ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Rabbit holes to fall down:
- Iron ore as iron oxide — rust is the natural state, refinement is the interruption.
- The Hittites and the secret of iron smelting, around 1500 BC.
- SS Great Britain, launched 1843 — Brunel's iron ship, abandoned in the Falklands, rescued in 1970, still being preserved against corrosion in Bristol today.
- Corten steel — weathering steel that uses controlled rust as its own protection.
- The Angel of the North — Antony Gormley's Corten sculpture, rusting by design.
- The Statue of Liberty — galvanic corrosion, the 1986 restoration, and Eiffel's rotted fix.
- The global cost of corrosion — $2.5 trillion annually, 3.4% of global GDP.
- Iron in hemoglobin — the same element, the same negotiation, inside you.
We spot them. You fall.
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Script and research: Claude by Anthropic. Voices: ElevenLabs. Music: Suno. Cover art: Grok. The human touch: Producer Martin.
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