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What do flaky scalps, skunks, and dead polo ponies have in common?

Wolfdog — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:49:28 -0800

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.

Tom Lehrer has some work to do...

darkstar — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:07:20 -0800

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been able to confirm the production of the superheavy element 114, ten years after a group in Russia, at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, first claimed to have made it. The search for 114 has long been a key part of the quest for nuclear science’s hoped-for Island of Stability.

(Experience is especially long at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley – not least because Glenn Seaborg discovered plutonium here early in 1941.)

The Periodic Table will continue to refer to the element by its IUPAC systematic element name, ununquadium, until agreement is made on a final "trivial" name for the element. Previously on MeFi: Element 112. Tom Lehrer's classic song, "The Elements".

H is for Helvetica

wendell — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:04:43 -0800

The Periodic Table of Typefaces (fully-readable close-up) Two great nerd-memes (Periodic Tables and Font Collecting) that look great together. After looking it over, I'm happy to say it has no room for Comic Sans or Arial or Hobo, but sad to say it's also missing my personal guilty pleasure, Bookman. What's in it (or not in it) to your liking?

It all started with Sodium Chloride

wendell — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:53:49 -0800

Periodic Tables and variations thereof are a long, proud tradition at MeFi, but here's one I think (I hope) we haven't seen before: The Table of Condiments That Periodically Go Bad "We do not guarantee that any of the above information is in any way accurate." Contributions to make the chart better are welcomed here. For example: Element 40 (Sw) Sweet and Sour? That fluorescent red stuff in the jar? I've recovered some from the back of a fridge over a year after purchase and it showed no change from its original state. Also, if you cover it with a thin layer of Lime Juice (or Lemon), you can extend the life of Element 29 (Gc) Guacamole for up to 3 days and still pass it off on guests...

This table is seriously lacking in James Bond.

crossoverman — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:08:59 -0800

In 300 B.C., years before the birth of black Jesus, Aristole postulated that all good things were made of "win." That was a pretty good guess, but he was drunk and probably also having an orgy. Modern day awesominers know there are actually 118 fundamental "awesoments" that compose all good things. The Periodic Table of Awesoments can be a very useful tool. It's designed to show the relationships between awesoments, and often one can even predict how awesoments interact simply by their positions on the table.

Francium Goes to Hollywood

Kronos_to_Earth — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:33:18 -0800

"Welcome to the "Periodic Table of Videos". Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version will have a short video about each one."(YT subscription) (via kottke)

Poetic Table

Wolfdog — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:40:06 -0800

Grills made of you are worn by sellers of drugs / You are used in cars, and great for spark plugs. A periodic table of rather bad poetry about the elements. Via This compilation of periodic tables.

Periodic Table of Printmaking

grapefruitmoon — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:54:18 -0800

Periodic Table of Printmaking : AzureGrackle started a project with 96 printmakers to create an artistic representation of the periodic table of the elements.

Elementary, My Dear Watson

digaman — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:26:48 -0800

Theodore Gray's interactive periodic table isn't the only periodic table online -- another one was posted to MeFi last month -- but I think it's the most gorgeous, informative, and ambitious periodic table I've ever seen, featuring actual samples of most of the elements and their practical uses, a fascinating display of uranium isotopes, and explosive "sodium party" videos and more from Gray's many years of obsession with the elements.

He Likes Beer But Can Not Obtain Food

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:31:35 -0800

Periodic Table of Elements

You got your diburnium-osmium alloy in my fistium.

blahblahblah — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:23:28 -0800

Elementymology. An fascinating look at the origins of the names of 117 elements, which also includes the names of the elements in many languages and a discussion of the origin of chemical symbols. If the real elements bore you, you may be interested in the fictional elements and particles in Star Trek and the Legion of Super Heroes (as well as some real ones as used in comics, prev.).

New Elements: Uut and Uup

mcgraw — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:12:56 -0800

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.

Earth Scientist's Periodic Table.

monju_bosatsu — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:32:30 -0800

Earth Scientist's Periodic Table.

Periodic Table of Haiku

blue_beetle — Sun, 16 Mar 2003 09:03:19 -0800

Periodic Table of Haiku

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:05:21 -0800

Tom Lehrer Sings The Periodic Table. [Flash required]

fpatrick — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 12:58:36 -0800

An interesting structure (gimmick? excuse?) for short fiction and essays -- The current topic is Aluminum -- "The roll of Alcoa is in the kitchen, in the drawer by the sink. Go get it. Now. Cover your head entirely, using all of the roll just to be safe. Be sure it's loose enough so you can breathe. Leave a tiny slit to see through, about as wide as a line of type on your computer monitor. Lean your head forward, close to the CRT, so you can read these words, a line at a time. Are you ready? Good. Now let's talk about the dangers of exposure to computer monitors. "

plinth — Mon, 08 May 2000 14:05:26 -0800

Leaping Lizards, Batman! It's...it's...PERIODIC!