Slate’s mistakes for the week of March 14.

Slate’s Mistakes for the Week of March 14

Slate’s Mistakes for the Week of March 14

Slate's mistakes.
March 18 2016 4:07 AM

Corrections

Slate’s mistakes.

In a March 19 Bad Astronomy, Phil Plait misstated that the Sun moves one degree across the sky in two minutes. It moves one degree in four minutes.

In a March 18 Schooled, Laura Moser misidentified the Food Research and Action Center as the Food and Research Action Center.

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In a March 18 Slatest, Ben Mathis-Lilley stated that a Michigan State basketball loss was the fourth-biggest upset ever in the NCAA Tournament by point spread; it was actually the fourth-biggest of the past 20 years.

In a March 18 Slatest, Josh Voorhees misstated the date of the Fox Business GOP debate. It was held on Jan. 14, not Jan. 15.

In a March 17 Metropolis, Jake Blumgart misstated that a moving company profiled in the book Evicted gets most of its work from evictions. The company gets many of its jobs that way, but not most. He also misquoted Evicted author Matthew Desmond as saying that “we don’t have laws on the books” to protect tenants from indecent conditions. Desmond said “we do” have such laws.

In a Mar. 17 Outward, Marcie Bianco misstated that the main characters of Sarah Schulman’s novel The Cosmopolitans live in the East Village. They live in Greenwich Village.

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In a March 16 Bad Astronomy, Phil Plait misidentified Caroline Herschel as William Herschel’s wife. She was his sister.

In a March 16 Double X, Katy Waldman misstated that a formal sexual assault charge had been brought against Jack Montague. The charge was of sexual misconduct.

In a March 15 Double X, Nora Caplan-Bricker misstated that Middlebury College and the University of Southern California had been forced to reinstate students “after failing to afford them due process.” While due process was at issue in California cases, it is still undecided. The Middlebury reinstatement was a matter of procedure awaiting the result of court proceedings.

In a March 15 Interrogation, Isaac Chotiner misstated which prime minister’s government David Miliband served under as foreign secretary. It was Gordon Brown’s, not Tony Blair’s.

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In a March 14 Bad Astronomy, Phil Plait misstated that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter entered Mars orbit in 1996. It was in 2006.

In a March 14 Brow Beat, Aisha Harris misidentified Titus Andromedon, the character on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, as Titus Andronicus.

In a March 14 Outward, Timothy Stewart-Winter misidentified Roland Pena as Ronald Pena.

In a March 14 Schooled, Miriam Hall misstated that Nevada’s Clark County School District could not afford to give teachers raises. It approved a pay hike for teachers earlier this year

In a March 11 Moneybox blog post, Rachel E. Gross misstated that consumers found glass in at least 12 types of Nestle meals. The glass was found in “a few products,” according to Nestle.

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