Public Health

Pollution is a big deal

You may know that pollution is bad for your health, but how bad is it? Patrick Collison has a nice blog post summarizing the evidence.

Wired also has an interesting article on the cognitive impacts of pollution in China.

In short, if we are a society that values innovation and improved cognitive functioning, we need to insure our air and water remains clean and pollution levels fall over time.

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