CHOWDER

Gold

vs. Old

OK, Canada, that English gold coin from the 1400s found on the coast of Newfoundland this past summer is pretty and all, but Maine’s silver Viking penny dates back to the 11th century— assuming neither one’s a plant.

Anomalies at Pennington Mountain—it has an occult ring to it. But geologists say the billion-dollar mineral deposit on the lonely mountain near Presque Isle has revolutionary “ e basis for the mural is an high-tech applications. “Rare earth elements are important 1895 Aubrey Beardsley cover ilcomponents in smartphones, as well as wind energy and lustration for the short-story collecbattery components. Niobium is an essential element in tion Grey Roses [by Henry Harland],” steelmaking and jet engines. Zirconium is used says artist Pat Corrigan. “I added the dogs in ceramics, as well as some superalloys,” to it because of the disappointment localaccording to usgs.gov. ly when Maine Medical Center had to x that wall and cover the old Greyhound terminal sign. e Valley neighborhood has Portland’s only o cial dog park as well, so it seemed appropriate to keep the dogs in.”

Move over, potato clocks—make way for lobster batteries! Unlike the corrosive, flammable chemicals in convention-Biodegradable Batteries? al batteries that take hundreds of years to break down, the Magic chitin found in lobsters’ (and other crustaceans’) exoskeletons can be synthesized into electrolytes for Mountain Who Let the Dogs Out?

non-flammable batteries that break down in soil in five months, the Guardian reports.

FROSTIANA

Any relation to the poet? The Frost Garrison and House on Frost’s Hill gets this all the time. Why yes, Robert Frost’s ancestral roots here reach back to 1660. In fact, he often

visited the homestead (23 Garrison Drive in Eliot), which stayed in the family until 1930, was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and was up for auction recently. Somebody got it for a song.