MOS: Pop-psychology myths
This isn’t to be confused with the Dunning Kruger Erect, which is when a man is overly confident in his ability to satisfy a woman.
SCIENCE
MOS: The Hubble Deep Field
“practical uses of this instrument would not be immediate; this would be an instrument which might be expected to increase very basically our understanding of what goes on in the stars and in the spaces between them.”
MOS: The 1904 Olympic Marathon
At eighteen miles, Hicks was given brandy, egg whites, and one milligram of strychnine. Which revived him for a time, but he needed another dose four miles later.
MOS: Mosquito Magnets
Last year, my legs turned into a constellation map of mosquito bites. My roommate escaped relatively unscathed. So why are these Cretaceous era nopes so determined to get a taste of… this?
MOS: A Brief History of Light
About a century later, another genius polymath named Thomas Young came along and went all “waves, motherfuckers,” with an early version of the double slit experiment.
MOS: Super Blue Moon
It takes 27.3 days to rotate around the Earth, but we see a lunar cycle happening about every 29.5 days. Tide goes in, tide goes out, you can definitely goddamn explain that.
MOS: Spidey Snacks
“But Ms. Auntie SciBabe, I know someone who woke up with a spider on them, so it happens.” Yes, and I know somebody who fucked an Avenger.
MOS: Sugar Gliders
They can get depressed without at least one itsy friend, and a critter this stinking cute being depressed is genuinely upsetting.
MOS: Ouija Boards & the Ideomotor Effect
The versions most of us have seen this century typically have all the letters of the Latin alphabet and the numbers 0-9 along with the words ‘yes,’ ‘no,’ and an irreverent little ‘goodbye’ to let you know the afterlife is fed up with your shit.
MOS: Hot Sugared Butthole (…for science?)
One way to reduce inflammation and swelling in the exposed rectal tissue is to take advantage of good old osmosis. Pouring a literal buttload of sugar on this pink tube sock of danger? Yes, it’s exactly like pouring salt on a slug.