Virgin Boy Eggs

Over in Dongyang, China, eggs boiled in the urine of young boys are considered a delicacy. They're called "Virgin Boy Eggs," and eating them is supposed to have various health benefits such as improving circulation and making you feel reinvigorated. They're said to have a "fresh and salty taste."

Posted By: Alex - Thu Nov 15, 2012 - Comments (8)
Category: Food, Eggs, Children, Body Fluids

Urine Flavor Wheels

Urine Flavor Wheels were once a standard tool used by doctors. Doctors would either sniff or taste a patient's urine to make a diagnosis. But by the 19th Century, urine tasting had fallen out of favor, replaced by the use of various chemical tests. Though some doctors resisted the change, believing that the taste test yielded more information than any chemical analysis could. More info at ediblegeography.com.

Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 09, 2012 - Comments (9)
Category: Medicine, Body Fluids

Mouth-Peeing Turtle

There's something unusual about the Chinese soft-shelled turtle. Apparently it's "the only animal to urinate through its oral cavity." Put another way, it pees through its mouth. We know this thanks to Alex Yuen Kwong Ip of the National University of Singapore, who decided to attach tubes to the cloaca of these turtles. He discovered that only a small amount of urea was coming out that way. But when the turtles stuck their head in a bucket of water to take a drink, the urea concentration in the water increased dramatically. [New Scientist]

Posted By: Alex - Sat Nov 03, 2012 - Comments (5)
Category: Animals, Body Fluids

The Controversial Art of Martin Creed

Martin Creed has a reputation as one of the most controversial artists in the UK. People seem to either love him or hate him. He won the prestigious Turner Prize in 2001, so evidently some critics love him. But what's your opinion? I've listed some of his works below.

Work No. 227: Lights Going On and Off. He programmed the lights in an art gallery to turn on and off every five seconds.

Work No. 850: Duveen Commission. He hired athletes to sprint through the Tate Gallery every 30 seconds, all day, every day for four and a half months.



Work No. 628: Half the Air in a Given Space. He filled an art gallery with blue balloons.



Work No. 610: Sick Film. He made a video showing a series of people who walk into a white studio and vomit. (The first section of the film, below, is on youtube.)


Read more about his work here and here.

Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 19, 2012 - Comments (7)
Category: Art, Body Fluids

The Lucrative Deer Urine Industry

Judi Collora, owner of Mrs. Doe Pee's Buck Lures, makes her living selling deer urine. She sells it to hunters who use it to lure deers. Apparently it's a pretty good living. Businessweek.com figures she's a multimillionaire.

Some factoids about the deer urine business: 1) it's seasonal, because deers pee more in the summer than they do in winter. 2) the urine is collected by means of a two-story barn. The deer are on the top floor, and their urine drips through grates into vats on the first floor.

Despite her success, Collora is worried about the future. She fears that an Obama victory in November will cause the collapse of the deer-urine industry. So it sounds like Romney has the deer-urine vote in the bag.

Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 03, 2012 - Comments (19)
Category: Animals, Jobs and Occupations, Body Fluids

Potty training in public

Infant port-a-potties must be the new thing. Last week I saw a mother having her kid go to the bathroom in one of them in the back of a pick-up truck in the parking lot of a local supermarket. Now here's a story about a mother who whipped out a port-a-potty in the middle of a crowded deli, and had her kid do her business right there, as the other diners looked on in disbelief. One diner snapped a photo, for the benefit of the internet.

Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 02, 2012 - Comments (9)
Category: Babies and Toddlers, Body Fluids, Excrement

A solution to global warming

Spanish researcher Jiménez Aguilar has proposed that a substance that's cheap and readily available — urine — might be able to soak up excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. He says, "For every molecule of urea in urine, one mole of ammonium bicarbonate is produced along with one mole of ammonia, which could be used to absorb one mole of atmospheric CO₂." His idea is to place urine-based filters in chimneys, forcing exhaust gases to pass through the urine, and so remove the CO₂. He imagines urine filters for cars as well as domestic and industrial chimneys. [alphagalileo.org]

Posted By: Alex - Wed Aug 22, 2012 - Comments (8)
Category: Science, Body Fluids

See Man

Here's more art from Art Domantay (the guy who did the chocolate toilet). This piece is called "See Man". It was exhibited at The Project in the Fall 2002. It consists of "Invisible Man model toy, artist's semen, refrigeration unit."



I can't see any invisible man model toy -- must be because it's invisible! Which reduces this exhibit to being this guy's semen in a refrigerator. It would never have occurred to me to call this art. But then, I'm no art critic, so what do I know. I'm just a guy who posts random stuff on Weird Universe.

Edit: After posting this, it occurred to me that the joke is probably that he gets people to peer into the refrigerator looking for the invisible man, but they're really just staring at his man juice. i.e. Do you see the man? Yes I See Man! -- Maybe it is brilliant in its own twisted way.

Posted By: Alex - Sat Jun 09, 2012 - Comments (4)
Category: Art, Body Fluids

Post-Poo Drops

Available from Aesop chemists. Only for use after "vigorous activity has occurred in the bathroom." I guess that's a euphemism for 'after you've taken a large and smelly dump.'

Posted By: Alex - Fri May 18, 2012 - Comments (6)
Category: Bathrooms, Scatology, Products, Baths, Showers and Other Cleansing Methods, Body Fluids, Excrement

Sega’s New ‘Toylet’ Urinal Game

The more you pee, the higher your score. So the obvious strategy is to keep drinking until you're ready to burst, and hope there isn't a line to play the game. (via pcauthority.com.au)

Posted By: Alex - Mon May 07, 2012 - Comments (5)
Category: Bathrooms, Body Fluids