MOS: Chimerism
Test after re-test showed, contrary to our understanding of how having a baby works, that Lydia Fairchild was not her children’s mother.
MOS: Catnip
Unless our understanding of this changes, feel free to let Tigger take occasional romps in the glorious minty kitty stupidifier.
MOS: Y2K
Computers are only as smart or dumb as you tell them to be. Write a program with two digits for years, a computer will take your word for it.
MOS: The Tanuki
If you want a tanuki, go play Pokemon. If you really need an animal that’s going to ignore you and fuck up some local animals, get a cat.
MOS: The Russian Flu of 1977
In 1977, it was curious when a strain of the flu traveled around the world sparing most folks over the age of ‘seltzer tastes good.’
MOS: Chernobyl Part 2: Pripyat
When reactor #4 tore itself open, the immediate reactions mainly involved sleeping peacefully through the reactor meltdown next door.
MOS: Saigas
A thousand of those interesting faces come together in the spring for pregnant saigas to give birth together. Which I imagine to be noisy.
MOS: Leprosy
Leprosy never made anyone too dead in a hurry. But ancient humans weren’t up for a game of “gotch’yer nose” with this mysterious illness.
MOS: Debunking the Dark Ages
A lot of your misconceptions about history can be traced to one man: 14th century priest-school dropout and emo fuckboy poet, Petrarch.