Presumably wet brains weigh.more than old preserved brain samples
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I wouldn't have spent my childhood chewing on pen caps if I had known that my food already had my recommended daily intake of plastic.
If I eat more plastic maybe I'll finally have enough spoons to get through the day
30 times more plastic than 8 years ago is fucking crazy
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.
I knew I could feel all that shit sloshing around back in there
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
Maybe I'm too optimistic but I hope we'll have nanobots to clean up all that crap before we stop functioning.
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
You mean Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age
Stephen Nielsen's The Age Diamond
Personally, I'm hyped for the new and exotic antibiotic-resistance super-bugs and parasites colonizing their bodies.
The blood-brain barrier
You guys don't use brain spoon? I use brain spoon all the time!
50% increase in 8 years is fascinating. I doubt we increased plastics production that much in that timeframe, so what caused the increase?
We totally increased plastic production that much
I think it’s plastic erosion that matters more in this instance
It happened slowly, then all at once.
Takes time to build up at every layer of water -> Agriculture -> body -> brain, probably.
Speculating: the breakdown of existing environmental plastics into smaller, more absorbable pollutants? existing plastics more thoroughly polluting the food/water supplies?
I think that's true because the amount of plastic waste is being significantly lower. Of the plastic still being emitted into the environment, the majority is from tires. Tire dust.
Don't forget the garbage islands and fishing nets being cooked by sunlight in the ocean, like a perpetual stew.
Yeah, the comment elsewhere about 50% of plastic having been produced since '02 has me convinced it's the former.
Well you see little Timmy, there's good neuroplasticity, and ... bad neuroplasticity.
Timmy no! Put the crayon down! You're gonna end up in the Marines!
Oh the media monkeys and the junket junkies will invite you to their plastic pantomime. Throw their invitations away!
Considering how I have a bad habit of just chewing the shit out of plastic, I wouldnt be surprised if I had a ladle
the average person has 8 spoons in their brain
False, statistical error. The average person has 1 spoon in their mind. Spoon georg who eat a bucket of lego a day and the bucket and has 8000 spoons in his mind was a statistical outlier and should not have been included
I thought the headline meant the plastic could fill the bowl of a spoon, but no the fucking spoon itself is plastic
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