Material World
Ed ConwayUnexpected stories from the underbelly of the modern world
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The End of Salt?
Of the six materials I wrote about in Material World, I’d say the one that most people were most surprised about was salt. If you were trying to tell the story of civilisation through a few key minerals then it’s blindingly obvious that you...
What can we learn from the latest Rare Earths crisis?
I’ve just recorded a screen for Sky News about rare earth metals and I figured it might be worth a quick download. This is an interesting story, both because there is a decided gap between the various conventional wisdom takes and the likel...
A dying industry dies a bit more
Sabic’s Olefins 6 ‘cracker’ in Teesside
Once upon a time, there were few industrial sites quite as, well, industrial as the chemicals plant on the banks of the River Tees.
There on the north bank at Billingham was the Haber-Bosch fertilis...
Tinned Soup and Tariffs
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York TRADEMARKS LICENSED BY CAMPBELL SOUP COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Is there anything more American than a tin of Campbell’s Soup?
The condensed soup i...
The Strange, Unsettling Story of British Steel
Blast furnace being tapped at Scunthorpe on 3 April 2025. Photo: Josh Masters
There is something profound about visiting a blast furnace and seeing it in operation.
I challenge anyone to get up close to the tuyeres, the metal veins that...
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