In late 2023, Alexandra, a 66-year-old retired woman in D.C., was defrosting a piece of human feces that she purchased over the internet. Her goal was to reduce the stool into a sloshy, biologically ...

Finding your stool suddenly dark black and tar like can be deeply unsettling. Many people immediately assume it is caused by something they ate, but a drastic colour change, especially when the stool ...