Autos

• Doubts are being raised about market darling Nikola ($NKLA). (hindenburgresearch.com)
• The rise of the big SUV is making fighting climate change harder. (slate.com)
• Driver's education is going by the wayside. (mentalfloss.com)

Transport

• Some ways to play the e-bike boom. (marketwatch.com)
• How to safely organize a boat parade. (ftalphaville.ft.com)

Energy

• How energy consumption (and source) has changed for various countries over time. (visualcapitalist.com)
• The Dept. of Energy has given approval to the first small-scale, self-contained nuclear reactors. (apnews.com)

Environment

• The Western United States is on fire. (slate.com)
• Americans don't want to continue repaying to rebuild homes in flood and fire-prone areas. (nytimes.com)
• According to the WWF the world's animal population is in 'free fall.' (ft.com)
• It's not just plastic microfibers that are flooding the oceans. (wired.com)
• Why big craters are opening up in the Siberian tundra. (edition.cnn.com)

Travel

• The pandemic is shifting demand for some vacation spots (nytimes.com)
• It's hard not to travel with your dog this year. (nytimes.com)

Science

• How American mastodons were driven in extinction by climate change. (wired.com)
• Astronomers are surprised by what they have learned from Voyager 1 and 2 as they leave the heliosphere. (bbc.com)

Technology

• We continue to rely on Big Tech due to convenience. (om.co)
• How technology moves from being novel to normal. (ritholtz.com)
• In the real world 5G doesn't seem to be any faster than 4G. (washingtonpost.com)
• App store ratings are crucial to the success of an app. (ft.com)
• You have way too many browser tabs open. (wired.com)

Pandemic effects

• The opioid crisis didn't end in pandemic, it only got worse. (wsj.com)
• Americans are grinding their teeth in pandemic. (nytimes.com)
• Pandemic is a perfect storm for those with eating disorders. (npr.org)

Behavior

• How much of the rise in anxiety and depression and pandemic is permanent? (wired.com)
• More evidence that psychadelics can help with depression. (bigthink.com)
• 'Fill up your canteen' when you get the chance. (artofmanliness.com)

Health

• Fewer American kids are vaping. (nbcnews.com)
• Researchers continue to look for substitutes to donated blood. (wsj.com)

Fitness

• The men's wellness industrial complex is just as bad as the female counterpart. (slate.com)
• People are not headed back to the gym just yet. (media.thinknum.com)
• People go to the gym for a lot of reasons, fitness only being one of them. (theatlantic.com)

Food

• Farm workers have it tough, even without wildfire smoke. (npr.org)
• The USDA is reducing oversight of the egg industry. (modernfarmer.com)
• There's no sustainable way forward for restaurants without a better way to support workers. (nytimes.com)
• Despite reopenings, Americans have not returned to restaurants. (bloomberg.com)
• What does it mean to be a food reviewer when restaurants are closed? (wsj.com)

Football

• The NFL season is going to look a lot different this year. (washingtonpost.com)
• How is the NFL going to deal with largely empty stadiums? (theringer.com)
• Researchers are trying to find ways to scan for CTE among living players. (washingtonpost.com)

School

• Pandemic is a disaster for children with disabilities. (wsj.com)
• What schools are doing to support kids in a very weird year. (vox.com)
• Schools are struggling to get food to hungry children. (npr.org)
• Schools have had to rethink transportation in pandemic. (wsj.com)
• Kids aren't getting their recommended vaccinations. (wsj.com)

College

• College towns are hurting without football. (si.com)
• Why do so many people who start college, not finish? (behavioralscientist.org)
• How college admissions are going to change moving forward. (nytimes.com)

Earlier on Abnormal Returns

• Coronavirus links: cheap and quick tests. (abnormalreturns.com)
• What you missed in our Saturday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Podcast links: pursuing happiness. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Part two of my Q&A with Morgan Housel author of the new book "The Psychology of Money." (abnormalreturns.com)
• Part one of my Q&A with Morgan Housel author of the new book "The Psychology of Money." (abnormalreturns.com)
• Every Friday I send out five links for advisers to help them think a little differently about the world. Sign up now! (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)

Mixed media

• Creativity doesn't appear on a schedule. (moretothat.com)
• Why founders should write and write well - because it is a high leverage tool. (firstround.com)
• Three reasons to keep blogging including "To figure out what I have to say." (austinkleon.com)

Intuition

• Our intuition about Covid-19 has failed us. Stopping the spread of the coronavirus means doing many things at once. Something the US seems incapable of. (theatlantic.com)
• Masks work, but the math behind their effectiveness is not intuitive. (digg.com)

Vaccines

• 9 reasons to be optimistic about a 2021 vaccine. (daily.jstor.org)
• Vaccine makers are pledging not to rush a vaccine to market. (statnews.com)
• The economic case to pay people to get vaccinated is straightforward. (nytimes.com)
• What happens if there are multiple approved coronavirus vaccines? (wsj.com)

Testing

• Positive trends are what matter, not precision. (wsj.com)
• For any number of reasons we are not testing enough children for Covid-19. (nytimes.com)
• A sophisticated testing system has not prevented the University of Illinois at Champaign from seeing a surge in cases. (slate.com)

Spread

• "There is no safe distance in a poorly ventilated room, unfortunately." (theconversation.com)
• Why shutdowns in the US didn't work to tamp down the virus. (theatlantic.com)
• Some evidence that the novel coronavirus may have been spreading in the US as early as December. (washingtonpost.com)
• There is evidence that restaurant patrons are more likely to get Covid-19. (eater.com)

Long haulers

• There is evidence the novel coronavirus hangs around in the gut of patients long after clearing the respiratory system. (fortune.com)
• Doctors are trying to a handle on what is causing long haulers to remain sick. (nytimes.com)
• Italy is finding that a large portion of Covid-19 survivors are still suffering after effects. (washingtonpost.com)

Children

• Why some people are downplaying the risk of coronavirus infection for young people. (theatlantic.com)
• How Germany has reopened schools safely, so far. (washingtonpost.com)

Hot spots

• How the island of Sardinia became a coronavirus hot spot this Summer. (nytimes.com)
• The Sturgis, SD biker meetup wasn't harmless but we really don't know the impact. (slate.com)

Data

• Why testing data in the US is no longer reliable. (theatlantic.com)
• Vaping increases the risk of severe Covid-19. (nytimes.com)
• Death rates for coronavirus break down on age and race. (theconversation.com)

Policy

• Like it or not, the US is locked into this trajectory at least through year-end. (theatlantic.com)
• Canada is taking the coronavirus seriously. The US is not. (theatlantic.com)
• Sweden's Anders Tegnell is unrepentant about the country's approach to the coronavirus. (ft.com)
• Why are N95 masks still so difficult to get? You can thank the federal government. (msn.com)

Earlier on Abnormal Returns

• Coronavirus links: an unwillingness to sacrifice (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)