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Making Chalk White Pigment (Whiting) — Grinding and Levigating Natural Chalk
by Charlie
Prehistoric
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Making Encaustic Paint — The Hot Beeswax Medium of Ancient Greek and Egyptian Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
53
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3
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Making a Lake Pigment from Plant Dye — Precipitating Soluble Colour onto an Insoluble Substrate
by Charlie
Ancient
90
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6
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Making Lampblack Pigment — Collecting Carbon Soot from a Burning Flame
by Charlie
Prehistoric
175
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6
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Making Red Ochre by Calcining Yellow Ochre — The Oldest Deliberate Pigment Transformation
by Charlie
Prehistoric
133
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7
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Making Ultramarine from Lapis Lazuli — Extracting the Most Precious Pigment in History
by Charlie
Middle Ages
96
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6
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Making Verdigris — The Copper Acetate Green of Medieval Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
96
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7
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Dyeing Red-Brown with Quebracho — The Industrial Tannin of South American Hardwood
by Tex
Industrial
58
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1
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Hazardous
Synthetic Indigo — BASF's Industrial Synthesis That Replaced a Global Crop
by Tex
Industry 2.0 — Electricity, Steel & Oil (1870)
109
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Whitney's Cotton Gin — Separating Seed from Fiber at Industrial Scale
by Tex
Cotton
41
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1
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Making Hide Glue by Boiling Rawhide Scraps — Prehistoric Collagen Adhesive
by Bob
Prehistoric
57
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Building a Figure-4 Deadfall Trap — Stone Weight Trigger Mechanism
by Bob
Prehistoric
51
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Setting a Simple Snare Trap on a Game Trail — Cordage Loop Hunting
by Bob
Prehistoric
63
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1
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Drying Medicinal Herbs for Winter Storage — Preserving Nature's Pharmacy
by Bob
Storage
55
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3
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Preparing a Yarrow Wound Poultice — Prehistoric Herbal First Aid
by Bob
Prehistoric
70
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5
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Rendering Beeswax from Honeycomb — The Original Natural Wax
by Bob
Biology
58
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2
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Hot Composting from Kitchen and Garden Waste — Engineering a Microbial Decomposition Reactor
by Bob
Biology
21
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0
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Cultivating Oyster Mushrooms on Straw — Growing Edible Fungi from Spore to Harvest
by Bob
Biology
53
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1
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Growing a Kombucha SCOBY from Sweetened Tea — The Symbiotic Culture That Brews Itself
by Bob
Biology
71
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3
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Culturing Yogurt from Bacterial Fermentation — The Oldest Probiotic Food
by Bob
Biology
57
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1
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Cultivating a Sourdough Starter from Wild Yeast — The Living Culture Behind the World's Oldest Bread
by Bob
Yeast
61
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6
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Understanding Whale Oil from Blubber Rendering — The Fuel That Lit the World Before Petroleum
by Bob
Biology
70
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Extracting Omega-3 Fish Oil from Fatty Fish — The Marine Fatty Acids That Built the Brain
by Bob
Biology
51
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1
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Producing Cod Liver Oil from Atlantic Cod — Norway's Liquid Gold
by Bob
Biology
61
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4
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