Hipster Luddites
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
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The Secret of the Silkworms
The silkworms are the caterpillar stage of a moth that's called Bombax Mori, or the mulberry silkworm. They can't survive by themselves and have to be tended by humans. Each cocoon is one long filament, but they're very delicate,. And then somebody has to get that filament off and combine them into threads. The Chinese guarded the secret of the silk worms very carefully, and they were smothered out of China in 700s.
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