Daily MOS: The Seven Deadly Cholera Pandemics
Maskholes today look oddly like nineteenth century peasants fighting for the right to shit themselves to death.
Science History
Daily MOS: Wan Hu, the Legendary First Astronaut
We weren’t always into letting things like “processes” and “objectivity” stand in our way of using the Scientific Method v1.0: fuck around and find out.
Daily MOS: Treating Syphilis with… Malaria?!
Choose a craziest part: he tried treating syphilis with malaria, it worked, he won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1927… and also, he was a fucking Nazi.
Daily MOS: The Biblical Roots of Wheatgrass
The wheatgrass juice racket is based on the biblical diet of King Nebuchadnezzar.
Daily MOS: Jack, Rockets, Sex, & Magic
The life story of Jack Parsons could only be true because not even the worst of fiction writers would have the fucking audacity.
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 Poison/Medicine of Belladonna
It’s rumored that they could build up a tolerance to it as a convenient way of Dread Pirate Roberts-ing someone to death, but please don’t try this at home.
Daily MOS: The Origins of Everything… and Pigeon Sh!t
If you’ve ever had a pigeon roosting issue at your home, take solace in knowing that literal astrophysicists couldn’t think of a better end to the birds than a shotgun.
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.