Anya Subich

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I am Anya, a magic realist and a normal librarian. Now about Balkan music, Rainbow gatherings and legends of Nishapur. Hanging around Gerrit Rietveld. I do creative writing, photography and videos.
Many moons ago my self left Moscow for Jerusalem, Jerusalem for Rotterdam, Rotterdam for Amsterdam. Heart stayed in the Middle East.

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Urine and philosopher's stone

How the search for gold led alchemists to discover something else

For centuries alchemists and magicians were racking their brains over the riddle of philosopher’s stone - a mysterious substance that is able to turn basic metals into gold. One of the legends ran...
Love spell, magic bottle and ballistic firepower

Surprising uses of urine in medieval age

Without a flushing tank at their service, medieval people had to interact with their urine much more often than we do. Immediate proximity to the material inspired in our ancestors some mind blowing...
Urine implants?

Caution: after reading this article you will rush, headlong, to brush your teeth.

Pis’ blog’s returning readers must be hard to surprise: they are already well-aware of urine-powered mobile phones, pee tea, pee fonts, furniture made out of pee and other fruits of humans’ insanity.
"Urinetown": piss in anti-utopia

What if in the future we have to pay for peeing?

In the world where they already trade drinking water and fresh air, such a perspective does not seem at all impossible. Impressed by the system of paid toilets in Europe, American playwright Greg...
Vespasian and universal bleach

Where does the expression “Money doesn't stink” come from?

While urine-diverting toilets are hitting the headlines as a wonder of innovative technology, collecting urine from public lavatories was a common thing in ancient Rome. Demand for the product was so...
Urine-tricity

Your pee can power a lightbulb!

A team of English researchers has created an energy-generating urinal that could prove to provide illumination in disaster zones and refugee camps.

Anya Subich

exhibitions

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Urine and philosopher's stone

How the search for gold led alchemists to discover something else

Love spell, magic bottle and ballistic firepower

Surprising uses of urine in medieval age

Urine implants?

Caution: after reading this article you will rush, headlong, to brush your teeth.

"Urinetown": piss in anti-utopia

What if in the future we have to pay for peeing?

Vespasian and universal bleach

Where does the expression “Money doesn't stink” come from?

Urine-tricity

Your pee can power a lightbulb!

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urines on the facade quiz

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A developing area of Dijkspark

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Portable urination devices