On Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didn’t get to earlier in the week. You can check out last week’s edition here. Have a great weekend!
Quote of the Day
"Making good choices is an endless process. Many areas of life that we value most—our relationships, our fitness, our craft—require a continual commitment."
(James Clear)
Autos
- EVs are becoming mainstream. (nytimes.com)
- The wrong people are driving EVs. (bloomberg.com)
- EVs require less labor to assemble. What Ford ($F) plans to do. (cnbc.com)
Transport
- Why New York apartment buildings are banning e-bikes. (axios.com)
- How bike buses work. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
Energy
- American LNG has bailed out Europe. (nytimes.com)
- Enel is planning to build a massive solar cell plant in the U.S. (wsj.com)
- If tidal power is going to work take a look at Bay Fundy. (nytimes.com)
- Engineers hope to use abandoned mines to run pumped-storage hydropower. (wsj.com)
- Why battery-powered appliances are the future. (noahpinion.substack.com)
- Can we make residential solar panels more attractive? (wsj.com)
Environment
- Replacing gas-powered leaf blowers is a no-brainer. (seths.blog)
- How Nepal as a nation reversed deforestation. (nytimes.com)
- Small airplanes will soon be going unleaded. (axios.com)
- Where humans exist, microplastics follow. (sciencedaily.com)
- Is there a path to low carbon cement? (knowablemagazine.org)
Space
- The U.S. military's X-37B space plane landed after 908 days aloft. (space.com)
- The communications satellite BlueWalker 3 is causing astronomers consternation. (science.org)
- Why isn't the launch of NASA's Space Launch System getting mroe attention? (theatlantic.com)
Archaeology
- Why did the Ancestral Pueblo people leave their houses and villages? (daily.jstor.org)
- Archaeologists have pushed back the earliest date of controlled use of fire to cook. (newatlas.com)
Science
- Do fungi look out for themselves or trees above ground? (nytimes.com)
- Even honeybees in captivity are living shorter lives. (sciencedaily.com)
Behavior
- America is facing an Adderall shortage. (axios.com)
- Loneliness is, in part, a function of expectations. (sciencedaily.com)
Covid
- Data show the bivalent Moderna ($MRNA) vaccine boosts antibodies to Omicron variants. (statnews.com)
- The bivalent booster is unlikely to prevent infection from BQ.1. (nytimes.com)
- Covid-19 vaccines don't induce moral hazard behavior. (papers.ssrn.com)
- Antibody drugs are less effective against the dominant mutations. (bloomberg.com)
- How indoor humidity affects the spread of Covid. (sciencedaily.com)
Long Covid
- Why there is likely no single treatment for long Covid. (npr.org)
- Is long Covid just chronic fatigue syndrome? (nymag.com)
Fertility
- Pre-term births are on the rise across the U.S. (npr.org)
- Sperm counts are falling around the globe. (ft.com)
Health
- Why screening for depression should be routine. (theconversation.com)
- Another disappointing Alzheimer's drug trial. (msn.com)
- Fentanyl is crossing over into the methamphetamine scene. (wsj.com)
- Turn down the volume on your AirPods. (npr.org)
Fitness
- Five insights from "The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting" by Steve Hendricks. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- How gyms are retooling for the post-pandemic era. (nytimes.com)
- How walking can help stave off dementia. (marketwatch.com)
- In praise of the pull-up. (msn.com)
Weed
- Black market weed is thriving in New York state. (politico.com)
- Smoking weed is still smoking, with all the downsides. (wsj.com)
Food
- Cultivated meat is inching toward regulatory approval. (vox.com)
- How strong really is the evidence against red meat consumption? (bigthink.com)
- A new tick-borne disease is killing cattle in the U.S. (technologyreview.com)
- The best apples, ranked. (applerankings.com)
Sports
- College basketball is trying to ruin March Madness. (nymag.com)
- The scope of problem gambling in the U.S. is still unknown. (grid.news)
- The future of skiing is fake snow. (financialpost.com)
College
- What does the SAT mean anymore? (nymag.com)
- International student enrollments bounced back in 2022. (wsj.com)
- Yale and Harvard announced they were withdrawing from the U.S. News rankings of the nation’s best law schools. (nytimes.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: growing ear share. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don't borrow money to invest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Humans have been consuming alcohol for millennia, but people are increasingly saying no. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Life is complicated, your workout doesn't have to be. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking? Then check out our weekly e-mail newsletter. (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)