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I hear "A Pizza of Lies" is going to be the title for the seventh book.

http://www.adultswim.com/videos/infomercials/icelandic-ultrablue-phase-one/

Link for the lazy.

Uh... isn't defusing the mines instead of exploding them more 'epic'?? I mean, they'd have to train a new rat every time your way. It's both more ethically dubious and a waste of money... not to mention all that detonated ordinance polluting the area...

I know! I was shocked to see this guy hoping they were throwaway rats.

That’s an often repeated myth, actually. There’s no evidence doctors treated hysteria with manual stimulation or vibrators at all. The entire oft-repeated thing just comes from The Technology of Orgasm by Rachel Maines in 1998 who acknowledges she never had any evidence for it and was just hypothesizing:

“I never claimed to have evidence that this was really the case, what I said was that this was an interesting hypothesis, and as [Lieberman] points out – correctly, I think – people fell all over it. It was ripe to be turned into mythology somehow. I didn’t intend it that way, but boy, people sure took it, ran with it.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/09/victorian-vibrators-orgasms-doctors/569446/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/opinion/vibrator-invention-myth.html