Saturday links: trusting autonomy
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
6 days ago
5 MIN READ
Autos
- Car prices in the U.S. have only one way to go: up. (axios.com)
- Waymos will soon start showing up on NYC streets. (cnbc.com)
- Younger consumers prefer autonomous vehicles. (godspeed.today)
- How car color affects urban heat. (newscientist.com)
EVs
- How Xiaomi jumped into the EV business. (sherwood.news)
- EV sales have taken off in Asia. (economist.com)
Lithium
- Recycled lithium batteries are a valuable resource. (sciencedaily.com)
- Miners are throwing away valuable minerals like lithium. (grist.org)
Energy
- Who is going to pay for all that AI electricity demand? (paulkrugman.substack.com)
- China now leads the world in clean energy research. (nytimes.com)
- The J.H. Campbell coal plant in West Michigan was set to close until the Trump administration stepped in. (grist.org)
- Good news: a new transformer factory is going up in Tennessee. (latitudemedia.com)
- Five insights from Bill McKibbin’s new book, “Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization.” (nextbigideaclub.com)
Environment
- U.S. carbon emissions are now back on the rise. (coldeye.earth)
- U.S. Forest Service firefighters don’t have adequate masks. (nytimes.com)
- Illegal gold mining is an environmental mess. (ft.com)
- Microplastics are everywhere. What happnens next? (cnbc.com)
Animals
- How chips can help researchers phase out animal testing. (science.org)
- On the interactions between whales and dolphins. (smithsonianmag.com)
- Think twice before bring home a hermit crab as a ‘souvenir.’ (slate.com)
- Why birds are singing an hour longer each day. (newatlas.com)
Space
- The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus. (apnews.com)
- What happens if China beats the U.S. back to the moon? (fasterplease.substack.com)
- How to refuel a spaceship in orbit. (wsj.com)
- What’s next for Starship? (arstechnica.com)
Drones
- Police are increasingly turning to drones for surveillance. (axios.com)
- Drones blasting music are trying to keep gray wolves away from livestock. (smithsonianmag.com)
Travel
- Canadians are visiting the U.S. less this year. (npr.org)
- Americans made up for the shortfall in foreign travelers. (ft.com)
- CLEAR and the TSA are piloting biometric “eGates” at three major U.S. airport. (axios.com)
- Why do people want to visit Death Valley in the summer? (nytimes.com)
Science
- A Q&A with Karen Lloyd about what we have learned about how microbes live in seemingly impossible locations. (quantamagazine.org)
- Five insights from “The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why” by Madeleine Beekman. (nextbigideaclub.com)
Technology
- Your church may be using high tech surveillance tools on you. (technologyreview.com)
- Shocking. Starlink thinks fiber isn’t worth the investment. (arstechnica.com)
- How passkeys work. (sixcolors.com)
Behavior
- Five insights from “Anatomy of a Con Artist: The 14 Red Flags to Spot Scammers, Grifters, and Thieves” by Johnathan Walton. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- What happens when the brain-gut connection is TOO strong. (newatlas.com)
- The correlation between well-being and social media usage is modest. (marginalrevolution.com)
- Five insights from “The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life by Arthur Brooks. (nextbigideaclub.com)
GLP-1 agonists
- Novo Nordisk ($NVO) is halving the price of Ozempic for patients without health insurance. (semafor.com)
- Should just about everyone have access to GLP-1 drugs? (wapo.st)
- Life insurers are beginning to ask about GLP-1 agonist use. (investopedia.com)
- GLP-1s could play in Alzheimer’s treatment. (biopharmadive.com)
Covid
- Covid revisionism has gone too far. (theatlantic.com)
- Get ready for Covid vaccine confusion this Fall. (kottke.org)
Public health
- Why are American Millennials dying at a much higher rate than other countries? (slate.com)
- MAHA can’t save Americans if they neglect the basics of public health. (thebulwark.com)
- Gun violence is an ongoing problem in America, but all the policy moves today are in favor of loosening gun restrictions. (npr.org)
- Chikungunya virus is spreading into new areas around the globe. (nytimes.com)
- Want to improve infant mortality? Give mothers cash. (npr.org)
- China continues to work on mRNA technologies. (biopharmadive.com)
Fitness
- The truth about creatine. Not a miracle, but not a lot of downsides. (twopct.com)
- Treading water is a real workout. (artofmanliness.com)
Food
- A sign that Amazon ($AMZN) is making headway in the grocery business. (sherwood.news)
- Scotts Miracle-Gro ($SMG) has ridden the cannabis wave both up and down. (wsj.com)
- Farmers are pulling back plantings because of a lack of workers. (npr.org)
- Why croissants are everywhere these days. (fooddive.com)
- American food is getting spicier. (theatlantic.com)
Sports
- How ESPN lost its way. (slate.com)
- Non-revenue college sports are only going to get squeezed further. (theatlantic.com)
- Will UFC fighters benefit from UFC’s big media deal? (frontofficesports.com)
- Affirmed and Alydar is the greatest horse racing rivalry. (neilpaine.substack.com)
Entertainment
- Bundling is the future of streaming. (nytimes.com)
- The Georgia film production boom is over. (wsj.com)
- Why 1958-1963 may be the best era for movie making. (scottsumner.substack.com)
- ‘Road House’ is a great, bad movie. (danieldrezner.substack.com)
College
- Colleges are going to have to come to terms with a shrinking population of college-age kids. (businessinsider.com)
- Small colleges need to team with their towns to build for the future. (governing.com)
- A small gesture can change a student’s life. (timharford.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: winding things up. (abnormalreturns.com)
- On the importance of learning who to ignore in an increasingly degenerate economy. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don’t miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter. (abnormalreturns.com)
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