🚨 Breaking News: Your beloved leafy roommates aren't mini air filters after all 🌿❌. Turns out, NASA's 1980s plant propaganda was just a ploy to sell snake plants. So, enjoy your oxygen thieves while suffocating in style! 😂🪴
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/a63664656/can-houseplants-purify-the-air/ #BreakingNews #PlantMyths #NASA #SnakePlants #OxygenThieves #HackerNews #ngated
Unfortunately, Houseplants Don't Actually Purify the Air
There are many benefits you can reap from having houseplants, but purifying the air just isn't one of them.
A novelist could not imagine and develop antagonists this inexplicably stupid because (until recently perhaps) the reader would find them unbelievable.
#uspol #science #oxygenthieves
https://www.propublica.org/article/ted-cruz-woke-grants-national-science-foundation
A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”
The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude method for identifying research he calls “woke.”
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