Monica Prelle
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As ubiquitous as microplastics are, "there’s almost no evidence of the history of this pollutant,” says @aukeflorian.nl. To find out when microplastics began infiltrating freshwater environments, he and his colleagues scoured hundreds of drawers at a natural history collection... 🧵🧪
A Home Made of Microplastics - bioGraphic
Caddisfly cases from museum collections reveal that microplastics infiltrated “pristine” freshwater environments far earlier than suspected.
www.biographic.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
As ubiquitous as microplastics are, "there’s almost no evidence of the history of this pollutant,” says @aukeflorian.nl. To find out when microplastics began infiltrating freshwater environments, he and his colleagues scoured hundreds of drawers at a natural history collection... 🧵🧪
Reposted by Monica Prelle
BREAKING: Faith Kipyegon, the best middle-distance runner in history, will attempt to break th 4-minute-mile in June in Paris--the first woman to do so. I wrote about it, and her: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
Faith Kipyegon plans to be the first woman to break four minutes in the mile
The legendary runner Faith Kipyegon is aiming to do something that sports scientists once considered impossible. We went inside her Kenyan training camp to understand how she’s pushing the limits of h...
www.nationalgeographic.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
BREAKING: Faith Kipyegon, the best middle-distance runner in history, will attempt to break th 4-minute-mile in June in Paris--the first woman to do so. I wrote about it, and her: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
A lot to take in, here
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The Decline of Outside Magazine Is Also the End of a Vision of the Mountain West
After its purchase by a tech entrepreneur, the publication is now a shadow of itself. A letter signed by its illustrious contributors says as much about a way of life as it does about the media indust...
www.newyorker.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:29 AM
A lot to take in, here
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Want to read something gorgeous about rural life? Not politics! Beautiful writing! By @chrisasolomon.bsky.social for @orionmagazine.bsky.social #SundayLR
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The Price of Eggs - Orion Magazine
Or, death of a chicken
orionmagazine.org
April 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Want to read something gorgeous about rural life? Not politics! Beautiful writing! By @chrisasolomon.bsky.social for @orionmagazine.bsky.social #SundayLR
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
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