Saturday links: when design fades away
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
2 days ago
6 MIN READ
Autos
- Car buyers are increasingly choosing seven-year car loans. (fa-mag.com)
- Mainline automakers are struggling to ship software. (ft.com)
- Why auto production lines can’t be fully automated. (wsj.com)
EVs
- EV charging networks have expanded more than you think. (wsj.com)
- National parks are still kind of a no-go zone for EV chargers. (bloomberg.com)
- Cadillac has been on an EV roll. Then Trump happened. (electrek.co)
- What you need to know about the end of the EV tax credit. (npr.org)
- EVs are now cheaper than ICEs in China. (visualcapitalist.com)
Energy
- The green energy revolution is alive, outside the U.S. (bloomberg.com)
- The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is experiencing a ‘severe brain drain.’ (ft.com)
- The administration is trying to strong arm other countries into using more fossil fuels. (nytimes.com)
- Another old nuclear reactor could be coming back online. (barrons.com)
- The world’s largest sand battery just came online in Finland. (newatlas.com)
- Why windmills are magnets for misinformation. (theconversation.com)
Heat
- A warming world helps create more intense (and damaging) fires. (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
- Where summer is getting longer in the U.S. (flowingdata.com)
- How heat accelerates aging. (nature.com)
Environmental policy
- The federal government has become a climate change troll. (grist.org)
- The NOAA has been trying to better model flooding. That effort could soon end. (theatlantic.com)
- FEMA now requires disaster victims have an e-mail address. (grist.org)
Environment
- Why the state of Louisiana is uniquely at-risk from climate change. (axios.com)
- The Caspian Sea is shrinking. (reuters.com)
- How weather forecasts get to your phone. (nytimes.com)
- It takes a village to clean up rivers filled with plastic waste. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- On the growth in ‘green’ or natural burials. (nytimes.com)
Animals
- Assessing which species are most at risk from a loosening of the Endangered Species Act. (theatlantic.com)
- How wolves are helping the revival of the young quaking aspen in Yellowstone. (earth.com)
- The sailback houndshark has been rediscovered. (newscientist.com)
- The world’s biggest frogs build their own ponds. (science.org)
- Do fish feel pleasure? (npr.org)
Nature
- Five insights from “The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters” by Christine Webb. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- One of the weird things we just take for granted. (xkcd.com)
- How plants and fungi trade resources. (flowingdata.com)
- What does it mean to be thirsty? (quantamagazine.org)
Science
- Scientists generally just want to do science, not politics. (theatlantic.com)
- Scientists are turning to Bluesky to communicate with each other. (arstechnica.com)
Air travel
- You can’t train more air traffic controllers without additional qualified instructors. (msn.com)
- A look at the state of the Airbus-Boeing ($BA) competition. (on.ft.com)
- Does TSA PreCheck actually save you time at the airport? (nytimes.com)
Behavior
- Five insights from “Manipulation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and What to Do About It” by Cass Sunstein. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- Why you should talk to strangers. (nextavenue.org)
- AI has a self-harm problem. (arstechnica.com)
Public health
- The CDC may be spent as a force for public health. (theatlantic.com)
- This medical journal stood up to RFK Jr. (nature.com)
Covid
- The Covid vaccines saved millions of lives. (marginalrevolution.com)
- How Covid vaccine recommendations have narrowed. (theconversation.com)
- This advisory committee review of Covid vaccines is already stacked with skeptics. (nytimes.com)
GLP-1 agonists
- Eli Lilly’s ($LLY) oral obesity piil, orforglipron, is headed for the FDA. (reuters.com)
- A look at the coming (massive) market for oral GLP-1 agonists. (cnbc.com)
Medicine
- The domestic physician shortage is real. (axios.com)
- Do full-body MRIs improve outcomes? (axios.com)
- When you’re really rich, doctors still make house calls. (wsj.com)
Health
- You may be surprised where your medicines are manufactured. (nytimes.com)
- It’s not clear AI will have an impact on the big drivers of human health. (sensible-med.com)
- Modern dentistry is filled with plastics, and by extension microplastics. (theatlantic.com)
- Faster AED deployments, makes for better outcomes. (newatlas.com)
- Ten things we don’t need to study any more including ‘the benefits of exercise.’ (sensible-med.com)
- Where the long fight against HIV stands. (npr.org)
- Get your shingles vaccine! (newatlas.com)
Fitness
- Tennis is a great lifetime sport. (theatlantic.com)
- In praise of the hot tub for recovery. (insidehook.com)
- Michael Easter talks with Brady Holmer about the science of exercise. (twopct.com)
Farming
- You can’t just pause taking in a crop because your workers have been deported. (nytimes.com)
- On the very real dangers of working on a modern dairy farm. (vox.com)
- How prairie strips work to regenerate farmland. (modernfarmer.com)
Food
- Food companies feel like they are under siege. (wsj.com)
- Tariffs mean America’s pumpkin-spice fix will become more expensive. (theatlantic.com)
- Why states and towns are bringing back happy hours. (wsj.com)
- Labeling a food ‘healthy’ doesn’t make it so. (theatlantic.com)
- Five insights from “Food Fight: From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet” by Stuart Gillespie. (nextbigideaclub.com)
Sports
- College athletic department revenues are higher than ever, but so are expenses. (nytimes.com)
- How much do tennis players make even when they lose in the first round of the US Open? (sportico.com)
- How the upstart Grass League highlights par 3 golf. (axios.com)
Entertainment
- A24 has bigger ambitions than just horror. (newyorker.com)
- How Netflix ($NFLX) uses data to make its (blah) creative choices. (theguardian.com)
- The 101 best movie acting performances of the 21st century. (theringer.com)
- John Cena is the best wrestler-turned-actor. (thedailybeast.com)
College
- There are a lot of costs to college beyond just tuition and housing. (readthejointaccount.com)
- How to teach college kids to identify misinformation. (theconversation.com)
- What students lose when parents hijack their dorm decorating. (theatlantic.com)
- Fixing grade inflation is no easy thing. (theatlantic.com)
Children
- Five ways to be an awesome parent including ‘Offer a choice.’ (bakadesuyo.com)
- Some evidence that early puberty may accelerate aging. (sciencedaily.com)
- What young people are missing today. (tonyisola.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: resetting your career. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don’t miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter. (abnormalreturns.com)
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