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Science And The Strapless Evening Gown

David Friedman | Ironic Sans | 15th April 2025

Down the rabbit hole of science humour magazines. In 1960, MIT’s Voo Doo magazine featured a semi-serious “stress analysis” of a strapless dress, likely an “attempt to ogle women under the guise of engineering analysis”. Years later, Deborah Henson-Conant, a harpist-turned-humorist set the article to orchestral music and performed it with the Springfield Symphony, for which she wore a strapless gown (2,000 words)

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The Rise Of Scotland Yard

April J. Skelly | CrimeReads | 21st April 2025

Since its inception in 1829, Scotland Yard pioneered many modern methods of crime patrolling and detection. They used bloodhounds to track evidence. They introduced plainclothes detectives, causing public outcry about spies in their midst. They made advances in forensics and toxicology, learning to distinguish the toxins usually found in Victorian homes — like arsenic and lead — from intentional poisoning (1,800 words)