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How I accidentally started a global air purifier company (and why I didn’t tell my PhD advisor!). quora.com/How-do-people-… @Quora

Study by our founder documents the psychological toll of Covid pandemic among young people experiencing types of loss besides death. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… @wileypublishing

We all know air purifiers can help with allergies—but what else helps you? 🤧

Living in poorly ventilated homes can increase the risk of food allergies by 40%. 🔻 More: smartairfilters.com/en/blog/uncove…

Pollution = more negative emotion words, fewer positive words. 🖤 Neat to see this new working paper on air pollution and mood as measured by the emotion words people use on Twitter. This replicates an earlier finding from a different research team. econstor.eu/bitstream/1041…

This is why I use an air purifier in Chicago. People think I'm crazy because the air isn't that bad. @guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

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@Quora asks: Do trees reduce air pollution? Not as much as people think. But these two types captured the most. quora.com/Do-trees-block…

@DavosSafety Thanks!

@SmartAirFilters When a fan pushes clean air out, it's by default turbulent, so it's mixed with ambient air right away, through a very short stage of laminar flow, until the viscous force is greater than the inertia force. So that's the death end of efficacy, where air cleaning is almost stalled.

Clean air isn't distributed based on Wells Riley model.

@WithSpiders Woohoo! 🥳

Ich kann Euch eine große Neuigkeit verkünden: Demnächst trifft bei mir ein ausgeliehener PortaCount ein. 😃🥳 Mit diesem genialen Gerät werde ich alle meine Masken ausgiebig auf ihren Dichtsitz auf meinem Gesicht testen. 😎 Dann habe ich endlich konkrete Zahlen bzgl. der 1/4

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@blossomDusk @ivanjayawan Right on! Sadly true -- vacuuming doesn't help much. In some cases, it led to worse performance. 😵‍💫

@ivanjayawan @SmartAirFilters tadinya aku mau beli vacum buat bersihin filternya, tp ternyata bagusnya ganti filter aja ya, baiklah

Technically hepa filter ga bisa dicuci. @SmartAirFilters pernah coba eksperimen nyuci HEPA filter kemudian dikeringin. Hasilnya? Debit angin naik 20% tapi efisiensi filternya turun tinggal ga nyampe 50% (which is bad and u dont want this, do you?) (1/5)

@meder_o Woohoo! 🥳 For what it's worth, that's what I use in my own home.

The ideal filter of choice for many a clean air club. Thank you @SmartAirFilters for this!

@ocnj3 @wattoclone @kprather88 Right on! 👍 From looking at those furnace filters, I'm thinking there might still be some life left in them. But it'd be nice to measure air flow to make sure the dirty filters aren't hampering air flow too much. Anemometer to the rescue! 🛟

@wattoclone @kprather88 @SmartAirFilters has a thread on how long filters actually last. I'll find and post here.

Photo of indoor air filter used in a home in Imperial Beach. House is on the beach and nearly 3 miles from major freeway. This is after 4 months. Disgusting...but better trapped on this surface than your lungs? All homes/schools should use filtration all the time. We filter our water before we drink it....why not filter the air we breathe..Reduce carcinogens, toxic compounds, airborne pathogens. Common sense. Just do it.

@NatasciaMF I like the way this writer put it: dynomight.net/air/

@SmartAirFilters It's cheaper than dealing with health issues caused by breathing in polluted/infected air

What’s a surprising fact about clean air you’d like to share? 💨

@ivanjayawan @rizkres That's a smart way of thinking about it! What are the costs? Health, mood, energy, appearance...

@rizkres @SmartAirFilters Still cheaper than long term exposure of PM2.5 direct & indirect cost 🧐

@WithSpiders Amazing! 🤩

@SmartAirFilters I hardly ever have asthma attacks anymore. Air purifiers and respirators have drastically improved my health and quality of life. Filtered air is the best air. 🥰🤤

@open_erv Absolutely — clean air is key to good health. 💪

@SmartAirFilters If the air we breathed at the time had been clean, there would definitely not have been a covid-19 pandemic. There could not be an h5n1 pandemic. The spanish flu and bubonic plague would I'm pretty sure not have happened. No pandemic could really happen in the modern age.

This graphic is not based on data. #meme

Air pollution affects people around the world.