The feminist in me, who is small and sleeps a lot but can be scrappy when provoked, took umbrage at this description.
The Spanish for ‘vacuum’ is aspiradora.
Taste is a sort of chemical touch. Taste cells are specialized skin cells. If you have hands for picking up foods and putting them into your mouth, it makes sense for taste cells to be on your tongue....
Sugar contributes to tooth decay only indirectly. Like humans, bacteria are fond of it. Bacteria get all crazy—party, party—they metabolize the sugar, break it down, and they release their metabolites...
Squatting upon the floor of the room, without any perceptible effort he passed into the hollow of his hand the contents of the rectum . . . , wrote the anonymous writer’s physician in a letter printed...
Sipski defines orgasm as a reflex of the autonomic nervous system that can be either facilitated or inhibited by cerebral input (thoughts and feelings).
Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of company as people across from you on subways or in airport lounges, there but not there. Yo...
Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.
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 claim lactose intolerance tend to also voice a belief that they’re gluten-intolerant. Usually with no evidence of either.
Nancy Rawson, seated across from me, is AFB’s director of basic research and an expert in animal taste and smell. She volunteers that cats are more or less monoguesic, meaning they stick to one food....
Meaning by way of the anus. Per annum, with two n’s, means yearly. The correct answer to the question, What is the birth rate per anum? is zero (one hopes). The Internet provides many fine examples of...
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.
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 tract. Organs in general are among the most nutritionall...
Kinsey wanted Dellenback to film his own staff. There are three ways to read that sentence, all of them true.
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.
Is it possible to bolster one’s hip bones by doing some type of controlled fall? Here
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'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'd called Stanley Garn because I was looking for anthropologists who had done a nutritional analysis of human flesh and/or organ meats. Just, you know, curious. Garn hadn't exactly done this but he h...