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The Ethyl-Poisoned Earth

Chronically catastrophic chemist Thomas Midgley accidentally poisons the world with a neurotoxin, and Clair Patterson tries to stop him.
Written by Alan Bellows • 08 Dec 2007 • Read →
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Poisoned City: How Tacoma Became a Hotbed of Crime and Kidnapping in the 1920s
Shared from lithub.com • 10 June 2025 • (see also)
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Video: How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet [54:08]
Shared from youtube.com • 15 May 2025 • (see also)
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Researchers Analyzed Decades of Human Hair Samples—and Discovered a Scientific Triumph
Shared from popularmechanics.com • 27 February 2026 • (see also)
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Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair
Shared from attheu.utah.edu • 03 February 2026 • (see also)
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What air pollution does to the human body
Shared from theconversation.com • 21 January 2026 • (see also)
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On this day in 1921, Thomas Midgley did “a very unscientific jig” to celebrate the discovery of leaded gasoline
Shared from damninteresting.com • 09 December 2025
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Video: How lead affects your body [5:04]
Shared from youtube.com • 14 November 2025 • (see also)
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Hominins suffered lead poisoning starting at least 2 million years ago
Shared from arstechnica.com • 18 October 2025 • (see also)
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How Climate Scientists Saw the Future Before It Arrived
Shared from quantamagazine.org • 15 September 2025 • (see also)
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