult-to-treat depression. (sciencedaily.com)
- Five insights from “In a Good Place: How the Spaces Where We Live, Work, and Play Can Help Us Thrive” by Leidy Klotz. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- How talking about mental health openly can backfire. (theconversation.com)
Pandemics
- It’s hard to argue we are better prepared for the next pandemic. (newyorker.com)
- Why the FDA downplayed this Covid vaccine report. (nbcnews.com)
- The only way fight an epidemic is together. (theatlantic.com)
Public health
- Overdose rates are falling nationwide. (npr.org)
- While children are falling off Medicaid rolls. (axios.com)
- More people in the U.S. are going hungry now than during the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic. (npr.org)
Health
- GLP-1 drug use may be changing users’ brains. (washingtonpost.com)
- Preliminary evidence that gene-editing could permanently lower cholesterol levels. (nytimes.com)
- How GammaTiles help slow the recurrence of brain tumors. (wsj.com)
- Lenacapavir is landing in countries unable to reliably distribute it. (nytimes.com)
- Why some Gen Zers are embracing tanning. (nytimes.com)
Fitness
- What’s the right (fitness) metric? (thewaiterspad.com)
- Five insights from “Walk: Rediscover the Most Natural Way to Boost Your Health and Longevity―One Step at a Time” by Dr. Milica McDowell and Dr. Courtney Conley. (nextbigideaclub.com)
Beef
- Why the U.S. cattle herd is at a 75-year low. (npr.org)
- It’s hard to run a barbecue joint when beef prices are soaring. (wapo.st)
Food
- Rising prices are causing Americans to eat out less often. (npr.org)
- Florida’s agriculture industry is under a weather siege. (politico.com)
- Farmers are looking for ways to make money that have nothing to do with food. (bloomberg.com)
Sports
- Why MLB owners want a salary cap. (nytimes.com)
- Youth sports is putting family finances in danger. (tonyisola.com)
- Pickleball growth seems to be cooling off. (axios.com)
- How Princeton turned its lacrosse program around. (sportico.com)
College
- Cal State is going all-in on AI. (npr.org)
- Computer science isn’t doomed. (theatlantic.com)
- How AI complicates everything in the classroom. (ninaeichacker.substack.com)
- Why you needs a HIPAA and FERPA release for your college age kids. (thecollegefinanciallady.com)
- College should be fun. (theatlantic.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
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