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Field geophysicist, disaster researcher, scifi science consultant, science writer, public speaker, irrepressibly curious. Inactive here, seek elsewhere.

Sep 3, 2020, 5 tweets

Oh NO.

If you ever wanted proof #MinCup2020 brackets are randomly assigned, it’s that I would never, ever pit my easy favs against each other in Round 1.

Once upon a time a hunk of #sodalite glowing under UV light went viral with a stolen video with a misleading caption and capture your imagination:

Meanwhile, you once stumbled upon a chunk of #Wulfenite during #YouFindARock and spent an afternoon playing with it.

Sodalite is on the Safe But Boring To Lick list as effectively a quartz/feldspar blend of licking a sodium-enriched window.

Wulfenite is on the Do Not Lick list due to lead content, which is deeply unfair as it often looks like candy and the lead makes it sweet. #MinCup2020

I’m slammed this week (in part preparing for a #DragonCon #YouFindARock LIVE SHOW!!!!), but you should go vote for whichever mineral you want me to vigorously thread about during Round 2 when it faces off against deeply unlickable #Cinnabar.

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