Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, ….

I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each oth….

Funny how we look for miracles in our lives when our life is one big miracle in itself..

Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate t….

Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, ….

In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But ….

Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold, silver, ….

Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively..

In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like blood,….

Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female compla….

If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth….