Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Self-healing concrete, gemstones on Mars, a viable alternative to palm oil and more

World’s First Vaccine for Honeybees Approved The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has made a significant advancement in the mission to save honeybees and will be using the world’s first vaccine produced to protect the insects from American foulbrood disease. Caused by the bacterium Paenibacillus larvae, it’s a fatal disease for bees that’s easily spread between hives and has been devastating for honeybee colonies. Developed …

Suspended Arc Ring

Made as a mirror image, this striking and delicate ring——available in either 14k yellow or rose gold—by Brooklyn studio wwake boasts two bright green opals on both sides. The natural stones unusually give off the illusion of being suspended. And if the fine lines and tasteful size of the ring isn’t enough, there’s a tiny (almost secret) diamond at the base—which will most often only …

“Light of the Moon, Embers of the Evening” by Talon Jewelry

The Brooklyn jeweler draws upon secrets and symbolism of a foregone age

We first took note of Talon‘s mystical jewelry by way of their vintage vial amulettes back in 2010. Their newest line, called “Light of the Moon, Embers of the Evening,” once again invokes the ancient and the magical, making use of the Tudor rose, opal-studded skulls and love’s earliest means of secret transferral—engraved script. Cryptic love messages and imagery were once inscribed in baubles, trinkets …