actually yes,
Comedy science writing is a thing
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Anti-vaxxers need brain transplants for Christmas
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Repeat after me: Bleach is not medicine
The NSW poisons hotline is being inundated by people who want to know why their skin is on fire after bathing in bleach.
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Philip Morris rebrands as ‘wellness company’
Because nothing says wellness like selling an addictive substance that kills more than eight million people each year.
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Our brains are optimised for doughnut foraging
We have a homing instinct for junk food. They put some humans in a food maze to prove it.
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Teenagers really are ignoring you
Contempt isn’t just written on their face, it’s on their brain scan.
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Top #TrumpHasCovid tweets
Because Twitter was made for this moment.
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Hospital employee skips 15 years of work
Gets paid…
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Sperm doesn’t swim, it twirls
Sperm moves so weirdly that science struggles to describe it.
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COVID-19 gets a birthday party but you don’t
Even by the usual standards, this one-year-old is a handful.
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Do mean girls cause circulatory disease?
We all know that exposure to bitchy high school students – and being forced to wear pink on Wednesdays – can have a serious negative mental health impact on teenagers.
But what about the physical health effects?
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I’m pickin’ up no vibrations
Humans usually make quite a racket on planet Earth, but seismologists have noticed a 50% drop since COVID-19.
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Pig kidney successfully transplanted into a human
Animal rights activists have called humans self-centred for not donating their own kidneys.
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Why do goosebumps exist?
We all get goosebumps from time to time – but the question no one has been asking is why.
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The last straw for people with hiccups
This treatment for hiccups beats your friends scaring your epiglottis into submission.
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Genetically, placenta looks a lot like cancer
The fetal life support system is stuffed with genetic errors, scientists find.
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Being straight not that straightforward
Teaching straight people that sexuality falls on a spectrum causes a significant number of straight people to rethink their sexual orientation, a study has shown.