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The great bathroom debate: paper towel or hand dryer?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageTackling one of life's biggest questionssabotrax/flickr, CC BY

It’s the age-old question that continues to baffle many of us in the bathroom: when you come to drying your hands, should you reach for the paper towel, or the electric dryer?

For some, this decision might be related to hygiene, and for others, drying performance. For many,...

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We swear by it, but we're hardly world leaders in getting to grips with the F-word

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageAll swear words come from those aspects of human experience in which we invest our deepest emotions.shutterstock

This article contains explicit language.

Week after week, Dr Who gets himself and his companion, and often entire species, out of very sticky situations. With his trusty TARDIS and sonic sunnies, the Doctor inevitably finds the key to...

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