Saturday links: coming and going
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
5 days ago
5 MIN READ
Autos
- The number of EV chargers is on the rise in the U.S. (nytimes.com)
- On the limits of self-driving cars to fix cities. (slate.com)
- More gas stations are adding EV chargers. (nytimes.com)
- Robo-taxis are coming to the UK. (engadget.com)
Transport
- Why this hedge fund manager bet big on Vertical Aerospace ($EVTL). (wsj.com)
- Stockton Rush, of OceanGate, moved fast and broke things, with fatal consequences. (slate.com)
Energy
- The U.S. produced a record amount of energy in 2024. (sherwood.news)
- For the first time in a long time, nuclear energy has a future in the U.S. (wsj.com)
- Britain is committing to build a new nuclear power plant. (apnews.com)
- How coordinating air conditioner use would work in practice. (theconversation.com)
Buildings
- Why hail is getting more dangerous. (wsj.com)
- Why roofing companies resist reflective surfaces. (motherjones.com)
- The case for disassembling buildings. (npr.org)
Environment
- More trees, less heat. (npr.org)
- Losing their tax base: towns are pushing back against home buyouts due to floods. (wapo.st)
- How marine heat waves are spreading. (nytimes.com)
- Cities are trying to come to terms with higher rainfall. (npr.org)
- How deep sea desalination works. (wsj.com)
Animals
- Where have all the insects gone? (theguardian.com)
- Microbes are ‘nature’s alchemists.’ (npr.org)
- A paradoxical way to prevent poaching. (phys.org)
- Why do humpback whales blow ring bubbles? (sciencedaily.com)
- Not everyone is happy about the reintroduction of wolves into Europe. (theatlantic.com)
- The Antarctic gonate squid has finally been seen in the wild. (smithsonianmag.com)
Archaelogy
- Agriculture may have been present in America far earlier than thought. (marginalrevolution.com)
- Why Italy lags in archaeology. (reason.com)
Travel
- Airlines are selling traveler data to ICE. (flowingdata.com)
- The case for a 10-day vacation. (tim.signaturefd.com)
- Why you should go off the beaten path for your next vacation. (bloomberg.com)
Space
- NASA can’t just cut ties with SpaceX. (axios.com)
- The case for nationalizing SpaceX and Starlink. (jacobin.com)
- Why we need an alternative to GPS. (technologyreview.com)
- How the new Vera Rubin observatory will change astronomy. (scientificamerican.com)
Apple
- The best and worst updates for Apple ($AAPL) platforms. (sixcolors.com)
- The best new features coming to your Apple ($AAPL) product. (wsj.com)
- The Apple ($AAPL) iPad is now more like a Mac than ever. (spyglass.org)
Behavior
- Resilience is normal, not exceptional. (twopct.com)
- How to substitute microjournalism for mindless scrolling. (artofmanliness.com)
- How to access your flow state. (aeon.co)
- Mindfulness need not equal meditation. (twopct.com)
- Some things that people regret. (newatlas.com)
Vaccines
- RFK Jr. just dismissed all the members of the ACIP. (axios.com)
- Sanewashing the anti-vaccine coalition. (theatlantic.com)
- A new vaccine regime, means more death and disease. (axios.com)
- An anti-vaccine former-doctor has been hired by HHS. (arstechnica.com)
- So much for a promising HIV vaccine candidate. (npr.org)
Health policy
- The head of HHS is a ‘wilful purveyor of medical disinformation.’ (npr.org)
- The CDC is rehiring laid off workers. (politico.com)
Pharmaceuticals
- This ear infection treatment would be a boon for parents of young children. (newatlas.com)
- How researchers created a synthetic version of a Taxol precursor. (science.org)
Medicine
- The Epstein-Barr virus may not be all that benign. (asrn.org)
- Should you get screened for lung cancer even if you don’t smoke? (peterattiamd.com)
- Losing excess weight, no matter how, is a good thing. (noahpinion.blog)
Fitness
Drugs
- Why overdose death rates are falling. (npr.org)
- Older Americans are increasingly using cannabis. (sciencedaily.com)
Smoking
- France is cracking down on public smoking. (theatlantic.com)
- On the use of nicotine to treat brain fog. (slate.com)
- Smoking is making an onscreen comeback. (nytimes.com)
- Do you know what a ‘fridge cigarette’ is? (fastcompany.com)
Food
- Starbucks ($SBUX) is hiring. (sherwood.news)
- How Dave’s Hot Chicken grew so fast. (wsj.com)
- Lab-grown salmon just got FDA approval. (theverge.com)
- How Nerds Gummy Clusters became a big hit. (fooddive.com)
- How to maintain your dishwasher. (eater.com)
Sports
- Fanatics has no plans to go public any time soon. (awfulannouncing.com)
- Why the NFL is pushing flag football so hard. (annehelen.substack.com)
- The case against a FIFA-run Club World Cup. (unherd.com)
- How immigration efforts could affect international college athletes. (frontofficesports.com)
- Ballers, a social multisport (racket) venue and members’ club, just raised a big round of capital. (fastcompany.com)
- What it’s like to attend a Savannah Bananas game. (huddleup.substack.com)
Music
- This 14-month period may represent peak pop music. (scottsumner.substack.com)
- By the numbers, these are the musical artists that are being forgotten. (cantgetmuchhigher.com)
- How the late Brian Wilson changed music forever. (theatlantic.com)
Entertainment
- Prime Video is upping its ad load. (engadget.com)
- Fewer shows and movies are being shot in L.A. (vulture.com)
- Movie theaters could do with some original thinking. (spyglass.org)
Children
- Schools were struggling before Trump. Now they are facing all manner of uncertainty. (wapo.st)
- How to make the most of paternity leave. (fatherly.com)
- How fathers can help launch their kids. (artofmanliness.com)
- AI has upended education. (404media.co)
College
- Student visa holders are a high talent pipeline. (agglomerations.substack.com)
- Accounting students have a new path to getting their CPA. (wsj.com)
- College is not the only path. (advisorperspectives.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: lessons learned. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Everyone in life (and investing) is running their own race. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don’t miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter. (abnormalreturns.com)
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