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58 results for "ethyl poisoned earth"

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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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Why lead is (still) bad for your brain
Shared from neurofrontiers.blog • 11 April 2025 • (see also)
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States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Industry Is Fighting Back
Shared from wired.com • 07 April 2025 • (see also)
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The Antarctic Ozone Hole Is Under Repair Thanks to Reduced CFCs
Shared from discovermagazine.com • 10 March 2025 • (see also)
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Unusual Ways People Used Lead—and Suffered For It
Shared from smithsonianmag.com • 16 February 2025 • (see also)
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How Alice Hamilton Waged a One-Woman Campaign to Get the Lead Out of Everything
Shared from smithsonianmag.com • 12 February 2025 • (see also)
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Lead Poisoning May Have Made Ancient Romans a Bit Less Intelligent
Shared from nytimes.com • 06 January 2025 • (see also)
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Chinese Scientists Suggest Microplastics Could Be Leaving Lesions on Our Organs
Shared from weather.com • 31 December 2024 • (see also)
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