Thursday assorted links

1. New Charles Jones paper analyzing the normative issues behind existential risk (though not its likelihood).

2. Banks don’t use swaps very much to hedge interest rate risk.

3. Do automobile touchscreens work?

4. Dutchman wins European seagull screeching championship.

5. Adrian Woolridge on Roger Scruton (Bloomberg).

6. How good or bad are coffee dates?  Compared to what?

7. Tocqueville on the importance of travel for learning.

8. Fugees Malaysia markets in everything.