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Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says (www.cnn.com)

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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] 13 points 3 months ago

Future generations will have their brains filled with perhaps spent nanobots or microscale 3D printer feedstock, just as our ancestors filled theirs with asbestos, lead, and mercury

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 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 3 months ago

You mean Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Stephen Nielsen's The Age Diamond

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Maybe I'm too optimistic but I hope we'll have nanobots to clean up all that crap before we stop functioning.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Personally, I'm hyped for the new and exotic antibiotic-resistance super-bugs and parasites colonizing their bodies.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Makes me think of a guy who used to eat starburst wrappers until his 20s

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

You guys don't use brain spoon? I use brain spoon all the time!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Yum I love plastic

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

The blood-brain barrier

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

30 times more plastic than 8 years ago is fucking crazy

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

You're reading it wrong, the 7-30 times figure is comparing how much plastic was in the brain compared to the kidneys and liver. Its 50% more plastic then 8 years ago.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Oh the media monkeys and the junket junkies will invite you to their plastic pantomime. Throw their invitations away!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I knew I could feel all that shit sloshing around back in there

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