Discarded broken pots from a looted Early Bronze Age tomb, Fifa, Jordan (photo by Austin (Chad) Hill, courtesy the Landscape of the Dead Project) Though Yates and Brodie agree that the illegal trade ...

Psst. I have something to tell you: factoid probably doesn't mean what you think it means. Don't worry, though, you are not alone and you can change. I, too, was once in league with the barbarians. I ...

The word “factoid” has now become a factoid. In an ironic, postmodern twist, most people now confuse the definition of the term, believing that it represents a small piece of statistical data. In the ...

The controversy over counting re-exports in the trade deficit derives from a common fallacy that I call factoid economics. You’ve heard people exclaim, “The real unemployment rate is ten percent!.” ...

There is a distinct difference between a “fact” and a “factoid.” A fact is something that is irrefutably true. In science, a scientific fact is something that has been observed over and over again ...

Conservative bloggers and pundits may know nothing about film or film reviewing but one factoid that they cite as an article of faith is that critic Pauline Kael once expressed bafflement and ...

“Why does Congress think it is okay that women get paid 20 percent less than a man for doing the same job?” — Democratic congressional hopeful Kathleen Mathews, in campaign ad “Today, the typical ...

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WORTHLESS FACTOID OF THE DAY....From the LA Times this morning: There are now twice as many Target stores within a five-mile radius of the District (four) than there are in Wyoming (two). The ...