Anti-useful thought of the morning:

[luolian]

If I was dating someone this Valentine's Day that I wanted to break up with but was too chicken to dump, I would give them that new Listerine Agent Cool Blue plaque-detecting rinse stuff. Why would that be such a good relationship buster? It's both insulting and demeaning! "Not only does your oral hygiene need serious improvement, but here is a

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[hossmosis]

One of the flavors is "Glacier Mint:. GLACIER Mint?! You show me a glacier that has mint growing on it... and... and... I’ll be half-way to a mint julep. But I will also be astonished.

[luolian]

Maybe it's mint + whatever that glacial silt is that makes glacier water that ridiculously pretty blue color? Is that where the blue on your teeth comes from?! Glaciers??

[hossmosis]

WRONG. Why are glaciers blue? : Because the red (long wavelengths) part of white light is absorbed by ice and the blue (short wavelengths) light is transmitted and scattered. The longer the path light travels in ice, the more blue it appears. Hmm...

[luolian]

NOT WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. I'm not talking about frozen glaciers, I'm talking about after they melt in rivers and lakes. (though I'm unclear if the picture above is frozen or not, but I thought not at the time)

"Glacier silt: The turquoise lakes you will see are colored by glacial silt suspended in the water. Glaciers scrape bedrock into fine, round particles of rock or clay which are then carried away by tides or rivers."

"Numerous lakes can be found among the high peaks of Glacier National Park. Fed by streams formed by the melting of the Glaciers, many of these lakes display the characteristic turquoise color of glacial lakes. The color comes from light being dispersed by finely glacier-ground rock suspended in the water."