Fountain (left), a urinal that Marcel Duchamp presented as art in 1917, as seen in a 2008 exhibition at Tate Modern in London. To its right is period publicity of the same era that presented ceramic ...

A rare toilet exists inside a state park bathroom in a remote part of northern Michigan. "It has become an item of great conversation and sometimes humor," said Ron Olson, chief of the parks and ...

Standing in the men’s room at the Cal State Northridge student union, no one would think that the long fight over the waterless urinal is about to come to a head. The flush-free fixtures hanging on ...

Nowadays, urinals – a somewhat primitive bathroom fixture – come in all different shapes and sizes. You can even get one coated in 24-karat gold leaf. And for the ...

Around holiday time, you’ve got to envy the Norwegians. They’ve got real candles on the tree, gobbets of pork fat for Christmas dinner (these are euphemistically known as “ribs”) and aquavit to feed ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) - A San Francisco religious group plans to speak out Tuesday, against public urinals in Dolores Park. One may think of a urinal, as a porcelain fixture attached to a wall. But the ...

A very interesting, pretty well-balanced feature from Joshua Davis in Wired about the rise of the waterless urinal that gives a vivid example of how professional opposition to interesting innovations ...

Tim Schroeder, president of Duravit, weighs in on the urinal designs Larry David came up with in a running subplot on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm.’ The current season of Curb Your Enthusiasm has really gone ...