Friday morning news drop
Canada's steel industry has a secret weapon that could soon beat China's cheaper bids Canadian steel has one of the lowest carbon footprints in the world, a standard that may soon carry more weight than price (Financial Post)
World-Dominating Superstar Firms Get Bigger, Techier, and More Chinese The world’s biggest businesses were doing fine until Covid-19 arrived. Now they’re doing even better. The top 50 companies by value added $4.5 trillion of stock market capitalization in 2020, taking their combined worth to about 28% of global gross domestic product. Three decades ago the equivalent figure was less than 5%. (Businessweek)
The Strongest Sign Yet That Inflation Is Transitory After a year of soaring prices, some builders — and homebuyers — are beginning to step back. The rest of the economy may follow suit. (Bloomberg)
How Apple screwed Facebook Apple’s iOS 14.5 update has triggered an unstoppable collapse in Facebook’s ability to collect user data (Wired)
The U.S. Is Not Ready For An All-Electric Future The U.S. is woefully unprepared to handle “the electrification of everything.” Increased electrification in all sectors will need huge investments in the electric grid, in battery storage to back up renewable power generation, in charging points for EVs, and in technologies such as green hydrogen to help those technologies to reach maturity and cost efficiency enough to start replacing fossil fuels. (Oilprice)
What Happens to Our Brains When We Get Depressed? The human brain, in all its complexity, is nearly impossible to model. One neuroscientist is trying anyway (Walrus)
Videos of the week
No Way - The Hans Rey Story - Documentary from 2004 This documentary chronicles arguably the most famous mountain biker and trials rider’s life and biking career until 2003. From Hans’ upbringings in Germany as a Trials rider, to his move to America where he helped pioneer mountain biking and some of its subcultures such as Freeride, Trials, Extreme Biking and Adventure. His story is an inspiring tale of how a boy with a bike and dream made his way into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. Classic and rare footage, as well as interviews from Steve Peat, Brian Lopes, John Tomac, Richie Schley, Wade Simmons, Gary Turner and Hans' parents.
Bike Trials World Champion - Portsmouth street riding 2021 Charlie Rolls - street edit! here it is
Dunbar Cycles Team Rider Gabe Neron shredding Cypress Jank! 🤘
Flow State - feat Josh Lowe Kona Downhill Mountain Bike team rider Josh Lowe getting into his flow state with big whips and big air riding at Wind Hill B1kepark on the "Viagra Falls"trail.
'WHOOPS' FT. HOBIE DOAN, BRETT SILVA, JULIAN ARTEAGA, TRENT LUTZKE & MORE | DIG BMX
LEWIS MILLS - "Controller Bar" / ÉCLAT BMX
Clive Dixon's "Prine" Part Clive demolishes an abandoned warehouse and hits rails too insane to describe at breakneck speed. The dude ain’t human.
Franky Villani's "One Big RAW Mess" Part Franky’s stunts and envelope-pushing tech all require some serious skin shedding. See how he muscles through it.