Daily MOS: The Father of Quantum Chemistry & Vitamin C
Everything Elon Musk fans think Elon Musk is? That’s who Linus Pauling really was.
Science History
Daily MOS: Centralia’s Inferno
There were signs of issues towards the late 1970s, but a few houses getting tipsy weren’t enough to scare residents off. Yet.
MOS: MIT’s Radioactive Breakfast Club
Whenever I hear someone argue that the free market will figure shit out with no guidance or regulations, I like to remind them of a thing I call “history.”
Daily MOS: Philip Zimbardo’s Prison
Today, the Stanford Prison Experiment reads more like cosplay for clueless dumbasses than a groundbreaking experiment.
Daily MOS: Stanley Milgram’s Shock Box
What did this teach us about obedience and the Holocaust? Depends on if you trust the data.
Daily MOS: The F*cking Zebra Mussel
This little f*cker…
Daily MOS: The Legend of Benjamin Banneker
Because of a lack of documentation around this time, it’s possible every word of this is wrong.
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: 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.