zahlman 12 hours ago

So the genius part is that... it's made out of polyethylene? I spent seemingly forever skipping through this article to find paragraphs of text drowning in useless giant images, and then the text that I did find was seriously overwrought, with hardly any of it seeming to actually say anything insightful.

  • bn-l 11 hours ago

    They make money when people click then scroll.

ggm 13 hours ago

If you enjoyed this small story, then I recommend:

Plastic: The Making of a Synthetic Century 1996 by Stephen Fenichell

which is a readable history of the field, from parkesine and bakelite onward and it discusses the breathable, and non-breathable composites and uses of plastics as liners, as in this instance.