We all know the iconic Delft pattern: the blue-and-white windmills, peacocks, florals that hail from Holland and are as deeply Dutch as Vermeer. But until recently, it lived chiefly on pottery. For ...

If you're a journalist, you're trained to recognize that if some new behavior shows up on your radar once, it's interesting. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a story. When I first noticed the ...