scheele’s green: more on the poisonous, synthetic shade—via Messy Nessy Chic
terroir: BBC’s Jancis Robinson’s Wine Course
family business: a look at the oldest-continuing operating hotel in the world, by shifting definitions (see also)contagion: banking stocks drop as investors lose confidence after the failure and intervention for Silicon Valley Bank (previously)
xerox alto: a half-century on (see previously), we are still living with the legacy of one of the first home computers—via Kottke
ghostwatch: a BBC mockumentary that spooked viewers
$: the first instance of the dollar sign in print—see previously
arsenic and old lace: an astonishing murder ring of earlier twentieth-century Hungary
