MOS: Operation Delirium
And then there was that time a drug failed to treat tummy aches in Switzerland, so the US government locked some soldiers in a room and made them trip balls on that shit for god and country.
Month: January 2024
MOS: Tinker Tailor’s Gonna Fly
This story reminds me of the Steven Wright quote; if at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.
MOS: Phosgene Clouds in Ohio
In order to avoid what could have been an even bigger disaster, in a controlled release they lit all that vinyl chloride on fire.
MOS: Poo Science, Pinching Off Again
The shittiest results from AI are a good reminder of a new twist on an old adage in journalism: ChatGPT, but verify.
MOS: Earth’s Core Keeps on Turning
CNN had a real physics professor on to discuss this, and he… certainly spoke some words, but as for how many of them were accurate?
MOS: Auto-Brewery Syndrome
ABS is suspected to be under-diagnosed, but it’s rare like a sincere person on twitter, so it’s just not particularly easy to recognize.
MOS: The Tunguska Event
Even in wartime, dropping that much fire power on a random bit of dirt by the Tunguska River, a plot of nothing in the middle of nowhere, would have been a flex.
MOS: Bullshit Disney Taught Me
Nemo would have grown to become half of a newly formed breeding pair. But despite the pearl clutching on twitter, Disney isn’t teaching your kids all that much about genitals.
MOS: Fectacular Science, Number two.
Birds are equipped with a cloaca, a single opening for reproduction and redecorating your car.
MOS: Unsettling Fungi
The mechanism that causes the ant’s final bite is quite direct; fungus goddamn barges into the muscle fibers, damaging them and forcing them to contract shut, forever.