The Silversmith Who Won a MacArthur Genius Award - Alexis Madrigal - The Atlantic

But let’s not get crazy here. Metallurgy is still awesome — and bordering on alchemy. We start with rocks, apply heat, chemistry, and intelligence and end up with this:

The Silversmith Who Won a MacArthur Genius Award - Alexis Madrigal - The Atlantic

But let’s not get crazy here. Metallurgy is still awesome — and bordering on alchemy. We start with rocks, apply heat, chemistry, and intelligence and end up with this: