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  • Anya Subich

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    I am Anya, a magic realist and a normal librarian. Now about Balkan music, Rainbow gatherings and legends of Nishapur. Hanging around Gerrit Rietveld. I do creative writing, photography and videos.
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  • Urine and philosopher's stone

    How the search for gold led alchemists to discover something else

    For centuries alchemists and magicians were racking their brains over the riddle of philosopher’s stone - a mysterious substance that is able to turn basic metals into gold. One of the legends ran...

  • Love spell, magic bottle and ballistic firepower

    Surprising uses of urine in medieval age

    Without a flushing tank at their service, medieval people had to interact with their urine much more often than we do. Immediate proximity to the material inspired in our ancestors some mind blowing...

  • Urine implants?

    Caution: after reading this article you will rush, headlong, to brush your teeth.

    Pis’ blog’s returning readers must be hard to surprise: they are already well-aware of urine-powered mobile phones, pee tea, pee fonts, furniture made out of pee and other fruits of humans’ insanity.

  • "Urinetown": piss in anti-utopia

    What if in the future we have to pay for peeing?

    In the world where they already trade drinking water and fresh air, such a perspective does not seem at all impossible. Impressed by the system of paid toilets in Europe, American playwright Greg...

  • Vespasian and universal bleach

    Where does the expression “Money doesn't stink” come from?

    While urine-diverting toilets are hitting the headlines as a wonder of innovative technology, collecting urine from public lavatories was a common thing in ancient Rome. Demand for the product was so...

  • Urine-tricity

    Your pee can power a lightbulb!

    A team of English researchers has created an energy-generating urinal that could prove to provide illumination in disaster zones and refugee camps.

  • On bees and piss

    riddle answer

    Why is a honey bee like a men's urinal? Have you guessed the riddle yet?

  • Pliny's panacea

    The ancients and pee

    From time immemorial, urine fascinated mankind. People ascribed to it's magic powers, using it to bleach hair, boost crops, perform curses, seduce, and whatnot. Pliny the Elder's "Natural History"...

  • P for protest

    When a cup of patience overflows, all that remains is to pee.

    The act of peeing on something contains a well-documented symbolic value, which makes it a useful tool for provocation. Urine and feces, hurled at policemen and politicians, is a common thing during...

  • Planet needs your pee!

    urine can save the future of agriculture

    We do not just take a leak. We ruthlessly flush king Solomon’s mines into a toilet bowl. Besides water and urea, human pee contains about 10 precious elements - a few of these being calcium

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