Rock&Gem Magazine
June: The Season for Weddings—and Volcanoes?
While geologists insist Earth is experiencing no more volcanic activity than usual, you wouldn't know it if examining headlines last June. In addition to prospects of an eruption off the Oregon coast, here are a few other headlines clipped from newspapers worldwide.
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September 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Red Amber
One valuable doorstop!
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September 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Birds Embraced the Arctic Almost Since Birds Began!
Many birds migrate to Arctic nesting grounds while others settle in year-round. As many as 280 species either visit or claim the Arctic as home.
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September 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Is Earth Leaking from the Middle?
Traditional wisdom holds that material contained within Earth's core is somewhat fixed and stays deep down.
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September 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Deinosuchus
An alligator no more!
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September 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
SALAR DE UYUNI
While relatively few people have ever visited the immense salt flat known as Salar de Uyuni (sa-LAR day ooh-yooni), millions have seen it on the big screen. In the 2017 movie Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Salar de Uyuni was the filming location for the fictional Crait, a small planet where white salt covers bright-red, mineral-rich soil, and the Resistance fought the First Order in a climactic battle.
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September 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Taking the Measure of Sloths through Time
They're tiny compared to their past glory!
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September 2025
Vanity Fair US
HARLEM HOME COMING
THE STUDIO MUSEUM WILL STAGE A DAZZLING RETURN AMID TENSE TIMES AND A CHANGING NEIGHBORHOOD. IT COULDN'T ARRIVE SOONER
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September 2025
Vanity Fair US
Enchanted KINGDOMS
Don't let summer's end quell your wanderlust. Journey to Renaissance-era Venice, through the halls of the newly renovated Frick Collection, and across Chilean archipelagos.
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September 2025
Vanity Fair US
A Chan of Heart
In 2015, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan built a philanthropic behemoth in their image: the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Science-forward, research-backed, driven by empathy. But as Zuckerberg and Meta have tacked right, ditching DEI, insiders say Chan has become a proxy figure in the battle between her husband's company and their progressive CZI staff
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September 2025
Vanity Fair US
A SACRED PAUSE
IN 1928, COCO CHANEL CONJURED HER RIVIERA GETAWAY INTO BEING, COMPLETE WITH ARTIST FRIENDS, LAVENDER FIELDS, AND A CLAY COURT WORTHY OF ROLAND GARROS. FOLLOWING A MAGNIFICENT RESTORATION OF LA PAUSA, AS THE PROPERTY IS KNOWN, A NEW BOOK EXPLORES THE HOUSE'S VIBRANT HISTORY
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September 2025
Vanity Fair US
JOSH BROLIN
The actor on dry skin, the American dream, and the famous Brolin behind
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September 2025
Vanity Fair US
Heir APPARENT
What do Leonardo DiCaprio, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Elisabeth Moss have in common? CHASE INFINITI playing their daughter on a screen near you
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September 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Using Obsidian to Track an Empire
Obsidian is volcanic glass.
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September 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
ROCK & GEM FIELD GUIDE: Oregon Sunstone
Sunstone is the transparent, gem-quality variety of the mineral labradorite, a calcium-rich feldspar in the plagioclase series.
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September 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Meramec Station Road Calcite
Finding calcite in Limestone Cliffs near St. Louis
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September 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
MOSAIC
In January 2025, a group of designers was challenged to create or modify a design for iolite that would show off the gem's pleochroism and that would work for the material's lower refractive index and minimal dispersion. Jeffrey Hill's “Mosaic” is a straightforward design where rough can be oriented to showcase the greys and blues or oriented to show a mixing of the colors.
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September 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
TERROIR FIRMER
Volcanic Basalt Shakes Up Snow Capped Cider
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September 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
The Strongest Evidence Yet for Extraterrestrial Life! Or not.
It certainly made for splashy headlines. Nikku Madhusudhan (University of Cambridge) and colleagues announced in The Astrophysical Journal Letters that they detected chemical signatures similar to those produced by phytoplankton on Earth, which release dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide into the atmosphere.
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September 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Improved Alerts of Offshore Earthquakes
It is vital to get accurate readings of the place and time of offshore earthquakes, given their potential for spawning tsunamis and other extreme damage along highly populated coastlines prone to such quakes.
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September 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Subduction Is Alive & Well on Venus
Venus is often called Earth's Evil Twin.
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September 2025
Vanity Fair US
GAME SHOW
Jason Kelce, Richard Sherman, and Nate Burleson may be football prodigies, but they weren't natural-born commentators―they took a crash course at the NFL's Broadcast Boot Camp. VF has a sneak peek at the class of 2025
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September 2025
Vanity Fair US
WAYMO, TAKE THE WHEEL
AS ELON MUSK RETURNS HIS ATTENTION TO TESLA'S AMBITIONS, TEKEDRA MAWAKANA, THE CO-CEO OF WAYMO, OFFERS UP A DIFFERENT KIND OF LEADERSHIP. SHE'S FOLLOWING HER OWN ROAD TO A DRIVERLESS FUTURE, SHE TELLS VANITY FAIR
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September 2025
Vanity Fair US
THE NEXT JEN
JENNIFER ANISTON has faced down tabloid scrutiny, stalkers, and a relentless fictionalization of her love life-Barack Obama! Pedro Pascal! but as the fourth season of her hit The Morning Show debuts, America's favorite girl next door has leveled up to a whole new sphere of envy-inducing zen
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September 2025
Vanity Fair US
Zoey Takes HER SHOT
Zoey Deutch's turn as Jean Seberg was a decade in the making. It's helped give her acting life a second wind.
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September 2025
Vanity Fair US
We Keep Moving
In a Vanity Fair exclusive, Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter reflects on Trump's decision to declassify the civil rights leader's assassination files, her father's legacy, and the future of the movement
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September 2025
Vanity Fair US
Fire and ICE
The women I met at a Louisiana detention center, where I was held for 45 days, demonstrated generosity and compassion through even the darkest times.
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September 2025
Vogue US
THE FRESH CROP
New garden books celebrate the fruits of the season.
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September 2025
Vogue US
PUT ON PAUSE
A growing number of women are coupling hormonal treatment with GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic to slow menopause weight gain. Fiorella Valdesolo investigates.
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September 2025
Vogue US
COZY CHIC
Meryll Rogge, the new Marni designer, expands her universe with a knitwear line.
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