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Abnormal Returns
5 days ago
3 MIN READ
Autos
- What the NHTSA is doing for pedestrian safety. (fastcompany.com)
- Hacking a Kia is surprisingly simple. (wired.com)
- Why thieves are not targeting EVs. (axios.com)
- Keeping a Tesla ($TSLA) Cybertruck clean isn’t easy. (wsj.com)
Transport
- Are blended-wing aircraft the future of travel? (ft.com)
- What freight moves by rail in the U.S. (visualcapitalist.com)
Nuclear
- A nuclear revival can thank the AI boom. (sherwood.news)
- How nuclear microreactors work. (newatlas.com)
- The world needs more nuclear engineers. (wsj.com)
- America’s nuclear power plants, mapped. (sherwood.news)
Energy
- There are a lot of other options for grid-scale batteries than lithium ion. (arstechnica.com)
- How solar grazing works. (washingtonpost.com)
Environment
- Is there any hope that plastics can be recycled? (arstechnica.com)
- Fewer cars means more active children. (grist.org)
Animals
- Why do Greenland sharks live so long? (nytimes.com)
- What it means to put pollinators first. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
Science
- Scientists spend too much time applying for grants. (vox.com)
- What NASA hopes to find with the Europa Clipper spacecraft. (science.org)
Travel
- How GPS spoofing can mess with airplanes. (wsj.com)
- How Norway is de-emphasizing tourism. (theguardian.com)
Technology
- Scale AI plays a big role in AI with a host of human workers. (wsj.com)
- Data centers are set to grow up, not just out. (wsj.com)
Opioids
- Higher buprenorphine doses are associated with fewer overdoses. (sciencedaily.com)
- Some evidence that people on semaglutide medications are at lower risk for opioid overdose. (statnews.com)
Health
- Why the super-centenarian data is suspicious. (biorxiv.org)
- How changing defibrillator placement can improve survivability from cardiac arrest. (newatlas.com)
- Supplementing with magnesium? Read this. (theincidentaleconomist.com)
- Winter time hits different for your health. (primecuts.philpearlman.com)
Food
- Is cultivated meat the future of protein? (nytimes.com)
- Some chicken brands worth paying up for. (wsj.com)
- Strawberries are now being grown in a vertical farm in Virginia. (goodgoodgood.co)
- The only positive out of the Chicago White Sox’s season was a milkshake. (chicago.eater.com)
- Olive oil fraud is on the rise. (bloomberg.com)
Drink
- NA beer is even making headway at Oktoberfest. (npr.org)
- Why NA drinks are seemingly so expensive. (atlanta.eater.com)
Sports
- In a survey, a third of former NFL players believe they have CTE. (npr.org)
- Woj’s ESPN departure shows the growing importance of college sports GMs. (frontofficesports.com)
- The finances of the WNBA are uniquely opaque. (sherwood.news)
- How baseball lineups have changed over time. (pudding.cool)
Children
- On-site child care is a boon for working parents. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- The real world has deadlines, so should schools. (washingtonpost.com)
- Kids love chicken nuggets. (vox.com)
College
- Ask ‘why college’? Instead of just ‘which college’? (thecollegefinanciallady.com)
- Don’t dismiss the high (and growing) costs of on-campus housing. (usatoday.com)
- Northeastern University is bulking up to survive an uncertain future. (bloomberg.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: the century of oil. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The investment world was a different place when Josh Brown started writing. In “You Weren’t Supposed to See That” he takes a look back. (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)
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