28 million year old Libyan desert glass: ‘It has extremely unusual properties. It is strangely pure for a natural glass. It melts at 1700 degrees rather than 1100 degrees for normal glass. It can be dropped into cold water when red hot without shattering.’ Can...
“The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt into mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.” Alfred Tennyson’s “In memoriam A.H.H.” 1849 I simply can’t live without this...
A rainbow is only an arc because we stand on the ground, we would see the full circle if we flew up into the air. Rainbows are not singular but many – they are fact but only visible from the viewpoint of the viewer. The equation of the rainbow gives an...
Tiny, bright green pillows of moss with star tipped fronds are soft as velvet. Blooms of pale jade lichen take decades to grow. Sage green sheets with rumpled edges in fantastically complicated growth (I fear that if I take my eyes off them or slow down time they’d...
Part of her was curled up tight and permanent as an ammonite. She sought the sea where she could unwind and expose her softer sides. But even her mathematical spiral was so pure and intriguing it reminded people of the Golden Ratio, and they couldn’t help but stare....
