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COLORS: SHIT
After my book came out in Italian, I was asked, and was delighted to be asked, to edit a special issue of COLORS magazine, my training ground, alma mater, place that taught me to write about huge...
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Seattle Luminaries
I’ll be speaking at the Seattle Science Festival on June 1 as part of its Science Luminaries talk series. There will be me, Jack Sim of the World Toilet Organization, and Doulaye Kone and Chris...
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I did a talk for TED Talent Search in London a few months ago, on taking toilets seriously, which is now online here or embedded below. You can comment, vote, rate. Please do.
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Yatra
So, this long silence has been due to me actually finally writing my ship/sea book, which is now delivered. 90,000 words in six weeks, followed by surgery. I mean, I delivered it on July 2 at 5pm,...
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Boring
Happy Global Handwashing Day! Now go wash your hands. No, wait, don’t just wash your hands. Wash your hands PROPERLY, like this: Or, like this little customer of a Sanergy project in Kenya (I presume):...
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TED2013
I can finally announce, with great delight, that I’ll be giving a fourteen minute talk about sanitation, shit and toilets at TED2013 in Long Beach, California, on February 28. The conference is called...
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Action figure
I’m an Action figure on Circle of Blue this week, and they have designed me a wonderfully cool banner.
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Ted2013
I’m going to write later and at length about what a mind-widening, wonderful experience TED2013 was. A week of doing nothing but meeting interesting people and hearing about interesting ideas and...
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My TED talk from this February’s Long Beach conference is up. Let’s talk crap. Seriously.
View ArticleFresh Air
I talked to Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air (that’s the US equivalent of Start the Week, for UK readers), about shipping, sound, and fatbergs. You can listen to it here. Americans may need this to...
View ArticleRadio 4 Book of the Week
Deep Sea and Foreign Going will be Radio 4′s Book of the Week from September 9. Of course I’m delighted by this, it’s a great honour. Also I can’t wait to hear my words read – much better than I could,...
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I talked to Kai Ryssal of NPR’s Marketplace the other day. The interview is now online here.
View ArticleAudio cholera
Mosaic has turned my piece on cholera in Haiti into a podcast. If you’re a runner, there’s about four miles’ worth.
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