Do you hold in your farts during a flight? I heard it wasn’t good for you. What have been your experiences when it came to a fart on an aircraft? submitted by /u/ElClanDePlanta

In Space, No One Can Smell Your Many, Many Farts Becoming an astronaut is a fairly romanticized career path, but there are a lot of less-than-romantic aspects to working 50 miles or more above the Earth’s surface. Case in point: just being in zero G makes the human body do all sorts of embarrassing things. Read more…

Using the Phenomenology of Farts to Teach My Son About Racism My son is ten, and recently he asked me something about racism. And in the middle of it, he farted. “Dad, with racism, are there like, y’know, different typ—BRRRRRrrrrRRRRppp.” Breaker of winds, first of his name, my son has no self-consciousness about producing some natural energy. For him, the sound of flatus rippling flesh is a precious gift,…