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On Tuesday 28 March 2023 the Australian cultivated meat startup Vow, run by chief executive George Peppou and cofounded by Tim Noakesmith, revealed a giant mammoth meatball at the NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam. The idea came from Bas Korsten of the creative agency Wunderman Thompson. Working…

Why You Don't Want X-Ray Vision Music composed by Bert Cole (bitbybitsound.com)

On the evening of February 19, 1994, Gloria Ramirez, a 31 year old woman with late stage cervical cancer, was brought by paramedics to Riverside General Hospital in Riverside, California, at about 8:15 pm. Nurse Susan Kane drew her blood, noticed an ammonia like smell from the syringe and fainted…

You Are Radioactive Music composed by Bert Cole (bitbybitsound.com)

Why Cows Are Small Music composed by Bert Cole (bitbybitsound.com)

If you stopped aging today, biological immortality wouldn't shield you from the brutal physics of time. Without cellular degradation, pure mechanical wear and tear would still dismantle your body from the outside in: centuries of chewing would grind your non-regenerating enamel down to the…

A 47-year-old woman in Detroit suffered from severe bone pain and tooth loss for years before doctors discovered she had skeletal fluorosis caused by her daily habit of consuming a pitcher of tea made with over 100 tea bags. Although medical staff initially suspected cancer due to dense bone…

Weirdest Medical Treatment Music composed by Bert Cole (bitbybitsound.com) Some of the assets used: "Medieval back alley" (https://skfb.ly/pDFFy) by Katydid "Low Poly Fox Mulder XFiles PS1 Style" (https://skfb.ly/6YpYq) by BitHack PSX Western Character Pack by NiKo_Gillsky on itch.io

The theoretical complete loss of DNA is often compared to Acute Radiation Syndrome. The delay in symptoms is a real medical phenomenon known as the walking ghost phase. While the patient feels okay, the radiation has already destroyed the stem cells needed to regenerate the body's tissues. During…

If time is paused, the environment instantly becomes uninhabitable because the physical mechanics of the universe require time to function. Because light requires time to travel, suspended photons would never reach your retinas, resulting in absolute blindness. Similarly, sound is a mechanical…

If you break a bone and do not receive a cast to immobilize it, the lack of stability typically forces your body into one of two severe healing failures known as malunion or nonunion. Malunion occurs when the body successfully glues the fracture back together but does so at an improper or crooked…

Somnambulism, commonly known as sleepwalking, involves unconsciously performing complex activities like walking or eating while asleep. It is strongly linked to genetics, often running in families. Sleep paralysis sits at the opposite extreme: the mind is awake, but the body is temporarily…

The turnspit dog was bred to run on a wheel, called a turnspit or dog wheel, to turn meat. Turnspit dogs were described as long-bodied, crooked-legged and ugly dogs, with a suspicious, unhappy look about them. Due to the strenuous nature of the work, a pair of dogs would often be worked in shifts…

Music composed by Bert Cole (bitbybitsound.com)

In 2019, the Rat Driving Experiment showed that rats can actually learn to drive tiny cars made of plastic jars to get treats. By touching copper wires to steer, the animals didn't just reach their food, but they also became much less stressed because of the satisfaction of learning a new skill…

In Carroll, Iowa, Matthew Allan McNelly and Joey Lee Miller were apprehended after trying to break into a home while wearing "disguises" made entirely of permanent black marker. The suspects were easily identified by officers due to their uniquely inked faces. While the situation began as a…

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or broken heart syndrome, is a temporary heart condition triggered by extreme emotional or physical stress. During an episode, the heart's main chamber balloons out and weakens, which severely limits blood circulation. While it mimics a heart attack, it is caused by a…

In 1567, the Mayor of Braunau am Inn passed away after tripping on his own 4.5-foot beard. He usually kept the hair tucked away in a leather pouch, but it came loose while he was rushing down stairs during a town fire. He stepped on the end of it, snapping his neck. Music composed by Bert Cole…

Penduline tits (genus Remiz) weave elaborate, suspended pouch nests using a combination of spider silk, animal wool, and plant fibers. These sturdy, felt-like structures are designed with a decoy entrance to mislead predators; meanwhile, the actual, functional entry is a hidden, sealable spout.

Pointing a laser at an aircraft is a federal felony because the beam expands into a blinding wall of light that causes flash blindness and potential permanent eye damage to pilots. This interference during critical flight moments creates a severe risk of midair collisions and mass casualty events…

The development of Toy Story 2 was famously chaotic, starting as a low-budget direct-to-video project before Disney upgraded it to a theatrical release. During production, an animator accidentally ran a root command that rapidly deleted about 90 percent of the film's rendered files from the main…

Total locked-In Syndrome is a rare neurological condition where a person is fully conscious and aware but completely paralyzed, usually caused by damage to the brainstem from a stroke or injury. The person can usually see, hear, think clearly, and feel everything, but cannot move, speak, or…

At a subatomic level, what we perceive as "touch" is actually just electromagnetic repulsion. Every atom is surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons. Because charges repel, the electrons in your hand push against the electrons in an object long before they ever make contact, leaving a…

After Orville, a Dutch cat named after aviator Orville Wright, was hit by a car in 2012, his owner, artist Bart Jansen, decided to memorialize him by transforming his taxidermied body into a radio-controlled drone. Jansen collaborated with engineer Arjen Beltman to attach rotors to the cat's four…

Scientists were shocked to discover that dolphins appear to use pufferfish for recreation. When a group finds one, they gently chew on the fish to force it to release a defensive nerve toxin. Dolphins have learned to ingest just enough to induce a hypnotic, trance-like state. After passing the…

Dog cloning is a real process where scientists create a genetic copy of a dog by taking DNA from the original animal and inserting it into a donor egg, which is then implanted into a surrogate mother. The cloned dog isn’t the same personality-wise, but it does share the same genes, meaning similar…

The Ganzfeld effect, derived from the German for "complete field," is a perceptual phenomenon where the brain, without varied sensory input, begins to generate its own stimulation. Typically induced by exposing a person to a uniform field of vision, such as staring at red light through halved…

Book Made From Human Skin. (1821) After his execution, 18-year-old John Horwood's body was sent to Bristol Royal Infirmary for a public medical lecture and dissection, a common practice at the time. Friends tried to steal his body to give him a proper burial, but the surgeon, Dr. Richard Smith…