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Glacier Curtain, Good Vibrations, PFAS Water Detox
Today, you’ll learn about a radical idea for installing a curtain around a massive ice sheet, how positive vibrations might help people with social anxiety, and new tech that could remove dangerous forever chemicals from our environment.
Glacier Curtain
- “Scientists want to build 62-mile-long curtains around the ‘doomsday glacier’ for a $50 billion Hail Mary to save it.” by Ellyn Lapointe. 2024.
- “Thwaites Glacier Facts.” International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. N.d.
- “How We Came to Know and Fear the Doomsday Glacier.” by Marissa Grunes. 2023.
Good Vibrations
- “Good vibrations could hold answer to calming social anxiety.” University of Glasgow. 2024.
- “Brain mechanisms of social anxiety disorder.” by D J Nutt, et al. 1998.
- “Social Anxiety Disorder.” NIH. n.d.
PFAS Water Detox
- “Harmful ‘forever chemicals’ removed from water with new electrocatalysis method.” by Luke Auburn. 2024.
- “PFAS Explained.” EPA. n.d.
- “What are PFAS?” ASTDR. 2024.
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