Does a person poop in the woods? Not if they don’t have to. Get it wrong and it can be messy, painful, unhealthy and embarrassing. Here’s how to get outdoor bowel movements right. Poop’s Problem: ...

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On some days, a researcher from Penn State University stopped visitors to ask questions about—you guessed it—poop. Called Clean 14, the infrastructure was the latest in a multi-year research project ...

When his first daughter was in diapers, Jake Thomas began thinking about the problem of poop, never imagining it would become his life’s work. But it has. Thomas and his brother-in-law, Noah Schum, ...

Some people who enjoy hiking or mountain climbing may have had the urge to defecate when there were no toilets nearby and were forced to defecate outdoors. Shari Edelson and others, who study human ...