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Escape - Futility Closet

Israel · Israel

Escape - Futility Closet

In 1 Samuel 23:7-13, man’s free will seems to undermine God’s omniscience: 7 And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars. 8 And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men. 9 And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the…Read Article

High Water - Futility Closet

New Year · California

High Water - Futility Closet

On New Year’s Eve 1914, an enormous wave struck the lighthouse on Trinidad Head outside Trinidad, California: At 4:40 p. m. I observed a sea of unusual height. When it struck the bluff the jar was very heavy. The lens immediately stopped revolving. The sea shot up the face of the bluff and over it, until the solid sea seemed to me to be on a level with where I stood in the lantern. The sea itself fell over onto the top of the bluff and struck t…Read Article

Plaque Buildup - Futility Closet

Switzerland · Switzerland

Plaque Buildup - Futility Closet

For a fictional character, Sherlock Holmes has a strangely real presence in the physical world. This plaque is posted near the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland: Image: Wikimedia Commons This one’s on a cottage in Sussex: There’s even a plaque at the spot where Holmes met Watson. Naturalist Gilbert White, author of Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, seems to have had an imaginary contemporary nemesis. Someone has posted this plaque on t…Read Article

Turnabout - Futility Closet

Image: Wikimedia Commons Draw a triangle ABC and pick a point V that’s not on one of its sides. Draw a segment from each of the triangle’s vertices through V. Now draw a new triangle whose sides are parallel to these three segments. Segments drawn from each of this new triangle’s vertices and parallel to the first triangle’s sides, as shown, will meet in a common point. Proven by James Clerk Maxwell!Read Article

Beg Pardon - Futility Closet

I think I mentioned this on the podcast at some point: One summer morning in 1815, proprietor William Butterfield opened the White Wells at Ilkley, West Yorkshire, to a sound of whirring: All over the water and dipping into it was a lot of little creatures, all dressed in green from head to foot, none of them more than eighteen inches high, and making a chatter and jabber thoroughly unintelligible. They seemed to be taking a bath, only they bat…Ilkley · Ilkley Read Article

Delighted - Futility Closet

Josiah Winslow’s programming language Bespoke encodes instructions into the lengths of words, producing programs that look like poetry. This one prints the phrase “Hello, World!”: more peppermint tea? ah yes, it's not bad I appreciate peppermint tea it's a refreshing beverage but you immediately must try the gingerbread I had it sometime, forever ago oh, and it was so good! made the way a gingerbread must clearly be baked in fact, I've got a s…Read Article

Expanding Knowledge - Futility Closet

Image: Wikimedia Commons Each side of the yellow square is 2 feet long. In the Meno, Socrates asks a slave boy how long would be the side of a square that had twice the yellow square’s area. The boy guesses first 4 feet, then 3, and finds himself at a loss. Socrates builds a square four times the size of the yellow one, then divides each of its constituent squares in half with a diagonal. The area of the blue square is thus twice that of the yel…Education Read Article

Made to Order - Futility Closet

Back in 2007 I noted the report of a curious wager in Berkshire in 1811: Sir John Throckmorton of Newbury bet a thousand guineas that he could have a coat made between sunrise and sunset of a single summer’s day, from the shearing of the sheep to the finished coat’s delivery by the tailor. This appears to be true — in 1899 the Strand published a retrospective of the feat, including the first photo of the finished coat and the remarks of 93-year-…Newbury, England · Newbury Read Article

The Miura Fold - Futility Closet

Image: Wikimedia Commons In 1980, Japanese astrophysicist Kōryō Miura worked out a pattern of parallelograms that permit a map to be folded much more compactly than conventional right-angle creases. So efficient is the pattern that a map can be opened or refolded with a single motion by pulling on opposite ends, rather like an accordion. Today it’s used to fold surgical devices, furniture, and solar panel arrays on spacecraft.Japan · Japan Read Article

Medley - Futility Closet

By Louis Phillips, a poem that reads the same upside down: MOM SWIMS WOW Read Article

"The Sniffle" - Futility Closet

In spite of her sniffle Isabel’s chiffle. Some girls with a sniffle Would be weepy and tiffle; They would look awful, Like a rained-on waffle, But Isabel’s chiffle In spite of her sniffle. Her nose is more red With a cold in her head, But then, to be sure, Her eyes are bluer. Some girls with a snuffle, Their tempers are uffle. But when Isabel’s snivelly She’s snivelly civilly, And when she’s snuffly She’s perfectly luffly. — Ogden Nash Read Article

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