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A rating system developed to promote sustainable roadway construction has awarded its first official certification to a project that incorporates porcelain from recycled toilets. The newly widened sidewalk also incorporates more than 400 recycled toilets.

Greenroads spokesman Jeralee Anderson says, "It’s a big milestone for us. They said: ‘Yeah, I think we can do something with that. ‘We’ll throw it through the crusher and see what we come up with.’" What they came up with was what the project engineers call "poticrete." The project ended up using about 5 tons of toilets.
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On Earthfiles.com, Linda Howe reports that on Thursday, February 23, a low rumbling sound was heard in Arlington, Washington, from the morning through the night, growing in intensity at 7 p.m. It was so loud that several of the people who heard it say it vibrated the bones in their chests. Arlington is about 35 miles southeast of a Naval Air Station–could it have been an airplane noise?
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God may be a mathematical formula, but it turns out that marriage is too. While we stand in line at the grocery store, we’re all used to seeing fan magazines touting the latest celebrity wedding. It seems like only a short time later, standing in the same line, we see a tabloid headline announcing that the marriage is over. Six years ago one mathematician worked out a formula that he claims predicts IF this will happen, and if so, HOW SOON.

The equation’s variables include the relative fame of the husband and wife, their ages, the length of their courtship, their marital history, and their sex-symbol status
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Why did ancient peoples, without modern construction equipment, struggle so hard to build huge monuments? These monumental structures are found all over the world, from Easter Island to the pyramids of Egypt. Recent research suggests that they all have a common characteristic: they may have been specially designed to conduct and manipulate sound to produce certain sensory effects.read more