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hahaha I feel like the first cat this week. (My moods do vary way more than neural-typical people) I still remember my Dr telling me: (And I swear he looked like Richard Simmons) I have good news and bad news. I took the bad first. I was in menopause...I wasnt aware that was a symptom of ADHD....the...

Ah, silicon. Opal and the planets main ingredient (after Oxygen - also in opal) again is intimately involved in processes we keep discovering by stumbling across them, even if we are running in the right direction.

So much better odds than a lottery at the price of a stamp envelope time. Winning things is a big dopamine boost.

Surprising “photomolecular effect” discovered by MIT researchers could affect calculations of climate change and may lead to improved desalination and drying processes. https://news.mit.edu/2023/surprising-finding-light-makes-water-evaporate-without-heat-1031 https://news.mit.edu/sites/default/files...

I had to take Latin at military academy and got a B. It did help learning the Italian for a summers vacation, but i weaseled out of 2 years of language on the way to my BA later. Never could roll my Rs. Then again in my testing I was a grade higher in everything than at public school. I was the assi...

I was happy to provide materials for his research. The folks who mine here talked to him and provided additional specimens for more research. Abstract Late Tertiary fossil woods from the state of Nevada provide an opportunity for observing the mineralization sequences that cause buried wood to becom...

It does help them. Thanks. I wish all these folks would realize blowing their own horns helps. Depending on others to think up where to advertise is kinda backwards. You would think they would think to make an account on all related sites, like here, but that is the "us only" Facebook appr...

I had a lizard carved of Tanzanian Opal I got one year> may still have it in the better minerals case? Wasnt that much.

l'll fight over the ground the big ones come out of....fewer witnesses. I will say it could get you shot like some discoverers got.

It only takes 64 pieces to make a Mandala set and you can get tumbled opals cheap to use as they come with a little selecting for size and shape. Cant have it easy to count the pieces now. i was trying to remember the name of the other one i got later: The Cattleman that was a lot like life. https:/...