Saturday links: costing us industries
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
3 hours ago
6 MIN READ
Autos
- U.S. automakers have an aluminum problem. (wsj.com)
- Lidar is finding its way into new, non-AV settings. (nytimes.com)
EVs
- EVs are making inroads in some surprising places. (nytimes.com)
- What Ford ($F) is doing to build a $30,000 EV pickup. (arstechnica.com)
Semis
- The math is moving in favor of autonomous semis. (axios.com)
- The Tesla ($TSLA) Semi is a step forward. (motherjones.com)
Wind
- Hard to believe, but there are still some offshore wind farms under construction. (apnews.com)
- The Trump administration is citing ‘national security’ to halt offshore wind projects. (arstechnica.com)
- Does living close to windmills cause negative health effects? (papers.ssrn.com)
Solar
- What not put up solar canopies in parking lots? Unfortunately costs are higher. (bridgemi.com)
- How balcony solar works. (theconversation.com)
Electricity
- America needs more electricity. Period. (apricitas.io)
- The U.S. has opted out of the electric future. (paulkrugman.substack.com)
Fire
- The cost to fight wildfires is only going up. (vox.com)
- What visitors lose when national parks are affected by fire. (theconversation.com)
Environment
- CO2 in the atmosphere just hit a new record high. (scientificamerican.com)
- It’s not your imagination, Spring weather is whipsawing back and forth more than it used to. (bloomberg.com)
- The rate of sea level rise has accelerated. (newscientist.com)
- Mexico City is sinking, rapidly. (nasa.gov)
- Trees play a big role in urban cooling. (vox.com)
- Why we can’t reliably forecast volcanic eruptions. (quantamagazine.org)
- Coronado has a raw sewage problem. (wsj.com)
Fish
- Pike love to eat juvenile salmon. (sciencedaily.com)
- Fish dosed with psilocybin showed less aggression toward peers. (404media.co)
- Five insights from “Every Last Fish: A Deep Dive into Everything They Do for Us and We Do to Them” by Rose George. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- How to use the entire fish. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
Travel
- Budget airlines simply can’t get their costs low enough to thrive, let alone survive. (barrons.com)
- RIP, Spirit Airlines. Travelers still need a low-cost option. (theatlantic.com)
- What is going to happen to Spirit Airlines’ planes? (npr.org)
Space
- We don’t really know why the universe is expanding as fast as it is. (wsj.com)
- Space-based solar doesn’t make sense, for now. (advisorperspectives.com)
Science
- More text in scientific journals is AI written. (nature.com)
- The peer review system is breaking down. (slate.com)
- How immigration policy is crimping researcher interest in the U.S. (statnews.com)
- The costs of gutting science will be felt in the future. (dailygazette.com)
- How to read science reporting. (theconversation.com)
Technology
- AirPods with cameras? Sure, why not? (spyglass.org)
- Security camera companies have some AI kinks to work out. (wsj.com)
- Creating fake IDs is trivial for the latest AI models. (theatlantic.com)
- Do we now need insurance on robots? (pitchbook.com)
Pregnancy
- More parents are declining Vitamin K shots for their babies. (propublica.org)
- Rural labor and delivery units are closing across the U.S. at an accelerating rate. (nytimes.com)
- Yawns are contagious from the earliest ages. (scientificamerican.com)
Cancer
- All the good news in the fight against pancreatic cancer. (derekthompson.org)
- Why aren’t more patients with metastatic lung cancer getting treatment? (nytimes.com)
Medicine
- This trial showed AI to outperform ER docs in diagnosis. (theguardian.com)
- Simply cutting a year off medical education won’t make for better prepared doctors. (sensible-med.com)
Health
- Just a reminder that pandemics are really bad. (theargumentmag.com)
- A first hand report from a doctor on board the MV Hondius. (theatlantic.com)
- The FDA has blocked a report on the efficacy of the shingles vaccine. (nytimes.com)
- Why are health care exchanges sending data to the likes of TikTok and Meta ($META)? (bloomberg.com)
- The thymus matters more than previously thought. (msn.com)
- ‘Blue zones’ are coming under increasing scrutiny. (statnews.com)
Fitness
- The Fitbit app will soon become Google Health. (techcrunch.com)
- Brett McKay talks with Manoush Zomorodi author of “Body Electric: The Hidden Health Costs of the Digital Age and New Science to Reclaim Your Well-Being.” (artofmanliness.com)
Nicotine
- The FDA authorized fruit-flavored vapes for the first time. (wsj.com)
- Is the end of the cigarette on the horizon? In the UK, maybe. (theatlantic.com)
Drink
- Two pubs a day are closing in Britain. (bbc.com)
- Canadian imports of American booze have fallen some 70%. (theconversation.com)
Food
- The protein boom is pushing whey prices higher. (fooddive.com)
- Beef prices aren’t coming down any time soon. (bloomberg.com)
- A big profile of Raisin’ Canes founder Todd Graves. (bloomberg.com)
- At least 3 million people have lost access to federal food aid. (wsj.com)
Media
- Spotify ($SPOT) is happy to host AI-generated slopcasts. (techcrunch.com)
- Reading an audiobook is harder than it looks. (ritholtz.com)
- How BookTok influences Hollywood. (axios.com)
- WKRP is back! (apnews.com)
Sports
- Noted free market guy, Rupert Murdoch, doesn’t like competition. (wsj.com)
- Why Mark Cuban bought into the CEBL. (frontofficesports.com)
- Why England remains the home for many F1 teams. (wsj.com)
- The Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act of 2026 helps promoters, not boxers. (bloomberg.com)
- The number of walks are up in MLB this year. You can thank the robot umps. (wsj.com)
- What Kentucky Derby winner Golden Tempo could clear in stud fees. (huddleup.substack.com)
- Russ Roberts talks with Gary Belsky, author of “Solo Golf: The Zen of Playing Alone and How It Can Transform Your Game.” (econtalk.org)
College
- Should colleges cap the number of A grades? (theatlantic.com)
- Is AI going to further delegitimize going to college? (newyorker.com)
- College kids aren’t shifting away from AI-exposed majors just yet. (agglomerations.eig.org)
- An excerpt from “Go the F*ck to College” by Adam Mansbach. (fatherly.com)
School
- Canvas was down, putting schools on hold. (npr.org)
- School phone bans don’t seem to raise test scores, but children seem to be happier. (marginalrevolution.com)
- American public schools are going to have to start shrinking as enrollment declines. (nytimes.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don’t confuse something scarce for a novel asset class. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don’t miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter. (abnormalreturns.com)
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