science history

1 min read 2021-07-16 00:53:21

Daily MOS: The Sleeping Sickness Pandemic of 1915

Let’s talk about that epidemic from a hundred years ago. No, the other one. The way fucking weirder one. Leaving half a million dead and countless

1 min read 2021-06-19 14:33:07

With multiple vaccines in late stage clinical trials, we might have a vaccine for HIV within my lifetime. And with that brings the promise that there

5 min read 2021-04-01 02:53:15

Last month, in honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, I highlighted notable Black STEMists on Twitter every week day for the month of February in collaboration

2 min read 2021-02-18 10:34:03

Once upon a time in a land called 2014, I started writing about bullshit artists. One of my favorite subjects to have a go at was the pseudoscience

2 min read 2021-02-18 10:34:03

Once upon a time in a land called 2014, I started writing about bullshit artists. One of my favorite subjects to have a go at was the pseudoscience

2 min read 2021-02-17 10:47:45

The secrets of the universe are hidden in a vast number of places, from the furthest reaches of outer space to the inside of an atom. Sometimes

2 min read 2021-02-17 10:47:45

The secrets of the universe are hidden in a vast number of places, from the furthest reaches of outer space to the inside of an atom. Sometimes

3 min read 2021-02-16 10:41:06

Landing in the history books for discovering just one new thing about the universe is impressive enough. Clair Cameron Patterson, though? The mind

3 min read 2021-02-16 10:41:06

Landing in the history books for discovering just one new thing about the universe is impressive enough. Clair Cameron Patterson, though? The mind

3 min read 2021-02-16 03:42:08

A lot of people through history managed to invent one thing that salted the earth for a generation, but when it comes to fucking up the planet,

3 min read 2021-02-14 06:46:12

Poisons can hide in plain sight, play the long game, doing their work just below your skin, dancing atop your neurons and causing a quiet riot in

3 min read 2021-02-13 01:59:05

It is, per google, Women in Science Day (or it was yesterday when I wrote this, don’t @ me). Which gives me an extraordinarily long list of people

3 min read 2021-02-10 04:19:41

We use the expression ‘blue blood’ to signify royalty. Occasionally it’s used when a well meaning but wrong person ventures the claim that

3 min read 2021-02-07 13:10:14

A theme runs through the annals of science history that, give or take, six people made goddamn everything. Same dude figured out that earth is 4.5

2 min read 2021-02-05 14:30:11

I love internet folklore. We can capture an important true story, slap it onto an eye-catching picture, and transform it into a digestible bit of