Rubber Duckie you’re the one You make bath time lots of fun Rubber Duckie I’m awfully fond of you You don’t need to be Ernie to enjoy a good rubber duckie (or to write a tribute song to your favorite bathtime...
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Sarah Simonovich
Petroleum Product of the Week: Traffic Signals
In 1914, Cleveland installed the nation’s first electric traffic signal on the corner of 105th and Euclid Avenue. Lester Wire designed the light and it only had red and green lights. Although the yellow light was not...
Kendra Kuhar
Petroleum Product of the Week: Pencils
Pencils. These yellow, wooden word-makers bring me back to my elementary school days where I used them to write short stories. Years later, plastic mechanical pencils got me through high school math and college...
Petroleum Product of the Week: Elastic Underwear
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 invention—they come in all shapes, sizes...
Petroleum Product of the Week: Putty
Personally, I’ve been mesmerized by the slime and putty videos that have been blowing up online. There’s just something about watching someone twist and stretch the stuff out that reminds me of my childhood. All of a...
Kayleigh DeMace
Petroleum Product of the Week: Basketballs
March means March Madness for many, many people…which means basketball. This is an entire month dedicated to college basketball; from the second week of March through the first week of April, all we think about...
Petroleum Product of the Week: Chewing Gum
Something to Chew On: Gum is everywhere—it’s sold at just about every location and can easily be found stuck to the bottom of your shoe, under your desk, in the mouth of the person sitting next to you at the DMV who...
The Trouble With Tires — A Brief History of Synthetic Rubber
Long before it was vulcanized, molded, driven 20,000 miles, and tossed carelessly in the backwoods, rubber was a valued commodity. Native Americans discovered the unique properties of rubber latex some 3 millennia ago;...
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