Month: July 2021

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Han Min-hong, a South Korean professor…

Han Min-hong, a South Korean professor, built and successfully tested a self-driving car in 1993. The car traveled 185 miles from Seol to Busan through one of South Korea’s most heavily-traveled expressways. Despite the amazing results, the government scrapped funding for his research. Here’s some of the footage from the 90s. As it’s shown in […]

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Solved! The Mystery Behind White Dog Poop and Where It Has Gone

The debate inside my house right now is who remembers white dog poo littering parks and neighborhoods throughout America back in the 90s?

My husband remembers it clearly.

I don’t particularly, but my memory is not as good as his.

Also, I have more interesting things to remember, like the confetti explosion in our backyard every time my dog got hold of my crayons, which was more often than I should probably admit.
(I’ve never been a tidy person.)

The question on people’s minds–those who remember the white dog poo of yore–is where is it now?

As seen above, it was chalky and dry, looking a bit like sun-bleached coral.

And you have to admit, you really don’t see it these days, do you?

On the one hand, people are a lot more conscientious about picking up after their pups now than they were back in the 90s.

I’m mortified thinking back to walking my dog and letting him do his business wherever he wanted.

At the same time, we did have sidewalks, so that stretch of grass between the sidewalk and the street was sort of fair game, right?

I dunno if my neighbors minded. We didn’t have a Facebook or NextDoor so they couldn’t complain.

Image credit: Charles Deluvio via Unsplash

That being said, there’s another explanation for the disappearance of the ghost-like poo.

As Mental Floss and Treehugger explain, the issue was excess calcium.

Dog food used to contain an overabundance of meat and bone meal, both of which are high in the mineral. Whatever the dog couldn’t process ended up in its feces, and as the wet matter dried out in the sun, the hard calcium stuck around. This led to crumbly, mummified turds littering our sidewalks and green spaces.

Today, there is a huge market in organic, gluten-free, fancy-pants dog food.

For good or for ill, the pet market has figured out that we’ll do anything to make our best friends healthier and live longer, fuller lives.

But even regular old plain jane dog foods don’t have so much cheap bone meal, and thus, there is less calcium all the way around.

That means that if you DO see the old white dog poo, somebody needs a trip to the vet.

Do you remember seeing white poos in the yard?

Tell us in the comments.

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Quality Tweets That Might Make Your Brain Stop Working

A lot of Twitter is just the same kind of stuff over and over; political arguments, self-righteous anger over any give topic, pithy little observations, wild stanning, attempted takedowns, attempted jokes, it all just kind of washes over you and moves right past your brain.

But some of it has a very different effect. Some of it is so wild, so ridiculous, so absolutely cringe, that it will not only force you to take notice, but may in fact put a stop to your brain function altogether.

These are ten such tweets. How many are sincere? How many are trolling? How many are copies from some long lost source of equally dubious origin? It’s impossible to say. All we can tell you is to prepare yourself for the worst.

10. Enjoy it while it last

This bit of cringe was originally a reply to a (now deleted) simple, sweet declaration of love from a wife to a husband.

9. The cross driver

I’m gonna need to you go ahead and say sike right now.

8. The killer looks

Oh…well that’s…um…*backs out of room slowly*

7. Follow back bro

This man’s got his priorities straight.

6. Eat fresh

Not like this…never like this.

5. Wasteful idiot

I need this to be a weird joke.
I NEED this to be a weird joke.

4. BTS

These stans are getting out of control.

3. Chew on that

Hey where do you live so I can never go there.

2. The speed of sound

I’m going to need to have a serious conversation with 9.2% of you.

1. Smoke ’em up

I’m sure it’s exactly what he would have wanted.

Well, I’d better make this outro brief because my brain stopped working.

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen on the internet lately?

Tell us in the comments.

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