Saturday links: why filters matter
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
- Expect continued expansion of robotaxis in 2026. (cnbc.com)
- Ford ($F) killed the All-Electric F-150. (wired.com)
- Chinese EVs are taking over Britain. (nytimes.com)
Tesla
- Tesla ($TSLA) owners are wary of their (electronic) doors. (msn.com)
- Tesla's ($TSLA) Austin robotaxi crash data isn't great. (electrek.co)
Texas
- Good news. A new solar cell plant is going up in Texas. (axios.com)
- How Texas is encouraging geothermal energy. (nytimes.com)
Energy
- Winter heating costs are expected to rise some 9% this year. (money.com)
- Global coal demand is set to reach a record high for 2025. (ft.com)
- The U.S. handed China the lead in nuclear power on a silver platter. (newyorker.com)
- On the challenges of operating a nuclear power plant in tornado territory. (wired.com)
Climate
- The administration plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research. (politico.com)
- How much the Earth has warmed depends on an estimate of pre-industrial temperatures. (edition.cnn.com)
- Just how quickly the world is losing glaciers. (newscientist.com)
Environment
- Why the Colorado River is ongoing point of dispute. (politico.com)
- Gas stove makers don't want you to know about the risks. (theconversation.com)
- A lot of fast fashion ends up in landfills in developing countries. (grist.org)
- Offshore windmills could actually be good for marine life. (semafor.com)
- Some actual good news for the environment in 2025 including 'Green turtles have been rescued from the brink of extinction.' (bbc.com)
Travel
- How Costco ($COST) became a big player in the travel business. (wsj.com)
- Europe's budget airlines are set to return to Ukraine once a peace deal is struck. (ft.com)
- The case against traveling to the U.S. at the moment. (theguardian.com)
Space
- Satellites are putting space-based astronomy at-risk. (nature.com)
- Satellites are increasingly having to dodge each other. (newscientist.com)
Technology
- Meta's ($META) capex spending has soared. (ft.com)
- How online retailers hijack our decision making. (wsj.com)
- Where in the U.S. data centers are getting built. (axios.com)
Behavior
- Feeling awe is good for your health. (msn.com)
- Helping other people is good for the brain. (sciencedaily.com)
- The 14 best psychology books of 2025 including "Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty" by Adam Kucharski. (nextbigideaclub.com)
Communicable disease
- Denmark's vaccine schedule works for Denmark, but not for the U.S. (statnews.com)
- Most measles cases are mild, and likely undercounted. (theatlantic.com)
- Pregnant women who got the Covid vaccine were less likely to go into premature labor. (scientificamerican.com)
- There is still hope for a bird flu vaccine. (biopharmadive.com)
- Whooping cough in babies is not pretty. (nbcnews.com)
Cancer
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, "Metabolism is where ecology meets oncology." (statnews.com)
- How personalized risk assessment can better identify breast cancers. (time.com)
- Tanning bed users are getting skin cancer in weird places. (npr.org)
Public health
- The health care industry is dependent on immigrants. (theconversation.com)
- Who is actually swinging the axe at the NIH? (theatlantic.com)
- Why comparing Big Food to Big Tobacco doesn't make sense. (theatlantic.com)
- Banning the online sale of e-cigarettes does little to deter their use. (papers.ssrn.com)
- A sitting U.S. senator is spreading medical misinformation. (propublica.org)
Health
- Maria Konnikova, "There are plenty of shades of grey. But making up medical details is not in the gray zone. It’s malpractice." (mariakonnikova.substack.com)
- Eli Lilly's ($LLY) orforglipron pill helps patients maintain weight loss. (cnbc.com)
- The LA fires drove an increase in ER visits. (wsj.com)
- Progress is being made on an universal snake antivenom. (smithsonianmag.com)
- The case for cutting saturated fats. (wsj.com)
- What is C-reactive protein? (theconversation.com)
Coffee
- Why instant coffee sales are rising. (bloomberg.com)
- Keurig ($KDP) continues to dominate the coffee pod market. (semafor.com)
Food
- Aldi and Walmart are attracting higher income customers. (sherwood.news)
- Chipotle ($CMG) is pushing high protein options. (finance.yahoo.com)
- This study on the benefits of eating high fat cheese may not be valid, but let's pretend it is. (nytimes.com)
Sports
- Why the NBA is changing its rules around injury reports. (espn.com)
- Prediction market affiliates are spreading false rumors. (frontofficesports.com)
- A recommendation for Ken Belson's "Every Day is Sunday: How Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft, and Roger Goodell Turned the NFL into a Cultural & Economic Juggernaut." (marginalrevolution.com)
- Maybe this is why Philip Rivers' came back to the NFL? (frontofficesports.com)
Entertainment
- Will you engage with Netflix ($NFLX) in the real world? (dwell.com)
- Regional theater is struggling but these places are making it work. (nytimes.com)
College
- Oral exams are making a comeback. (washingtonpost.com)
- We really don't know how good (or bad) teaching is at universities. (hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com)
- Purdue University undergrads will have an AI requirement. (forbes.com)
Children
- What happens when a school bans cell phones. (nymag.com)
- Pets and babies are complements, not substitutes. (marginalrevolution.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: the history of money. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Why RSS still matters. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don't miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter. (abnormalreturns.com)
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