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Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

115. Microplastics! pt. 1

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8724 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

This week, Madeline and David are back (with better audio quality than last week!!!) to talk about MICROPLASTICS! They're everywhere!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

SOURCES:

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/23/nx-s1-4970522/new-research-suggests-that-microplastics-could-be-affecting-male-fertility

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10151227/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068600/

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/envhealth.3c00052

https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/microplastics-everywhere

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.

0:27.4

I'm your host Madeline. And I'm your co-host, David.

0:32.0

Do we have any bookkeeping stuff we want to do?

0:36.9

No, sorry about the echoy, cavernous sound of my apartment.

0:41.9

And then followed up with our poor quality Zoom audio recording the next week.

0:44.3

You gotta stop going out of town.

0:46.8

Yeah, it's a problem in my life.

0:50.5

You guys have really stuck with us, though, those last two episodes. That was, if you wanted to know about the heritage foundation of the project 25 25

0:54.5

you were subjected to some of our worst audio quality back to back that was i yeah that was bad

1:00.6

so you really were a trooper if you stuck with the info and we appreciate you um and then we're doing

1:08.1

the the second part of Cambridge Five next Monday, correct?

1:13.3

I actually think we should do it before then because I want to get it in before the end of the month.

1:16.4

So maybe this week after work one day, we'll report about it.

1:18.7

Maybe Wednesday?

1:19.6

Yeah, that's great.

1:20.2

Okay, cool.

1:20.6

So we'll be getting that up for you guys this week over on the Patreon.

1:23.9

You'll be getting part two of our Cambridge Five Spive Spie Style episodes.

1:28.6

And if you're not a Patreon subscriber, patreon.com slash pick me up, I'm scared.

1:32.1

It's $3 a month and you get two bonus episodes monthly.

1:35.3

And sometimes I just post random things I think are interesting from the internet there.

1:39.1

And then you can look at them if you want.

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