How to Weigh a Fart - PBS Space Time Episode

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PBS has released a new episode of their Space Time web-series, and in it host Gabe Perez-Giz explains how the weight of a fart can be calculated. I never thought I'd see anything like this from PBS, but that's what this web-series is for! He walks us through the math, physics, and science behind farts and explains how to measure them.

Perez-Giz researched a paper that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It measured the gas makeup of ten people’s farts and the ideal gas law to find a workable average fart composition.

Isn't science wonderful?! 

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