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...
But what if the soul -the residual energy/information that doesn't register on our electromagnetic energy detectors- doesn't go somewhere else, but just, you know, snuffs out? Ceases to exist? That ha...
As on Earth, weight-bearing exercise is the best way to hang on to your bone. In zero gravity, of course, you have to create your weight.
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,...
A brain bank spokesman showed me around. Down the hall from the dissection room was the computer room. The spokesman referred to this as the brains of the operation which in any other operation would...
Two to three tablespoonfuls was equal to two pounds of meat, with the advantage that it lends to the laborers’ potatoes and peas a very agreeable taste!
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...
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...
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...
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’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...
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...
To open people’s minds to a new food, you sometimes just have to get them to open their mouths. Research has shown that if people try something enough times, they’ll probably grow to like it.
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.
There is her heart. I've never seen one beating.I had no idea they moved so much. You put your hand on your heart and you picture something pulsing slightly but basically still, like a hand on a deskt...
The technical term for fuckin’ tunnel vision is attentional narrowing. It’s another prehistorically helpful but now potentially disastrous feature of the survival stress response. One focuses on the t...
The staff played hot potato with my call until someone could locate the Person in Charge of Lying to the Press. The PCLP said that the room that houses the base archives is locked. And that only the c...