Daily MOS: Was the ‘Russian Flu’ a Coronavirus?
The illness had symptoms that sound oddly familiar. Cough, fever, pneumonia, and cases tended to be worse for older people and those with pre-existing illnesses.
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Daily MOS: Whacky Critter Names
If you want to have a species named after you, the best way to do it is to be David Attenborough, with twenty-one species named after him.
Daily MOS: Bryukhonenko & Demikhov: the Nightmare of Zombie Dogs
In the 1930s, Sergei Bryukhonenko did some things in the lab that, when I went to scientist school, would have been termed “spitting in God’s face.”
Daily MOS: The All Natural Oklo Nuclear Reactor
Researchers went to the mine to get a clearer understanding of what happened because “unaccounted for uranium” is a bit of a sphincter clencher.
Daily MOS: The Dancing Plague of 1518
One idea was “hot blood,” because their humors were unbalanced, obviously. “Freaky Heretical Dance Cult” technically hasn’t been ruled out.
Daily MOS: Lights and Shadows of the Flexner Report
For better and for worse, the effects of one guy with half a masters degree is still being felt in medicine to this day.
Daily MOS: The Great Goat Testicle Caper
As the story goes, a patient named Bill Stittsworth asked for something that could help with his “sexual weakness.” Which I think was 1920s speak for “raging boner medicine, please and thank you.”
Daily MOS: Traumatic Bed Bug Insemination
Nobody abhors these pests than someone who’s battled an infestation. Except, perhaps, other bed bugs.
Daily MOS: NASA Funded Dolphin Handjobs
Frankly, the rumors about dolphin sex got a little out of hand.
Daily MOS: The Father of Quantum Chemistry & Vitamin C
Everything Elon Musk fans think Elon Musk is? That’s who Linus Pauling really was.