
Assessing COVID Risk and More with Air Quality Monitors
The consumer devices track pollutants as well as CO2—a proxy for potentially virus-laden human breath
Starre Vartan is a freelance writer with an unslaked curiosity about the natural world, which was sparked in an outdoors childhood spent in the tide pools of Sydney, Australia and the wetlands of New York's Hudson Valley. Starre was previously a columnist at Audubon and has written for Newsweek, Medium, Slate, NASA's Astrobiology magazine, and others about the intersection of geology, biology and technology. Follow Starre Vartan on Twitter @thecurioushuman
The consumer devices track pollutants as well as CO2—a proxy for potentially virus-laden human breath
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Bob Dylan asked: "Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?" Sure, this is a metaphor (in Dylan's case, for a lost love) but it works because the complexities of avian flight—from migration and navigation to group dynamics—have long been a mystery, one with a preponderance of ideas, but few firm answers...
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