FREAK-est Links

• The end of an era – Friendly’s files for bankruptcy.
• French nobility is still alive, but not exactly well.
• Is New York really safer, adjusted for crime inflation?
• Engineering a climate change solution – closer still to that garden hose to the sky.
• Sesame Street to debut impoverished Muppet.
• China wins, and Desmond Tutu is not amused.