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Weird toilets from around the world

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2. This sail through toilet in Vietnam requires you to swim up to it and do your business. 3. These toilets in Qatar that are surrounded by lavender just might smell like perfume. 4. This toilet in Mexico has 'No' written all over it. So I'm guessing you're on your own if you decide to use it. ADVERTISEMENT 5. Guess the neon colours and paintings make this Venice hotel worthy of being called Water Closet Palace Hotel. Read More...

What Y2K Can Teach Us About the CrowdStrike Outage

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We were warned that our embrace of computer technology would lead to disaster. By incorporating computers into ever more areas of our lives, we were told, we had created a scenario in which a mundane glitch could bring everything crashing down. Air travel would be snarled, bank accounts would become inaccessible, essential services would be seriously disrupted, and people would stare in horror as the computers they relied on for so much simply stopped working. Read More...

Why Donald Trump and J.D. Vance Aren't Really Isolationists

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With the Republican presidential ticket now set, foreign policy commentators and editorial pages have come to characterize Donald Trump and J.D. Vance as staunch isolationists who would pull up America’s drawbridge, shatter Washington’s traditional alliances, and give the world’s autocrats more license to run roughshod over the so-called rules-based international order. This is a profound misread of the two men. Read More: How Far Trump Would Go It’s easy to see why so many Americans and Europeans are worried, if not petrified, about Trump and Vance’s worldview. Read More...

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