Fr. Michael shares his concerns with the familiar "Poop in the Brownies" story and offers some positive alternatives to talking about purity with children.

Shut Up and Take My Money created a rather self-explanatory Dogs Pooping in Beautiful Places" 2025 calendar.

I got an email from a client the other day that instantly reminded me of how I once delivered “poop sandwiches” to my own employees.

Good thing the lights go out at the end of this gif. I don't think this squee lil' puppy could hold on to awakeness for another second.

Moar gifs over here!

It’s surprisingly common for dogs to eat poop, a habit called coprophagia.

A Minnessota maker named Caleb Olson built the Poopcopter, an autonomous drone that seeks out dog-doo and retrieves it for disposal.

He describes it as the "world's first aerial bound self-guided dog poop removal system." See it in action below.

"The Poopcopter is capable of scanning areas defined by a user, your backyard for example, and as it scans it's performing real-time computer vision using the camera which is inside the drone," Olson says. — Read the rest

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Mysterious black balls that washed up on Sydney, Australia, beaches were initially suspected to be tar balls but turned out to be miniature "fatbergs" containing human feces.

Sometimes, in fact, nature is stranger than fiction

Owner George Frandsen has some 8,000 coprolites from dinosaurs, sharks and other creatures

In one reef, three million sea cucumbers released 64,000 metric tons of nutrient-packed poo back into the ecosystem

The artificial waste could fertilize the ocean and sequester carbon

Kelley Ryan starts a new studio to make the darkest, hardest game ever. Josh explains why everyone hates JRPGs. And Chris wonders if he can use pencils as healing items.

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Highlights: Scientists found Toxoplasma gondii may help deliver therapeutic proteins to the brain, a breakthrou

Research conducted in Bangladesh could have dramatic implications both for poor households and the entire wastewater value chain.

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YW storyteller contest: We were flooded with stories for the YW Storyteller contest announced on June 24. Here are some of the entries that almost made it.. Congratulations!

In 2012, under a scientist’s watchful eye, a comb jelly ate some fish, digested it, and excreted the waste out its back end. In doing […]

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Ever wonder what it’s like to be an endocrinologist at the National Zoo? Meet Sarah Putman, endocrinologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.

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Defecating sea lions and marine birds wreak economic havoc on the affluent oceanside San Diego community of La Jolla.

Powered by food scraps and sewage, Bio-Bus carries commuters and tourists between Bristol Airport and Bath.

With a recorded land speed near 80 mph, this cow pie-powered passenger bus can positively fly.

In a small sample, scientists have discovered microplastics in human poop, with every sample containing some. The most common were polypropylene and PET.

Illegal dung dumping is on the rise as the already-strong Dutch dairy sector continues to grow.

While easy to focus on the gross-out factor, the tale of a stranded train filled with sewage sludge shines a light on the complicated afterlife of our waste.

There's no perfect way to dispose of your dog's waste, but here are some ideas.

The secret to a longer, healthy life might have been living in our guts this whole time.

Complaints of sidewalk excrement have become so frequent that the city has established a team dedicated to clearing away number twos.

U.N. task force looks at turning one big problem into an energy resource.

Mary Winchen, the creator of Tirdy Works, speaks about her moose turd art with just the right combination of seriousness and puns.

Leading-edge candy company continues its highly successful candy pooper series with the launch of four new categories

Many trans people have never been able to trust or access public toilets, even if they are present and unoccupied, and excluding trans people from bathroom use is currently a mainstream political stance. I was disappointed to see this not addressed in the article. I'll continue to hope (while also cynically doubting, I contain multitudes) that we will use the societal changes required by the pandemic to benefit everyone, rather than re-creating the previous dysfunction.

A bacterial “probiotic” may enhance athletic performance. But it’s a long way from being ready for use in humans.

The feces contain the oldest example of parasite DNA ever recorded.

Testing sewage for the coronavirus may tell scientists how much disease is in a community — and when the virus has finally gone away.

WEEK TWO and we're all going feral. And we're facing challenges that would not have even occurred to us 10 short days ago. And one of them is this. In order to stop us from going actually insane under lockdown, we're all being told to host parties online. Here are a few hints.

CATS may be cute, but they can be a menace to gardeners in the spring and summer. How do I stop my cat from pooping in the garden?

The computer program can identify canine versus human feces based on DNA sequences in samples

An unfortunate diet of pizza grease and sand clogged her innards, amassing a giant and unpassable lump of feces in her gut

Taiwan has the runs on toilet paper as prices rise.

A robot powered by microbial fuel cells that runs on human waste helps out at a wastewater treatment plant using its artificial stomach.

A new tea set to become the world's most expensive is being fertilized with panda feces, and is touted as having cancer-preventing properties.

Radiolab tells the story of the New York City Poop Train, which used to ship tons of human waste sludge from New York City to farmers in Colorado, 1,600 miles away.

UK households can now buy 15 percent green gas and 100 percent green electricity with one easy tariff.

This waste-to-resource project not only produces a less smoky and long-burning fire, but could also help improve health and sanitation outcomes.

Turns out whales have been contributing to rejuvenating the ocean ecosystem this whole time!

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