Red Herrings

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Radiolab - produced by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich - recently released an episode called " The Fact of the Matter " which exp...

My two copies of The Atlas of the Great Irish Famine  came in the mail today.  It's a lovely volume, and I'm pleased to say that the...

From the American Flag  (Matamoros, Mexico) May 26th, 1847 Moustached men, rejoice!  A writer in the London Naval and Military Gazette co...

I really don't know what to make of this gobbet, published in the American Flag , the newspaper of Matamoros in the 1840s on February 13...

"Because, really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is 'what is this?...

Well, to be fair, that's probably a more provocative title than needs be, but it was also the header on a packet distributed by my depar...