TP GOES HIGH TECH China’s public-park restrooms have for years suffered toilet-paper theft by local residents who raid dispensers for their own homes (a cultural habit, wrote Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, expressing taxpayer feelings of “owning” public facilities), but the government recently fought back with technology. At Beijing’s popular Temple of Heaven park, … [Read more...] about NOTW: High-tech TP, dumb criminals and the bedroom of tomorrow
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NOTW: Broomball, pizza box DJs and ridiculously expensive license plates
OUTSTANDING IN THEIR FIELDS The recently concluded Olympics included a few of the more obscure athletic endeavors (such as dressage for horses and steeplechase for humans), but U.S. colleges compete in even less-heralded “sports,” such as wood chopping, rock climbing, fishing and broomball. University of Alabama, 2015 national football champions, dominates also in the … [Read more...] about NOTW: Broomball, pizza box DJs and ridiculously expensive license plates