Saturday links: economic pain
On Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didn’t get to earlier in the week. You can check...
Autos
- An increasing percentage of crashed cars are totaled. (axios.com)
- Waymo is now available on Uber ($UBER) in Austin. (theverge.com)
- We're charging EVs all wrong. (spectrum.ieee.org)
Tesla
- Analysts are cutting delivery estimates for Tesla ($TSLA) in 2025. (sherwood.news)
- Tesla ($TSLA) sales are falling in Europe. (nytimes.com)
- How Teslas are doing on the used car market. (sherwood.news)
Energy
- The Additive Model better explains the current energy trajectory. (coldeye.earth)
- There's nothing easy about living in Greenland, let alone mining rare earth minerals. (wsj.com)
- Some positive developments in wind power. (thecooldown.com)
- Five insights from Marco Visscher's new book "The Power of Nuclear: The Rise, Fall and Return of Our Mightiest Energy Source." (nextbigideaclub.com)
Environment
- Butterfly populations are declining across the U.S. (science.org)
- How firsthand experience with a natural disaster affects belief in climate change. (klementoninvesting.substack.com)
- Visualizing rising global temperatures over time. (cnn.com)
Travel
- Rising costs are affecting middle class American famlies. (wsj.com)
- There are more ways than ever to earn rewards points, good luck using them for a free flight. (nytimes.com)
- Why some people are duping their wedding rings when they travel. (axios.com)
- Cruise ships off Key West whip up sediment. (npr.org)
Science
- Tool-making is a lot older than previously thought. (nature.com)
- Human necks are unique in the animal world. (theconversation.com)
Space
- Firefly's Blue Ghost landed on the Moon. (engadget.com)
- Six things you probably don't know about Uranus. (smithsonianmag.com)
Technology
- Meta ($META) plans to build the world's longest undersea cable that will be longer than the Earth is round. (newatlas.com)
- Mozilla is the only major browser not owned by Big Tech. (fastcompany.com)
- On the prospects for a new Digg. (spyglass.org)
- How to turn off your read receipts. (vox.com)
Behavior
- Those viral dual image tests don't tell us anything. (arstechnica.com)
- How savoring positive experiences can help wellness. (theatlantic.com)
- Five insights from "Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World" by Anne-Laure Le Cunff. (nextbigideaclub.com)
Vaccines
- If you were born between 1957 and 1968 you probably need a measles booster. (deborahcopaken.substack.com)
- Effective treatments are not enough to eliminate a disease. (theconversation.com)
- Why anti-vax parents change their minds. (theguardian.com)
Medicine
- A growing number of states have made it easier for doctors who trained in other countries to get medical licenses. (npr.org)
- We need more long-term medical trials. (sensible-med.com)
Health
- This year's flu season has been a rough one. (scientificamerican.com)
- Competition in the GLP-1 space is inevitable. (biopharmadive.com)
- Allergy season is getting longer. (axios.com)
- How to treat concussions. (sciencedaily.com)
Food
- Mixue Ice Cream and Tea has become the world’s biggest food-and-beverage chain by number of locations. (foodandwine.com)
- It's hard to sell premium eggs in an age of egg scarcity. (fastcompany.com)
- How avocados conquered the American market. (wsj.com)
- Tariffs will upend the food supply chain. (nytimes.com)
- Bad news for butter. (newatlas.com)
Drink
- Canadian retailers are pulling American wine and liquors off the shelf. (sherwood.news)
- Why Chartreuse is unique. (buildingthingsthatlast.substack.com)
James Bond
- One approach to revive the Bond franchise. (wsj.com)
- How to not ruin the James Bond franchise. (whyisthisinteresting.substack.com)
Sports
- Why do states all around the country continue to subsidize horse racing? (nytimes.com)
- MLB wants to re-make its media rights model. (wsj.com)
School
- Colleges are scrambling to keep up with new administration demands. (nytimes.com)
- Trade classes are seeing an uptick in interest from high school students. (wsj.com)
- How to apply for outside scholarships. (thecollegefinanciallady.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: being less stupid. (abnormalreturns.com)
- There's no such thing as excess savings when you are on your own. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The 2025 UBS Global Investment Returns Yearbook is out! (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)
