Saturday links: the passage of time
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
12 months ago
3 MIN READ
Autos
- Waymo cars are making 50,000 paid trips a week. (engadget.com)
- Pedestrian deaths are a function of speed. (vox.com)
- Detroit may regret killing off the sedan. (fastcompany.com)
- Why auto insurance premia are soaring. (nytimes.com)
- Why ‘stroads’ are the bane of American cities. (wsj.com)
Transport
- GPS spoofing continues to grow. (ft.com)
- Urban transit systems are struggling post-pandemic. (politico.com)
Energy
- What happens you combine a green roof with solar panels? (goodgoodgood.co)
- How China is encouraging battery recycling. (semafor.com)
Climate
- 2023 was the hottest summer in 2000 years. (arstechnica.com)
- U.S. gardening zones have shifted. (apps.npr.org)
- Tornado season is changing. (vox.com)
- Wildfire smoke is back. (theconversation.com)
Environment
- The Great Salt Lake is back. (wsj.com)
- The world’s largest direct air carbon capture plant just went online. (engadget.com)
- The race is on to create a recyclable paper bottle. (wsj.com)
Ancient humans
- Humans were in North America far earlier than commonly thought. (smithsonianmag.com)
- Humans evolved into long distance runners to help track down prey. (science.org)
- Icelanders were hunting blue whales a very long time ago. (hakaimagazine.com)
- Human ancestors hunted cave bears a long time ago. (science.org)
Travel
- Stop overplanning your vacations. (maddieburton.substack.com)
- Luxury hotels have rebounded better than economy hotels. (npr.org)
Junk
- Wiley is closing down some academic journals due to junk science and academic fraud. (wsj.com)
- The problem of space junk is only getting worse. (bloomberg.com)
AI
- When AI and job applications mix, a mess happens. (wsj.com)
- Social media is filling up with AI-generated spam. (npr.org)
- Advances in the Apple ($AAPL) M4 chip. (om.co)
- How AI could be used to help reduce contrail formation. (wsj.com)
Behavior
- When it’s time to quit therapy. (thecut.com)
- How heat exposure, i.e. sauna, could help with depression. (wired.com)
- A one-day CBT course can moderately help teens. (newscientist.com)
- How to exploit the ‘peak end’ rule to increase happiness. (bakadesuyo.com)
- Do new stuff together with your partner. (wsj.com)
Fertility
- Despite the hype online, women are not going off birth control pills. (nytimes.com)
- Male fertility declines over time as well. (gq.com)
Health
- Why intermittent fasting is so appealing. (msn.com)
- Is the immune system the key to slowing aging? (nature.com)
- Hotter summers may not be great for our immune systems. (scientificamerican.com)
- Masks work. Whether mask mandates work is another question. (nytimes.com)
- The Medicare Advantage bubble has burst. (wsj.com)
Food
- The economics of Sweetgreen ($SG). (sherwood.news)
- Quebec is the OPEC of maple syrup. (wsj.com)
- How energy drinks became a big business. (sherwood.news)
Drink
- Who is ‘non-alcoholic wine’ for exactly? (slate.com)
- THC-laced beers are on the rise. (bloomberg.com)
Children
- Teenage workers are uniquely at-risk of sexual harassment. (wsj.com)
- Racial segregation in schools across America is on the rise. (axios.com)
- There will come a day when your child plays their last game. (msn.com)
- The drop off in reading books for fun is accelerating. (slate.com)
- Do children really need their own bedroom? (theatlantic.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: reviewing products. (abnormalreturns.com)
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