February 12, 2008 – 8:00 am
It was Vivian Fuchs who crossed the Antarctic in 1958, not Klaus Fuchs as we said (The events we choose to mark tell us who we are, page 34, February 9). Klaus Fuchs was the nuclear physicist jailed for espionage in 1950. Link
February 11, 2008 – 8:00 am
A graphic with a report on Afghanistan (page 8, February 6) should have said that 6,500 Afghans, rather than Afghanis, had been killed in 2007. An Afghani is a unit of currency. Link
February 8, 2008 – 8:00 am
We mistakenly described nitrous oxide, one of the byproducts of an engine powered by liquid hydrogen, as being environmentally safe (The hypersonic plane designed to reach Australia in under five hours, page 9, February 5). It is a greenhouse gas nearly 300 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. However, the developer, Reaction Engines, has a [...]
February 7, 2008 – 8:00 am
The medical research paper reported in an article headlined Chiropractors may be no use in treating back pain, study says, page 11, November 9, actually made no mention of chiropractors. The study, conducted by the University of Sydney, looked at the effect on acute lower back pain of various treatments, including spinal manipulation - a [...]
February 6, 2008 – 8:00 am
Las Vegas is in Nevada, not California (In pictures competition, photograph 3, Statue of Liberty outside the New York casino in Las Vegas, page 95, Weekend, February 2). Link
February 4, 2008 – 8:00 am
In an article ‘Get rich quick’ property training course throws caution to the wind (Money, page 8, March 31, 2007) we did not intend to suggest that Win Investing recommends tax evasion. We also accept Darren Winters’ assurance that he did not sell pyramid investments as a student at Exeter University. Link
February 3, 2008 – 8:00 am
A picture caption with the obituary of Edward Dutkiewicz (page 37, January 31) implied that Henri Matisse had multiple sclerosis. This was not the case: the use of his hands was limited by arthritis. Link
*Correction: The headline of this post originally and incorrectly read, “Paper gives Matisee MS.” It has been corrected. We regret the [...]
February 3, 2008 – 8:00 am
Marlon Brando would probably have flaunted his sexual conquests rather than flouted them, as we had it in our obituary of Christian Brando, page 31, January 30. Link
January 29, 2008 – 8:00 am
The US intelligence community’s enthusiasm for hi-tech innovation after 9/11 and the creation of In-Q-Tel, its venture capital fund, in 1999 were anachronistically linked in the article below. Since 9/11 happened in 2001 it could not have led to the setting up of In-Q-Tel two years earlier. Link
Here’s the amusing, offending sentence:
After 9/11, the US [...]
January 28, 2008 – 8:00 am
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt is an 18th-century German sculptor, not a 17th-century Austrian one (Shadows and silence, page 23, G2, January 22). Link
January 24, 2008 – 8:00 am
British Columbia was mistakenly named as a US area containing Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont when New England was what was meant (Weatherwatch, page 35, yesterday). Link
January 14, 2008 – 8:00 am
Challa is not “traditional Jewish passover bread”, contrary to our assertion in Get out more, page 8, Family, January 5. The plaited bread is supposed to be eaten on the sabbath and on other holidays but not at passover, when only unleavened bread is consumed. Link
January 10, 2008 – 8:00 am
We meant to refer to northern latitudes, not attitudes, in Trees absorbing less CO2 as world warms, study finds, page 5, January 3. Link
January 7, 2008 – 8:00 am
Ratcliffe power station burns much more than one tonne of coal a day (Up for grabs, page 6, Society, January 2). When all four units are on, it burns 812 tonnes of coal an hour. Link
January 7, 2008 – 8:00 am
A leader about Kenya (From fraud to tragedy, page 30, January 3) misspelled Mwai Kibaki’s name as Kibake five times. Link
January 4, 2008 – 8:00 am
A caption accompanying a photograph which illustrated an article headlined Iowa is end of the road for some candidates in a busy race (page 21, January 2) said “Senator John McCain woes a supporter”; we meant woos. Link
January 3, 2008 – 8:00 am
The bass player in Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong is Panda, not Pamela, as we had it in an article headlined: ‘2008? It’s the year of odd band names’, page 3, Film&Music, December 21. Link
December 12, 2007 – 8:00 am
The photographs we used to illustrate an article about the uncanny similarity between images of the moon sent back by a Chinese lunar probe and those taken by Nasa two years ago were actually identical. We mistakenly ran the Nasa picture twice (At last - a moon picture that really is fake? page 3, G2, [...]
December 10, 2007 – 8:00 am
We were wrong to report that Mark Wallinger made an appearance in a bear suit at the British Comedy Awards (Teddy jokes to the fore at comedy awards, page 7, December 7). He did not attend the event in a bear suit or indeed at all. Link
December 6, 2007 – 8:00 am
Ringo Starr did not appear in Stagecoach, though the Ringo Kid, played by John Wayne, did (High noon for Belle Starr, page 31, December 4).
December 6, 2007 – 8:00 am
A recipe for hot water shortcrust pastry in a baking supplement distributed with the newspaper on November 24 (page 84, The Guardian guide to baking) required boiling water to be added to melted lard. We should have made clear that it is dangerous to overheat the lard. The recipe containing revised instructions can be found [...]
December 4, 2007 – 8:00 am
Quackery became quakery in a headline on the Bad Science column, Aids quakery in Africa, and nearer home (page 22, December 1).
November 21, 2007 – 8:00 am
Rachel Polonsky - an apology
In an interview with Orlando Figes (”Thanks for the memories”, Education Guardian, October 30 2007, page 11) we misquoted his comments about Rachel Polonsky. We are happy to make clear that she has never been a student of Orlando Figes nor has she ever asked him for a reference. We should [...]
November 20, 2007 – 8:00 am
Apology - Patrick Bamford
Our article (Red hand and a red mist as Brennan furore shows rugby’s darker side, page 9, Sport, January 24), suggesting there is a sectarian element to the behaviour of some Ulster rugby fans, wrongly included reference to an incident in which an innocent spectator, Patrick Bamford, was hit by Toulouse rugby [...]
November 13, 2007 – 8:00 am
Australian cricketer Don Bradman was carried, not curried, off the field during the Ashes series in August 1938 (Heroic Hutton leads England to 903, page 12, the archive, November 6). Link
