A patent has recently been filed for a musical condom. It is, apparently, a chip-controlled piezoelectric sound transducer which plays a melody or a voiced message during intercourse whether the contracts of the sound-playing unit are closed and the transducer activated.
No what could the health departments do with an innovation like this!
What if many of our biggest crises are temporal? This article explores how modern assumptions about time quietly shape aged care, climate policy and governance.
Luxury resorts used to sell status and spectacle. Now they sell something quieter: relief. Guests arrive overloaded, and the best resorts are redesigning around sensory calm, reduced friction, and emotional steadiness. Modern luxury is less about what you add, and more about what you remove.
In 2019 the Victorian Forestry Plan set a 2030 end date for native harvesting. That ten year horizon shaped every part of the transition. When the date was brought forward by six years, the logic collapsed. Part 2 examines how an interrupted timeline left towns exposed before the real work could begin.
AKD Yarram’s closure has been framed as a casualty of the native timber ban, but that story collapses two different industries into one. The mill processed softwood, not native hardwood. The real causes were national construction turbulence and a compressed transition timeline that left towns exposed.