Due to the accelerating development of ‘rapidly to become redundant’ technologies, there is a growing mountain of perfectly serviceable discarded electronic devices hiding quietly at the bottom of almost every domestic rubbish pile or at the back of nearly every second hand shop. If you add in to this scenario the accelerating nature of our society where people don’t have time or the motivation...

tion amongst Oriental races. In fact, it m?y be said to be the dental nil men t of the Orient, as dental caries is of the Occident, It is, however, widespread amongst Western races, and perhaps especially so amongst the European population of the United States of America. Perhaps for reasons not entirely unconnected with the last statement, moie rubbish has probably been written about alveolar ...

automatic flyproof latrine seat, a few points about fly-breeding will not be out of place. These points actually drew my attention to the necessity for an automatic device which I think is essential in dealing with the problem. There is a general belief that fly-breeding occurs mainly in manure and rubbish heaps, and consequently efforts are made to stop breeding in such materials rather than i...

an ordinary flour-mill behind which the snake lay hidden from view. No effort was made by the parents to kill the animal, which was allowed to run put in their presence and enter into the rubbish heaps about the house; such deadly snakes being held sacred, and worshipped by the ignorant and superstitious Hindus, and not unfrequently cherished with milk and bread put in the holes in which they a...

In this issue of EMBO Molecular Medicine, Bhuvanagiri et al report on a chemical means to convert molecular junk into gold. They identify a chemical inhibitor of a quality control pathway that is best known for its ability to clear cells of rubbish, but that in certain cases can be detrimental because it eliminates “useful” garbage. The chemical inhibitor identified by Bhuvanagiri et al perturb...

Bapra Simi, an Ambonwari spiritual healer living in the border town of Vanimo Papua New Guinea comments that “Earth is full rubbish” and associates this material overflow with possible causes consequences sorcery. This short explanatory paper accompanies video entitled Glasmeri, Spiritual Healer, (Vávrová, 2020), which follows Simi through her healing practices, articulation how these practices...