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index.feed.received.today — 4 avril 2025

‘Like sleeping in dirty clothes’: how often should you wash your linens?

4 avril 2025 à 18:00

Doing laundry can be a tedious task and how often you wash each type of item depends on how much contact it has with your skin

Is there any domestic task more sisyphean than laundry? No sooner have you pulled a crisp, clean sheet on to your bed than it is time to strip it off and start over. Blink and a clean towel becomes dirty. Somehow, lives, careers and relationships must fit into the tiny slivers of time between loads.

I don’t enjoy laundry; give me dish duty any day. I do, however, enjoy living in a clean space that doesn’t smell like a locker room. Textiles can really trap scent – and bacteria.

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© Photograph: Leslie Thrasher

© Photograph: Leslie Thrasher

index.feed.received.yesterday — 3 avril 2025

Cory Booker didn’t go to the bathroom for 25 hours. Is that … OK?

3 avril 2025 à 20:41

The Democrat delivered the longest Senate speech in history. We asked urologists one pressing question about it

On Monday evening, Cory Booker, a Democratic senator for New Jersey, took the floor to denounce the harm he believes Donald Trump and his administration have inflicted on the United States. “Our country is in crisis,” he said, decrying the economic chaos, mass layoffs and tyrannical acts of the administration’s first 71 days. He stopped speaking 25 hours and five minutes later, making it the longest Senate speech in history.

Many praised Booker for the rousing political act. Some were also impressed by a particular physical feat: namely, he seemingly didn’t pee once the whole time. (A rep for Booker confirmed to TMZ that he did not wear a diaper during his speech.)

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© Photograph: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images

© Photograph: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images

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