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Studying splashes to learn more about how disease spreads

Health

In the new Science Friday video “Breakthrough: Connecting the Drops,” Lydia Bourouiba and her team study how droplets travel when we sneeze, or flush the toilet.

Chinese office workers take a smoke break

China considers telling its 300 million smokers to put ’em out in public

Global Scan
More than half of women in Mumbai, India don’t have indoor toilets. On average, women hold their bladders for 13 hours each day.

Women in India agitate for their right to pee

Development

Pharmaceutical flushing

Environment

DIY: How to turn urine into fertilizer

Business, Economics and Jobs
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Inventing a Job: Advice from a Doer to a Dreamer

Yesterday, we talked with two people who stopped applying for jobs, and invented their own jobs instead. And we asked you, if you could invent a perfect job, what would it be? A lot of you wrote and called in with some fun ideas. A listener in Oregon said: I’d be a beer taste tester. […]

From Vacant to Occupied: Converting London’s Old Public Toilets

Arts, Culture & Media

In London, where space is at a premium and building costs high, about a half dozen old public toilets have been been repurposed as cafes, art galleries and community spaces.

Does Banning Bilingual Education Change Anything?

The World in Words

In this week’s World in Words podcast, what happens after a state bans bilingual education? And toilet talk with a US vs UK English expert.

Toilet Tales

The World

Sanitation Solution Wins MIT Innovation Prize

Environment

MIT researchers help solve the global sanitation crisis by converting human waste into profit.

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