A new poem by A.S. Kaswell: So this is Cambridge, where turkeys all sleep in the trees. The turkeys look down on the people, and poop on their college degrees. Bonus poem: Boston There exists an old poem about Cambridge’s neighbor city, Boston.
Tag: poop
A news dump, about taking a dump: The Stool Stool
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 […]
The Straight Poop: Sociology of Canadian Donut Shops, Ongoing
The sociology of Canadian donut shops plays out afresh, as described in a New York Post report headlined “Lady poops on restaurant floor, flings it at cashier.” That report includes action video. The 1999 Ig Nobel Prize for sociology was awarded to Steve Penfold, of York University in Toronto, for doing his PhD thesis on the sociology of Canadian donut […]
Dirty Hands Make Dirty Leaders? (study)
Florien Cramwinckel Msc (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) researches how people respond to the moral behavior of others. As part of this remit, an experiment was devised in which 78 participants demonstrated how dirtiness versus cleanliness might influence moral behavior in leader–subordinate relationships :- “They were asked touch, smell, and evaluate a dirty (fake poop) or […]