Mathew IngramHaven't done this in a while, so here are a few recent items from my email newsletter, "When The Going Gets Weird," which you can find either at https://newsletter.mathewingram.com (published by Ghost) or at https://mathewingram.substack.com. It's free!
A long-lost avant garde painting was returned to Hungary after nine decades thanks to a sharp-eyed art historian, who spotted it being used as a prop in the Hollywood film Stuart Little. https://mathewingram.com/do
The smallpox vaccine contains a live virus that confers immunity against multiple poxviruses. But it is not smallpox or a weakened version thereof. Nor is it monkeypox. Nor is it cowpox, as suggested by the vaccine’s famous origin story involving pus taken from an infected milkmaid to immunize an 8-year-old boy. It is something else entirely: a unique poxvirus whose origins have been lost, or perhaps never known at all. https://mathewingram.com/dt
Stu Bykofsky confessed that he didn’t really want a going-away party, after 47 years as a journalist at The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, especially since the editors took his beloved column away from him. And he definitely didn't want a party where Inga Saffron, the Inquirer’s Pulitzer-Prize winning architecture critic, trashed him as an ethically-challenged, crusty old misogynist who had "a taste for child prostitutes in Thailand.” https://mathewingram.com/di
