Amber and jade for me. Silk for Tirzah.

The amber seemed to emit an invisible force which would attract small fibers.

The effect of this, of course, is it's not just amber waves of grain, it is mountains of stuff.

So I assume everybody knows that if you actually had a piece of amber and it had an insect in it, and you drilled into it, and you got something out of that insect, and you cloned it, and you did it over and over and over again, you'd have a room full of mosquitos.

A key observation he made was that certain stones such as amber when rubbed against fur, would exhibit a strange property.

The term had been in use since the 13th century, but Gilbert was the first to use it to mean like amber in its attractive properties .

He assumed this rendered the amber magnetic, another force he observed when playing with lodestones, which are naturally occurring magnets.

In his book, he also studied static electricity using amber amber is called elektron in Greek, so Gilbert decided to call its effect the electric force .

Gilbert undertook a number of careful electrical experiments, in the course of which he discovered that many substances other than amber, such as sulphur, wax, glass, etc., were capable of manifesting electrical properties.

So I assume everybody knows that if you actually had a piece of amber and it had an insect in it, and you drilled into it, and you got something out of that insect, and you cloned it, and you did it over and over and over again, you'd have a room full of mosquitoes.