Wednesday assorted links
2. 1987 piece on whether oil prices will hold at $18 a barrel — maybe they will!
3. Writing political speeches by AI algorithm.
4. Classic books, such as Moby-Dick, with only the punctuation.
5. From 2010 to 2014, life expectancy in Syria has fallen from 79.5 to 55.7.
6. What happens when a banking system shuts down? A look at Ireland in the 1970s.