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SHOULD CIRCUMSTANCE PREVENT a man from carrying his cigarettes and cell phone in his pants pocket, the rectum provides a workable alternative. So workable that well over a thousand pounds of tobacco a...
People who saw the Graceland master bathroom would remark on its extravagance—a TV set! Telephones! A cushioned seat!—but the décor was in equal part a reflection of how much time was spent there. He...
People who claim lactose intolerance tend to also voice a belief that they’re gluten-intolerant. Usually with no evidence of either.
Pearsall is not a doctor, or not, at least, one of the medical variety. He is a doctor of the variety that gets a Ph.D. and attaches it to his name on self-help book covers.
One woman confessed that her group had passed comment on the extremely large genitalia of their cadaver. (What she perhaps didn’t realize is that the embalming fluid pumped into the veins expands the...
One French clergyman recommended thrusting a red-hot poker up what Bondeson genteelly refers to as the rear passage. A French physician invented a set of nipple pincers specifically for the purpose of...
Not a single one was shipped to the field. Why? Because the National Defense Research Committee had been working on a far more lasting and penetrative weapon for use against the Japanese. Seventeen da...
Morning breath is hydrogen sulfide released by bacteria consuming shed tongue cells while you mouth-breathe for eight hours; saliva normally washes the debris away.
Marcel dropped a white plastic bag onto the table. It bounced slightly on landing. Muktuk, Nirlungayuk said approvingly. It was a piece of narwhal skin, uncooked.
It’s not so important to know the difference between bitter and sour, skunky and yeasty, tarry and burnt. Who cares. They’re both terrible. Ew. But if you’re a brewer, it’s extremely important.
I've had kids object to their dad's wishes (to donate), says Ronn Wade, director of the Anatomical Services Division of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. I tell them, 'Do what's best for...
I'd called [Stanley Garn] because he wrote an 's paper on the topic of human flesh and its nutritional value. Your cows, he said, are much more efficient. But I am not so much interested in cultures e...
I ask Nichopoulos to talk about precisely, medically, what caused Presley’s death. The night he died he was bigger than usual, he begins. Depending on how long it had been since Presley had managed to...
He recovers and seems to possess all his earlier faculties, with one exception: the formerly mild-mannered Gage is now something of a hellion, an impulsive shit-starter.
He describes opening up an artery, flushing the blood out with water, and pumping in alcohol. I’ve been to frat parties like that.
ELVIS PRESLEY’S COLON is not on display in a glass case, but you can get a good sense of what it looked like by reading the autopsy section of The Death of Elvis. As Florendo cut, he found that this m...
Brave and anal: the ideal space explorer. Though you don’t find anal on any of those lists of recommended astronaut attributes. NASA doesn’t really use words like anal. Unless they have to.
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.)
The National Research Council (NRC) hired a team of anthropologists, led by the venerable Margaret Mead, to study American food habits. How do people decide what’s good to eat, and how do you go about...