{Rare earth element-oxide production, x10³ tons. Source: Naumov (2008), publication unknown}

China stands posed to ban all exports of Thulium, Terbium, Dysprosium, Yttrium and Lutetium, whilst implementing large reductions in exports of Neodymium, Europium, Cerium and Lanthanum.

The cutest presentation of quantum electrodynamics.

Hello Earth.

I thought I’d save y’all some time by succinctly summarizing in seven pages everything We Know and Understand For Sure About the Early Earth Environment.

I hope this helps!

Love,

= Jelte.

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/chinabuystheworld/2009/08/20098125223767930.html

“To accept as a theme for discussion a category that one believes to be false always entails the risk, simply by the attention that is paid to it, of entertaining some illusion about its reality. In order to come to grips with an imprecise obstacle one emphasizes contours where all one really wants is to demonstrate their insubstantiality, for in attacking an ill-founded theory the critic begins by paying it a kind of respect.”

- Claude Lévi-Strauss (1962), Totemism; translation Rodney Needham

¡hell yes!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l5-zQlgoEE

The creation story of yester-year’s San people.

Wow. ‘Now who would have thought of that?’