As much as I've written about filters and filtration in this blog, I have to confess there's one aspect of filter efficiency I've resisted learning about. Every article I've written that mentions filter efficiency talks about only one rating scale: …
I used to be a smart-ass who would say things I thought were clever but really were just annoying. When I learned the basics of quantum physics, for example, I had a clever/annoying answer for anyone who asked me, What's…
Have you ever lived in a home where you just couldn’t feel warm even though you had the heat cranked way up? How about one where you have to turn up the volume on the TV when the air conditioner…
Yesterday I gathered with a few of my friends and colleagues from the building performance community for a virtual happy hour. During our chat, Steve Byers of Energy Logic posed the question: Compared to BC (before coronavirus), how will you…
Back in 2018 I wrote a series of articles on indoor air quality and filtration. One of those articles, The Unintended Consequences of High-MERV Filters, has seen a flurry of activity in the comments over the past three weeks. It all…
Yes, it's April Fools' Day again. With all that's happening in the world because of the coronavirus, it may have slipped your mind. It didn't slip mine, but I'm not putting out a new April Fools' Day article this year. …
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Cancer treatment during the coronavirus pandemic is something I’ve been thinking about for a couple of weeks now. Then on Friday, Vox published an article on that very topic: The dilemmas facing cancer doctors and patients in the coronavirus pandemic. …
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Well, there's nothing like a little pandemic to completely upend our daily lives as well as our short and long-term outlooks for the future. I've spent far too much time reading about, listening to, and watching news about the novel…
On Saturday morning as I was heading out for a run at the Chattahoochee River, I found my car in the condition you see in the photo above. Let's ignore the reason I was parked half in and half out…
If a 12 step program is good for helping people deal with addictive behaviors, then a 17 step program ought to be better, right? Or maybe it's just a random number that fits the number of tips that popped into…