Monday assorted links

1. Do firearm norms explain the variation in interstate teen suicide deaths?

2. Rukmini S on the Tim Harford BBC podcast, and more here on data for India.

3. Italian village with 46 residents has 30 local election candidates.

4. Camille Paglia’s school closes (NYT).  And more here, accreditation was pulled suddenly.

5. Aurelian Criautu and Ben Klutsey on moderation and liberalism.

6. Anton Jäger on Belgium (NYT).

7. On Milei’s fixer (FT).

8. Helen Dale on personality and politics.

9. Supermajorities in Mexico, good luck with that.

10. Ashlee Vance on Cradle and Laura Deming (Bloomberg).  “The company says it’s successfully cooled and rewarmed a slice of rodent brain and found the sample retained the electrical activity in its neurons.”