Saturday links: looking for luck
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
3 weeks ago
4 MIN READ
Autos
- America’s EV charging network is growing. (insideevs.com)
- More cars are underwater, loan-wise. (msn.com)
- Waymo is coming to Dallas. (yahoo.com)
- Nepal is going electric. (nytimes.com)
Geothermal
- The geothermal industry needs more geologists. (wsj.com)
- A look at a new way to drill for geothermal energy. (technologyreview.com)
Energy
- Solar just keeps growing. (ft.com)
- Why your electricity bill is going up. (grist.org)
- Wind and solar are reliable sources of income for America’s farmers. (theconversation.com)
- The Great Lakes has the potential to be a wind energy powerhouse. (theconversation.com)
- How does an iron-air battery work? (tech.eu)
Environment
- Hotter summers are keeping people inside. (theatlantic.com)
- Heat streaks are becoming more common. (axios.com)
- The EPA is giving up on climate change. (vox.com)
- Aluminum is highly recyclable. Designers are looking for new ways to use it in packaging. (bbc.com)
- Air pollution is bad for human health. Period. (sciencedaily.com)
- Not all wildfire smoke is created equal. (theconversation.com)
Animals
- The screwworm is coming for American cattle. (nytimes.com)
- We are just scratching the surface on our knowledge of deep sea models of life. (nature.com)
- ‘Jaws’ did sharks a disservice. (wapo.st)
Travel
- Southwest ($LUV) is now just like every other airline. (wsj.com)
- Canadians are vacationing closer to home. (reuters.com)
- Airport mini-lounges are coming. (marketwatch.com)
- Is PreCheck still worth it? (axios.com)
AI
- Om Malik, “Facebook’s real innovation has been in perfecting and scaling existing concepts rather than creating entirely new behaviors.” (om.co)
- What happens to Apple ($AAPL) if Google ($GOOGL) no longer pays for search? (wsj.com)
- In praise of password managers. (wsj.com)
Behavior
- People enjoy conspiracy theories for the participatory benefits. (phys.org)
- The best psychology books of 2025, so far, including “Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior” by Sandra Matz. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- Diversify your identity. (davidepstein.substack.com)
Pharma
- How Gilead Science ($GILD) plans to bring twice-yearly HIV prep, lenacapavir, to the global market. (newatlas.com)
- Shingles vaccine rates are up, but still have a ways to go. (theconversation.com)
- Mounjaro tops Trulicity in a study of people with Type 2 diabetes. (cnbc.com)
Covid
- “Between 2020 and 2024, COVID-19 vaccines saved 2.5 million lives globally, preventing one death for every 5,400 doses.” (sciencedaily.com)
- Sweden’s pre-vaccine experience with Covid was as bad or worse than other countries. (prospect.org)
- How the pandemic aged everyone’s brain. (newatlas.com)
Health
- Viral infections can awaken dormant diseases like cancer. (news.cuanschutz.edu)
- How some patients are using AI as a second opinion. (freethink.com)
- Not all probiotics are created equal. (newatlas.com)
- Are you really allergic to penicillin? (theconversation.com)
- Nicotine addiction is a thing. (theatlantic.com)
Fitness
- It’s never too late to get healthier. (jamanetwork.com)
- More data on the step count debate. (newatlas.com)
- All activity is good activity. (newatlas.com)
- Walk faster. (sciencedaily.com)
Food
- Despite higher prices Americans keep choosing cage-free eggs. (bloomberg.com)
- Switching from HFCS to sugar won’t make soda healthy. (agdatanews.substack.com)
- Functional mushrooms keeping showing up in new places. (axios.com)
- Jolly Rancher is succeeding by shifting away from hard candy. (fooddive.com)
- The tomato is the mother of the potato. (science.org)
Sports
- Fox is buying a 33% stake in the parent company of the IndyCar Series. (awfulannouncing.com)
- Why are teenagers all of a sudden running the 100 meters so fast? (wsj.com)
- Becoming a father may not be great for subsequent athletic performance. (klementoninvesting.substack.com)
Music
- In the age of streaming, popular songs keep getting shorter. (bbc.co.uk)
- How country music took over the charts. (statsignificant.com)
- Why Christian contemporary music is hitting the charts. (npr.org)
College
- Why colleges are caving to Trump. (hamiltonnolan.com)
- Some evidence that AI really is having an impact on recent college grads. (wsj.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: unplanned greatness. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Our Q&A with Nick Maggiulli, author of “The Wealth Ladder: Proven Strategies for Every Step of Your Financial Life.” (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don’t miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter. (abnormalreturns.com)
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