MOS: Weird Old Timey Medicine
Erectile dysfunction in the fuck-around-and-find-out era of medicine, they hit you with a little electricity. Where? Anywhere. Get creative.
science history
Daily MOS: The Great Goat Testicle Caper
As the story goes, a patient named Bill Stittsworth asked for something that could help with his “sexual weakness.” Which I think was 1920s speak for “raging boner medicine, please and thank you.”
The Daily MOS: This Is Not Science Class
If you’re ever tempted to tell me that my method of “educating the masses on science” is wrong, you’ve misunderstood what I do.
Daily MOS: Mercury Poisoning, the Disease by Three Names.
So now Danbury, Connecticut is known for a sewage treatment plant named after John Oliver and widespread mercury poisoning.
Daily MOS: The Telephone, the Lightbulb, and Lewis Latimer
This guy did more as a teenager with a slide rule and a set square than I can do with a super computer and a 55 gallon drum of lube.
Daily MOS: The Golden Pursuit of Phosphorus
Hennig Brand was the first person in modern times to discover an element. It just took one torrentially putrefied basement and a mid-sized lake of wee.
Daily MOS: The Life Changing Magic of Botulism
How did the deadliest neurotoxin on the planet morph from a treatment for crossed eyes into modern medical duct tape?