


MOS: The Origin Of Artificial Banana Flavor
So why do bananas taste good and Laffy Taffy tastes like you failed Halloween?

MOS: Polio Eradication
So now we have to talk about circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV). Because funny thing about polio. Well, not funny ‘haha.’

MOS: The Polio Vaccine
Before Salk’s vaccine were some disasters, a few near misses, and at least one triumph you likely never heard about.

Polio II: FDR & The March Of Dimes
Roosevelt pulled the ultimate “I’m gonna pay my bill in change” by asking the American people to send dimes to the White House.

MOS: The History of Polio, Part I
Part One: Was polio worse than covid? What did a typical case of polio look like, and how did that compare? The data says covid is far worse.

Abortion Fables
Fine. Fuck it. We’re talking abortion today. Today’s Moment of Science… fetus bullshit. If you wander around the internet for a few hot minutes you’re […]

MOS: The Great London Smog of 1952
Londoners mostly went about their business the first day. Maybe they figured the death fart would work itself out.

MOS: Macronutrients
How does running a diet based on counting macros translate into real life? It’s a fucktacularly annoying amount of algebra, really.

MOS: Shooting The Clouds… For SCIENCE!
Rain fell near the blasts but not directly at them. Dyrenforth reported success anyway. Clearly his wrath had incurred this… drizzle.