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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 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 of the things I love about manned space exploration is that it forces people to unlace certain notions of what is and isn't acceptable. And possible. It's amazing what sometimes gets accomplished...
Now we’re going to set the features, says Theo. He lifts one of the man’s eyelids and packs tufts of cotton underneath to fill out the lid the way the man’s eyeballs once did. Oddly, the culture I ass...
Nonetheless, some prototype chimp suits had been developed, including the SPCA Suit—certified humane by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. To prove that a suit was safe for a man, w...
NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not an underpaid civil servant; he's the ultimate extreme athlete. Red Bull knows h...
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...
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.
It began with meetings, five months before the Apollo 11 launch. The newly formed Committee on Symbolic Activities for the First Lunar Landing gathered to debate the appropriateness of planting a flag...
In attempting to cope with the shortage of cadavers legally available for dissection, instructors at British and early American anatomy schools backed themselves into some unsavory corners.
If you found this book in the New Age section of your local bookstore, it was grossly misshelved, and you should put it down at once. If you found it while browsing Gardening, or Boats and Ships, it w...
Human remains dogs are distinct from the dogs that search for escaped felons and the dogs that search for whole cadavers. They are trained to alert their owners when they detect the specific scents of...
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.
All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.
Changes in the teaching of anatomy have nothing to do with cadaver shortages or public opinion about dissection; they have everything to do with time. Despite the immeasurable advances made in medicin...
Time to try the palatant. I raise the cup to my nose. It has no smell. I roll some over my tongue. All five kinds of taste receptors stand idle. It tastes like water spiked with strange. Not bad, just...