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The Missing Metric: How “Crowdsourced Data” Can Fix Our Broken Indoor Air Quality

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We live in an era of hyper-quantified health. Every morning, millions of us check our wrists to see how we slept, what our resting heart rate looks like, and how many steps we logged yesterday.

Apps like Health Hive have revolutionized this experience. By taking biometric data from tools like the Apple Watch and anonymously pooling it across a massive database of over 65,000 active users, they give us a powerful, context-rich mirror. It’s one thing to see your Resting Heart Rate (RHR) is 53 BPM; it’s an entirely different, highly motivating thing to open Health Hive and see a bell curve showing you are lower than 86% of similar users in your 40–49 age demographic.

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2021: Year in Review – See The Air

Sotirios Papathanasiou1 Comment

One more year has passed, one more orbit around the Sun, but still in many places of the world air pollution remains the number one threat for the health of the dwellers and the stability of the ecosystem. The political unwillingness to address air pollution and lots of green-washing from companies haven’t alleviated the situation anywhere. Sad, but even the COP26 was a bit of a fiasco as the leaders of this planet and the majority of the population are still trying to process the information of climate change and air pollution. Apparently, the world doesn’t want to sacrifice convince over the quality of life and life expectancy.

Megalomania and individualism are tearing the ecosystem apart and polarizing the society into left or right, pro-climate or anti-climate, pro-clean air (anapneism), or burn as much fossil fuel, waste and wood as possible. Plastic pollution is another big issue as well.

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