Daily MOS: Asymptomatic
Covid is much deadlier than polio, and leaves a significantly higher percentage of people with long term health problems.
HEALTH
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.
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: 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: Dr. Jose Delgado’s Bullfight
In 1963, in a high stakes game of ‘fuck around and find out,’ Delgado implanted a bull with a stimoceiver. He stepped into the arena armed only with a remote control.
Daily MOS: The Chemist Who Saved Us From Lead
Dr. Clair Patterson did not fucking build an Ultra Clean Room just to have some asshole claim you could get rid of lead by blowing on it.
Daily MOS: The Most Cancelled Chemist
Thomas Midgley Jr. died a hero, but his creations survived him to become the biggest chemical villains of the last century: CFCs and leaded gasoline.