Daily MOS: The Holy Stomach of Alexis St. Martin
Since digestion is a process that takes hours to truly observe, it remained largely a mystery until a bullet intended for a duck accidentally split open Alexis St. Martin.
Since digestion is a process that takes hours to truly observe, it remained largely a mystery until a bullet intended for a duck accidentally split open Alexis St. Martin.
A mining company in western Russia sells asbestos branded with Donald Trump’s face. All I’m asking is… why are you still selling asbestos?
In the early twentieth century, radiation was understood about as well as 5G is understood by conspiracy theorists today. How were we supposed to know that mysterious glowy things signaled danger decades before the modern horror movie?
Hennig Brand was the first person in modern times to discover an element. It just took one torrentially putrefied basement and a mid-sized lake of wee.
At the end of WWII, we had the unused heart of a nuclear bomb sitting around waiting to fuck shit up. Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory couldn’t be expected to just leave it alone. It was so shiny. So new. So full of untapped data.
It’s been hard to get people to take some common sense advice during this pandemic, but hand washing was an easy one to get people on board with. The first guy who said “hey maybe wash your hands when doctoring” was beaten to death in an insane asylum.
Dr. Albert Hofmann discovered LSD and thought it was a failure. Then, five years later, he touched it.
Antoine Lavoisier ended the theory of phlogiston. And the guillotine ended Lavoisier.
How did the deadliest neurotoxin on the planet morph from a treatment for crossed eyes into modern medical duct tape?
A smallpox epidemic hit in the hub. With that came the New World’s first introduction to the concept of variolation. But they didn’t choose to adopt this life saving technology en masse.
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