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Better than Barcelona where 30M tourists cost $330 and Valencia keeps paella real for $120

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Better than Barcelona where 30M tourists cost 0 and Valencia keeps paella real for 0

“`html Barcelona’s La Rambla chokes with 30 million annual tourists fighting for $28 tapas and $330 hotel rooms. Two hundred twenty miles south, Valencia’s Turia Gardens empty before dawn while Malvarrosa Beach stretches 2.5 miles without a single resort tower. This is Spain’s third-largest city doing what Barcelona used to do before the crowds arrived. … Lire plus

NASA tested 50 houseplants and only 3 actually clean air in small apartments

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NASA tested 50 houseplants and only 3 actually clean air in small apartments

Your living room’s three fiddle-leaf figs look expensive on Instagram but NASA’s 1989 Clean Air Study tested them for formaldehyde removal and they ranked nowhere near the top performers. The $65 Pottery Barn monstera you bought in March sounds eco-friendly but benzene removal isn’t its strength. Dr. B.C. Wolverton, the NASA environmental scientist who led … Lire plus