Saturday links: walking a fine line
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
- China has EV manufacturing overcapacity. (barrons.com)
- Audi is building its first American plant. (wsj.com)
- FSD is the highest margin part of Tesla's ($TSLA) business. (arstechnica.com)
- The new Ford ($F) Fathom can power your house in a pinch. (techcrunch.com)
- It's not your imagination, there really are fewer car ads on TV. (wsj.com)
- How headlights got so bright. (washingtonpost.com)
Energy
Environment
- You just lived through the hottest October on record. (scientificamerican.com)
- Want to cool the Earth? Put up a big sun shade! (nature.com)
- How really white paint could help with Summer heat. (bloomberg.com)
- A look at all the facilities that have been granted clear air regulation exemptions under Trump. (nytimes.com)
- The Rio Grande river is disappearing. (wsj.com)
- This can't be good. (propublica.org)
Behavior
- Do we need more fear in our lives? (twopct.com)
- Closure is a uniquely modern concept. (bakadesuyo.com)
- Five steps to overcome a setback. (twopct.com)
- Nobody is 100% sure how anti-depressants work. (nytimes.com)
Space
- Cape Canaveral is booming. (axios.com)
- The retirement of the Falcon 9 could cause disruptions. (theconversation.com)
- NASA can no longer function without SpaceX. (arstechnica.com)
- Europe is now actively looking for alternatives to Starlink. (axios.com)
- A start to cleaning up space junk. (smithsonianmag.com)
Science
- On the difference between pure math and applied math. (theatlantic.com)
- How AI is going to accelerate scientific discovery. (noahpinion.blog)
Technology
- AI agents walk a fine line. (spyglass.org)
- The bottleneck for robots is data. (genuineimpact.substack.com)
- What is PHP and what it matters. (theconversation.com)
- How Chattanooga built the world’s best broadband network. (vox.com)
- How Malaysia became a hot bed for data centers. (nytimes.com)
Health
- More evidence in favor of Eli Lilly's ($LLY) reatrutide. (biopharmadive.com)
- It's now trivial to buy peptides online. (time.com)
Cigarettes
- Is the cigarette revival among young people real? (yahoo.com)
- The Milwaukee Brewers ripped heaters pre-game for good luck. (espn.com)
Food
- Ranchers are struggling with higher costs. (npr.org)
- Most of the produce you eat is not inspected. (wapo.st)
- How Aldi is keeping a lid on grocery costs. (npr.org)
- Casey's General Stores ($CASY) is taking pizza market share. (barrons.com)
- Nicholas Kristoff, "Some day, I suspect, our descendants will see our treatment of farm animals as a great moral blind spot of our age." (nytimes.com)
Drink
- The share of income Americans spend on alcohol has hit a record low. (livemint.com)
- How tariffs are impacting Kentucky bourbon makers. (bnnbloomberg.ca)
- How quitting drinking reverberates with friends and family. (msn.com)
Sports
- Horse racing is seeing a rebound in the U.S. (nytimes.com)
- Professional marathon runners are independent contractors. (frontofficesports.com)
- Kylian Mbappé and the high cost of speaking your mind. (cultureofsport.substack.com)
- More former NFL players may have CTE than previously thought. (nytimes.com)
Entertainment
- A24 is a brand. Other studios are jealous. (wsj.com)
- Female standup comedians are seeing their jokes ripped off by bots. (nytimes.com)
College
- In defense of business schools. (alexedmans.com)
- How rising housing costs are affecting California college students. (nytimes.com)
- Colleges are launching football teams to attract male applicants. (apnews.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
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