MOS: The History of CPR
With this largely sorted out by the time of the Tang Dynasty, you’d be forgiven for thinking that CPR had been spread worldwide before someone had a chance to suggest “maybe throw them over a barrel.” Well.
Science History
MOS: Leaded Ghost Town, Oklahoma
All that subsurface mining left the ground with a funny resemblance to Kevin McCarthy: unstable and prone to cave-ins.
MOS: Topsy the Elephant
DC was less complicated than AC. But get more than a mile from early DC power plants, you were reading by even less complicated candle light.
MOS: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine
This reflex sometimes means dramatically throwing hot coffee on yourself because there was a noise in the kitchen and your brainstem took the wheel. But hey, at least your (so-called) lizard brain saved you from the whirring blender down the hall.
MOS: Virgin Births, Stray Bullets, and Urban Legends
Is the fellatio knife fight blind vagina pregnancy just a new twist on an old legend? Let’s examine a few things.
MOS: A Traditional Cure from Modern China
After a mosquito drops off a few parasites into your system, without treatment it’s almost certainly a matter of time until a light case of death.
MOS: Universe 25
The infant mortality rate skyrocketed. The population peaked on day 560 with 2,200 mice. The last birth in Universe 25 was on day 600, at which point pregnancies virtually stopped. The population dwindled to its slow demise over the next three years.
MOS: The Great Molasses Flood
When I mention that time unrefined liquid sugar turned the North End into Candyland After Dark, folks from outside the region look at me like I might also be seeing dragons. Again.
MOS: Quantum Quotables
In reply to Einstein’s use of god in metaphors, Bohr was quoted as saying “Einstein, stop telling God what to do.”
MOS: Venetian Ceruse
Beyond the deeply racist bullshit, it likely started with classist implications; lighter skin meant your royal tuchus hadn’t been out laboring in the field like those filthy fucking peasants.