MOS: Activated Charcoal

January 26, 2024 SciBabe 0

So because of the overblown idea that this stuff can adsorp any and all nebulous toxins, people are brushing their teeth with it and drinking health elixirs made of it and probably shoving charcoal suppositories… where suppositories go.

MOS: The 1904 Olympic Marathon

January 26, 2024 SciBabe 0

At eighteen miles, Hicks was given brandy, egg whites, and one milligram of strychnine. Which revived him for a time, but he needed another dose four miles later.

MOS: Mosquito Magnets

January 26, 2024 SciBabe 0

Last year, my legs turned into a constellation map of mosquito bites. My roommate escaped relatively unscathed. So why are these Cretaceous era nopes so determined to get a taste of… this?

MOS: Mastitis

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 1

And when any of my body parts commit mutiny, I can’t help but milk that shit for content.
(Uh, a bit more literally than usual this time).

MOS: Ultra-Processed Food

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 2

I wouldn’t have an issue with this whole absurdity if the advice was just “maybe watch your added sugar and fat intake because those pack on calories quickly.”

MOS: The Female Orgasm

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 0

Throughout the species, there are probably about as many ways to orgasm as there are erogenous zones in and on a woman’s body.

MOS: Spinal Cocaine

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 1

Along with reducing fatigue, it also suppresses appetite, manages altitude sickness, and makes you really want to talk about your screenplay at 4am.

MOS: The Human Radiation Experiments

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 0

A eugenicist superintendent at a school in Massachusetts approved feeding lightly radioactive oatmeal to his mentally disabled students. But they took the kids to some Red Sox games, so.