Tiny Things Are Cool

Wired.com always has a bunch of cool shit at which to gaze upon. I was just looking through a bunch of photos Wired writer, Doug Bierend included in an article he wrote about the world inside gemstones. Had I been forced to take a science course in the 13th grade, it would’ve been geology because rocks don’t bleed, crap or copulate. “How complicated can a bunch of jewels and gemstones be anyway?”, says a stupid redneck.

Here’s a link to the Wired article.

This is a close-up of Muscovite in quartz.

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Biotite in topaz –

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Petroleum with methane bubble in quartz #bitchin

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Finally, the “Peter Dinklage Song”

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