Saturday links: a new economic hierarchy
On Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didn’t get to earlier in the week. You can check...
Congrestion pricing
- Congestion pricing eases traffic and is also a revenue raiser. (thecity.nyc)
- Frazer Rice talks the history of congestion pricing with Nicole Gelinas, author of "Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets From the Car." (frazerrice.com)
Environment
- Heat and drought are hard to mitigate. (klementoninvesting.substack.com)
- Where in the U.S. Spring is warming fastest. (axios.com)
- Public parks are not particularly controversial. (grist.org)
- Coastal economies will be hardest hit by cuts to NOAA. (theconversation.com)
- Lobsters prefer colder waters, which is bad news for Maine. (apnews.com)
AI
Covid
- Why SARS-Cov2 evolved the way it did. (theatlantic.com)
- Well over a million Americans dead: Covid 'extremists' were closer to the truth than Covid minimizers. (nytimes.com)
Pancreatic cancer
- On the prospects for a pancreatic cancer blood test. (newatlas.com)
- An early-stage mRNA vaccine shows promise in a pancreatic cancer trial. (nbcnews.com)
Health
- What to know about the ongoing measles outbreak. (yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com)
- How extreme heat could accelerate aging. (newscientist.com)
- People in industrialized societies get more sleep than hunter gatherers. (newscientist.com)
- Some options to treat nasal congestion. (peterattiamd.com)
Fitness
- Grab a quick exercise break whenever you can. (nextavenue.org)
- Do palm cooling devices have any actual benefits? (wired.com)
- How to stay safe-ish when riding your bike. (twopct.com)
Food
- We are pouring increasing amounts of chemicals on our food crops. (samknowlton.substack.com)
- Growing food, profitability, is tough even for billionaires. (wsj.com)
- Brewing tea helps remove lead from water. (arstechnica.com)
Sports
- Why starting up a challenger sports league is tough. (johnwallstreet.com)
- More people are searching out information on problem (sports) gambling. (sensible-med.com)
- College soccer could shift to a two-semester model. (sportico.com)
- Which sports provide the best bang for the (time) buck. (neilpaine.substack.com)
- The NHL has a CTE problelm. (bloomberg.com)
Movies
- A glimmer of hope for the Star Wars franchise. (spyglass.org)
- What movies can teach us about authoritarian regimes. (variety.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: the reading recession. (abnormalreturns.com)
- You can now follow us on Bluesky. (bsky.app)
- Are you signed up for daily e-mail newsletter? Well, you should. (abnormalreturns.com)
