Whither waste? Toilet testing, not everyone’s cup of tea, makes things flow better, for society’s sake. Metafilter features a little roundup of toilet testing info (thanks to investigator Scott Langill for bringing it to our attention): Pseudo Poop for Testing Toilets Testing toilet flush performance naturally requires the replication of real-world loads. Striving for accuracy, […]
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Best’s Flushing Caution; Sandoe on Dog-Snogging
From Leeds comes news of how to literally keep down infectious material in hospitals: “Potential for aerosolization of Clostridium difficile after flushing toilets: the role of toilet lids in reducing environmental contamination risk,” E.L. Best, J.A. Sandoe and M.H. Wilcox, Journal of Hospital Infections, epub December 1, 2011. The authors, at Leeds General Infirmary and […]
Estimated toilet-flush substance’s journey
The Flush Tracker web site claims to: “[tell] you where your flush goes once it disappears down the toilet…. In which countries does it work? Flush Tracker is currently available in the UK, Ireland, South Africa and Poland.” The web site shows a moving image based on an “estimate” of where and how fast the […]
Terry Jones takes on technology
Terry Jones, of Monty Python and other fame, interviewed by The Observer on the subject of technology. (The unrelated photo below shows Mr. Jones assisting Dr. Elena Bodnar, inventor of the brassiere that in an emergency can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks. That demonstration happened on the 2010 Ig Nobel […]
The handwriting off the wall
In 1992 a professor named T Steuart Watson discovered a completely effective way to prevent people writing on public toilet walls. Watson published a report in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, describing both his method and the relentless manner in which he tested it. Watson, then at Mississippi State University, is now a professor […]