politics The real story behind Indiana's celebrated attempt to legislate the value of Pi Futility Closet
futilitycloset Futility Closet Podcast #006: Texas Camels, Zebra Stripes, and an Immortal Piano Futility Closet
futilitycloset Futility Closet Podcast #005: Mailing People, Alien Shorthand, and Benjamin Franklin Futility Closet
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futilitycloset Futility Closet Podcast #003: Extreme Pedestrians, Kangaroo Stew, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Futility Closet
futilitycloset Futility Closet Podcast #002: Mass Hysteria, Airborne Sheepdogs and Mark Twain's Brother Futility Closet
19th century These 19th century textile mill's "behavior blocks" were made to shame employees' "exceeding naughtiness" Mark Frauenfelder
crime "Leave phony overcoat button at scene" — Read this 1950s burglar's notebook of advice Mark Frauenfelder
futility closet Sidney Cotton risked his life to gather aerial photos during World War II Futility Closet
futility closet Between 1856 and 1889, a mysterious leather-clad man walked the roads of Connecticut and New York Futility Closet
futility closet Englishman Nathaniel Courthope spent four years defending a tiny island's nutmeg from the Dutch Futility Closet
futility closet One night in July 1904, H. Rider Haggard dreamed that his daughter's dog was dying Futility Closet
futility closet In 1945, a U.S. Army transport plane crashed in the highlands of New Guinea Futility Closet
futility closet In the 1920s, painters of luminous watch dials began to fall mysteriously ill Futility Closet
