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How Many Times Do You Fart a Day? ‘Smart Underwear’ Says It’s Way More Than You Think

The device brings the study of farts “into the 21st century,” the researchers say.

Tesla Owners Can Now Customize Their Car Horns With Sounds Like Fart or Goat

I now know when it is likely that I will have a heart attack. It will be when I’m walking, unsuspectingly, on the sidewalk and a Tesla happens to honk using the most terrifying sound I’ve heard in weeks: a bleating goat. Now, I’ve looked up videos of other goats bleating, and they do not…

Around 1:26 Rudy Giuliani Farts

If it pleases the court, I submit evidence that on December 2nd, while giving testimony at a Michigan House Oversight Committee hearing, Rudolph William Louis Giuliani farted multiple times. Representing the president of the United States in an ongoing case to overturn unfavorable election results, Giuliani presented a string of witnesses and unfounded claims at…

Finally, There’s a Book About Which Animals Fart

Grizzly bears, dogs, and even cockroaches fart. Do sea anemones? Nope. As for spiders, no one knows. Daniella Rabaiotti and Nick Caruso’s new book, Does It Fart?, is illustrated by Ethan Kocak and debuts tomorrow in the United States. The book lists a number of animals, answers the titular question, and offers some insight into…

Brilliant Scientists Are Compiling a Database of Farting Animals

Scientists are embarking on the noblest of data-gathering missions, delivering us laypeople the animal information we all sorely wanted but were too timid to ask about. Which animals fart? The open, online spreadsheet “Does it Fart” began with a tweet. A family member asked Daniella Rabaiotti, a Ph.D student at the Zoological Society of London,…

Our Galaxy’s Black Hole Could Be Farting Out Planet-Sized Gas Balls

At the center of the galaxy sits Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole around four million times the mass of the Sun. If an unlucky star ventures too close, the black hole’s gravity tears it to shreds. But rather than leaving the gassy star corpse to die, Sagittarius A* might ball up the entrails into…

Fart Blamed for Causing a Fire During Surgery at a Tokyo Hospital

This surgery sounds like a total nightmare. According to a new Tokyo Medical University Hospital report, a patient’s fart during surgery apparently caused a fire that led to serious burns on her body. The fart-fire incident originally occurred all the way back in April, but a report was just released on October 28 by a…

I Love This Study On Activated Charcoal’s Effect on Farts

Every day you learn something new, and that’s great. But some days are extra special. Some days, you learn things about the “fecal liberation of intestinal gases.” Those days are the best. I knew that activated charcoal water filters existed. These filters, alternately known as granular activated carbon filters, are made of grains of charcoal…

The Truth About Your Flammable Farts

Contrary to popular belief, it’s probably not methane leaking from behind that reckless “bros” light on fire (known as pyroflatulence); rather, it’s most likely primarily hydrogen. In a typical, healthy body, human farts are comprised primarily of hydrogen, nitrogen, some carbon dioxide and potentially a small amount of methane and oxygen. These farts are primarily…

This Insect Uses Farts to Immobilize Its Prey

I’m sorry, did you not hear me? I said THIS INSECT FARTS ON ITS PREY. At Wired, Gwen Pearson writes at surprising, but nevertheless compelling, length on the unconventional hunting tactics of Lomamyia latipennis, a termite-predating species of Beaded Lacewig. When a baby of the species gets hungry it stuns its prey with what researchers…

Why Do Other People’s Farts Smell Worse?

In 2005, two researchers published a series of articles investigating the subject of other people’s smelliness. They examined how much disgust people would feel and show after smelling a variety of odors, including armpits, garbage and farts. Among the stinks examined, farts elicited the strongest negative response, and across all body odors, people consistently rated…

15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Farts

Admit it. You’ve always wanted to know whether farts can carry germs. Photo Credit: John Sibley | CC BY-NC 2.0 1. Farts can probably carry germs, but you don’t really need to worry about it unless you’re naked A brief entry in the British Medical Journal’s 2001 holiday issue recounts how one Dr Karl Kruszelnicki…

How and why beans become farts explained in one cute video

Beans. They are delicious. And great for you too. One of the staples of the mediterranean diet. Sure, they have some resounding side effects, but nobody is perfect. This cute video explains the science behind farts. Watch it and learn—because farts are always great table conversation. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…

A Semi-Scientific Study of Farting in the Workplace

We know that everybody picks their noses, and now we know that everybody farts too — especially at work. In fact, if this poll is to be believed, people fart at work in lots of places you wouldn’t expect. The intrepid social scientists at Black Sheep conduced a fairly unscientific but nevertheless amusing poll of…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Fart Gymnasty

Finally, a way to simultaneously make watching the floor routine bearable and satisfy the humors of the 9-year-old in all of us. Come to think of it, most every Olympic event could benefit from a flatulent overdub. Either that or get the MST3K guys to provide commentary.

No but really, why do we all burp and fart so much?

What makes humans so damn gassy? In a recent installment of SciShow, Hank Green explores the science behind our bodies’ various “gaseous emissions.” Complement with: Why does coffee make you poop? When people explode during colonoscopies Why can farts be set alight?

Why can farts be set alight?

You know you’ve always wondered why farting on a lighter causes a brief burst of flame. Believe it or not, there is rarely any methane in farts, and so methane is not what’s burning when farts are ignited. Find out what does, and why some farts ignite and others don’t. It’s a commonly-held belief that…

Heroic Gizmodo reader Will Wilson took the audacious Onion Fart Scroll script and made it a Chrome extension, so now ALL your (or your dad’s) websites will fart when you scroll. Better living through technology, indeed.

How to Make a Website Fart Whenever Someone Scrolls. Yes, Really.

It’s been a tough week for The Onion—it was hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army—but it really knocked this one home. Fart Scroll. Code to make your website fart. https://gizmodo.com/how-the-onion-was-hacked-by-the-syrian-electronic-army-498441103 The code is a simple enough. Just include “fartscroll.min.js” on your page, and then define how often (how many pixels of scrolling) you want the…

Who knew illuminated manuscripts contained so many fart and poop jokes?

There’s plenty of silliness sitting in the margins of illuminated manuscripts, and the Tumblr The Discarded Image collects some of the goofiest of the goofy: cats licking their junk, murderous bunny rabbits, prankster monkeys, amorous animals, and tongue-wagging jokesters. But perhaps the highlight of blog is its extensive collection of butts, and the poop and…