“Rust is ubiquitous,” writes Jonathan Waldman. “It seizes up weapons, manhandles mufflers, destroys highway guardrails, and spreads like a cancer in concrete.” It’s the No. 1 threat to the U.S. Navy and spells trouble for everything from canned vegetables to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. “Rust,” he declares, “represents the disordering of the modern” — and yet “a rust-free world would be a world without metal.” Read full article >>