brunhiddensmusings:

kurowrites:

squeeful:

tilthat:

TIL that the reason lead levels in children’s blood have dropped 85% in the past thirty years is because of an unknown scientist who fought car companies to end leaded gasoline. He also removed it from paint, suggested its removal from pipes, and campaigned for the removal of lead solder from cans.

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Yep.  It also correlates extremely strongly with an increasing decrease of violent crime.  One of the symptoms of low level constant lead exposure is increased aggression and volatility. 

“Unknown scientist”? That was Clair Cameron Patterson.

it took DECADES of fighting tooth and nail, goons in suits sent by the gas companies sent to offer him large sums of money to stop, being fired due to strongarm tactics by those who would be exposed

theres a whole episode of ‘cosmos: a spacetime odesy’ based on the herculian effort put into this

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bemusedlybespectacled:

soloveitchik:

strawberrylollipopkisses:

“Stevie Nicks surrounds herself with girls. Wherever she goes, she brings girls. “I can’t imagine you in a bathing suit,” someone says in an interview for Rolling Stone, when Stevie says she likes to play in the pool in her backyard. “Yeah, well, you never will,” Stevie says. “And there is never — ever — a man in the backyard. If there is, he is banished to the front of the house.” Men don’t get to look at Stevie Nicks unless Stevie Nicks wants men to look at Stevie Nicks.”

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The lesbian jumped out

look I’m not saying that Stevie Nicks is literally an incarnation of the goddess Artemis I’m just saying that if any man stumbles across her and her companions bathing he’s going to be turned into a stag

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