What the Heck is Shadow DOM? Browser developers realized that coding the appearance and behavior of HTML elements completely by hand is a) hard and b) silly. So they sort of cheated. They created a boundary between what you, the Web developer can reach and what’s considered implementation details, thus inaccessible to you. The browser however, can traipse across this boundary at will.
posted by netbros
on Jan 18, 2011 -
38 comments
Blogging the Periodic Table: Wild, weird, wonderful stories about the elements that make up our universe. All month at slate, Sam Kean has been blogging about the periodic table, in conjunction with his new book,
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements. Elements covered so far include:
Antimony: It might have killed mozart.
Hydrogen: Where it all started.
Selenium: Is It To Blame for Custer's Defeat at Little Bighorn? Vanadium: Sperm, beware.
Copernicium: How elements get their names.
Nitrogen and Phosphorus: The Future of Toilet Design Hangs in the Balance.
Lithium: Why It Makes Such Great Batteries.
Rare Earths: They're Neither Rare nor Earths. But They Could Save the Planet.
Ytterby: The Tiny Swedish Island That Gave the Periodic Table Four Different Elements.
Strontium: Element Tourists, Sodium Partiers, and Other Periodic Table Eccentrics.
Gallium: It Proved That Dmitri Mendeleev, Father of the Periodic Table, Wasn't a Crackpot.
The Noble Gases: What a Bunch of Snobs.
Promethium: Uranium Stole Its Fire.
Thorium: The Nuclear Fuel of the Future? Palladium: The Cold Fusion Fanatics Can't Get Enough of the Stuff.
Cobalt: It Makes the Dirtiest of Dirty Bombs.
Hafnium: Building the Doomsday Device of Tomorrow.
Radium: Cures Gout! (Warning: Also Causes Cancer.).
Aluminum: It Used To Be More Precious Than Gold.
posted by Fizz
on Aug 1, 2010 -
33 comments
Chemistry in its Element - a weekly podcast from the Royal Society of Chemistry offering an engagingly-narrated stroll through the periodic table, element by element.
posted by Wolfdog
on Oct 29, 2009 -
15 comments
Why is Ice slippery? You would have thought this would be well defined in 2006. But scientists are still arguing about the key elements. Plus no clear definition of Ice IX...
posted by somnambulist
on Feb 21, 2006 -
24 comments
Time to replace your old Periodic Table. ...a joint American-Russian team has found two new elements—numbers 113 and 115 on the periodic table—hinting at an impending breakthrough in creating novel forms of matter that will test our understanding of atomic behavior.
posted by mcgraw
on Mar 29, 2004 -
15 comments
The Mythical Quest , an old exhibition at the British Library. 'Throughout the world, tales have always been told of
heroes and heroines embarking on perilous quests in
search of lost loved ones, the secret of immortality,
earthly paradise or simply great riches. Many of these
stories have elements in common, such as clashes with
monsters, battles with the elements, interventions by
the gods and tests of moral character, mental cunning
and physical strength. These tales have been expressed
in songs, literature, art and dance for thousands of
years, and are still being reinterpreted today in
books, comic strips, interactive games and adventure
films.'
More British Library exhibits
here, from
early Indian photography to
the secret life of maps.
Examples of mythical quests :-
Monkey:
Journey to the West (another version
here,
not to mention
the
TV series);
the
Ramayana
(and the
Ramakian,
the Thai version);
Cupid
and Psyche at
the
Classics Pages (subject of
a previous
thread);
the
Holy
Grail (more at
the
Catholic Enyclopaedia);
the journey of
Alexander
the Great;
Pilgrim's
Progress and
John Bunyan;
the
world of Dante and
a
map of
Hell.
posted by plep
on Jul 11, 2003 -
17 comments
The Periodic Table Table now has its own, newly updated website. This had made the rounds on various websites when it was a mere set of construction photos on a bandwidth -constrained site. This is now much better.
posted by vacapinta
on Jun 6, 2002 -
11 comments
