The pole is nonconductive, enabling the savvy rescuer to save a life without joining the growing conga line of electrocution victims.
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...
The feminist in me, who is small and sleeps a lot but can be scrappy when provoked, took umbrage at this description.
The feline passion for pyrophosphates might explain the animal’s reputation as a picky eater. We make [pet food] choices based on what we like, says Reed, and then when they don’t like it, we call the...
Riddle traveled a lot in his twenties and recalls being hit by a realization. So much of people’s lives—their opportunities, their health and longevity—comes down to where they were born. It’s so rand...
PARC techs also try to keep a bead on doggy interactions in the yards. We need to know, says McCarthy. ‘Are you down because you don’t like the food or because Pipes stole your bone earlier?’ Theresa...
Our final challenge is a ranking test: five olive oils of differing degrees of bitterness. This proves a challenge for me, as I would not have described any of them as bitter. All around me, people ma...
Nineteenth-century operating theaters had more to do with medical instruction than with saving patients’ lives. If you could, you stayed out of them at all cost. For one thing, you were being operated...
Julie Rousseau said that the researchers told her they find some of her explanations far-fetched and do not consider the case closed. It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost comm...
If you look at survivable crashes, it’s rare that even half the emergency exits open, says Shanahan. Plus, there’s a lot of panic and confusion. Shanahan cites the example of a Delta crash in Dallas....
If it’s exceedingly nasty, Reed told me, they will actually drag their tongue on the bedding to try to get it off. Clearly taste matters to them.
I didn’t realize Farrah Fawcett had died of anal cancer. There were references to her ailment as cancer below the colon. It was like my mother, when I was a kid, calling the vagina your bottom in fron...
How is it that we find Christina Aguilera more interesting than the inside of our own bodies? It is, of course, possible that I seem strange. You may be thinking, Wow, that Mary Roach has her head up...
Given the complexity of the chore, escapees, as free-floating fecal material is known in astronautical circles, plagued the crews. Below is an excerpt from the Apollo 10 mission transcript, starring M...
For a cookbook, Apicius has a markedly gladiatorial style. Remove the entrails by the throat before the carcass hardens immediately after killing, begins one recipe.
Faulks was dismissive not only of extreme chewing, but also of the related fad for blenderizing to increase the accessibility of nutrients.
Death. It doesn't have to be boring.
And ever since, the U.S. Army has gone confidently into battle, knowing that when cows attack, their men will be ready.
And ever since, the U.S. Army has gone confidently into battle, knowing that when cows attack, their men will be ready. For
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.