Of plastics & human placenta: meet the "plasticenta" (Pt3/4 - The way in)

Comin' semi-soon or so!

Let's see if PiPs and the gang make it this time...

Coming (semi)soon: of wounded chimps, self-medication via smashed and spread insects, & empathy!

Hellooo, dear listener! Now that my gang and I are finally done with the utterly urgent aaaand totally useless things (i.e. finishing a one billion one hundred and eighteen million thirty-five thousand five hundred ninety-two pixels heck of a digital puzzle PiPs [https://www.sciencemug.com/p/sciencemug-che.html] you won last summer at a quite shady raffle), weeeell, we can go back and tell intriguing and gripping science stories! The coming (semi)soon episode is about chimps, self-medication via smashed and spread insects, & empathy! Ciao! SM [https://www.sciencemug.com/]

News 2: of mammoths' bones' circles, fluffy exoplanets, cats' music & more!

Hello dear listener! I read a lot of science stuff in the past months, and now I’m gonna tell you 9 science stories that I’ve already translated into mini-posts and related cartoons for the blog side of my silly self (you can find the links below). Sooo, dear listener, here we go! 1(of woodpeckers’ super skull [https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/02/the-true-reason-why-woodpeckers-dont.html])- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/02/the-true-reason-why-woodpeckers-dont.html [https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/02/the-true-reason-why-woodpeckers-dont.html] 2(of rats’ genome & New York [https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/03/the-true-reason-why-brown-rats-genome.html])- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/03/the-true-reason-why-brown-rats-genome.html [https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/03/the-true-reason-why-brown-rats-genome.html] 3(of mammoths’ bones’ circles [https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/03/the-true-reason-why-ice-age-mammoth.html])- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/03/the-true-reason-why-ice-age-mammoth.html [https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/03/the-true-reason-why-ice-age-mammoth.html] 4(of cats music [https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/04/the-true-nature-of-cats-specific-music.html])- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/04/the-true-nature-of-cats-specific-music.html [https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/04/the-true-nature-of-cats-specific-music.html] 5(of flamingos' social life [https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/04/the-truth-about-flamingos-social-life.html])- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/04/the-truth-about-flamingos-social-life.html [https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/04/the-truth-about-flamingos-social-life.html] 6(of American robins' earlier migrations [https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/04/the-true-reason-why-american-robins.html])- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/04/the-true-reason-why-american-robins.html [https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/04/the-true-reason-why-american-robins.html] 7(of dingoes & the Tube Man [https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/10/the-true-reason-why-dingoes-flee-from.html])- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/10/the-true-reason-why-dingoes-flee-from.html [https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/10/the-true-reason-why-dingoes-flee-from.html] 8(of the fluffy exoplanet [https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/01/the-true-reason-why-wasp-107b-newly.html])- https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/01/the-true-reason-why-wasp-107b-newly.html [https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/01/the-true-reason-why-wasp-107b-newly.html] 9(of the orange bats [https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/02/the-true-reason-why-new-bat-species-is.html])- https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/02/the-true-reason-why-new-bat-species-is.html [https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/02/the-true-reason-why-new-bat-species-is.html]

Of plastics & human placenta: meet the plasticenta! Pt 4/4 - Plastic pollution -

Hellooo, dear listener! In this fourth and last part of the episode, I finish telling you the story of a group of Italian researchers who, for the first time ever, find plastics in human placentas of healthy women. Listening to this episode, you'll find out how bad is global plastic pollution, and how dangerous plastics are to living things in general, and to humans and human fetuses in particular. And there's also a brief interview to Dr. Ragusa, the leading investigator of this research! Aaand there's a also funny+unsettling fake commercial too... Ciao! Find the script (plus all the references & credits) here [https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/05/of-plastics-human-placenta-meet.html]: https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/05/of-plastics-human-placenta-meet.html

Of plastics & human placenta: meet the "plasticenta" (Pt3/4 - The way in)

Hellooo, dear listener! In the third (of four) part of this episode, I keep telling you the story of a bunch of Italian researchers who are the first to find pieces of plastics smaller than 0.5 cm in human placentas of healthy women. Here you'll discover how the darn microplastics manage to sneak into the human body. Aaand there's also a GPS for bugs and antigens story... Ciao! Find the script (plus all the references & credits) here [https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/04/of-plastics-human-placenta-meet.html]: https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/04/of-plastics-human-placenta-meet.html