Mar 04
How the Elements Got Their Names
Posted in: Today's ChiliFrom Hydrogen to Ununoctium, all of the elements have names, some more crazy than other. But where did they come from?
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Feb 08
If Dmitri Mendeleev was alive, we’d be wishing him a happy birthday today. He’s not—and thank goodness, because he’d be a 180-year-old science-zombie. But Mendeleev’s periodic table of the elements is a scientific treasure, one that’s still predicting elements we haven’t yet discovered. Talk about prescient.
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Feb 05
Writing is many things: a job, a hobby, a personal imperative, an act, an art, a gigantic pain in the ass. But is it a science? The Periodic Table of Storytelling breaks down narrative elements into a familiar form—though one that liberal artsy folks probably haven’t thought about since high school.
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Aug 22
A Periodic Table of Booze
Posted in: Today's Chili
You can fit an awful lot of information into the classic Periodic Table—and here, Brazil-based designer and illustrator mayra.artes has taken advantage of it to communicate the contents of… booze.
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Aug 01
Nerds have been decorating with the periodic table forever, but let’s face it: it’s never looked good. This lovely minimalist interpretation does the impossible and actually makes it mesmerizing to behold, if just slightly less informative.
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Mar 26
Etsy seller and fan of our sister site The Awesomer, Gerald Von Bargen recently pointed us to one of his wares. It’s a wooden cutting board engraved with the periodic table of the elements! I’m not sure if the table will come in handy while you’re preparing a meal, as I am sure that you shouldn’t be eating half of what’s listed on there.
The cutting board is available in maple, white oak, beech and walnut. You can also customize the board and have your name and initials take the spot of the 118th element Ununoctium.
As you can see in the gallery Gerard can also make a personalized cutting board by using symbols of the elements to form a word of your choice. You can order any of these cutting boards from his Etsy store Elysium Woodworks for $45 (USD) each.
Mar 05
The Periodic Table is one of the most iconic—and useful!—pieces of data organization to ever exist. Here’s everything you need to know about it, from its history to how to use it, in just 11 minutes. More »
Sep 30
Minecraft is an adventure game. Minecraft is a horror game. Minecraft is an engineering game. Minecraft is a chemistry game. All of it is made possible by mixing and stacking it’s most basic parts, its elements.
Minecraft: where the oven and TNT are elements. Head to egeres’ deviantART page to see a larger version of his table.
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