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“The concentrations we saw in the brain tissue of normal individuals, who had an average age of around 45 or 50 years old, were 4,800 micrograms per gram, or 0.48% by weight,” Campen said.

That’s the equivalent of an entire standard plastic spoon, Campen said.

“Compared to autopsy brain samples from 2016, that’s about 50% higher”

An entire spoon's worth of plastic in ol' wrinkly. That doesn't seem good.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

like in the neo-victorian times in Neil Diamond's book The Stephenson Age where poor people cough up soot made from trillions of dead nanobots

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You mean Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Stephen Nielsen's The Age Diamond

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