Abortion Fables
Fine. Fuck it. We’re talking abortion today. Today’s Moment of Science… fetus bullshit. If you wander around the internet for a few hot minutes you’re […]
HEALTH
MOS: Macronutrients
How does running a diet based on counting macros translate into real life? It’s a fucktacularly annoying amount of algebra, really.
Daily MOS: Plant Based Diets
May God have mercy on anyone who says to you “BuT bAcOn” like they’ve just proven anything.
Daily MOS: Calorie Counting Works, But…
If all else fails, eat the rich.
Daily MOS: A Brief History of Celiac Disease
From the patient’s point of view, nothing has changed since the 1950s. Treatment is still avoiding bread that chews worth a fuck.
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 MOS: Weyburn Mental Hospital
They made laws dictating that they needed a mental health facility. The law really wasn’t too clear on things like “don’t purposefully put patients into a coma with excessive insulin” or “dropping acid at work is frowned upon.” I can see how confusion arose.
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.
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 Father of Quantum Chemistry & Vitamin C
Everything Elon Musk fans think Elon Musk is? That’s who Linus Pauling really was.