The bladed dolomites from Kosovo are so unique. At first glance they look like barite. This one is currently for auction on e-rocks. I am not affiliated with the seller in any way. I think someone should buy it though, to keep me from doing so 😉
Hmmm...some people look at a dark radioactive mineral and think "What a great gemstone!" 🤔 I think the safe type of riebeckite (crocidolite) is better in this case.
#MinCup26 Difficult choice , but had to go with andalusite because of its geological importance. https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results
Most of us in the US stand with Canada 🇨🇦
xkcd: Trade
https://xkcd.com/3290/
You could just not connect it to your network... This is such a 2026 (and onward) article. https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-avoid-installing-malware-on-your-smart-tv
📜 TIL the Korean alphabet Hangul is one of the only major writing systems invented from scratch for its own language, and its letters are drawings of your mouth.
King Sejong the Great finished it in 1443 so common people could read and write. The consonants literally trace the speech organs: ㄱ is the tongue root blocking the throat, ㅁ is lips pressed together, ㅅ is the teeth.
The vowels encode sky, earth, and human: a dot, a horizontal line, and a vertical stroke.
The scholar class hated it. For 400 years it was treated as a script for women, monks, and commoners, until it went mainstream in the late 1800s. Hangul Day is now a national holiday in South Korea.
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