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Streetart – Murmure @ Tokyo, Japan

Murmure @ Tokyo, Japan Location: Tokyo, Japan Artist: Murmure For: Gallery Kawamatsu Year: 2023 USEFUL LINKS: Murmure in this blog | Website | …

Streetart – Murmure @ Tokyo, Japan

New way to purify water from pharmaceutical pollutants – Stockholm University

Researchers from Stockholm University have developed porous crystals made from pomegranate extract to capture and degrade pharmaceutical molecules found in local municipal wastewater. The research is published in the scientific journal Nature Water.
— Read on www.su.se/english/news/new-way-to-purify-water-from-pharmaceutical-pollutants-1.657205

Eating Ourselves Into the Next Pandemic | Psychology Today

In addition to the three pandemic-level coronavirus outbreaks in the last two decades (SARS, MERS, and COVID-19), there are 1.7 million viruses currently located in wildlife. You’ve likely heard of H1N1 (swine flu)—a flu pandemic—or H5N1 (bird flu), which evolved on pig and chicken factory farms, respectively. Did you know that H1N1 over the past 10 years has killed between 151,700 and 575,400 people worldwide? You’ve likely not heard of HMPV, a virus that probably jumped from birds to humans and causes as much misery in the United States each year as the flu. Or of the avian flu H7N9, which has a fatality rate of 40 percent. One health security expert wrote, “If H7N9 achieves sustained human-to-human transmission, it would arguably be the worst health and national security threat faced by the world in literally a century…perhaps (being) much worse than the pandemic of 1918.” Source: Eating Ourselves Into the Next Pandemic | Psychology Today