Since the dawn of time, people have found nifty ways to clean up after the bathroom act. The most common solution was simply to grab what was at hand: coconuts, shells, snow, moss, hay, leaves, grass, ...

Seinfeld excelled at criticism of the everyday. A few months ago, in a fine essay in the NY Times, Sam Anderson suggested that Roland Barthes was the father of pop cultural criticism and that we are ...

At first, it might appear a political statement: “Pecunia non olet (“Money does not smell”),” staff tells you at a museum dedicated to the history of toilets in Kyiv, Ukraine. But the motto, which ...

Nobody is entirely sure who first had the privilege of sitting on a toilet. Evidence of advanced plumbing systems in the ancient world abounds, but it’s a strange, meandering path from antiquity to ...

Talking about your toilet exploits would not get you many invites to dinner parties, but what we do in there has significant effects on the environment and our health. It has also changed drastically ...

Here are some highlights from the toilet s long and noble history, according to The History Channel s Web site at www.historychannel.com. lIn earliest times people relieved themselves wherever they ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Move over Green Bay Packers. There's something else to talk about in Titletown: bathrooms, toilets, toilet paper and chamber pots. Six toilets -- including an 1800s model called an ...