“‘Poop As You Go’ Biogas Bike To Go On 600 Mile Tour Of Japan” reads the headline on Treehugger’s report about exactly that. Treehugger gives details: Japan’s biggest toilet maker, TOTO, takes the toilet on the road with its launch of the Toilet Bike Neo, a bike that’s powered entirely by human waste. The bike runs […]
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Horror bird-film dropping from the sky?
Comes news that could lead someone to adapt Alfred Hitchcock’s horror film “The Birds” and take it in a different direction—a direction that’s both scary and scatalogical. Maryn McKenna, the science journalist widely known as Scary Disease Girl, tweeted this alert: Seagulls: threat or menace? They’re pooping resistant bacteria on your favorite beach. She gives […]
Panda poo research: Building on the Ig-winning work?
Newly announced American research on panda feces seems to echo the research (this and this) that garnered the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for Fumiaki Taguchi, Song Guofu, and Zhang Guangle [see photo below of Prof. Taguchi accepting the Ig Nobel Prize; photo by Alexey Eliseev]. The news reports we’ve seen don’t say whether the new […]
Dogs: A drop of shyness
This is part 4 in our Curing Shyness in Dogs series. Investigator Bill Maloney, whose findings comprised most of parts 1, 2, and 3 (concentrating mainly on gunfire, thunder, and a man wearing striped gloves, respectively), explains: “Seems also that dogs can train humans not to be shy about certain things.” He says this in […]