Of relevant interest, an 1859 issue of California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences offers a recipe* for a nutritional extract made from Peruvian seabird guano.
Not all that surprisingly, Holmes began to go insane, spending his final years in and out of institutions. At seventy, he was placing ads in mortuary trade journals for a rubber-coated canvas body rem...
Nirlungayuk reached a similar conclusion. I tracked him down, seventeen years later, and asked him what the outcome of his country-foods campaign had been. It didn’t really work, he said, from his off...
Nartok shows me an example of Arctic greens: cutout number 13, Caribou Stomach Contents. Moss and lichen are tough to digest, unless, like caribou, you have a multichambered stomach in which to fermen...
Mourning and moving on are hard enough. Why add to the burden? If someone wants to arrange a balloon launch of the deceased's ashes into inner space, that's fine. But if it's burdensome or troubling f...
Medicare reimbursement code for maggots: CPT 99070.
Meaning 'by way of the anus'. 'Per Annum', with two n's, means 'yearly'. The correct answer to the question, 'What is the birthrate per anum?' is zero (one hopes).
Loden loves guns, loves to talk about them. Right now he's trying to talk about them with me, a distinctly trying experience for I keep shepherding the conversation back to dead bodies which Loden cle...
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.)
If you lower your head to within a foot or two of an infested corpse (and this I truly don’t recommend), you can hear them feeding. Arpad pinpoints the sound: Rice Krispies. Ron frowns. Ron used to li...
I think that at the moment of death that little window opens up. I think that maybe we're all connected to something bigger than we are.
I remember watching Morin walk away from me, the endearing gait and the butt that got lubed for science, and thinking, 'Oh my god, they're just people.
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...
Humans are better equipped for sight than for smell. We process visual input ten times faster than olfactory.
Humanitarian Benefits of Cadaver Research on Injury Prevention, Albert King calculated that vehicle safety improvements that have come about as a result of cadaver research have saved an estimated 8,5...
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...
He will be lowered into a vat of liquid nitrogen and frozen. From here he will progress to the second chamber, where either ultrasound waves or mechanical vibration will be used to break his easily sh...
He simply believed that lame sex destroyed more marriages than did anything else, and that considering the inveterate marriage habit of the race, something ought to be done.
For two people so firmly distanced by class and employment structure, Beaumont and St. Martin inhabited a relationship that could be oddly, intensely intimate. On applying the tongue to the mucous coa...
FROM TIME TO TIME, there was talk among the astronauts that it might be nice to have a drink with dinner. Beer is a no-fly, because without gravity, carbonation bubbles don’t rise to the surface. You...