Daily MOS: The Sleeping Sickness Pandemic of 1915
On the levodopa, they danced. They sang. They did more than merely exist for the first time in years. Then the side effects started.
Science History
Daily MOS: Janet Parker & The Last Case Of Smallpox
Since she’d been vaccinated for smallpox and there was simply nobody on the fucking planet who could have coughed smallpox on her, doctors diagnosed her with chickenpox… But she’d also had chickenpox.
Daily MOS: Australia’s Toxic Asshole Death Toads
For a while, cane toads were the hottest thing in organic pest control. Skip the chemicals, let these hallucinogenic amphibians do the work.
Daily MOS: The Windscale Fire
They started to produce tritium at Windscale in a reactor ill-designed for it. It’s a bastard isotope with a bad attitude and two neutrons.
Daily MOS: Doggerland
The glaciers melting set into motion a chain of events that caused the original Brexit. Then there was a tsunami.
Daily MOS: The face of Anatoli Bugorski
“Particle physics is like two Soviet Fiats colliding to produce a bus and a Mercedes Benz 600. That’s the thing about high-energy physics: the total is different than the sum of its parts.”
Daily MOS: A Brief History of Tampons
A rock salt pessary reportedly was a successful spermicide. We’ve advanced past ‘shove a rock in your pussy.’ Well, outside of Goop.
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: Pluto’s Gate
Some places take you with fire. Then there are the places where the Earth covertly, quietly takes your life, with only the mist around you.