Daily MOS: The Poison/Medicine of Belladonna
It’s rumored that they could build up a tolerance to it as a convenient way of Dread Pirate Roberts-ing someone to death, but please don’t try this at home.
Month: February 2021
Daily MOS: The Origins of Everything… and Pigeon Sh!t
If you’ve ever had a pigeon roosting issue at your home, take solace in knowing that literal astrophysicists couldn’t think of a better end to the birds than a shotgun.
Daily MOS: The Chemist Who Saved Us From Lead
Dr. Clair Patterson did not fucking build an Ultra Clean Room just to have some asshole claim you could get rid of lead by blowing on it.
Daily MOS: The Most Cancelled Chemist
Thomas Midgley Jr. died a hero, but his creations survived him to become the biggest chemical villains of the last century: CFCs and leaded gasoline.
Daily MOS: The No Fear Disease
Urbach-Wiethe Disease will, neuron by neuron, remove every trace of your fear. But at what cost?
Daily MOS: Mercury Poisoning, the Disease by Three Names.
So now Danbury, Connecticut is known for a sewage treatment plant named after John Oliver and widespread mercury poisoning.
Daily MOS: Dr. Nettie Stevens and XY Sex Determination
Go back to the turn of the twentieth century and genetics are kinda like Bitcoin in the aughts; five people sorta had a clue what the vocab was, but nobody knew what it was going to turn into or how it would be used.
Daily MOS: The Promise and Barbarism of Twilight Sleep
We’ve done some lunacy to avoid pain in childbirth. Have you heard what they did in the early part of the 20th century? They just got women in labor super fucking high.
MOS: On Black History Month & Information Access
How much of what you know about Black scientists and inventors is a result of an algorithm, of what was left on the editing room floor of the history books?
Daily MOS: Dr. Freddy Bang and the Blue Bloods
We used to check for contamination by injecting shit into a rabbit and hoping it didn’t get too dead. How did “inject horseshoe crab blood into it and see if it clots” become the standard?