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Project MK-Ultra (Entry 993.HB0111)
In which the CIA becomes convinced that acid-laced cocktails are the solution to all our Cold War intelligence problems, and Ken suggests a new varia…
5 years, 10 months ago
The Tibetan Memory Trick (Entry 1306.NU0774)
In which a Victorian parlor game about poultry and tweezers blossoms into a tongue twister, a comedy act, and a broadcasting test, and John tunes a g…
5 years, 10 months ago
The Phoebus Cartel (Entry 931.JN0905)
In which an evil cabal of lightbulb manufacturers realizes they can sell more product if bulbs burn out faster, and Ken decides he invented Teddy Rux…
5 years, 10 months ago
The Guru Letters (Entry 557.PR0513)
In which a Siberia-obsessed Russian mystic counts a future U.S. vice president among his acolytes, and John offers up our softest poets to the mosqui…
5 years, 10 months ago
Hanky Codes (Entry 566.EZ1321)
In which we look back at the complex and clandestine history of sexual signaling in gay culture, and Ken thinks a lot of decades have the wrong adjec…
5 years, 10 months ago
Fletcherizing (Entry 478.AC0754)
In which a Victorian food faddist persuades America and Europe to chew each bite of onion over seven hundred times, and John discovers what Woodrow W…
5 years, 10 months ago
Deborah Sampson (Entry 1100.JG0512)
In which a patriotic young colonist serves bravely in the American Revolution without anyone realizing she's secretly a woman, and Ken accuses a lot …
5 years, 11 months ago
Thomas the Tank Engine (Entry 1300.TI0209)
In which children's love of model trains is reinvigorated in our era by an odd British TV property with an odd British ideology, and John thinks heli…
5 years, 11 months ago
Sea Silk (Entry 1120.EX3816)
In which surprisingly large mussels provide the world's finest cloth to a shrinking number of old Mediterranean women, and Ken wonders what a Tibetan…
5 years, 11 months ago
The 504 Sit-In (Entry 473.LK1413)
In which the Carter Administration waffles so long on a groundbreaking civil rights law that disabled protestors take over a federal building for alm…
5 years, 11 months ago