Reddit reviews The Secret House: The Extraordinary Science of an Ordinary Day

In the book - The Secret House - http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-House-Extraordinary-Ordinary/dp/0425188426 - it says that shaving foam causes the follicles to go erect and thus when they go flaccid that gives you a smoother shave.

Maybe it was The Secret House?

The Secret House by David Bodanis

I can't even begin to explain my love of this book. I lost it when it discussed waiting for dinner guests to fall down and die instead of asking them to leave.

If you like this sort of thing, see if you can't get your hands on this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-House-Extraordinary-Ordinary/dp/0425188426

A couple of these pictures appear in it, and more. Plus the text is quite informative, if a bit dated.

Putting the GI elements to the side for a moment - at the end of the day, if I'm considering going on a soylent-only diet, I'd like to be confident that what I'm eating is safe and healthy. One way to do that is to say look, I trust the company, and I trust the independent verifying agencies, so I don't need to know any more about what goes into it. The other way is to say I want to research myself the safety and health impacts of those ingredients.

Now one could say that this is a waste of time. That this product is more complicated than simply researching an ingredient that appears on the label, and that any research I do will be simply scratching the surface compared to what the researchers at Rosa Labs will have done. I acknowledge this point, but feel equally unhappy with the idea of throwing up my hands and trusting the various companies and agencies.

This tension extends far beyond Soylent, or other shakes. I remember when I first found out how margerine and ice cream were produced (from The Secret House) I told my parents and expected them to be shocked, and instead my Dad basically said well, at some point you've gotta trust that it's OK to eat.

I do eat margerine (Smart Balance actually) and I do eat ice cream. I don't give any weight to the organic movement, and my stance on processed and GMO foods essentially lines up with Soylent's Approach to Nutrition. I guess what's different about a product like Soylent is:

1. Because it's new, it doesn't have the implicit long-term evidence of safety that comes from being a common food item.
   
2. Because many people (including me) consider making it a mainstay of their diet, whatever impact it has will be much larger than the small bit of margerine I put on toast once in a while, or a bowl of ice cream once or twice a month.
   
   There's also a less important concern, wherein I would like to know what is the majority of what I eat. Right now it's undoubtedly chicken or milk. It's easy to say, if on an exclusive Soylent diet, that you eat Soylent, but for some reason it's important for me to know and emphasize that really, the majority of what you eat when on Soylent is Maltodextrin. Being less familiar with that than, say, chicken and milk, prompted me to research it a bit, my only previous exposure having been a poor one from the ON Serious Mass vs OS Pro Gainer situation (which I mentioned in another post on this thread).

Regardless of the answer to the fecal question, you probably want to keep the toothbrush protected, because fecal matter is not the only thing in the bathroom you might not want to brush your teeth with.

There's an interesting book, "The Secret House: The Extraordinary Science of an Ordinary Day", that looks at what goes on in and around an ordinary house over the course of an ordinary day that we are largely unaware of.

I don't remember if it mentioned fecal matter, but I do remember it vividly describing the urine mist that permeates the air in the bathroom and coats everything exposed in there after a male style urination.