Saturday, April 4, 2026

SciShow explains 'Why Geologists Lick Petrified Poop,' a Saturday science special

I'm revisiting PBS Terra and Howtown lick fossils, demonstrating Ig Nobel Prize winning science with SciShow explaining Why Geologists Lick Petrified Poop.

Fossilized poop might seem gross, but coprolites give us critical information about how animals lived millions of years ago.

Hosted by: Reid Reimers (he/him)
That was a fascinating survey of the information derived from coprolites, once I can recommend to my students, although I'm not going to show it to them. Just the same, welcome to blogging as professional development.

Since the SciShow video overlaps with a Howtown video I featured, follow over the jump for the most read entries containing content from Howtown last year.


I credit normal social media promotion plus web search for the 639 raw page views earned by PBS Terra and Howtown lick fossils, demonstrating Ig Nobel Prize winning science from August 27, 2025 by March 20, 2026. It collected 500 default and 515 raw page views of those during August 2025, ranking it first for the month. It ended the year as the 33rd most read entry posted during the 15th year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News and 47th overall.


Infidel753 shared the link to Howtown asks 'Where does science funding go?' from August 22, 2025 at his blog during August 2025 helping earn 276 default and 283 raw page views, ranking it eighth among entries posted during the month and tenth overall. I then shared it to the Citizen Connect/Coffee Party USA Facebook page during September 2025, helping it earn 130 raw page views that month. Web search contributed the rest of the 497 raw page views by March 20, 2026, ranking it 48th among entries posted during the blogging year and 67th overall.

That's a wrap for today's unplanned retrospective. Tomorrow is both Easter and First Contact Day, so expect an examination of the most read entries about holidays from the back catalog as the Sunday entertainment feature. Star Trek Easter eggs, anyone?

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