/oss/taxonomy/term/2864/all en /oss/article/general-science/unbearable-poopness-bookstores <p>Imagine you have been walking the aisles of your favourite bookstore for an hour, letting your gaze gaily hop from one spine to the next. You smell the ink and the paper. You hear the dulcet tones of a piano over the PA system.</p> <p>And then it hits you, like a cannonball dropping in your lower abdomen.</p> <p>The acute, undeniable urge to evacuate your bowels.</p> <p>As you make a run for the nearest public washroom, you think to yourself, “Not again!”</p> Sat, 22 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9000 at /oss /oss/article/did-you-know/why-do-we-poop-more-our-periods <p>The menstrual cycle of humans is complicated. It consists of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luteal_phase" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">luteal</a><span> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follicular_phase" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">follicular</a><span> phase, follows a roughly 21-day cycle, and has many effects beyond the shedding of the uterine lining.</span></p> Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:04:24 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 6834 at /oss