1) A box fan with a HEPA filter taped to it;
2) The ones IKEA sells, or equivalents.
The most cost and air purity effectiveness is literally just a box fan with a filter meant for an HVAC sealed around the intake end. If you want to be clever you could go further and make a cube of filters and control the fan with controllable power outlet or something.
However if your value lower sound, form factor, or aesthetics, that make things more complex on whether a price overhead is justified.
Some filters will clean the air more quickly, but a filter that needs more “passes” of air through it to clean may still reach the same level of cleanliness when given enough time. Like when you have a quiet fan always running in a room like I do.
Following celebrity, cough, news, cough, is the precursor to the toxicity of social media. It's not a hobby, it's an inducement of the negative base motivations of humanity; normalisation of negativity.
Disclaimer: my understanding of People magazine is as celebrity gossip. I'm not sure if it was more wholesome earlier in it's life. In fact, celebrity gossip itself may have been somewhat more wholesome back in the days when society overall seemed a bit more polite.
If Taylor Swift has something interesting to say about the economics of music production, I'm all ears. That's something I don't have a view into, and she has a reputation for being smart. I bet she could teach us some things about that. I can't talk myself into having an opinion on her relationship with Travis Kelce beyond "good for them, hope they're happy together".
Also, no one else is talking about video games. But yes, I'd find someone passionately talking about gaming -- something they participate in -- more interesting than another person talking about what they'd read about some mundane thing that another person had done.
Henry Buckle said[0]
> “Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.”
To each their own, but I'm on Hank's side on this.
However, I will point out the strong irony in that appeal to authority you are doing there. Why is what Henry Buckle said any more important than the soon-to-be president like the article's example of the Gerald Ford cover story in People's 4th issue? I guess being born two centuries ago means he isn't a "celebrity" so we can trust him?
The notion of "Most Important Celebrity Magazine" is begging the question so hard that the question turned over its house keys and moved out. People has always been a magazine about things that don't matter whatsoever. Now it's a website about different things that don't matter. It evolved from a waste of paper to a waste of electrons, and I can't think of a single reason we should care.