Tag: poop
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Royal Jelly & Silkworm Droppings: The Buzz and the Poop of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Get ready, because we’re about to dive into the most unhinged yet scientifically fascinating duo in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): Royal Jelly (the queen bee’s secret sauce) and Silkworm Droppings (yes, bug poop, but make it medicinal). These two are the Beyoncé and Jay-Z of the insect-derived health world—unexpected, iconic, and absolutely legendary in their own right. 🐝💩✨ Royal…
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Bacillus thuringiensis: the James Bond of biological pest control
In the microscopic world of bacteria, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), a gram-positive, soil-dwelling microbe is the go-to secret agent for farmers and gardeners worldwide, thanks to its uncanny ability to produce crystal-clear killers. From Silkworms to Superbugs Our story begins in 1902 when Japanese sericultural engineer Ishiwatari Shigetane stumbled upon a mysterious ailment causing silkworms to…
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Detritivores – the ultimate recyclers
These marvelous morsels of nature’s cleanup crew are the ultimate recyclers, turning yesterday’s trash into tomorrow’s treasure. Let’s dive into the delightfully dirty world of detritus dining! Imagine a world where your leftovers never go to waste. Well, in nature, that’s exactly what happens thanks to our detritivore friends. These culinary connoisseurs of compost have…
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magical poop paper and the tree it rode in on
Welcome to the fascinating world of fecal forensics! Let’s dive into the delightfully disgusting details of the guaiac fecal occult blood test (gFOBT), a colorful adventure in colon cancer screening! Imagine a special paper that can detect invisible blood in your stool. That’s the gFOBT! Magic Resin It uses guaiac, a compound extracted from Guaiacum…
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🝖 Alchemical Symbol For Horse Dung
Ah, the alchemical symbol for horse dung! Let’s gallop into this steaming pile of esoteric wisdom, shall we? 🐎💩✨ Picture this: An alchemist, eyes wild with the fever of discovery, realizes that the key to unlocking the universe’s secrets lies not in rare metals or exotic herbs, but in the humble excrement of Equus ferus…
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Scatomancy Notes
Scatomancy—the ancient art of gazing into the abyss of the human digestive aftermath and declaring, “Behold! Your destiny lies within this steaming pile!” What could be more unhinged than plumbing the depths of poop for cosmic wisdom? Let us embark on this fecal odyssey, where divination meets digestion and prophecy smells faintly of last night’s…
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I discovered how to earn up to $180,000 per year by pooping – New York Post
Why do they offer such a massive sum for excrement? The site explains: “It is a major problem that the vast majority of people in modern society are in poor health and have damaged gut microbiome.” To help maintain people’s fecal-librium, Human Microbes is trying to find “people who are healthy enough to be high-quality…
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Why it’s time to talk about poo – BBC
Why hasn’t every building and municipality switched to such smart tech? One barrier is money – sustainable technologies (especially new ones) require funding, and municipalities, which rely on taxpayer dollars, have limited budgets. Another challenge is the still-remaining taboo around the topic – many people just don’t love talking about sewage. And there are some…
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Everybody poops, but not everybody’s poop gets spontaneously combusted under water – Fast Company
“Stated very simply, we’re taking infrastructure and we’re turning it into an appliance,” Yee says. “So, no water coming into the toilet and no output sewage. . . . You just plug it in wherever you need a bathroom and it treats your waste.” The design is similar to an espresso machine, Yee says, and…
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Turning manure into gold: The excrement economy – USA Today
Behold the new black gold. Dark and warm, it oozes water and teems with beneficial properties. It even harbors precious metals. And boy does it stink. Call it the excrement economy. Between the rise of fecal transplants and water strained from latrine sludge, the poop market is hot. Besides removing toxic waste, the commodification of…
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Solid Gold: Poop Could Yield Precious Metals – Live Science
It’s not just gold that could be mined and sold. Waste contains elements like vanadium and copper that could be used in devices such as cellphones and computers, the researchers said. The economic value of poop mining is still unclear, but some recent projections have been promising. Earlier this year, another group of researchers published…
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Americans poop up to $4.2B in precious metals every year – New York Post
Poop could be a gold mine — and that’s no load of crap! You could be flushing a fortune in feces down the toilet in the form of tiny nuggets of gold and other precious metals that could be mined, according to research presented Monday at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society. “If you…
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Sewage sludge could contain millions of dollars worth of gold – Science
If the holy grail of medieval alchemists was turning lead into gold, how much more magical would it be to draw gold from, well, poop?…In a new study, scientists at Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, quantified the different metals in sewage sludge and estimated what it all might be worth. They took sludge samples gathered…
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Gold in faeces ‘worth millions’ – BBC
US researchers are investigating ways to extract the gold and precious metals from human faeces..Details were outlined at the 249th national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Denver…The team estimates that seven million tonnes of solid waste come out of US wastewater facilities each year. About half of that is used as fertiliser…
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How Poop Can Be Worth $9.5 Billion
According to a smart study by a United Nations think tank on water, environment and health, there may be a simple—and profitable—solution: turn human waste from a disposal problem to an energy resource. Human feces ranges from 55% to 75% water. Much of the 25% to 45% that remains consists of gaseous methane—produced by bacterial breakdown—and a…
