You want a vivid description of what’s going through my brain as I’m cutting through a liver and all these larvae are spilling out all over me and juice pops out of the intestines? I kind of did, but...
You may be wondering: Could Ella Fitzgerald explode your liver? She could not.
You may be thinking, Wow, that Mary Roach has her head up her ass. To which I say: Only briefly, and with the utmost respect.
You are perhaps wondering, as I did, why they don’t use crash test dummies. This is the other side of the equation. A dummy can tell you how much force a crash is unleashing on various dummy body part...
Women who routinely have orgasm in intercourse without explicit clitoral stimulation all say that it makes little difference what the guy does, as long as he doesn’t come too soon,
Which is something to be thankful for, says Danielle Reed, Rawson’s former colleague at Monell. Otherwise you’d be tasting things like bile and pancreatic enzymes. (Intestinal taste receptors are thou...
Whereas the larger caliber .45 Colt revolver bullets caused the cattle to drop to the ground after three or four shots, the animals shot with smaller caliber .38 bullets failed even after ten shots to...
This is especially doable with dog food, as dogs rely more on smell than taste in making choices about what to eat and how vigorously. (Pat Moeller estimates that for dogs, the ratio for how much arom...
The difference between dog and cat is immediately obvious. While a dog almost (and occasionally literally) inhales its food the moment it’s set down, cats are more cautious. A cat wants to taste a lit...
Presley was given laxatives and enemas on an almost daily basis. I carried around three or four boxes of Fleets, Nichopoulos says, referring to the enema brand and recalling his days on tour with Pres...
Penguins can shut down digestion by lowering the temperature inside their stomach to the point where the gastric juices are no longer active. The stomach becomes a kind of cooler to carry home the fis...
Our hair is as much as 14 percent L-cysteine, an amino acid commonly used to make meat flavorings and to elasticize dough in commercial baking. How commonly? Enough to merit debate among scholars of J...
No one is excluded from the astronaut corps based on penis size.
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...
Medical journals from 1905 to 1915 are rife with articles on vibratory massage and the many things it cures. Weakened hearts and floating kidneys. Hysterical cramp of the esophagus and catarrh of the...
It's hard to say where is the bigger hubris, in their convictions or in the arrogance of carrying them to a third decimal point
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 like the term decedent. It's as though the man weren't dead, but merely involved in some sort of protracted legal dispute. For evident reasons, mortuary science is awash with euphemisms. Don't say s...
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...