This light lager from Columbia Sportswear and Breakside Brewery features notes of berries and honey. Stasia Brewczynki is a New England–based writer specializing in food, drink, and travel ...

Some of the earliest writings — including those inscribed on papyrus in Egypt and later in ancient Greece and Rome — contain recipes for making medicines. Finding physical proof, however, that ...

For most people, talking about poop is uncomfortable, but if you live with ulcerative colitis (UC), a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), it’s unavoidable — and it’s a crucial part of disease ...

Seabird poop, along with food waste, feathers and carcasses, accumulates as guano, which is prized as a nutrient-rich fertilizer. Richard McManus via Getty Images Before the Inca civilization rose to ...

Thirteen miles off the coast of Peru lies a trio of islands with mountainous piles of guano, nicknamed “white gold.” This seabird poop mixed with other waste is such a powerful nitrogen deposit that ...

Researchers in Turkey say they have unearthed archaeological evidence that the Romans used human feces in medical treatments. Although Roman texts described the practice, this is the first time that ...

Of course bears do that. But what if something could be made of that scat? It is a ridiculous idea and for Columbia Sportswear, that was the point. For an promotion built around Super Bowl LX, the ...

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Rumors circulated online in late January and early February 2026 that U.S. President Donald Trump ended an Oval Office news conference early after soiling himself. In a video posted to YouTube by ...

Would you drink bear poop? That’s a question that Breakside Brewery and Columbia Sportswear are, for some reason, asking beer drinkers with a Super Bowl-adjacent campaign this year. Maybe, just maybe, ...

Entrepreneur and TV personality Kevin O'Leary, seen earlier this month at the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., is no fan of altcoins. When it comes to that vast category of ...