The smart toilet era is here! Are you ready to share your analprint with big tech?
Does point out, right at the end, that 3.6 billion people - nearly half the world’s population - have no access to safe sanitation, let alone a loo that can track sleep quality and fibre intake.
though even in this green and ?pleasant? land, Government failing to ( Read more... )

Radical Object: Fergusson Vaginal Speculum: The speculum is associated with racialised and state-sponsored gynaecological violence through the work of Marion Sims and the Contagious Diseases Acts and through instances of compulsory inspections of incarcerated women in recent times. But, the duck billed version was also allied to liberatory ( Read more... )

'Why are there no women great artists?' - okay, we know, do we not, my dearios, that there are great women artists? - but there might be more. One of the reasons why there are not as many as there might be could be that they felt they had Other Priorities (not necessarily Being A Muse). I was already apprised of the not necessarily softer side of ( Read more... )

Five very misc numbered listicles, posted without commentary:
Three quick asparagus recipes.
Eight Reasons Why The Hero's Journey Sucks.
10 Inventors Who Came to Regret Their Creations.
Ten Types Of Authors Who Can Go Fuck Themselves.
32 Women Writers On The Life-Changing Books They Read In Their 20s.

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Further to earlier post about higher codswallop article on fanfic in The Guardian, in which a young man mansplains fanfic, and the subsequent discussion (with codfishing) -

Sometimes it occurs to me that people assume that 'originality' means 'created absolutely from scratch with no input from anything else whatsoever', owing nothing to nobody ( Read more... )

How many things one jogs along with for years or decades and then you get a new improved THING and it's really hard to go back.

E.g: Going to the launderette was just a part of the general weekly routine until getting a washing machine, after which if one was forced to go the launderette, say if there was a plumbing catastrophe, it was a major ( Read more... )

When I'd finally picked myself up from the floor, where I had been screaming, biting the carpet and drumming my heels and generally invoking one of Charcot's more performative hysterics after reading this, I then went 'Huh. If you're going to mess with history and hysteria, let's really go to town'.

So I give you:

Victorian Sex Factoids: The Movie

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Dept of professional aaaaargh: Experience: I bought a long-lost Charlie Chaplin film on eBay. Please, please, tell me you have had it copied from highly unstable nitrate film (a factor you actually mention) on to some more robust medium before it goes up in flames or crumbles to dust.

Dept of, let us try resisting binary distinctions: Oliver ( Read more... )

The ghosts of futures past: a journo delves into patents at the British Library.

At Kew Gardens, the visitor figures are blossoming as fast as the cherry trees: and the ginko biloba is changing sex. Yes, Kew is a magical place, and I still think the current entry charge is iniqituous.

Lawyers like talking in Latin and most legal documents are ( Read more... )