What Happens in Your Face, Stays in Your Face

Proving that all the good science has already been found out and all that's left is the weird, gross stuff, Brandon & Stephen return from hiatus to tackle the recent discovery of a mite that lives on our face, where it has sex, and where it's gotten so good at having sex on our face that it doesn't know how to live independently anymore.

At a time when even humans have a hard time believing in other humans, it's somewhat heartwarming to know these little guys are going all-in on our species. Ride and/or die!

But so: adapting to new environments had us thinking about another bit of bedraggled science here at the end of some sort of cycle. Researchers asked the question of how, exactly, we're going to handle spending all this time in the metaverse, and 18 brave test subjects wore VR goggles for a week ...

Sorry, 16 brave test subjects spent a workweek in the metaverse and ... it did not go well.

Gird your face with cumbersome headgear, make some room for some mites, and descend with us into an exploration of evolution, empire, and things we'll put up with to earn a good night's sleep.

Plus: corgis.

 

JOURNOS is produced by Heather "Eagle Ears" Wilson.

NOTES

The primordial ooze sequence was built by Brandon from audio samples by Patrick Corrà, BMacZero, DigPro120, and tigersound (under a Creative Commons license). Thanks to them for their excellent goop recording skills.