Tim Donnelly

12/10/20

How Will You Know If Your Neighbors Have Gotten the Vaccine?

In almost every sci-fi movie about a pandemic, there’s some trinket to differentiate the immune from the potentially…

4/30/20

Coronavirus Could Change Our Relationship With Trash

The coronavirus caused Lauren Singer to do something she hasn’t done in eight years: she created waste.

2/20/20

How to Buy Carbon Offsets That Actually Help the Environment

Carbon offsets can seem too good to be true. In theory, the offsets work like a big sponge sopping up all the emissio…

2/12/20

How Soon Should You Travel Somewhere After a Disaster?

The city of Santa Rosa knows you still want to visit California’s wine country even after devastating wildfires…

10/24/19

Your Vape Litter Is Becoming an Environmental Disaster

Anyone who’s participated in a beach cleanup is familiar with the classic cup of cigarette butts. The collection of…

7/19/19

How Much Do Planes Actually Get Cleaned in Between Flights?

It’s usually best, in any situation where you end up with your finger touching your eye or grazing your lips, to not…

4/16/19

The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Type of Weed That's Right for You

After generations in the shadows and long nights of “still waiting on the guy, what’s up with the guy, should we…

3/20/19

How to Survive the 2020 Presidential Campaign Without Losing Your Mind

From the makers of Campaign Season 2016, get ready for the not-that-new-and-definitely not improved Campaign Season…

2/15/19

When Should You Reject a Job Offer?

Applying for jobs is a lot like dating: it’s a draining, often-embarrassing process that requires a lot of effort…

2/14/19

How to Politely Reject Things as a Vegan

My fellow vegans, it is time we address something that is keeping droves of would-be converts from joining our…

12/17/18

How to Create Less Waste This Holiday Season

The holidays are the most wonderful time of year, unless you are the planet. To get to actual holiday joy, you’ve…

5/25/18

How to Waste Less Plastic This Summer

After this miserable year in a miserable time in human history, you are right to greet summer with an explosion of…

2/2/18

How to Keep Track of Your Gross Household Sponges

The sponge is possibly the grossest thing in your house. I say this as someone who regularly comes home from holding…

1/12/18

Start Your New Years Resolutions in April, Not January

I am, to be clear, a believer in the power of putting arbitrary constraints on yourself in order to achieve…

12/4/17

How to Outsmart Your Gross Body and Live Forever

Right after reinventing existing public services with private apps, hacking death may be the ultimate dream of…

10/27/17

How to Get Over Your Resentment at Vacationing Colleagues

Life is competition, and it’s especially easy to feel like you’re losing if your coworkers are always taking…

10/11/17

How to Tell If You're Mansplaining

Mansplaining has become one of the defining phenomena of the 21st century, and its pedantic tentacles touch…

9/26/17

How to Keep Your Dog from Destroying the Environment

Dogs are humans’ best friends, immeasurable bringers of joy to all around them and the only good content left on the…

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