Daily MOS: The 1959 USSR Smallpox Outbreak That Wasn’t
9.5 million vaccines were distributed, and over 9,000 people were quarantined, ending the outbreak. This all happened in just nineteen days.
Daily Moment Of Science
Daily MOS: Anthrax Island, USSR Edition
It’s going to take more than a few months and some bleach for me to believe the island that farted a cloud of mutant smallpox is open for business.
Daily MOS: Pasteurization & Raw Milk
Pasteurization wasn’t a 19th century plot by a French chemist to undermine the health of 21st century Americans.
Daily MOS: Read Between the Headlines
How do you safeguard yourself from bad science in the media… and Nicolas Cage?
Daily MOS: Pluto’s Gate
Some places take you with fire. Then there are the places where the Earth covertly, quietly takes your life, with only the mist around you.
Daily MOS: My Roommate, the Bangle, and the Science of Eternal Flames
Even as we’ve learned their evidence-based causes, we’re still giving a hat tip to old timey myths with names like ‘the Gates of Hell.’ Next time we find one of these, I propose a slight modernization, like Tony Stark’s Cocaine Fueled Orgy Inferno.
Daily MOS: The Crimes of/against Nikolai Vavilov
The man Lenin hired to save the USSR from famine died of starvation in a Soviet prison in 1943.
Daily MOS: The Villejuif Leaflet
Let’s talk about the time the French were like “l’oranges c’est merde” and panicked most of Europe into thinking they had to choose between scurvy or cancer.
Daily MOS: Resurrecting the Mammoth
So far, the road to cooking up a woolly mammoth hasn’t been without controversy, lawsuits, and just plain fuckery. It also has been without a mammoth.
Daily MOS: Homing Kittens
Brief synopsis of a conversation my husband and I had with our roommates multiple times:
“Hey please don’t let our cats outside, they’re idiots who will run away.”
“So what you’re saying is we can keep letting your cats outside?”
And scene.