Tower of Babel

Colmar, Musée d’Unterlinden. Martin Schongauer, ‘The Harrowing of Hell’, detail from the Altarpiece of the Dominicans, c. 1475.

Vanadinite, Galena, Quartz

Prase Quartz - Serifos Island, Greece

Classic pseudomorph of Malachite after Azurite from the famous Tsumeb Mine, Namibia. Well-developed bladed crystals of Azurite mostly form as parallel groups. Crystal Classics Minerals

Gold ring from Egypt with the eye of Re and Horus of carnelian. The Mystic Eye should protect against snakes and the evil eye.

The universe beyond our atmosphere is a most amazing and beautiful thing. It is intriguing and interesting. We should study astronomy. We should study the stars and everything out there. Study the conditions of outer space and all

Bismuth

bismuth-209, a half life of 1.9 x 10^19 years, more than a billion times the age of the universe.

What's beautiful? What's ugly? It's all relative? I think this, one of the…