Saturday links: communities coming together
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
6 months ago
3 MIN READ
EVs
- EV charging as a loss-leader. (msn.com)
- 5 minute EV charging is the holy grail. (ft.com)
- Electric school buses are a win-win. (scientificamerican.com)
Autos
- Why buying a car still sucks. (vox.com)
- Parallel parking will soon be an obsolete skill. (theatlantic.com)
- Why so many wrecked cars end up in the small South Caucasus nation of Georgia. (bbc.com)
Energy
- How solar power can help in disaster zones. (fastcompany.com)
- Five technologies helping advance geothermal energy. (thecooldown.com)
Water
- Why more dams in the U.S. are up for decommissioning. (grist.org)
- The case for artificial reefs. (arstechnica.com)
- The Cuyahoga River is making a comeback. (npr.org)
- Weather balloons often end up in the ocean. (hakaimagazine.com)
Forests
- Flying firefighting airplanes is a high risk proposition. (wsj.com)
- Foresters are using ‘assisted migration’ to help forests become more resilient. (grist.org)
Environment
- What’s to explain 2023-24’s anomalous temperatures? (e360.yale.edu)
- What if natural carbon sinks stop ‘sinking’? (theguardian.com)
- How to improve the chances your plastics get recycled. (wsj.com)
- A startup has created carbon negative structural panels. (fastcompany.com)
Animals
- Lynx are at-risk in much of Europe. (smithsonianmag.com)
- Life finds a way: the snake edition. (newscientist.com)
- What is an arctic fox doing in Oregon? (smithsonianmag.com)
Technology
- What to do if you lose your phone. (fastcompany.com)
- ‘Pig butchering’ scams are getting more sophisticated. (wired.com)
- What happens when a connected device is no longer supported. (arstechnica.com)
- In praise of taking photos without the help of AI. (newyorker.com)
Behavior
- Four ways to get smarter including ‘Use base rates.’ (bakadesuyo.com)
- Numbers are persuasive up to a point. (scientificamerican.com)
- What can mindfulness do (and not). (theincidentaleconomist.com)
Obesity
- Have we reached ‘peak obesity’ or just a pause in the uptrend? (theatlantic.com)
- Don’t fall for all the products claiming to work like Ozempic. (theatlantic.com)
Health
- IV bags are in short supply. (arstechnica.com)
- Why the flu shot is different this year. (npr.org)
- U.S. childhood vaccination rates keep falling. (arstechnica.com)
- Many more people would benefit from methadone treatment. (npr.org)
- Why everyone will have their genome sequenced. (freethink.com)
Fitness
- Recovery is just harder as you get older. (wsj.com)
- The case for a post-dinner walk. (slate.com)
- The case for a treadmill desk. (twopct.com)
Weed
- Weed is getting more powerful and we don’t know the long term health impact. (bloomberg.com)
- How much mold does your marijuana contain? (wsj.com)
Food
- Egg producers are rapidly transitioning to cage-free operations. (fooddive.com)
- The success story that is Siete Foods. (wsj.com)
- Can salmon farming ever be sustainable? (npr.org)
- The math on farmed fish doesn’t work. (newscientist.com)
- Pickles are hot right now. (economist.com)
Drink
- Wine sales dropped 8% in the past year. (fooddive.com)
- How one woman quit (binge) drinking. (wsj.com)
Entertainment
- Bally Sports is now FanDuel Sports. (variety.com)
- Linear TV is losing viewers for a very good reason: quality. (gq.com)
Sports
- What parents need to know about concussions. (goodgamekid.substack.com)
- What does ‘win probability’ really tell us? (theatlantic.com)
- A profile of a (sports) gambling addict. (nytimes.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: crime and disorder. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Celebrating our nineteenth blogiversary. (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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