Saturday links: the costs of more
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
7 days ago
4 MIN READ
Autos
- Porsche is slowing its roll into EVs. (arstechnica.com)
- Hyundai isn’t giving up on the American market just yet. (nytimes.com)
- Humanoid robots and self-driving cars are a lot harder to build than EVs. (sherwood.news)
- GM ($GM) is ditching Apple Carplay and Android Auto in all it’s vehicles. (theverge.com)
- EVs are more dependent on software updates. (theatlantic.com)
Rare earth
- Rare earth minerals aren’t that rare. (marginalrevolution.com)
- What role can Australia play in rare earth metals? (axios.com)
Energy
- It’s hard to see how electricity prices for residential consumers don’t rise at above-inflation rates. (axios.com)
- How Alaskan farms are using solar panels. (nytimes.com)
- How Moldova became more power independent. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- Power line towers don’t need to be ugly. These are cool. (goodgoodgood.co)
Environment
- The ‘first freeze’ is getting later in most of the country. (axios.com)
- Everyone is talking less about climate change, not just MAGA. (grist.org)
- When, and how, sea levels will rise is still pretty uncertain. (quantamagazine.org)
- Cheap sensors are allowing more people to track air quality. (nytimes.com)
- How to use sound as a fire suppressant. (thehustle.co)
Animals
- Mosquitoes have found their way to Iceland. (npr.org)
- How bird migration patterns are changing. (theguardian.com)
- Atlantic dolphins are dying younger. (sciencedaily.com)
- Sea otters can have a significant effect on their ecosystem. (smithsonianmag.com)
- Lessons learned from trying to track wolves. (sequencermag.com)
- How ants build their nests to protect against fungal pathogens. (npr.org)
- How whale sharks are different. (daily.jstor.org)
Space
- Airbus, Leonardo and Thales are combining their space businesses. (spacenews.com)
- Nobody is going to Mars any time soon, and other technological unlikelihoods. (crookedtimber.org)
Travel
- How tourism is homogenizing Italian culture. (nytimes.com)
- Airbnb ($ABNB) is adding more social features. (cnbc.com)
AI
- OpenAI is training models to take the jobs of junior investment banking analysts. (fortune.com)
- How pricing algorithms can drive prices higher. (quantamagazine.org)
- What is the path forward for Wikipedia in the age of AI? (ft.com)
- OpenAI’s Atlas web browser hates the actual web. (anildash.com)
- AI should work, so people can think. (notetoself.studio)
Behavior
- How suicide becomes contagious. (marginalrevolution.com)
- You can just change your life. (yearofmentalhealth.com)
Public health
- These USAID workers raised private funds to save some programs. (theguardian.com)
- The American blood donation system is always teetering on the brink. (slate.com)
- Former CDC workers didn’t stop caring about public health. (thebulwark.com)
GLP-1s
- The heart benefits of Wegovy extend beyond weight loss. (theguardian.com)
- The case for making GLP-1s widely available, including Medicaid patients. (theatlantic.com)
Health
- Cancer patients undergoing immunotherapy lived longer when they got mRNA Covid vaccines. (sciencedaily.com)
- When to get your flu shot. (msn.com)
Fitness
- Four keys for outdoor survival including ‘Stay warm and dry.’ (twopct.com)
- How ‘lean bulking’ works. (theatlantic.com)
- Peter Attia talks protein, resistance training, and creatine with Rhonda Patrick. (peterattiamd.com)
Food
- Bird flu is back. Well it never really went away. (scientificamerican.com)
- As private label offerings grow, so do the opportunity for trademark infringement. (wsj.com)
- Why bread tastes better overseas. (vox.com)
- MAHA loves saturated fat. (wsj.com)
- Taste testing instant coffees. (artofmanliness.com)
Drugs
Sports
- Is high school football less safe than the NFL? (time.com)
- How much a Korn Ferry Tour golfer makes in a good year. (brobible.com)
Streaming
- Is Apple ($AAPL) finally getting serious about streaming? (hollywoodreporter.com)
- Netflix ($NFLX) may be warming to theatrical releases. (spyglass.org)
- Americans either love or hate horror movies. (today.yougov.com)
Children
- A sensible breakdown on AI use in schools. (hunterwalk.com)
- Some evidence in favor of school cellphone bans. (nber.org)
College
- Universities are not signing onto the compact. (danieldrezner.substack.com)
- The tide is turning against legacy admissions policies. (wsj.com)
- How’s China’s expansion of the university system affected U.S. universities. (papers.ssrn.com)
- How to get three types of college scholarships. (thecollegefinanciallady.com)
- How divorce affects FASFA. (wealthmanagement.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: the art of storytelling. (abnormalreturns.com)
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