Saturday links: missing metrics
Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didn’t get to earlier in the week. You can check out...
Autos
- U.S. automakers were struggling before Trump 2.0. Now they're screwed. (nytimes.com)
- American car buyers paid $26 billion in 'destination charges' last year. (wsj.com)
- Average monthly car payments are now nearly $800 a month. (nytimes.com)
- New York City's congestion pricing program will continue. (wsj.com)
- A talk with Uber's ($UBER) CEO about preparing for an autonomous future. (semafor.com)
- How long do EV batteries actually last? (npr.org)
Balcony solar
- In which states balcony solar could come next. (hcn.org)
- Balcony solar is making headway in the U.S. (grist.org)
Energy
- MAGA-types are jumping on the solar bandwagon. (yahoo.com)
- Renewables don't have to traverse the Strait of Hormuz. (paulkrugman.substack.com)
- Higher natural gas prices mean higher fertilizer prices. (worldfertilizer.com)
- Data centers make managing the grid more difficult. (wsj.com)
- Why are UK energy prices so high? (lnkd.in)
Environment
- Wildfire season is now becoming a year-round thing. (snri.ucmerced.edu)
- The Great Salt Lake is drying up. Is refilling it a solution? (c3newsmag.com)
- Environmental successes often don't get publicity. (update.news)
- One of Florida's last coral reefs is at risk. (washingtonpost.com)
Animals
- America's birds are disappearing. (nytimes.com)
- Long Island oyster beds were devastated this winter. (libn.com)
- There's no such thing as a 'teacup pig.' (wsj.com)
Travel
- United Airlines ($UAL) takes a stand for common decency. (msn.com)
- New airline lounges are thinking small. (wsj.com)
AI
- AI may make pseudonymity a thing of the past. (arstechnica.com)
- How to opt-out of AI training on your chats. (bigtechnology.com)
Science
- How AI could supercharge science. (noahpinion.blog)
- We've been measuring sea levels incorrectly. (apnews.com)
- Do we really want to bring back extinct species like the woolly mammoth? (npr.org)
Behavior
- People overestimate how much others judge minor mistakes. (phys.org)
- Better decision making means being more systematic. (bakadesuyo.com)
Public health
- The U.S. is ending foreign aid that it acknowledges is life-saving. (theatlantic.com)
- A new once-a-day HIV pill is (hopefully) coming. (npr.org)
- On the Ivermectin myths that never went away. (npr.org)
Health
- Trauma teams with more experience together have better patient outcomes. (theconversation.com)
- How to make clinical trials more useful: publish all the data. (abundanceandgrowthblog.substack.com)
- Young cancer survivors face faster aging. (sciencedaily.com)
- How much future measles outbreaks will cost. (beckershospitalreview.com)
- Another reason to eat more fiber. (newscientist.com)
Fitness
- The best treatment for arthritis? Movement. (sciencedaily.com)
- How shockwave therapy works. (npr.org)
- What it takes to become a member of the elite Backcountry Unit Search and Rescue (BUSAR) team. (artofmanliness.com)
- On the health benefits of a sauna. (npr.org)
Drink
- More wineries are shutting their doors. (thestreet.com)
- Why the BrewDog experiment ultimately failed. (nytimes.com)
- Home owners are passing on wine cellars. (sfgate.com)
- Mini-cocktails are increasingly a thing. (nypost.com)
Food
- There's no such thing as a cheap meal out these days. (wsj.com)
- Publix is encroaching on Kroger's ($KR) turf. (wsj.com)
- Why Luckin Coffee bought Blue Bottle. (om.co)
- Why slop bowls are on the way out. (nytimes.com)
- How does McDonald's ($MCD) The Big Arch taste? (msn.com)
F1
- The long road Cadillac traveled to get onto the F1 grid. (wsj.com)
- F1 title odds heading into the 2026 season. (neilpaine.substack.com)
Sports inuries
- Football causes the most head injuries in youth sports, but by no means the majority. (eurekalert.org)
- Teenage girls keep tearing their ACLs. (apnews.com)
Children
- Derek Thompson, "There is nothing about being a parent that isn’t a cliché." (derekthompson.org)
- Weed is getting normalized among teens. (wsj.com)
- What is the value of a good high school? (marginalrevolution.com)
College
- Ben Parker, "What ChatGPT produces is unreliable, drab, useless, and off topic. It is a thoughtless mishmash blended together out of middling consensus—not the creative attention I am asking students for." (publicbooks.org)
- Colleges are still working through the whole AI thing. (npr.org)
- Chinese students have been souring on the U.S. for awhile now. (theatlantic.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: open and free. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don't miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter. (abnormalreturns.com)
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