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This Art Stinks! (Or Did at One Time)
Posted on: October 19, 2016 | By Mike Booth
The latest sensation to hit the art world doesn’t involve an ascot wearing performance artist or a new kind of painting movement. It’s smog. As in air pollution. That’s because a company has perfected a way to capture air pollution and turn it into consumer-safe paints, inks, pens and dyes, all ready to hit the […]
Alzheimer’s Linked to Air Quality
Posted on: October 12, 2016 | By Mike Booth
Scientists and researchers have long known that even moderate exposure to air pollution can compromise respiratory, immune and nervous systems, but new findings provide a strong link between air quality and the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease. Research has found increased levels of toxic magnetite nanoparticles from air pollution in brain tissue of deceased Alzheimer’s patients, […]
Saying Nope to Germ-fighting Soap
Posted on: October 5, 2016 | By Mike Booth
Here’s bad news for your germaphobe friend—you know, the one who buys all the products he can with the “antibacterial” stamp on them. Problem is, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned antibacterial ingredients from soap products, saying that these ingredients do little or nothing to make the soap more effective. What’s more, […]
Harry Potter and the Invisible Foe
Posted on: September 28, 2016 | By Mike Booth
Now residents in Lafayette, Louisiana can get a little something extra when they’re checking out “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”: The library system recently acquired 12 Speck air quality monitors and are making them available for loan to library cardholders. The Speck monitors were developed by Carnegie Mellon University and built by Airviz, after […]
Fall Allergies: What You Can Do
Posted on: September 21, 2016 | By Mike Booth
With so much attention paid to springtime allergies—the blooms! The sneezing! The incessant TV spots featuring over-the-counter remedies!—it’s hard to remember that fall is a prime allergy season, too. In fact, ragweed, a common culprit for all that sneezing and wheezing, blooms from mid-August until the first cold snap in the Midwest and East. And, […]