| Have you ever wondered if the air in your apartment or house is clean? Probably—and then you realized there wasn't much you could do about it and returned to doing the dishes. Author Lisa Wood Shapiro took it further, much further. As she writes this week in Backchannel, she suspected that the air in her Brooklyn apartment—a fourth-floor unit in a 131-year-old building by the Brooklyn Queens Expressway—might be less than pure. But unlike you and me, Wood Shapiro is a journalist who can ask companies to send her the latest equipment to try and test. And so she measured the air quality in her apartment, and upon discovering that it was terrible, set out to purify that air. Before long, she writes, "I had three types of floor-standing air purifiers: a three-speed double window fan and two small 'personal' air purifiers, including the Dyson and the sculptural, Frisbee-like Atem by IQAir." Her epic journey to breathe free takes some strange twists, but ends in a place better than it started. Mark Robinson | Features Editor, WIRED | 
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