Why Don’t We Use Mothballs Anymore?

Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started with Brilliant’s tutor for free and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. If you’ve snooped around your grandma’s attic or wound through the shelves at a vintage bookstore, then you might be familiar with the smell of mothballs. We just don't really see—or smell—them much anymore. For more reasons than you might think. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email li