This is three pounds of the diamagnetic stone called Bismuth, which happens to be the “active” ingredient in Pepto Bismol and what makes it fun is its glorious rainbow coloring and natural pyramids it forms. That it’s diamagnetic means it opposes magnets, so any magnet on top of it will float. Very cool art work we can make by using a band saw to cut out a segment (this is usually done in an ingot of refined Bismuth) where you can insert a magnet and it just levitates. I think the story of Pepto Bismol is that the active ingredient was really just a bizarre 1700s experiment, and some white coat ran with how it settled the tummy — but how could this be good for you? Well, dig this primary source and decide for yourself. Meanwhile, of course we have a giant shiny sample of this in the RF LAB waiting room. For experiments, yes, eating, no.
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Break a Paratrooper’s Heart!
This old U.S. Army Paratrooper is a pretty fit guy, non-smoker, clean living fella, but all those Army vaccines have taken a toll. We’ll do up a case study on this walking lab specimen, but, over two decades as a pin cushion in the armed forces, ya get poked. A lot. All of it adds…
First Lumbar Vertebra — A Paratrooper’s Busted Back!
A close up of a former US Army paratrooper’s beaten to shit backbone, first lumbar vertebra. This guy’s a great hero of mine, a Southern gentleman from Tennessee, was in 126 countries, thinks he parachuted into most of those, it destroys the knees, the back and the next slide will be of the old boy’s…
Body Scan
On some level, this whole website and the core of the RF LAB is this pic: this is the most advanced technology we’ve ever played with. After all the history and artifacts, it’s this modern version that most excites us and is the new favorite thing of everyone who’s spent time in the lab. At…
Blue Beryl vs. an Old Journo’s Back
This one really ties the room together… watch a 25 second recording of this old journo’s tired back get energized by a machine (of course, you’ve seen that already…) but, here, the machine uses lithotherapy — ie. healing with the frequency of gemstones — to use the frequency of the Blue Beryl stone to attack…
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