Saturday links: deep empathy
On Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didn’t get to earlier in the week. You can check...
Transport
- Data from Lyft ($LYFT) shows 'driving while black' a real thing. (arstechnica.com)
- Research shows Waymo is safer than human drivers. (arstechnica.com)
- Why it's so expensive to own a car in Singapore. (nytimes.com)
- How NYC congestion pricing is working. (papers.ssrn.com)
Nuclear energy
- Restarting a shuttered nuclear plant is no small thing. (cnbc.com)
- James Pethokoukis talks with Eli Dourado about how the NRC stands in the way of progress. (fasterplease.substack.com)
Energy
- Renewables are booming on a global basis. (axios.com)
- 'Marginal' oil wells can, in aggregate, be a big environmental hazard. (npr.org)
- How Europe is replacing Russian gas. (klementoninvesting.substack.com)
- People don't like to live near wind mills. (marginalrevolution.com)
Environment
- How humans are (negatively) affecting biodiversity. (theguardian.com)
- The U.S. and Canada have worked to protect the Great Lakes. Will that end? (grist.org)
- How wildlife crossings help animal populations. (nytimes.com)
- The NOAA has slowed it weather balloon launch program. (theeyewall.com)
- FEMA's Future Risk Index has been recreated. (theguardian.com)
Space
- Saturn has 128 newly discovered moons. (theguardian.com)
- The dust on Mars would be a hazard to astronauts. (cnn.com)
Science
- What future archaeologists might find out about 21st century life. (theguardian.com)
- How the eastern part of North America formed. (knowablemagazine.org)
- How wins Nobel Prizes? (construction-physics.com)
Travel
- More Canadians are opting out of U.S. vacations. (wsj.com)
- Airlines are in a rush to upgrade their safety videos. (thehustle.co)
- Countries are updating their travel warnings for the U.S. (axios.com)
Infectious disease
- HHS shippped Vitamin A pills to Texas to fight the measles outbreak. (theatlantic.com)
- Dr. Caitlin Rivers, "It’s possible that H5N1 will never make the jump to spread human to human. After all, it hasn’t done so yet. But we shouldn’t give it the opportunity." (nytimes.com)
- What happens when you stop fighting infectious diseases? (theatlantic.com)
Health
- Ending clinical trials midstream puts patients at risk. (theatlantic.com)
- Veronique Greenwood, "The brain has one of the highest metabolisms of any organ in the body, and that process must yield by-products that need to be removed." (quantamagazine.org)
- Pausing support for mRNA research would be a self-own. (ft.com)
- On the link between HPV infection and heart disease. (sciencedaily.com)
- Why dementia may be less of a problem than we fear. (nytimes.com)
Fitness
- In praise of a (short) warmup. (davidepstein.substack.com)
- Where marijuana is legalized, workouts go down. (klementoninvesting.substack.com)
- Don't let your leisure time go to waste. (theatlantic.com)
Snacking
- Americans are snacking less. (axios.com)
- How much is Ozempic to blame for the slowdown in snack sales? (wsj.com)
- Has Smartfood changed its recipe? (eater.com)
Food
- Americans just keep eating more meat. (theatlantic.com)
- Should you smoke your meat indoors? (wired.com)
- How to make foie gras without forced feeding. (nytimes.com)
Sports
- MLB has a big inequality problem. (wsj.com)
- Being a low-major college basketball coach these days is tough. (sportico.com)
- How did TGL do in its first season? (huddleup.substack.com)
Tickets
Film
- The Sundance Film Festival is moving to Boulder, Colorado. (npr.org)
- “The Electric State” is an expensive bomb for Netflix ($NFLX). (nytimes.com)
College
- Stanford students are turning to defense tech. (sfstandard.com)
- MBA programs are seeing a boost in applications. (bloomberg.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: hidden risks. (abnormalreturns.com)
- You can now follow us on Bluesky. (bsky.app)
- Are you signed up for daily e-mail newsletter? Well, you should be. (abnormalreturns.com)
