I guess I feel the same way about being a corpse. Why lie around on your back when you can do something interesting and new, something useful?
I find the dead easier to be around than the dying. They are not in pain, not afraid of death. There are no awkward silences and conversations that dance around the obvious. They aren't scary...Cadave...
I am of the opinion that the vulva of Your Most Sacred Majesty should be titillated for some length of time before intercourse.
Here's the other thing I think about. It makes little sense to try to control what happens to your remains when you are no longer around to reap the joys or benefits of that control. People who make e...
Edison believed that living beings were animated and controlled by life units, smaller-than-microscopic entities that inhabited each and every cell and, upon death, evacuated the premises, floated aro...
Eating organs, in 1943, could degrade one’s social standing. Americans preferred bland preparations of muscle meat partly because for as long as they could recall, that’s what the upper class ate. So...
Borman's dumping urine. Urine [in] approximately one minute. Two lines further along, we see Lovell saying, What a sight to behold!
Any discussion of the sexuality of the digestive tract must inevitably touch on the anus. Anal tissue is among the most densely innervated on the human body. It has to be. It requires a lot of informa...
Another strategy was to target kids. The human infant enters the world without information about what is edible and what is not, wrote psychologist Paul Rozin, who studied disgust for many years at th...
Animals’ taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That’s driven their sensory systems down a certain path, Rawson says. This includes the animal known as us.
Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing things we own. Until something goes wrong, we barely give them thought. This seems strange to me. How...
Even in death, men couldn’t be trusted to comport themselves respectably in the presence of a lady.
You mean like a small silicone breast implant? I wasn’t actually thinking that, but sure.
Which ones, in short, make the difference in the consumer’s mouth and mind? And you can’t ask the consumer, says Langstaff. You ask the consumer, ‘Why does it taste better?’ They say, ‘Because I like...
What sets a professional nose apart from an everyday nose is not so much its sensitivity to the many aromas in a food or drink, but the ability to tease them apart and identify them.
What I am getting at is that there is a point at which efficiency crosses over into lunacy, and the savings in money or resources cease to be worthwhile
Unscrupulous vendors turn the situation to their advantage. In China, nouveau-riche status-seekers are spending small fortunes on counterfeit Bordeaux. A related scenario exists here vis-à-vis olive o...
This was the low point of Presley’s career: the bulky jumpsuit and isosceles sideburns era. His colon had expanded so dramatically that it crowded his diaphragm and had begun to compromise his breathi...
This is what primate sex hormones do: They make individuals perceive other individuals as more attractive than they’d normally perceive them. Hormones are nature’s three bottles of beer.
The traditional gross anatomy lab represented a sort of sink-or-swim mentality about dealing with death. To cope with what was being asked of them, medical students had to find ways to desensitize the...