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Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Controversial knowledge
On 8 March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala
Lumpur International Airport bound for Beijing. Less than an hour
after take-off, somewhere over the South China Sea the plane simply
vanished. One eyewitness saw a burning object crash into the sea.
But confusing radar signals trace tracked an aircraft taking an
erratic course across the Malaysian peninsula, then on to the
Andaman Sea. Did it crash there? Or did it fly on to land safely in
disputed lands of Central Asia, or the top secret CIA 'black site'
on Diego Garcia? Data from the Rolls Royce engines tracked by
Inmarsat was said to indicate that it might have ditched in the
furthest reaches of the South Indian Ocean. We know more about the
surface of the moon than the bottom of the sea there. And the
weather and currents are so bad, it may never be found. Convenient?
Two years later, the Australians are still search - at the cost of
billions - and have found nothing. But was the search in such a
remote place part of a cover-up to distract the world's attention
because the US Navy had, in fact, shot the plane down?Since the
invention of radio, radar, satellite navigation and the internet,
the world has become a smaller place. The answer must be out there.
Or, perhaps, hidden within the pages of the secret files.
For nine years the popular website Futility Closet has collected
arresting curiosities in history, literature, language, art,
philosophy, and mathematics. This book presents the best of them:
pipe-smoking robots, clairvoyant pennies, zoo jailbreaks, literary
cannibals, corned beef in space, revolving squirrels, disappearing
Scottish lighthouse keepers, reincarnated pussycats, dueling
Churchills, horse spectacles, onrushing molasses, and hundreds
more. Plus the obscure words, odd inventions, puzzles and paradoxes
that have made the website a quirky favorite with millions of
readers -- hundreds of examples of the marvelous, the diverting,
and the strange, now in a portable format to occupy your idle
hours.
Bradford, Ohio is noted in history as being a "railroad town."
Locals tell a story of floating orbs and a sanitarium in town. Is
this simply an urban legend or are there really ghostly orbs coming
from the former location of a long-gone sanitarium filled with
spirits of the past? "Bradford, Ohio: Floating Orbs & A
Sanitarium" answers these questions
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