Saturday links: addictive qualities
On Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didn’t get to earlier in the week. You can check...
EVs
- EVs are getting cheaper and better, no matter who is in office. (nytimes.com)
- Why your EV should have a heat pump to help extend range in cold temperatures. (arstechnica.com)
- Battery manufacturing plants are going up as a new administration comes online. (wsj.com)
Autos
- The NHTSA is looking at issues with Tesla's ($TSLA) remote parking feature. (arstechnica.com)
- Uber ($UBER) and Lyft ($LYFT) are looking to tie-up with autonomous vehicle companies. (wsj.com)
Vehicle size
- Pickup trucks are rarely used for their intended purposes. (thedrive.com)
- On the higher, individual and societal, costs of larger vehicles. (pedestrianobservations.com)
- Heavy trucks are the biggest culprits when it comes to road damage. (conversableeconomist.com)
Transport
- eVTOLs are coming closer to reality. (godspeed.beehiiv.com)
- The case for high speed rail between Chicago-Milwaukee-Minneapolis. (thetransitguy.substack.com)
- Sails are coming back to cargo ships. (thecooldown.com)
Energy
- The U.S. is now ranked 3rd in solar panel manufacturing. (cleantechnica.com)
- When opposition to wind farms is shooting yourself in the foot. (klementoninvesting.substack.com)
- Once you start looking for lithium, you find it more places. (semafor.com)
- Oil companies are not interested in drilling in ANWR. (yahoo.com)
Fire
- Fire season is now year round in southern California. (theatlantic.com)
- Why people living in wildfire country use the Watch Duty app. (theguardian.com)
- Why fire hydrants ran dry during the LA area fires. (nytimes.com)
- Why wildfire smoke is so dangerous. (wsj.com)
Environment
- 2024 was officially the hottest year on record. (bbc.com)
- Climate models are not doing a great job explaining recent record temperatures. (theatlantic.com)
- Florida is surrounded by ocean, but is running low on ground water. (grist.org)
- Satellites can now identify methane super-emitters. (wired.com)
Animals
- The feral hog problem in Texas is no joke. (chron.com)
- Fox snouts are well-built for digging in the snow. (npr.org)
- Hedgehog highways are now a thing. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
Archaeology
- Dugout canoes found in the Great Lakes region are 4000 to 5000 years old. (smithsonianmag.com)
- Archaeologists used drones to map a sprawling 3,500-year-old fortress in the Caucasus Mountains of southern Georgia. (arstechnica.com)
- A look at Neolithic era settlements in the Scotland isles. (smithsonianmag.com)
- A Turkish farmer unearthed a 1000 square foot Roman mosaic. (semafor.com)
- Archaeologists have raised a 2,600-year-old Phoenician shipwreck from the waters near southeastern Spain. (smithsonianmag.com)
- How archaeologists are experimenting with ancient tool making techniques. (arstechnica.com)
Space
- There are more galaxies in the universe than we ever could of guessed. (bigthink.com)
- Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is on the launchpad. (space.com)
Technology
- Mac OS X is now 25 years old. (macworld.com)
- Perplexity AI is taking on Google where it matters: search. (advisorperspectives.com)
- Getty Images and Shutterstock are merging. (theverge.com)
- 8 technology fails from 2024 including the Boeing ($BA) Starliner. (technologyreview.com)
Behavior
- How moving your body helps with depression. (npr.org)
- How ketamine may work to ease depression. (npr.org)
Health
- The time to contain H5N1 was a year ago. (theatlantic.com)
- Multiple Covid infections increase the risk of long Covid. (thelancet.com)
- What is human metapneumovirus or hMPV? (newscientist.com)
- How diet is associated with the gut microbiome. (npr.org)
- The polio vaccine is a miracle. (thinkglobalhealth.org)
- Chronic pain is no joke. (wsj.com)
- In praise of silence. (twopct.com)
- Eat more fiber. (washingtonpost.com)
Dogs
- Pet ownership is net-net a positive, but don't kid yourself that there aren't downsides. (theconversation.com)
- Can dogs really communicate using buttons? (nytimes.com)
- Leave it to dogs to find undiscovered truffle species. (science.org)
Food
- America has tipping fatigue. (wsj.com)
- Convenience stores and gas stations are upping their fresh food game. (sherwood.news)
- Artisan flour is a growing category. (wsj.com)
- How Chick-fil-A automated its lemon juicing operation. (bloomberg.com)
- More information doesn't make for better food decisions. (theatlantic.com)
Drink
- Americans are generally not aware of the link between alcohol use and cancer. (theconversation.com)
- How alcohol warnings could hit restaurant sales. (nytimes.com)
- Blind tasting wine shows how difficult it is to identify wines. (axios.com)
- Tilray ($TLRY) is as much a beer company as marijuana company. (sherwood.news)
- Anheuser-Busch has signed a deal to produce Pabst Blue Ribbon beer products. (fooddive.com)
- The new vocabulary of non-alcoholic drinks. (punchdrink.com)
Sports
- General manager is the hot new job in college sports. (nytimes.com)
- There's nothing easy about naming a new sports team. (wsj.com)
- Crypto and prediction markets are a potential threat to the sports betting industry. (johnwallstreet.com)
- How Nova Southeastern became a college basketball powerhouse. (nytimes.com)
Children
- You don't need to take a video of everything your kid does. (theatlantic.com)
- Schools will be targets in any mass detention movement. (nytimes.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: overcoming perfectionism. (abnormalreturns.com)
- When the world is in flux, experience could actually be a detriment. (abnormalreturns.com)
- You can now follow us on Bluesky. (bsky.app)
- Have you signed up for daily e-mail newsletter? Well, you should. (abnormalreturns.com)
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