MOS: Stubbins Ffirth

January 24, 2024 SciBabe 0

Ffirt thought if he could prove it wasn’t contagious, people wouldn’t have to suffer their final moments with this awful disease alone. He was willing to put his ass– and every other orifice– on the line to prove it wasn’t contagious.

MOS: The Tunguska Event

January 24, 2024 SciBabe 0

Even in wartime, dropping that much fire power on a random bit of dirt by the Tunguska River, a plot of nothing in the middle of nowhere, would have been a flex.

MOS: Unsettling Fungi

January 24, 2024 SciBabe 1

The mechanism that causes the ant’s final bite is quite direct; fungus goddamn barges into the muscle fibers, damaging them and forcing them to contract shut, forever.

MOS: The History of CPR

January 24, 2024 SciBabe 0

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.

MOS: Shitty Science

January 24, 2024 SciBabe 0

There are several explanations for coprophagia, i.e. poop eating. My dog’s shit eating grin says he’s just into it.

MOS: A Fusion Breakthrough

January 23, 2024 SciBabe 0

Energy from fission is the science of hot-rock-boils-water-makes-turbine-go-brrrrr. It’s so simple a cave can do it- not a weird autocorrect.

MOS: Quantum Tardigrades

January 23, 2024 SciBabe 0

Ever see a science headline that you’re damn sure was constructed by sci-fi writers on a deadline? Someone just threw ‘quantum’ at this one and called it a day.