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Or, how I'm trying to raise little adults, not incompetent kids.

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It takes a licking and keeps on ticking

In the building industry it is a big question, for all the wrong reasons.

They have not changed much since Archimedes' time.

A visit to the Interior Design Show does not shed a lot of light on the subject.

It's gross, but it's not dangerous.

The Orca Helix moves up and down so that it is easy to get on and off when high, easy on the body when low.

Public washrooms really are just as important as public roads because, in both cases, people gotta go.

Everything we design should be simple to understand and use for people of all ages and abilities. It's not hard.

Or is it actually good for you?

These things should be banned, or at least they should come with a real warning.

Through trial and error, these are the indoor plants that have taken well to living in my bathroom.

Here's a handy calculator to figure it out, so that you don't have to fill the entire pickup truck with it.

We have to stop building highways and start building toilets as we face a whole new public bathroom crisis.

The bacteria are winning.

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Maybe we need an executive order banning handshakes as barbaric.

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This organism has been alive for thousands of years