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It’s before dawn on a chilly early spring morning and I’m sitting in front of a skyline mural in an otherwise empty rental TV studio in downtown Portland. I cannot see the news anchor who is somewhere on Eastern Standard Time but her voice in my ear says, “Coming up at the top of the hour, ‘Do plastics make us fat?‘”
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Grossman, E. (2009). Laboratory Curiosities and Chemical Unknowns. In: Chasing Molecules. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-157-3_3
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