DON'T pee in the shower, because...
Pelvic floor therapist Dr Alicia Jeffrey-Thomas, who has a doctorate in physical therapy, says peeing in the shower is a bad idea, even though a recent survey revealed that 76 per cent of people like to do it. "Your bladder relies on signals it
gets both from the stretch of the bladder walls as it fills, as well as signals from the brain which let it know when to contract to urinate," she told Buzzfeed. "We want to avoid training our bladder to associate certain signals with the urge to pee. In this case, peeing in the shower associates the sound of running water with urination or with submersion in water. This can often transition into being triggered by other sounds of running water (like when you're running the faucet to wash your hands or the dishes) or when you're in bodies of water." (Via Newsweek)
Letter for those living in 2088
For a Volkswagen ad campaign in 1988, writer Kurt Vonnegut wrote a letter of advice to people living in 2088. His main message is an environmental one: that if we don't get our act together, Nature will have its way with us. The sort of leaders we need now are not those who promise ultimate victory over Nature through perseverance in living as we do right now, but those with the courage and intelligence to present to the world what appears to be Nature's stern but reasonable surrender terms:
1. Reduce and stabilise your population.
2. Stop poisoning the air, the water and the topsoil.
3. Stop preparing for war and start dealing with your real problems.
4. Teach your kids - and yourselves, too, while you're at it - how to inhabit a small planet without helping to kill it.
5. Stop thinking science can fix anything if you give it a trillion dollars.
6. Stop thinking your grandchildren will be OK no matter how wasteful or destructive you may be, since they can go to a nice new planet on a spaceship. That is really mean, and stupid.
7. And so on. Or else.
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