Saturday links: federally funded discoveries
On Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didn’t get to earlier in the week. You can check...
AVs
- Autonomous trucks are set to roll on Texas highways. (axios.com)
- Tesla ($TSLA) is the main beneficiary of this NHTSA rule change. (theverge.com)
- Waymo is doing some 250k paid trips a week. (sherwood.news)
- How safe is safe for autonomous vehicles? (axios.com)
Autos
- The customizable $25k Slate EV is here. (wired.com)
- How having Covid affects accident rates. (axios.com)
Energy
- Oil markets are well supplied. (semafor.com)
- Batteries are coming for your home appliances. (vox.com)
- This Missouri county is a renewable energy powerhouse. (nytimes.com)
- Can AI be used to run nuclear power plants? (wsj.com)
Air quality
- Some 50 million Americans live in areas where air quality isn't measured. (phys.org)
- Why volcanic ash is so dangerous to humans. (theconversation.com)
Space
- Happy 35th birthday to the Hubble Space telescope. (scientificamerican.com)
- What to look for when you are looking for aliens. (aeon.co)
Science
- The U.S. is risking a scientific brain drain. (nature.com)
- Job cuts at the NIH review boards are overwhelmingly female and minority. (wapo.st)
Technology
- Being a tech worker ain't what it used to be. (wsj.com)
- How to protect your phone when you cross the border. (wired.com)
- How to remove your personal data from the web and data brokers. (wsj.com)
- How technology is helping people with hearing loss. (newyorker.com)
Measles
- The current measles outbreak is the worst since 2000. (medicalxpress.com)
- How bad could the measles outbreak get? (slate.com)
Health
- Influenza kills some 36,000 Americans a year. (nytimes.com)
- Contrary to the revisionism, the elites were pretty right about Covid. (marginalrevolution.com)
- Do we really want AI models to be good at virology? (time.com)
- Six persistent sleep myths including 'We sleep to rest our bodies.' (twopct.com)
- Some signs of hope for treating chronic pain. (peterattiamd.com)
- Move your body. (sciencedaily.com)
Food
- Reducing food waste solves a lot of problem. (slate.com)
- How Fruitist created a longer lasting blueberry. (cnbc.com)
- Plant-based calamari. Why not? (sciencedaily.com)
Sports
- American-owned teams are leading English soccer. (wsj.com)
- The Savannah Bananas are a big, and growing, draw. (sportico.com)
- Tariffs are going to make new stadiums more expensive to build. (johnwallstreet.com)
Entertainment
- Characters are entering the public domain. Why are they showing up in horror films? (whyisthisinteresting.substack.com)
- Classical music isn't meant to hit in the same way as popular music. (coloraturaruns.substack.com)
Children
- No matter how you slice it, boys are lagging girls. (bloomberg.com)
- Why you should let your (young) children help out. (petergray.substack.com)
- Three guidelines on making a decision to go to college. (theatlantic.com)
College
- How research universities became so dependent on federal grants. (nytimes.com)
- It's not just the Ivies that are under pressure. (wsj.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: an epic business. (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)
