Evidence stacks up for poisonous books containing toxic dyes
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#2Bad idea to lick your fingers when leafing through Aristotle's lost treatise on laughter.
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#3https://sites.udel.edu/poisonbookproject/
( via
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/that-book-is-poison-...
)
lists the New York Cook Book containing the lead chromate. Yum!
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#4It's too bad, because they are some beautiful book covers.
Arsenic green: https://sites.udel.edu/poisonbookproject/arsenic-bookbinding...
Lead chromate yellow: https://sites.udel.edu/poisonbookproject/chrome-yellow-bookc...
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#5Bad idea to lick your fingers when leafing through Aristotle's lost treatise on laughter.
(I was waiting for this comment :)
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#6Bad idea to lick your fingers when leafing through Aristotle's lost treatise on laughter.
This is from a movie right? I remember watching it but not the name.
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#7Bad idea to lick your fingers when leafing through Aristotle's lost treatise on laughter.
don't remind me of all the great works buried deep in the in the cheek of history
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#9> "I find it fascinating to know what previous generations thought was safe, and then we learn, oh, actually, that might not have been a great idea to use these brilliant dyes," Weinstein-Webb says.
Yep. William Morris was a divil for this, and refused to acknowledge the dangers well past when they were known.
I wonder though - in terms of human potential and lives lost, do all of those examples put together come anywhere near what we're doing today with PFAS, microplastics, agricultural & industrial runoff, neonicotinoids, etc.?
It's easy to point fingers now and laugh at the Victorians smearing lead pain on their face, or the folks taking radioactive suppositories for health... Fun too. But like... We're in the most glassy house imaginable.
We know better, like Morris, but we're still letting people away with this stuff (and even imprisoning the activists fighting it). Takes a lot of the fun out of it :/
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#10> "I find it fascinating to know what previous generations thought was safe, and then we learn, oh, actually, that might not have been a great idea to use these brilliant dyes," Weinstein-Webb says. Yep. William Morris was a divil for this, and refused to acknowledge the dangers well past when they were known. I wonder though - in terms of human potential and lives lost, do all of those examples put together come any…
The thing too is that we know better, but we still use those toxic substances because the people who are profiting off it aren't the ones suffering ill effects.
Well, at least the petrochemical people flooding the world with microplastics also have it in their bodies.