The Private Universe: How Engineering Tamed Water and Reinvented Sanctuary

Published on Sept. 3, 2025, 4:38 p.m.

Consider, for a moment, the act of stepping into a shower. For most of us, it is a ritual of sublime simplicity. A turn of a ha…

The Porcelain Revolution: How Science and History Reinvented the Toilet

Published on Sept. 3, 2025, 1:57 p.m.

In the sweltering summer of 1858, London was under siege. The enemy was not a foreign army, but an invisible, inescapable force…