An article about edible flowers in Wednesday’s Taste section included some examples of flowers that are not edible. These flowers, mentioned in the story, should not be eaten: lily of the valley, iris, hyacinth and some species of jasmine (Jasminum sambac flowers are edible). Linden flower tea can cause heart damage with frequent consumption. The [...]
Here’s what showed up in a slate reader’s RSS feed (click for larger): The article has been fixed, though no correction was added. Thanks, Andrew! Report an error
Readers challenged a book extract that seemed to suggest that Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb. To clarify, the breakthrough that was made and publicly demonstrated about a year before Edison’s – by Joseph Swan of Newcastle, in early 1879 – was acknowledged by the book, but this element had been cut for space (Let there [...]
Paddy Johnson, a Brooklyn-based writer, runs the Art Fag City website. Johnson recently issued a correction/retraction for a post, and it’s more of a “I made a mistake but my larger point still stands” offering: I made a mistake. Yesterday I wrote a post complaining that Marc Schiller had received payment for the marketing he [...]
At least a couple of dozen readers kindly wrote to point out that when I called Wall Street bankers “glutinous’’ in a Wednesday column, I probably meant “gluttonous.’’ I’d love to tell you otherwise, but I apologize for the mistake. Link Thanks, Peter! Report an error
A report in The Caucus column on Friday about President Obama’s remarks to lawmakers and religious leaders at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday rendered incorrectly part of a quotation by Mr. Obama about the current political debate. In noting that ”we become absorbed with our abstract arguments, our ideological disputes, our contests for power,” [...]
I’m doing some traveling this week, so posting will be light (and possibly non-existent). Things will be back to normal on Monday. Report an error
We apologise to the staff and pupils of Kilkenny College, a boarding school in south-east Ireland, for mistakenly identifying it as a school that Saoirse Ronan left because teachers and students were giving her a hard time (A name to reckon with, 23 January, page 16, Weekend). Contrary to what we stated, Saoirse Ronan was [...]
Correction: A letter from Allen Glines (Jan. 15) spoke of the “murder” of Kiplyn Davis. The error was ours. It should have read: “the disappearance of Kiplyn Davis.” Link Report an error
While recognising that College societies may sometimes stray beyond their official raisons d’etre to pursue a wider range of interests, we were incorrect to report in our last issue that the Literary Society was hosting a “Boob Club†(What’s on this coming fortnight, page 9, October 14). They had, of course, settled for a Book [...]
An appraisal on Dec. 31 about David Levine, the caricaturist for The New York Review of Books who died on Dec. 29, may have left the incorrect impression that the Russian writer Aleksandr Pushkin, the subject of one of Mr. Levine’s drawings, was homosexual. The description of Pushkin as “a gay man” was a reference [...]
In a Jan. 2 story about the North Dakota National Guard on duty in Kosovo, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the soldiers responded to a roadside bomb. The soldiers responded to a roadside crash. Link Report an error
I’m taking a break, so posting will resume on Jan. 4. In the meantime, feel free to send along any notable corrections or errors. Report an error
In Thursday’s Herald we reported that Timaru Girls’ High students had been caught smoking cannabis on the school grounds. The school has confirmed there was a drug-related incident involving two students, but they had not been caught smoking cannabis on school grounds. Report an error
FOLLOWING our report entitled Welcome to booze-fuelled Belfast, (20 September 2009) Rachel Murphy, whose photograph was published with the report, has informed us that she does not drink alcohol and did not do so on that night. She disassociates herself from the behaviour described in the report. Report an error
ON October 7, 2007 we reported that Ms McGuinness had charged the Find Madeleine Fund pounds 20,000 in excess of her agreed fee, which had come as a surprise to the Fund’s managers, and that following a discussion with Gerry McCann, she was forced to part company with the Fund. We accept that Ms McGuinness [...]
Heather Holmes of Brad J. Lamb Realty represented Dale Sonier in his purchase of retail space for his Toronto sewing store. The space is 3,400 square feet, not 34,000 square feet as reported in Tuesday’s Property Report. Report an error
Steve Bunce: In Bunce takes the biscuit (1 October, page 12, Sport) we wrongly suggested that Steve Bunce, the boxing commentator, controlled the website bringbackbunce.net and had claimed on the site to have high-profile supporters, including Bertie Ahern and David Blunkett. We accept that Mr Bunce could not have made any such claims, as he [...]
I initially didn’t post about this story because it struck me as a tale of well-meaning aggregation gone wrong, but it seems that the issue was bigger than that. The bottom line is that the Hartford Courant has apologized for repeatedly and knowingly plagiarizing the work of its competitors. Here’s an excerpt from a statement [...]
Editor’s Note: This version corrects the original editorial which implied that physicist Stephen Hawking, a professor at the University of Cambridge, did not live in the UK. Link Oh, but there’s so much more to this Editor’s Note from Investor’s Business Daily. It omits the original, ridiculous statement contained in the editorial. And here it [...]
Student assault: A brief report wrongly said that a Chinese student had been stabbed in St James on Saturday night (Student stabbed, page 18, July 21). In fact, police have alleged that the student was struck in the mouth with a screwdriver and sprayed with pepper spray. Report an error
Phineas Gage image: An article in Thursday’s Section A about the discovery of a daguerreotype showing brain-injury patient Phineas Gage said the iron rod driven into his skull by a blast was successfully removed. In fact, the blast that drove the rod through his brain also drove it out the other side (it landed 25 [...]
A reader sent this image of a photo/photo caption mismatch in the Toronto Star: This is the image it was eventually replaced with: *Correction: The original headline on this post read "The curtains don’t match the drapes." That’s redundant. It has been corrected. Report an error
I’m on vacation so posting will resume on June 2. In the meantime, if you spot any errors or corrections of note, please email them to me. Report an error
In The Daily Observer of Wednesday, April 1, a story ran as an April Fool’s joke on the front page that upset many readers. It was intended to amuse and entertain, and not meant to offend anyone. We apologize if some found it offensive. Link Some background from the Ottawa Citizen: A Pembroke newspaper that [...]
