Beyond the Hype of Lab-Grown Diamonds
by Maddie Stone on Earther, shared by Barry Petchesky from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#4FJRW)
aBillions of years ago when the world was still young, treasure began forming deep underground. As the edges of Earth's tectonic plates plunged down into the upper mantle, bits of carbon, some likely hailing from long-dead life forms were melted and compressed into rigid lattices. Over millions of years, those"