It seemed as if the strangest story of the week would involve the European scientists who are giving Rubik’s cubes to octopuses to determine their favorite tentacles, but it’s been topped by an update on a previous post on this site about the sale of the Chrysler Building to the Abu Dhabi Investment Council — it happened. (Read more here.) And as this piece in the New York Times proves (“Foreign Investors Pile Up More Pieces of Americana“), the sale is far from strange — it’s the new norm.