Saturday links: raising aggrieved kids
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
9 months ago
4 MIN READ
Autos
- Cars are rolling computers. How long will automakers update their software? (wired.com)
- Uninsured motorists are helping to drive up car insurance rates higher. (wsj.com)
- Automakers have been selling your driving data for (literally) pennies. (sherwood.news)
- The Tesla ($TSLA) Cybertruck is polarizing to say the least. (nytimes.com)
- Why convertibles are going out of style. (mentalfloss.com)
- The states with the highest auto insurance premiums. (axios.com)
Solar
- Global solar panel manufacturing capacity exceeds demand. (ft.com)
- How long do residential solar panels last? (pv-magazine-usa.com)
Home
- A first-hand account of how going electric saves money. (barrons.com)
- Why your next stove could have a battery. (wsj.com)
Energy
- Large-scale energy storage is a booming business. (wsj.com)
- How far is too far offshore for wind turbines? (klementoninvesting.substack.com)
- We should be subsidizing wind and solar energy, not EVs. (bloomberg.com)
Environment
- Earth set a handful of (high) temperature records this week. (axios.com)
- Free NOAA weather forecasts may soon be a thing of the past. (theatlantic.com)
Animals
- Why GLP-1 drugs are good news for animal welfare. (marginalrevolution.com)
- Animal personalities change as they age. (knowablemagazine.org)
- Taxidermied bats are for sale online. Not great. (nytimes.com)
Science
- To the surprise of everyone processes near the ocean floor spin up oxygen. (nature.com)
- A warming planet is slowing its rotation. (npr.org)
- How Lidar is opening up the Amazon to archaeologists. (sherwood.news)
- Publishing null results has become more popular. Is it making a difference? (nature.com)
Air travel
- Southwest ($LUV) is ditching open seating on flights. (theverge.com)
- Why Nepal does not have a great air safety record. (nytimes.com)
Travel
- Walt Disney ($DIS) resorts have run out of room to raise prices. (bloomberg.com)
- Cooler locations are seeing a boost in bookings from travelers. (barrons.com)
- Like society as a whole, travel is bifurcating among the haves and have nots. (vox.com)
- How far will the European backlash against travelers go? (ft.com)
Technology
- The Crowdstrike ($CRWD) outage was bad. A bigger one is certainly possible. (vox.com)
- Apple ($AAPL) could be making a foldable iPhone. (spyglass.org)
Behavior
- How to overcome learned helplessness. (hottakes.space)
- It’s hard to be happy without friends. (robkhenderson.com)
- How to know if you are a workaholic. (knowablemagazine.org)
Weight loss drugs
- Future weight loss drugs will target multiple receptors. (wired.com)
- Beware knockoff Ozempic. (bloomberg.com)
Prevention
- Research shows Covid vaccines reduce the risk of long Covid. (nytimes.com)
- Another (good) reason to get your shingles vaccine. (newscientist.com)
- On the effectiveness of at-home colon cancer tests. (sciencedaily.com)
Health
- Free medical school won’t solve America’s broken health care system. (vox.com)
- Evidence that surgical masks work to prevent respiratory disease. (bmj.com)
- On the prospect of a cure for HIV using gene editing. (fiercebiotech.com)
- There is a new toothpaste ingredient that is as effective as fluoride. (theatlantic.com)
Drugs
- Buying the precursors to manufacture fentanyl is not that difficult. (reuters.com)
- How Congress inadvertently legalized THC six years ago. (msn.com)
- How to better license retail psychedelic retailers. (vox.com)
Meat
- What does American wagyu taste like? (outsideonline.com)
- Singapore is at the forefront of lab-grown meat. (nytimes.com)
Food
- Coffee bean prices keep going up. (bloomberg.com)
- How grocery spending changes when people are on GLP-1 drugs. (marginalrevolution.com)
- Not all dietary fiber is created alike. (newatlas.com)
- How algae can be used to create a healthy cooking oil. (wsj.com)
- Five insights from Nicola Twilley’s new book, “Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves.” (nextbigideaclub.com)
Drink
- Older Americans are not cutting back on their drinking. (marketwatch.com)
- How mood affects the decision to drink, and what. (sciencedirect.com)
Sports
- Will players wear ‘guardian caps’ in actual games? (kslsports.com)
- Second basemen are getting an upgrade in MLB’s eyes. (neilpaine.substack.com)
- What percentage of elite chess players actually cheat? (wsj.com)
Entertainment
- Apple ($AAPL) has spent a lot on Apple TV+ content, to little commercial impact. (spyglass.org)
- ‘Homicide: Life on the Streets’ is finally coming to streaming. (variety.com)
College
- Is college still worth it? It depends on how you do it. (tonyisola.com)
- What counts as an asset on FAFSA and what doesn’t. (thecollegefinanciallady.com)
- The pass rate on AP tests went up this year. (wsj.com)
- Measuring college admissions rate, by college, over time. (flowingdata.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: cultivating curiosity. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking? Then check out our weekly e-mail newsletter. (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)
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