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.
How is it that we find Christina Aguilera more interesting than the inside of our own bodies?
Good luck to Deanna Pucciarelli, the woman who seeks to introduce mainstream America to the culinary joys of pig balls. I am indeed working on a project on pork testicles, said Pucciarelli, director o...
But students weren’t going to pay tuition to learn arm and leg anatomy;
And in the case of fecal transplants, there’s no drug or medical device involved, and thus no pharmaceutical company or device maker with diverticula deep enough to fund the multiple rounds of control...
Ability to Function Despite Imminent Catastrophe.
A four-person crew will, over the course of three years, generate somewhere in the neighborhood of a thousand pounds of feces. In the ominous words of sixties space nutritionist Emil Mrak, The possibi...
Most of these seemingly collected by Keith’s mother: Some of the pleasantest recollections of my boyhood are of fried jackrabbit, baked jackrabbit, jackrabbit stew, and jackrabbit pie.)
Comparing traditional bouillon with gelatin-based broth. The latter was more distasteful, more putrescible, less digestible, less nutritious, and . . . moreover, it often brought on diarrhea.
You don't need proof. You just need an inclination
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...
We had no problems, no conflicts, Mars500 Commander Sergei Ryazansky is saying.
Unlike filets and stewing meats, organs look like what they are: body parts. That’s another reason we resist them. Organs, says Rozin, remind us of what we have in common with animals. In the same way...
They think of it as lubricating, and that’s it! She went back to her hotel room and called her boyfriend in tears.
The only conclusion I feel sure of at this point, he mused, is that women are too complicated.
The moral of the story is this: It takes an ill-advised mix of ignorance, arrogance, and profit motive to dismiss the wisdom of the human body in favor of some random notion you’ve hatched or heard an...
The M16 has a scope with a small red arrow in the center of the sight. You align the arrow with what or (jeez) whom you wish to shoot and squeeze the trigger. Both squeeze and pull are exaggerations o...
The Johnson Space Center potty cam, as it is more casually known, is an astronaut training aid. It provides a vivid, arresting perspective on something you’ve had intimate contact with all your life b...
Taste, like smell, is a doorman for the digestive tract, a chemical scan for possibly dangerous (bitter, sour) elements and desirable (salty, sweet) nutrients.