Back With A Boom

GHCV is back from a GRE induced break with the good stuff that readers come for - poop jokes. Enormous, sea bound poop jokes, like this footage, courtesy of the BBC, of a whale shark expelling food waste, caught for the first time on camera. Why no one has tried to capture video of a whale shark dropping the kids off at the world's biggest pool will remain a mystery, but researcher Mark Meekan was as excited as all get out to collect the footage. Meekan also collected a sample of stool from the world's biggest fish that he described as "scientific gold." To each their own, I guess.

In other news pertaining to the base biological behavior of natures most perfect killing machines, researchers working with the Census of Marine Life speculate that they may have found an isolated spot in the Pacific Ocean that may serve as a singles bar for great white sharks. The spot draws young male and female sharks from the coastal waters of Mexico and California. Once there, they dive together in what scientists think may be part of a courtship ceremony.

Now Challenging Maxim for Bathroom Reading Supremacy

Have you ever found yourself wondering just what the difference between blackwater and graywater? How to modify your ho-hum outhouse into a fabulous fossa alterna? Or are you finally ready to install your own septic system, but don't know where to start?

Look no further than the brand new Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies, a free 158 page tome with more information on the staggering, gag inducing rainbow of diversity that is human waste and it's various methods of disposal than any work of literature since Everyone Poops. From humble holes in the ground to sophisticated sewer systems, the Compendium is the ultimate 'How-To' on sanitation technology, breaking down the pros and cons of every type of toilet, waste transportation and sewage treatment system known to mankind and providing all the knowledge you need to build one from the ground up.

Irresistible lowbrow humor aside, the Compendium, published in part by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council promises to be a valuable resource for engineers and planners throughout the developing world, where waterborne diseases are responsible for as many as one of every ten reported illnesses.