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Kintsugi ("golden joinery"), also known as Kintsukuroi "golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum...As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise...
More succinctly, finding (or creating) beauty and value in imperfection. The bowl was worthless, more so when it was cracked, but the repair elevated it to an object of art...
Link: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi
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Specifically, fluid inclusions in agate, more generally the term has come to mean fluid inclusions within crystals or other gems or stones. The fluids are typically millions of years old and are most frequently water or liquid petroleum...
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The last is not an enhydro inclusion, it's a tiny garnet grown within a diamond.
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In which precious stones, usually of animal origins, are used to treat and cure a wide variety of ailments. Bezoars, stony concretions formed in the bellies of animals, were long considered antidotes against poison, and in fact were found to work against certain Arsenic based poisons. Toadstones were similar but derived from fossils (not the head of toads as erroneously believed), and Madstones would prevent rabies if stuck into the wound or bite of a mad dog.
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezoar
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toadstone
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madstone_(folklore)
And one on the History of Geology:
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I've been but I didn't make any notes. Not these notes, they actually describe me pretty well. Clearly I've got some work to do...
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They've got some good videos..
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I like Iceland, another reason why:
Link: https://mosaicscience.com/story/iceland-prevent-teen-substance-abuse
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