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Weird science, forgotten history, and human quirks — each one true, each under a minute, each a little stranger than you’d expect.
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Santorio Santorio
The Chair That Would Not Let Him Eat
What does a Renaissance physician discover when he rigs his dining chair to yank the table away the moment he has eaten his ration?
He weighed his food, his sleep, his feces, and, by his own accounting, his sex life. For thirty years he sat in a chair that took his dinner away. Santorio Santorio, founder of quantitative physiology, discovered that we are all quietly evaporating.
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The Steersman Goes Home
What does it look like when the man who taught Wall Street to predict the future can't predict where he parked?
The Buckingham Palace Duel
At six, mid-reverse-bow out of Buckingham Palace, the Queen's poodle came for him — so he drew his sword.
The Bandleader From Saturn
What does a man who insists he was sent here from Saturn do when NASA rejects his application?
