Every year around this time of the year I collect and post Annual Best of Lists and this is the second installment featuring the best podcasts, the words of the year, favorite investment writing, airlines we lost, the best books and the best photography links online. Goal is for you to discover something educational, entertaining and hopefully inspiring as well. I am going to keep my commentary light and let’s all enjoy the holidays dear blog readers, see you next year.
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Happy New Year!
Here we go with the second edition of 2024 Annual Best of Lists:
52 Snippets From 2024
We start out with a mostly Finance related link and here I go picking “the top” five:
Stock markets are an amazing place – since 1980 intra-year the market fell 14.2% on average, but recovered to end positive 33 out of those 44 years.
China controls 40% of the world’s commercial shipbuilding capacity. The US has just 0.5%.
The S&P 500 index is meant to represent 500 companies. It has become so concentrated due to the rise of Mag 7 stocks that its effective diversification is less than 60 stocks.
29% of all workers in agriculture and 25% in construction are immigrants.
The Chernobyl disaster may have killed 60 people and poisoned 60,000 but the abandonment of nuclear power that followed was likely responsible for 4 million deaths from air pollution as more coal was used for base power.
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2024
Airlines We Lost 2024
Words of the Year
These are great, must click.
Nature’s 10
Ten people who helped shape science in 2024.
NPR: Books We Love
My Favorite Investment Writing of 2024
By Nick Maggiulli who writes at the Of Dollars and Data blog. Some great reads. Actually, many of them I linked in my blog this year.
2024 Nature Photographer of the Year
2024 Photomicrography Competition
Associated Press 100 Photos of 2024
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Thanks for the terrific links over the years!
Happy New Year.
Good morning Buzz,
Great photos, thanks for another great year of posts.
Big game coming up, hard to believe the Lions & Vikes will square off for the #1 seed. About bloody time.
Happy New Year to you and your family Buzz!
Nice pile of things to read through and look at! Yay! Happy New Year to you and yours and thank you for all the hard work you put into the blog!
Carl
Thanks guys, Happy New Year to all!
And thanks to reader L for the coffees and nice note, gestures like this always make my day.
Lions game tonight starts at 8.15 pm. I doubt I will be up by halftime, lol.
Yeah, what a huge game next week Vikings at Lions!
Happy new year to all. Ok, with regards to your last post and Squid Games, I’m feeling totally gaslit. I had thought there mut bre more episodes in S2 which had not yet been released. What a dud.
I have a stay upcoming at the new HP BKK. Might be a bit late to worry about them playing games as think it may have started. Would not allow me to apply a GOH certificate to the booking so I don’t think I will be having breakfast there.
Season 3 is coming in 2025. And there will not be another one I learned. Then again, who knows, maybe the $$$ is just too much to ignore. I still think this should have ended at Season 1.
Please let is know how you like the new HP in BKK.
HNY!
Lost two email list subscribers today.
What a way to end the year, “thanks” a lot to you two. How demoralizing this is…when I already have the Friday post in draft mode and if I dropped it today it would be one of the longest and best posts to date. Or maybe I am just biased and my blog just sucks or is just too much to take all in one sitting. Then again, when I broke it down in pieced and posted daily, site traffic was a tiny bit DOWN.
So, it is what it is. One day I am just going to get tired and just leave…like Drew did years ago. And no I am not going to get hired by The Points Guy for that to happen, lol.
It is what it is, thank you for being here.
I always enjoyed reading of Drew and Carrie’s adventures, and I know Carrie is now working for Frequent Miler, but what has become of Drew?
I have no idea what he is up to these days. I have seen him in some of Carrie’s posts online so they are still together.
Loved that Travel Is Free blog too. He would not have quit and gone to work for money at The Points Guy if he had more support. I don’t need the money and this is why I am still around for a few coffees and one credit card sale per month, sad lol.
New bigly Friday post coming shortly, enjoy.