Daily MOS: Whacky Critter Names
If you want to have a species named after you, the best way to do it is to be David Attenborough, with twenty-one species named after him.
SCIENCE
Daily MOS: Traumatic Bed Bug Insemination
Nobody abhors these pests than someone who’s battled an infestation. Except, perhaps, other bed bugs.
Daily MOS: The Reston Ebola Outbreak
Then something even weirder happened than an Ebola outbreak in suburban Virginia: none of the humans got so much as a sniffle.
Daily MOS: Philip Zimbardo’s Prison
Today, the Stanford Prison Experiment reads more like cosplay for clueless dumbasses than a groundbreaking experiment.
Daily MOS: Asymptomatic
Covid is much deadlier than polio, and leaves a significantly higher percentage of people with long term health problems.
Daily MOS: The Bhopal Disaster
The people went about their day as you’re doing right now, the air around them silently becoming choked with poison.
Daily MOS: Hallucinogenic Amphibians
There’s a pure synthetic version of the substance available. This is much to the delight of the Colorado River Toad that’s been threatened with extinction from a combination of environmental changes and, ahem, recreational toad lickers.
Daily MOS: Phytoestrogens & “Soy Boys”
I did find one study showing that soy can interfere with male fertility. In cheetahs.
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 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.