Daily MOS: The Bhopal Disaster
The people went about their day as you’re doing right now, the air around them silently becoming choked with poison.
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Daily MOS: Radioactive Lake Karachay
In 1951, they started dumping nuclear waste into Lake Karachay, and all was fine for a while. Really, why can’t you just dump a bunch of radioactive materials into a lake?
Daily MOS: Phossy Jaw
The convenience of friction striking matches was unparalleled. Convenience, as history keeps showing us, sends the bill later.
Daily MOS: The Seven Deadly Cholera Pandemics
Maskholes today look oddly like nineteenth century peasants fighting for the right to shit themselves to death.
Daily MOS: Wan Hu, the Legendary First Astronaut
We weren’t always into letting things like “processes” and “objectivity” stand in our way of using the Scientific Method v1.0: fuck around and find out.
Daily MOS: Treating Syphilis with… Malaria?!
Choose a craziest part: he tried treating syphilis with malaria, it worked, he won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1927… and also, he was a fucking Nazi.
Daily MOS: Hallucinogenic Amphibians
There’s a pure synthetic version of the substance available. This is much to the delight of the Colorado River Toad that’s been threatened with extinction from a combination of environmental changes and, ahem, recreational toad lickers.
Daily MOS: The Biblical Roots of Wheatgrass
The wheatgrass juice racket is based on the biblical diet of King Nebuchadnezzar.
Daily MOS: Phytoestrogens & “Soy Boys”
I did find one study showing that soy can interfere with male fertility. In cheetahs.
Daily MOS: Jack, Rockets, Sex, & Magic
The life story of Jack Parsons could only be true because not even the worst of fiction writers would have the fucking audacity.