The Englishman Alexander Parkes between 1861 and 1862, while developing his studies on cellulose nitrate, isolated and patented the first semi-synthetic plastic material: Xylonite. A few years later, the American Hyatt brothers, to replace the expensive and rare ivory in the production of billiard balls, patented the celluloid formula. Bakelite, […]
Anna Lacci
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In an age where visual communication is predominant, finding a book with a white cover and simple black writing is strange. Very strange.No pictures in the entire book! Not even an emoticon. Yes, because even the short messages with which we communicate daily in messaging applications are dotted with smileys, […]
“It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself” (Charles Darwin)This is what you can read […]
Apples don’t fall far from the tree, they say. This is true. But this is only true apparently. Of course, Newton got an apple on his head precisely because the apple fell at the foot of the tree under which he was meditating. Those juicy fruits, which suggested the law […]
I leave behind me the things I don’t understand, the things I can’t change, the hostile gaze of those who don’t know you, the plastic bottles, the city full of absence, the cell phones that steal time. I leave the world of winners, of those who feel like winners, the […]