Monday assorted links

1. Why we like being scared.  More here.

2. If you had only one day to eat in New York City, where should you go?  (New Yorker)  More useful than almost any other restaurant advice you will get.

3. The importance of class ordinal rank.

4. Tractor overturns are the leading cause of farm fatalities.

5. Uber’s secret weapon is its team of economists.  And this bit: “When he married in 2011, a quarter of the wedding guests were economists.”

6. “The race is on toward the first 2,000-pound pumpkin in Canada.“