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Florence Nightingale became one of the icons of Victorian Britain for her work as a nurse during the Crimean War and the public health improvements she successfully campaigned for later on. Tim Harford discusses how she and her ‘Nightingale Circle’ used spectacular diagrams to explain health statistics persuasively with RJ Andrews, editor of “Florence Nightingale, Mortality and Health Diagrams”.
Why has Bill Gates been carrying around a jar of poop? Ronny Chieng investigates the philanthropist’s Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, which funds scientists’ efforts to create toilets that don’t need a sewer system and can create clean water and energy.
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Despite our lengthy history of evacuating our bowels and bladders, it wasn’t until the relatively recent 1940s that we began to construct portable, self-contained toilets to accept our waste. Dive into the world of porta-potties in this episode.
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Public bathrooms are noisy, poorly designed, and often nonexistent. What to do?
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