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Jesus Gave Me a Wet Willy

I'm taking a break from serious political talking for a bit. Suck it.

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River Rap

It's the fucking River Rap.... You want to tussle?

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Tyra's Poopy Butt

From time to time Tyra shares a little bit too much with her studio audience. Come on... more

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Scientists track poo via satellite to follow penguins in Antarctica

When penguins get a call of nature, they're generally not too fussy where they... more

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Squared toilet paper = Less waste

Whether it's quilted, cottony-soft or recycled, toilet paper still has a long way... more

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I Have a Bad Case of Diarrhea

...and a catchy song and work out routine to go along with it. Thanks Japan!

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infoMania 4.23.09: Miss USA

Conor checks out the reason why Miss USA contestants will never be on Jeopardy. We... more

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Kindergartener Sent Home With More Than Homework In His Backpack

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The tiniest flowering plant could prove well-suited to two very big jobs: cleaning industrial animal pollution and providing clean biofuel.

Able to thrive on nutrients in animal waste, duckweed produces far more starch per acre than corn, say researchers. It could be an alternative to corn-based ethanol biofuel, which is disfavored by environmentalists because of waste generated in farming it.

Hoglagoon "Based on our laboratory studies, we can produce five to six times more starch per unit of footage," said Jay Cheng, a biological engineer at North Carolina State University.

More than a decade ago, Cheng and fellow NC State forestry professor Anne-Marie Stomp wondered whether fast-growing duckweed, commonly seen in shallow ponds, might remediate animal waste. Excrement from the billions of animals raised every year in America's factory farms has fouled watersheds, especially in the South, and fed oxygen-gobbling algae blooms responsible for rapidly-spreading coastal dead zones.

Duckweed, they discovered, has an appetite for animal waste, quickly converting it to leafy starch that can then be converted into ethanol. The current source for most U.S. ethanol is industrial-scale corn farming, which requires large amounts of toxic pesticides and dead zone-feeding, fuel-intensive fertilizers. When the costs are added up, corn-based ethanol may prove little cleaner than gasoline.

Duckweed could help solve both problems at once.

"We did small-scale tests in the laboratory to convert duckweed starch to ethanol using the same technologies as the fuel industry currently uses in corn," said Cheng. "With the same technology, we can easily convert it."

Duckweed consumes nitrogen, phosphorous, calcium and iron, making it a potential source of remediation not only for the lagoons in which farm waste accumulates, but any type of wastewater.

Because duckweed is found in all but the coldest climates, there's little chance of it causing problems as an invasive species, said Cheng. The researchers have moved from the laboratory to a pilot-scale operation on a commercial farm.

"Now that the concept is proven, we're trying to scale up, testing harvesting systems and doing some economic analyses," said Cheng. "The production rate is higher than corn starch, but to do it commercially, the economics will determine if it's feasible."The tiniest flowering plant could prove well-suited to two very big jobs: cleaning... more

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Man has to take crap on plane, gets arrested.

Heres what happened to Joao Correa on his Delta airlines flight. "The coach... more

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Dog Poops Money

When cash comes out a canine anus, you know the local news will be there to cover it.... more

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Throw Poop at Chris Brown!

I'm not sure if I agree with the idea of creating a poop-throwing game (although... more

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Oldest Human Hair Found in Hyena Poop Fossil?

The oldest known human hairs could be the strands discovered in fossil hyena poop... more

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Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Super Special

Sarah takes a look back at some of her favorite Target Women pods. For more Sarah... more

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Rat poo content in wholemeal bread on the rise

There could be more rat hair, urine and droppings in wholemeal bread this year for two... more

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Feces-throwing monkey on the loose in Tampa Bay

A rhesus monkey known to throw feces when mad is on the run. The monkey has managed to... more

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Good sh*t: treeless paper made from elephant poop

This is no joke — there’s a new line of eco-paper available, and for once,... more

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Punk Patriot: 'Leave Obama alone!'

The least information you need to know about some of Obama's new appointees.... more

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Fecal transplants work for some

Fecal Transplant: Putting Poo in your stomach
Doriott was actually relieved to show up at a Duluth, Minn., clinic, where doctors sent samples of her husband's excrement sliding into her stomach – and apparently cured the infection that threatened to ruin her life.
Doriott is among a growing number of people who’ve undergone the seemingly gross procedure in a last ditch effort to restore normal bowel function after severe, recurrent C. diff infection. The little-known technique gained new fame last month when an episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” highlighted the quirky cure that helps 85 percent of those willing to try it.
Rates of C. diff are skyrocketing in the U.S., where a recent study found 13 of every 1,000 patients in the nation’s hospitals are infected or colonized with the germ.

The antibiotics destroy good bacteria in the colon, allowing the C. diff to flourish. The bug can cause illnesses ranging from severe diarrhea and colitis to blood infection, and in worst cases, death. Most patients with C. diff can control it with powerful antibiotics such as metronidazole, sold as Flagyl, or vancomycin. But in about 20 percent of the cases, even those strong drugs don’t work.
That was the case for Doriott, who figures C. diff spores in her gut were activated when she had two rounds of antibiotics for a sinus infection and dental work within six months.

“At its worst, I’d have diarrhea every 15 minutes,” recalled Doriott. “I’d be going for two or three days. I’d have a 103-degree fever. I couldn’t make it two steps from the couch.”

After months of exhaustion and illness, Doriott became desperate enough to consider the fecal transplants she’d heard about through research. She contacted Rubin in Duluth and made an appointment for the hour-long office visit.

Typically, patients ask a close household member, usually a spouse, to produce a sample of stool, which is tested for disease and infection. In Doriott's case, her husband, Jerry, 50, a civil engineer, was on tap.

On the day of the transplant, donors provide the feces, which is blended and filtered. A tube is fed through the patient’s nose into the stomach and several teaspoons of the sample are injected through it.

“I refused to look at it,” said Doriott. “All I felt was a coolness. It didn’t smell.”

Doriott said she felt better immediately and hasn’t suffered a C. diff relapse since the treatment. Other patients take a few weeks or even months to recover, Rubin said.

What do you think about that?Fecal Transplant: Putting Poo in your stomach Doriott was actually relieved to show... more

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Cow Fart Tax Coming Down The Chute

Saving the planet may put some small family businesses out of business if this $175... more

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