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Mostly deadpan observations about the absurdity in real things rendered in eyewitness reports from the field.
Civic and social absurdity getting the treatment it deserves—reported seriously, filed with a smirk. Normalized insanity and life’s frustrations dressed up as conspiracy.
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Wide Awake: A History of the Worst Cures for Insomnia
Somewhere right now, a perfectly reasonable adult is lying flat in the dark, rigid as a plank, mentally herding sheep over a fence and assigning them each a backstory. Somewhere else, an Elizabethan is rubbing the rendered fat of a small dormant rodent into the soles of his feet. These are two of history’s worst cures for insomnia.
Wide Awake: A History of the Worst Cures for Insomnia
Somewhere right now, a perfectly reasonable adult is lying flat in the dark, rigid as a plank, mentally herding sheep over a fence and assigning them each a backstory. Somewhere else, an Elizabethan is rubbing the rendered fat of a small dormant rodent into the soles of his feet. These are two of history’s worst cures for insomnia.
World’s Worst World Records — Nobody Wants These
An authoritative survey of humanity’s strangest achievements — and the perfectly rational people who want absolutely nothing to do with them.
Can You Hear Me Now — A History of Hearing Aids
Four thousand years of cupped hands, hollowed horns, hidden trumpets, bitten phonographs, and the slow electrical miracle of learning to hear — a history of one of humanity’s most stubborn engineering problems.
What’s Behind Door No. 47 — The Strangest Finds in Abandoned Storage Units
A field guide to the strangest, most inexplicable, and occasionally illegal things ever found in abandoned storage units — with the caveat that this is a genre saturated in tall tales, and we are not here to ruin the magic.
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Specialized units for matters that somehow became everybody’s problem.
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