Autos

• GM ($GM) under Mary Barra is not trying to be everything to everyone anymore. (wsj.com)
• Auto insurers are relying more on algorithms to estimate damages. (nytimes.com)
• A look at Ford's ($F) plan for the all-electric F-150 pickup. (axios.com)

Wildfires

• Why California was primed for wildfires this year. (theatlantic.com)
• Downed power lines likely contributed to the Oregon fires. (wsj.com)
• Why it makes sense to separate the effect of climate change and forestry practices when it comes to the Western wildfires. (theconversation.com)

Climate change

• How climate will change habitability in the US over time. (projects.propublica.org)
• Like it not, we are already paying the price of climate change. (barrons.com)
• The federal government has been ignoring climate change for the past 3+ years. (wired.com)
• The case for climate optimism: the market is already pushing fossil fuels aside. (niskanencenter.org)

Environment

• Two big Antarctic glaciers are breaking free which will accelerate sea level rise. (washingtonpost.com)
• Arctic sea ice levels are at near-record lows. (ft.com)
• Big Oil wants you to believe plastic is recyclable - so you will buy more of it. (npr.org)
• The demand for carbon credits keeps growing. (ft.com)
• How a a marine reserve off of Puglia restored an aquaculture and made fishing viable again. (reasonstobecheerful.world)

Science

• What the discovery of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus tells us. (fastcompany.com)
• A spacecraft just so happens to be on its way to Venus. (msn.com)

Apple

• The iPad never reached the heights of the iPhone here it is ten years in and that's okay. (asymco.com)
• Why the iPad Pro is on track for new features. (macworld.com)
• Apple One is all about keeping you in the ecosystem. (theverge.com)
• A better Siri would make the Apple ($AAPL) Watch unbeatable. (theverge.com)
• The iPhone now warns you when an app is using the microphone or camera with an orange dot. (finance.yahoo.com)

Behavior

• More Americans report being in 'extreme distress' than 15 years ago. (ajph.aphapublications.org)
• How open should you be about your mental health at work? (wsj.com)
• Lawrence Yeoh, "While you can’t control what you feel, you can control how long you ought to feel it." (moretothat.com)
• In praise of reconciling with estranged family members. (wsj.com)
• Stop fighting battles you can't win. (ryanholiday.net)

Health

• The pandemic has negatively affected other global health initiatives. (statnews.com)
• How inhaled (wildfire) smoke affects the body. (nationalgeographic.com)
• Yet another reason to kill off daylight savings time for good. (nytimes.com)

Fitness

• What Covid-19 survivors need to consider before restarting an exercise regimen. (wired.com)
• On the differences between live and online exercise classes. (vox.com)
• Yoga studios have taken a big hit in pandemic. (nytimes.com)

Sleep

• Feeling angry? You may not be getting enough sleep. (sciencedaily.com)
• Employment issues are related to sleep disturbances. (nber.org)
• How the Apple ($AAPL) Watch Sleep app helps you get to sleep. (fastcompany.com)

Food

• At least 200 people working in meat packing plants have died of Covid-19. (washingtonpost.com)
• The shuttering of restaurants has knock-on effects in other industries. (finance.yahoo.com)
• Don't kid yourself, kettle potato chips are awful. (eater.com)

Drink

• Drizly dominates home alcohol delivery. (secondmeasure.com)
• The craft beer boom by numbers. (visualcapitalist.com)

Golf

• Golf has seen a revival in interest in pandemic. (finance.yahoo.com)
• Golf got its pandemic boost, but can it hang onto its new players? (mylesudland.substack.com)

Sports

• The contraction of Minor League Baseball is going to put the hurt on small towns across America. (ozy.com)
• Why the Big Ten's return to football was inevitable. (theatlantic.com)

Entertainment

• Netflix ($NFLX) continues to outspend the competition on content. (ft.com)
• Why Apple ($AAPL) should have released all the 'Ted Lasso' episodes at once. (500ish.com)
• CBS All Access is becoming Paramount Plus next year. (variety.com)
• How Letterboxd became the home for film criticism. (theringer.com)

College

• The pandemic has only served to highlight the problem with modern American universities. (thenation.com)
• Low-income college students are dropping out at a higher rate this Fall. (washingtonpost.com)
• The 2020 WSJ rankings of the top universities and colleges doesn't hold a lot of surprises. (wsj.com)

MBA

• UK business schools have seen a surge in MBA applications. (ft.com)
• MBA programs are trying adapt to digital offerings like everyone else. (msn.com)

