This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How poop could help feed the planet A new industrial facility in suburban Seattle is giving off a whiff of futuristic technology. It can safely treat fecal waste from people and livestock while recycling nutrients that are crucial for agriculture but in increasingly short supply across the nation’s farmlands. Making fertilizer from the nutrients that we and other animals excrete has a long and colorful history; for generations…
