One of the darker moments of my parenting career saw me holding a terrified three-year-old on a toilet that repeatedly automatically flushed at a volume that is only appropriate for the whooshing ...

It’s a common scene: You’re hovering above the toilet in some airport or rest stop, when, mid-stream, the toilet beneath you starts flushing. By the time you’ve finished relieving yourself, the ...

I see the automatic flushing toilet and I think to myself, how am I going to do this without getting splashed on and be successful and clean in my pursuit? Honestly, after using an automatic flushing ...

“It is estimated that toilets are by far the main source of water use in the home, accounting for almost 30 percent of residential indoor water use,” states the Virginia Cooperative Extension. In an ...

A three-year-old starts having accidents at home after a bad experience with an automatic flush toilet at a local restaurant. Here's a topic that many moms out there have had to deal with. Even The ...

Travis Springer, an English teacher at a Washington language institute, was outside drinking coffee with a friend the other day when he was asked an unusual question, but one that divides folks ...

Most times when I use an automatic-flush toilet in a commercial building, it flushes two to three times. Do automatic-flush toilets waste or save water? – Ed Zajac, Orangevale Your experience is ...

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Download the MP3 audio version of this story here, or sign up for Slate’s free daily podcast on iTunes. After a stint of telecommuting, I recently returned to working in a large downtown building. My ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There’s a reason why smart toilets and bidets are so widespread in certain regions of the world: Not only ...

Here's a topic that many moms out there have had to deal with. Even The New York Times took up the matter a few years ago in a story headlined "For Children, a Scary World Out There (in There, Too).".