Saturday links: unfriending brands
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
6 days ago
5 MIN READ
Autos
- Stellanis really needs a Jeep turnaround. (wsj.com)
- In Q2, 26.6% of car trade-ins are ‘underwater’ on their loans. (cnbc.com)
- How China came to dominate the global EV market. (wsj.com)
- Solar-powered cars are nearing reality. (wsj.com)
- Waymo plans to launch its robotaxi service next year in Nashville, partnering with Lyft ($LYFT). (cnbc.com)
- Banning self-driving cars is ludicrous. (bloomberg.com)
Transport
- The number of ‘toxic fume’ events on commercial airplanes is on the rise. (wsj.com)
- Batteries are the Achilles heel of electrified flight. (nytimes.com)
- Shipping goods by rail costs between 10-40% less than trucking. (nytimes.com)
Energy
- Why do oil companies even bother with green investments? (theconversation.com)
- Cover water canals with solar panels. Period. (canarymedia.com)
Water
- Managing fishery resources can work for all parties involved, including the fish. (papers.ssrn.com)
- How ocean alkalinity enhancement works to capture carbon in the oceans. (thehustle.co)
- Approximately 1.6 million tons of old ammunition are lying on the bottom of the North Sea and Baltic Sea. (apnews.com)
- On a warming planet, corals are likely toast. (nytimes.com)
Environment
- It was a (very) humid Summer in the U.S. (msn.com)
- Wildfire smoke is a growing public health problem. (grist.org)
- How climate change is increasing the risk of landslides. (scientificamerican.com)
Science
- How culture shapes scientific publishing. (theconversation.com)
- There is a pattern to the scientific data the administration wants to stop collecting. (nytimes.com)
- Five insights from “Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World” by Michael Mann and Peter Hotez. (nextbigideaclub.com)
Travel
- Foreign travelers are still avoiding the U.S. (axios.com)
- The case for solo travel. (nextavenue.org)
Space
- How prepared are we for a major coronal mass ejection? (smithsonianmag.com)
- How did Venus become so uniquely inhospitable? (quantamagazine.org)
- Being in space is stressful on the human body. (engadget.com)
Technology
- Botnets are getting bigger. (wsj.com)
- Apple ($AAPL) does hardware right. (spyglass.org)
- Lasers are stepping up as a drone defense technology. (nytimes.com)
Behavior
- Solitude is a skill. (behavioralscientist.org)
- Ask ‘how’ instead of ‘why’? (behavioralscientist.org)
- How grey divorce affects adult children. (bbc.com)
- In the U.S. gun suicide rates increase with age. (gq.com)
Vaccines
- Anti-vaxxers are winning. (nytimes.com)
- How RFK Jr. could kill off vaccine manufacturers, without actually banning vaccines. (theatlantic.com)
- Research shows the vaccine-hesitant are overly concerned with side effects. (papers.ssrn.com)
- Over 50? Get your pneumonia vaccine. (theconversation.com)
Covid vaccines
- The Covid vaccines were an economic boon. (newscientist.com)
- A Covid vaccine protects both the mom and the baby. (theatlantic.com)
Health
- Dr. Robert Eidus, “The most important attributes that patients value are empathy and the ability to engender trust: the art of medicine.” (sensible-med.com)
- The Trump administration is intent on ending the war on cancer. (nytimes.com)
- We are missing out on big societal gains by not studying new uses for old drugs. (papers.ssrn.com)
- How cutting funds to public libraries can affect health outcomes. (wbur.org)
- What information can you trust coming out of the CDC? (theatlantic.com)
- Why don’t more men get treated for obesity? (nytimes.com)
Fitness
- Another reason to exercise outside – Vitamin D. (peterattiamd.com)
- Why exercising in nature trumps the gym. (goodgoodgood.co)
Drink
- How the bourbon and scotch industries are intertwined. (nytimes.com)
- Mosquitos prefer beer drinkers. (newatlas.com)
Food
- Matcha prices are soaring. (apnews.com)
- Why the sweet potato is unique. (sciencedaily.com)
- Big city restaurant prices are spreading across the country. (nytimes.com)
- Why more cooks are embracing induction stoves. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- People have been eating grasshoppers for thousands of years. (theconversation.com)
Entertainment
- How a ban on pharmaceutical advertising could affect media properties. (johnwallstreet.com)
- Amusement parks are running into the limits of physics and the human body. (theatlantic.com)
Marathons
- Is running a marathon downhill in order to get entry into the Boston Marathon cheating? (wsj.com)
- Tour operators are providing runners backdoor entry into some of the world’s top marathons. (nytimes.com)
College football
- Does football make for a ‘livelier campus’? (npr.org)
- College football is increasingly organized around TV not the student experience. (nytimes.com)
MBA rankings
- Bloomberg’s best MBA school rankings for 2025-26 with Stanford on top. (bloomberg.com)
- LinkedIn’s list of the top 100 MBA programs for career growth with Stanford on top. (linkedin.com)
Children
- Lightly trained teachers are better than uncertified teachers. (papers.ssrn.com)
- Parental human capital matters for children’s outcomes. (papers.ssrn.com)
- Removing phones from the classroom has a very small, positive effect on performance. (marginalrevolution.com)
- Empty nest syndrome is real. (wsj.com)
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