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5 Grisly Decades Of Workplace Safety Posters
Workers’ compensation is a fairly new thing, dating only back to the Labour Movement in the early 1900s. Before that, injuries on the job were usually treated with either indifference or cheap payoff — after all, the average factory worker was making mere cents a day, so half a year’s pay was chump change for large companies.
This Is Where Dysons Are Born
Dyson makes some of the prettiest vacuums, hand dryers and air blower/suckers out there, so it should come as no surprise that the factory where they are born is as mesmerising as its products.
Apple Says Fewer Illegal Teens Now Building Your iPads
It’s bad enough when overworked Chinese adults are killing themselves and rioting because of our Apple lust — adding kids under 16 is just awful. But Apple says it’s cutting these industrious, exploited kiddos out of the supply chain.
Going Inside The DayGlo Factory Is A Mind-Bending Colourful Trip
Byte Size Science took a tour inside the DayGlo Pigment Plant to show how DayGlo makes all of its fluorescent colours. It’s pretty fascinating — the colour becomes taffy textured and then solidified by cooling and then ground up to be like sand and then ground up again to be between 3-5 microns in diameter. And it’s so damn colourful. Like Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory without the chocolate.
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