Daily MOS: Giant Gippsland Earthworms
I guess if you’re gonna survive eating dirt on a continent with redback spiders, cassowaries, and Pauline Hanson, this is what it takes.
Daily MOS: Alfred Wegener & Continental Drift
When I recall the scientist who first attempted to explain how chunks of rock shimmy across the planet, I’m not surprised that the reaction was “Alfred, all due respect, fuck yourself.”
Daily MOS: Australian Bunny Biowarfare
A few generations down the line, most bunnies will be genetically predisposed to laugh in the face of your fancypants biowarfare program.
Daily MOS: Carrington Event
Carrington was looking for sunspots and he saw something he couldn’t have expected: the first observed solar flare. For two days shit went bonkers.
Daily MOS: Doggerland
The glaciers melting set into motion a chain of events that caused the original Brexit. Then there was a tsunami.
Daily MOS: Dr. Charles Drew, the Father of Blood Banks
He was appointed the medical supervisor of the Blood for Britain project in 1940, amassing donations from about 15,000 people. The plasma was collected to send to the British military before the US entered the war. His work saved the lives of countless soldiers in WWII.
Daily MOS: Waking Up With… Ambien?!
What layer of inception is a coma patient on Ambien?
Daily MOS: The NASA engineer who invented the Super Soaker
I’m just trying to launch a new national holiday. Nothing more, nothing less.
Daily MOS: The Nuclear Boy Scout
Between igniting a pile magnesium and pounding phosphorus until it blew up in his face, he found a variety of interesting ways to scorch his eyebrows off.