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Is Conference Room Air Making You Dumber? – The New York Times
May 19, 2019https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/health/conference-room-air.html
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Other scientists who read the study got interested in the subject. A team led by Harvard researchers published similar results in 2016.
They had office workers come into a mock workplace for six days and take the same kind of problem-solving test while exposed to various concentrations of both carbon dioxide and volatile organic compounds commonly found in office buildings.
As levels of carbon dioxide rose from 550 ppm to 945 ppm to 1400 ppm, subjects’ scores under most headings declined substantially. (Problem-solving ability also seemed to suffer as levels of volatile organic compounds rose.)
“What we saw were these striking, really quite dramatic impacts on decision-making performance, when all we did was make a few minor adjustments to the air quality in the building,” said Joseph Allen, a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who led the study.
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The Internet of disposable things: Throwaway paper and plastic sensors will connect everyday items – IEEE Journals & Magazine
May 6, 2019plastic packaging that determines if a hot dog is bad using a sensor. perhaps possible for T & P too.
How Amazon’s $97 million Eero acquisition screwed employees and minted millionaires
May 6, 2019Lack of cash flow; The negative payday
https://mashable.com/article/amazon-eero-wifi-router-sale.amp
repairing a jet engine w/ duct tape
April 24, 2019Robot Vacuums Are Finally Good—Here’s Which One to Buy – WSJ
April 13, 2019room mapping – perhaps elaborate
Efforts to make buildings greener are not working
February 9, 2019QT:((”
“One reason is the rebound effect. Insulate buildings better, and people will wear fewer layers rather than turn the heat down. The way energy-efficiency schemes are structured does not help, argues Richard Twinn of the UK Green Building Council, a think-tank. The schemes only finance a single type of upgrade at a time, such as loft insulation. A whole-house retrofit, in contrast, could have added digital
thermostats to ensure that greater efficiency was converted into lower bills rather than higher temperatures.”
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Efforts to make buildings greener are not working
https://www.economist.com/international/2019/01/05/efforts-to-make-buildings-greener-are-not-working
