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This Is Your Brain On Stale Air
Tom Scott
Tom Scott features Kurtis Baute inside a sealed homemade biodome as carbon dioxide builds up, showing how stale air with elevated CO2 affects cognitive function. Sources include studies on CO2 and cognitive scores.
HN links it as a popular, accessible introduction to indoor CO2 and its effect on thinking, in air quality threads.
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