Mon. 09/14 - Preventing "Mask Breath" & Worse

Have you become intimately acquainted with your own breath since you began wearing a mask? Here’s how to curb the stench. Some insight into how non-human animals use numbers and quantitative information. The sad truth about plastic recycling. And Bielefeld, Germany––a town that may or may not exist––offered a million euro prize to anyone who could prove it definitively does not exist.

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Links:

• How to Avoid 'Mask Breath' (NY Times) 
• Anti-Maskers Forced to Dig Graves for Covid-19 Victims in Indonesia (Gizmodo)
• Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic (NPR) 
• Opinion | The Reign of Recycling (NY Times)
• In the Animal Kingdom, the Astonishing Power of the Number Instinct (MIT Press Reader)
• Bielefeld, Germany, Is Offering $1.1 Million If You Can Prove the Conspiracy Theory That It's Not Real (Mental Floss)
• City of Bielefeld offers €1m for proof it doesn't exist (BBC) 
• Bielefeld Conspiracy – Bielefeld, Germany (Atlas Obscura)
• Bielefeld Million
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter