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Early Bird Christmas Shopping Started Much Earlier—and for Different Reasons—Than You Think
Paul Collins
Nov 06, 2013
5:40 AM
The Short, Glorious History of the Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving
Paul Collins
Dec 13, 2012
5:28 AM
Hybrid Cars Are So Quiet They’re a Menace to Pedestrians
Paul Collins
May 15, 2012
7:07 AM
What Was Crime-Fighting Actually Like in Sherlock Holmes-Era London?
Paul Collins
May 04, 2012
11:32 AM
The End of Saturday Mail Is Coming—and Friday Mail Might Be Next
Paul Collins
April 13, 2012
3:42 PM
The Chancellor of UC Davis Is a Bona-Fide Member of the 1 Percent. How Did That Happen?
Paul Collins
March 05, 2012
3:52 PM
It Would Be Disturbingly Easy To Fake $1 coins. Are We Doing Enough To Prevent Coin Counterfeiting?
Paul Collins
Feb 27, 2012
6:30 AM
The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste, the Unluckiest Ship Ever To Sail the Seven Seas
Paul Collins
Dec 06, 2011
11:10 AM
“Happy Birthday to You” copyright: Does the most infamous and resented copyright in musical history hold up to scrutiny?
Paul Collins
July 21, 2011
10:24 AM
News of the World scandal: Murdoch’s tabloid minions have nothing on the journalists of 1897.
Paul Collins
July 19, 2011
3:26 PM
Sh*t-faced: a brief history of the word.
Paul Collins
April 17, 2011
10:01 PM
What can the first how-to book for fiction still tell us?
Paul Collins
Nov 26, 2010
7:23 AM
The curious history of chain letters.
Paul Collins
Oct 01, 2010
1:33 PM
An Emmy for the first sitcom character with Asperger’s: The Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon Cooper.
Paul Collins
Aug 30, 2010
2:10 PM
A heroic wiki project to identify lost and orphaned films.
Paul Collins
July 08, 2010
7:01 AM
Remembering the giddy futurism of Omni magazine.
Paul Collins
Dec 29, 2009
10:11 AM
The man who invented the Hollywood schlock machine.
Paul Collins
July 06, 2009
7:02 AM
If Amazon.com gives almost nothing to charity, should we care?
Paul Collins
March 06, 2009
7:55 AM
Is the world ready for an Asperger’s sitcom?
Paul Collins
Feb 06, 2009
1:33 PM
Why mailmen don’t deliver the mail.
Paul Collins
Nov 20, 2008
6:59 AM
