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Some Airborne Particles Pose More Dangers Than Others

Posted December 18, 2009 8:37 AM

From Scientific American:

Mort Lippmann noticed a strange phenomenon in his laboratory mice. For 14 straight days, their hearts were racing. Lippmann, a scientist at New York University who has studied the effects of air pollution for over 50 years, couldn't explain it. During those two weeks in October, 2004, air pollution levels were lower than average at his laboratory in Tuxedo, New York, 30 miles north of New York City.

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Re: Some Airborne Particles Pose More Dangers Than Others

12/18/2009 10:22 AM

So...have we discovered the "better mouse trap" now? Heard the little buggers into a box with nickel particles and give them little squeaky coronaries?

This brings to mind a series of sci-fi stories I read years ago. Larry Niven, I think. Time travelers from the future had to wear masks to protect themselves from our comparably clean air because their bodies had adapted to the heavier air pollution of their time.
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12/20/2009 10:28 PM

Ain't that the truth...Those Lead & Copper particles in the Middle East are really causing problems...

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