Saturday links: walking a fine line
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 How solar panels are spreading through Africa. (bloomberg.com) How SMRs work. (ft.com) 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) Work in wealth management? Sign up for our exclusive Talking Wealth newsletter. (talkingwealthpod.com) Don't miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter. (abnormalreturns.com) Mixed media Contrary to popular belief, sugar does not make children hyper. (theatlantic.com) Has the variety bag ruined Halloween? (theatlantic.com) Halloween candy ranked, the data. (flowingdata.com)