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Research Outtakes: Lynching the Irish

Posted on June 23, 2013 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

Research offers so many diversions from the main thread one is following. Yesterday it was Blériot flying the Channel. This morning produced this distracting oddity, from the Wikipedia entry for Northampton, MA (link below): In 1805 a crowd of 15,000 gathered in Northampton to watch the executions of two Irishmen convicted of murder: Dominic Daley, […]

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The Batman Movie Killings, Madness, and Culture

Posted on June 1, 2013 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

Below find #2 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s tenure at WIRED, as I prepared to move them to this site. In this post, on the Batman-movie shootings last summer, I took advantage of a blog’s reiterative freedoms to clarify an […]

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