Things Noted Here & There

The Giant's Shoulders #26, a special edition of the history of science carnival featuring"fools, failures and frauds," is up at Neurotic Physiology. Scicurious is your host.

Robert Appelbaum reviews Nicola Humble's Cake: A Global History for the THE, 12 August; and Devra First,"Red Menace," Boston Globe, 15 August, interviews David Gentilcore, the author of Pomodoro! A History of the Tomato in Italy.

Lille Carre,"Raising Chicago: An Illustrated History," ChicagoMag.com, August, features the raising of the city in the 1850s and 1860s by ten to fourteen feet to accommodate a sewer system.

Johann Hari,"Jack London's Dark Side," Slate, 15 August, reviews James L. Haley's Wolf: The Lives of Jack London.

Jed Perl,"Individualism," TNR, 14 August, reviews"Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917", an exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and"Renoir in the 20th Century", an exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Sara Lippincott reviews Manjit Kumar's Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality for the LA Times, 8 August.

Douglas Messerli reviews Yunte Huang's Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History for bookforum, 12 August.

Paul Grant reviews Atina Grossmann's Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany for Books & Culture, 12 August.

Finally, farewell to San Francisco State's Paul Longmore, a professor of early American history and disability studies.