MOS: Leaded Ghost Town, Oklahoma
All that subsurface mining left the ground with a funny resemblance to Kevin McCarthy: unstable and prone to cave-ins.
MOS: Topsy the Elephant
DC was less complicated than AC. But get more than a mile from early DC power plants, you were reading by even less complicated candle light.
MOS: Shitty Science
There are several explanations for coprophagia, i.e. poop eating. My dog’s shit eating grin says he’s just into it.
MOS: MERS
Over 2,300 people were tested for MERS during the months of the World Cup, and there wasn’t a single positive test.
MOS: These unbelievable critters are no-effing-kidding real.
It’s survival of the surviviest, which results in critters great, small, and so beyond the imagination that they could only be real.
MOS: A Fusion Breakthrough
Energy from fission is the science of hot-rock-boils-water-makes-turbine-go-brrrrr. It’s so simple a cave can do it- not a weird autocorrect.
MOS: Quantum Tardigrades
Ever see a science headline that you’re damn sure was constructed by sci-fi writers on a deadline? Someone just threw ‘quantum’ at this one and called it a day.
MOS: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine
This reflex sometimes means dramatically throwing hot coffee on yourself because there was a noise in the kitchen and your brainstem took the wheel. But hey, at least your (so-called) lizard brain saved you from the whirring blender down the hall.
MOS: Virgin Births, Stray Bullets, and Urban Legends
Is the fellatio knife fight blind vagina pregnancy just a new twist on an old legend? Let’s examine a few things.