As the article was a bit light on actionable info, I'm throwing my favourite review website in the ring. I completely trust it and therefore don't have to do my own testing, as it is often recommended on sites like budgetlightforum.com:
Not all forests are the same. Old growth forests have a lot more diversity than something cut down in the 1800s, so that would fall under "dramatically worse for insects" imho.
Of course not for all insects, but I would guess that GP didn't mean highly succesful species like ants, which seem to thrive pretty much everywhere. I recommend visiting an old growth forest if you can find one in your area, they're a completely different beast compared to the ones you might be used to. It's really worth it!
I always thought the American meme about Lüften / Stoßlüften was just about the fact that people like exotic names for normal behaviours. Are you telling me that there is a significant percentage of people in the US who don't fully open two or more windows to get the air completely exchanged about three times a day in the winter?
I know you have AC for the summer, where we use Lüften during the night and then close our exterior blinds. And that makes sense, as your summers are hotter in many areas and it doesn't get cool enough at night for our strategy to work consistently. But I have always assumed that everyone does Lüften in the winter, and that you guys just like the funny sounding word we use for it.
I remember reading (here's the trigger for some people to stop reading) Paul Krugman's writing about Greek politicians and the Brussels set: if the Greek leaders just follow what Brussels want, they can guarantee their spot in some cushy position afterwards, and what Brussels set (lobbied by German banks) wanted was austerity for Greeks in order to repay the loans the German banks gave out freely, knowing that because the country was in the Eurozone, the ECB will bail them out.
Meanwhile the socialist Syriza party were obviously former activists who were going to fight for the Greek people, and Brussels knew they won't be persuaded to follow the script...
Of course, yes -hell, even cats have their own AIDS; but what I meant was we get 'easily' ill. I mean, imagine we have to drink the water from a puddle?
Damn, both her Wikipedia article as well that of her as her "archenemy" Rose Pak are fascinating (even though I don't like either of them based on what I read).
I just wanted to let you know that the reason you're being downvoted is probably the perceived condescension in your use of the Myers Briggs test (which is effectively just a horoscope for pseudo-intellectuals).
I bought an aranet 4, it's quite eye opening how you sometimes get a lot of CO2 buildup without even noticing.
I mostly solve any issues with VOC by "Stosslueften", but if that's not enough because the air quality outside is too bad, a CR box is an effective, easy to build and almost perfectly silent design, especially if you do it with decent quality pc fans.
Ah, my bad, I thought that everyone built CR boxes with carbon, but that's not the case. The standard design doesn't use carbon at all. Thanks for the correction.
