3 doctors agreed: Mucus on stool: Mucus discharge occurs in up to 50% of patients with irritable bowel syndrome, with or without pain. Mucus may also be produced in response to partial obstruction, chronic constipation, rectal dysfunction, infection, & even from secretory villous tumors of the rectum.
The crazy life and crazier death of Tycho Brahe, history's strangest astronomer. Science has many colorful figures, but nobody quite like Tycho Brahe. Beyond his astronomy genius, he lost his nose in a math-fueled duel, possibly inspired Shakespeare to write Hamlet, and maybe made his even greater successor Johannes Kepler a murderer.
Steve Fossett is mostly known for being the first person to navigate non-stop around the world in a hot air balloon. However, he also survived a 6.7-kilometer (22,000 ft) fall without injury. In 1998, he set out to circle the globe nonstop for the fourth time in his hot air balloon the Solo Spirit. He had completed about 60 percent of his journey when he decided to travel through a rough storm over the Coral Sea.