The Color of Wonder and the Chemical Code of Creation

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/19/traversal-blue/

Traversal: Proteins, Poetry, Blue, and Our Search for Meaning

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/28/traversal/

Traversal: New Year, New Book (Seven Years in the Making)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/02/traversal/

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✧ Baryte ✧

Baryte is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate (BaSO4). Generally white or colorless, it is the main source of the element barium, an alkaline earth metal. It is found across the world and can be deposited through biogenic and hydrothermal processes or evaporation. Early records of baryte date to the 16th century, when a radiating form...

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Nitrous Oxide: Naomi Alderman tells us the Science Story of Humphry Davy and the discovery and exploitation for amusement of Nitrous Oxide at the Pneumatic Institute in Bristol in 1799 when he was only 21. Naomi is assisted by his biographer Richard Holmes and anaesthetist Kevin Fong. s4, e4/4.

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"And he wrote his own poetry–lots of it. The pages of Davy’s dozens of surviving notebooks are crammed full of poems, both published and obscure, which share space with the complex records of his scientific experiments, alongside the notes for Davy's jaw-dropping lectures."

Why Almost 3K Volunteers Transcribing Notebooks of Mary Shelley's Scientist-Muse

https://theconversation.com/amp/why-thousands-of-volunteers-are-transcribing-the-notebooks-of-the-scientist-who-inspired-mary-shelleys-frankenstein-200484 via The Conversation
Photo: Royal Institution of Great Britain
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