For the forces of any given blast, one type may stretch, say, a fifth of its length without tearing, while another may manage just 5 percent. WIAMan will be calibrated to reflect these differences and...
For every twenty-four hours awake, Belenky told me, people lose 25 percent of their capacity for useful mental work.
Fletcherism. The U.S. Army Medical Department issued formal instructions for a Method of Attaining Economic Assimilation of Nutriment—aka the Fletcher system. (Masticate all solid food until it is com...
Borman much later admitted that he was, as Cernan wrote in his memoir, sick as a dog* all the way to the moon.
An entirely truthful rendering of the events would employ words such as wheedle, plead, and attempted bribe. Does publications know you’re here? If you’re not cleared through the publications office,...
Amniotic fluid contains fetal urine (from swallowed amniotic fluid) and occasionally meconium: baby’s first feces, composed of mucus, bile, epithelial cells, shed fetal hair, and other amniotic detrit...
Albert King calculated that vehicle safety improvements that have come about as a result of cadaver research have saved an estimated 8,500 lives each year since 1987. For every cadaver that rode the c...
As brain cells die from oxygen starvation, euphoria sets in, and one last, grand erection.)
There’s a good chance St. Martin was happier in his simple shack with his family, perfectly necket, than Beaumont was toiling in his labs, misunderstood by his colleagues. To each his own. Beaumont wa...
There are naturally large individual differences in the chemical makeup of people’s saliva.
It is the Mediterranean, specifically Italy, that gave us the poet Ovid, who in the Metamorphoses deplored the eating of animals, and the vegetarian Leonardo da Vinci, who envisioned a day when the li...
If you slip a rat’s face and hide, Hannibal Lecter–style, over the snout of a non-favored prey item, a python will try to swallow it. (University of Alabama snake digestion expert Stephen Secor did th...
How to get a cat to finish its vegetables. Pyrophosphates have been described to me as cat crack. Coat some kibble with it, and you, the pet-food manufacturer, can make up for a whole host of gustator...
Heterosexuals failed to grasp that if you lost yourself in the tease—in the pleasure and power of turning someone on—that that could be as arousing as being teased and turned on oneself.
Didn’t bother them that the corpses would arrive at their doors, to quote Ruth Richardson, compressed into boxes, packed in sawdust,…trussed up in sacks, roped up like hams… So similar in their treatm...
You don’t have to step on a body to carry the smells of death with you on your shoes. For reasons we have just seen, the soil around a corpse is sodden with the liquids of human decay. By analyzing th...
Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government redlining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let's squander som...
Yes, men and women eat meals. But they also ingest nutrients. They grind and sculpt them into a moistened bolus that is delivered, via a stadium wave of sequential contractions, into a self-kneading s...
What’s the main ingredient in AFB’s dog-food palatants? Liver, says Moeller. Mixed with some other viscera. The first part that a wild animal usually eats in its kill is the liver and stomach, the GI...
Unlike real tissue, human tissue simulant doesn’t snap back: The cavity remains, allowing ballistics types to judge, and preserve a record of, a bullet’s performance. Plus, you don’t need to autopsy a...