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Weekly Fic (and Meat!) Recs 70
Howdy everyone! Prepare yourselves for some fic recs, as well as a little bit of an info dump about meat science, curing edition!
I also got an ask this week for some Damian fics! Below is a link:
Damian Fic Recs The Coming of the Season by SalParadiseLost @salparadiselost - Batfam, wip. An omegaverse AU where the batkids are Bruce's biological children. Teenage mom Bruce my beloved.
Nature and Nurture by lurkinglurkerwholurks @lurkinglurkerwholurks - Batfam, complete. This fic was recommended to me by the anon who wanted some Damian fic recs. Anon, whoever you are, thank you for this fic rec, I thoroughly enjoyed it! Bruce gets hit with a deaged spell and his kids deal with Bruce as he ages up. Many new facts are learned and much feels are had.
You're moving to Metropolis? Is that even a real place? by Vamillepudding @vamillepudding - Batfam, complete. An AU where Bruce saves Jason before he dies in the warehouse and decides to leave Gotham and move to Metropolis. Tim has Opinions™ about this (so does Superman).
Where You Lead, I Will Follow by Batsymomma11 - Superbat, complete. A very pregnant Bruce has a bad time picking out what to wear for a gala. Luckily, his husband Clark is there to help :)
Freedom Of The Press by Ktkat9 @ktkat99 - Superbat, complete. Clark attends a Wayne gala event soon after his relationship with Bruce goes public on accident. Luckily, the bat kids are there to help him out.
IS IT JUST YOU AND ME IN THE WRECKAGE OF THE WORLD? by orpheusaki - Superfam, complete. Clark finds and rescues a young Conner from CADMUS and introduces him to the Justice League. Good dad Clark my b e l o v e d.
The One Where Bruce Is Under The Desk by Yippekia @yippekia - Superbat, complete. Lois barges into Clark's office at an inopportune time. Also, no one can find Bruce, who is supposed to be visiting the Daily Planet today :)))))))))))
Prism Fragments by mediant @blorb-el - Clark centric. A series of 100 word drabbles exploring Clark and the spectrum of kryptonite.
Continue on in the post if you are interested in learning about meat curing, otherwise, happy reading!
A long-term study of constructed wetlands in Illinois shows promise in reducing agricultural runoff that can damage wildlife habitat and impact drinking water quality.
Excerpt from this story from The Nature Conservancy:
Constructed wetlands are a cost-efficient, long-term, highly effective tool to reduce nutrients exiting fields that could otherwise affect local waterways. A relatively small wetland, around 6% of the tile-drained agricultural area, can reduce nitrogen by nearly 50%. If applied at scale, this approach could help address excess nutrients from farms throughout the Midwest. These types of wetlands are one of many "edge of field" and in-field practices that farms can deploy to support conservation.
"The wetlands do work really well,” says Maria Lemke, TNC’s director of conservation science for Illinois and the lead scientist on the study. “They’re effective over the long term and relatively low maintenance.” Her team found that installing wetlands on the borders of fields reduced both nitrate nitrogen and dissolved phosphorus runoff, significantly improving water quality flowing into downstream stream and river systems.
Fritz Haber – Scientist of the Day
Fritz Haber, a German Jewish chemist, was born Dec. 9, 1868.
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Beef Jerky and Other Processed Meats Associated with Manic Episodes
People hospitalized for an episode of mania had more than three times the odds of having ever eaten nitrate-cured meats than people without a history of a serious psychiatric disorder.
The research is in Molecular Psychiatry. (full access paywall)
Wong said his team will work with industrial partners and other researchers to turn the process into a commercially viable water-treatment system.
Engineers at Rice University's Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) Center have found a catalyst that cleans toxic nitrates from drinking water by converting them into air and water.
The research is available online in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Catalysis.
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One-step catalyst turns nitrates into water and air
Engineers at Rice University's Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) Center have found a catalyst that cleans toxic nitrates from drinking water by converting them into air and water.
The research is available online in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Catalysis.
"Nitrates come mainly from agricultural runoff, which affects farming communities all over the world," said Rice chemical engineer Michael Wong, the lead scientist on the study. "Nitrates are both an environmental problem and health problem because they're toxic. There are ion-exchange filters that can remove them from water, but these need to be flushed every few months to reuse them, and when that happens, the flushed water just returns a concentrated dose of nitrates right back into the water supply."
Wong's lab specializes in developing nanoparticle-based catalysts, submicroscopic bits of metal that speed up chemical reactions. In 2013, his group showed that tiny gold spheres dotted with specks of palladium could break apart nitrites, the more toxic chemical cousins of nitrates.
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