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Urine For Some Good News

Better living through toilet technology. The Nano Membrane Toilet More than two billion people live without access to safe and clean water. This could help with that. The Nano Membrane Toilet, created by a team at Cranfield University in the U.K., doesn’t require water. The toilet’s “nanotech membrane” can suck water out of waste and […]

War of the Wolves

In the winter of 2011, a remote Russian town was besieged by a pack of more than 400 wolves.

Old Condition, New Name

As they learn more about a disease (or respond to public misconceptions), doctors and scientists may change the name of familiar, widespread conditions. SEID Also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, the official name for this difficult to understand condition in which those afflicted experience long bouts of otherwise unexplainable tiredness is myalgic encephalomyelitis. According to […]

5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Your Camera Phone

Sure, you can take awesome selfies and delight the entire Internet, but there’s some pretty amazing technology that the tiny computer and advanced camera in your pocket can do.

Smell Ya Later

Looking for love? Throw away those personal ads. Cancel your online dating service. You’ve already got what it takes to find a mate. Just take a deep breath…through your nose. (This article was originally published in Uncle John’s Weird Weird World EPIC.) The Power of Pheromones The word comes from the Greek words phero, “I carry,” […]

Kirk Douglas Film Still With Windscreen

Accidentally Excellent

Are you accident-prone? Don’t worry, it could end up making the world a better place.

The man who bought Google.com

The Man Who Bought Google (For Just One Minute)

In the middle of the night in Sept. 2015, he was browsing on Google Domains, one of the company’s many businesses, this one a place to buy website domains. There were a few dot-coms that caught his eye for the low price of $12, but there was one in particular Ved thought might be particularly good for starting an online business: Google.com.

Ford Nucleon

Crazy Car Designs

Many cars never make it much further than the drawing board. In the case of the following vehicles, there are solid reasons why that is.

Young woman with hiccup

6 Facts About Hiccups

May these hiccup facts scare the hiccups right out of you.

How To Start A Fire

4 Ways To Light a Fire Without Matches

This might not save you in the even of an apocalypse, but you never know when little tricks like these will come in handy. Not all of these fire techniques are easy, but they do work with practice.

7 Swinetastic Pig Facts

Pigs may roll around in mud, but they don’t do it because they’re naturally drawn to dirt. They roll in mud, also called wallowing, because they don’t have a lot of sweat glands, and since mud tends to be cool, it helps them regular their body temperature.

Drunk Hedgehog

Europe’s Wildest Party Animals

Many animals will happily drink alcohol whenever they can get their furry mitts on some. Unfortunately, these European critters didn’t know when to say when.

10 Interesting Trivia Facts About Pi

10 Interesting Trivia Facts About Pi

Unlike that fascinating mathematical ratio, this article doesn’t go on forever.

How to Get Rid of Skunk Smell

Ask Uncle John Anything: Skunked

Did you (or more likely, your dog) get hit with the noxious spray from an agitated skunk? Well, that stinks. It’s time for a soak in a bathtub full of tomato juice. But does that old home remedy really work?

Swimming Pool

Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go in the Water…

…it never really was. And we’re talking about swimming pools. They’re really, really gross.

HITCHBot

Rest in Pieces, HITCHBot

This little robot traveled all around the world and had tons of crazy adventures. (We wrote about him in Robotica!) Then he made the mistake of trying to hitch a ride in Philadelphia.

How are pollen counts calculated?

Ask Uncle John Anything: You Give Me (Hay) Fever

It starts in March, and it seems to last forever: allergy season. For about four to five months, more than 60 million Americans have to choose between suffering from the symptoms of hay fever (technical name: allergy rhinitis).

Car Talk: Automobile Records and Firsts

What did the first police car look like? What about the first solar car? Learn about these and other automobile firsts in this article from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader History’s Lists.

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