Periodic
Remember that “Periodic Table of Academic Disciplines” blog post that I made like 300* years ago?
That blog post gets an insane amount of views compared to my other posts. The table itself has been used in quite a few things, too.
Here (slide 4)
Here (slides 8 and 9)
A blog post about it
Kinda cool.
*Ten. It was ten years ago.
The Style of Elements
WOO, my mom and I just found a copy of the Wonderful Life with the Elements at Bookpeople!
What is this book, you ask? It’s written and illustrated by Japanese Artist Bunpei Yorifuji and features a walk-through of the Periodic Table that’s highly visual and artistic. Yorifuji takes features of elements—such as their state of matter at room temperature, the group they belong to, etc.—and translates them into physical features on little naked dudes. For examples: all the elements in the Noble Gases group have afros, all element-people that are gas at room temperature float like ghosts, and elements that are man-made are drawn as robots.
It’s super freaking awesome. If you want to get a used copy on Amazon, take a look at some of the reviews that freak out because all the elements are naked and have little visible penises. Oh, the horror!
The Periodic Table of Academic Disciplines
Alternate title: Claudia’s Bored
(Click to enlarge!)
(Source for list of disciplines/categories)
YES I KNOW it’s not exactly like the actual periodic table groupings, but I gave it my best shot. I tried to keep the general “this is how things are organized” patterns, but some of the disciplines just didn’t fit in anywhere else (anatomy, I’m looking at you). I didn’t keep the P-, S-, D-, F-blocks ‘cause they didn’t work out in terms of layout, but I kind of made my own blocks instead (take THAT, Mendeleev!). The groups, however, are still sorta there.
Group 1: Formal sciences, applied
Group 2: Formal sciences, more theory-based
Group 3: Physics
Group 4: Physics-related stuff
Group 5: More specific physics
Group 6: Physics and space-related stuff
Group 7: Chemistry and biology
Group 8: More specific biology
Group 9: Specific types of organism-based biology
Group 10: Earth-related stuff
Group 11: Climate-related stuff
Group 12: More earth (ground)-related stuff
Group 13: Applied sciences that don’t fit anywhere else
Group 14: Arts (and marketing and accounting)
Group 15: More arts
Group 16: More arts
Group 17: Written arts
Group 18: Humanities
As for the colors, they’re more related to the blocks I guess. And the periods generally go from most fundamental/basic/theoretical (at the top) to the more applied (near the bottom of the columns).
Yeah.
I love Red Bull.
Today’s song: Alejandro by Lady Gaga (another “why the hell didn’t I have this song yet?” day)
Fun with the Periodic Table
Here are some words/phrases you can spell with the periodic table!
– EsOPHAgUS
– ThInK In InK
– ThIS IS SPArTa!
– VAGINa
– PIKAcHU, I CHOOSe YOU!
– PaPa LiKEs AlCOHOLiCS
– CoWArDs PaNiC WITh No UNdEIS
– CuBa Has No CuBeS
Yeah. This takes a long time and, while very fun, I have a lot of homework to do already.
Skills. I have them.
Bored? Geeky? Want to test your typing speed and its interaction with your ability to remember geeky things?
Look no further than sporcle.com! Tonight I did the “Can You Name Elements of the Periodic Table?” and “Can You Name All the U.S. Presidents?” 15-minute and 10-minute time limits, respectively. Here are my results:
As you can see, I captured the image with 1:43 still on the clock. I hit a block, couldn’t think of any more. Haha, epic fail of the Lanthanide series.
Ha! I OWNED this! In less than 3 minutes, too (damn you, McKinley!). This is the useless skill I gained from being obsessed with the guys.
Yeah, I’m bored. Trying to keep my mind off of things.
Matt, you’re WAY out of your element!
But that’s okay, cause I found it for you! Custom made.
The Periodic Table revisited!
Boredom. Pure boredom.
THIS IS WHY I NEED SCHOOL, PEOPLE!
Fun with the Periodic Table!
More geeky fun!
Let’s see if my friends’ personalities match up with the descriptions of the elements on the Periodic Table that their initials spell out! Annnnnd…go!
First is me. Cause I’m always first.
