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Monopoly is a better game with real money and crime

Monopoly is a better game with real money and crime What if the classic board game had better rules for simulating capitalism? March 3, 2018 at 03:22PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2I2anym

An Animated Guide To Lost-Wax Casting, The Ancients' Ingenious Way To Make Hollow Metal Sculptures


An Animated Guide To Lost-Wax Casting, The Ancients' Ingenious Way To Make Hollow Metal Sculptures
Marble sculpture is great, but it has two major pitfalls — reproducibility and weight. A solid, head-sized block of marble is heavy, and it's impossible to chisel two exact copies. The technique of lost-wax casting solved those problems, allowing sculptors to create exact, hollow (and, therefore, lighter) metal copies of existing sculptures.

March 28, 2016 at 07:36PM
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