Studies increasingly find links between air pollutants and dementia
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/health/alzheimers-dementia-air-pollution.html
#HackerNews #airpollution #dementia #health #research #environmentalhealth
UNEP has put together a really nice dataviz site on #AirPollution, the most serious environmental threat to public health.
📄 Pollution Action Note – Data you need to know
https://www.unep.org/interactives/air-pollution-note/
via @subu_caps
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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I'm going to print this story, wrap it around a brick, and hurl it through a lot of windows
edit, this post is written from and directed at every motherfucker in southern california who lights a fire to feel cozy when it dips down to 64 degrees
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/23/wood-burners-linked-to-2500-deaths-a-year-in-the-uk-analysis-finds
I'm going to print this story, wrap it around a brick, and hurl it through a lot of windows
edit, this post is written from and directed at every motherfucker in southern california who lights a fire to feel cozy when it dips down to 64 degrees
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/23/wood-burners-linked-to-2500-deaths-a-year-in-the-uk-analysis-finds
News: I am now an independent consultant.
Over the last two years, I built the #AirQuality Sector into a 25-person team specialized in #AirPollution modelling (CAMx-PSAT, reduced complexity models) and measurements (the first India Sensor Evaluation & Training facility or Indi-SET; real-time source apportionment) relevant to policy-making.
We launched a black carbon report at COP28, hosted the 2024 CAMS-Net meeting with ICAS, and organised the first Indian ACSM users meeting in 2025.
Onward!
This makes my complaint yesterday about breathing woodsmoke seem positively quaint:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/28/microplastics-in-hair-study
And other systemic changes other than air pollution too, ofc
Like: Become a member of an organization, talk positively about good policies in your friend group, going to a local hearing and speak in support of new bicycle infrastructure, donate and/or volunteer for a candidate, etc. For your health
This thread was inspired by the latest episode of the podcast Maintenance Phase, on the seed oil hype https://maintenancephase.buzzsprout.com/1411126/episodes/17731905-seed-oils
#health #fads #food #stress#RealVsPercievedThreats#AirPollution#IndividualVsSystemicChange #grift #grifters#SeedOils