The Daily Populous

Saturday September 9th, 2017 evening edition

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Exclusive : New studies find microplastics in salt from the US, Europe and China, adding to evidence that plastic pollution is pervasive in the environment.

Sea salt around the world has been contaminated by plastic pollution, adding to experts’ fears that microplastics are becoming ubiquitous in the environment and finding their way into the food chain via the salt in our diets.

Plastics are “ubiquitous, in the air, water, the seafood we eat, the beer we drink, the salt we use – plastics are just everywhere”.

Mason collaborated with researchers at the University of Minnesota to examine microplastics in salt, beer and drinking water.

Her research looked at 12 different kinds of salt (including 10 sea salts) bought from US grocery stores around the world.

Mason’s work adds to research on plastics in salt from other countries around the world, including in Spain and China.

Mason’s study also looked at how drinking water and beer are contaminated with plastic. »

Researchers find secret, warm oasis beneath Antarctica's ice that could be home to undiscovered species

Authored by nationalpost.com

“You could wear a T-shirt in there and be pretty comfortable,” lead researcher Ceridwen Fraser said.

“There’s light near the cave mouths, and light filters deeper into some caves where the overlying ice is thin.”.

Located around and beneath Mount Erebus, an active volcano, the caves have been hollowed out after years of steam travelling through their passages. »

Elon Musk shares first full-body photo of SpaceX’s spacesuit

Authored by techcrunch.com

Elon Musk has shared a photo of the SpaceX spacesuit the company has designed in-house.

This is the second photo shared by Musk of the new spacesuit design created by the company, and the first to feature the suit’s full-body look.

Astronaut spacesuit next to Crew Dragon A post shared by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on Sep 8, 2017 at 1:04pm PDT. »

White Supremacists Love Nietzsche, But Nietzsche Would Hate White Supremacists

Authored by medium.com

White Supremacists Love Nietzsche, But Nietzsche Would Hate White Supremacists.

Like the Nazis before, white supremacists like Spencer have hijacked Nietzsche’s philosophy, and turned it into the absolute opposite of what Nietzsche intended.

But white supremacists’ love to Nietzsche shows one thing, their intellectual weakness, the fragility of the ground they stand on, and their brainwashing, ironically the brainwashing of the people who proclaim, they were ‘red-pilled’. »

Box Office: ‘It’ Scores Record $13.5 Million on Thursday Night

Authored by variety.com

The North American preview number for “It” is the third-largest for 2017, trailing only Disney’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

It’s also the largest gross for a horror movie, for an R-rated title, for a September release, and for a film based on a Stephen King book.

Box office expectations have been sky-high for “It” following a dismal late summer, with forecasts of at least $65 million at 4,103 theaters. »