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The String Book opens with a note about an 8,000-year-old piece of string that was found at a Stone Age settlement in En......more
A Perfect Red recounts the colorful history of cochineal, a legendary red dye that was once one of the world s most prec......more
From artifi cial limbs to automobiles, we live in the age of polymers. Few, if any, products of technology have aff ecte......more