[b]Mary Roach
NASA didn’t invent Tang, but their Gemini and Apollo astronauts made it famous. (Kraft Foods invented it, in 1957.) NASA still uses Tang, despite periodic bouts of bad publicity. In 2006, terrorists mixed Tang into a homemade liquid explosive intended for use on a transatlantic flight. In the 1970’s, Tang was mixed with methadone to discourage rehabbing heroin addicts from injecting it to get high. They did anyway. Consumed intravenously, Tang causes joint pain and jaundice, though fewer cavities.[/b]
The history of Tang and/or all you need to know about it.
Crispy foods carry a uniquely powerful appeal. I asked Chen what might lie behind this seemingly universal drive to crunch things in our mouths. I believe human being has a destructive nature in its genes, he answered. Human has a strange way of stress-release by punching, kicking, smashing, or other forms of destructive actions. Eating could be one of them. The action of teeth crushing food is a destructive process, and we receive pleasure from that, or become de-stressed.
Sure, why not.
Phalloplasty—crafting a working penis from other parts of a patient’s body.
No, really: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalloplasty
No man got an erection from looking at brown string sandals.
Doesn’t surprise me at all.
Gelatin fed to animals, the committee reported, was found to “excite an intolerable distaste to a degree which renders starvation preferable.”
This stuff: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelatin
The heyday of spiritualism–with its seances and spirit communications zinging through the ether–coincided with the dawn of the electric age. The generation that so readily embraced spiritualism was the same generation that had been asked to accept such seeming witchery as electricity, telegraphy, radio waves, and telephonic communications–disembodied voices mysteriously travelling through space and emerging from a “receiver” hundreds of miles distant.
Makes a lot of sense actually.