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[rivka]

Phrases I never imagined myself typing:

Check out this totally cool Periodic Table of the Elements.

Edited to add: And then check out this totally cool Periodic Table. Which is an actual, you know, table. The elements lift up so that samples can be stored underneath. For example: #92, uranium.

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[wcg.livejournal.com]

Keen!

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Extremely cool.

You know about the periodic table of dessert? http://www.eblong.com/zarf/periodic/index.html

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

I love Love LOVE the Internet!

Thank you!

MKK

[lerryn.livejournal.com]

Cool ;)

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

If you read my journal, you would have found it last year, when I was desperate to learn more about Polonium ;-)

(An ex-KGB agent was poisoned in London with the stuff in a case straight out of a Cold War Thriller)

Periodic Table

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

This is similar in spirit to the early '70s Time-Life Science Library Matter. Nice update, though.

[redbird]

I am charmed by the comment, in the section on the making of the table (your second link) by "Varnishing was an issue. Normally I would take a table down to our local Amish community, which has the most modern high-tech catalytic urethane varnishing equipment around. "

[rivka.livejournal.com]

From what I gathered when we visited Lancaster County PA a few years ago, the Amish don't have a problem with modern technology per se. They object to electrical power, not because it's technological, but because the electric wires would connect them to the outside world and make them dependent on secular society. It's quite common for Amish communities to use power tools and machinery which they run off gas generators.

[redbird]

It wasn't that they had the tools that startled me, but that they were either sharing them with, or renting them out to, non-Amish neighbors who do stuff online and work for computer software companies.

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

Wandered over from a link at chargirlgenius about Mommy Wars -- so I poked around a bit, and found this. Way cool. I'm going to have to get me one of the posters. Thanks for the link!