Well, even in basalt surfaces in lava tube caves, which are a by product of volcanic activity, we find these walls totally covered, in many cases, by these beautiful, glistening silver walls, or shiny pink or shiny red or shiny gold.

Watch how shiny the skin is you can see my reflection there.

The patient says, Well, if it's metallic and shiny, it doesn't mean it's gold.

So we got brand new ones, shiny ones, medium ones, and very old, dark ones.

It isn't when the shiny new tools show up that their uses start permeating society.

Now, while 4Shbab and The 99 may look new and shiny, there is actually a very long tradition of this.

I was thrilled to get it. I was thrilled to be the only person standing on the stage with a shiny silver helmet.

Now, if we turn the polarizers around just a little bit, we can actually bring that specular reflection of the skin back in, and you can see she looks kind of shiny and oily at this point.

But again, I am not a sculptor, and so I don't know a lot of the tricks, like, I don't know how my friend Mike gets beautiful, shiny surfaces with his Sculpey I certainly wasn't able to get it.

Western values may be under assault, but Western goods are welcome. A common sight in Russia is a shiny German made car with a bumper sticker recalling the glories of World War II On to Berlin or Thank you, grandfather, for the victory, and grandmother for the tough bullets.