This Is How Mel Brooks Kept the Crew From Laughing While Making Blazing Saddles.
In 1965, a young Scottish man named Angus Barbieri walked into the University of Dundee hospital with an extraordinary request: “I want to stop eating—completely.” He still holds the record for the longest fast.
The Delicious, Life-Saving Joys of the ‘Trad Trans’ Lifestyle.
The other heroes of the space race: Ham the chimpanzee never got over the ordeal. (via Damn Interesting)
Professor has mental breakdown and accuses class of cheating. This eventually goes completely off the rails. (via Memo of the Air)
Know Your ICE Agent. The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.
Murder, she measured: The impressive science behind Agatha Christie’s poisons.
The Image today was not generated, but is a photo of a wire sculpture from Tom Kaufmann at Your Name Rings a Bell. He sent me this quite a few years ago, and he'll make one for you, too!

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