When these early settlers hunted, they would leave red herring along their trail because the strong smell would confuse wolves, which is the origin of the expression red herring, meaning "a false trail".
--Mark Kurlansky in Salt: A World History
Monday, October 3, 2011
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- Pagan fertility chant in Early Middle Ages
- Electro-Shock Therapy and Placebos
- Keynesian Multipliers and the Perpetual Intellectu...
- Spinoza and the Enlightenment
- Theory of Virtue and Sin
- Excerpt from Grand Pursuit
- A Remark On Keynesian Models
- Analogy for tariffs
- Monasteries for Protestants
- In love with a book
- Enough is enough
- Something you wish you never said
- The Bayesian Mind
- Nothing New Under The Sun: Daoism and the Law of U...
- The P-Values Of The Gods
- Confusing Correlation and Causation (Modern India ...
- Quotes about life's mysteries
- Different Perspective On China's Currency Manipula...
- Quotes About Huey Long's Politics
- Quotes about anthropology and the universality of ...
- Is local government always better?
- Do you learn more in more challenging classes?
- Old-School British Communism
- Will Participatory Economics Be Mandatory?
- Confusing Correlation and Causation (Greek and Rom...
- Beautiful quote about economics...
- Augustus Wisdom
- The Nobel Prize in Economics goes to...
- The Merciful Universe
- To protect the wealthy
- Class Warfare
- Bad argument against the protesters at Wall Street
- Quote regarding unemployment
- Byzantium Stimulus
- Dictatorship of the Proletariat (Part 2)
- What opposition to usury really represents
- Dictatorship of the Proletariat
- Quote: Prices, Perceived Value, and Self-Delusion
- Quantitative Easing: Augustus Style
- Confusing Correlation and Causation (Byzantium Edi...
- My favorite capitalism quote
- Quitting Economics
- Origin of 'Red Herring'
- Quote about the essence of economics
- Survey of Food Attitudes
- Understanding the Holy Roman Empire
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