Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.
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.
And ever since, the U.S. Army has gone confidently into battle, knowing that when cows attack, their men will be ready.
An anatomy lab is as choosy as a pedigreed woman seeking love: You can’t be too fat or too tall or have any communicable diseases.
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...
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.
Your genes want you to get pregnant, and hormones are their magic wand.
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...
With charm comes charm’s sidekick, dilapidation.
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.
Téléclitoridienne means simply female of the distant clitoris, but it had a lovely, aristocratic ring to it—calling to mind a career woman in heels and sweater set, cabling reports from her home in Bi...
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...
They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret th...
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 pole is nonconductive, enabling the savvy rescuer to save a life without joining the growing conga line of electrocution victims.
The other problem with classroom-based efforts to change eating habits was that children don’t decide what’s for dinner. Mead and her team soon realized they had to get to the person they called the g...
The goal is to be as neutral, as analytical—as Mr. Spock—as possible. This perhaps explains how it was possible for a team of Canadian researchers to find nine men and women willing to create a canned...