Earlier on Abnormal Returns

• Coronavirus links: a real coronavirus response. (abnormalreturns.com)
• What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Podcast links: simple tools. (abnormalreturns.com)
• On the challenge of holding two competing thoughts on the pandemic in your head a the same time. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Some thoughts on the relationship between time, creativity and wealth. (abnormalreturns.com)

Mixed media

• Why is discovery still an issue on the web? (seths.blog)
• What to do when your website needs to serve more than one audience? (tomtunguz.com)

Data

• The US now has a higher per capita death rate than Sweden. (econbrowser.com)
• Arizona's outbreak seems to be in the rear view mirror, for now. (wsj.com)
• A study of the outcomes for young adults with Covid-19 admitted to the hospital. (jamanetwork.com)
• Some evidence that China didn't manipulate its Covid-19 statistics. (sciencedirect.com)
• Stillbirths have increased dramatically in pandemic. (nature.com)

Spread

• Farm workers have been uniquely affected by Covid-19. (bloomberg.com)
• A rural wedding in Maine is officially a superspreader event. (washingtonpost.com)
• How Carnival Cruises's ($CCL) the Ruby Princess helped seed the coronavirus around the globe. (bloomberg.com)
• Early in the pandemic, hospital spread of Covid-19 was a real problem. (wsj.com)
• Could wearing glasses protect you from the coronavirus? Some preliminary evidence. (nytimes.com)

Treatments

• Hospitals are more prepared to deal with Covid-19 patients than they were six months ago. (wsj.com)
• How regulating bradykinin could help prevent inflammation cascades seen in Covid-19 patients. (nbcnews.com)
• A monoclonal antibody from Eli Lilly ($LLY) showed some preliminary promise in clearing coronavirus from patients. (statnews.com)
• How politicizing convalescent plasma has backfired. (washingtonpost.com)

Influenza

• The Southern hemisphere has largely bypassed flu season. (nbcnews.com)
• How to tell the difference between influenza and Covid-19. (wsj.com)
• Don't sweat it, get your flu shot when you can. (nytimes.com)

Lockdowns

• Despite outbreaks, Europe is no mood for locking back down again. (wsj.com)
• Israel is back on a three week lockdown. (nbcnews.com)
• Advisors are proposing a two-week lockdown in the UK. (ft.com)

Vaccine distribution

• A Covid-19 vaccine will only be as effective as its distribution plan. (statnews.com)
• An effective vaccine distribution plan will require close coordination between the states and federal government. (politico.com)
• The CDC is trying to bypass states with a new, untested vaccine tracking database. (politico.com)
• At this pace it's going to take years to vaccinate the entire world. (ft.com)
• What equitable, global vaccine distribution would look like in practice. (ft.com)

Vaccines

• Why some analysts want more transparency into ongoing vaccine trials. (nytimes.com)
• Moderna ($MRNA) and Pfizer ($PFE) has released a lot of documents about their clinical trials. (nytimes.com)
• How a vaccine could roll out to high-risk populations first under an EUA. (wsj.com)
• How trained immunity from the BCG vaccine could be playing a role in slowing Covid-19. (theatlantic.com)
• What it's going to take to convince those reluctant to get a Covid-19 vaccination. (bloomberg.com)

Risk analysis

• The pandemic is a huge experiment in human behavior. (washingtonpost.com)
• How the transition of Covid-19 risk assessments from the government to individuals has wreaked havoc. (vox.com)
• Five lessons learned about the use (and abuse) of statistics from Covid-19. (ft.com)
• We humans are bad at dealing with big numbers like Covid-19 casualties. (slate.com)

Policy (failures)

• The USPS planned to send every household face masks in April. Then the administration intervened. (washingtonpost.com)
• You can thank Jared Kushner, in part, for the government's failed response to PPE shortages. (vanityfair.com)
• The CDC has reverse course and now once again recommends testing for asymptomatic people exposed to the virus. (arstechnica.com)
• Why contact tracing has largely been a failure in the West. (wsj.com)
• How American exceptionalism helped doom the pandemic response. (washingtonpost.com)

Earlier on Abnormal Returns

• On the challenge of holding two competing thoughts on the pandemic in your head a the same time. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Coronavirus links: cheap and quick tests. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Acceptable risks in a world full of uncertainty. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Having no plan is just as bad as not following the plan you have. (abnormalreturns.com)

Mixed media

• Public health officials around the world are getting death threats. (washingtonpost.com)
• Herd immunity, at present, is context-dependent and therefore a fragile thing. (marginalrevolution.com)
• Temperature checks don't do much to catch people who are likely to spread the virus. (nytimes.com)
• A breathalyzer-type test for Covid-19 would be great but still a ways off. (wired.com)