It pulls a gape: mouth opened wide, tongue stuck out to eject the offending food. (Humans do this too. The scientific term here is the disgust face.)
I came across a NATO symposium on Human Performance Optimization that included a roundup of medical technologies that might be repurposed to optimize warfighters. In among the prosthetic limbs to prov...
I am not, by trade or character, a spotlight operator. I’m the goober with a flashlight, stumbling into corners and crannies, not looking for anything specific but knowing when I’ve found it.
Home economists were urged to approach teachers and lunch planners. Let’s do more than say ‘How do you do’ to variety meats; let’s make friends with them! chirps Jessie Alice Cline in the February 194...
Fully half of all transplant patients, I found out, develop postoperative psychological problems of some sort.
Cows, by virtue of the plentiful and varied bacteria in their rumen, are able to derive energy from things that would pass through a human undigested. The prune pit has a hard, nutritionally blank hul...
Cornwell’s painting is set at Fort Crawford, in Michigan Territory, during St. Martin’s second stint in Beaumont’s employ, around 1830. At this stage in his digestive explorations, Beaumont had been t...
Cheese crumbs spread in front of a copulating pair of rats may distract the female, but not the male.
Breast milk and amniotic fluid carry the flavors of the mother’s foods, and studies consistently show that babies grow up to be more accepting of flavors they’ve sampled while in the womb and while br...
Beaumont had been trying to determine whether the gastric juice would work outside of the stomach, removed from the body’s vital force. (It does.) He filled vial after vial with St. Martin’s secretion...
At one chew per second, the Fletcherizing of a single bite of shallot would take more than ten minutes. Supper conversation presented a challenge. Horace Fletcher came for a quiet dinner, sufficiently...
As one former anatomy instructor said to me, No one’s taking heads home in buckets anymore.
As an example, Blake mentions a Sudanese condiment made from fermented cow urine and used as a flavor enhancer very much in the way soy sauce is used in other parts of the world.
And decay is highly dependent on environmental and situational factors. What’s the weather been like? Was the body buried? In what? Seeking better understanding of the effects of these factors, the Un...
A patient on the way to surgery travels at twice the speed of a patient on the way to the morgue. Gurneys that ferry the living through hospital corridors move forward in an aura of purpose and push,...
A Dr. Courtney W. Shropshire, writing in 1912, was impressed to note that by means of a special prostatic applicator, well lubricated, attached to the vibrator, introduced to the rectum he was able to...
Frustration metastasizes to anger. Anger wants an outlet and a victim.
As brain cells die from oxygen starvation, euphoria sets in, and one last, grand erection.) Space
Watch Marilena gingerly probing the woman’s exposed tissue. What she is doing, basically, is getting her bearings: learning—in a detailed, hands-on manner—what’s what and what’s where in the complicat...
There is a point at which efficiency crosses over into lunacy, and the savings in money or resources cease to be worthwhile in light of the price paid in other ways.