You are the ocean. You are — on average — about 65% water. Your blood vessels flow with a saline solution with chemical properties that ares eerily similar to sea water. Your heart imitates the cadence of waves on a beach — a sound many people find comforting, especially those that keep time with a […]
Archive | August, 2019
Why plastic isn’t just plastic (and most can’t be trusted)
NOTE: This is adapted from Appendix 3 of the “Revised Stealth Syndromes Study Protocol as approved by the University of California San Francisco Medical School Committee on Human Research. Plastic chemicals contaminate our food because plastic isn’t just plastic. Instead, what we see as plastic is a mixture of one or more polymers along with […]
Why “BPA Free” is a meaningless marketing scam (And some plastic safety claims are false)
BPA substitute Tritan found to cause estrogenic activity: Migration of plasticisers from Tritan ™ and polycarbonate bottles and toxicological evaluation Estrogenic chemicals often leach from BPA-free plastic products that are replacements for BPA-containing polycarbonate products Chemicals having estrogenic activity can be released from some bisphenol A-free, hard and clear, thermoplastic resins UPDATE: This search at […]
The math behind the ocean/human plastic contamination concentration
Geek note: mass and weight are not the same thing. Mass is a measurement of how much matter is in something. Weight is a measure of the pull of gravity on mass. That’s why an object on the moon weighs 1/6 that of that same object on the earth.(And why astronauts on the space station […]