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May 25, 2012 05:00 pm PDT

Life before plastic

Stewart Brand sums up Susan Freinkel's Long Now talk: "What Common Objects Used to Be Made Of," a history of the world before plastic: Bakelite was invented in 1907 to replace the beetle excretion called shellac (It took 16,000 beetles six months to make a pound of shellac.), and was first used to insulate eletrical [...]


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