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This week someone in California won over a billion dollars on Powerball. It's staggering to think that kind of money is available. (I wrote about it for…
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This week’s viral and horrific story started with a cat owner, posting about how his Lyft driver took off with the cat still in the car. The nature of…
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Sunset unlimited
I was on a long train trip this week, and thinking about the erosion of most of the things that once upon a time would have made train travel elegant…
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Brief thoughts on exposure and inheritance
Recent days have seen (another) kerfuffle involving historical research. The basic gist is that a researcher at Cambridge was looking into slavery in…
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In a pickle....
When I was a kid, gift shops (of the kind that sold pot pourri and unicorn figurines) also had a quirky thing: PICKLED PEOPLE. I’ve no idea where this…
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In a crooked manner
A recent news story was of the tragic destruction of the “Crooked House” pub. The building had apparently started subsiding in the nineteenth century…
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Nature reclaiming its own
In the mid-1920s, Henry Ford was granted a piece of land the size of Connecticut from the government of Brazil. On this land, the Ford company would…
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Sending out an SOS to the world
One of the discussion topics this week on twitter was this article from the Guardian, about mental health among authors and publishers. One author…
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Lost in a crowd
Readers, it's been a few days. I've been busy, had job interviews, and was watching the tennis (I love watching the major tennis events: when I was a…
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Notes from the Field
Notes from the Field
Newsletter on the strange and quirky histories of popular culture.
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