1) Claudia: Curium (Cm)
Description: Atomic number 96, Curium was discovered in 1944 and is named in honor of Pierre and Marie Curie. It is created by bombarding plutonium with helium ions and is so radioactive it glows in the dark. Very limited quantities.
Uses: used on a Mars expedition as a part of the Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer.
How it Kills: accumulates in bone tissue, where its radiation destroys bone marrow and therefore ends red blood cell creation.
2) Aneel: Arsenic (As)
Description: Atomic number 33, Arsenic was discovered in 1250 and is Greek for male (rendering the accuracy of this description to the personality of Aneel as non-existent). Naturally occurring.
Uses: poison, shotgun pellets, lasers, glass, and mirrors.
How it Kills: when inhaled, lung cancer. When touched, skin cancer. When ingested, intestine and liver damage.
3) Candida: Calcium (Ca)*
Description: Atomic number 20, Calcium was discovered in 1808 and makes up about 3.5f Earths crust. It is the fifth most abundant element, and occurs only in compounds.
Uses: dehydrating oils, fertilizer, concrete, and bone (duh).
How it Kills: too little of it, and you become a crippled person with crappy bones. Too much of it, and you get kidney stones!
4) Eraina: Erbium (Er)*
Description: Atomic number 68, Erbium was discovered in 1843 and is named after a town in Sweden. It is rare, and is often found with other heavy rare earth metals.
Uses: photographic filters, neutron absorbers, pink pigment in ceramics.
How it Kills: fire and lung embolisms and liver failure! Oh my!
5) Paula: Protactinium (Pa)*
Description: Atomic number 91, Protactinium was discovered in 1917 and is the parent element of Actinium (holy crap, thats Alan! Sorry, Paula!). It does not occur in nature.
Uses: basic scientific research (due to rarity).
How it Kills: toxicity and radioactivity!
6) Rob: Rubidium (Rb)
Description: Atomic number 37, Rubidium was discovered in 1861 and, though abundant, is so widespread that it is difficult to obtain large amounts of it. Latin for “red”.
Uses: fireworks, atomic clocks, vacuum tubes.
How it Kills: makes fire…on water!
7) Shannyn: Antimony (Sb)
Description: Atomic number 51, Antimony was known to the ancients. Though it is not abundant, it is present in over 100 minerals. Most antimony is from China.
Uses: mascara, infrared detectors, diodes, plastics, and chemicals.
How it Kills: makes you broke! (Get it? Get it? Okay, kill me.) Actually, it is very similar to Arsenic poisoning (sorry, Shannyn!) and large amounts lead to death in a few days. Small doses cause dizziness, headaches, and depression.
* These unfortunate people do not have an element if I use their initials. So I used the first two letters of their first names instead!
I need some form of serious psychiatric help. Seriously. I’m analyzing my friends through the use of the Periodic Table of Elements.
Accuracy? You tell me.
More geekiness (and some “dork”)
I have no life. This has been established.
For those of you who also don’t have a life and are as geeky as me, here are two cool things to download:
1) This is a really friggin’ cool interactive Periodic Table of the Elements. You can read all sorts of interesting facts about each element as well as sort them by melting point, boiling point, mass, etc. Fun fun!
2) Wee! This lets you zoom around the solar system and orbit the planets. Very good graphics.
By the way, if any of you remember when I first emailed you The Desert, I would appreciate it if you would remind me–I can’t remember when I created it.
And ANOTHER thing–I find it interesting that we call socially inept people “dorks”. A dork is a whale’s penis.
…are whales’ penises socially inept?
Random crap
HOLY CRAP IT’S FINALS WEEK!
Okay…now that that’s said, here are a few random dingy-bobbers that are occurring/being pondered/continuously going through my mind:
1) I am a geek. This has already been proven, but I figure the fact that I give people nicknames due to whether or not their initials make up a symbol of the Periodic Table of Elements (examples: Aneel would be Arsenic (As), I would be Curium (Cm), and you-know-who would be Lead (Pb). Nerdy nerdy geek freak.
2) I like fajitas (despite the fact that I have never had one).
3) I’m really friggin’ thirsty right now. For chocolate milk. Dang.
4) Pedro is hot.
Can you tell I’m bored as hell? I’m bored as hell.
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