As brain cells die from oxygen starvation, euphoria sets in, and one last, grand erection.) Space
Tried to reenliven mealtimes by hiring a quartette to sing The Chewing Song,† an original Kellogg composition,
Panel applicants at the initial screening were asked not only to describe the cat foods but also to rate them according to how much they liked them. (The average rating, I am gobsmacked to report, fel...
Mainstream pet-food manufacturers blend animal fats and meals with soy and wheat grains and add vitamins and minerals. This yields a cheap, nutritious pellet that no one wants to eat.
Human fetuses have a vomeronasal organ, though no one knows whether it’s functional. You can no more ask a fetus about these things than a python. Rawson surmises that the organ is a holdover from whe...
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 aroma matters to how much taste matters is 70/30...
Cats are more or less monoguesic, meaning they stick to one food. Outdoor cats tend to be either mousers or birders, not both. But don’t worry, as most of the difference between Tuna Treat and Poultry...
We will be evaluating some nasty oils. You will have to put them in your mouth.* For the good of science. For the good of olive oil. We are here to help the producers, to tell them, What attributes do...
To eat liver, knowing that you, too, have a liver, brushes up against the cannibalism taboo. The closer we are to a species, emotionally or phylogenetically, the more potent our horror at the prospect...
The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never before today have I seen a head in a roasting pan.
The human brain most resembles that of Jersey cows at about six months.*
The Inuit, at the time I visited Igloolik, had no tradition of keeping animals as companions. A sled dog was more or less a piece of equipment. When I told Makabe Nartok that I had a cat, he asked, Wh...
That was the mindset that propelled one of the AMRL’s least popular liquid diets into a long and lucrative career as Carnation Instant Breakfast.
One of the seminar organizers joins me. Is Yvonne giving you a hard time? My nemesis is none other than the cadaver beheader. As if turns out, she's also the lab manager, the person responsible when...
My bias is that it does exist. But I would never say that I know that. Until I prove it.
Mir astronaut Jerry Linenger writes in his memoir that he was surprised to find a bottle of cognac in one arm of his spacesuit and a bottle of whiskey in the other. (Linenger was the Frank Burns of sp...
It is assumed that a man will fit one of the three sizes available in the condom-style urine collection device hose attachment inside the EVA suit. To avoid mishaps caused by embarrassed astronauts op...
For the more you know about how dead bodies decay—the biological and chemical phases they go through, how long each phase lasts, how the environment affects these phases—the better equipped you are to...
Firther evidence of the difficulties of reduced-gravity-sex comes from the sea otter. To help hold the female in place, the male will typically pull the female's head back and grab onto her nose with...
Every now and then in life, a compliment is tucked so seamlessly into a insult that it’s impossible to know how to react.