Wednesday assorted links

1. Why are arena tours selling so poorly?

2. Daniel Frank’s favorite Scott Sumner posts.

3. NYT on puffins in Iceland.

4. Molly Cantillon, NOX, and their new AI assistant.

5. U.S. edition now out for Cynthia Haven edition of Rene Girard essay volume.

6. A new tunnel under the Hudson River? (NYT)

7. Long FT piece on whether South Africa can hold together.

8. CPI does well, bitcoin explodes.  Worth a ponder, I have long argued bitcoin is a complement to USD, not a substitute.

9. “Private cloud compute.“