https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/05/08/do-houseplants-improve-air-quality can house plants improve air quality
very sketchy evidence – yet people market these on Amazon
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Do houseplants improve air quality?
June 14, 2026some ARPA-H recent videos of interest
June 12, 2026(Why is IAQ important )
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8HWmQhFR-4A
Should We All Be ‘House Burping’? – The New York Times
March 29, 2026https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/realestate/what-is-house-burping-luften.html
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In the last few weeks, an unfamiliar German term may have surfaced on your social media feeds. “Lüften” roughly translates to “ventilate” or “airing out” and involves just that — opening windows in your home once or twice a day, regardless of the outside temperature, to eliminate stale air.
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Should we all be “house burping”?
March 5, 2026https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/realestate/what-is-house-burping-luften.html
It may improve your home air quality.
February 18, 2026
The German practice of “lüften” is gaining traction on social media.
see you today at 1 pm for ARPA-H
February 27, 2026We don’t have anything like this in Connecticut, but [useful].
NYTimes: People Need Clean Air. To Get It, They Need Clear Data.
October 19, 2025Human exposure to PM10 microplastics in indoor air | PLOS One
July 30, 2025https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328011
Yakovenko, N., Pérez-Serrano, L., Segur, T., Hagelskjaer, O., Margenat, H., Roux, G. L., & Sonke, J. E. (2025). Human exposure to PM10 microplastics in indoor air. PLOS One.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328011
a few documents from our meeting
July 12, 2025Green, J. L. (2014). Can bioinformed design promote healthy indoor ecosystems? Indoor Air, 24(2), 113–115.
https://doi.org/10.1111/ina.12090
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ina.12090
Sundell, J., Levin, H., Nazaroff, W. W., Cain, W. S., Fisk, W. J., Grimsrud, D. T., Gyntelberg, F., Li, Y., Persily, A. K., Pickering, A. C., Samet, J. M., Spengler, J. D., Taylor, S. T., & Weschler, C. J. (2010). Ventilation rates and health: multidisciplinary review of the scientific literature. Indoor Air, 21(3), 191–204.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0668.2010.00703.x
https://www.academia.edu/12925602/Ventilation_rates_and_health_multidisciplinary_review_of_the_scientific_literature QT:{{”
There is biological plausibility for an association of health outcomes with ventilation rates, although the literature does not provide clear evidence on particular agent(s) for the effects. Higher ventilation rates in offices, up to about 25 l/s per person, are associated with reduced prevalence of sick building syndrome (SBS) symptoms. “}}
a few documents from our meeting
July 12, 2025Gilbert, J. A., & Hartmann, E. M. (2024). The indoors microbiome and human health. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 22(12), 742–755.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-024-01077-3
An updated 2024 indoor microbiome and human health review from Nature Reviews Microbiology.
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