People Used To Think Vaginas Had Teeth, So That’s Cool
Antonio Manaligod/Dose Fear the p*ssy that bites back. Have you ever seen the movie “Teeth?” The 2007 black comedy horror film centers around a girl who discovers that her genitals contain…
Rampant Murder Created The Pharmacy Business
R.S. Cheers, pharmacist at London’s St. George’s Hospital, 1921. | A. R. Coster/Stringer The people who fill your prescriptions used to sell poison. Henry Marchant came back from drinking with his…
How Stoned College Kids Invented Modern Anesthesia
Scottish doctor Sir James Young Simpson experiments with another knock-out gas, chloroform. He’d already given it to mothers in childbirth. | Hulton Archive/Getty It’s all fun and games until someone…
If You Sneeze With Your Eyes Open, Will You Die?
Ines Vuckovic/Dose We’re sniffing out the truth. Our Middle School Mysteries series investigates childhood rumors you never bothered to fact-check yourself. My sixth-grade Social Studies teacher had a habit of making…
Could The ‘Home Alone’ Burglars Really Survive Kevin?
Antonio Manaligod/Dose Keep the change, ya filthy animals. Our Movie Mythbusters series answers the age-old question, “Okay, but could that actually happen in real life?” It’s Christmas season: time for “Home Alone”…
No Joke, Roller Coasters Are The Cure For Kidney Stones
Getty Images Spend money on a trip to Disney instead of a trip to the hospital. I know, I know, kidney stones are weird and gross and painful and you’d…
This Man Saved More Lives Than Anyone Else In History
Ines Vuckovic/Dose We guarantee you don’t even know his name. Our Unsung Heroes series brings history’s unknown badasses out of the footnotes and into the spotlight. It’s common for those with…
Is It Herpes Or An Ingrown Hair?
Ines Vuckovic/Dose Stop WebMDing. We’ve got the facts. This is the first installment in our Middle School Mysteries series, where we’ll investigate childhood rumors you never bothered to fact-check yourself. So,…
Would You Get Plastic Surgery To Improve Your Fate? In Japan, You Might
If you’re unhappy with your palm reading, there’s a medical procedure that’ll take care of that. We humans are by nature desirous—desirous enough that we often put our faith in the…
A Man May Actually Have Been Cured Of HIV
HIV Cure Researchers found no trace of the virus after the 3-step treatment. A group of universities in the UK has announced they may have succeeded in developing a treatment…