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Thar She Blows! 19th-Century Court Case Harpoons a Whale of a Story

TRYING LEVIATHAN: THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW YORK COURT CASE THAT PUT THE WHALE ON TRIAL AND CHALLENGED THE ORDER OF NATURE
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In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, published in 1758, Carl Linnaeus, the king of the classifying sciences, declared that “by good Read More

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Weighing ‘Reasonable Doubt,’ Jury Sees Ugly Side of Justice

A Trial by Jury , by D. Graham Burnett. Alfred A. Knopf, 183 pages, $21.

“Just go in,” a friend once advised when I got called for jury duty, “and say, ‘I cannot be rational.’ Say, ‘I hate criminals, and if they’re arrested they’re guilty as far as I’m concerned.’ And they’ll let you go.” Read More

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