Learn why Blue Amber is blue and why, when you turn off the light and turn on a UV light, something really funky happens…

What happens when a honeycomb is found enclosed in Amber? The result: an identity crisis. Learn why it is so difficult to identify simple things. Occam's Razor can be a double-bladed sword.

A look into the future. AmbarAzul.com is working on an interactive, audio-visual version of their site and here we present a glimpse of what is to come: the BAC, the Blue Amber Channel. Download the first short-film and take a quick trip inside a mine.

Is there such a thing as Fake Blue Amber? How is the honest Blue Amber Buyer being fooled? What do you have to look out for when buying Blue Amber? How can you tell the difference?

This is not about romance. It is about those long numbers that intend to indicate the age of Amber. How did they get there? What do they mean? Are they reliable? It is our most ambitious article to date. For a quicker read we have split it into several articles.

How did it get to be Blue Amber? How did it become Amber in the first place? And how did they put all those bugs in there?

Most of us know about Amber because of the Michael Crichton novel or it's movie Jurassic Park. In it dinosaur DNA is extracted from mosquitoes enclosed in Dominican Amber. Subsequently an entire park is roaming with hungry dino's and scaring the living daylights out of anyone brave enough to go see that movie. So just how far is Hollywood science removed from Real Science?

About

The Blue Amber Newsletter is written by Alec Corday, a Freelance Renaissance Man living in the Dominican Republic.

Over the past two years he has dedicated himself to the study of Dominican Amber.

He is currently working on the Ultimate Guide To Dominican Amber, to be published by the end of FY2006, as well as a fiction novel.

Many think he needs to get a life.

Fortunately he doesn't listen.

site: www.aleccorday.com
email: cordayalec@gmail.com