It rained heavily over night. On the ramp down to the train station this morning, a woman carefully gathered earthworms from the wet pavement and then carried them back to the nearby grass.
"The results: Land use was the most important factor. Underpants decomposed the fastest in private gardens, where soil analysis also revealed the highest levels of organic matter, making it an ideal environment for earthworms, fungi, bacteria, and so forth." Why did 1,000 world citizens bury their underpants?