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Health experts say to wash your water bottle every day. I definitely do this, even if I can’t recall the last time I actually washed my water bottle. I must wash it so often, all my water-bottle-washing incidents blend together. It’s involuntary, like breathing. You wouldn’t ask anyone how many times they’ve breathed today, would you?

Just like any other dish, a water bottle needs to be washed. Even if your water bottle looks clean, it’s teeming with mouth bacteria and other particles that need to be vanquished, just like the invisible dirt, sweat, and skin flakes on bedsheets and bras—which I always wash weekly, sometimes.

But even if I didn’t wash my water bottle every day—hypothetically, of course—it only contains water, right? Water is what you use to clean dirty stuff, so in a way, a water bottle is self-cleaning. Like an oven. Or a vagina. For someone who doesn’t ever wash their water bottle (a.k.a. not me), this theory—like a self-cleaning water bottle—would definitely hold water.

- by Tim Connolly

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Incorporating ancient African wisdom into wellbeing interventions could push positive psychology beyond its Western roots

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‘Put war away with time, come into space’. So wrote Charles Olson in 1946, in a poem which hinted that we should remember the dead of war — in his case, the masses of ‘unburied dead’ of the Second World War — only in order to make a better, more freeing life for the ‘new […]

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Amid Israel’s blockade on Gaza, death can come from the lack of food — or from trying to find food.

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