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What Connects Bones, Bird Poop, and Toxic Green Slime? Hint: Without It, Half of Us Wouldn't Be Alive Today

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The Geopolitical Issues Around Phosphor

Only about 14 percent of the phosphorus in use today comes from western Sahara. It's called blood phosphorus because of the war there and according to Dan, the only western country that still buys it is New Zealand. The fertilizer industry argues that we don't have a phosphorus shortage coming anytime soon. We'll be doing an episode on so-called humanoid coming up soon.

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