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Posted in: Comics, Current News | Tagged: Jim Smith, scholasticCreator of Barry Loser, and A Super Weird Mystery, Jim Smith has a new graphic novel series launching this year, My Big Fat Smelly Poo Diary.Creator of the Barry Loser and A Super Weird Mystery lines, Jim Smith has a new graphic novel series launching this year, My Big Fat Smelly Poo Diary . The first in a new franchise for readers aged seven plus. As you may have guessed. Jim Smith Auctions His Big Fat Smelly Poo Diary Graphic Novel Series But what isn't…

A woman in Brazil has gone viral on Instagram after taking her pet pig into the Rio De Janeiro Apple store and letting it poo all over the floor. The video from Rodrigo Bethlem was spotted by The Daily Mail, which reports that the woman took her pig into the Apple VillageMall store in Rio on a leash. “Footage showed the woman walking out of the store with the pig strapped to a leash and at least seven chunks of feces lying on the floor next to a display table,” the report states, noting customers “could be seen keeping…

Fans of Greta Gerwig's upcoming adaptation of Barbie are excited to show up for the premiere on July 21, but in garishly pink OOTDs. They're responding to the Twitter thread, “Showing up for Barbie premiere like," with iconic pictures of Indian actors decked up in hot pink. (Also Read: Alia Bhatt calls herself Barbie as she wears pink outfit in new pics, poses for selfie with Gal Gadot at Netflix event) Kajol's faux pas in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was one of the hilarious OOTDs a fan picked for the Barbie premiere…

Jude Law doused himself in a specially-brewed scent blended from “blood, fecal matter and sweat,” to play Henry VIII in Firebrand, an acclaimed new period drama which has premiered at the Cannes film festival.“I read several interesting accounts that you could smell Henry three rooms away,” said Law at a press conference in Cannes on Monday. “His leg was rotting so badly. He hid it with rose oil. I thought it would have a great impact if I smelt awful.”A specialist perfumier was enlisted to make a custom brew, continued…

An international team of scientists who spent five years studying the poo of 647 Danish babies found something astonishing.The nappy samples contained 10,000 species of virus – ten times the number of bacterial species in the same children. Most of the viruses had never been described before.This may alarm many readers. Viruses haven't exactly had a good reputation in recent years. But what many people don't realize is that the overwhelming majority of viruses do not make people sick and do not infect humans or animals…

Frailejones (Espeletia sp.) in Monquentiva, a member of the daisy family (Asteraceae) common in the Colombian páramo. Credit: F. Pym 2022Fungal spores discovered in dung have unveiled that megafauna experienced two distinct extinction “waves” in the Colombian Andes. Coprophilous fungi spores, which are integral to the life cycle of large animals weighing over 45 kg, pass through the digestive systems of these creatures. Consequently, the presence of such spores in sediment samples indicates that these sizable animals once…

It was tricky to find specific bugs associated with specific foods, but the presence of one particular microbe was a strong indicator of whether or not a person had been drinking coffee. Basically, if you’re a coffee drinker, a microbe in your feces will give you away. The new study, by Hannah Holscher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her colleagues, takes a slightly different approach. Here, the team looked at fecal samples from volunteers who ate set amounts of specific foods on a daily basis. And…

In honor of this year’s Penguin Awareness day, the British Antarctic Survey the existence of a previously undiscovered emperor penguin colony in one of the most remote and inaccessible parts of Antarctica. Scientists spotted the colony, the 66th to be found on the continent, by comparing satellite imagery captured by the European Space Agency’s and Maxar’s WorldView-3 satellite. The photo you see below is the one that led the British Antarctic Survey to the colony. The brown stains that contrast against the stark white…

Fecal transplants continue to make headlines in recent years, showing promise in everything from COVID-19 treatments to anti-aging experiments in animals, but we're still only scratching the surface, scientists say.  In human patients, the technique – in which fecal microbiota are transferred from a healthy individual to another person – is usually used to treat conditions like Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but experts think the method could potentially be used to combat a…

Humans have a long and rich history with intestinal parasites, and it's chronicled in our very poop.From Jerusalem to Rome to Greece, archaeologists have been digging through ancient dung to better understand the diets and diseases of long lost civilizations.  The findings so far suggest epidemics of intestinal parasites were common among both the rich and poor for thousands of years in Europe.The people who built Stonehenge were probably also carrying these tiny worms.In the nearby settlement of Durrington Walls, the…