Exploring the Efficacy of Handheld Vibrating Comfort Objects for Social Anxiety Relief

Today, you’ll learn about a radical idea for installing a curtain around a massive ice sheet, how positive vibrations might help people with social anxiety, and new tech that could remove dangerous forever chemicals from our environment.  

Glacier Curtain 

• “Scientists want to build 62-mile-long curtains around the ‘doomsday glacier’ for a $50 billion Hail Mary to save it.” by Ellyn Lapointe. 2024.  
• “Thwaites Glacier Facts.” International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. N.d.  
• “How We Came to Know and Fear the Doomsday Glacier.” by Marissa Grunes. 2023.  

Good Vibrations 

• “Good vibrations could hold answer to calming social anxiety.” University of Glasgow. 2024.  
• “Brain mechanisms of social anxiety disorder.” by D J Nutt, et al. 1998.  
• “Social Anxiety Disorder.” NIH. n.d. 

PFAS Water Detox 

• “Harmful ‘forever chemicals’ removed from water with new electrocatalysis method.” by Luke Auburn. 2024.  
• “PFAS Explained.” EPA. n.d.  
• “What are PFAS?” ASTDR. 2024. 

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