The World's Deadliest Thing
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The World's Deadliest Thing
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#2tl;dr: botulinum toxin. From TFA:
It is perhaps strange that such a rare poisoning event shapes our modern food system so profoundly, but this is perhaps because the toxin produced is one of, if not the, deadliest on earth. It has been estimated that in its pure crystalline form, six grams of botulism toxin, about one teaspoon full, would be enough to kill 200 million people. The lethal dose when consumed orally is around 30 billionths of a gram, which if you want a relatable comparison, is about the same as if you cut a single poppy seed into ten thousand equal pieces and ate one of them. It is an amount so tiny, it really doesn’t make sense.
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#3That contrast makes the page unreadable for me.
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#4That contrast makes the page unreadable for me.
Reader view used to irritate me but I have gown to appreciate it for just this reason
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#5This is one of the worst colour schemes I've seen in waking memory. I can't read it.
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#6Is there a theory for what purpose the Botulinum Toxin evolved for? I don't see that paralyzing your host is particularly useful for a bacterium.
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#7This is one of the worst colour schemes I've seen in waking memory. I can't read it.
document.querySelectorAll('.section-background').forEach(x => x.style.backgroundColor = 'black')
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#8This is one of the worst colour schemes I've seen in waking memory. I can't read it.
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#9Only two mentions of 'nitrites'? Botulism is the reason we started curing meats with nitrite and nitrate in the first place. Canning is fine, but being able to keep meat at room temperature by just adding common (e.g. available in urine, and celery) chemicals is far more interesting.