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Commodity as Currency

The Athenian Obol, Athen’s first standardized silver coin, depicts Athena on one side, and her symbol, the owl, on the other. -photo Wikipedia The use […]

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Are Crystals Alive?

In 1943, Erwin Schrodinger, one of the founding figures in quantum mechanics, delivered a series of public lectures at Trinity College in Dublin, on a […]

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Platinum

Did you know that platinum is one of the rarest materials on the planet, and is in fact about 30 times more rare than gold? […]

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A Rock by any Other Name…

In popular culture, you hear diamonds referred to as “rocks,” but is this a scientifically sound description? Gemstones like diamond by definition (excluding organics like […]

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