Daily MOS: The First Acid Trip
Dr. Albert Hofmann discovered LSD and thought it was a failure. Then, five years later, he touched it.
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Daily MOS: Phlogiston, the Father of Chemistry, and the Guillotine
Antoine Lavoisier ended the theory of phlogiston. And the guillotine ended Lavoisier.
Daily MOS: The Life Changing Magic of Botulism
How did the deadliest neurotoxin on the planet morph from a treatment for crossed eyes into modern medical duct tape?
Daily MOS: Onesimus, the Slave who Taught the Colonizers to Vaccinate
A smallpox epidemic hit in the hub. With that came the New World’s first introduction to the concept of variolation. But they didn’t choose to adopt this life saving technology en masse.
Daily MOS: The Cruel Breakthrough of the Lobotomy
Much like when facebook said “we’re gonna start moderating content,” when we said we wanted mental health breakthroughs, it was better than nothing but we should have been more specific.
Daily MoS: The Nuclear Tragedy of Hisashi Ouchi
Hisashi Ouchi received more than enough radiation to kill him, but doctors fought for months to keep him alive. Why?
Daily MoS: Lusi the Mud Volcano
A mud volcano has been erupting 50 olympic swimming pools worth of mud onto the East Java province of Indonesia for over a decade. Why?
Daily MoS: The Plague of Eyam
In 1666, an entire village would voluntarily quarantine itself to contain a disease, knowingly dooming the residents.
Daily MoS: The Disaster of Drug Trial TGN1412
Fevers, cold sweats, vomiting, incontinence hit them all. That was before it got really terrifying.
Daily MoS: The Four Pests Campaign
The method of ridding China of the great scourge of pests would be fly swatters, drums, and shotguns.