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I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide…
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The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.
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In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and…
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The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was look at…
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I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage,…
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A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean,…
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Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be…
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Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in…
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There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.
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Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.
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There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the…
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The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.
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We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc.…
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Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never…
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?...…
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