Even in Kyoto

A paywalled interview, but if you can access it, I recommend it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/magazine/ayana-elizabeth-johnson-interview.html

I thought I'd blogged previously about Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson's Ted Talk, but I can't seem to quickly dig up that previous post. To me, she is mobilizing in a way that many other climate change experts and activists are not.

I would start to pull out quotations from this interview, but if I do, I'm just going to wind up quoting most of it.

Yesterday I was in denial about the current wildfire smoke levels here, and the fact that I am Sensitive People. My body decided it would remind me at 2 am, when I woke up feeling rather terrible. So I finally buckled up, changed out the air filters in the smaller Honeywell room filter, got it running in the bedroom, and hastily constructed a Corsi-Rosenthal box for the house.



I'll tidy it up further eventually. It has some gaps that need to be filled. Unfortunately the box fan at home has the controls on the wrong side, and I do like to use that fan for other purposes.

Testing out the GVS Elipse P100 respirator for the commute to work:



I will say that the over-the-head style elastic is more comfortable than the over-the-ear. My glasses don't sit quite as nicely on top of this one. It feels a little freaky to be riding my bike wearing one of these, but at this point this is necessary if I want to go outside, so I'd better get used to it all.

I'm curious to know what other people do about the condensation buildup inside of these.

I should also add some sort of drinking straw modification.

I hauled in a second set of filters to construct a Corsi-Rosenthal box for work. My research students had never heard of them before, so I'll enlist their help with construction so they have this in their mental toolbox.