MOS: How To Drink Water
Drink water. Drink 6-8 glasses a day. Drink a hundred ounces a day. Drink a gallon a day. I need a drink. Today’s Moment of Science… Could someone just tell me the @#$%ing deal with water? I, too,...
View ArticleSciBabe’s (heavily abridged) Guide to a Fuckery Free Life
Something is rotten in skepticism. During the pandemic, our best ‘how to spot abject fuckery in the wild’ guidelines went ignored by some folks who should have known better. Those guidelines and...
View ArticleMOS: The Human Radiation Experiments
Clarence Madison Dally was a glassblower born in 1865, which hardly makes him a likely candidate for a guest spot in this column. However, the glass he made filled a critical role in developing Thomas...
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MOS: The Female Orgasm
An image has been circulating of conservative dehumidifier Ben Shapiro discussing “the myth of the female orgasm” with Jordan Peterson. The cringey quotes in the caption from Peterson don’t feel too...
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MOS: Botanical Sexism
Tom Ogren set out on a mission to end the cause of our terrible pollen seasons: botanical sexism. The good news is that he accomplished it, and you might be tempted to congratulate him. The bad news?...
View ArticleMOS: Mad Men & Stimulants
Since we’ve hit the “pop culture questions from my friends” segment of my science columnist career, they’re getting more colorful. A conversation with a friend last weekend crashed into one of my pet...
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MOS: Ultra-Processed Food
I’m sick but I wanted to write something today because *gestures at week with nothing new written* To be fair, it was a holiday, then my internet was down, then I spent half a day on the phone making...
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MOS: The Penis Bone
I normally prefer my dick jokes boneless, but today it’s best to lube up. Today’s Moment of Science… I was not prepared for the number of dick pics there are on wikipedia. Evolution sorted out all...
View ArticleMOS: Bonesmashing
I saw a dumb thing on the internet so… now you have to see a dumb thing on the internet. Today’s Moment of Science… Bonesmashing. Remember the Tide Pod challenge like fourteen centuries and a pandemic...
View ArticleMOS: FDR and Guillain Barre Syndrome
Launched in 1938, the March of Dimes campaign brought in $233 million for all aspects of polio patient care. Dime by dime, Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin were funded to develop their vaccines that have...
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