A toilet as a sculpture
Samuel Ross and Kohler created the “Formation 02” smart toilet, a striking orange, textured design that blurs the line between art and functionality.
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The devil’s toilet paper plant
Here is the nightmarish “devil’s toilet paper plant”—the agonizingly painful Australian stinging plant called dendrocnide moroides.
Rethinking toilets: from utilitarian to design
The fascinating transformation of toilets from utilitarian objects to artistic expressions reflects our changing attitudes toward everyday experiences.
Is it possible to survive by drinking your own pee?
Guidelines on if and how to drink urine for survival, including distillation methods, while emphasizing better emergency planning.
5 surprising ways toilets improve life
Toilets provide health, social, and environmental benefits, keeping communities disease-free, protecting vulnerable groups, and enabling education.
Designers are rethinking the toilet
From dry composting toilets to wastewater recycling, the aim is to reduce water use and convert waste into renewable resources.
The unspoken toilet psychology
How the overlooked psychology of excretion relates to emotions, mental illness, gender, prejudice, and personality.
The enduring art of latrinalia
The intimate graffiti art form found in pub bathrooms, offers insight into subcultures and social issues through anonymous scribbles and conversations.
The Melbourne’s poo museum
A new poop museum opened in Melbourne in the wake of the Japanese Unko Museum in Tokyo to explore poop without taboos.
Blocks of dried human poop as a building material
Researchers found a way to create bricks out of human waste to be used as a building material. Despite containing only 25% of poop, they are still strong.