<story><title>What Is Glitter?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/style/glitter-factory.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>Glitter can apparently be used to help solve crimes, according to Wikipedia&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;glitter&amp;quot; article [1]:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Due to its unique characteristics, glitter has also proven to be useful forensic evidence. Because of the tens of thousands of different commercial glitters, identical glitter particles can be compelling evidence that a suspect has been at a crime scene.&lt;p&gt;It links to this review article on glitter from a forensic point of view [2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Glitter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Glitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;projects.nfstc.org&amp;#x2F;trace&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;final&amp;#x2F;Blackledge_Glitter.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;projects.nfstc.org&amp;#x2F;trace&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;final&amp;#x2F;Blackledge_Glitt...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>What Is Glitter?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/style/glitter-factory.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&amp;gt; I have no idea how humans figured out how to do that, or why it occurred to them to even try, but it sounds expensive.&lt;p&gt;I had to check this wasn&amp;#x27;t Dave Barry writing.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, this seems to have genuinely been a space age invetion, aluminised mylar: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;BoPET&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;BoPET&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(There is no item of &amp;quot;futuristic clothing&amp;quot; that pins a piece of visual SF to a particular point in history in the 1960s quite like this material. Especially when used for miniskirts.)</text></comment>