Except the obviously better way to avoid waste in public bathrooms is to not have paper towels in them at all--like here in Japan. While a few restrooms have air driers, everyone is expected to bring their own hand cloth about the size of a handkerchief with them that serves as a towel after you go to to restroom. You chuck it in the wash at the end of the day and grab a clean one off the rack (most people have half a dozen or so at home).

The TED talk was about reducing paper towel waste in *public* bathrooms. Simply encouraging you to fold one piece instead of pulling 4. Also it works, after that talk I did start folding a single piece and it's working out just fine.

I understand it was to prep the joke but stretched the truth a little far there.

"Hey boy, why don't you just put your hand under this towel, just really quick it'll be fun I swear!"

No way. A paper towel is something you dry your hands with. A napkin is a small paper cloth given with fast food (like in this video). A serviette is what middle-class people call a napkin.

Serviette, Napkin, Paper towel - all the same

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Yeah, that makes me a tad skeptical too, her footing isn't bad either, and she's in rubber boots so it's not likely that she slipped and went down.

So, is it wrong that i'm expecting jimmy kimmel to come out of nowhere and offer her some paper towels or something?

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OK, so Why?

Why won't it enter the sponge? why won't the liquid enter the negative spaces in the sponge?

I do know there are some materials that don't absorb water - I have some dish towels (bought at the dollar store) that won't absorb water, absolutely useless. But I think that's different as I doubt they would absorb anything.

So why not Mercury? it's definitely more dense than water. Are the molecules larger than the H2O Molecule? I don't think it is, and even if it was, surly they are not larger than the holes in the sponge.

I'd like to see this tried with different types of sponges.

It's probably because it's cold! You gotta wrap that kitten in a fluffy towel when you take it out of the bath.

Throw in the towel, CNN. I thought this was just a bit at first. I was all ready with a "too soon" and everything.