Saturday links: putting away your phone
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Abnormal Returns
2 days ago
5 MIN READ
Autos
- The ICE raid will delay Hyundai’s Georgia plant opening. (axios.com)
- What BMW and Mercedes-Benz have cooked up in the EV SUV space. (wsj.com)
- The Jeep brand is struggling. (bloomberg.com)
Transport
- How Britain created much safer roads. (ourworldindata.org)
- Why electrification of trains makes sense. (wsj.com)
- Zoox robotaxis are live in Las Vegas. (cnbc.com)
Energy
- The OBBBA was a tax boon for oil and gas producers. (bloomberg.com)
- Virginia Governor Youngkin still supports offshore wind. (nytimes.com)
- Even Saudi Arabia is embracing solar. (wsj.com)
- On the challenges of bringing solar to a historic city. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
Wildfires
- Wildfire firefighters are at-risk because of inadequate masking. (nytimes.com)
- How drones help firefighters battle wildfires. (goodgoodgood.co)
Climate
- A look at early climate models that got climate change correct. (theconversation.com)
- How humans adapt to higher temperatures. (newsletter.humanprogress.org)
Water
- Is there a stash of fresh water beneath the floor of the Atlantic? (apnews.com)
- The use of desalination is only going to increase. (msn.com)
- The ocean is spitting plastic back up onto the shores. (bbc.co.uk)
- Sunny day flooding is on the rise in Charleston, SC. (wsj.com)
Animals
- How humans have affected domesticated and wild species over time. (newatlas.com)
- Domesticated dogs don’t have a lot of self-determinism. (theatlantic.com)
- Not every bird species is in decline. (theconversation.com)
Travel
- How online travel companies could be disrupted by AI agents. (ft.com)
- Agentic AI in travel will require trust from users. (platformaeronaut.com)
- Viking Holdings ($VIK) is the un-cruise cruise line. (wsj.com)
Technology
- Is IBM ($IBM) going to win the quantum computing race? (wsj.com)
- Comparing Apple ($AAPL) iPhone models to car types. (sixcolors.com)
- Bots make up a third of web traffic. (flowingdata.com)
Behavior
- Brett Steenbarger, “Emotions are information, but only if we can become observers of our emotions.” (traderfeed.blogspot.com)
- Invited to an event? Don’t respond ‘maybe.’ (sciencedirect.com)
- Your malady is not meant to be your identity. (derekthompson.org)
- Can you be friends with a bad person? (psyche.co)
- Our phones have made us all rude. (theargumentmag.com)
- Willpower is overrated. (usefulfictions.substack.com)
Aging
- Polypharmcy and the growing risk of falls for older Americans. (nytimes.com)
- When BP-lowering drugs are harmful for older patients. (sensible-med.com)
Vaccines
- Evidence that hepatitis B vaccines have been effective in newborns. (statnews.com)
- On the prospects for a vaccine against acne. (nature.com)
Health care
- Research shows regional variation matters a lot for healthcare utilization. (papers.ssrn.com)
- Some evidence that telemedicine works better than in-person care. (papers.ssrn.com)
- Why isn’t more made of the growing mortality gap between men and women? (statnews.com)
Medicine
- How GLP-1 drugs could play a role in cancer treatment. (pharmavoice.com)
- How a helmet-shaped device could treat brain without invasive surgery. (smithsonianmag.com)
- How hot glue guns can be used to treat broken bones. (newscientist.com)
- Be careful asking AI to interpret your lab tests. (npr.org)
Nicotine
- Sarah Todd, “A majority of people in the U.S. wrongly believe that nicotine is the substance in cigarettes that causes cancer.” (statnews.com)
- Cigarette filters are ‘the single most littered item on the planet.’ (theconversation.com)
Fitness
- The fitness benefits of walking backwards. (gq.com)
- How to use the physical and metaphysical to start your day. (theatlantic.com)
Food
- Why Iowa’s waterways are filled with nitrates from farm runoff. (bloomberg.com)
- Not all dairy products affect the body the same. (npr.org)
- Cool. A scanner that scans avocados for ripeness. (bbc.com)
- In praise of Wisconsin Parmesan cheese. (slate.com)
Drinking
- Long distance running is shedding its hard drinking reputation. (wsj.com)
- Americans are drinking less. So are MLB players. (sports.yahoo.com)
- PFAS, i.e. forever chemicals, are now showing up in beer. (sciencedaily.com)
- How BuzzBallz Biggies became a hot brand. (vinepair.com)
Sports
- Prediction markets are set to upend sports gambling in America. (ft.com)
- Fans of overseas sports teams are having a hard time buying merch. (sportico.com)
- Canadian golfers have drastically cut back their rounds played in the U.S. (sportico.com)
- DealMaker wants to make it easier for sports teams to sell stakes to individual investors. (axios.com)
- Why former football players are turning to psychedelics. (wired.com)
- In Miami, padel is hot. (nytimes.com)
Entertainment
- Why you can’t trust Rotten Tomatoes ratings any more. (spyglass.org)
- Sonny Bunch talks with Tony Gilroy, showrunner of ‘Andor,’ on the parallels between the show and real life. (thebulwark.com)
- People are paying up to watch ‘The Wizard of Oz’ in the Sphere. (thehustle.co)
College
- Attending an elite university is no guarantee of success. (wsj.com)
- Vanderbilt University is having a moment. (bloomberg.com)
- Student housing is a big business. (joshuatravisbrown.substack.com)
- Early decision admissions isn’t fair. (washingtonpost.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: lossless listening. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don’t miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter. (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- A Monday night football game between the Broncos and Giants was the last semblance of normalcy before 9/11. (neilpaine.substack.com)
- Cultures are a collection of random, often contradictory, stuff. (overcomingbias.com)
- A new system will come from exhaustion with the old one. (freddiedeboer.substack.com)
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