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Revamping The Periodic Table?
vinohradska writes "There is an interesting article on the periodic table over at Slate: 'Oxford ecologist Philip Stewart has designed a new periodic table of the elements, and it's a hit. American schools are placing orders daily for Stewart's table, and the Royal Society of Chemists recently sent a copy to every British secondary school. Stewart's is the only remake to achieve widespread adoption since Dmitri Mendeleev invented the original periodic table in a fit of brilliance in 1869.' "
The weirdest thing is though, the table itself has a backdrop of some scene of a dinner party where there's 3 robed figures, 1 fat 2 skinny, 28 figures that bear an uncanny resemblance to a disciple of some sort, even a conjurer and mariachi band!
Will wank off Linus Torvalds for fame.
Element: Unobtainium Still trying to obtain the atomic weight of that one.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
I kept getting bombarded by a near lethal dose of popupium....
I guess I'll need to inoculate myself with a little firefoxium...
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Martin: Ooh ooh ooh! Delicious?
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The best way to learn the periodic table is to have it printed on the back of a T-shirt that a cute co-ed is wearing. :P
(You have to see the movie Evolution to understand.)
Sex Position Periodic Table
:)
Enjoy.
I guess I've just never looked at this table very much, its sort of a...periodic table.
That's where all of the elements from Star Trek will be placed...
Stick to the biblical periodic table: earth, water, air and fire....
...richie - It is a good day to code.
Now the periodic table. Is nothing that I learned in school sacred?
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
Darn new-fangled charts. You kids have it too easy these days with all these elements just lying around. Back in *my* day, we had one element: hydrogen. If we wanted anything else, we had to make it ourselves! It was kind of dark back then, and a little hard to breathe, but we liked it! We loved it! Now get off my lawn!
In the USA, we like stuff watered down, like beer, television, and freedom.
comma shoold Be a full stop/period
'English' taeks a capital E
Teh mistakes in this post r deliberate.
Dude, speaking from experience as a public schooling survivor, just send your kids to home school. I'm forever fucked socially and educationally for that bullshit.
If you want your kids to have social interaction like they would at public school, just stuff their heads in a toilet, and flush it.
Can you tell I'm a little bitter?
All ideas^H^H^H^H^Hprocesses in this post are Patent Pending. (as well as the process of patenting all postings)
- Upsie-Dasium (obscure MST3K reference)
Any others?
You never expect irony, do you?
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Geez. Don't forget to add a KLAATU BARADA NIKTO at the end to awaken the dead.
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I just saw your sig: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi
Which I have seen before, and in the strange coffee deprived state that my mind is in I read: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you eat them. -- Godzilla
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
They missed the point entirely, and would have been better off making two distinct versions sold as a bundle. They both would resemble the current periodic table, but one would have a naked woman ghosted in the background, the other a naked man.
Using my new patented (R), (C) and (CC), method, I guarantee that high school age kids would stare at it for hours during class, and the learning would flow from that. It can't be any dumber than the current US educationals standards, and adults can enjoy it too.
As a side benefit, it may end up in garages and truckstops world-wide. Educate the masses I say!
-Charlie
Yeah! Try this new Periodic table. It's real simple to read and understand! Have fun!
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
>That's due to the physics [...] and can't be changed.
;-)
Maybe the state legislature in Indiana will have something to say about that.
*yes, I know that thing about PI was a hoax
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
Actually in one of Tufte's books he discusses a spiraling representation of the periodic table. Discussion may develop at http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-ms g?msg_id=0000v6&topic_id=1&topic=
Since the table is just a theory you know.
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