MOS: Pop-psychology myths
This isn’t to be confused with the Dunning Kruger Erect, which is when a man is overly confident in his ability to satisfy a woman.
Month: January 2024
MOS: The Hubble Deep Field
“practical uses of this instrument would not be immediate; this would be an instrument which might be expected to increase very basically our understanding of what goes on in the stars and in the spaces between them.”
MOS: Cancer Survival Rates
It’s not like there are any “good” types of cancers, but some are higher up on the danger mutant list than others.
MOS: Wrinkle Cream & Prison Labor
A newly trained dermatologist, he was hired by Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia, PA to help treat an outbreak of athlete’s foot. In Holmesburg, he saw far more than fungal infections; he saw potential.
MOS: FDR and Guillain Barre Syndrome
But was it polio or was it Guillain-Barré syndrome? Because the latter only existed in name five years before FDR’s illness, which perhaps wasn’t enough time for every doctor to sort out the difference with 1920s internet.
MOS: Activated Charcoal
So because of the overblown idea that this stuff can adsorp any and all nebulous toxins, people are brushing their teeth with it and drinking health elixirs made of it and probably shoving charcoal suppositories… where suppositories go.
MOS: Bonesmashing
In some bleaker forums on the internet, incels have convinced themselves that no woman will ever want them. Not because of their personalities, their interests, their bizarre disdain for cats, no. It’s their bone structure, or so they’ve decided.
MOS: The 1904 Olympic Marathon
At eighteen miles, Hicks was given brandy, egg whites, and one milligram of strychnine. Which revived him for a time, but he needed another dose four miles later.
MOS: Mosquito Magnets
Last year, my legs turned into a constellation map of mosquito bites. My roommate escaped relatively unscathed. So why are these Cretaceous era nopes so determined to get a taste of… this?
MOS: A Brief History of Light
About a century later, another genius polymath named Thomas Young came along and went all “waves, motherfuckers,” with an early version of the double slit experiment.