Weighing in at over 3,400 pounds, with a volumetric capacity of nearly 750 gallons, the ginormous jug at the front of the Royal Selangor factory is a tribute to Malaysia’s impressive mining history. An alloy of tin mixed with a dash of copper and antimony, pewter is an emblematic export of Malaysia, especially since the nation was once the world’s largest producer of tin. For its 100th anniversary in 1985, Royal Selangor produced the titanic tankard, which made it into the Guinness Book ...| Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places
Back in the 1980s, I noticed something very odd. I was researching my somewhat seminal conspiracy book The Shadows of Power, published by Western Islands, book arm of the conservative John Birch Society. In doing so, I went through every issue of Foreign Affairs, flagship journal of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), then the […]| James Perloff
A conversation with Sébastien Crépieux, founder of Invers, developing a decentralised insect farming supply chain for animal nutrition, placing farmers at the heart of the model. The role of animals and livestock in farming is something we cover frequently, but we’ve never discussed insects which can transform immense amounts of agricultural waste—such as leftovers from beer brewing or wheat milling—into high-quality protein and fats. Perhaps most importantly, their frass (manure) i...| Investing in regenerative agriculture
Evolutionists acknowledge that without a self-replicating entity, the Darwinian process has nothing to work with. So how could mindless chemicals have built the first self-replicating entity to…| Discovery Institute