A small, deep example of the old saying that all things are connected: “Krill defecation at depth reduces carbon flux attenuation in the Weddell Sea euphotic zone,” Florence Sarah Atherden, Emily Rowlands, Gareth Flint, Sophie Fielding, Katrin Schmidt, Elaine Fileman, Angus Atkinson, and Clara Manno, prerint egusphere-2026-988, 2026. (Thanks to Bieito Fernandez Castro for bringing […]
Alex Blasdel, writing in The Guardian, waxes eloquent about methods old and new: “Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo— Are you sitting comfortably? Many people are not – and they insist that the way we’ve been going to the toilet is all wrong.” Blasdel describes in depth the commercial rise of […]
Several organizations try to answer the same question (a question that is laden with assumptions): “Why does coffee make you poop?” Discovery News: Nickipedia: ACS Reactions: Nathan and Rose: (Thanks to Vaughn Tan for bringing this to our attention.)
There is (people say) more than one way to skin a cat. So too are there multiple ways to overcome constipation. Here’s a newly documented way: “Effect of Perineal Self-Acupressure on Constipation: A Randomized Controlled Trial,” Ryan Abbott, Ian Ayres [pictured below], Ed Hui, and Ka-Kit Hui, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2014, pp. 1-6. (Thanks […]