Partly inspired by @albrgr's tweets, I dug a little more into recent findings on the relationship between air pollution and cognition. The effects seem rather amazingly large: https://patrickcollison.com/pollution .
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I guess that’s why Chinese cities score so low on scholastic and academic aptitude tests /sarcasm Air pollution sucks and doesn’t make you feel good but I’m skeptical about its effects on cognition.