Just how overblown was the media panic over ebola? This interactive chart compares media coverage of a dozen health scares, from mad cow disease to zika. Read the rest
Remember ebola? Media-inflamed health scares, quantified
The newspapers couldn't figure out skateboards
Ratter offers a brief history of skateboards made of reactions to their ever-increasing popularity from contemporary newspapers.
Here's the most stupid/brilliant, from The Evening Independent in Masillon, Ohio, in 1975.
Read the rest"About a decade ago, someone nailed roller skates to a plank, called it a skateboard and made a fortune from the Hula Hoop-rivaling craze that resulted."
