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A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean, and because the noise that... →
When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, losses from tourism and agricultural revenue were three times greater than the total money spent on... →
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of... →
Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before.... →
In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All these... →
Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by... →
The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station... →
There is a scene in Richard Attenborough's biopic where Gandhi argues with his wife because she refuses to clean their latrine. She says it is... →
What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it... →
His death certificate says he died first of pneumonia and secondly of Alzheimer's disease. They could have listed another cause of death: a... →
Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon.
Some countries have more water than others - some can afford to use clean water to flush their poop away, and some can't.
Along with all the other stunning statistics China can provide, it can also claim to be the world leader in making energy from human excrement.... →
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