Miyake’s Layers | Issue 44 | n+1 | Haley Mlotek, Su Wu, hannah baer, Nicole Lipman

Yesterday’s Pleats are in tomorrow’s seafood (microplastics, it seems, tend to concentrate in mollusks like scallops, mussels, and oysters, fancy girl food and treif alike). Of all the myriad toxicities of microplastics, I was most tickled to learn that they are estrogenic and can lower sperm count; the red-pilled among us might argue that the Pleats themselves made me trans.

related reading

• A Detailed Review Study on Potential Effects of Microplastics and Additives of Concern on Human Health - PMCncbi.nlm.nih.gov
• Avi Roy on X: "7,000 false positives per square millimeter. The culprit was the lab gloves. University of Michigan researchers just upended a core assumption in microplastics science. Latex and nitrile gloves, worn by the scientists doing the measuring, shed stearate particles that look https://t.co/kJqmWzCZ9o" / Xx.com
• Microplastics in Our Washing: People Want Action | Engoo Tin tức hàng ngàyengoo.com.vn
• Microplastics can deform cell membranes and affect their functioning | EurekAlert!eurekalert.org
• Chemical hygiene – karpathykarpathy.bearblog.dev
• In the Deepest Ocean Trenches, Animals Eat Plastic - The Atlantictheatlantic.com
• A New, Chemical View of Ecosystems | Quanta Magazinequantamagazine.org
• Checking your browser - reCAPTCHAncbi.nlm.nih.gov
• WHOI working to address ocean acidification; protect region’s vital shellfish industry - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutionwhoi.edu
• Escolar - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
• How to trick your brain into healthy eating | Food | The Guardiantheguardian.com
• Neuron Count-Based Measures May Currently Underweight Suffering in Farmed Fish — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org