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So much has changed over the past several thousands of years that it's easy to forget about some of the things that have not. We might have fancy phones and technologies that early humankind could ...

And let's just be honest, even at the risk of being untoward: There's something undeniably rapturous about releasing all that gas percolating inside you, an almost ontological beauty in doing ...

When Benjamin Franklin opined in 1789 that nothing in this world is certain except death and taxes, he casually left out one more human certainty: flatulence. No matter one’s gender, color, class or ...

Medieval comics were adept at performance farting, according to a new book, "On Farting: Laughter and Language in the Middle Ages." Money quote: Laughter is as historically contingent as any other ...