The question of the wild giant pandas frequently roll in horse manure is explored in a new study called “Why Wild Giant Pandas Frequently Roll in Horse Manure.” “Why Wild Giant Pandas Frequently Roll in Horse Manure,” Wenliang Zhou, Shilong Yang, Bowen Li, Yonggang Nie, Anna Luo, Guangping Huang, Xuefeng Liu, Ren Lai, and Fuwen […]
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Coffee and Cow Manure: In Search of the Optimal Inoculum
Man and woman’s yearning for perfection, in this case perfection keyed to the deployment of coffee and cow manure, is the driving force behind this new study: “In Search of the Optimal Inoculum to Substrate Ratio During Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Spent Coffee Grounds and Cow Manure,” Çağrı Akyol, Waste Management and Research, epub 2020. The […]
Podcast #20: Hey dude
The word “dude”, cheese, and baldness all turn up in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. Click on the “Venetian blinds” icon — at the lower right corner here — to select whichever week’s episode you want to hear: SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams tells about: Hey dude. (Kiesling, Scott F. (2004). ‘Dude.’ American […]
Milk, manure, mixed message
The headline sends a mixed, if not stirring, message — “Put More Nitrogen into Milk, Not Manure” — in this May 28, 2010 alert from the USDA Agricultural Research Service. (Thanks to Dan Vergano for alerting the world to this alert.) Here’s a screen grab:
Calculating pH in Pig Manure, Carefully
The Davies equation plays a featured role in this take on pig manure “Calculating pH in Pig Manure Taking into Account Ionic Strength,” A. M. Nielsen, H. Spanjers and E. I. P. Volcke, Water Science & Technology—WST Vol 57 No 11 pp 1785–1790. Doi:10.2166/wst.2008.099. (Thanks to Adam Eyring for bringing this to our attention.) The […]
The Oxfamy of poo
Investigator Stanley Eigen recommends this gift of cattle manure, offered by Oxfam Australia for a mere fifteen dollars (AUS). The purveyor coos: It’s surprising how many people turn their nose up at the thought of poo as a present. If they only knew that a package of poo can help families in Sri Lanka get […]