Lesson 8

There is a great program on Netflix these days called "How We Got To Now". Each episode focuses on one thing we take for granted in our modern lives and all the intricacies of how that thing evolved over time to become what it is now. A fun thing that I learned watching is that the island of Murano, Italy is famous for its glass for good reason. You see, originally the glass makers lived throughout Venice, but people feared the stoves would lead to the city burning down. So they forced them to all move to and stay on the island of Murano. That way the fires they believed would be inevitable would be contained. One of the residents changed glass forever by discovering the chemical additive that made glass clear and coined it "cristalo". Windows would not be the same without a few people afraid of fire.
"The more you know"