"Fart Proudly" (also called “A Letter To A Royal Academy”, also called "To the Royal Academy of Farting") is the popular name of a "notorious essay" about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin circa 1781 while he was living abroad as United States Ambassador to France. "A Letter To A Royal Academy" was composed in response to a call for scientific papers from the Royal Academy of Brussels. Franklin believed that the various academic societies in Europe were increasingly pretentious and concerned with the impractical. [...] Franklin responded with an essay suggesting that research be undertaken into methods of improving the odor of human flatulence. - Goran Zec from Bookmarklet

Zece, valja ti procitati Steven Johnson: The Invention of Air (imam u otkljucanom e-book formatu), gdje je pored Priestleya Ben glavni lik. Ti su likovi istrazivali svako moguce zapazanje, a buduci da je vecina kemijskih, fizikalnih i bioloskih procesa bila neistrazena, a pronalazastvo jos uvijek dominantna paradigma znanstvenog napretka, nista nije bilo nevrijedno paznje. Priestley je eto slucajem zasluzan za soda vodu. - Tomislav Medak