Creative Destruction

By The Daily Dish

Blasting

Using remote cameras, Naoya Hatakeyama captures limestone mining blasts:

It can be argued that Japan’s (and the world’s) entire way of life is dependent on limestone, a key ingredient in the production of concrete, steel, glass, plastic, and even medicine.   

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/03/creative-destruction/205108/