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    Petroleum Product of the Week: Candles(Post)

    Now that it's "officially" fall, I couldn't be happier. My tastes are stereotypical: I love the weather, the changing leaves, the sweaters, and the candles--oh do I love the candles.

    Understanding the Whale Oil Myth and the Rise of Petroleum(Post)

    The whale oil myth: thanks to the free market, petroleum arrived in the nick of time to save the dwindling whales and counterbalance the whale oil scarcity. A cursory internet search will ...

    Petroleum Product of the Week: Elastic Underwear(Post)

    Tighty whities, boxers, g-strings, boxer briefs, hipsters ... short of going commando, chances are you have some petroleum products below the belt. Today's undies are a modern inventio ...

    Petroleum Product of the Week: Drums(Post)

    Last year, we dove into the history of the 4th of July and talked all about fireworks. This year, we're talking about the oldest musical instrument: the drum. With the popularity of Ha ...

    Petroleum Product of the Week: Photographic Film(Post)

    Before digital cameras (and subsequent camera phones) became common to the public, taking a photo wasn't as easy as point-and-shoot. I mean, sure you could have pointed your camera at a random obje ...

    Petroleum Product of the Week: Polyester Clothing(Post)

    In my hometown, t-shirts are a bit of a luxury. We may be in the latter days of summer, but it's still breaking 90 F in Northeastern Pennsylvania and until the weather breaks and the co ...

    The Rise of the Autonomous Car(Post)

    We're hearing more and more about it these days: the autonomous car. Autonomous defines anything with a sense of self-governance. While the idea of a self-governing car might be scary to ...

    Soft-Robots Heal Themselves with Specialized Rubber(Post)

    Scientists derive rubbery materials naturally from trees or manufactured synthetically from petroleum. When referring to synthetic rubbers, the term elastomer is used to describe thes ...

    For the Love of Human Ingenuity: Understanding the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894(Post)

    Once upon a time we wrote about the whale oil myth the mythical notion that due to the free market/exchange, the discovery of petroleum directly saved the whales! This rather romantic notio ...

    What Exactly Are Sponge Parks?(Post)

    When I first heard the term —sponge park " I envisioned children running around in a park pretty much made of sponges. In my mind, it was a water park, of sorts. Children bounced around on s ...

    Fuel as Food? It seems that not all oils are created equal.(Post)

    Rarely do the sentiments of YouTube commenters so uniformly align. Refrained variations of the same idea ("No, of course you can't drink gasoline") crowd the comments section in harmon ...

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    Take PSC on the Go! . Now you can save our website as an app on your cell phone or tablet making it easier to access all of your favorite products. Whether you are in the field, on the produ ...

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