Whether it's indulgent food choices, sexual habits or North Korean secrets, the stuff that people throw away can reveal all, says Chris Baraniuk. Dangling over the pool of sewage, at the end of a ...

Twenty years ago, William Rathje, an archaeologist at the University of Arizona, wrote a book with Cullen Murphy, managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly, titled Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage.

The annual Freshmen Convocation welcomed the largest class in CSUN history to the lawn of Oviatt Library Thursday evening to learn about the importance of “Garbology”, a book written by Edward Humes.

What makes humans different from other species? To environmental engineer and Santa Clara University professor Stephanie Hughes, it's the fact that we produce things that can't be used again in nature ...

Edward Humes, who’s just published a new book, Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash. This seemed like an interesting place to talk about it with him. “Waste is at the core of most of our ...

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A professor lends worms to students, takes them to sewage processing plants and encourages them to answer their own questions about garbage.... What makes humans different from other species? To ...