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Kodak Coquette Camera with matching lipstick and compact, 1930

The Enchantress (c. 1901) by Arthur Wardle (British, 1864 – 1949), signed bottom right ‘Arthur Wardle’, oil on canvas, 62 x 43 in. (157.5 x 109.2 cm.), Private Collection

toyastales

Art Nouveau brooch by René Lalique, around 1900.

publicdomainreview

Intaglio print from William Blake’s series For the Children: The Gates of Paradise (1787-93).

More from the series here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-blakes-the-gates-of-paradise

spiribia

why does sequential art require you to make multiple images? does anybody understand this?

atmosphere-af

cerastes

People don’t even say w00t anymore.

cerastes

This sux00rz…

weepingwidar

Joel Slotte (Finnish, 1987) - Savu ja Kuutamo (Smoke and Moonlight) (2026)

mummer

if michael mann was a firetruck he’d be the biggest firetruck in the world

deinonychian

. ^ . \ / \ V \ \ F /-_. |/ \

the noble quetzalcoatlus

skyrimhusbandmaterial

when you find someone who's equally unwell about The Character

miamaimania

|minimal flames| 🔥 ✨ by Liza Lou, 2002

toothbrush92

stupidos

exxos-von-steamboldt

delicatefury

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

beardedmrbean

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

wildwood-faun

Discovering how we can make our research more reliable is always good, and discovering contaminants like this is obviously very important. I do want to drop a few lines from the University of Michigan article linked above before we all go “oh microplastics aren’t a big deal anymore” (because I think that’s an easy conclusion to come to if you just read the headlines):

That’s not to say that there is no microplastics pollution, the U-M researchers are quick to say.

“We may be overestimating microplastics, but there should be none. There’s still a lot out there, and that’s the problem,” said McNeil, senior author of the study and U-M professor of chemistry, macromolecular science and engineering, and the Program in the Environment.

As microplastic researchers looking for microplastics in the environment, “we’re searching for the needle in the haystack, but there really shouldn’t be a needle to begin with,” said Clough, a recent U-M doctoral graduate.