I Quit Showering, and Life Continued

The more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and the world around us. Borrowing a term from the environmentalist Bill McKibben, Michelle Bastian, a senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and editor of the academic journal Time & Society, has argued that clocks have made us “fatally

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For instance, in my experience one towel will last four years if it's the only one in use. Consequently, a set of four towels in rotation will last a good 16 years. Similarly, if t-shirts can be washed 100 times,61 are only worn once between washings, one is worn every day, and you have 15 of them--which shouldn't be a problem if you participate in

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