Saturday links: lifting yourself out of poverty
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
1 week ago
4 MIN READ
Autonomous vehicles
- What it’s like to ride in a Waymo. (axios.com)
- Are robo-taxis going to displace Uber ($UBER) drivers? (axios.com)
Autos
- There’s no upside from tariffs for domestic car makers. (wsj.com)
- Tariffs are the nail in the coffin of the entry-level vehicle. (insidehook.com)
- With tariffs the costs of maintaining a vehicle are going to go up. (wsj.com)
Transport
- France’s new high speed trains look dope. (grist.org)
- How to speed up passenger rail service in the U.S. without new trains. (bloomberg.com)
- Amish communities are split over the use of e-bikes. (wsj.com)
Energy
- Why Hydro-Quebec has pulled back on power exports to New England. (grist.org)
- Good luck trying to buy a natural gas turbine. (nytimes.com)
- Where power outages happen most often in the U.S. (construction-physics.com)
- Could we eventually run out of uranium? (semafor.com)
Environment
- The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, has been gutted. (cnn.com)
- Polluted air is still a problem in the U.S. Why it could now get worse. (theatlantic.com)
- Another administration ’emergency order’ at work. (grist.org)
Animals
- Cuts at NOAA Fisheries are putting Washington state’s salmon popualtion at-risk. (nytimes.com)
- Which came first: the shrimp or the bug? (smithsonianmag.com)
- Dire wolves are still extinct. (arutherford.substack.com)
Travel
- Canadian leisure travel to the U.S. has cratered. (politico.com)
- European travel to the U.S. has fallen sharply. (ft.com)
Behavior
- There is a difference between loneliness and solitude. (theconversation.com)
- Can creatine supplementation help treat depression? (peterattiamd.com)
- How music at work can (negatively) affect workers. (phys.org)
- How to find flow at work and play. (insidehook.com)
Vaccines
- 50+? Get your shingles vaccine! (sensible-med.com)
- Vaccination effectiveness increases as coverage expands. (scientificamerican.com)
Disease
- Measles outbreaks could become the new normal. (nytimes.com)
- Whooping cough is making a comeback, as well. (propublica.org)
- The incidence of ‘invasive strep’ is on the rise. (newatlas.com)
- Black lung disease is not a thing of the past. (npr.org)
- Dengue fever is coming to America. (fastcompany.com)
Health
- The Medicare Advantage industry keeps rolling on unscathed. (wsj.com)
- Where does Him & Hers ($HIMS) go from here? (sherwood.news)
- Wellness is the new flex. (ft.com)
Restaurants
- Lavish tasting menus are on their way out. (wsj.com)
- In a restaurant, do vibes matter more than the food? (nytimes.com)
- Why caviar is seemingly on menus everywhere these days. (bloomberg.com)
Mental health
- When athletes, like the Red Sox’ Jarren Duran, speak out about mental health is moves the needle. (sportico.com)
- From the outside it’s hard to know what athletes are going through: the case of Indianapolis Colt Braden Smith. (indystar.com)
Sports
- Why the torpedo bats are overhyped. (theatlantic.com)
- Michael Kim on what it is like to be a touring golf pro. (wsj.com)
Entertainment
- Why Amazon ($AMZN) is betting big on movie theaters. (fastcompany.com)
- Being a studio head isn’t much fun these days. (hollywoodreporter.com)
Teens
- Teenagers are increasingly in no rush to get a driver’s license. (cnn.com)
- The problem with college admissions essays. (yaschamounk.substack.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: strategic genius. (abnormalreturns.com)
- You can now follow us on Bluesky. (bsky.app)
- Are you signed up for daily e-mail newsletter? Well, you should be. (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- Dror Poleg, “The cities that will succeed in the nonlinear economy won’t be those that optimize for a single, predictable future, but those that create the conditions for multiple futures to emerge and evolve.” (drorpoleg.com)
- How newsletter publishers can increase their revenue. (digiday.com)
- What it’s like to have an iPhone stolen out of your hands. (spyglass.org)
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